Old school counterstrike players...whats your thoughts on CS:GO?

As some one who loved and played cs for over 10 years I personally think this latest version that is CS:GO ****ing sucks. It has so much missing that made the previous installments so great. The guns handle like crap, the movement is all floaty and like your on ice, visually I find it unappealing..most if the gun models look chunky and toy gun like... You can tell the game was made by a group of devs that didn't have much experience with the older versions. Overall just a very dumbed down version of what came before it, much less skill intensive... And its a shame because I Feel like 'esports' needs more good competitive fps games and this certainly isn't it. 

CS never required skill when compared to real men FPS like Quake 3 and UT.

One of my biggest problems that I have with CS:GO is how the Sprays were removed. I mean why did they have to do that? But I do like some of the extra modes in CS:GO that we never had in previous Counter-Strike games but the gameplay in the older ones I do feel they were a bit better then in CSGO.

CS never required skill when compared to real men FPS like Quake 3 and UT.

ReddestSkies

As someone who LAN'ed the living heck out of Counter Strike 1.5 back in the day, I really enjoyed GO, it wasn't as good as the classic ones but it sure beat Source which was utter tripe for me.

I cannot for the life of me understand how some 1.6 players can preffer cs:go to source...source was far far closer in terms of gameplay to being more inline with how 1.6 was than how cs:go plays...   cs:go doesnt even feel like cs to me...its like an enitrely different fps game with a cs skins/mod...

I'm 22 now.

I reckon I'd be about 16 or 17 when I was in my prime Counter Strike days. I used to make some decent money back in high school playing. That and Quake 3- there was always more money in Quake 3, but it was also a lot more competitive.

I never competed at a high level- mostly the LANs in the Toronto area that I could attend. I actually cut classes a few times to go to them, mostly Fridays when the LAN would go through the weekend.

So I was pretty good at Counter Strike. Not the best, but a major step above the pubbies you catch on public servers.

That was years ago, though. Counter Strike is the kind of game you have to keep playing constantly to stay good at. That stopped being fun, which is why I stopped competing. There are better ways to make money, I wanted my gaming time to be fun.

I like CS:GO quite a bit because the matchmaking and structure of the game are really well suited to finding good games. The modding community hasn't quite caught up to the other CS games, but it'll get there with time. When it comes to the core multiplayer matches, though, CS:GO is really quite good. I'm enjoying it a lot.

It's the same way I feel about Quake Live. Same game for the most part, subtle differences that count for a lot to making it fun, and a good matchmaking system.

Not a fan.