Counter-Strike is one of the most loved FPS games of all time. It is also the most influential; its core mechanics can be seen in many forms today, from Call of Duty to Rainbow Six Siege. But this is not what makes counter-strike special. It's only a small piece of a larger puzzle, a puzzle we hope to explore in detail in this video.
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counter strike feels like one of the few untouched parts of the internet, unwilling to move on with the times but instead embracing its age like an achievement.
Aged like wine.
It's unfortunate that Valve's seemingly new-found incompetence in handling their multiplayer games has most of them (like CS2 or TF2) on life support right now.
@@Artician i wouldn't say that necessarily for cs2, but that more than applies to tf2. It's a shame how far it's fallen but it's a miracle that its community still keeps it going all these years later.
@@ArticianDoesn't apply for CS2, it reached one of it's highest peak in player numbers of 1.4m+ concurrent daily players AGAIN recently after basically nothing but tournaments and stickers It happened after everyone was convinced the game was dying & it's all over for Counter-Strike (for like the 20th time in over 24 years lol) But unfortunately as a player of both it and TF2, you can definitely say TF2 is in a depressing limbo state right now Not quite dead, but far from well & alive either
@@Artician what are you talking about cs2 is literally the most played game on steam
I love Warowl's quote about the game. "Counter Strike is a game where your character doesn't get better, YOU get better."
So real
@@TheCouch-Co-Opthats every fps game. At least what i know of
Just like physical sports, the new young generation keeps raising the skill floor to a never before seen level. Donk has shown that and he will not be the last one to do it.
100%
and monesy just a couple years before him
Cs2 any kid can play well. Very easy to shoot
Donk had 1 good tournament and is now the chosen one lol.. I don't buy the hype. Looked very average at the major.
@@yodel96 he has a really solid ground to work of so I'm sure he can become one of the greatest if he puts the effort in.
never underestimate the staying power of CS
BIG FAN!
Jo hi shadow love Ur content 2
As to be expected from one of, if not the best, game developer still around to this day, and when they understand "Why would we change the series into something completely different?" like most others have done
CS is the purest and greatest FPS game that exists at the moment. It's been that way for 20 years.
Forever is a mighty long time
sof2 was better
Counter-strike 2 is garbage and will never live up to CSGO
@@darn1285 people said the same thing in 2012 when csgo came out
it's the same game@@darn1285
Bingo bango bongo, bish bash bosh
We rushing in? Or going in sneeky-beeky like?
Gear up, we aren't going on a windy walk here!
Let’s make it home in time for chow!
This isn't a game anymore this is real life
These fellas are gonna regret waking up this Mornin.
CS has the ability to convey “I’m better than you” than any other game
CS (and TF2) are the only games in the world where every time I die I know it's my fault and not some issue with the game
Dota 2 has entered the chat
@@parhamizady8616 (sub-tick)
Unless its a hacker 😂
@@parhamizady8616 Yea and theres only a hacker in 50% of the games. And a new map once every four thousand years! Great game /s
nice parallel there, much like football, counter strike is THE game. I started playing cs in like 2015 and i went through so many years of people calling it a dead game and now no one even dares do that anymore. nice vid, really wanna see more from this channel!!
Football? Lmfao
There shall be more!
@@TheMcstevester whats wrong mcstevester?
@@TheMcstevester Football is THE game, by far the biggest sport in the world watched and played by fans in just about every country over 3.5 billion fans a lot more than 800 million for Basketball or 500 million for Baseball
@@TheMcstevester they mean american soccer I think
I've been playing cs casually since 2015 but its only been recently when I finally "got it" the way all these seemingly simple mechanics work together to create an ocean of depth . I still suck but I'm really enjoying the game more than ever before.
Same!
I’ve been playing since 2015 as well. Got a little competitive competing at locals. Ended up with 11k hours on Csgo
@@imgizmo4706 I don't even think I have 11k hours total, and I've played since ~2000 😀
More games should take notes from CS. Where the game is easy to learn but hard to master. There's always something new to learn and improve on in Counter Strike.
The game that keeps on giving
I think the real lesson is to just let the game be for a while and let players develop the meta, only step in when there’s something blatantly overpowered or broken.
@@bradpittman3821 but.... but.... we need to sell new characters to the player
It's crazy how spot on CS has been from the start 20 years ago to now. Even crazier that no game has ACTUALLY ever come close to what CS is.
i love cs for the fact that less is more in its case, and that while everything is tactical, its still skill based at heart
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What skill? Its all about tactics. Apex, with their slide cancel jumping bullshit, that takes skill(ed techniques) But CS? If you do basic buddy leapfrogging to move forward, or set up a distraction and a flanker, you can make it very far
@@SirFafertell me you haven’t played cs without telling me you haven’t played cs
@@SirFafer you need to learn how to throw nades and control your spray. If you don't know either your tactics won't do shit for you and you'll lose.
@@adenkyramud5005>muscle memory for shitty mechanics ok bro im for sure gonna memorize what pixel to aim at for a super sick grenade lineup, this is truly the greatest game of all time
Counter Strike is as good and as clean as FPS games get, the perfect balance between sheer mechanical skill and tactical decision making. It has been like this for over 2 centuries and the beauty of it is that it refuses to die, no matter what. CS forever.
The famous 200years of CS history. :D
Yooo the clip of the BO2 cod champs is a deeep cut, seeing killa and parasites name next to each other takes me wayyyy back lmao
Black Ops 2 best CoD
Cs 1.5. I have not touch CS since 2006 then. I was never a good awper but one time, I killed 4/10 people. That was unbelievable. Im planning to go back to CS and practice on it. It's a slow crawl but Im learning. Given that Im close to 50 makes it a challenge. Slow eye hand coordination and shaky hand. It's not like Im in my 20s.
eat healthy, drink lots of water, lean your elbow on the table, lower your sensitivity till it feels solid but not too slow, play aim practice maps like aim_botz to warm up, don’t waste your time with deathmatch, get some friends/nice people to 5 stack with and focus on learning basic utility and default positions for each map, you’ll be better at 50 than 90% of the playerbase :) i was rank 1 esea 2016 leaderboards for a bit 4k+ hours those things work, gl hf :)
You can do it, man! I believe it.
Dude, the way you talk about these fps games, I don’t know what it is, but it feels like you’re saying something very profound in each of these video essays. As in, analyzing the game theory and philosophy, behind every decision the developers have put in. Even more than that, just completely taking the game as a work of art, and appreciating every minute detail of it You video about the finals convinced me to try the game for the first time. The way you described that game as an evolution in FPS, just felt so incredibly… profound?? (lol?) I really don’t know how to describe this feeling. Just, well done on this channel. Keep it up, I know you will grow a lot
Wow this video was terrific! The effort and script writing was strong as heck, deserves way more views
Appricated it! Now let us know when the next animals that shouldn't exist drops! (we are fans)
"your favourite first person shooter's favourite first person shooter"
This video actually have a great quality, hope the channel will grow. Also, the Siege video was done so good, that i thought a channel had more that a million subs. Keep this up!
Appreciated!
This channel deserves more attention and I’m glad this popped up in my feed. :)
another wonderful video, counter-strike will forever be the greatest FPS of all time. this channel is a must watch.
Tysm!
@@TheCouch-Co-Op No problem! Would love to see a video on Apex Legends at some point!
Team Fortess 2 exist. If tf2 wasn't made cs go wouldn't be a thing.
Man as a CS player you brought me tears to my eyes. The way you spoke and described the game is just hitting home. Also showing nostalgic footage from the old majors is just hitting the right spot. I have been playing CS 1.6 since 2009 when I was 11, since then I kept playing and stopping till 2014 when I picked up CS:GO and I can confidently say, it has changed my life. This is the beauty about CS, how it can bring people together like a physical sport. With all the issues in the game (cheaters, bugs, etc) I still believe Counter Strike is one of the best things that happened to gaming.
took me down memory lane with that chicken coop clip
I am glad I stumbled upon this channel, because this is BY FAR the best take on Counter-Strike I have ever seen and this video is very well executed. Great job, keep it up!
I remember getting halflife the day it came out and then counter strike literally the week the mod came out. My life changed forever. This video is absolutely amazing I'm currently about to watch the rest of your video great work man please don't stop making vids
I thought you were coping so hard by that title, but the video is so well done that I couldn't help but shut up and just enjoy the video and get nostalgic about my time with Counter Strike.
;)
Is this a secret second channel G? Its really cool to hear you speak about other games the same way you do with siege. Keep it up!!!
This is a secret couch.
Another great video 👍I never really knew much about the communal bridge between normal ranked players and pro players in CS. You give great insight into this relationship, one that I feel so many games have tried to replicate unsuccessfully, *cough* overwatch *cough*. Well done 👏
Thank you!
I'm a console scrub, so I don't play CS, but this video and all the other the algorithm gods have recommended to me lately have been fire
Thank you!
if you have gyro controller , you can play cs with a controller
it's funny, because CSGO was originally intended to just be a console port of CS Source
Great video. Definitely did the gsme justice. I've loved this game and it's community for a huge portion of my life. Can't wait to see it continue to evolve.
Same here!
good video and engagement, underrated!
What. A. Video. Truly well made, especially for people who ask or say "what is cs" or "how can you enjoy cs" , you send them this. Insane vid.
Great video. I really like how you are blending analysis of the game's history, design and culture so seamlessly.
Glad you enjoy it!
I'm so happy to see this channel find success G :)
Who is Gouch? But yes thank you!
CS is still GOATed for all 2000s era gamers, I still remember there are also moments with not just tournaments but for many players have experienced through normal and modded servers. That's another reason why CS is the best for 2 decades now.
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man what a great video. you really captured and showed the essence of what makes counter strike special.
Awesome video. This deserves hundreds of thousands of views, if not millions. Great work!
It's hard to explain but CS I feel like is how you visualized fps games or war as a whole as a kid. Everything about it is just so instinctual.
I just got recommended this video and was pleasantly jumpscared by G’s voice LOL didn’t know this channel existed but I’m glad I do now!
I enjoyed this video so much! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
dude this was such a good video - love your channel!
Thank you!
@@TheCouch-Co-Op Dude what's your take on my comment?
Fave cs moment has got to be the stewie 2k 3k from B site new box on inferno to force an overtime at the boston major
as a faze fan this hurts....
@@TheCouch-Co-OpA similar thing happened again today with them against Navi And of all chances, it happened on a third map decider Inferno AGAIN 😹
Great video and great editing!!!
Congrats on the 10K!
🎉
Beautifully made!
Simplicity design, Never overcomplicate core game mechanics by the time come out, Viewership friendliness which leads to emotional moments for many people and competition throughout many years, Creativity from already existing things in the game and easy to play experience which leads to many people still wanna try that's how CS still the king of FPS to this day despite so many challenges like some similar games. CS just can't be kill and still set standard for every FPS to this day. I'm glad you make this video ❤
Another really nice video! Parabens, mano, sucesso com o canal!
the smoke lineups on mirage is a cool thing to cover, and its even more important in a game like vail VR, a game in which, for a while, I was pro in. My team spent HOURS perfecting lineups on the maps, our favorite being a reproduction of Dust 2, which you had to physically throw, meaning that it was possible to throw a smoke from the top of mid all the way onto B site, same goes for impact grenades, though those had not yet been implemented at the time of my professional play, a common smoke we used on CT was to smoke A long from tunns, or on Ts to smoke goose or CT ramp from bedroom(tho people called it skatepark due to the concrete structures placed there instead)
“Huh this new channel looks neat-“ *hears familiar voice* “oh shit yup instant sub”
A very nice general overview of my favourite game. Very well done. This game might have its toxic moments but I am happy to be a part of this community. Wish you had mentioned the esports side more, or even make a separate video for it.
We could!
Started playing CS in the late beta versions all at LAN parties. This was back in the dial up days, so online play + comms wasn’t really feasible. Yes, I’m old. The big difference at a LAN party if you carry on like a muppet, the player you were abusing was right there in the room so you - well, didn’t. Playing original CS at a LAN party was legitimately about fun not the serious competition.
Everybody should have the experience of playing at a LAN
I took a long break from CS and probs gonna get hate for this but Halo also. (Halo 1,2,3). Trying other of the modern shooters and I just can't grasp them. To me Halo and CS seemed to just be my go back games. Comfort. Halo positioning is key. (Granted I play a lot of comp and comp custom game lobbies.) But in CS positioning is insane. It's addictive. Idk what it is. The slower paced fps games where positioning is everything is just so ADDICTIVE. I played a match of Halo 3 BR spawn tourney rules the other day on Xbox a couple weeks ago. And man was it a breath of fresh air. I just got back into CS2 and I'm loving it. I've been playing for 2 weeks straight. Nothing can touch these style of games to me. Especially CS and economy. Pistol rounds are VERY stressful but very fun.
I'd say this was accurate before CS2, definitely not anymore. It's been around almost a year now and still pales in comparison to CS:GO. I think eventually it will get back to the old quality, it's the amount of time that it might take that worries me. Kind of depressing that CS2 was rushed out AND replaced a game that realistically didn't need anything other than a fresh coat of paint, I don't think it was a great decision at all in retrospect.
naah this is easily one of the best cs related videos ive ever watched
quake and other arena shooters have way more depth, more to think about and more to mechanically achieve, the real reason that counter strike is so popular is beacuse its really, really easy to get into. even my mom would understand the game after one round
Isn't siege just counterstrike but more complicated
Such a nice game, Counter Strike. But the anticheat... HOLLY CRAP.
Man, those days... the condition of the voice chat wasn't very good, but it was still so much fun.
This game is amazing, the only downside is the lack of Cheater control. There is no point in playing seriously when you get a cheater (blatant or just WH) every 2 games
Played source about 2k hours when I was 15. Today, age 31, I have been playing again (CS2) since december because friends got me back in, and the hype is back hhaha I never thought
great video. I would recommend condensing this vid into a smaller short. You might reach a wider audience this way. Just my two cents. I hope your channel grows
Thanks!
im playing since 1.6, and one of the hardest thing to teach to people is visual thinking, and when to not agree to a duel, when to commit/when not.
Yummy vid G, definitely made me feel symptoms of CS withdrawal
CS is just pure raw skill that a single price change on any weapon could send the meta in frenzy. Example being the AUG and Krieg metas
Best game of all time!
The GOAT
It’s the reason why cod 4 felt so good if not better
what exacly you mean?
huh
2:47 one of my favorite places to be is CT side, in garage, with an AUG.
I played actively during 1.6 days then 2010 i switched to enemy territory multiplayer, it was pretty underrated game , it also had major championships.
I had too much fun in enemy territory. I was so addicted to it at one point that I would keep playing till dawn. Birds singing would alert me that I had pulled an all nighter.
LOL haha good times indeed, enemy territory came to steam as well lately, but I think you still have to download some legacy thingy to servers to work, because mostly what you get is the bots in the servers.@@dgochez
12:30 on is pure kino brother. CS is very much one of those IFYKYK type of things. The last shangri-la of vidya ♥
I've heard about CS literally all my life, but this is the first video Ive seen that *actually* convinced me that i should pick it up.
Great vid! I’ve been playing counter strike since 1.6 t’ ill now and I can’t get tiered of it!!
An og
This video was so well done
ty!
This really made me look at cs in a new way. Tho i wont be playing it ever. Great video
10:02 made so laugh , had these days when i was young playing cs 1.6 :D
As a 6 year Rainbow six veteran that never liked cs, i cant deny that cs is really something special that changed fps games for ever.
Only thing that we got out of cs was trading skins and a single trickshot, cs is not influential. Only good and influential games valve created was half life, tf2, portal, and maybe l4d and they wont even make a 3rd game for any of the good games.
@@alfredosauce6049ur opinion
Who else remembers Tips Cristian streams? Fuccin hilarious and hard to find the vod these days. "TIP TIP TIP MY STEP DADS COMING IN TIIIIPP AAGGHHH!!!"
Bro managed to snuck in olof defuse, s1mple cache 2k, colzera jump and dosia nade all in 18 minutes. That's impressive lol
2:40 "you have to use, not just your brain, not just your hands, but BOTH" like every video game ever! WOW CS is so revolutionary!
real
Great video!
ty!
8:21 before I started playing CS, I had heard about Valorant from my brother. I was surprised when I heard that you couldn’t heal, or revive, I was surprised. At the time I discovered Valorant, I was a huge TF2 player. I didn’t get into Valorant anyways. My friend got me to play CS a long time after I discovered Valorant without knowing I discovered Valorant. Now I play CS more than TF2. I still love TF2, and I do play it once in a while though.
nice valvedrone circlejerk
this is a video i would send to someone that asks what counter strike is. sure there might be "cooler" demonstrations of what it is, but this is the most real one.
Great video and amazing game. Nothing comes close to CS in the FPS world. Truly goated
Legend!
Maybe im some random nerd but Team Fortess 2 is at least at the same level.
This was beautiful.
the astralis glazing is crazy
‘Arms race’ nice
It's funny because it's true! Still, we just need an anticheat, old game modes back and replacing some of the Premier 12 yo maps like mirage and vertigo. I'm having a fun time with my mates playing it... And sometimes I hate it, only to come back at it the next day. Counter Strike is like the abusive gf that you love and hate in the same time, lmao (doesn't work in real life though, trust me bro).
Everytime I watch videos about CS, it looks like it's the best game ever made, and then I play it, and yeah, not even close.
Favorite counter strike moment is the next one, this game will never die with a community like this, long live the king
Hail to the king baby
First bullet innacuracy is the feature that gives it the edge n puts it above the rest of the competition.
yes
Counterstrike was enjoyed accross many generations, im 25 and my dad used to play source when i was basically a baby and id watch him play and hed let me play bot matches.
This is one of a few games that is worth investing in
My favorite part of csgo, is i dont like it, i hate it even, but that's what's awesome, a good game isn't a game for everyone, think of every legendary title, there's going to be an audience that dislikes it, not out of unwillingness to learn or just salt from chronic skill issue, but because a good game seeks to give a very particular experience, an experience that wont be for everyone, a game that tries to appeal to everyone will become watered down, and streamlined, which is what we see with alot of modern titles, these people aren't envisioning an experience they're asking "what'll make me the most money", they'd never put in a feature as awkward as csgo recoil, i hate the idea of my barrel facing one way and my third bullet exiting the barrel at a 90 degree angle cuz Ak's have a mind of their own, but certain players will dedicate hours to recoil patterns and getting the perfect rhythm of shots to stay accurate and become so good at this sysyem you'd swear they had an awp when they really just mastered the Ak
My favorit Counter Strike moment is when a group of hackers are matches against us and I question my sanity as it was not the first time, then I quit and go play real games for a month.
Fantastic video, deserves more views for sure. A funny note on Call of Duty has maps based directly on old 1.6/source maps.
i got in to pc gaming was team fortress 2 and CS GO CS GO community was fun and toxic time when playing comp luv to B rush on dust 2 P90 warrior and Negev covering fire good times
Played during the big boom around 2013-2014, a blast.
It's a huge point about how stable the game is in terms of what they put into updates. I used to love Rainbow 6 Siege, but between updates breaking the game, a worse cheater problem than CS at times, and CS has a bad cheating problem, and updates which were focussed around dropping new characters in a battlepass style that you needed to either grind to get or pay actual money I fell off the game. Doesn't feel fun to have to play it nonstop to have all the characters, doesn't feel fun when they nerf the one character that season you did have the points for. Doesn't feel fun for the meta to change on a dime around new operators, and for them to need to change the mechanics and attachments, doesn't feel good to have to check the attachment meta, and how the new characters work if I come back. These are effective monetization strategies but poor retention strategies. By comparison, getting better at CS doesn't mean buying the new meta operators and watching a tutorial on attachments that will be overridden when they decide to change the scope system. Again. It means coming back to a game that I'm already familiar with, and choosing to learn different things, adding new utility, smoke lineups etc, to the ones I already know. It means improving on fundamentals. And the gameplay is timeless. Sure, you're going to have fun with a call of duty, but it's not going to be a balanced competitive experience. Sure, you can play siege but the monetization has distorted heavily the core experience and makes it harder to enjoy. Sure, you can play Valorant, but they have all the problems with hero shooters AND bad maps AND poor gunplay with ugly graphics. These other games have fallen victim to the current trend of battlepass content munching shooters. I don't want my comp shooter to have fortnite progression in it. I want it to be the same thing day in day out, to not need to pay more money on it, and to be able to track my progression and improvement. You do not get that feeling anywhere else.
Counter Strike will always true to itself.
Valorant stans can only mimic a fracture of CSGO/CS2's power.
Great video ty
thank YOU!
tbh loved this video