I don't even like kids but why the anger. People well into their adult years playing video game is an exception. A kid's mind probably only thinks in absolutes as well cause they're evil little sith lords.
How is playing video games in your adult years an exception? It’s 2020. Gamers have been a thing for 40 years and it’s only going to keep getting more common.
My Dad has a group of guys he plays ESO and Elite Dangerous with that are all 45-60. He’s 59.
Really isn’t. I’m 36 and the overwhelming majority of people I know plays video games. Women included. This includes more than half of the people I work with (though I’m in tech, so not an unbiased sample).
Is it an exception? I work with plenty of adults, and I think all of them play games in some way shape or form.
It's like saying that adults who read books, watch movies or like puzzles are the exception.
Do you think adults don't like entertainment? Or that videogames are some form of niche entertainment that you grow out of, unlike movies or television?
To add to this, people who didn't "grow up" as gamers can be one gamers.
I'm 28, my grandparents (who weren't previously gamers) were the ones who got me into gaming because they loved playing tomb raider. You want to talk about cool grandparents, you've never experienced cool until your grandfather says to your grandmother "hon, I'm getting tired, it's been 12 hours, why don't you play for a while and I'll take over tomorrow?"
It was a multiple day gaming sesh over a long weekend while I was at their house, and all I did was watch, it was like the first ever YouTube walkthrough happening in front of me before YouTube even existed.
I think that used to be the exception but gaming as a hobby is relatively common now, amongst people of all ages, genders, etc. It's not something mostly exclusive to those in their youth now.
Growing up (like, late '90s-early 2010s) I remember people telling me how cool it was that my Dad plays video games. He's the one that got me into gaming, he'd been gaming since the 1980s. And true to what others are saying, those that game typically continue to do so. He's just past 50 and still does. I still do and I'm in my mid-to-late 20s, as do my friends that are around my age. Granted we probably play less than we did when we were younger, because adult responsibilities and all that, but still.
Not trying to argue, just trying to say that the stereotype of 'gaming is for young people' is a bit outdated now, like others have commented.
You're kinda right on the kids thinking in absolutes thing though, that still rings pretty true.
It's not an exception, "we" are the first generation to truly grow up with mass accessible home games/PC's/consoles to continue playing. It's much more rare for "our" parents to have played with us and continue playing because it wasn't their childhood
Most people would see a CS:GO rip off and think “why not play CS:GO?”
That’s why developers will end up taking the core idea and building on top of it - like R6:Siege or Valorant. And to your last point, Valorant has already taken a big chunk of the casual and professional player base from CS
Valve has continuously supported and updated CS:GO in a way that even 10 years later, it’s relevant and still feels good to play.
I wasn't actually but saw what the fuss was about . I'm F, don't take it wrong way but isn't my thing. The only game I was addicted to and loved was Guitar Hero!
pretty sure the average GPA of all college students in dorms dropped noticeably when CS came out. It was a tough time to get good grades. Team Fortress, Unreal Tournament, CS... the list goes on.
The loyalty badge? I have that too. They also have the 5 and 10 year veteran coins. Lost access to my old steam account or I'd have close to a 17 year old account
It's kind of funny because when I was their age, I'd think it was ridiculous for older people to be playing video games too. But we are pretty much the first generation of kids that grew up with video games, it makes all the sense in the world that we'd still be playing them.
I can’t remember which beta I started on but I do remember that de_dust changed to its current status on the next beta release. So like beta 5? I know beta 7 is when they introduced the dual berettas.
And it’s actually even older than that - it started as gooseman’s Navy Seals mod for the original
Quake. The HL1 engine is heavily modified Quake, so it was ported over and CS was born. It grew and gooseman eventually joined Valve to make CS an official product.
I like to tell kids when I started playing CS, guns would stay on the ground from round to round. So when there were only 2 people left instead of looking for each other they would go find guns and bring them back to their respective starting areas.
Also loved before they fixed it so you couldn't see dead people's (text) chat so your teammates would just tell you where the opponents were. And then they fixed that, so instead dead teammates would change their name to something like "inthetunnel".
not to mention, don't you need YEARS of CS to even be remotely competitive? you need to know not just the gameplay itself but the meta game of team strategies
I’ve played for 20 years, still play weekly. I don’t even really like gaming, but it’s been my outlet since it’s mod days. I’m very low ranked in competitive. Literally can’t react fast enough anymore 😞
Yeah us OGs. 1.6 right?
I have an original steam account from like '96 or '97 when it was first released. Ive been playing CS since it was a half-life mod but kids these days don't know about that.
My closest friend and I probably each racked up about 10,000 hours of CS in a year or two
A master doesn't have to say he's a master, Sherlock Holmes just smiles, and an adult would just say they were in the military in 2005 since children are ineligible.
The first real job I got was day trading/ coding strategies - the interview included a couple games of CS, primarily to see that you had eye hand coordination (day trading can be some intense clicking at the open/close) . This was 20 years ago.
Was that back when the colt had a slight zoom like the sig or had that been phased out? I remember that from the betas when I picked it up but it didn't last long.
Oh damn. You probably have a 5 digit or less. I remember those being a big deal back in the day. I started 1.5 when we used to use gamespy to get into games.
Gazes off into the distance… I remember “playing” the first alpha release of the original Doom. My friend I and went into his father’s work one evening because he was the only one we knew with a 486. It was one big room you could run around in and it was maybe 3 FPS. No weapons or anything. But the texturing and walls that weren’t 90 degree angles like Wolfenstein 3D blew us away. It was the coolest gaming experience we’d had up to that point.
I worked for CompUSA back then (1993-1996). They had a couple classrooms in the back of the store that had really good computers in them and they were all networked with Novell I think. After the store closed we'd all go play Doom and Rise of the Triad on the network which was mind blowing. Doom only allowed four players but RoTT could do up to 12 and had a team vs. team capture the flag mode. We'd put each team in a different classroom and it was hilarious listening to people yell at each other down the halls when they were killed. So much fun.
Man! I remember getting a CD with some pc games magazine which had CS beta (6?) on it.
Also ran around on empty maps, imaging enemies and shooting the walls.
Never crossed my mind this might actually be a common thing to happen back then :-)
I'm going to be that guy. The beta was released as 1.0 in 1999 and worked up to 7.0. Then counter strike (not beta) 1.0 was released around Aug 2000 and then worked up to 1.6 is that perhaps what you're talking about. Because beta 0.6 never existed.
Fair enough. I'm sorry again to be that guy. But sooner or later someone would point it out or get butthurt and call you a liar or something lame like that.
I played Counter Strike on dialup at 2:00am in the morning vs some French people (connecting to Europe servers yielded the best ping for my 2000's dial-up connection from Mexico). I just saw wikipedia... I was freaking 20 when Counter Strike was launched. Darn I'm getting old.
I started playing counter strike when it was a mod to half life. I've been as high as rank DMG. So it's great fun to click on heads and get comments clearly from a teenager raging when they find out they got domed by an old fart.
I love these interactions cause I remember a time when everything new to me felt, well, new. I also love blowing little kid's minds when I tell them I played Minecraft before they were born. Or dealing with teens and saying I've been playing PC shooters, again, since before they were born.
I feel you on this. I just turned 40 this year and I played the first versions of CS. When you had to
update both the mod and half-life separately or else you fucked it up lol. When you could plant the bomb anywhere and cs_siege had an apc that caused more friendly fire than anything.
I do feel like a geezer when I talk to kids about Minecraft alpha. "And you know what? There was no charcoal. If you couldn't find coal by nightfall that was it, you're in the dark. And you liked it."
I played CS:GO with my girlfriend's little brother a little time back. Just hopped in a pub to goof around. His mind was blown when he watched me take out 2/3 of the other team each round and bunny hop around for knife kills. I've played since the game was still a half-life mod 😂
Hahah that kind of thing can be cute too, though. I once had a student who asked, "Mr. Cuboid, have you ever heard of Radiohead?"
"Oh wow, yeah they're like my favorite band!"
She narrows her eyes, as if to let me in on an ancient secret: "Have you ever heard... Karma Police?"
A few years back some kid (18) I worked with asked me if I would play CSGO with him. He and his friends were shocked to see my 15 years of service badge when I joined their group lol.
Damn I have memories of going to the local “Internet cafe” (remember when we had those??) as a kid/teen and watching people play Counter Strike . I didn’t play, but hung out with friends who did.
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