When I had bought
Halflife 2 about year or so back , the bundle had come along with
Counterstrike Source.
Initial pains with the
steam platform which
Valve
uses almost made me uninstall the whole thing ... 5 cd's for
insallation and then another 5 hours to update (/decrypt/whatever they
call it) ?!
Thankfully , I stuck with it and continued on with HL2.
Never got around to completing HL2 ... the stress on puzzle solving was
irritatingly high and pretty soon I got bored and turned my attention
to Counterstrike.
I have never looked back since - though the bots typically suck , the online gameplay is pretty awesome !
Considering my connection speeds at home , I am really impressed at the
low latency and the gameplay expierence. You do get to meet lot of
'interesting characters' online - including damn good players , people
who are pretty passionate about the game and the normal bunch of
cheating losers , so-so players like me , and n00bs

... it is nice
fun all in all !
So now , when I am not doing anything interesting , I am on CSS