Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

In Counter-Strike, you'll meet the most toxic, insufferable, braindead, narcissistic teammates who can't pull their own weight. Most of the time there will be next to no communication at all in your team. So 90% of the time YOU have to carry because nobody else on your team can or will.
However, the hype and rush of dopamine when you clutch a round is insane. When there's great comms and everyone works well together, you get in the zone where everything just clicks.
There are no gimmicks, special abilities, or anything like that in CS:GO. It's the tactical shooter in its purest form.
Queue with friends, because solo queueing is a disaster.

You remember when first-person shooters were about pointing at something, clicking on it, and that something dying? Well in this game that's not how it works. Kills are given out at random. It doesn't matter if you're standing perfectly still and click three times on an enemy's head in a slow pattern, you'll still end up dealing just 50 damage on one hit, while the other person turns around and kills you with in tap of the finger.

This game really shows its age. They touch up the graphics every now and then to hide it, but the early 2010s discount-FPS mechanics are still there. Cases and competitive have saved this game from being panned, which it would deserve, because otherwise this would be recognized as one of the clunkiest and downright worst first-person shooters in history. I would consider Counter-Strike: Source to be the more finely-tuned and practical FPS to play. Oh, and don't even get me started on this game's community. That alone would make this game deserving of a 0.5.

I have about 120 hrs on this game and I really don't like it, the only enjoyment I get out of this is playing with some friends and annoying people who take it too seriously.

Would be great if there was not:

-a toxic community
-awful hit detection
-confusing critical damage system
-did I mention this game has a really toxic game community
-an infinite number of hackers (which Valve does nothing to stop)
-godawful MVP music
-this really awesome feature where you move slower than a turtle walking through molasses when you get shot at (It's not like you are already at a disadvantage being shot at and whatnot. Truly a great idea to make it even more difficult to escape the enemy and making it only easier on the opponent.)

As you can tell, I think this game is amazing.

4/10

i play this game to either troll or listen to people speak russian for 40 minutes

I have 2.5k hours of play time in CSGO. Was it worth it? Yes! I have made a lot of friends from different countries and made a LOT of memories playing this game. I ditched some plans just to play this game because I was so addicted to it. I got hooked on watching the pro scene and stayed up late at night just to watch some tournaments. However, after thousands of hours playing, you would eventually get burnt out from playing this game. I do not experience the Joy from winning and playing with friends anymore. I sometimes think of the money I spent for the skins and knives for this game if it was really worth it because I didn't realize before that I would eventually get tired and my skins would just be in an inventory and will remain unused.

When I tried to play VALORANT, a new game which was said to be the CSGO killer, I got irritated by the physics and movement of the game. I also got hooked at Valorant but, unlike CSGO, I got tired of it easily. Even if CS was released years ago, I can confidently say that it is still the best multiplayer FPS game based on mechanics and movement and would probably remain that way regardless of how many next gen games would be released in the near future.

At the end of the day, burn out is inevitable in most games as we grow up and there is nothing wrong with that. What is important is that we enjoyed it with friends and we must cherish every moment of our childhood, whether it is playing videogames or going outside.