Bro you found de_foption. I remember playing this when there were only a couple of servers for the whole of Europe, wow, brings back some great memories. It was a crazy map to play, it was so different to the others. Thanks for putting this video together. The name of the map has been bugging me for months!!

I had this game before and during the North American release and I have to be honest...the skill levels of Asian players were far ahead of our Western counterparts. One being that the western players just started learning the crossfire game mechanics despite similarities in terms of how the game control feels and plays just like CS as greatly pointed out in your video. But it's just that once the Asian/APAC players started to join the NA player base despite having worse ping and latency, they were wrecking the Western players. I had a lot more faith in my EU teammates than my USA teammates despite me being in the USA time zone. I was in college around then so I had the luxury of wasting my time playing games whenever I wanted. There were the defuse bomb modes that we are so familiar with in CA, but CrossFire offers other fun modes such as Ghost mode where you have to master bunny hopping to not make noise as individual characters that can only use melee weapons to hunt down the opposing team that has to defuse your bomb. Which is why there are all these varieties of fun to use guns where someone in your team can have a 500 round Gatling to crowd country certain doorways while you defuse the bomb, but the loud gun noises would prevent you from hearing the breathing of the invisible ghost players that increases their breathing noises or footsteps and they are closer to you. Then there is the FFA mode that is mindless fun where you respawn after a few seconds after getting killed and that was fun to rack up kill counts, be accused of cheating often, and where you can earn credits to rent those guns. The only p2w aspect is buying a vest that absorbs 1.5 bullets, essentially allowing you to survive 4 bullets instead of 3, and most guns shoot at a rate that makes that negligible other than the early first one or two rounds where most can only afford to buy better pistols than the starting but good enough handguns. I had a lot of fun memories playing this game until the cheaters from Turkey/Russia started to release their cheats for players to use and ruining most of the game back then. Even the Punkbuster anti cheat engine couldn't detect those and with such a large player base, the mods couldn't manually ban all the cheaters faster enough. That was when I had stopped playing due to all the bot/hack app users. If that's been fixed these days, more reasons to go back there. I had a lot of memories growing up with counterstrike as well but it got boring eventually and games like Crossfire offered new and refreshing game modes for free. Also, players can create plenty of free accounts and try their luck rolling for unique guns that are permanent with the free beginning credits. Making multiple accounts wasn't as easy for legit Asian players due to them needing to register their accounts with an actual ID. I'm just ranting at this point but just wanted to share my love (and hate) of this awesome game where skills such as quick scoping, bunny hopping, jump shots, and aiming really matter and aren't penalized if you are a casual player either.

If my brother never had an Xbox i would never know of the existence of CS

I missed the whole of CSGO, after playing 1.5 through Source a lot, and I came back for CS2. I was immediately caught off guard with how the MP5, a reliable workhorse to Ts and CTs alike, had apparently fallen from grace long ago.

Me and some of my friends enjoyed it, but we were a little upset by the lack of new weapons that were supposed to be in the game. I really wanted the molotov. And then 7 months after CZ's release came CS:S lol

The memories this all gave me as a kid. Half Life was the first real shooter I followed and understood. TFC and Counter Strike were the first real online games. I could write a book of the days and nights playing these and similar. Yet if you know, you already know the nostalgia it gave us.

One of the best games ever made, changed the gaming landscape. It’s great on any platform.

I've been playing this version recently. The combat is so difficult on the xbox's thumbsticks, but it's so cool to see a completely working version of the game on a system so low powered.

When Half Life 2 was released, my PC could barely run it on medium settings. It performed like an xbox.

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Great video! It's cool to see others experiences with the port, I thought its bonus features were really neat 🙂

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Quality content!

There is CS (1.6) for Xbox original (physically), and it's as I understood even playable on Xbox 360 (not Xbox one). CS:GO hasn't received physical release on Xbox 360

My first playthrough of Half-Life 2 was on the OG Xbox. Our old Windows XP PC was way too weak to run the game. Tried to play the demo when that came out and only got like 2-3 FPS

64mb of RAM.. 64MB OF RAM!

dreamcast port was even moar impresso

runs great on a devkit and even better on modded CPU system

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if a game cannot be purchased legally anymore piracy does feel like the only way when it comes to PC versions and hunting down old copies of physical games not sure how long those games will last with all the wear and tear. Damn 3rd party licenses for video games tend to be first types of games to be abandonware when it expires ruins the fun of buying games.

They had to downgrade Halo 2 to make it work on the original Xbox, let alone Half Life 2. Truely impressive.

come on there are already videos on this exact specific topic

The algorithm sent me to you, great video and easy to listen to

It's funny valve decided to put it on the orange box of october 2007

8:24 Wild that the Xbox version had the supply box stickers glow and pulse. I guess to make them more obvious with lower visual fidelity. I wonder what other sorts of small changes and workarounds like that were added, that weren't mentioned here.

I didn’t realize you only have 6000 subscribers until I was halfway through the video. Fantastic content best of luck to you.

The only reason I got the Xbox was to play this. 12 year old me didn't exactly have a stable income and the computer I had at the time got 10 to 20 FPS on cs1.6. Needless to say I was kind of blown away by this port at the time. I actually thought it ran smooth when I first played it believe it or not lmfao... And then I got Halo CE and realized it ran like ASS.

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A port that not many know about yet its story is quite interesting. Very useful information displayed here my man.

Many people say this is a copy of CS, but I would say they are completely different. This game being my childhood I will always have a special place for it.

Imagine you made a game too good that people still making content after 20 years 😅

Knew it you're going to do it.

As an Xbox Pleb it was my first experience with Half-life. I liked it so much I found out HL1/Expansion are on steam and I completed all 3 titles, and then HL2 again. (The orange box on xbox is really good)

I have the physical copy CD of CSGO for PC.... Im still looking if there were also for xbox 360 and PS3 coz i want them in my CD collection if they exists....

I miss the plethora of different maps we used to play. Not just the ones mentioned here, but all of the different user made maps that were available.

CS the game of developers removing maps 😂 seriously it is super weird how many fun maps were removed, they would have made the game be more complete and i sure as a kid would have played them a ton of hours as well as the main ones

So many memories.. 💜

You were meant to show the console version, and you decided to play some older PC port. What a sh1tty video...

The discussion is very nuanced, even ignoring all the bootlicking(and I use this term in the case of people who don't do their research and just say things for the sake of it, aka bias and wilful ignorance). I just recently looked up where to get Aliens vs. Predators 2 for example. You literally can't get it *anywhere*. You CAN get the inferior Aliens vs Predators 1 however, on Steam. There's plenty of games out there that just fade away because they can't be archived and remembered. I had a dad who would "obtain" games for the PC all the time and there are countless games that I'm pretty sure I and no one else will never see again. It is unfathomable that anyone can defend the carelessness that companies have with the longevity and archival of their products, not even video games. No one is asking that intellectual property be ignored and that anyone can profit off of anything, or that everything be free(but let's be honest, money is not and should not be a factor here, these are games no one is even trying to sell anymore, let alone giving option to). It's just outlandish that you're simply denied the right to experience something just because the law supports the hoarding of defunct and useless properties. Imagine your favourite video game as abandonware, now imagine no one else ever gets to play that game ever again. Pretty sad and pointlessly so.

Would like to see a video on GO beta

PS3 had KB/M support weirdly enough and I’m sure back then it was super unbalanced to play with. Also it had it Move support but I see you had footage for that

ps3 version has no online support anymore due to steam being shutdown on psn this also affected portal 2 and the steam app. i think it was shutdown due to secruity and steam changing how it works

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keep up the good work!

correction; from what i researched, PC did infact get a physical release but the consoles didnt, there only exists the "digital box arts" used in the thumbnail which is a shame cuz id love to have 360 CSGO on my shelves ):

CS2 Not being on xbox/ps5 is a waste