It’s in the weapons you use and the paths you take. Counter-Strike has variation, of course, but it’s more subtle, strategic. I’ll admit that a key factor in my constant engagement with Bethesda’s Wolfenstein games, for example, was the storytelling, but that was combined with variation - stronger enemies, bosses that demand novel strategies, levels that invite stealth-based play, modification of physics, and totally outlandish weapons only available in specific situations. In choosing Global Offensive as my first attempted deep dive into online multiplayer, of course I didn’t expect to recapture that sense of camaraderie, but maybe the familiarity would make something click. Those of us who played then may long since have drifted apart, but intractable schoolyard bonds were formed in that room. Hardly a utopian ideal of mutual respect, but a visceral reaction of fleeting rivalries and partnerships. I remember fast-paced matches and an engaging, repeatable play loop. The physical presence and the banter made those sessions pass like seconds.
#Counter strike source vs cs go for free#
The first game on the list, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, is one I got for free with my PC a few years back and never bothered to install until just now, but there are other reasons why I thought it would be a good choice to kick off this little experiment.Īlthough I have long been an adherent of the single-player experience, one of my earliest communal memories of video games is from back in high school, when at lunchtime sometimes, we’d crowd into a computer lab to play round after round of Counter-Strike: Source via LAN. Well, I figured I’d finally see what all the fuss is about and see just how wrong I’ve been all these years. Stories and the pleasures of playing solo get my motor going, yet people always tell me that I’m missing out by ignoring the multiplayer realm.
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