Shall I upgrade?

[Kool Kat]

I've given up on CS and uninstalled it, I don't even like the unrealistic game system, let alone the bad graphics.
I can't remember being so disappointed with a game for a long time because I'd heard good things about CS and it seems to have a big fan following, so I don't know whether it's me who's nutty or them.

EDIT- No hard feelings, I'm not singling out CS, I regularly uninstall other stuff too

This may date me... :cool2:

I cut my teeth on the old AH Panzerblitz & Panzer Leader board games. Anyone remember those PBM "pen & paper" turns? Record your movement, resolve your battles using random numbers in the stock listings, and send your turn by "snail mail" to wait a week or more for your opponent to receive, record and then return his turn to you? :chin:

Then Talonsoft released the CS game system. Wow! No more scratching out your wargame turns on a pad of paper. Now, we could "push around" pixel-based tanks and troops with the computer doing all the record house keeping. Sure the game graphics were not cutting edge 3D, but the AFV models looked and sounded good as they moved across the electronic battlefield. System requirements were kept to a minimum so players did not have to upgrade their entire PC systems with each new release of the CS. Multiple turns could now be completed in a day and PBeM replaced the pen & pencil PBM system.

Following the demise of Talonsoft, Matrix Games took an aging 10 year + game system and interjected new life into it with new scenarios, units, nationalities, rules, options, etc. And both Jason and the Beta Brigade have listened to and incorporated input and suggestions from the players themselves on how to improve CS. I don't know of too many other PC game companies that have responded in such a positive manner to their customers.

So, to each his own.

I come from the "old school" of gamers... and I really like the CS game system. I know what we gamers had before and what is available today. I guess I look beyond any shiny "chrome" of graphics and just appreciate the game "engine." :cool: