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 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 it accessible to lower skilled players while maintaining as high a skill cap as possible. Thus you want to have the best players involved with it as early on as possible.

    Oct 20, 2011 4:26pm PDT
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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