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Devil's Advocate: Fairness is overrated - bring on the unbalanced multiplayer games

Singleplayer games are power fantasies: you as hero, rescuing the world from certain destruction. Multiplayer games are all about balance. Valve spent years making Team Fortress 2 a balanced experience for two teams and nine classes. They succeeded. They should be proud. They shouldn't have bothered.

It's the inherent unfairness of life that makes it so exciting. Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down, but it's always interesting. More multiplayer games ought to be fantasies about a lack of power.

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wageslave5872d ago

Left 4 Dead has some element of this.

The 4 Zombie characters have unique abilities that make them different and "unbalanced".

One more reason that Im looking forward to L4D.

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CSGO Major Dates For 2022 & 2023 Announced by Valve

The dates for CSGO Majors and RMR events in 2022 and 2023 have been outlined by Valve in a recent email to tournament organizers.

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‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take Over a PC With a Steam Invite

A security researcher found a “critical” bug in Valve’s game engine that powers the popular online game. And the company has been slow to fix it.

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Counter-Strike: Source gets a 2019 graphics overhaul mod, available now for download

DSOGaming writes: "Modder ‘gEck0_’ has released a graphics overhaul mod for Counter-Strike: Source, called Counter-Strike: Re-Source (2019). Counter-Strike: Re-Source is basically a compilation of countless textures, models, skins, shaders and more that aims to greatly improve the visuals of this 2004 Counter-Strike game."

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