Why I love Counter-Strike. (Share your CS stories!)

[yllus]

There are two team scenarios that one encounters in Counter-Strike.

Scenario one is playing with a number of your friends on the same/opposite team. Against each other is fun, but going down a hallway covering each other, watching one another die, using voice chat to laugh and communicate, thinking up strategies on the go...it's amazing.

That's why the idea of AnandTech members in a game gets such wide attention, the fun multiplies when you know who's on the other end of your barrel, or backing you up. I'll always save a place by my side for GirlFriday and her weapon of choice.


Scenario two can be even better. You get bored one day and join a pick-up server. After a few rounds, you know that your team is getting annihilated. At this point...some people whine and complain, but other people step up to the task and start pulling the team together just by the pull of their words and in-game deeds. Yell it if you have to, EVERYONE GO RIGHT AND UP THE CORRIDOR ON THIS NEXT ONE, TWO OR THREE STAY BACK TO COVER THE BRIDGE AND OUR ASSES!

One, two, four or five rounds go by and the team starts to mesh and...you start to turn the tide. It's exhilirating to be the lead of a well-oiled killing machine of a team - knowing it was you who the team depends on to lead them onwards. In other cases, you can just run into great people. Hell, I've even spent one entire two-hour Counter-Strike session flirting with the female admin of a server (she was pretty good) over in-game voice chat.

There, that's one of the reasons I love(d) Counter-Strike, though I don't play much lately. Anyone else got anything they wanna say?


Disclaimer: In order for you to pull off scenario two, you need to have some modicum of skill - either in the game or as a flirt.

 

[Supermercado]

I'll definitely agree with you on both of those points. Last year, a bunch of guys and I that lived on my hall would all join the same server and play there. This was pre-voice comm, so it mostly entailed yelling down the hallway. Now that I've gotten better and joined a clan, it's the same kind of situation with my clanmates and I. A lot of us go to the same school, so after a big match or whatever, it's fun to talk about it in class the next day.

I also enjoy connecting to our regular clan server under and alter-ego and waxing my clanmates as just some random schmo that happened to find the server.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Man don't you just love day of defeat!!!!

 

[erikiksaz]

You have NOT played true Counterstrike until you've played sitting next to your clan mates, in a game with a prize for the winners....

 

[BCYL]

I just finished playing some Counter-strike... and I was kicked and banned from the server for no reason... I wasnt cheating (I dont even know how to d/l or install aimbots), and I wasn't particular good neither... maybe 3rd on the server...

No one accused me of cheating through the whole round... and yet right after I killed 2 guys (and immediately got killed by their teammate), I was kicked... Maybe one of the guys I killed was the admin...

Sorry guys, just have to rant...

 

[spanky]

well... when i was a CS newbie... my friend and i were playing in a dust map. we're both CT's, so he leads into the center tunnel entrance. i was right behind him. as soon as we turn left in the tunnels, we see T's, so my friend kneels down and starts shooting. i figured i should help. being he was kneeling down in front of me, i figured i could just stand behind him and shoot over his head. so i blast away. i could swear both me and my friend put a lot of bullets into that T. after that T killed my friend, i was like, let me get so revenge, so i keep shooting. eventually, i get killed be the same T. soon as i die, my friend start asking me why i killed him. apparently, i killed him with a headshot while he was kneeling down in front of me. oops.

 

[Rent]

Well, my CS story is a bit different.

You know you're a CS vetern when you go on a server and get accused of cheating within 3 rounds. It usually only takes 2 in my case.