Korean here. Right on era matching and editing. Not only it is great game documentary but also great video itself as historic documentary. Huge respect. I remember that after high school, me and friends hit the PC bang, played StarCraft with ball mouse and CRT screen. Back then, I had more stamina than I do now, and most importantly, had more hair.
Used to play Starcraft and idk if you remember the other games that were popular at the time but l also played a lot of Lineage, 바람의 나라, and D2 at the cafes.
LOL I used to study the Korean Players and then in my college years I was the best player in school. This other guy challenged me thinkin' he was hot shit and I was in his base with a team of dark templars before he had a group of marines
@@decrobyron 29 year-old US gamer here, my best friend and I spent so many years growing up playing Mabinogi. I remember our first transformations being a big deal and how much I fell in love with Alchemy when it came out. Another good friend of mine got me a flashy black/red cressida set when it was expensive asf and he was LIVID that I got it for free when he'd been grinding his ass off 😂. So many good memories with my guildies and friends on that game.
Another reason the original StarCraft could spread so well is because you were able to install the multiplayer version of the game on multiple PCs from a single disc.
Italian here. It was the late 90s. My father had a CD burner in my house for work, which was very expensive at the time so people didn't have one. My cousin introduced me to Starcraft ,WC2 and UO. I used to sell printed CDs of games to my friends and everyone got into Starcraft and WC2. I was the only one with internet connection and a LAN though. I continued playing online becoming really good and I even became semi-pro in other esports later on. Back in the days I had some friends in my city and we'd all meet up and set up our PCs so we could play on LAN or online. Internet connections were so bad back then, that during peak hours (18-22) it was basically impossible to play 5 at a time online.
Got my copy of brood war at the end of the 98-99 school year when the school was going through and cleaning out lockers, my mom who worked in the front office, found a burned copy of brood war (on a gold CD labeled in sharpie with just "Brood War") and asked if I wanted it. I might actually still have it on a spindle somewhere in storage.
As a Korean who is in mid 30s who played Starcraft at PC bangs that looked just like in the videos, massive respect. Thanks for making this awesome video. If you need any interviews about that era I would gladly help as I watched a lot of esports on tv while hiding from my parents.
Ah! You cannot be serious! You can't just rope me in with such a well made video and not give me the rest. You better be working on Part 2 quickly because I'm am hungering over here. I had no interest in professional StarCraft and started watching this on a whim, yet now the full documentary is one of my most anticipated. You absolutely nailed it. Had to subscribe because I have to see the rest!
I feel like I wasted 10 minutes. Good editing, decent footage and narration, and yet I barely learned anything about the subject matter. What was so unexpected about how Koreans played StarCraft? Who knows.
You could always look up gameplay from the pros and see for yourself. Theres a lot more to the sc scene in Korea than can be covered in another 20 min :)
Really excited to see the rest of this. Starcraft is a series I know very little about other than its massive popularity to this day in Korean esports, and this seems like a rather untapped idea for a video series.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 Broodwar's population may be higher, but you can still find Starcraft 2 matches in around 10 seconds in 2k23, which implies that the amount of people playing SC2 is a lot higher than most other online games.
@@jackawaka ^^this. Plus, SC2's campaigns are some of the most fun I've ever had with a videogame. Probably only comparable to Oblivion, Elden Ring and Metal Gear Solid V, at least in the fun factor.
This needs to be like.. 10x as long. More people deserve to know that e-sports peak was Korean Brood War between 2000 and 2012! We will never see anything like it ever again.. And I'm very glad I was there to see it all (through the PC monitor of course, but still..). Really good stuff, dude!
as an ex-GM sc2 player who was offered a contract in S.Korea, seeing love for my favorite esport of all time has made me so unbelievably happy, great video!!
@@TheTrooperMB back then there were no stable contracts, no twitch to fall back on, it had to be all out of pocket and hope that you won, i couldnt justify that
I'm thinking it's literally bait and he's just saying "Blizzard never expected StarCraft to become a huge Esport". Absolutely shitty clickbait as I clicked expecting explanation to nuances of gameplay design, but all I got is yet another 10 minutes video of "remember when Asians were poor?"
I love this documentary so much not just because of the structure and content, but you somehow gave it a 90s vibe despite it being 2023. Thanks for the nostalgia kick. Gamer for life.
I was in Korea when StarCraft came out. It was big. I remember being amazed that they were treating it like a traditional sport with fans and even crying groupies.
Great video, but splitting it into parts took me a little by underwhelming surprise, alas, I’m looking forward to the next part The title is also rather clickbaity, so despite good editing and info I’ll withhold the likes and subs for now lol
slight note: really appreciated how you phrased the outbreak of the Korean War--a "global power struggle" is probably the best, snappiest way I've heard the truth of the matter described, especially for a RUclips video about Korea's relationship with StarCraft
Jeju Uprising It really comes off looking like "the US against communism, even if the communism is a fully Korean phenomenon". And Korea had no global aspirations, making it not really a global power struggle. The US looks like the bad one here. But really no worse than what the US did to control its own territory. And the description in this video is certainly a lot more fair than a lot of other people would have phrased it.
@@OpDownfall93 UN troops, i.e the US, were in the southern part of Korea when the conflict started (see: Battle of Pusan Perimeter, US suffered 20k casualties). USSR or Chinese troops were not in the northern part; Chinese troops only get involved after "UN" (US) troops crossed the 38th parallel, which was basically General MacArthur trying to provoke the PRC (distinguished from ROC, Taiwan) into a war which China would lose, because the US had nuclear weapons.
@@OpDownfall93 A tiny nation trying to reclaim what it says is its own territory, fighting with the most powerful military in the world spread across over half the world (if you count the Pacific Ocean), makes for a "global power struggle"? Was the invasion of Grenada also a global power struggle?
Digging the vid and looking forward to more. But just a minor correction. You mentioned 1997 as the first release of Orcs and Humans, that's off by 3 years. Orcs and Humans launched in 94 and Warcraft 2 launched in 95 with its expansion, Beyond the Dark Portal, launching the next year in 96.
Yeah, I thought that was off. I remember playing the first Warcraft in 1995 and then WC2 shortly after. It was a crazy jump in graphics and gameplay over just one year.
Starting with Flash in doing a history of Starcraft is an interesting choice, I would have assumed you'd start at the beginning with Boxer or Yellow or Reach. Either way, I'll be interested to see how this series goes. There's so many fascinating stories.
Yeah you can't really do a video like this and just start with Flash, he was a relatively mid-late addition to the scene (for that era). For most BW fans, Boxer was their first introduction to Korean progaming BW (probably).
Starting the docu with Flash, I see it as a known method to hook viewers by a more contemporary figure, then going back in time and revealing influential historical figures. Let's see if I'm correct when next parts will be released.
@@jaredthacker9805 And the film shows Boxer when talking about Starcraft on TV, and its influence on Flash. I think the author did that not randomly. Will get more in next parts.
This was awesome, My knowledge on classic eSports is more in the Quakeworld sphere of influence so I already learned so much from just this one part. I cant wait to see the rest of this doc, Keep up the great work man
"StarCraft was never meant to be played the way Koreans played," - and in this documentary, you'll never find out anything about our clickbait title as we ramble on about everything else but not at all about what got you to click.
Hey this was a really well done perspective of Starcraft - I feel like I've seen a decent amount of the other videos that kind of "summarize" the Starcraft scene, but this felt like a fresh take and I learned a decent amount that I didn't know about the Broodwar scene from this - I would look forward to a sequel / more videos like this if you have those planned!
Once again, your music choices, timing, your new use of the world map with your words coming into frame is phenomenal. You're pushing the meta of gaming documentation. Thank you for this history.
For someone unfamiliar with SC:BW prior to researching this documentary, you've created an amazing work that (unlike nearly every other video on esports) actually situates South Korea's esports boom within its historical context. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!
I think the story of the Norwegian Starcraft player "Slayer" would be interesting to you. He came from playing over network with his friends in the basement of an internet cafe in Bergen, Norway, to going to the international KBK tournament in Korea and beating everyone with ease, becoming a star for a short period. Source: I used to play with him in that basement. At the time of qualifying, a team of documentarians were making a documentary about our small gang of starcraft addicts who'd created a national following of the game from the basement of an internet cafe. But since Slayer qualified for the KBK, that documentary shifted focus to becoming a story about him going to Korea and winning an international Esports tournament, something that was unheard of at the time. It's called Alias Slayer and can be found here on youtube.
Just when I expected the introduction to end and the good part to begin, the video just ended. Not sure what’s the point of making it a standalone video, especially since next part is not available yet, 3 months after this upload
StarCraft is really fun to watch. I've been watching for 15 years, and flash's random was incredibly exciting and super good. I'm surprised that spectating the game isn't more popular outside korea.
This multiplayer gaming culture traveled all the way to California as well. There weren't any PC bangs here, but every person in Korean school would be playing Brood War, 1.6, or eventually Maplestory on their free time.
No one believed me when I told them that this isn't how StarCraft or RTS games were intended to be played. They called me mad. When I share this video with them, my ex-wife will bring the kids back, the University of Military Strategy will give me my professorship back, and my ex-landlord will beg me to return from my shack made of StarCraft Battlechests. Thank you RESPRiT.
Amazing job! Damn, I was not expecting the video to end like that! Looking forward to the next one. Once the full series is done definitely going to reccomend watching it to my friends I used to play SC with.
A fun video but I feel like it was too short. I think you started a lot of topics but haven't really finished them. The whole video feels like an intro to a longer one. Still had fun watching it tho, keep up the good work.
Wow, well done man. You are a wizard with editing and pacing. I think the title could use some work though, I almost didn't click on this but its right up my alley.
I remember playing this game as a kid when it came out on PC , then with internet i watched videos online and that got me hooked and played thousand hours online .. watching WCG finals live (online) ect.. what a time to be alive!
This is the best eSports documentary I have watched about S. Korea's history. It is very professional and well researched with great videos representing that era. Thank you and I really hope to see part 2 and 3.
Pedazo de video maestro, recuerdo ser un pibe entusiasmado con el gaming allá por el 2006 y buscar videos y partidas de jugadores profesionales de Starcraft soñando con un día serlo. En sueño se quedó, pero siempre es lindo recordar y rememorar estas cosas.
Starcraft got me into eSports, I mostly play fighting games now but it truly changed my life in the deepest sense And not even when I first played at in 2000 at 13 years old. It was with the release of 2 when I rediscovered a love for both games. Years later after some time in hearthstone, another childhood love MORTAL Kombat would bring me to the fgc but that's another story. I love this world and I cannot wait to watch anything else you make about it. Great work.
Bruh, click bait. Explain why “random” was unique and advantageous. Explain what how Koreans pros actually played the game differently from casuals. Just give something about the actual gameplay.
I lived in Korea for two years, the PC cafes are amazing. They have amazing setups, great food and are super cheap. My mates and used to play 12 hours of DOTA 2 on Sundays sometimes
WoW Classic has the same problem. WoW was originally meant to be this impenetrable enigma of a world full of mysteries. But 18 years later the world is merely a database and everything is min-maxed. The original Naxxramas was only beaten by a tiny percentage of the playerbase whereas the exact same raid dungeon is now a breeze purely because of the high quality information available on it.
Subbed to your channel about 30 seconds in. Super high quality video, brought back so many good memories of that era of internet gaming, specifically StarCraft and Diablo 2
Subscribed. This was incredibly produced and takes me back to the amazing days when I would try and watch terrible livestreams of Boxer, YellOw, Flash, Jaedong, Bisu. Starcraft BW was truly the grandfather of all eSports.
im sorry but if you ask any korean that grew up during that time who it was that shaped the esport, not one would say flash. almost everyone would say boxer or yellow or even reach. that was a big miss. the impact of flash was definitely huge, but by the time flash was rising through the ranks, starcraft was already there to stay in korea.
My brother and I used to play LAN multiplayer before Battlenet for StarCraft. We're Korean Americans, he was born in South Korea, while I was born in Houston, Texas. We used to try a lot of different strategies against each other, as we used to play a lot of RTS games like WarCraft 2 and Age of Empires on LAN (or via a null modem cable, for those of you that remember). I remember my first StarCraft tournament in Seattle, WA at Wizards of the Coast. Normal speed, max length of games was 2 hours, and then the winner would be decided by the score. They gave us 3 maps we would play in. So, I practiced the build orders for each race on each map going as fast to air as possible (it was faster sometimes just to transport and drop). In the tournament, I won my 3 games in about 30 minutes, while others were going the full 2 hours. I had technically won the tournament by wins and points, but the tournament manager said if I still wanted to play the 4th game against another undefeated player in the tourney, who had less points than me. I said, of course. So, a finals game was me and another player, and they picked a new map for us to play on. I picked a random race, and the other tourney players were surprised, as people usually picked their races. I ended up with Protoss, and scouted to find out it was a land map (we could get to each other without having to go air). I did the photon cannon rush, which no one knew about then. Again, this was something my brother and I tried against each other at home. My opponent was Protoss as well, but I won the match in 15 minutes, but he pretty much dragged it on to about 23 minutes. Everyone in the tournament was shocked. I went to the U.S. Navy afterwards, and couldn't compete in the Regional tournament they had set up. I missed all the important tournaments, but I got to play as a Microsoft playtester for Rise of Nations about five years later. The other playtesters were all some of the best RTS players from Age of Empires and Age of Empires: Rise of Rome, and Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. I was just some random 4th person they needed to fill the gap for 2vs2's. I ended up being one of the best players, but hardly anyone knew who I was until I won my first online tournament beating PCA_Frogman in 2 games in the finals. That was a different, but a more lengthy story.
this guy's approach to research events of the country is very cautious which is good. the way you pronounce the Koean words in the video also made me realize how many times you had to practice to sound properly. good work.
I'm interested, just stumbled on this channel. I've been casually following the SCBW pro-scene since the early and mid 2000s. Hope to see more of a deep dive into this!
American here, I've worked on the camera side of esports. I'm even traveling Asia with 2 starcraft T-shirts. this video just made me decide to go to Korea Thank you.
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Korean here. Right on era matching and editing. Not only it is great game documentary but also great video itself as historic documentary. Huge respect. I remember that after high school, me and friends hit the PC bang, played StarCraft with ball mouse and CRT screen. Back then, I had more stamina than I do now, and most importantly, had more hair.
Used to play Starcraft and idk if you remember the other games that were popular at the time but l also played a lot of Lineage, 바람의 나라, and D2 at the cafes.
@@jinntakk Not a huge fan of the PvP related RPGs... later I started the Mabinogi for few years.
LOL I used to study the Korean Players and then in my college years I was the best player in school. This other guy challenged me thinkin' he was hot shit and I was in his base with a team of dark templars before he had a group of marines
@@decrobyron 29 year-old US gamer here, my best friend and I spent so many years growing up playing Mabinogi. I remember our first transformations being a big deal and how much I fell in love with Alchemy when it came out. Another good friend of mine got me a flashy black/red cressida set when it was expensive asf and he was LIVID that I got it for free when he'd been grinding his ass off 😂. So many good memories with my guildies and friends on that game.
Sounds like him being captured by ze eneny
Another reason the original StarCraft could spread so well is because you were able to install the multiplayer version of the game on multiple PCs from a single disc.
Ahh yes the old spawn copy, it had limitations though
Italian here. It was the late 90s. My father had a CD burner in my house for work, which was very expensive at the time so people didn't have one. My cousin introduced me to Starcraft ,WC2 and UO. I used to sell printed CDs of games to my friends and everyone got into Starcraft and WC2. I was the only one with internet connection and a LAN though. I continued playing online becoming really good and I even became semi-pro in other esports later on. Back in the days I had some friends in my city and we'd all meet up and set up our PCs so we could play on LAN or online. Internet connections were so bad back then, that during peak hours (18-22) it was basically impossible to play 5 at a time online.
Got my copy of brood war at the end of the 98-99 school year when the school was going through and cleaning out lockers, my mom who worked in the front office, found a burned copy of brood war (on a gold CD labeled in sharpie with just "Brood War") and asked if I wanted it. I might actually still have it on a spindle somewhere in storage.
@@thatoneguyisI perfectly fine served the purpose of playing a LAN party with your friends without the need for extra copies.
I miss those days...
Bro I’ve been waiting for a part 2 forever man what the flip
As a Korean who is in mid 30s who played Starcraft at PC bangs that looked just like in the videos, massive respect. Thanks for making this awesome video. If you need any interviews about that era I would gladly help as I watched a lot of esports on tv while hiding from my parents.
"There was always more StarCraft to be played."
I appreciate the nod back to Melee in this line. SC and Melee really do have a lot in common.
I play both games still 😂
-nice indeed.
Two of the best examples of "If it ain't broke don't fix it." I get flak for comparing Starcraft to Chess but it really does feel just as timeless.
@@Shmandalfmy older brother, who is a good chess player, also said the same thing about SC and Chess.
@@kentoylampingasan A man of culture he is
referencing the hungrybox doc right?...
Ah! You cannot be serious! You can't just rope me in with such a well made video and not give me the rest. You better be working on Part 2 quickly because I'm am hungering over here. I had no interest in professional StarCraft and started watching this on a whim, yet now the full documentary is one of my most anticipated. You absolutely nailed it. Had to subscribe because I have to see the rest!
I feel like I wasted 10 minutes. Good editing, decent footage and narration, and yet I barely learned anything about the subject matter. What was so unexpected about how Koreans played StarCraft? Who knows.
this video is barely even about starcraft. Total clickbait!@@Ali009Ahmed
@@Ali009Ahmedcompletely agree. Pissed me off
Maybe we can purchase part 2 & 3 seperately via DLC?
You could always look up gameplay from the pros and see for yourself. Theres a lot more to the sc scene in Korea than can be covered in another 20 min :)
Really excited to see the rest of this. Starcraft is a series I know very little about other than its massive popularity to this day in Korean esports, and this seems like a rather untapped idea for a video series.
It's still popular in NA, too. It probably had more active players than SC2 at this point.
@@Phantom0123456 I think the remaster overtook SC2 a couple years ago.
Brood War cannot be beaten.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 Broodwar's population may be higher, but you can still find Starcraft 2 matches in around 10 seconds in 2k23, which implies that the amount of people playing SC2 is a lot higher than most other online games.
you should give it a go, sc2 ladder is completely free after playing 10 matches vs the ai. and the campaign is pretty cheap nowadays
@@jackawaka ^^this. Plus, SC2's campaigns are some of the most fun I've ever had with a videogame. Probably only comparable to Oblivion, Elden Ring and Metal Gear Solid V, at least in the fun factor.
I feel like I've been edged
This needs to be like.. 10x as long. More people deserve to know that e-sports peak was Korean Brood War between 2000 and 2012! We will never see anything like it ever again.. And I'm very glad I was there to see it all (through the PC monitor of course, but still..).
Really good stuff, dude!
This is a preview for the actual documentary.
This is part 1/3
@@dairoleon2682 noice
@@Whatismusic123 noice. hope the quality keeps up.
I thought it was just getting started then the credits rolled 😂😂
as an ex-GM sc2 player who was offered a contract in S.Korea, seeing love for my favorite esport of all time has made me so unbelievably happy, great video!!
why did u not sign ?
@@TheTrooperMB back then there were no stable contracts, no twitch to fall back on, it had to be all out of pocket and hope that you won, i couldnt justify that
@@HeavyEyed that seems like a risky choice indeed.. anyway congratulations of achieving GM !
@@HeavyEyedyata?
Bisu, Flash and Jaedong brought the game to a level not thought possible at the time. They deserve endless praise!
boxer and yellow should be up there as well
SaViOr, anyone?
@@OrvinReyes Regitoss, GRR, there are many greats who changed the game, it just depends on the era
@@Koshak87 he kinda ruined his legacy with the betting scandal
@@stefanc4520 yeah, that he did. But his games though… no second Zerg like him. Not even Jaedong himself. Such a shame everything turned out this way(
woah this looks much more professional than your usual work, cant wait to see the rest.
I understand this is Part 1, but the title makes no sense to me after watching the video.
Where are the other parts?
@@mchonkler7225 I think the old title said part 1 or so. I guess he abandoned the project.
@Teh-Penguin That's a shame. Looking through his channel, this was by far one of his most viewed videos.
I'm thinking it's literally bait and he's just saying "Blizzard never expected StarCraft to become a huge Esport".
Absolutely shitty clickbait as I clicked expecting explanation to nuances of gameplay design, but all I got is yet another 10 minutes video of "remember when Asians were poor?"
@@Ali009Ahmed Pretty much... no wonder this video got almost 1k dislikes.
I didn't expect it to end, it sounded like you were just done with the intro 🤣
@@weplaywax yeah i was waiting for the point of the title. I even scrolled back to see if he already said it.
I feel click baited for watching a 10 minute intro without an explanation for the title.
A literal crime this doesn't already have more views. Great video and excited for the upcoming parts
Content of the video has nothing to do with the title. This is a mess of random information, mostly on flash.
I love this documentary so much not just because of the structure and content, but you somehow gave it a 90s vibe despite it being 2023. Thanks for the nostalgia kick. Gamer for life.
Big fan of this kind of content! Can't wait for part 2!
I was in Korea when StarCraft came out. It was big. I remember being amazed that they were treating it like a traditional sport with fans and even crying groupies.
Great video, but splitting it into parts took me a little by underwhelming surprise, alas, I’m looking forward to the next part
The title is also rather clickbaity, so despite good editing and info I’ll withhold the likes and subs for now lol
Definitely your best work yet, hyped to see the rest!
slight note: really appreciated how you phrased the outbreak of the Korean War--a "global power struggle" is probably the best, snappiest way I've heard the truth of the matter described, especially for a RUclips video about Korea's relationship with StarCraft
Jeju Uprising
It really comes off looking like "the US against communism, even if the communism is a fully Korean phenomenon". And Korea had no global aspirations, making it not really a global power struggle. The US looks like the bad one here. But really no worse than what the US did to control its own territory.
And the description in this video is certainly a lot more fair than a lot of other people would have phrased it.
@@RiskyDramaUploads I mean it was a fully local phenomenon until, yknow, global superpowers got involved (U.S., USSR, China, the UN)
@@OpDownfall93 UN troops, i.e the US, were in the southern part of Korea when the conflict started (see: Battle of Pusan Perimeter, US suffered 20k casualties). USSR or Chinese troops were not in the northern part; Chinese troops only get involved after "UN" (US) troops crossed the 38th parallel, which was basically General MacArthur trying to provoke the PRC (distinguished from ROC, Taiwan) into a war which China would lose, because the US had nuclear weapons.
@RiskyDramaUploads I'm so confused how what you're describing is different from a "global power struggle", but hey man to each their own
@@OpDownfall93 A tiny nation trying to reclaim what it says is its own territory, fighting with the most powerful military in the world spread across over half the world (if you count the Pacific Ocean), makes for a "global power struggle"?
Was the invasion of Grenada also a global power struggle?
The video didn't discuss the topic in the title
Digging the vid and looking forward to more. But just a minor correction. You mentioned 1997 as the first release of Orcs and Humans, that's off by 3 years. Orcs and Humans launched in 94 and Warcraft 2 launched in 95 with its expansion, Beyond the Dark Portal, launching the next year in 96.
Yeah, I thought that was off. I remember playing the first Warcraft in 1995 and then WC2 shortly after. It was a crazy jump in graphics and gameplay over just one year.
Starting with Flash in doing a history of Starcraft is an interesting choice, I would have assumed you'd start at the beginning with Boxer or Yellow or Reach. Either way, I'll be interested to see how this series goes. There's so many fascinating stories.
they were forgotten to time it seems sad times. they were to early to be remembered i guess haha.
Yeah you can't really do a video like this and just start with Flash, he was a relatively mid-late addition to the scene (for that era). For most BW fans, Boxer was their first introduction to Korean progaming BW (probably).
Starting the docu with Flash, I see it as a known method to hook viewers by a more contemporary figure, then going back in time and revealing influential historical figures. Let's see if I'm correct when next parts will be released.
@@jaredthacker9805 And the film shows Boxer when talking about Starcraft on TV, and its influence on Flash. I think the author did that not randomly. Will get more in next parts.
it's not a documentary starting with flash , it's a documentary about flash , because he is the greatest gamer of all time
still no part 2? Man, I've been coming back to your chanel for almost a year for it. Sad to see it won't happen
This was awesome, My knowledge on classic eSports is more in the Quakeworld sphere of influence so I already learned so much from just this one part. I cant wait to see the rest of this doc, Keep up the great work man
Korea is to StarCraft as Quake is to the Brits/Europe, I remember that curly haired host on quake tournament on cable tv
This deserves to be blown up in the algorithm. You’re an incredible content creator and I always get so excited when I see a notification from you.
"StarCraft was never meant to be played the way Koreans played," - and in this documentary, you'll never find out anything about our clickbait title as we ramble on about everything else but not at all about what got you to click.
Classic RUclips
Hey this was a really well done perspective of Starcraft - I feel like I've seen a decent amount of the other videos that kind of "summarize" the Starcraft scene, but this felt like a fresh take and I learned a decent amount that I didn't know about the Broodwar scene from this - I would look forward to a sequel / more videos like this if you have those planned!
Once again, your music choices, timing, your new use of the world map with your words coming into frame is phenomenal.
You're pushing the meta of gaming documentation. Thank you for this history.
For someone unfamiliar with SC:BW prior to researching this documentary, you've created an amazing work that (unlike nearly every other video on esports) actually situates South Korea's esports boom within its historical context. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!
I think the story of the Norwegian Starcraft player "Slayer" would be interesting to you. He came from playing over network with his friends in the basement of an internet cafe in Bergen, Norway, to going to the international KBK tournament in Korea and beating everyone with ease, becoming a star for a short period. Source: I used to play with him in that basement.
At the time of qualifying, a team of documentarians were making a documentary about our small gang of starcraft addicts who'd created a national following of the game from the basement of an internet cafe. But since Slayer qualified for the KBK, that documentary shifted focus to becoming a story about him going to Korea and winning an international Esports tournament, something that was unheard of at the time.
It's called Alias Slayer and can be found here on youtube.
You are going to be massive. This series could be the one that does it. So excited
It is dangerous to promise on the future.
@@clivah1499 you will be abandoned by everyone you love
that does what ?
Part 2 when ❤
Just when I expected the introduction to end and the good part to begin, the video just ended. Not sure what’s the point of making it a standalone video, especially since next part is not available yet, 3 months after this upload
For me Boxer is synonymous with Starcraft fame, Flash was a small name as I grew up, Boxer made the game entertaining.
Good shit. Looking forward to part 2
Nerd chills the entire time watching this. StarCraft will always have a special place in my heart.
Filipino here. Starcraft Broodwar, the most balance strategy game ever created in my humble opinion. I missed those days.
So how’d the Koreans play it differently 💀
As someone who has never played Star craft and finds it confusing each time watching it, this video is super dope.
I love all the archival footage in this! So excited for this series :D
Excited to see the next episode!
StarCraft is really fun to watch. I've been watching for 15 years, and flash's random was incredibly exciting and super good. I'm surprised that spectating the game isn't more popular outside korea.
This multiplayer gaming culture traveled all the way to California as well. There weren't any PC bangs here, but every person in Korean school would be playing Brood War, 1.6, or eventually Maplestory on their free time.
No one believed me when I told them that this isn't how StarCraft or RTS games were intended to be played. They called me mad. When I share this video with them, my ex-wife will bring the kids back, the University of Military Strategy will give me my professorship back, and my ex-landlord will beg me to return from my shack made of StarCraft Battlechests. Thank you RESPRiT.
Is this from a gameplay perspective or Esports being a thing?
how were they intended to be played?
Script is very well written and video is very well made. You deserved a Sub, and keep up the good work!
Amazing job!
Damn, I was not expecting the video to end like that! Looking forward to the next one.
Once the full series is done definitely going to reccomend watching it to my friends I used to play SC with.
the state of youtube is including several minutes of unneeded context of recent south korean history to pad the video out to 10 minutes
This series is going to be your subscribers boost, mark my words.. the subject and your editing/storytelling learned will do that. All the best
awesome video ! love the editing, super underrated channel ! hope for big success
I am now at 9:41 at wondering why the video has the title it has.
Yeah, rather clickbaity
Wow, awesome video. Super cool to see this history. Can't wait for the next video!
This is incredble. Loved the naration, the thorough research and visualizations. Looking forward to next episodes !
A fun video but I feel like it was too short. I think you started a lot of topics but haven't really finished them. The whole video feels like an intro to a longer one.
Still had fun watching it tho, keep up the good work.
Where are the other parts to this series?
Never been a major StarCraft player or anything but always fascinated by the scene - can’t wait for parts 2 & 3!
7 minutes to actually get to what the title was talking about.
Why do I feel I am going to get disappointed?
Edit: AAAAAND I was indeed disappointed.
Interesting part 1. Looking forward to 2 and 3.
The title literally has nothing to do with the video..
Wow, well done man. You are a wizard with editing and pacing. I think the title could use some work though, I almost didn't click on this but its right up my alley.
I remember playing this game as a kid when it came out on PC , then with internet i watched videos online and that got me hooked and played thousand hours online .. watching WCG finals live (online) ect.. what a time to be alive!
This is the best eSports documentary I have watched about S. Korea's history. It is very professional and well researched with great videos representing that era. Thank you and I really hope to see part 2 and 3.
Too many useless informations. I just want to know whats the meaning of the headline
So pumped for part 2
Nice video, but awful clickbait in its title(
This
Boxer belongs at that first spot. Then maybe Yellow and then Flash. Mt Rushmore is chronological.
Pedazo de video maestro, recuerdo ser un pibe entusiasmado con el gaming allá por el 2006 y buscar videos y partidas de jugadores profesionales de Starcraft soñando con un día serlo. En sueño se quedó, pero siempre es lindo recordar y rememorar estas cosas.
I enjoyed this and learned about a story I hadn't heard before. So thanks for making it.
great edidting
Starcraft got me into eSports, I mostly play fighting games now but it truly changed my life in the deepest sense
And not even when I first played at in 2000 at 13 years old. It was with the release of 2 when I rediscovered a love for both games.
Years later after some time in hearthstone, another childhood love MORTAL Kombat would bring me to the fgc but that's another story.
I love this world and I cannot wait to watch anything else you make about it. Great work.
Bruh, click bait. Explain why “random” was unique and advantageous. Explain what how Koreans pros actually played the game differently from casuals. Just give something about the actual gameplay.
I lived in Korea for two years, the PC cafes are amazing. They have amazing setups, great food and are super cheap. My mates and used to play 12 hours of DOTA 2 on Sundays sometimes
WoW Classic has the same problem. WoW was originally meant to be this impenetrable enigma of a world full of mysteries. But 18 years later the world is merely a database and everything is min-maxed. The original Naxxramas was only beaten by a tiny percentage of the playerbase whereas the exact same raid dungeon is now a breeze purely because of the high quality information available on it.
What are you talking about? He didn't mention any problem in the video.
Subbed to your channel about 30 seconds in. Super high quality video, brought back so many good memories of that era of internet gaming, specifically StarCraft and Diablo 2
I wanted to know for so long what the story behind all of this was. Thank you so much for putting this together. Can’t wait to see the rest! Subbed.
Where are the next parts? It’s been a couple of months
Subscribed. This was incredibly produced and takes me back to the amazing days when I would try and watch terrible livestreams of Boxer, YellOw, Flash, Jaedong, Bisu. Starcraft BW was truly the grandfather of all eSports.
Nice idea and realization so far!
The history of SC is fascinating indeed and definitely deserves to be documented.
im sorry but if you ask any korean that grew up during that time who it was that shaped the esport, not one would say flash. almost everyone would say boxer or yellow or even reach. that was a big miss. the impact of flash was definitely huge, but by the time flash was rising through the ranks, starcraft was already there to stay in korea.
Cannot wait for the next part!
My brother and I used to play LAN multiplayer before Battlenet for StarCraft. We're Korean Americans, he was born in South Korea, while I was born in Houston, Texas. We used to try a lot of different strategies against each other, as we used to play a lot of RTS games like WarCraft 2 and Age of Empires on LAN (or via a null modem cable, for those of you that remember). I remember my first StarCraft tournament in Seattle, WA at Wizards of the Coast. Normal speed, max length of games was 2 hours, and then the winner would be decided by the score. They gave us 3 maps we would play in. So, I practiced the build orders for each race on each map going as fast to air as possible (it was faster sometimes just to transport and drop). In the tournament, I won my 3 games in about 30 minutes, while others were going the full 2 hours. I had technically won the tournament by wins and points, but the tournament manager said if I still wanted to play the 4th game against another undefeated player in the tourney, who had less points than me. I said, of course. So, a finals game was me and another player, and they picked a new map for us to play on. I picked a random race, and the other tourney players were surprised, as people usually picked their races. I ended up with Protoss, and scouted to find out it was a land map (we could get to each other without having to go air). I did the photon cannon rush, which no one knew about then. Again, this was something my brother and I tried against each other at home. My opponent was Protoss as well, but I won the match in 15 minutes, but he pretty much dragged it on to about 23 minutes. Everyone in the tournament was shocked. I went to the U.S. Navy afterwards, and couldn't compete in the Regional tournament they had set up. I missed all the important tournaments, but I got to play as a Microsoft playtester for Rise of Nations about five years later. The other playtesters were all some of the best RTS players from Age of Empires and Age of Empires: Rise of Rome, and Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. I was just some random 4th person they needed to fill the gap for 2vs2's. I ended up being one of the best players, but hardly anyone knew who I was until I won my first online tournament beating PCA_Frogman in 2 games in the finals. That was a different, but a more lengthy story.
Your content is so great its only downside is it feels way to short ! When it finished I was ready to listen to 20 more minutes or more !
Hey man this promises to be a great series. Eagerly waiting for the rest!
this guy's approach to research events of the country is very cautious which is good. the way you pronounce the Koean words in the video also made me realize how many times you had to practice to sound properly. good work.
Excited! I want to see part 2 and 3! I love SC2 even though I was waaaaaaay too late to the party. Such a good game! Never played Brood War though.
Great video, can't wait for the rest of the series!
Bruh you gotta finish the flash arc
This is a very good outline with the wrong title. At no point do you actually talk about "the way Koreans play".
WHERE'S THE NEXT PART IT'S BEEN 10 MONTHS
Awesome video! Excited to watch the rest.
this is, hands down, *the* very best recommendation RUclips has made to me. Subscribed.
This is literally a television worthy documentary. Crazy high production value.
I'm interested, just stumbled on this channel. I've been casually following the SCBW pro-scene since the early and mid 2000s. Hope to see more of a deep dive into this!
Wait, I missed the part, how are Koreans playing SC that's not how it's suppose to be played? I'm confused.
i need a part 2, yesterday 😍 great video!
Great vid man! Can't wait for this channel to get the recognition it deserves! (Love the Jon Bois style)
Well written and edited. Excellent! Love to hear more
American here, I've worked on the camera side of esports. I'm even traveling Asia with 2 starcraft T-shirts. this video just made me decide to go to Korea Thank you.