As technology gets better and better, videogame consoles are becoming more and more computer-esque — and I, miserable curmudgeon that I am, resent it. I don’t wantforced installs, or patches, or limited hard drive space, and I certainly don’t want people mucking about in my games. I just want my console to stay a console, without the headaches of PC gaming.
If, instead ofspawning special infected in safe housesinLeft 4 Dead, more modders used their skills to create gorgeous maps (likethe one seen above) for console shooters, I would be singing a markedly different tune. In fact, I might carol it in the streets or shout it from the rooftops, that the air itself would reverberate with my happiness.
Nipper’s de_vangogh map forCounter-Strike 1.6is, in a word, stunning. Even as someone relatively unfamiliar with the perpetually activeCounter-Strikescene, I am impressed. It could be a horrible map, for all I know, but it’s undeniably gorgeous. Each texture is taken from aVincent van Goghpainting, the sky a modernized version of his famous and unmistakableStarry Night. The most chilling part of Nipper’s walkthrough, however, has to be the juxtaposition of the soothing backdrop and the carnage that would take place there, should de_vangogh ever become an online killing field.
[Editor’s note: Yes, I know the video is from May, but it’s new to me, and probably new to some of you. Instead of letting me know that the video is “OLD!” you could read about someFallout 3DLCor theResident Evil 5demo. Alternately, you canstick your head in an oven.]
[ViaGeekologie— thanks,Andrea!]
