Recent reviews by gall0ws

For people like me it's the only way to have a job that matters, friends who care and someone who loves you.
I wish it was real.

Not that kind of JRPG

Not bad

hurts

The best co-op game ever made.

CS:GO is a great title, it provides a really enjoyable and addictive game experience. The learning curve is not steep, but it requires practice: you have to consider that many gamers out there have years of experience on CS titles and in order to compete at a decent level with them you have to improve your skills... so expect to devote many hours to understand the game and develop your strategies and tactics, improve your aim, learn different maps, weapons and so on... That could sound frustrating at first, but actually that's a good thing: it reflects the complexity of the game and its various and non-trivial aspects. More things to learn means more fun.
The game itself benefits of the important inheritance from the whole CS glorious series, like maps design, weapons balance and general game mechanics, but still the game feels like a perpetual beta! Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy CS:GO but I don't like the VALVe management/priorities and I'm not really sure about what that will lead to. Frequent updates are a nice thing, if only those were about bug fixes, maps addition and minor improvements (maybe even suggested by the community feedbacks, that would be great), but when updates are about things like gun stickers, weapons that change their behaviour or - even worse - updates that introduce new bugs - in my humble opinion - there's something wrong. This when people complains about crashes and poor servers. Besides, if you play it on OS X you cannot use developer console or browse community servers (this is a huge problem), because the game just freezes and there's nothing to do. No fix seems to exists, VALVe does not seem care about it (us?). I'm a developer and I know how could be difficult to deploy and mantain software for different platforms, but you cannot treat your customers in this way. I still clicked on the thumbs-up icon, because CS:GO is a great game and developers did a really good job, but I would not feel confortable to recommend it to anyone (especially to an OS X user...), maybe Counter-Strike Source is better... (the graphics is not good as in CS:GO, but that is a minor drawback). I really hope my complaints here will be outdated soon by a change in VALVe's behaviour...