* AbridgedArenaArray - de_dust. Fricken de_dust.
** Don't forget about de_dust2!
* BrokenBase - Which is the real Counter-Strike, 1.6 or 5.2? If you know what that means, chances are you have a strong opinion about it and have voiced that opinion (coupled with a threat) on a gaming forum.
** Every intermediate version got this as well, to a lesser extent.
** Also there is/was lots and lots of debate over how different weapons compare to each other. This even resulted in one clan doing an extensive study on this back in the day, which almost held up to scientific standards - [[TheyJustDontGetIt it didn't help]].
** Specific mention should be made to Counter-Strike (original, although most of the time its 1.6) vs Counter-Strike: Source. many 1.6er's claim Source is only for noobs and idiots (due to the weakening of wall-spamming and the overall less intense recoil of Source,) while many Source fans say all 1.6 players are StopHavingFunGuys and believe 1.6 is a buggy and un-polished game and think 1.6 focuses only on Competitive Gaming and nothing else.
** Global Offensive tried to avert this, but the implementation of several features (or lack thereof in the case of party searching on consoles) such as matchmaking instead of server lists, coupled with the drastically reduced player count and horrendously tiny map selection just made things worse.
*** This '''is''' getting better though. The map selection has noticeably increased, there ''is'' a server browser, and the player count is currently increasing.
*** The ADADADADADA spam in Global Offensive to some in SPUF, in regards to recoil reset when you change direction.
* ComplacentGamingSyndrome - Good luck finding a server running a Valve-created map other than de_dust2 in the remake.
** Easy enough. cs_office, de_train, cs_assault. More and more servers are now using custom maps, but most still fall back on de_dust2. In zombie maps, it's often one of the "lila" or similar maps.
** Two extremely popular custom maps are fy_iceworld and fy_snow, where guns spawn on both sides of an incredibly tiny map.
*** For Thai players there is cs_untitled, an extremely tiny map. So tiny in 1.6 people keep spamming HE grenades into each other spawn during buy time.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The chickens on cs_italy. They were removed from Source, but are coming back in ''Global Offensive''.
* GameBreaker - The AWM was long considered one (and still is, even after nerfing). A later addition that gets this treatment is the semi-automatic sniper rifles.
** Due to changes in the money system, though, the AWP/AWM and the semi-automatic sniper rifles have since been accepted as legitimate weapons in Global Offensive due to their now hard to purchase status, and nerfing by reducing payout per kill.
*** Humorously, this ends up in an AWPer who kills an entire 5-man team receiving a measly $125.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff - Brazilians fucking ''love'' this game.
** Germans, too.
** And Romanians.
** And Filipinos.
** Don't forget the Koreans!
** And Australians. The entire 'gaming net cafe' industry here came into being around 2000 because of this game. It lasted about 5 years before reductions in cost and speed of broadband internet, dedicated ISP gaming servers and reductions in the cost of computer tech made playing at home viable.
** DeadHorseTrope: The extreme popularity it enjoyed in {{Romania}} from 2000 to 2008 backfired into making it DeaderThanDisco among the general population, for the typical young male player was regarded as poor, uneducated, semi-literate, stupid, thuggish and white-trash.
* GoodBadBugs: How [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NQradnzFY surf]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B-Dyw8wep0 maps]] was born,
* GrandTheftAutoEffect: An unofficial server mod did this to Chesney Hawkes' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8f2mW1GFSI The One and Only]]
* HilariousInHindsight: Regarding Counter-Strike: Neo (the Japan-only oriented spin-off of Counter-Strike, changing the art style towards a much-more Animesque style,) it's exsistance tickles the funny bone of every Counter-Strike fan who watched the older CS parody videos before the website went down for good. One specific vid discussed ways to make Counter-Strike relevant to younger gamers by making the game more anime style, full of [[DragonBallZ Kamahameha-style laser blasts]], so the game can appeal to Anime/{{Pokemon}} and DragonBallZ fans. Keep in mind that the video was made in 1999, right when the Pokemon and anime craze hit the U.S. the hardest.
* ParanoiaFuel: Nippers old abstract maps. [[spoiler:There's a head flying around the map and it screams at you on contact. Even more is Nippers Opus, Having a screamer when you go onto a certian building]]
* StopHavingFunGuys - Also qualifies as ''TierInducedScrappy''. There are a portion of servers that ban the AWM, the auto sniper, the auto shotgun, the CT shield, and they're usually the same maps that cycle between de_dust2 and cs_office. Enough of those servers exist that, in any other situation, use of the contrary will result in the regulars letting you know of their disgust with your choice, generally with an ample amount of expletives to accompany said disgust.
** Though that might be in some cases a matter of "''Start'' Having Fun Guys" as many a player find AWM users make it very hard to turn a corner without getting killed instantly.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Whenever Valve does anything at all to the game, complaints a-plenty may arise.
** And then Counter Strike: Global Offensive was announced, featuring new gamemodes, grenades, guns, and a taser of all things. Nothing new has been added to CS since 1.6. The fanbase is not happy.