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Retrospect: Why the hell do we play Counter-Strike?
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I may speak for a small portion of the gaming community, but I find myself continually drawn to a game almost a decade old despite newer substitutes. Even after playing Halo, Rainbow6, Call of Duty...etc Counter-strike still ranks as my own personal axis mundhi of gaming. It appears nothing will ever conquer it's innate re-playability for me.
I've run into dozens of other people who have different games they cite as the one they cannot escape. For some it's Starcraft, others Civilization. My father, a 50 year old man who has access to every console and a top of the line PC, still plays Battlefield 1942 religiously. What I want to know is why. What makes your interaction with "that game" so significant that you continuously return?
Anyone got any input?
I've run into dozens of other people who have different games they cite as the one they cannot escape. For some it's Starcraft, others Civilization. My father, a 50 year old man who has access to every console and a top of the line PC, still plays Battlefield 1942 religiously. What I want to know is why. What makes your interaction with "that game" so significant that you continuously return?
Anyone got any input?
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For me it's Counter-Strike as well. It offers me what I want in game play. Teamwork, directional foot steps, flash bangs/smoke nades, fun recoil and speedy rounds. You just never know what's going to happen I guess. Unforgiving to new people, challenging for seasoned players.
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Plus there is a ultra-high nostalgia factor associated with it. A lot of games that "did it first" have that effect on me. 1942 was the first game I played online with that many people in a single game using infantry, vehicles, etc. all at the same time and I remember it as a really unique experience even after all these years.
After all, if a Starcraft player goes into a C&C game and gets tankrushed 3 minutes into the game, more likely than not they'll just say "this game sucks" and hop right back onto Starcraft.
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I've played the Ship briefly and it was awesome. From what I hear hardly anyone plays it these days, though
Yeah, you can find 2/3 populated games at any time these days, but the AI is great, and the way the game works a game with just a few human players is real fun, because you can't tell which players are AI and which are bots.
Hmm. I might have to try and get a couple buddies to buy it with me, because those few days of the Ship were tons of fun. This was back when it was just a (free, if I recall) half-life mod, so I assume there have been improvements?
I'm the same way. I would play CSS all. the. time.
Now TF2 has semi-replaced it, though I still go back to CSS, but I find it to be much slower paced than I remember.
Except gungame, those are still good times.
But I also know that my opinion is of the very small minority (least according to those 300,000+ unique players daily or whatever ungodly number it is)
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As for old(er) games, i've picked up Natural Selection again. The two very different sides and the RTS elements have me keep coming back, but the community is starting to be a big turn-off.
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Zombies.
Glass maps.
Different people have different tastes.
Which means that often, people have a favorite game.
Being a favorite, they return to it often, or periodically.
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There's just something about it. The weapon balance isn't incredible, playing on pubs is incredibly hit and miss, and I actually really only spend a lot of time playing on de_dust2, but somehow, it's the only FPS I still play regularly.
There's something magical about CS.
This explains your skill with the sniper class in TF2 at least.
QFT.
whyyyyyy is it magical?
I know I liked being in the clans, but the community its self (pro community) were, for lack of a better term, dicks. That was the major turn off for me and the fact that I was wasting away in school and needed to get focused.
the HL2 mod scene seems to be so the opposite of that. Mods will go months and months without any new updates because they're all trying to make everything perfect and trying to compete directly with retail games, it seems like I get bored with then abandon most of the mods.
Sadly mine is wow, as much I realize I'm bored with it when I sit down to play when I have nothing else to do it's usually my first thought.
Besides CS 1.6, the other mods I played for half life 1 were DoD, Brainbread, Richochet (God knows why), Natural Selection, and Pirates, Vikings, Knights. PVK was so hilarious playing with friends while drinking. Good times. Good times.
Also, the "professional" DoD community (which isn't as professional as CS 1.6 and CS Source, and is declining last time I saw) had a few people that were pretty big dicks, and some people that were really nice. I remember I would join IRC sometimes and pros from Complexity and some other club that I don't remember would ask me to pug with them, and I learned a lot, and I got really good to the point where they were telling me to join an underdog DoD clan so I could get noticed and work my way up the ladder. It was good to hear, but I didn't have the time to dedicate to a game, and I knew that I was at the peak of my playing ability, I couldn't get any better to woo anyone.
Woo.
Does anyone else remember DoD pre-beta 3? WW2 CS is pretty fun, I guess. The maps weren't nearly as good either.
The massive amount of changes between beta 2 and beta 3 were incredible. I don't think I've seen a mod change that much that fast and its shift from fast-paced action to a slower-paced, more realistic affair was pretty jarring. It also made a lot of people very, very angry.
I haven't played DoD on the Half-Life engine in a very long time, but I was pretty disappointed with DoD Source regardless. The maps are extremely well-designed, but the gameplay always feels lacking. It's very fast and very slow at the same time and doesn't really seem to know what it wants to be so it ends up being neither and stuck in some sort of mediocre middle ground. That and when you move it's a constant CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP like you're wearing fifty ton weights on your feet.
I don't really know what my point is, but I really loved DoD.
CS was and still is popular because it just... feels right. Which is a terrible explanation, but something about the physics makes it unique. It's got that blend of arcade and semi-realism that just fits well. It's not ridiculous insane flying around like UT or Quake and it's not retarded like Rainbow Six where you have to sit in one spot for 9 hours. It just had it going well.
TF2 is now the place to be though, IMO.
I sometimes get stuc on Grenade for an hour at a time. We used to play these little 4 man GG games on huge maps, me and 3 RL friends. It was incredible up until the Grenade round. (and it spawned my other online name: ClarionCamping)
Gungame Deathmatch is great.
Because I hate Gungame. It's so terrible and boring and I don't understand how people play it for more than a few minutes.
The sweet spot came out in beta before Half-Life 2 ever came out.
I believe they called it "Counter-Strike: Source."
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You ask this as if there's something wrong with playing a game repeatedly instead of forking out money for the newest edition of an ancient gameplay concept with slightly improved graphics.