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FPS Ramblings

Posted by Fluke at 08:55 8/7/2002.

Christopher Lamb (ShackES) has written up a short article entitled 'FPS Ramblings'. He tries to fathom the mysteries of Counter-Strike's success while at the same time exploring the difference between American gamers and European gamers:

"Then there is counter-strike, a game that is really poor in quality and graphics, yet is the most popular game in north America and Europe. Why? I really fail to understand what goes into getting players to play a game and not quit playing it after a few months. What does Counter-strike have that other FPS games don’t? Why do Europeans continue to enjoy Quake 3 but Americans don’t?

It seems like I have a lot of questions and no answers but I do have a general answer. Culture. American culture is driven by money and rarely anything else. Counter-strike’s success can be attributed to the fact that it will run on basically any computer. Yeah, the design and graphics suck, but it is one of the few games where poor joe down the street can still run it on his p1 133. Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament NEVER became really big because of their hardware demands. I mean, Quake 3 and UT as well as almost any other game have much better gameplay and graphics but they all limit the area they can impact because of those hardware demands."