omg its the cpl

So yeah, I used to be into the CPL and other competitions like WSVG etc etc. Until last night when I just happened to stumple upon a radio talk show (America today or something) I listened to an interview with Angel Munez (founder of the CPL) and thought to myself, oh yeah I used to follow that.

So why don't I follow the CPL and other events like that? To be quite honest I don't care for the games their playing anymore. After the major tournaments stopped supporting CS1.6 and the major teams started switching to Source, I was so fed up with everything that I pretty much stopped playing multiplayer games altogether.

I was fed up with people thinking that they are good at bad games. I see now that there are professional tournaments for Source, Call of Duty 2 and Halo 2. What is wrong with this? First off, CS Source is easy. I played it for a couple hours when it was first released and didn't touch it for over a year before I went to Dink's cafe with some friends of mine. At this Cafe everybody was playing CS:S and talking about how good they were at it too. I was tempted just to leave but my friends (who's also a hardcore CS1.6 player) convinced me just to try it against them. The end result was embarrassing (for all those kids who thought they were good). I do recall joining half-way through a came on De_aztec and having an ending score of 40-6 and one round I knifed 1/2 of the opposing team. I was actually more pissed about this than anything. Here I come into a cafe and play a game that I had only played for a couple of hours and destroyed everybody. It was also so sad playing the game because it felt impossible for me to not get a headshot on somebody because the player models were that huge compared to the tiny 1.6 models.

Within 2 hours of playing at this cafe I was ranked 8th on their top LAN players. The funny thing is, the people playing there were not 13 year olds, they were between 16 and 25 years old and I just felt bad about raping everybody as bad as I did. I mean honestly I felt bad about it. During that one game of CS:S I had people yelling at me across the room and insulting me. One person even swore I was using some kind of cheats and left. I guess that was a compliment? After the game I didn't say anything to anyone, I just got up and left. by the time I got out of the cafe I felt like I had actually gotten worse at games altogether and could feel my skill fading away.

This is the problem I have with new games, and the reason I prefer old games over the new ones (PAY ATTENTION GAME DEVELOPERS!!!!!). First - the issue with graphics... WHO THE FUCK CARES? honestly I could care less if a game looks shitty or not. Second - the issue with gameplay... I can see more and more games being developed to show off graphics instead of creating fast and fluid gameplay - Halo 1+2 and Quake 4 are excelent examples. Halo has an awesome storyline and a great musical score... it lacks good solid gameplay - the shields - like what the fuck? after I get hit with shit I can just hide for a couple seconds and wait for them to recharge and go right back into the battle... umm... thats pretty gay and it keeps the game from being fast paced by slowing down the movement of the character because the game developers want to show off their graphics. Quake 4 - AWESOME GRAPHICS!!!!! GAMEPLAY SUCKS ASS!!!!!!!!!! I felt like a kid with downs while my mommy was holding my hand while playing this game, and thats how it felt playing Halo too. So pretty much ID took everything that made Quake 3 good and turned it bad, and everything that made quake 3 bad they made good. The gameplay was horridly slow paced, the player models are bigger (easier to shoot) and the environments are smaller (slowing down the movement). These are the exact same things that plague CS:S and almost every new game coming out.

Is it just me or are gamers getting worse and worse at games and now game developers are having to make games really really easy to appeal to the norm? I don't play games as often as I used to, but I like games (especially ones that involve COMPETITION) to be challenging.

The game of my dreams would be one with Crysis graphics, Fast paced action similar to Quake 3 (and tiny models and bunnyhoping) and a fan following popular to Halo. That way lots of people would play the game, think they were good until they played against people who actually know what they are doing and then shut up because they don't know what they hell they are talking about.