For once a group of Valve fans have banded together, and it's not over a stupid cause. The legendary Counter-Strike has managed to stand the test of time for a billion years, and is still one of the best known PC shooters around. That said, fans are ready for more. They want a sequel, and they want one now!
Sam England has organized fans into a 25,000-strong army with plans to get Valve's attention. As well as an official response from Valve, the group wants to see the announcement of Counter-Strike 2. While a new and updated game would be great, the main goal is simply to make people play Counter-Strike again.
"We want to bolster interest in CS so more people play it, and if we want to regain mainstream attention in the game it needs to be re released as Counterstrike 2. Even if it was just re released with some fixes/patches, additional official maps, a graphical upgrade and a new shiny box ... Counterstrike would then survive as a franchise and become popular once again."
England laments that there is "No longer a single iconic game on the PC," and who knows? Maybe Counter-Strike 2 could be that game. Would you bust your nut over a new Counter-Strike or do you feel the world has moved on?
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8:30 PM on 01.25.2010
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They already announced that they were working on developing a sequel to counter strike a couple of months back on x-play
Personally I think Counter Stike is kind of old and pretty dumb anyways. It was cool in 97-98 (whenever it came out) much in the same way the first versions of doom were cool. It's stale and old now, and very very basic.
I'll damn well run with a weapon other than my knife thank you very much, and I am not a n00b for doing so.
Y'know, a good one.
Matter of opinion, I play just fine with a controller. My point being that the Xbox version of Counter Strike was fairly poor. I'd like to see a good version of the game, control bits aside.
It's funny how PC gamers go on and on about the modding aspect of games, but I can think of more than just a few cases where that's actually a terrible thing.
However, if they could make a mouse/keyboard-ready Counter-Strike 2 for the PS3, complete with all the classic maps it had...
Holy crap. I'd never leave the house. God, I loved Counter-Strike back in the day.
I don't think there will be another CS game until HL3, with a brand new engine, though.
I agree about the server-side audio crap being annoying.
The custom maps, however? As long as you know where to find good ones (and there used to be places dedicated to finding the best CS maps), they are incredible. Better than the retail maps in many cases.
however, i kinda also wish counter-strike would be re-imagined on the ps3 and 360. which kinda defeats the purpose of this petition. i generally only buy valve games on the PC but with all the problems i've been having lately with games not wanting to work anymore, random crashes, ect. i just have started playing more games on consoles just for the solid experience.
Pretty sure they didn't announce CSS2 on that episode. They stated in the preview new info, and all it was, was Gabe saying that they were not working on it at that time.
Just sayin, I'm way past the whole "calling people queer like I'm a badass but I'm not a badass at all" phase. Maybe that's why, I dunno, your community died you jackass(es).
Priorities meng.
http://cspromod.com/
But it's nice to see a petition that is not about some bullshit. At least they just want to play a good game.
I hope they release CS2 and HL2:Ep3 in one pack, maybe with portal 2 in Orange Box 2 or something. They could do it and pc gamers everywhere with sense would bust a nut for sure
i dunno, blue box or something...