Published: 26 Aug 2024
Last updated: 1 Sep 2024
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
- Develop and Published by: Valve
- Released on: 2012
- Genres: FPS, Tactical Shooter
- Rating: 4/5
- Originally written: ~17th September 2023
I don’t tend to play a) FPS games and b) Multiplayer games, but here’s my 2 pence-worth of thoughts regardless.
The game is fun once you know what you’re doing and with friends (playing solo-q with random Russians should count as cruel and unusual punishment by contrast), and not taking the game too seriously. A competitive party game, essentially.
Whilst a lot of my friends also play other games in the same vein such as R6:Siege, Valorant or once-upon-a-time Overwatch, I’ve never felt the same pull to join in, and that’s partially down to CS:GO’s ‘relative’ surface simplicity (It might also be sunk cost fallacy to be honest!).
There are absolutely problems and valid complaints with this game, but based on all the complaints about R6:Siege, Valorant etc. I hear from friends they have similar themes, leading me to think that the Stroustrup quote about programming languages (“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.) also broadly applies to team-based games like CS.
Still excited for the upcoming CSGO2 regardless.
