Veteran esports community figure and friend of the site Rod "Slasher" Breslau got a chance to sit down with Chet Faliszek a few weeks ago back at E3 Expo to discuss all things Global Offensive. The twenty minute interview covers a lot of ground and delves into some topics that have not been discussed in too much detail yet and is definitely worth a watch as we watch and wait as release inches ever closer.







It goes without saying that a lot of you are excited about the competitive future of CS:GO and many of us even cling to the hope that CS:GO might just have what it takes - given Valve's commitment to listening to the community and improving the game accordingly this time around - to really reinvigorate the world of FPS esports which has been in decline for half a decade as old standbys like Quake and CS 1.6 slowly wither with age and games like Starcraft and League of Legends take their place. What do you think about this possibility? Tell us in the comments!

Quote :- I played CS from 1.2 to 1.6 and Source. From my prospective, as counter-strike morphed from 1.2 into 1.6 a lot of great/fun aspects of the previous versions were lost. Some of the changes were noticeable improvements while others seems to be irrelevant set backs.
I miss my 1.2 MP5 and Global announced vote "0" for afk and "1" for camper, anyone else remember that?

Regardless of the changes, you either adapted to the game or gave up. Unfortunately, unlike other updates to the game, 1.6 stuck around thus enabling players to stick with the outdated Counter-Strike instead playing Source. On top of that Source was no where near good enough to pull people away from 1.6 and keep new CS gamers playing. The results of this was the target audience of the FPS genre migrated to other games.

Regardless of how promising CS:GO may seem, if it is a flop with the mainstream FPS crowd, CS will die and never receive those updates that transformed the original CS into the amazing 1.6 game that it was.

I remember playing 1.5 when steam came out and thought that was the end of Counter-Strike. What happen? It was fixed of course

Im very optimistic for CS:GO! I REALLY hope it kills MW3 lol.
ALSO CS:GO I WANT TO SHOT THROUGH WALLS LIKE 1.6!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJLH0OyNk8&feature=player_embedded