by JaGGoNdd » Sat May 28, 2011 10:37 am
it really confuses me how some people don't understand the concept of a learning curve. as the game went on, the older players essentially were teaching all of these "shitties" how to play, and those "shitties" expanded on those older playstyles and techniques and turned into MUCH BETTER PLAYERS. same thing happened in cs, same thing happens in every 10 year old game. it's naive to say that the skill level is worse now and has just continued getting worse because certain players who were around at one point are no longer playing. if you watched some of the older school players like scotty harris when he came back and actually put time in and went to w2z lan, it was a TOTALLY different game and the players as far as aim, reaction time, inventiveness in game, etc, were all much better. in 2003, 2004, 2005, you could literally expect the same thing from every player on every route of every map and it was a simple matter of either just plain out peeking someone or out gaying them. now you have snipers running around flying noscoping people, bars bar sniping snipers across the map, rifles bunny hopping around while shooting with minimal garand recoil and crouch hop peeking over boxes to kill someone where 6 years ago it wouldve been "peek around the box and miss, peek and miss, oh! finally gotcha!" etc. the hilarious part of all this is that the select few individuals who played in the early years of the game and had a play style like this era's players or learned how to do simple things hardly anyone did like CONTROL GARAND RECOIL or control standing heavy recoil, they were all the players everyone said cheated for quite some time (ninjuh, toxinator, cableguy, nick patten all come to mind there. all of whom to this day can still pick up the game at any point and almost instantly compete with anyone)
moral of the story- the game evolved, people learned how to do things better, and previous lans and seasons in the last few years have shown that. yeah the old school players were unbelievable at the time, but only a select few were ahead of their time or were able to adjust to the evolution of the game itself. not to mention it's the most POINTLESS ARGUMENT IN THE WORLD TO SAY WHO WAS BETTER? DA G00D PLAY3RZ FROM 2003 OR DA G00D PLAY3RZ FROM 2010Z!? literally pointless.
okay i had sworn to never get into this argument on here but frankly it gets annoying seeing guys who were invite players, good players, and good dudes making claims that are basically pure ignorance lol there's a reason players like bryan, brad, riveroyster and jared are STILL good now; they adjusted right along with everyone else. for christ sake even habib evolved his gay ass play style when the time came. /endwalloftext
edit: i forgot to mention dan schey as the one exception to this whole thing. he has managed to play the same for years and be equally successful, which i believe is more or less because as a sniper you can get away with it and dan has always had superior aim, reaction time, and intelligence. okay now im done!
it really confuses me how some people don't understand the concept of a learning curve. as the game went on, the older players essentially were teaching all of these "shitties" how to play, and those "shitties" expanded on those older playstyles and techniques and turned into MUCH BETTER PLAYERS. same thing happened in cs, same thing happens in every 10 year old game. it's naive to say that the skill level is worse now and has just continued getting worse because certain players who were around at one point are no longer playing. if you watched some of the older school players like scotty harris when he came back and actually put time in and went to w2z lan, it was a TOTALLY different game and the players as far as aim, reaction time, inventiveness in game, etc, were all much better. in 2003, 2004, 2005, you could literally expect the same thing from every player on every route of every map and it was a simple matter of either just plain out peeking someone or out gaying them. now you have snipers running around flying noscoping people, bars bar sniping snipers across the map, rifles bunny hopping around while shooting with minimal garand recoil and crouch hop peeking over boxes to kill someone where 6 years ago it wouldve been "peek around the box and miss, peek and miss, oh! finally gotcha!" etc. the hilarious part of all this is that the select few individuals who played in the early years of the game and had a play style like this era's players or learned how to do simple things hardly anyone did like CONTROL GARAND RECOIL or control standing heavy recoil, they were all the players everyone said cheated for quite some time (ninjuh, toxinator, cableguy, nick patten all come to mind there. all of whom to this day can still pick up the game at any point and almost instantly compete with anyone)
moral of the story- the game evolved, people learned how to do things better, and previous lans and seasons in the last few years have shown that. yeah the old school players were unbelievable at the time, but only a select few were ahead of their time or were able to adjust to the evolution of the game itself. not to mention it's the most POINTLESS ARGUMENT IN THE WORLD TO SAY WHO WAS BETTER? DA G00D PLAY3RZ FROM 2003 OR DA G00D PLAY3RZ FROM 2010Z!? literally pointless.
okay i had sworn to never get into this argument on here but frankly it gets annoying seeing guys who were invite players, good players, and good dudes making claims that are basically pure ignorance lol there's a reason players like bryan, brad, riveroyster and jared are STILL good now; they adjusted right along with everyone else. for christ sake even habib evolved his gay ass play style when the time came. /endwalloftext
edit: i forgot to mention dan schey as the one exception to this whole thing. he has managed to play the same for years and be equally successful, which i believe is more or less because as a sniper you can get away with it and dan has always had superior aim, reaction time, and intelligence. okay now im done!