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1345 points philosopher1234 | 2 comments | 02 Feb 23 16:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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zactato ◴[02 Feb 23 18:41 UTC] No.34631181[source]▶
I remember playing one of the early CS betas as a Half-life mod in ~1999. It was such a huge leap in gameplay and style from anything else out there.

Most FPSs up to this point were SciFi based, guns like the BFG and plasma guns. Counterstrike's focus on realism really altered how you connected with the game. Columbine had happened very recently and was still very much in the zeitgeist. There was a very real cultural attack on video games as a scapegoat for the massacre.

My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers-that-be at highschool, but it was exciting.

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1. gzalo ◴[02 Feb 23 20:39 UTC] No.34632662[source]▶
We also built a similar map while in high school in the late 2000s, no one really complained (keep in mind I'm not from the US). Some of our teachers quite liked it though. We just viewed it as a familiar location (albeit with secret tunnels, lifts and higher ceilings), it had no particular negative connotations.

I still have it, you can view some screenshots and download the bsp here: https://gzalo.com/en/projects/cs_electronicaort/

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2. pezezin ◴[02 Feb 23 22:46 UTC] No.34634373[source]▶
I was in high school in 2001 when Counter Strike exploded in popularity in Spain. We also discussed to make a map of our high school, one teacher even got us the floorplans! Mind you, this was one year after a guy killed all his family with a katana and the media blamed it on games. Still, nobody thought we were criminals. The benefits of living in a mostly peaceful country I guess...