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nGize.ReMinD: "I already love this team"
Kim "ReMinD" Sung Sik opens up about life with his new team-mates, how he spent his months without a team, his motivation for playing ZOTAC and more.
"I never thought of quitting the Warcraft 3 scene and five-six months without a team was not that hard," said ReMinD to fragster.de. "I even figured out that I could focus on gaming without a team and tried very hard - so I'm doing good nowadays, in my opinion."
"During this time some good teams were interested in me, but unfortunately we could not come to an agreement - but I was still looking for a team to join," said the Korean.
Interestingly when asked to compare the current Warcraft3 scene to that of several years ago, he commented that modern day Warcraft3 lacked creativity. "People were very creative in old times and it didn't matter if they have been gosus or not, they liked to make new strategies and find something new," said ReMinD. "Today, everybody plays the same strategy and just copies it from pro players. This makes me really sad."
By Lawrence Benedict 'Malystryx' Phillips
Jun 19, 2009 14:48
Kim "ReMinD" Sung Sik opens up about life with his new team-mates, how he spent his months without a team, his motivation for playing ZOTAC and more."This team seems to be very active as far as I have seen and I already love this team."
Sung Sik 'ReminD' Kim was without a team for 4-5 months after his departure from SK Gaming, but he said he never thought about quitting, and that the lack of team actually had the opposite affect on his motivation."I never thought of quitting the Warcraft 3 scene and five-six months without a team was not that hard," said ReMinD to fragster.de. "I even figured out that I could focus on gaming without a team and tried very hard - so I'm doing good nowadays, in my opinion."
"During this time some good teams were interested in me, but unfortunately we could not come to an agreement - but I was still looking for a team to join," said the Korean.
"Today, everybody plays the same strategy and just copies it from pro players. This makes me really sad."
"Then I talked to nGize and everything seemed to be perfect, so I decided to join them." The Korean talks of good communication and vibe within the team, in particular with Benjamin 'DeMusliM' Baker. "I talked a lot to DeMusliM already and we became very good teammates," said ReMinD, "this team seems to be very active as far as I have seen and I already love this team."Interestingly when asked to compare the current Warcraft3 scene to that of several years ago, he commented that modern day Warcraft3 lacked creativity. "People were very creative in old times and it didn't matter if they have been gosus or not, they liked to make new strategies and find something new," said ReMinD. "Today, everybody plays the same strategy and just copies it from pro players. This makes me really sad."
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ReMinD was always the player who used solid strategies and was the alter-ego of insane Moon. When you wanted to play careful WarCraft, you looked up to ReMinD and when you wanted to be nuts, you watched Moon's play.
Monkey see, monkey do. It's a way of learning the game. I'd never be as good at WC3 as I am now (not that I'm particularly special) if I hadn't watched pro player replays and copied their builds and strategies.
Sure, you can be cool playing your own way. But my question is: do you flame a lot about other people playing cookie-cutter strats and still winning? If not, you are my idol and I would love to see you playing.
The first is that it is very long and painful to assimilate all the knowledge of the pros in a so short period, because there is a lot of work behind those standards strategies. And because there is a lot of work behind those strategies, even if you are brainful, which is strangely uncommon among wc3 players, you can't understand them as good as the pros do, so that with the same strategies you are so less efficient than the pros...
The second reason is that when you play your own style of strategies and makes those ones by yourself, you will understand your strategies much better, so that when you face a new situation, you will be able to use ur brain to adaptate yourself to this situation, whereas when you are copying a strat from another player, if you face another strategy that you never faced, you will be overbrained and lose ;)
By the way, this is a RTS, and even if match ups seems to be balanced by the imbalance of each race, there is still some strategy in that game. Lots of top players like Moon, Check, Remind, Infi, Sky, Grubby, TeD, etc... are still innovating even if standards strategies looks overpowered and are played nearly systematically. But also players like Satiini, Myth, or even lower players like Axslav are able to use their brain. Axslav is well known at wc3 but his micro is quite low, it's the same about StrifeCro, but look how they are strong in 2v2. I still remember one of their weird strategies, Axslav used his 5 first peasants to tower rush WhO and him & strifecro finally won this way xD