Starting in Counter-Strike

Ever since around a year or two ago, I've been eager to get into another online multiplayer game. Call of Duty had kinda grown stale especially due to overplay my freshman year of college. I've hopped around a few placing around 5 hours into Chivalry, 5 hours into the PC version of Call of Duty 4 which I rebought for the sake of a lively non-hacking community, 10 hours into Tribes: Ascend which just decided to stop working for me, and few others, neither of them really sticking with me the way earlier Call of Duty installments. I think I've finally found that game, it being Counter Strike.

Now, I have dipped my feet into the waters of this popular series, but only for short periods, like playing in the computer lab in high school and playing CS: GO (Global Offensive) for a bit on 360 which I have no explanation for my purchase. I am now have about 4-5 hours logged in CS:GO, and will probably continue to play more as well as put some time into CS: Source. Being fairly new, I spent most time against bots of varying difficulty with defuse and deathmatch gametypes. Now, it's difficult to articulate just why I'm enjoying more than other games, say Team Fortress 2. Part of it is that my deaths and successes are entirely on me, part of it is that I play a lot against bots, part of it is that I still feel improvement.

 NOT GETTIN TIRED OF THIS SHIT.

I'm not a team player at all, which might pose to be an issue. This is why I like (well liked) Call of Duty more than the short amount of time I played Battlefield 3. I'm not at all a team player. I hate the idea of being shit because my team sucks just as well as I hate keeping me team down. I go on my own, succeed or fail, and notice the issues of my teammates. With TF2, I don't feel comfortable playing many roles. I have 2 hours in medic and soldier each, then the next most is the heavy with around 20 minutes. CS;GO 1 character, with the exception of bomb runner or defuser or whatever, but any person could be that person. It's not hard to figure out how to play as what you are. You shoot the bad guys, plant/defuse the bomb when necessary. And I'm not at all saying that there's no teamwork in this game, I'm saying that if I play casually, which I do, I won't really care about the rest of the team. Such is how I play Call of Duty. It can't be played with teamwork, but fuuuuuuck that.

Now, when it comes to improvement on the game, my biggest problem with the game is raised. The entire game is focused on headshots. This dynamic expresses just how shit I am at PC shooters. Get into an encounter, aim for the head, sometimes get lucky, but mostly not. If you get killed, it lets you know how many shots hit you, and how much damage it gave, as well as how much damage you gave and how many times you hit. Really, it just lets you know exactly how shit you are. Often, things like Damage Taken: 162 with 2 bullets. Damage Given: 8 with 1 bullet. How the fuck you give 8 damage with an AK-47 is beyond me. I'm still pretty shit at the game, I'll admit that, but it is a bit frustrating having an encounter where I instantly get shit on. Now, this also happens in Call of Duty, but with the low base health in that game, it's easy for anyone to get a kill AND you can aim down sights do aid in without having to worry about recoil nearly as much.

I'm good at games, I swear.

In conclusion of all of this, I feel that there's a long way I have to go, and most importantly, I'm still interested in this, I do want to get better. I just feel I have a long way to go, a lot to unlearn to figure this game out as well as I did in Cod4 or Modern Warfare 2.

CS! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!