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Every shitpost on 4chan is serious, actually.
And every green text is fact checked, triple verified, authentic truth.
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
I’m thinking something along the lines of the Minecraft Lego sets for instance. Which, credit where it’s due, were pretty cool.
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
It might be like saturday morning toy commercials, there’s nostalgia attached to it.
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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Source also had W3 mod. I remember a server that ran it on de_deathcookin for some reason, but it was so good.
Also, glass maps. And this one server that ran 24/7 scoutzknivez low gravity gun game.
Surf maps, hours lost to the perfection of surfing using game physics.
Titanfall is the only game I’ve seen that took surfing, and not only did it on purpose, but built the whole game around it. That’s why I love it so much, you literally just use your surf skills to fly around the maps like a fighter jet, doing dive bombs on people and just overall being a menace.
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
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.
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.
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!
I remember working out how I could make custom sprays for CS in 1.6 (maybe 1.5) and being so excited.
Well, CS was a mod for Half-Life :)
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”.
No Mountain Dew tie-in ? 0/10
trollbait? id say its pretty clearly satire
Yeah, could be. Either way, there’s no chance the user was being serious.
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)
By…not playing it? No boomers were playing Counterstrike back in the day, lol wtaf?
Anyone over 30 is a boomer to gen Z.
What if I way below 30 and played CS 1.6?
Generation traitor
Seriously. CS 1.6 is a younger GenX/Older MilleniaI game. Nowhere near the Boomer gen.
God I miss those times, it was all about skills. Cheating was also also extremely rare in CS (according to my memories) during the earlier 2000s. Loved that game
Server culture was a bulwark against cheating.
I miss dedicated servers.
There still are community servers for old games like CS 1.6. Personally, I prefer CS:Source which feels less dated, controls feel much better, and the game works properly on widescreen monitors.
The point is that there is still a dedicated player base. You can still play them.
Sadly CS:Source is rife with hacks and cheats. 1.6 still has really good servers.
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As a gen x, I didn’t know any boomers played CS.
Gen Z calls anyone older than them boomers
I never thought it would happen to me :(
You have boom in your username. So… kinda asking for it
Wait till gen alpha will come and they’ll taste it too
Boomers actually hated shooters and videogames in general
boomers video games are pokie machines
They do. Also, everyone older than 25 is a boomer.
Lol. Ok zoomer.
I guess I’ll move to the Ellis Air Force Base
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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”
I used to play LAN Quake at Uni before 3D graphics accelerating boards (and before that things like Pacman and Manic Miner on a ZX Spectrum and before that arcade games) and I ain’t a boomer.
Boomer games are more like this
Zoomers genuinely think everyone more than two years older than them are boomers. Same as how actual boomers thought everyone more than two years younger then them were millenials.
But WW2 was in the 40s.
same. i’ll never forget the sound of that grenade launcher… foomp tink tink tink BOOM
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.
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?
Dude…I’m only 39 ffs!!! I’m not a boomer!
Well we had mods and custom levels when we got tired of the official stuff.
My peak mod experience was playing NS on a CS maps … co_cs_assault for example
Jedi Knight II had a tight mod scene. Every Star Wars character in the movies and books was made playable damn near with lots of new Star Wars themed maps and goofy shit to duel in. Good times.
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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
Wait till you hear about nuke and train
Aw hell naw! Goddamn hipsters with their fancy maps!
