Oh ok i wasnt too sure about that fact

"a seemingly-infinite amount of attention has been paid to the customization of servers, designing of maps and play styles, and even new games entirely (like _Surf Maps). And it is this creativity that I marvel at. "

It all began when I first bought Counter-Strike: Source for my pc. I got owned all the time. Even when I thought I was good, I was probably playing the lousiest bunch of noobs in the entire Steam Network. But it wasn't the shooting or the teamwork that kept bringing me back (Even though it was a solid game). It was the immense personality that the game had. More specifically, it was what the user-base brought to Counter-Strike that made it so unique. The fans of Counter-Strike developed their own sense of humor and express it through the coding of the game, as a painter would his ideas on a canvas. I have played many online shooters, and have never witinessed anything quite like it.

It may be because it is the most played online-shooter for the PC, in fact it probably is, but a seemingly-infinite amount of attention has been paid to the customization of servers, designing of maps and play styles, and even new games entirely (like _Surf Maps). And it is this creativity that I marvel at.

I always laugh when I enter a server looking for a good fight but instead just finding myself being burnt alive along with everyone else by the Administrator, just so he can have a rediculous score. I have laughed to tears watching a player who has an aim-hack and is looping the song "Banana Phone" over the radio feed, all while murdering everyone in his/her sight. I've had so much fun with the user-developed punishment menu, which offers many ways to punish a team-killer such as giving them drugs (to disorient), turning them into a time bomb, or just cutting off thier hands. These "jokes" are always given a warm reception and seldom deemed annoying (well....except for the aim-assist hacks).

This culture has tranlated very well into the latest online shooter from Valve, Team Fortress 2. And it has been even more enjoyable to me than my days with CS: Source. The more I think about it, the more I notice how well suited the cast of TF2 really are for the absolutely rediculous things they are to be subjected to.

The way the limbs and oragans are comically strewn about...

The snapshots that are taken of every time you die...

The creativity that can be seen in TF2 servers is still so young, that unimaginable updates will unboubtedly come about in the next couple of years. I look foreward, drooling in beatitude, to whatever Team Fortress 2 will become in the future. I applaud Valve's philosophy on letting the users customize and share their ideas to such an extreme level of depth.

Lemme know what you think

Thanks for reading. All criticism is welcome

P.S. Gamespots in browser word processor is the **** I hope all of the crew that just left Gamespot STAY iN THE VIDEO GAME CRITIC BUISNESS.

its really hard to say

but it is very clear that the japanese make far better games than anywhere else in the world

Check it out while u can. the add featured on gamespot's homepage is for a basketball game (whatever i forgot the name already) the player models on each side are facing the fourth wallrelatively but the uniform on the left model has the words on his jersey "wizard" spelled backwards. it should be the same in both shouldnt it?

Im lookin to get a game that will satisfy my taste in games with plenty of depth

 but my noob friends have to have a game that they can get into easily.

im too good at smash bros for them, so that rules that out

what should i get?