Let's be Serious: Counter Strike is BAD

[mcdunn]

After pouring a decent (though small to some) amount of time into Counter Strike: Global Offensive, I decided to give my personal thoughts on the game. Sadly my thoughts are this: Counter Strike is one of the worst and laziest FPS I have ever played. Before I dive into the bad I will note the one redeeming value of the game, and that is that teamwork is required to win each match, which is great. However, this hardly begins to counter balance all the other glaring problems the game has. For starters ( Ill start off with the biggest one first) hit detection is by far the worst I have ever seen in any game aside from perhaps COD Ghosts. Honestly, half the time someone dies it's because of some freak accident. Personally I believe I have killed more people from generally blasting away radomly than by actually aiming at them. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's not skill. If I can crouch there and aim my gun at them, fire, have all but 2 shots miss while the enemy is running around then somehow sprays a random bullet in for a headshot, that is not skill, it is luck, and I see far too much of that in this game. Another issue is weapon balance, and by that I mean the AWP. This gun, along with the other snipers, are teh only guns that actually shoot where you aim them, which puts all the non snipers at a huge disavantage cause the AWP only needs one shot to kill someone. I'm sure you all have heard that complaint before so I'll spare you the words, basically it's overpowered and teh devs wont fix it worth crap. Another issue I have with the game is the laziness of it. So far there have been like 3 major Counter Strike releases, all of them basically the same since the beginning, even to the point of having teh exact same maps just "redone". This is where i get dumbfounded when the community bashes other games for "being the same thing over and over" when Counter Stike does the same thing, perhaps even to a larger degree, because the games are so similar. (same weapons, same grenades, etc) Overall I feel like the game is just lazy and bad, and there's still things I havent covered like hackers (remember the pro player? like you gotta hack to actually be good at the game), and the fact that people really only play 3 maps. The list goes on. Which brings up the question, why do people play this game and support it so strongly ( cough*suckitsdick*cough), when, at least im my humble opinion, it is so poorly made? (honestly, i would like to hear your opionions)

TL;DR: Counter Strike has so many issues, why do people think it's good?

[Mikoto]

holy wall of text batman

do you have punctuate?

[Sorrer]

all I can say.. that text wall..

P.S. In some areas I say it could be bad, but I just look over them and play, its just entertainment (for me) :P

[Grimminski]

All dat text is making sweet baby Jesus upset.

[76561198167618709]

wiow

[licensed mango]

Spray patterns, not entirely luck.

[Sparse Dunes]

Originally posted by Sarok:

holy wall of text batman

do you have punctuate?

Riddle me this Batman!

I push things forward, but keeps thing aline.
Without it you'd just be wasing time.

well I tried

[Satoru]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLckFgM6dUP2hc4iy-IdKFtqR9TeZWMPjm&v=HQwL6zh7AgA&feature=player_detailpage#t=2500

If the AWP is so 'OP' how come everyone doesn't buy it?

The game isn't 'bad'. Maybe it doesn't fit your playstyle, but if it was 'bad' 300k people daily wouldn't be playing it.

[mcdunn]

Originally posted by Satoru:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLckFgM6dUP2hc4iy-IdKFtqR9TeZWMPjm&v=HQwL6zh7AgA&feature=player_detailpage#t=2500

If the AWP is so 'OP' how come everyone doesn't buy it?

The game isn't 'bad'. Maybe it doesn't fit your playstyle, but if it was 'bad' 300k people daily wouldn't be playing it.

That's what I'm saying, and I dont get it. Maybe it's the 15 dollar pricetag that makes it attractive.:P And 1 hit kill anywhere on the body is OP in Counter Strike

[S73v3NH4wk1n9]

Let's be Serious: You think Counter Strike is BAD

[winrarphile]

Originally posted by mcdunn1:

Originally posted by Satoru:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLckFgM6dUP2hc4iy-IdKFtqR9TeZWMPjm&v=HQwL6zh7AgA&feature=player_detailpage#t=2500

If the AWP is so 'OP' how come everyone doesn't buy it?

The game isn't 'bad'. Maybe it doesn't fit your playstyle, but if it was 'bad' 300k people daily wouldn't be playing it.

That's what I'm saying, and I dont get it. Maybe it's the 15 dollar pricetag that makes it attractive.:P And 1 hit kill anywhere on the body is OP in Counter Strike

most guns do 1 HS kill
what are you going on about

[Futilizer]

Originally posted by winrarphile:

Originally posted by mcdunn1:

That's what I'm saying, and I dont get it. Maybe it's the 15 dollar pricetag that makes it attractive.:P And 1 hit kill anywhere on the body is OP in Counter Strike

most guns do 1 HS kill
what are you going on about

lolwut, the you can easily miss the chest area of someone and hit them in a limb. Which isn't an instant kill. You have to have enough skill to aim for the chest or head.

[nims0c]

You have much to learn about recoil and spray control.

The AWP is more expensive (economics are a big part of CS, especially in competitive play), has a longer reload time and fewer bullets (if you miss, an accurate opponent can easily take you out), and blocks part of your vision when scoped. These are just a few of the disadvantages of using the AWP.

You're comparing a franchise with 3 games in 15 years to one with about 15 games in about 10 years. Really?

I enjoy the game because of the high skill ceiling, esports, strategy, teamwork, etc. Also, the devs deserve enormous credit for pumping out regular updates.

[JohnnSy]

Not even try to read that text ... 23h playtime.
I think that cs is best fps game. It's not like others fps games. It's a category on it's own.

[Jjajajjaa]

I dont think its that bad its pretty good i think its better than cod aw

[Ishraqiyun]

Doesn't matter if it's good or bad, it's competitive and that's all FPS typically care about.