MASTACHIEFPWN said:
I hate it so much.
Yeah, the graphics are great, but that's not why I play valve games.
It's a watered down piece of crap version of CS:S with fancy new map updates, and CoD clone game modes.
The damn thing took away all of the little things I loved about CS, and replaced them with generic CoD crapness.
And plus, the buy system. Mother of fuck does it suck.
Consoles, please stay out of Counter Strike... please?
I'm sorry, but what?
I take it you aren't aware that the people behind Call of Duty stole ideas like GunGame from Counter-Strike?
Also, what the hell's wrong with updating some of the old maps? A lot of them, like Dust, were terribly unbalanced. The new changes make them much much better.
For that matter, what's wrong with the buy system? It's even faster and easier now. Besides, you can still do the ole' "rebuy/quickbuy" or the usual key sequence "b,1,4" for example.
I've been playing Counter-Strike since
before 1.6. Hell, I played it when it was still in an alpha form as an old Half-Life 1 mod.
Baring that in mind, when I tell you that CS:GO is quite honestly the best Counter-Strike game to date, you know I'm not just making stuff up. The sheer level of polish and balance they've brought to the game will make the competitive scene for it
soooo much better. At least now tourney matches won't devolve into "four m4s and an awp" vs "four aks and an awp". Christ that got boring. And I was a part of the pro scene for a time. I can tell you first hand how boring it got.
I'm sorry, but I just fail to see how one can see
any influence from Call of Duty in this new Counter-Strike.
It boggles the mind.
Burrito With Legs said:
I find Global Offensive very offensive. I'm being serious but thought I'd make a pun at the same time.
Valve is basically doing what Riot did with Pulsefire Ezreal - "HEY GUIS IF WE MAKE ANYTHING OUR USERS WILL PAY FOR IT!" CS:GO is just a way for them to make some cash and reboot the Counter-Strike series.
That's funny, I was under the impression that Global Offensive actually started out as an attempt to convert the PC version of Counter-Strike: Source into a console build for Playstation 3 and Xbox360.
During the development, however, they ended up tossing out everything and just starting from scratch. Building an entirely new game on a new version of the Source engine.
But I guess the people over at Valve are lying about that. Thank God for random forum posters like you who are so willing to enlighten the rest of us.
Thank you.