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A crowd hype can be very important. Sometimes it depends on what's going on screen. Commentators can vary.

There was a recent Dengeki Bunko JPN tournament stream (2D fighter) and Akira popped up. The JPN spectators were going loud whenever he attacked on stream even on block chanting Ey, Ey.

Akira is one of those characters that no matter which game they put him in, he gets a crowd going out of nowhere in JPN streams because his attacks are pretty epic in animation and edge-like, the sound effects he brings, and juggle visuals from it. JPN commentary makes it better because they make it over the top and make it hype somehow.

I think that it's important on what's being shown on stream and type of quality. Sometimes it's about the players being the underdog winning against a player who wins all the time, sometimes it's the type of characters on stream with the immersion (Akira, Hayabusa, Phase 4, even Hayate) etc.

My bad, at first I thought you meant that the commentators had to be attention whore like.
I love a good crowd and funny commentators, sometimes when I watch streams commentators are biased, plain boring or both.
Good commentators are rare these days.

Get Markiplier to do the commentary

With Jacksepticeeye of course!

Yeah, and count Tasty Steve in.

TOP OF THE MORNING TO YA HRJDHDBEURBDHHEUDHEUDBEUDHEJ!!!!!!!

One of the biggest things about DOA tournaments. The commentary is hype like other games.

I think US commentary can learn a thing or two from JPN commentary. The commentary I enjoy in English is one that's heavy humor or memes.

Yipes for example because he does that in person too back at Next Level. Whenever Android 16 does the command throw, he'll go: "Wesley Snipes!..........Tim Duncan..!"

Yeah I love the Japanese commentary for fighting games, including DOA. They always increase the hype and excitement of what's going on on screen. As for American DOA commentary, my favourite commentator was MASTER because he had a good balance between being knowledgeable about the game and making the matches seem more exciting. Very solid. I liked Rabies' hype (though his game knowledge seemed questionable at times).

As good as someone like Tasty Steve (or Aris) is at Tekken commentary, I really would not want them to commentate DOA because the last time I heard them commentate DOA, they practically had no idea what the fuck was going on. (Which is a pet peeve of mine is when commentators don't know what the fuck they're talking about).

When did Tasty Steve and Aris commentate DOA? can't exactly blame them since they don't play the game. Event must of had missing people if they had to ask them to commentate.

Tasty Steve used to commentate on DOA back in KIT17. He's not only a Tekken player (probably not originally), but a Virtua Fighter player, and he implied that he played DOA3 back in the past.

I don't think Aris has ever commentated on DOA. I could already imagine what's gonna come out of his mouth if he does.

BOOM!!!

Aris commentated a Wednesday Night Fights DOA match on Dec. 2013 along with Rip and they were godawful. And @Shirataki Tsume noted when Tasty Steve commentated. They all did poorly, mostly due to lack of game knowledge. Rip of course was downright obnoxious and why Tekken players generally shouldn't commentate DOA. They don't understand the game.

Really? Man, I never thought they'd go that far. I've seen a video of Aris that he said he doesn't think of DOA as a real fighting game, so I never expected he'd have some thought for it. Is there a video of it? I wanna see.

As for Steve, he sounded ignorant about the game, but his humor kinda made it entertaining, maybe because when I saw the matches from KIT17, I was also a beginner in DOA.

My Favourite Commentary setup is somebody who doesn't know DoA and somebody who does...

Steve might not know about The Changes of DoA but I wouldn't call him ignorant because he seemed eager to learn... mean time he also maintained his responsibility as commentator and used his charm to compensate for in any gaps in his knowledge of DoA.

Even Spooky does it sometimes... they're both great guys...

What I meant about Steve is that he commentated without going to the technical side of the game because he has no idea how the game works, so he commentated based from what he sees "Oh she punched to the face so hard she spun around" and something like that.