Zoomer anon has brainrot

Ahh, the days before games companies hired the casino slot machine UX designers. An elegant game from a more civilised age.

Hello, could I take a minute of your time to talk to you about our lord and savior, de_rats?
- Opera from cs_italy playing in the background
- fy_poolday and rpg mods. liked the non wc3 one because i was to dumb back then for the bindings required for the wc3 one. the other one had just passive skills

Boomers my ass. This is Gen X gaming.

Millennials as well. I get bored with modern games. Grinding all day for a pink weapon skin. Tf, I don't care what color are my skins. Give me a good old challenge
- I mean it is a nice extra, if and only if the core gameplay is enjoyable. Porbably most triple AAA titles would be fine with all the secondary stuff, if they whould have just put a little more effort into making a fun game first and foremost and then add the other stuff afterwards.
  
  But of course adding loot boxes to a fun game is a different process than designing a loot box ecosystem and then trying to fit a game into it.
I'm a Millenial and I was the target audience age when CS released.
- If you aren't doing it already, I strongly encourage you to undertake an aggressive workout routine, including lots of stretching.
I don’t think this is even Gen-X. Certainly this Gen-Xer grew up on Atari with very obvious 8bit and even text based games. I don’t recognize this one and we had few or no first person shooters

My “complex world” game was the computer texting to me “you have entered a maze of twisty passages, all alike”

I don’t know what the tail end of the Xers played, so maybe.

I had to look it up, but the last of the Xers were born in 1980. This looks like a 2000’s game, so they would have been adults
- It’s Counter-Strike 1.6, which is from the late 90s.
- Yeah, it's more of a millenial/Gen Y game. Which is even further from Boomer.
Lol

Me: Hey Dad, wanna play Counterstrike?

Dad: Hell no, we just had that tile installed. What's wrong with you?
Yup early millennials too. That game was my go to for most of 2000.
Ahem, and elder millennial

Someone please tell me that "no brand tie-ins" gives this away as a joke, and I just didn't get the joke. That can't be something people actually want, right?

Every shitpost on 4chan is serious, actually.
- And every green text is fact checked, triple verified, authentic truth.
You couldn't just let me believe that people today are idiots and that I didn't just get wooshed, in peace, could you?
It's not a joke. But it's not sincere either.

It's a criticism.

Because yes. People DO want brand tie-ins. Literally look at Fortnite. It peaks in popularity during brand tie-ins.
- Not brand tie ins, that's like a coca cola ad on one of the walls. People don't want brands, they want characters and IP... They want crossovers
I'm thinking something along the lines of the Minecraft Lego sets for instance. Which, credit where it's due, were pretty cool.
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man I was jecking out the toy island recently and i saw a carrera oracle redbull race track right next to one with "non-lego" lego brick buildable cars and the mario kart themed one.

I tell you: one day these crossovers and brand tie ins and market consolidation will lead us to the ultimate mono brand multiverse -> Think of Mario Raving Rabbits in Avenger costumes lego figures as playable characters in fortnite

We had mods. They're a bit like skins and new content, only free and far more creative. They are what you call microtransactions today but you didn't have to sell your right arm to get them because anyone could make them.

CS mods

Yo dawg, we heard you like mods...
- downloading 1/300 double-kill.mp3...
Mods are literally the reason why doom II, skyrim, fallout new vegas and assaultcube are still my most played games, I'm both genuinely surprised and scared at what people can come up with.
- All my most played, loved and returned to games all support mods and there are a ton of mods for them. Even online games like Wow where mods at least make things a lot better.
I remember working out how I could make custom sprays for CS in 1.6 (maybe 1.5) and being so excited.
Well, CS was a mod for Half-Life :)

CS 1.6 was peak gaming. There were servers with Warcraft 3 mod where you could pick your race and level up to receive additional modded abilities and items, and it would save your progress over months. Not to mention the map customizations.

Also, no paying for season passes or DLC, no paid skinpacks, no censorship or embedded ads or tracking. And custom porn sprays.

EDIT: there were definitely skins, they were just free downloads from modders. And they were client side so you could see them but other players would just have their own skin or default for the same item.

So you're saying there was new content all the time, it's just that it was made by the community for the community.
Source also had W3 mod. I remember a server that ran it on de_deathcookin for some reason, but it was so good.

Also, glass maps. And this one server that ran 24/7 scoutzknivez low gravity gun game.
- Surf maps, hours lost to the perfection of surfing using game physics.
This reminds me of wc3 mods run on fy_pool_day. Stupid fun with the overpowered HE nades
- I did not expect someone to mention that map here. Loving fy_pool_day
Man made me remember zombie escapes. Complete darkness, scary maps with zombie screams from another game. I used to play a lot of those.
- zm_lila_panic
Actually they tried experimenting with in-game ads at one point in CS 1.6.

https://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/ads_turned_on_in_cs_1.6/1/
- Personally, I'm kinda amazed everyone forgot about ads in the MOTD that a lot of multiplayer source games had. Granted, the ads were set by the server host, not Valve, but yeah.

Trollbait, it has to be. "no brand tie ins" is genuinely hilarious to me. I'm picturing a videogame reviewer going like: "The game is an artistic and a technical milestone. The gameplay is also the smoothest we've seen so far. Unfortunately, the game does not feature a Ronald McDonald skin or even a Slurpee coupon, so we have to give it a 7/10".

No Mountain Dew tie-in ? 0/10
trollbait? id say its pretty clearly satire
- Yeah, could be. Either way, there's no chance the user was being serious.

By...not playing it? No boomers were playing Counterstrike back in the day, lol wtaf?

Anyone over 30 is a boomer to gen Z.
- What if I way below 30 and played CS 1.6?
ok boomer go play your wow classic that you all love so much /s
- wow, that stung...but fair. I was there for the opening of AQ20 and AQ40.
  
  I instantly spotted the flaw in the Leroy jenkins video when it dropped. Real vets know you don't fucking touch the eggs.
  
  i do the same to my friend from the 70s who is all about text based, point and click, western only games because of the commies and he has a propaganda hate for anything weeb, he thinks video games crowning achievement stopped at Medal of Honor - Allied Assault. and BF1942.
Seriously. CS 1.6 is a younger GenX/Older MilleniaI game. Nowhere near the Boomer gen.

It was pure gaming.

No advertisments, no marketing, no extra costs.

The only way to get better was to play more.

How can it not be fun?

Good ol' days, thank you VALVE.

CS 1.6 was not made by Valve, it was a mod for Half-Life.
- I believe the thank you was regarding the mod-friendly mindset of early valve. A section in the game menu for loading new mods and it shipped with a mod (TFC, which was based off a community mod for Quake)

God I miss those times, it was all about skills. Cheating was also also extremely rare in CS (according to my memories) during the earlier 2000s. Loved that game

Server culture was a bulwark against cheating.
- I miss dedicated servers.

As a gen x, I didn't know any boomers played CS.

Gen Z calls anyone older than them boomers
- I never thought it would happen to me :(
- Wait till gen alpha will come and they'll taste it too
Boomers actually hated shooters and videogames in general
- boomers video games are pokie machines
They do. Also, everyone older than 25 is a boomer.
- Lol. Ok zoomer.
- I guess I'll move to the Ellis Air Force Base
- 59*
- 25? Where's gen x and y though?)
I'm sure there's the odd one but I've also only met gen x & millennials in 1.6. Mostly the latter.
- Our highschool informatics teacher knew, that there were a lot of kids just playing 1.6 instead of doing the programming assignment. So he logged in and started to frag people using the playertag "Skinner"

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I used to play LAN Quake at Uni before 3D graphics accelerating boards (and before that things like Pacman and Manic Miner on a ZX Spectrum and before that arcade games) and I ain't a boomer.

Boomer games are more like this

Zoomers genuinely think everyone more than two years older than them are boomers. Same as how actual boomers thought everyone more than two years younger then them were millenials.
- But WW2 was in the 40s.
same. i'll never forget the sound of that grenade launcher... foomp tink tink tink BOOM
- So weighty.
  
  Actually, I played a pirated version of Q1 back in the day so it wasn't until later that I got the full audio experience of (playing with the CD in the rom drive, which was required to listen to listen to) the music, and man that game is A LOT CREEPIER with all that ambient wailing and moaning and like, gnashing of babies, that the full, sculptural soundtrack provides.

I don't even claim free season pass rewards because I couldn't give a fuck less about your cosmetic trash. Gameplay is king in this household.

Really speaks to how fast culture is moving that people in their thirties have developed "kids these days" type attitudes.

I don't think it was ever different, just that we are now part of that generation or exposed to it. The people in the 50s to 70s often had kids in the early to mid 20s of their life. So they were in teir thirties by the time the kids were teenagers, bringing all that new culture to clash with.
I'm not even in my thirties, lol.

Boomer entertainment is more playing the original castle Wolfenstein while smoking meth and beating your meat to tucker Carlson telling you you're degenerate scum who's going to hell.

Dude...I'm only 39 ffs!!! I'm not a boomer!
Are you spying on me right now?

Well we had mods and custom levels when we got tired of the official stuff.

My peak mod experience was playing NS on a CS maps ... co_cs_assault for example
- Jedi Knight II had a tight mod scene. Every Star Wars character in the movies and books was made playable damn near with lots of new Star Wars themed maps and goofy shit to duel in. Good times.

The golden days of 1.6 were the dream. There wasn’t anything else like it. Then sticking with it over the years—the graphics on Source were MIND BLOWING when they first came out. Custom maps with friends. LAN Config for skirmishes between clans before there was competitive… I can go on and on. Zombie mod…

Nothing boring about it.

I heard some weirdos switched de_dust and de_duat2 for de_aztec and cs_office sometimes. Avantgarde as fuck

Aztec is a better map than dust. Dust is massively onesided sided because Ts have to either run through the tunnels to get to the sites or come from the underbridge where CTs can kill them easily.
- Our clan's Mal of choice was always Aztec
Wait till you hear about nuke and train
- Aw hell naw! Goddamn hipsters with their fancy maps!