Counter Strike

If you had an adolescence, you played Counter-strike. Maybe you were 1337, ameaturish, or you rage-quitted frequently.

Maybe you spent late nights in your room, staying up to play 1.5 with your friends from school, drinking Code Red Mountain Dew, or Surge, or Root beer. You had snacks. You had an alright computer, it wasn't the best, but you just put a 512MB stick of RAM in the fucker and now you're seriously running hot. You had a great time, sometimes bad times, but in the end; you had fun.

Counter-Strike dominated the E-sports league. Gave birth to it, even. Before it was Quake and Starcraft, but this game, right here, spawned some of the greatest gaming tournaments and competitions in the world. It's the #1 online action game in the world. Damn right it is. If you didn't play CS, you weren't shit.

If you're old enough, you remember CZ coming along. Fuck yeah, HD models you thought. Maybe you hated the idea, what the fuck? 1.6 is fine as it is, I don't want a sequel. It's bounced from studio to studio and I never thought they'd release it, surely it's shit.

They even released an Xbox version at some point.

Source. Jesus Christ, source. This is it guys, new generation. Look at those fucking graphics! The water! Decals! Ew, that M4 is ugly as shit. They're still doing the thing with bots? Eh. Maybe I'll pick it up.

It's actually pretty good. Source isn't too bad. Those who are true to the series stay with 1.6. CZ has it's base as well. But Source is gaining ground. People are migrating. The hitboxes are weird, the rates are wonky but it's a solid game. Player models come and go, there's a new ct_urban and new t_phoenix model now.

CAL and CPL are still around. CEVO is rising. But somehow, the game is more casual. It's drawing more players than ever before.

It's a timekiller. It's great. Surf, Zombies, Scoutknivez, everything. Valve didn't fuck up like they did with CZ. Things might just be alright for the franchise.