Boomer entertainment is more playing the original castle Wolfenstein while smoking meth and beating your meat to tucker Carlson telling you you’re degenerate scum who’s going to hell.
Are you spying on me right now?
Trollbait, it has to be. “no brand tie ins” is genuinely hilarious to me. I’m picturing a videogame reviewer going like: “The game is an artistic and a technical milestone. The gameplay is also the smoothest we’ve seen so far. Unfortunately, the game does not feature a Ronald McDonald skin or even a Slurpee coupon, so we have to give it a 7/10”.
trollbait? id say its pretty clearly satire
Yeah, could be. Either way, there’s no chance the user was being serious.
No skins and no new content? CS had way too many different maps to play on, not to mention the amount of custom skins were crazy.
Ahh, the days before games companies hired the casino slot machine UX designers. An elegant game from a more civilised age.
Hello, could I take a minute of your time to talk to you about our lord and savior, de_rats?
fy_poolday and rpg mods. liked the non wc3 one because i was to dumb back then for the bindings required for the wc3 one. the other one had just passive skills
Opera from cs_italy playing in the background
While players kills the chickens
I heard some weirdos switched de_dust and de_duat2 for de_aztec and cs_office sometimes. Avantgarde as fuck
Aztec is a better map than dust. Dust is massively onesided sided because Ts have to either run through the tunnels to get to the sites or come from the underbridge where CTs can kill them easily.
Our clan’s Mal of choice was always Aztec
Well we had mods and custom levels when we got tired of the official stuff.
Someone please tell me that “no brand tie-ins” gives this away as a joke, and I just didn’t get the joke. That can’t be something people actually want, right?
You couldn’t just let me believe that people today are idiots and that I didn’t just get wooshed, in peace, could you?
Every shitpost on 4chan is serious, actually.
And every green text is fact checked, triple verified, authentic truth.
man I was jecking out the toy island recently and i saw a carrera oracle redbull race track right next to one with “non-lego” lego brick buildable cars and the mario kart themed one.
I tell you: one day these crossovers and brand tie ins and market consolidation will lead us to the ultimate mono brand multiverse -> Think of Mario Raving Rabbits in Avenger costumes lego figures as playable characters in fortnite
I’m thinking something along the lines of the Minecraft Lego sets for instance. Which, credit where it’s due, were pretty cool.
It’s not a joke. But it’s not sincere either.
It’s a criticism.
Because yes. People DO want brand tie-ins. Literally look at Fortnite. It peaks in popularity during brand tie-ins.
Not brand tie ins, that’s like a coca cola ad on one of the walls. People don’t want brands, they want characters and IP… They want crossovers
As a gen x, I didn’t know any boomers played CS.
They do. Also, everyone older than 25 is a boomer.
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Lol. Ok zoomer.
I guess I’ll move to the Ellis Air Force Base
Gen Z calls anyone older than them boomers
I’m sure there’s the odd one but I’ve also only met gen x & millennials in 1.6. Mostly the latter.
Our highschool informatics teacher knew, that there were a lot of kids just playing 1.6 instead of doing the programming assignment. So he logged in and started to frag people using the playertag “Skinner”
We had mods. They’re a bit like skins and new content, only free and far more creative. They are what you call microtransactions today but you didn’t have to sell your right arm to get them because anyone could make them.
CS mods
Yo dawg, we heard you like mods…
downloading 1/300 double-kill.mp3…
Quake sounds was a must have for pubs.
Wow, what a flashback!
Mods are literally the reason why doom II, skyrim, fallout new vegas and assaultcube are still my most played games, I’m both genuinely surprised and scared at what people can come up with.
All my most played, loved and returned to games all support mods and there are a ton of mods for them. Even online games like Wow where mods at least make things a lot better.
Well, CS was a mod for Half-Life :)
Really speaks to how fast culture is moving that people in their thirties have developed “kids these days” type attitudes.
I don’t think it was ever different, just that we are now part of that generation or exposed to it. The people in the 50s to 70s often had kids in the early to mid 20s of their life. So they were in teir thirties by the time the kids were teenagers, bringing all that new culture to clash with.
I’m not even in my thirties, lol.
Boomers my ass. This is Gen X gaming.
Millennials as well. I get bored with modern games. Grinding all day for a pink weapon skin. Tf, I don’t care what color are my skins. Give me a good old challenge
Yup early millennials too. That game was my go to for most of 2000.
Ahem, and elder millennial
CS 1.6 was peak gaming. There were servers with Warcraft 3 mod where you could pick your race and level up to receive additional modded abilities and items, and it would save your progress over months. Not to mention the map customizations.
Also, no paying for season passes or DLC, no paid skinpacks, no censorship or embedded ads or tracking. And custom porn sprays.
EDIT: there were definitely skins, they were just free downloads from modders. And they were client side so you could see them but other players would just have their own skin or default for the same item.
So you’re saying there was new content all the time, it’s just that it was made by the community for the community.
Man made me remember zombie escapes. Complete darkness, scary maps with zombie screams from another game. I used to play a lot of those.
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Actually they tried experimenting with in-game ads at one point in CS 1.6.
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/ads_turned_on_in_cs_1.6/1/
Personally, I’m kinda amazed everyone forgot about ads in the MOTD that a lot of multiplayer source games had. Granted, the ads were set by the server host, not Valve, but yeah.
This reminds me of wc3 mods run on fy_pool_day. Stupid fun with the overpowered HE nades
I did not expect someone to mention that map here. Loving fy_pool_day
Fy_pool_day and fy_iceworld were my favorites back in the day
It was pure gaming.
No advertisments, no marketing, no extra costs.
The only way to get better was to play more.
How can it not be fun?
Good ol’ days, thank you VALVE.
CS 1.6 was not made by Valve, it was a mod for Half-Life.
I believe the thank you was regarding the mod-friendly mindset of early valve. A section in the game menu for loading new mods and it shipped with a mod (TFC, which was based off a community mod for Quake)
I don’t know about the launch release, but the Game Of The Year release is the one that shipped with TFC, plus (what we now know as) the GoldSrc SDK was on the disc. Every tool they’d made they used to build Half Life, they put on the disc and gave to customers.
Fucking legends.
So many great games and mods came out of this… Counterstrike, Day of Defeat, Sven Coop, They Hunger. The amount of hours of gameplay for the price of a single game is unbeatable. Many people started their careers as Half-Life modders.
I believe you are right as well, my friend had the game new and I think the SDK was there, but not TFC.
I hat the GOTY edition, and it was the second most important game to me throughout the second half of high school.
Back in my day games were actually complete experiences when you bought them
I don’t even claim free season pass rewards because I couldn’t give a fuck less about your cosmetic trash. Gameplay is king in this household.