One hour of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive footage

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  Am I the only one put off by Valve for letting "elite players and clans" get access to their latest games... : Epsilon Sector
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    Well, considering both of these games suck, nope. : alllivestaken
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      herp : RikiTiki2
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        attention! attention! Herp has been called! will anyone second with a hearty DERP? : hirez
        • I Derp this. : yosemiteclimber
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    This is the audience they want to target with DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: GO, so those people get first access. Blizzard was the same way with Starcraft II.

    Oct 20, 2011 3:54pm PDT
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    This is the audience they want to target with DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: GO, so those people get first ac... : Wisp!
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      My question would be, is there really a non-hardcore audience for DOTA type games? CS had such a big audi... : Dynotaku
      • I think it is an attractive game. It looks about like Left 4 Dead 2, and slightly worse than Portal 2. ... : Wisp!
  • I would guess that Valve feel confident about their ability to make the game appeal to their standard aud... : dfay
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    It's good design. You design for the people who are going to be at or near the skill cap, then you make i... : sammyl
    • That's a good analysis, I concede to your well thought out argument :) : Epsilon Sector
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  Ew. Just ew. Old Sounds, L4D2 style unnatural graphics, downgraded animations, molotov, decoy nade and... : Vogerl
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    I don't know why they're even wasting time on this. It's old and boring. Spend your time on something new... : sanchez
    • There's an audience for it and they enjoy Counter-Strike. Is this a hard concept to understand? Your tast... : Wisp!
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      This was my feeling too, sanchez. I guess I was hoping for at least new maps, if not some new gameplay el... : dfay
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        If they're going to insist on old gameplay, they could at least make the graphics and sound cutting edge : bradsh
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          Neither of those features are important to the audience Valve is targeting. Why don't Blizzard titles hav... : Wisp!
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            Ok so why even bother then? The gameplay is the same, the graphics are mildly better, the sound and every... : bradsh
            • Well, the graphics and sound are much better than Source. Take a look at Source again, it is very dated. ... : Wisp!
          • Blizzard's games have an art style to them. SC2 is a pretty, polished game. This, on the other hand, i... : wickoattack
    • More like old and awesome! I can't wait to jump back into the Counter-Strike scene. It's gonna be awesome... : lord cecil
  • This is a competitive game. BF3 and BC2 aren't. People still play Q3A competitively. If they have fa... : Who_Is_John_Galt_?
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  The least they could do is upgrade the sound system to be on par with DICE. It's like Valve just kind of ... : bradsh
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    I'm sorry you didn't like Portal 2. I thought it was one of the best games I have ever played. : Wisp!
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      It was easy and to me felt like design by committee. I understand a lot of other people don't agree and t... : bradsh
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        Every Valve game is design by committee... : Wisp!
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          But I'd never felt bored playing one before :/ I dunno maybe I'm just getting old. : bradsh
          • It's alright to not like a game. : sneakyalmond
      • Both Portal games were easy to me, but I still had a ton of fun with them and thought they were really cl... : Me77111
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    DICE is a rare game company in that the culture fully embraces and understands how to work with and suppo... : graincloud
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      Id Software is still using old sound effect libraries from the late 1990's in Rage. : the archvile
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        trying to match the magic of Doom's use of libraries : RikiTiki2
        • With Doom I hadn't heard all those sound effects in 17 other games (mostly because I hadn't played any ga... : the archvile
    • Why is it bad? Because sound effects are reused? Only the quality of the end product should matter and in... : sneakyalmond
    • yep it's like expecting every game to have the "performance capture" from uncharted : Shai-Tan
  • I think you're one of the few that feel that way. Portal 2 was an amazing game in my opinion, looked ... : wickoattack
  • brad I think you need a break from video games. Portal 2 was stellar. Sorry you're broken :( : MercFox1
  • You're being melodramatic. One thing that is totally obvious to me is that DOTA & CS:GO arn't big eno... : disembodied potato
  • Valve has been phoning it in for years. HL2 was their last great undertaking, everything else has felt to... : beef2187
• i don't know what to make of this : megarust32
• Source with a facelift and some key gameplay elements like hit detection taken from 1.6 sound like a perf... : Dr_Cube
• Doesn't look bad, but it doesn't look like a new product. : systatic
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  I'm not entirely understanding the point of this game. From watching that video it just looks like a re-... : Begawkiness
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    I think they are making this game to appeal to competitive gamers. What that means, I don't know. : beef2187
    • aka "pro" gamers. aka get a job you lazy fool! : beef2187
    • then aren't they a bit too late? i thought the whole age of fatal1ty and thrash ended ~5-6 years ago. : deathofrats
• Holding the gun up to your face to reload animation looks really weird to me. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Wow, this looks like exactly the same game I played 7 years ago, only updated with the graphics of a 6 ye : ManiacalMoose
  • not only the exact same game, but the exact same "pro-gamers" are playing it. ksharp, volcano etc.... hol... : c0ucheh
• I just think it's a major step forward that Ming Le learned to model the M4 animation to pull back the ac... : proclone1
• They did state all weapons have different circles of fire. So like dods. Only with more weapons. : socom8271
• wow dust 2 looks exactly the same but with some more set dressing...really valve? What's the point? : deathofrats