Counter Strike: Global Offensive $15 - Aug 21

Hell yeah! Spent so many years playing CS since the 1.5 days onward, from pubbing to playing in leagues. Only question is, do I get this for the Xbox or PC? I'll probably end up double-dipping.

As someone who played CS from beta 3 on Half Life 1 through Source on Half Life 2, I'm very excited for this.  Hopefully a 10 year old game is still fun.  For $15,  I will give it another go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTpDku9s8o

You guys getting this for the 360?

Used to love CS.

I am.  I played the ever-loving-shit out of Counter-Strike on the PC.  I started with the Half-Life 1 mod at beta 3 and went well into CS:Source.  I totally skipped XBox ! live for Counter-Strike (and Day of Defeat). 

That said, this is a 10 year old game.  I'm not sure how well it will hold up to todays standards.  I'm mainly buying it for nostalgic purposes and to tide me over until Halo4/BLOPs2.

I wound up getting this for Steam. I figure in the long run there's probably going to be all sorts of updates and mods for this and the console will never see those.

Don't know if this bothers anyone else, but there's no party chat allowed. They require you to be in game chat so we get to hear all the timmies.

I was chomping at the bit to get this yesterday. Guess I will have to DL it later tonight. Love to play some on the 360 so shoot me an invite!

Yeah, but you know people are just gonna get around that. Fire up team speak on the computer instead. You can't stop people from being cheap and/or cheating. All you can do is annoy legit players.

It was also pretty laggy, but I'm sure that's just because it's the first hour it's been released. It's supposed to be on dedicated servers. I may wind up getting this on console as well, something to play til Halo drops.

Xbox, PS3 or PC...

Xbox is not going to have Steamworks or keyboard and mouse control, but I know more people going to play on it.  However, I am old school PC CS player, I can't imagine playing with a controller.  Screw you Microsoft for not allowing Steamworks!

PS3 will have Steamworks and will be able to play with PC players and have keyboard and mouse control.

My Mac is just above min reqs so it will probably run like crap on that.

But then it is a $15 game, so getting it for more than one system is affordable.

The only problem I really see with the Xbox version is since Microsoft and Valve are not getting along it is not going to be that well supported.

Oh, I know it was planned.

Dman, I was thinking of hte PS3 becaus eI support any game that is cross platform and cna use keyboard and mouse on consoles.  I still play UT3 once and awhile.

Okay, I take it back. My fears came true. Aiming in this game on the controller is fucking terrible. It's like all the console Valve games--very stiff. When you barely move the thumbstick, the reticule barely moves; when you push it a little harder, it accelerates way to fast. It's way to hard to point your reticule where you want it, and mix that with no auto-aim and enemies show up tiny in the distance, it's frustrating. Don't get me wrong, I did pretty good in the trial, but I found that I fought the controller half the time.

Despite the fact that CS:GO was supposed to be a console port of CS:Source, it's clearly the game was made for mouse and keyboard. Ugh. Very disappointed. Still, when the game clicks, it's really fun when it clicks. I might pick it up because I'm a CS goon and it's pretty cheap.

BTW: There's a nasty bug on the 360 version where your button config gets deleted and nothing works. When this happens, you'll have to reset your button config to default from the options screen.

Okay, I take everything back. The game frustrated me at by the end of the trial...but something kept urging me to play more. So I said "fuck it, it's only $15," and bought it. Played some more, got more used to the aiming. Now? I fucking love it. I've been playing with random people, using mics, communicating and spotting enemies. Feels like I'm back in high school playing counter-strike 1.5 again with my buddies on Vent.

The game definitely takes some adjusting to but when you get used to it CS:GO is damned good fun even on the consoles.

I have this on Steam, in case someone wants to play :)