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I couldn't get this series. :(


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

> The title pretty much sums it up. A quarter of a century ago,
> "Counterstrike" was aborn as a Half-Life mod. It's been going strong
> ever since, and remains one of the most popular PC games since.

> And, honestly, it's not that "Counterstrike" has reached 25 years that
> I find so surprising, as that it's only six years older than Doom.
> That's the era of games we're talking about. And yet it still
> inexplicably remains a top-performer on Steam.

> (Okay, not really so inexplicable. It's a fun game, sure, but it's
> real draw is as the engine for the gambling industry that has grown up
> around it. So long as it remains a viable source of income for so
> many, it's never going to drop off the most-played charts).

> I never really got into "Counterstrike". I'd burned myself out playing
> online matches of "Doom" and "Duke Nukem" and "Quake" and "Unreal
> Tournament" and by the time "Counterstrike" became anything but that
> weird mod the kids in the corner were playing, I was distancing myself
> from online gaming. 

> (I did play a bunch of "Tactical Ops", though, the long-forgotten
> "Unreal Tournament" clone of "Counterstrike". Better graphics, better
> bots, and smoother gameplay. But it lagged in maps and a smaller
> development team meant it never achieved parity with its better known
> "Half Life" rival).

> And nowadays, even if I were able to show interest in the gameplay,
> I'm so outside the community (and -lets be honest- aging reflexes mean
> I couldn't compete with those damn whippersnappers anyway) that I'd
> have a hard time getting back into the scene. 

> So I can't really get myself to care about "Counterstrike" anymore. It
> was never really my game, and it certainly isn't offering me any
> incentive to become my game today. But happy birthday anyway. Even if
> it's for all the wrong reasons, remaining popular for 25 years is
> something of an achievement.




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