Tiger Woods Out...Until August!
 |
| | (Post a comment) » Counter-Strike GoodbyeMy on-again, off-again love affair with CS has come to an end. Though I've forsworn the game before, every time I've returned it's been like rediscovering my first love all over again. CS, I might love you, but you're like the ex-girlfriend who let herself go. It's time to say goodbye. You've always had special meaning for me, so pardon the incoherent rambling as I vainly try to decipher what went wrong this time, why I didn't have fun, and why I'll be playing CoD, Enemy Territory and Battlefield 1942 (once the 1.6 patch comes out.) |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
| You are viewing the comments as Guest and are limited to 10 messages per page. [Login] Not an FS Member? Register here, it's FREE! You will see more posts per page and you can filter out the Anonymous comments as well as enable the profanity filter. |
|
#162
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 01:59pm 06/24/2004
|
|
Comment:
 Reply to This
|
that was a BRILLIANT write-up! i loved it!!
|
| |
|
#161
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 09:53am 02/3/2004
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
I've felt this way about CS ever since beta 7 came out. Making sure
everyone on a server is has a 1:1 kill ratio does not make it a good
teamplay game. And frankly the retards that love CS for teamplay
seem to be the type with so little skill that they'd never get a
frag in any games besides CS. It's only lasted legacy is the
destruction of fun teamplay. Anyone that displays any skill is
assumed to be a cheater. It will take a long time for that dark
cloud over online gaming to dissipate. The day the last server of
CS goes offline will be a better day for online gaming.
After I turned away from CS I played DoD, but now DoD is basically
CS with WWII skins and weapons. Blech. ET is probably the best mix
of teamplay and individual fun I have played in a long time. There
might still be hope.
|
| |
|
|
#160
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 11:33pm 01/20/2004
|
|
Response to #158:
Reply to This
|
Superb article, Jakub. Two comments.
1) The nostalgia for Quake is partly a sadness about what has
replaced it, not just CS but a broad slate of multiplayer games that
exist, like children's t-ball, to give even the most mediocre player
an even chance. John Carmack did as much to take gaming in this
direction as anyone with the kinder, gentler dm of Q2 and Q3. It
was a wise marketing move. Gaming has long since moved out of its
ghetto and into the big time, where mass taste rules, and the first
rule of mass taste is to make the consumer feel good. Quake could
not be a template for future multiplayer gaming because Joe Blow,
with his shiny new Dell, expects to be allowed to kick some #!&.
2) CS and its ilk thrive on imitating realism. Nothing was real
about Quake, neither weapons nor physics (and least of all level
design). Quake was an initiation into something weird, unique, a
strange world with its own hard rules and unforgiving
idiosyncracies. That's gone now. Today, we're all supposed to
salute and play soldier. Yawn.
|
| |
|
|
#159
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 10:31pm 01/6/2004
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
Long "Editorial".
Sorry you lost your love for CS, too many folks still cheat, the
graphics are dated and the AWP is still the bane to my existance.
But yet with steam, it is still the first game that gets installed
when I rebuild a box.... Go figure!
See you in CS or DOD ;-)
-StopHittingMe
|
| |
|
#158
|
Author:
|
GX-WarSpite at 09:20pm 01/5/2004
|
|
Response to #154:
Reply to This
|
As I've said before, EVERY game gets better with dedicated teammates
and clanmates. It's not fair to compare CS with a clan to another
game without. More importantly, the vast majority of gamers aren't
involved in dedicated teams, or rarely get to play with them.
|
| |
|
#157
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 10:40am 01/5/2004
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
Well, the fact that no one can say "good-bye" to this
thread tells me that CS isn't dead...
hey, that rhymes.
|
| |
|
#156
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 04:05pm 01/3/2004
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
CS is sh1te. The 1st year of it was ok, but after that it was back
to Quakeworld. A great thing about qw is that people are still
finding new jumps and tactics and increasing their skills after 7
years, and the Gameplay has NEVER changed. No patches, no updates,
hardly any cheaters, just a good community and perfect DM/1on1/TDM
gameplay. Go back to quakeworld. Hey, your original install will
still work!!!
|
| |
|
#155
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 09:12am 01/3/2004
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
that was a thoughtful article, Jakub. thanks for writing it.
|
| |
|
#154
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 08:27am 01/3/2004
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
Interesting article but you've completely missed the point of the
game!
This is a Team game and not just anyone u meet who u dont know or
care about its a team that you play with together and develop
tactics with. This makes the game interesting in the way that any
other strategy game can be years after the technology is really
old.
Hence you dont get it im afraid. Try playing it properly then
comment.
|
| |
|
#153
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 09:54pm 01/2/2004
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
Every game serves its time. I mean, we played Pacman, Mario, Quarke,
HL, CS; sooner or later gamers need new game. I guess it is time up
for CS.
|
| |
  ATI Radeon 5970 Performance Preview
 After a 10-month hiatus, ATI's once again got the world's fastest graphics card. The Radeon 5970 fuses two RV870 chips onto one board for max performa... [+] (Comments) |  Left 4 Dead 2 PC Review
 Valve says Left 4 Dead 2 contains so much new content, it's worthy of a sequel rather than DLC. Is this true or false? Judge for yourself in today's r... [+] (Comments) |
Sapphire Radeon 5870 Vapor-X 1GB Review
 With its custom vapor chamber cooling+heatpipes and factory OC'ing, Sapphire's 5870 Vapor-X is targeted towards gamers looking for a 5870 card with a ... [+] (Comments) | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PC Review
 With no dedicated servers, no lean, and 18-player cap for multi, does Modern Warfare 2 for PC live up to its predecessors? Most of the reviews online ... [+] (Comments) |
Phenom II Gets A New Revision: 125W AMD Phenom II X4 965 Performance Preview
 Promising lower power consumption, lower temps, and most importantly for enthusiasts, more OC'ing, AMD is back with a new CPU revision for the Phenom ... [+] (Comments) | Dragon Age Origins Review
 |
AMD Athlon II X3 435/Athlon II X2 240e Performance Preview
 Today AMD is introducing 8 new Athlon II CPUs intended to service different segments of the budget CPU market. For HTPC users, new 45W dual, triple, a... [+] (Comments) | Shattered Horizon Review
 FutureMark, well known for their popular 3DMark benchmarks, is venturing into new territory with Shattered Horizon. This multiplayer shooter is perhap... [+] (Comments) |
| EVGA P55 FTW Review
 Looking for a good P55 motherboard to OC your CPU beyond 4GHz? If so, you may want to check out EVGA's P55 FTW. With its extra ATX12V connector, this ... [+] (Comments) | Borderlands PC Review
 Is it an RPG or is it an FPS? Borderlands blends the best elements of both in one entertaining package. Vandy has spent the past week playing the PC v... [+] (Comments) |
ATI Radeon HD 5770/5750 Performance Preview
 With prices ranging from $109-$159, ATI's Radeon 5700 series of cards bring DX11 gaming to mainstream price points and usher in new levels of energy e... [+] (Comments) | Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review
 While it's not the true sequel to Operation Flashpoint, Dragon Rising is billed as a modern tactical sim just like its predecessor. Does it live up to... [+] (Comments) |
Batman: Arkham Asylum PhysX Features and Performance
 One eye candy feature PC users can enjoy over the console edition of Batman: AA is PhysX. Rocksteady's PhysX implementation is more than just tearing ... [+] (Comments) | Batman: Arkham Asylum PC Review
 Already a smash hit on consoles, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum sports better graphics and support for NVIDIA technologies PhysX and 3D Visio... [+] (Comments) |
ATI Radeon 5850 Performance Preview
 Not everyone's got $400 to spend on a shiny new Radeon 5870 card, which is why it can be argued that ATI's Radeon 5850 is the more relevant GPU for a ... [+] (Comments) | Resident Evil 5 PC Review
 Sporting a new mercenaries mode with more enemies on screen, higher resolution DX10 graphics, and 3D Vision support, Resident Evil 5 is definitely bes... [+] (Comments) |
| More Hardware » | More Games » | Interviews » |
| |
• This Month
• October 1 - 31, 2009
• September 1 - 30, 2009
• August 1 - 31, 2009
• July 1 - 31, 2009
• June 1 - 30, 2009
• May 1 - 31, 2009
• April 1 - 30, 2009
• March 1 - 31, 2009
• February 1 - 28, 2009
• January 1 - 31, 2009
• December 1 - 31, 2008
• November 1 - 30, 2008
|
|
|
Digg
Del.icio.us
Reddit
SU
furl
