EULAs mean nothing if they conflict with local, state, or federal laws. But yeah, gamers in general just let companies get away with whatever they want. Back in the 90s or early 2000s, a dumpster fire like Battlefield 2042 would spell the end of the company that made it... not so these days.

@@DWTerminator Back in the 90s or early 2000s, a dumpster fire like Battlefield 2042 would spell the end of the company that made it... not so these days. What about SOF Studios when H-Hour's World Elite came out? I can't find any information on what happened to SOF Studios.

Weirdly enough I haven't felt like I've run into any cheaters playing Overwatch 1 & 2, but I think that's mostly because the game is more reliant on hero matchups and ability use, so typical FPS cheats don't actually give you a significant advantage like they do in, say, CS.

@@DWTerminator That might be a regional issue. I’m in Europe here, and back when I played OW1, Russian cheaters were in almost every game. Even a wallhack can give you a massive advantage.

Nah cheaters are definitely a worldwide issue. I just haven't been running into them in OW2, at least as far as I can tell.

titanfall 2 hackers have the tiniest penises known to mankind

I heard that game's multiplayer was being ravaged by a single hacker some months ago lol. Is it still bad now?

@@DedAlexFive not as bad now but annoying

They did add gun game (arms race, as it's known in CSGO/CS2) back in, but there's just a general lack of content in CS2 that's impossible to ignore.

Don't care for them.

That reminds me... Rockstar did this with the GTA remasters too.

@@DWTerminator Fromsoft did it with Dark Souls, and Bethesda twice with Skyrim, or am I misremembering that one? It's a plague spreading through gaming for at least a decade, just usually these get rebranded as "remasters", "special edition" whatever they fell like calling the "new" version.

Dark Souls PtDE used Games for Windows Live, which shut down and now causes all manner of issues with getting games to run properly. Dark Souls Remastered both doesn't have that and is legitimately a far superior version of the game. Bethesda unlisted the legacy version of Skyrim on Steam but you can still find it and buy it if you really want. There's not really a reason to, though, since Special Edition includes all the expansions and improves the engine.

The Classic Collection is on Steam too.

I made a video on the original back in 2016. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9qRos-GzLavnpc.html

It's weird, for sure, but it does look neat and definitely affects the gameplay more than the smokes used to in previous CS versions.

@@DWTerminator By the way, i installed CS2 to play a bit with bots, since it was fun in the old CS games, and these really are the worst bots I have ever seen in anything. They're an embarrassment.

To be fair, I don't think guns in real life have a recoil pattern either.

Longarms recoil directly back into your shoulder and will end up moving upwards to the right or left depending on whether you're right or left handed. Handguns do sort of the same thing but the recoil goes back into the hands, wrists, and forearms instead of the shoulder. It's certainly not like the patterns in Counter-Strike but you could definitely still describe it as a recoil pattern.

Resident Evil, yes. Silent Hill, maybe if I can get copies of them for a decent price.

@@DWTerminator "Silent Hill, maybe if I can get copies of them for a decent price." That would be nice to see.

Unlisted. Reduxes are planned.

Both a blessing and a curse that CS hasn't changed significantly enough over the years that the 1.6 muscle memory still works.

@@DWTerminator They changed Tekken, a legacy fighting game, too much with 8 by adding all that heat mumbo jumbo and players are mad lol I see legacy gameplay as more of a blessing than a curse. Just bump up the graphics and performance

"If these games were bought physically" - Tell that to my physical copy of Darkspore. This is why I advocate going for DRM-free games, if you're buying them digitally. Then you can make backups of those digital games and keep playing them theoretically indefinitely.

Except you can pirate games...?

It is making multiplayer games unplayable.

Not right now you fool. Wait for anti hack and ranking fix, trust me just don't. CSGO was very nice in its last years, still some hacking and ranking issues that were annoying but in CS2 it's way way worse otherwise the gameplay is on point with very minor issues you won't notice if the last time you play cs on 1.6 it will be completely different feeling for you.

You'll notice that it does feel a bit different (namely the movement/physics), but all the fundamentals of 1.6 still apply. The change in feel from 1.6 to Source was more noticeable than Source to GO/CS2, as well.

I dunno about that. CoD is fully under Activision's control while CS2 at least still has the option of community servers (even if it's pretty janky).

Games geared more toward the competitive/esports crowd tend to appear that way.

While it'd probably help... Good luck persuading the "NPCs" on that.

There's lots of people playing CS.

36 seconds, actually.

Funny part is that's more or less exactly what it takes to get these companies to stop doing this crap.

Every single new CoD game is the "worst CoD yet" according to the "diehard fans." I'd take the whining with a massive grain of salt.

@@DWTerminator Yeah, but this game was more hate than just a normal new Call of Duty after BO2. People are saying MWIII (2023) is better than this (well at least the multiplayer). When I say diehard fans, I mean popular Call of Duty KZfaqrs were saying that this is their least favorite Call of Duty. I personally don’t think it’s that bad, it’s meh, like a 3/5. Because of its gameplay in the campaign, Raids, and the weapons and maps. But then you have the matchmaking, the writing in the story, and multiplayer being so strict. Plus we have Fortnite skins because Activision wants to hire some old Fortnite developers to get big bucks. Also people are saying that XDefintie, my apologies if I spelled it wrong, is going to kill Call of Duty for real. Yeah, I wonder how it turns out according to people going crazy about this.

Ah yes, another "CoD killer." Simple fact of the matter is the only thing that's going to kill CoD for good is... well... CoD. MW2023 certainly isn't the one to do it, though, as awful as the singleplayer is.

No ETA on Killzone or Resistance. They're still on the to-do list and I got my PS3 set back up so I can record them, but I'm working on other things at the moment.

Makes sense. Thanks for the heads up.

Also heroes will be free regardless as of April 16th

And you seem to have missed the part where I said skin prices are utterly ridiculous in CSGO/2. Worth noting they can also be traded and sold between users while skins in OW2 are all bought specifically for an individual's account and cannot be traded.

@@DWTerminator you said at the end of the video that cs doesn't have the ridiculous monetization that overwatch 2 does, which is ridiculous when you actually look at cs's monetization, regardless of whether you can trade items or not.

CS's monetization directly from Valve has always been pretty low and they generally aren't shoved in your face like most modern live service games. The secondary skin market is where the prices get ridiculous. Meanwhile OW2 charges you stupidly high prices for stuff you would've just unlocked for free while playing OW1, switched all progression over to a battle pass system, and subsequently tries to push you into buying the battle passes *constantly*. It's the difference between a game that has microtransactions (CSGO/2) and a microtransaction store that has a game attached to it (OW2).

@DWTerminator @DWTerminator @DWTerminator 1. Valve takes a cut of all of those third party transactions, so that's not really an argument. 2. "Case Unboxings" (read: gambling) are a pretty huge part of the culture of Counter-Strike at this point, so it seems pretty silly to say that it's a small part of its model. 3. Overwatch 2 has a progression system not tied to the battle pass (hero levels / profile level) 4. Overwatch 1 skins can be earned for free pretty quickly--the free track of the battle pass gives you enough OW1 credits to earn 1 legendary skin a season, and you can earn more with weeklies tied to the progression challenges. 5. Battle passes will also give you 600 premium currency (6 dollars worth) starting next season, which is enough to earn a battle pass for free every other season. 6. Heroes are no longer in the battle pass and unlocked free for everyone. They've done a lot that it just seems like you don't know about in this video. The monetization at OW2 launch was pretty bad, but CS2's monetization is literal gambling at a much higher price than even the most expensive OW2 skins.

You played FPS for skins really?

It's a complaint about the removal of content, not the skins themselves.

@@DWTerminator That too but the fact they couldn't even keep the map-specific default character skins is extremely egregious to me.

@@kroooassant9899 It's more cutting content from a game that you are replacing. I don't play for skins but I'm not a fan of cutting "free" skins when there's a non-zero chance it'll be so they can be sold to me later. Especially since the map specific default Counter-Terrorists/Terrorists had unique voice lines.

@@kroooassant9899 Sure. Skins like map specific factions add immersion.

"I'm sorry but you're completely wrong about the "cheating problem"." - It's literally the number one complaint everyone has about CS2, whether they're "content creators" or not. When the problem is so bad you have casual players migrating to stuff like Faceit, there's something *seriously* wrong. "it's trained enough." - Tell that to the people who got VAC banned because they just flailed their mice around for the hell of it. There's still a lot of work to be done on that front.

​@@DWTerminator Sure, things can always be better and they will improve. Again, I know it's the number one complaint but that doesn't make it true or not overblown. It's just idiots repeating the popular opinion. You do realize just because something is popular that doesn't make it true right? So I ask again, how many cheaters did you encounter? I was expecting a little more effort from you than just regurgitating popular reddit posts. The vast majority of cheating allegations, unless it's obvious spinbots, are always false because that's just how the majority of playerbase, who are shitters at the game, respond when they encounter someone better than them in a video game. If you want to actually figure out what's going on, I suggest watching Richard Lewis's "The dumb over reaction to CS2". He dispels all the popular myths you've been told.

"how many cheaters did you encounter?" - Personally? None that were blatantly obvious, but I only played a few matches of CS2 online in the lead-up to this video and it's not like this is intended to be a comprehensive review in the first place. Honestly even if I had, and even if I had gameplay footage of it, you'd still act like I'm exaggerating the problem. "I was expecting a little more effort from you than just regurgitating popular reddit posts" - More like I looked at the Steam reviews and discussions to see what the general buzz around the game is... which I do precisely because having only my personal perspective on the game is a very narrow view. Reddit's a cesspool most of the time so I rarely, if ever, take Reddit posts at face value. Steam reviews and discussions admittedly aren't a lot better (for example they give the impression that Overwatch 2 is practically the worst game ever made), but they're usually not quite as "neckbeardy" as Reddit, at least. "The vast majority of cheating allegations, unless it's obvious spinbots, are always false" - While you're not entirely wrong, it doesn't take much to hide wallhacks (or I guess they're called ESP cheats now) so that it's not completely obvious you're cheating... and they're by far the most commonly used cheats not only in CS but across all games. That also doesn't really matter much when general trust in the player base has eroded so severely from how prevalent cheaters actually are. After all, when there's a huge number of actual, painfully obvious cheaters running wild throughout the game for months without ever being caught or banned, why *should* you give the other players the benefit of the doubt? Besides, I've been playing CS on and off for close to 20 years (not to mention the rest of Valve's games). You seriously think I haven't run into plenty of cheaters in that time and don't know how pathetically ineffective VAC has been (and still is, really) at containing the problem? And I decided against watching that video when I found out it's over 4 hours long. Even when a video's covering something I'm truly interested in, I have a really hard time justifying watching it if it's that long.