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Hello! My name is Ryvaeus, or JP.
This is gonna be my first Let's Play video.
I'm choosing Counterstrike: GO because right now it's on Steam Sale.
It's five dollars off. Used to cost $14.99, now it's $9.99...
... because of this free weekend event.
Like it says here in the blogroll, Counterstrike: Global Offense is free until Sunday at 1PM...
... PST.
and uh... I would encourage people who played Counterstrike before
uh...
... but didn't buy it to try it out because it's pretty fun.
It's not exactly the same of course, it shouldn't be exactly the same otherwise...
... it would be accused of just rehashing the same old thing...
... with just prettier graphics. There's new modes, new guns.
It feels a little bit different.
I'l get into that when we actually start the game.
But for now I want to take a look at the video settings...
... just so you have an idea of the system that I'm playing on. It's all default,
I didn't touch these
ever since starting the game.
And, uh... Hmm.
Apparently,
the game detected that my computer isn't exactly high end.
Which it's not.
It's uh...
(Intel) Core i3-2120 with
a GTX 560 graphics card to back it up.
8 gigabites of RAM on top of an ASRock...
... Z68M/USB3.
So it's not the highest-end gaming rig,
you can probably get better,
but I do like how
it's relatively cheap. This is-
this cost me about 26,000 (Philippine) Pesos...
... which is $640 in U.S. conversion as of now.
So, if you have a better machine you can definitely bump up those specs and-
bump up those settings,
but I don't think you really need to because this game looks good even on the
settings that I'm using right now. You'll get to
see it for yourself later.
These are the game modes.
You've got your Classics:
Casual and Competitive.
So if you've played Counterstrike before- you've got
hostage rescue, right? Bomb defusal, that's "cs_" and "de_".
You've also got
VIP modes...
It's all in here. It's all on the Classic modes.
The difference between Casual and Competetive is that in Casual, Friendly Fire is off,
Team Collision is off,
you only get
half the amount of rewards that you'd get from killing,
and the game is generally short: it's "best of 15 rounds,"
instead of 30 in the
Competitive.
Something that is not indicated here but is worth noting
is that you also start with armor -
helmets and kevlar - and if you're a Counter-Terrorist unit you also get a
bomb defusal kit.
Now, in Competitive, there's Friendly Fire, there's collision,
There's armor and defuse kits as purchasable equipment, not as default equipment,
and you've got 30 rounds of gameplay.
So, anybody who wants to play Counterstrike "the old way"
without loading up "the old games,"
they can load up Competitive mode instead.
Arms Race is very interesting, it's similar to the Call of Duty mode where you
kill people to gain new weapons. I don't really know what it's called because
I don't play Call of Duty because I hate Call of Duty,
but this is, I'm told, is very similar.
Weapons are awarded immediately upon killing; you don't have to respawn.
But when you die, the respawn is instant, there is Friendly Fire
and there is no team collision; you can walk through people.
In Demolition Mode,
well, It's like um...
"Plant the bomb," right? But...
... they've got the weapon system of Arms Race.
Instead of it being an immediate award, though, it's awarded on
new rounds.
Of course that would be more fair because there's- this one is mission-based.
All of the modes are still
team-based, there is no deathmatch.
Counterstrike isn't about deathmatch.
It isn't about being a one-man-soldier,
which is why I prefer it over Call of Duty.
I'm gonna load up "Arms Race,"
just put it on a random stage,
because it's the most interesting-
uh... the most different mode available.
I'm just playing against bots because I really suck at this game. The last time I played this game was in high school.
The old Counterstrike.
I didn't even bother playing Counterstrike: Source too much.
So in the loading screen you've got your map, you've got your trivia,
you've got your
gameplay tips.
Very useful.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and hit Continue.
I always play the blue team...
... and here we go!
Fraps is saying 90FPS, 80FPS. Ow, I took damage right away.
So I'm starting out with a,
with a Mac 10 which is crap. I kill him, right away, I get...
oh, I get a Mac 10. Sorry, I had a Mac 10 last time.
Now I have an MP7 and that's how to play the game. Just keep going like this. Now I have a Bizon.
Oh, that guy pwned me. Calvin! How embarassing is that? You get killed by a bot named Calvin.
UMP45. Oh wow.
Spread on that was terrible. P90X.
Now I'm in the shotgun tier.
So SMGs were first,
now I got shotguns and I got wasted by a guy named Doug.
I think this is
this is still a shotgun. It looks like an SMG though.
It's a pretty cool-looking gun, this is one of the new ones.
So I don't have a lot of experience with this but then again
I also don't have experience in general.
Uh... that looked weird.
Sawn-off shotgun,
next up is the
automatic rifles tier, so we'll get through pretty quick.
Radio voice: "Good kill!"
Me: This is the Galil
Israeli rifle. Looks cool.
I really like how it sounds when you fire it, too.
And of course, your FAMAS.
Bit of a trivia, the first time I encountered a FAMAS in any game was in Metal Gear Solid. I dunno about you guys.
When I first saw it I thought it was,
you know, a fantasy gun. I thought they just made it up.
I dunno what it stands for. I'm probably gonna wiki it later. I'm curious.
Terrorists have breached our spawn,
probably won't do them much good.
because when you spawn in this game, in this mode, you have a few seconds of
invulnerability.
Oh man, that hurt.
I'm at 8.
I mentioned earlier, the last time I played was-
any Counterstrike game was in high school.
I should clarify: the last time I played it seriously was in high school.
And...
I'm just having fun now, I don't really have a lot of time
to play games nowadays. That's why I'm looking for a more casual feel.
That's why Counterstrike: GO actually fits the bill- oh man! Right in the face.
As I was saying, Counterstrike: GO fits the bill if you're looking for a casual game.
It's got game modes that are very fast-paced like this one, very quick; you don't need to
dedicate a lot of time
out of your busy schedule.
Aw, he was invincible. Should know better than to shoot a ghost.
Now, it's interesting; after a certain point, they give you pistols,
which I think is a really great way to balance how quickly some people can escalate up the weapon tiers,
because, you know, there are just some people who are just better, more skilled
and uh... you don't want them to have
assault rifles and sniper rifles
all the freaking time.
That would just be unbalanced.
Agh. Darn you, Doug! What is up with you?
I'm gonna be dominated by a bot?
Interesting to note for those of you who haven't been into
Counterstrike: Source lately is
in Counterstrike: GO, they keep the
Team Fortress 2 "death cam"
and Domination system.
So this really goes a long way, actually-
very simple mechanic but it goes a long way into
making the game feel a lot more competitive, a lot more intimate.
Makes you feel like you really
really really wanna kill the guy.
And I've got the dual Berettas,
they kept these of course, we all know why.
And the last weapon, heh,
is uh... a knife. A golden knife to be specific.
It's not like in Goldeneye,
where you have the mode "Man With the Golden Gun," it's not a one-slash-kill weapon.
So you still have to...
you know, it takes a bit of skill to get that final kill with the golden knife.
I'm gonna see if I can just forego skill and just stab-
hah, there you go!
I got lucky, he was a little bit weak.
Anyway that's it for
Arms Race.
I'm gonna head back to
the main menu, there you go,
and uh...
What I'm going to do now is I'm gonna load up Demolition mode.
Because, uh, each...
... each map actually has a different mission.
Earlier I played "Bank"
where, you know, they have to plant the bomb, you have to stop it
but what sets it apart is it uses the weapon progression system
of Arms Race.
I'm gonna go ahead and hit Random,
load up the Medium Bots,
here we are again on the loading scene
loading screen, and
right away you can see
this is a small map.
This is going to be
a really
frenetic firefight.
This is how most of the demolition mode maps are. Gonna go with the red team
this time.
Yeah, I know I can just call it "Counter-Terrorists" and "Terrorists" or CT's and T's, but I'm a big fan of Team Fortress.
So, we start with AK's.
Very nice weapon to start with.
There's only one bomb point.
And uh... am I doing it right? There you go.
Bomb! So, look out for...
Alright. Now, because a killed someone
in this round
I get
a weapon upgrade which apparently means I get the P90.
I also get a grenade, which is cool. Got a grenade.
Hmm... pop right in there and then I'm gonna chuck a grenade.
And you can see the doors' destructible.
I hope my teammates defend me.
Oh! Trying to sneak in from the bottom.
And there we go.
"Victoly!"
Wow, that is a nice- no, that's a pretty crappy view.
Sorry.
Okay,
now I have the Bizon.
Can anybody tell me or give me a little bit of history about the Bizon?
I really don't know anything about this gun. I'll wiki this later, but if you know,
let people know in the comments so that
it benefits everybody.
I probably should've put the bots on Hard.
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which vs
easy to get a couple of the incident five minutes ten minutes
uh... it's very friendly to people fat well
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by friends only
so it's very social in that aspect but also for anti-competitive scooped only
really want to play with the clan or would select people
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their version there take of the franchise
and looks like they're doing it again difficult
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if it's more like the one point sixty nexus
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i can tell the difference honestly
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you could try it out reviews special week in advance
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but they're still at the left
if you can download it spy ph
and give it a try
it's definitely worth your time
and if you look like and it's definitely worked for fifteen dollars
um... between this and call of duty again
i don't like all of you being
um... but people who do like it might find some similarities there is a
competitive nature
there's backspace gunplay
sixteen based of course
there's no definite teams of people who are fast that much more might be missing
that also there's no clear progression so he'd have to fill out uh...
skills
and
treats
you know perks i don't know what they call it uh... it really don't care
but you can't show off the hearings and playing the game for a long time
just by having
beings other whitestone
everybody's on equal footing here
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your skills earn your weapons
which is would rick
truly competitive game
that said don't let casuals be afraid of this or offline with boxes you could
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battle for competitive
it's really fun to play with friends haven't done it myself
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haven't had the opportunity
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go out