Video Game Olympics - The E-lympics

[ianh05]

I love the Olympics and really anything that involves competition and a year or 2 ago I watched the World Cyber Games which is the video game version of the Olympics. I got to thinking of ways they could improve it to make it more like the actual Olympics including:

*More emphasis on the countries, show us how many gamers are competing from each country and highlight the favoured genres/games.
*Better game layout:
-FPS - Call of Duty, Counter-strike
-RTS - Starcraft 2, League of Legends
-Sport:
 *Wrestling - Current WWE game
 *Racing - Current Gran Turismo game
 *Soccer - Current Fifa game
 *Basketball - Current NBA game
 *Boxing - Current Fight Night game
-Fighting - Tekken, DoA, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat
-Action/RPG - World of Warcraft (PvP and PvE/raid races)
*Possibly have a retro category and/or an arcade category.
*Possibly have a Motion control category for Wii/Move/Kinect/Eyetoy games.

What would you all like to see in a video game Olympics? Perhaps some robot arena 2? :)

[Gropaga]

I love the Olympics and really anything that involves competition and a year or 2 ago I watched the World Cyber Games which is the video game version of the Olympics. I got to thinking of ways they could improve it to make it more like the actual Olympics including:

*More emphasis on the countries, show us how many gamers are competing from each country and highlight the favoured genres/games.
*Better game layout:
-FPS - Call of Duty, Counter-strike
-RTS - Starcraft 2, League of Legends
-Sport:
 *Wrestling - Current WWE game
 *Racing - Current Gran Turismo game
 *Soccer - Current Fifa game
 *Basketball - Current NBA game
 *Boxing - Current Fight Night game
-Fighting - Tekken, DoA, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat
-Action/RPG - World of Warcraft (PvP and PvE/raid races)
*Possibly have a retro category and/or an arcade category.
*Possibly have a Motion control category for Wii/Move/Kinect/Eyetoy games.

What would you all like to see in a video game Olympics? Perhaps some robot arena 2? :)

Some robot arena 2, and Capcom vs Marvel 3 Ultimate    (trollface for Phoenix)
Also, maybe add Bootfighter windom?

[Kossokei]

I love the Olympics and really anything that involves competition and a year or 2 ago I watched the World Cyber Games which is the video game version of the Olympics. I got to thinking of ways they could improve it to make it more like the actual Olympics including:

*More emphasis on the countries, show us how many gamers are competing from each country and highlight the favoured genres/games.
*Better game layout:
-FPS - Call of Duty, Counter-strike
-RTS - Starcraft 2, League of Legends
-Sport:
 *Wrestling - Current WWE game
 *Racing - Current Gran Turismo game
 *Soccer - Current Fifa game
 *Basketball - Current NBA game
 *Boxing - Current Fight Night game
-Fighting - Tekken, DoA, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat
-Action/RPG - World of Warcraft (PvP and PvE/raid races)
*Possibly have a retro category and/or an arcade category.
*Possibly have a Motion control category for Wii/Move/Kinect/Eyetoy games.

What would you all like to see in a video game Olympics? Perhaps some robot arena 2? :)

I disagree with your FPS choices; Team Fortress 2 and Unreal Tourney 2003/04 should be up there; those are truly FPS-geared games.

Racing shouldn't be under Sports. While it is a Sport, it's not the same Sport in the context Sport is used. Also, I think the game that you picked is wrong too; NFS, DiRt, Carmageddon 2 or TDR2K seem to cover more ground than Forza, as they cover Drifting, Combat Racing, Competitive racing and etc.

As for Fighting, there's a game called M.U.G.E.N. (In Gropaga's country Mugen is known as Infinite, which is rather relative) that takes almost every character from every 2d fighting game and more, and compatiblizes them into one form of coding so that they can fight eachother like they would fight in their own games. Mugen would be perfect for the job. No need for one specific game when you can play every character in 1 game. On the other hand, there's the 3-d games, and for that I'd nominate Soul Calibur and the latest Tekken. (not sure if Tekken has an 8-way-run system too)

You're also missing Rhythm gaming (Yes I did quote that directly out of VGHS, sue me) which includes games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band and DDR

And then there's the Misc games like RA2, Twisted Metal, GTA and whatever else, the ones that don't really fall into any of the catagories.

[Gropaga]

I love the Olympics and really anything that involves competition and a year or 2 ago I watched the World Cyber Games which is the video game version of the Olympics. I got to thinking of ways they could improve it to make it more like the actual Olympics including:

*More emphasis on the countries, show us how many gamers are competing from each country and highlight the favoured genres/games.
*Better game layout:
-FPS - Call of Duty, Counter-strike
-RTS - Starcraft 2, League of Legends
-Sport:
 *Wrestling - Current WWE game
 *Racing - Current Gran Turismo game
 *Soccer - Current Fifa game
 *Basketball - Current NBA game
 *Boxing - Current Fight Night game
-Fighting - Tekken, DoA, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat
-Action/RPG - World of Warcraft (PvP and PvE/raid races)
*Possibly have a retro category and/or an arcade category.
*Possibly have a Motion control category for Wii/Move/Kinect/Eyetoy games.

What would you all like to see in a video game Olympics? Perhaps some robot arena 2? :)

I disagree with your FPS choices; Team Fortress 2 and Unreal Tourney 2003/04 should be up there; those are truly FPS-geared games.

Racing shouldn't be under Sports. While it is a Sport, it's not the same Sport in the context Sport is used. Also, I think the game that you picked is wrong too; NFS, DiRt, Carmageddon 2 or TDR2K seem to cover more ground than Forza, as they cover Drifting, Combat Racing, Competitive racing and etc.

As for Fighting, there's a game called M.U.G.E.N. (In Gropaga's country Mugen is known as Infinite, which is rather relative) that takes almost every character from every 2d fighting game and more, and compatiblizes them into one form of coding so that they can fight eachother like they would fight in their own games. Mugen would be perfect for the job. No need for one specific game when you can play every character in 1 game. On the other hand, there's the 3-d games, and for that I'd nominate Soul Calibur and the latest Tekken. (not sure if Tekken has an 8-way-run system too)

You're also missing Rhythm gaming (Yes I did quote that directly out of VGHS, sue me) which includes games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band and DDR

And then there's the Misc games like RA2, Twisted Metal, GTA and whatever else, the ones that don't really fall into any of the catagories.

I don't think that Mugen is known as "Infinite" IIRC (Mugen means "Infinite"in Japan, but it doesn't make Mugen known as "Infinite").
Talking about Mugen, there is some overpowered character (such as Airman)

Also, maybe a speed run (like getting many cash in limited amount of time in Uplink or Farming Simulator) could be good idea.