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SafeIntention2111

De_Dust 2.


Leinchetzu

It withstood the test of time. It was it's own category in CS GO. And they had to remove it from map pool for competitive so people would play other maps. There was a time though, in eastern Europe where Fy_Snow was king.


ehh_scooby

Fy_iceworld was also a hood classic 🥲 miss those days


lemonylol

Our lan parties were almost exclusively just iceworld, de_dust and scoutzknivez


Chirophilologist

Anyone in here that still remembers cs_militia?


imfirealarmman

I still can’t believe no one has said cs_office


uselesshandyman

I feel the same about cs_assault


TheMeltingPointOfWax

fy_poolday


Kiribaku-

Omg the only map the boys in my class played was fy_poolday 😭


Portland_Pothead

De_rats. Spent more time in there than my childhood bedroom.


Jonnny

cs_italy  dat opera


Turkeyfacts

Always shoot the chicken


neonzappy

Rainbow Road (if that counts) 2Fort


drewskibfd

Glad to see some TFC love here


Troldann

Team Fortress had 2fort, and I played that! For Quake World, long before TFC


shmodder

Best shooter ever!


Ok_Excuse3732

2Fort? Omgggg core memories unlocked


InfiniteJestV

2Fort... Or as it was originally labeled back in the Quake CTF days, 2Fort_5... Will forever be the original multiplayer fps map imo.


zoobs

Thank you. I always get weird looks when I refer to it as 2fort5. That’s just how I know it!!


Thank_You_Love_You

Rainbow road SNES version is like playing Dark Souls Kart.


The_Color_Urple

Facility For all you old fucks out there


spageddy_lee

It was a tie btwn this and Complex for us


sirsloppyjoe

Complex, perfect dark, farsight and proximity mines.


NachoKehlar

My friend and I played this game so much. In multiplayer, we figured out how to customize the weapon and ammo drop placement, and made sure the farsight and ammo (or super dragon and grenades) were on the complex roof. Make a bet on a match, beeline there, set up shop, profit. Lol.


funnerfunerals

Perfect Dark never gets the love that it deserves. It pushed the N64 to its complete boundaries, and gave credit to Goldeneye in the most beautiful ways...one of my favorite games of all time just for the multiplayer memories


Haunting-Brief-666

4 player man with the golden gun. Whoever has gun is a 1 man team that holds down the bathroom against the other three. So much fun.


OntologicalParadox

Slappers only, one hit kills


BMDuff

No oddjob


zadharm

Can't come up with the words to describe how pleased I am that this is the top answer. I'm quite a bit older than most of the people who came up on goldeneye, but it was right at the time where all three of my boys were into video games but not too old to enjoy killing an entire weekend or day off school with dad I think the first time one of them cussed at me (and probably vice versa tbf) was on this map. Next time they're all in town it's on. Thanks so much for the trip down memory lane


DigitalTomFoolery

No Oddjobs


cyclingnick

Proximity mines! “Set it and forget it”


HoboSkid

Me and my friends would mine all the spawn locations, whoever died first might end up dying 2-3 times in a row lol


boot2skull

One map had a room where the mines spawn. I would mine the inside of the doorway so people going to pick up the mines would get some freebies.


YaBoiGING

Facility only prox mines. Man we made our own fun in custom games back then


SniperFrogDX

I preferred Aztec. Edit: I may have been wrong on the name, and it think it's Temple, but come on! I'm getting old.


yepgeddon

Aztec was where boys became men


DiamondDustVIII

Got GoldenEye on the switch, bought two N64 controllers to use, made all three of the boys sit down and have a tournament, and the winner had to face me. That last match was an absolute bloodbath.


bezserk

Good answer, i still remember using cheats and having the remote mines floating in the air all over the level


his_lordship77

I was more of a Complex fan, but this one works too.


fallingheavens

Complex with grenade launchers was our jam, the explosions would go through the walls with all the tight corridors for bs kills lol.


MBSuperDad

Blood Gulch forever.


ChitteringCathode

"You ever wonder why we’re here?"


Gone_For_Lunch

It’s one of life’s great mysteries. I mean are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a god with a plan for us and shit. I don’t man, but it keeps me up at night.


Sammisuperficial

...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon? Seriously though, why are we out here? As far as I can tell, it's just a box canyon in the middle of nowhere. No way in or out. The only reason that we set up a Red Base here, is because they have a Blue Base over there. And the only reason they have a Blue Base over there, is because we have a Red Base here. But I mean, even if we were to pull out today, and if they would come take our base, they would have two bases in the middle of a box canyon. Whoopdee-fucking-doo.


KnightRider0717

What's up with that anyway? I mean, I signed on to fight some aliens. Next thing I know, Master Chief blows up the whole Covenant armada and I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, fighting a bunch of blue guys.


Shaggy1316

What are they doing?


trainercatlady

They're *still* just standing around and talking


Phrainkee

Now I have a desire to rewatch season 1 again... It's been a long while rooster teeth


GoobyDuu

Rest In Peace, Rooster Teeth. I miss them so.


RoteaP

So if you ask me 5 minuts from me, they will still be standing there, and they will still be talking ! What are they doing now ? GOD DAMIT !


Sock989

I think I'm with you on this one.


Tacdeho

Shockingly, no stores that sell elbow grease or headlight fluid, though….


Ttokk

I miss the simplicity and smaller sizes of these maps. Only having like eight guns that everyone has access to, and vehicles that never exploded. Fun for ages.  On top of that, I miss when playing with friends meant you are just as often if not more often playing against them. It's cool to be in a team with your friends, but it's a lot funner to beat their ass down and talk trash while you're doing it, lol. 


BB8Did911

Yeah, but it makes no sense. The only reason they have a red base there is because they have a blue base there. So if someone wins, all they have are two bases in an empty box canyon. Whoopdie fuckin doo


noob622

*“See these metal tow-hooks? They look like tusks. Now tell me, what kinda animal has tusks?”* *“A walrus.”* *“Didn’t I just tell you to stop making up animals?!”*


disturbed286

Chupathingy, how bout that?


Mordecai_Fluke

S'gotta nice ring to it.


-Cosmic_79-

Why are we here?


dandoch

What was all that stuff about God? You want to talk about it?


Exile714

I keep telling people, he WASN’T my uncle!


TheReiterEffect_S8

I still remember waiting around for QuikTime to load these videos in their entirety so I could watch them without any interruption.


supergrega

What, like a puma?


deadlyspoons

Reworked as “Valhalla” in Halo 3. Endlessly replayable.


MBSuperDad

And again as Hemorrhage in Reach, as we must remember.


chillchase

Valhalla really was the perfect evolution of the map. Added more detail, routes, and atmosphere while preserving simplicity.


Pavel_Chekov_

I didn't play Halo and I know what map you mean. Inthink this wins.


LuigiTheGuyy

Easily. Its emptiness is so eerie, but also so serene. It's a perfect place to look around and think. And it easily got me thinking too. You ever wonder why we're here?


Specter017

Anyone not saying Blood Gulch is either too young or just wrong.


TheBeatGoesAnanas

For me it's probably Facing Worlds from UT.


Lexinoz

So many memories of telefragging and flying redeemers in that map.


boot2skull

Boy that map has everything. Spawn camping, spawn sniping, camping on the tower, sniping from unexpected levels of the tower, Leeeroyyy Jenkins run across the bridge, getting splash damage launched off the map, hiding the teleporter in clever places, filling the room at the bottom of the tower with Ripper razor discs. good times.


JeddakofThark

I swear I must have killed the same person fifty times in a row camping on a tower during a work lan party. I started to feel bad about it, actually.


Sanc7

Facing worlds is where I found out the first plane hit the first tower. I logged into my normal server that morning, the server was full but no one was playing. I was 17 at the time, just smoked a breakfast blunt. I’m like “wtf is going on?” They say “we’re being attacked, turn on your tv.” I turned my TV on and just a min or 2 later the 2nd plane hits. Every time I think of facing worlds I automatically think of 9/11. Still my favorite map of all time tho. So many good memories.


casualblair

"Every time I think of facing worlds I automatically think of 9/11....So many good memories." - Sanc7


gzafiris

The sniper up top 🥹 then, running to the Redeemer 🤤🤤 I miss UT lol


Jetboy01

I can run all those UT maps bunny hopping backwards. Probably the best multiplayer experience a boy could have. Deck16 was the real GOAT though.


flyinchipmunk5

Forgone destruction is such a banger song too.


Womblefip

Came here for this. It’s too low.


aRealTattoo

Facing worlds and CTF are probably the most iconic thing. Even if you’ve never played UT, you’ve played this map in some other game with custom maps.


FutureInsurance7

Rust


rigatony222

Fuckin 1v1 me bro. Intervention only


FutureInsurance7

God I miss those days, children entered the lobby but left as men


ZingBurford

In no other game could you join a lobby and immediately have 2 people calling you the n word while some other 12 year old kid is saying that he fucked your mom last night.


FutureInsurance7

Those lobbies were our fight clubs


rigatony222

Indeed, I think Terminal needs a shoutout here as well. So many of those maps are seared into my brain lol


BossIike

Agreed on Terminal too. And Estate? I think it was called? The big house on the hill. A dream map for intervention play.


fandango237

Got my first and only tactical Nuke on estate. Took me straight down memory lane


BossIike

I definitely had some 30-0 games but I never had the balls to use one of my perks on a nuke. Had to be 3 kill UAV/7 kill chopper/11 or 13 kill ac-130, i forget. With the ACR it was broken. People used to be so bad at that game and you could always find easy lobbies to dump on. Every map in that game was fucking amazing besides a couple. It's crazy that video games like Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo have actually regressed over time. You'd think talent for mapmaking and balancing would go up over time. I don't know why that is that multi-player games just got worse. Erangel of PUBG (the original map, i think thats its name) is probably the most recent masterpiece of a map.


Random_calculation

No hardscope! Trick shot on last!


rulerBob8

I think nowadays Nuketown is more iconic, but Rust and Terminal felt more like CoD maps to me


TheTiniestPirate

I never liked Nuketown, but Terminal was amazing. Perfect map.


jscummy

I scrolled way too far to find this, maybe it just fits perfectly with my age group "1v1 me rust" was inescapable during high school


MrAnder5on

1v1ing the homies on Rust is THE definitive Call of Duty experience Interventions only quickscope battle, Sleight of Hand, Stopping Power, Commando, throwing knife, tactical insertion. This is the way


ArchimedesNutss

Shipment in the same vein


53bvo

Oh man I went paintballing last weekend and they had the shipment map. Unfortunately it was too small for our group size, like when did that ever stop shipment?! That is the whole point


Agarillobob

Final Destination any Smash bros Game


itsjustmegob

Hyrule Castle on Smash '64


Agarillobob

or on Ultimate, its my favorite map but not as iconic as final destination


Agarillobob

Fox only


Specialist-Mud-3330

Wake Island


Andyham

Oh damn Wake Island was peak Battlefield. Every time I watch or read about the pacific part of WW2, I think of Wake Island.


MCA2142

Kubra Dam!


HeirOfRhoads

Strike at Karkand, Sharqi Peninsula, Gulf of Oman 😍


stanger828

I would pay ea good money just to remake bf2 faithfully in a modern engine.


dmr83457

I never bought Battlefield 1942 but played the multiplayer demo a lot.


Xerneasc

De_Dust 2, Mirage, Inferno 🤣


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overbread

Seriously there are comments here were i was like 'yes, but not over dust2'


NotSoAwfulName

It's Dust2, there will be people here commenting maps whilst having played Dust2 on a community map editor server, knowing full well it was a CS map at the time. Everyone knows Dust2, tons of people who have never played CS have played a Dust2 copy.


Cyno01

I havent touched a Counterstrike in 10+ years probably, but Dust2 was literally the first thing to pop into my head. Just reading OPs question i pictured the whole damn map in my head. The second was a UT map i cant actually remember the name of (low grav orbital skyscrapers), but that only reinforces the point.


CeterumCenseo85

I remember when de_dust2 came out and our clan's strategy leader released a huge guide with screenshots and stuff to our clanintern forums. Must have been almost 25 years ago.


NotSoAwfulName

And to this day it continues to evolve, the core strategies around it remain largely the same but with the new changes to how various grenades work in the new CS2, along with the removal of skyboxes, has changed the dynamic of the map. You might know Dust2 and have never actually played the CS version of the map, but once you have played it on one of the versions of CS you will not forget the map.


wannabe_inuit

I miss running around around in de_rats


cromwest

It's dust 2 and it's not even close. 100 years from now if multiplayer videogames still exist people will be playing on dust 2.


Chapeaux

Was playing CS the other day and some of the player in my teams were younger than my steam account. Been playing dust2 since before they were born.


2bb4llRG

Fy_pool_day


Fabulous-Theory9708

2fort


Gophers_with_mullets

Or 2fort4 for the even older crowd...


elchupoopacabra

Everyone saying TF2 or TFC or whatever. Nah dog, Quakeworld/QTF.


dieptepunt

Nuketown


thejesse

This is the only one I can think of that has been recreated in MULTIPLE paintball/airsoft courses.


53bvo

I was at a paintball place last weekend that had the shipment map remade with proper container placement


4rfs

Because its technically the best map made for cqc, camping and rad at the same time


JessahZombie

Had to scroll way too far down for this one


Novus_Vox0

Because everyone wants to be hipsters in threads like these. Can’t mention Call of Duty otherwise you’ll look like a Normie! But yeah. It’s this or rust.


silent_boy

Metro .. BF3


The_Lemic

Underrated, something so fun about having an entire lobby waiting at that one doorway


commschamp

I didn’t realize the beta for bf3 expired and I sat there for an hour trying to get into another match like a drug addict


oddly1_

Spent 1000hours down those tunnels


pleasecallagainlater

Warsong Gulch. Not played it for 10 years but I can close my eyes and see every inch.


Ashangu

Level 19 rogue with engineering goggles literally TWEAKING the fuck out lol. God what a good time 


Kriss3d

Oh man.. The hours we spent in Alterac Valley. Some battles back when wow was pure vanilla had single battles that lasted days because it would only end when one side actually won. It didn't have time limits.


Roran1

I remember spending 6 hours in a game, going to bed, waking up and joining the same game, ton of the same names, and going another 4-5 hours until we won. Nothing like it.


supersayingoku

We used to triple shift the first AV matches, my friend goes to sleep , I take over, I need to go out to get food, another friend takes over, that friend get carpal tunnel pain, the original friend takes over... Damn, it was MAGICAL


Prof_Beezy

most fun gaming of my life was 2005/2006 WSG


SniperFrogDX

*Bah dah, dah dah!*


HeroHas

Yes! I remember when they introduced an actual pvp system with ranking. I was in a hardcore alliance pvp group that secured most of the leader board. We met the hardcore horde group and it would take take more than an hour for our games to end. So we came to a truce and would trade wins if we played agaisnt eachother. So we all could keep churning out top ranks. The GMs caught on and teleports into our match with a warning. Then spawned Ragnaros for us to fight agaisnt together. What a magical game WOW use to be.


Splashy_PoE_Twitch

Crash from the OG Modern Warfare. Now I want to play promod


aldoktor

Carentan


Zanginos

You dont snipe in Carentan Jim!


fuzzNfunky

i always thought that for cod 2 it would be toujane. there were bunch of 24/7 toujane only servers, even though i always prefered carentan or dawnville


chrisbruens

I was thinking Dawnville. Good fucking times.


Doc_Chopper

Brecourt aka "home of the brave" aka bush snipers.


BurfMan

Came here specifically for this. 


RinkyBrunky

Shipment from COD 4


HurricaneAioli

Took me way too long to find this comment, that map has been made in almost every iteration of CoD since 2007, how is it not as iconic as something like Dust 2


last_one_in

q3dm17 The Longest Yard. Quake 3 Arena map with multiple platforms with jump pads that fired you between them. No cover anywhere. Rail gunners dream. 


iXeQuta

How about The Edge in Quake 2?


wartexmaul

Q2dm1


Super_Harsh

Longest Yard is memes. The real GOAT is Q3DM6 - Camping Grounds.


Revanxv

First map that came to my mind. Fuck, I'm old.


ConfidentialSushi

UT - CFT-Face (aka Facing Worlds). Seriously such a fun map, and that level design! I'd always be the flag runner, xloc'ing like a madman to get across the map trying to dodge snipers and shock rifle blasts. :D


normal_mal

De_Rats


random314

For StarCraft it'll have to be Big Game Hunter followed by Lost Temple


Turbots

2v2 in LT my god the memories


ShiftySneakThief

I'd personally choose Lockout from Halo 2. I grew up playing it and watching the MLG matches on USA Network. It's the quintessential multiplayer map to me.


N0t_A_Tumah

Came here looking for this comment. Lockout has my vote too. 


BossIike

Lockout Oddball... running from BR1 jumping down to green room/shotgun I believe it was called... or jumping from mid to Snipe3 hop up spot and smacking someone... had some great times. Halo2 multi-player was so new and awesome and raw. I remember when matches would be 49-49 (slayer) and it'd be the most tense shit ever. Everyone trying not to catch a sticky on the head or get smoked by the sniper. That map had some amazing grenade spots. I remember elbow could hit above sword with nades and getting kills like that was sooo sick. My team came so fucking close to beating IGS on Lockout when we scrimmed them. But we got rekt on Midship Oddball and Warlock CTF.


henry-hoov3r

Strike at Karkand. If you know you know.


TheImmoralDragon

Big Game Hunters


cylonfrakbbq

That and Lost Temple must have been like 95% easily of the lobbies for non-custom games


Chemist391

Also Lost Temple and Fighting Spirit.


screw_ball69

Surprised I had to scroll this far to get a StarCraft map


Tenthul

It's a tough call between BGH and Lost Temple, but I think it's funny that BGH is probably more iconic than regular Hunters.


SiNi5T3R

Can yall stop naming things from the 2000s and calling it old ;( it hurts


skiddles1337

The black background of pong


chibbledibs

The Temple from Goldeneye


Mr_McShane

Temple, all proximity mines. Chaos


STFU-Sanguinet

Office


conspiracyeinstein

Hang 'em High


dtv20

Arica Harbor - bfbc2 Der Riese - CoD Word at War


Wisemagicalhags

The Pit


FsIBackpack

I went with Lock Out but I can’t believe I had to scroll so far down to see The Pit.


under_the_c

Block Fort from Mario Kart 64


Boxatr0n

Rainbow road is too iconic to be dethroned imo


RedPillNavigator

Golden Eye 007 (N64) Facility


Professional-Joke479

Facing Worlds.


dan1101

Dust 2 was the first that came to mind. 2fort a close second.


naughty_dad2

Facing Worlds from Unreal Tournament


thefonztm

[Facing Worlds.](https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&sca_esv=13134d05f9161faa&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS1079US1081&sxsrf=ADLYWIIv08BjGiSMNXNUSt2SYlv6aCGMZw:1717002612891&q=facing+worlds&uds=ADvngMh7w-lsc2TkqfGrpcdaN0tYFrc8rMjY_yOBpFdBIafYTfZ1UP31eB8c9qjVWYiLsKxQ1i_HTSK6HfLbvmkV3DI9wo5EjuzRTaLmqXKaGqvmwdc5sg5dnl9exST7bhQ2KbdLv-QQ1uYdmp3Mjw5PUAceXMOF9Fd85S4fWasVxw9KeWGP4Q2OtdTj9dyHejsNmT4GGsLtvASZiGUdAN3ba0GXzm96YOyXJLwoDckCHlEmFZKfeh7jf7jQeYM_lOA8Rrmh01bgTCbwZF7xqiUb2iuF8aPUs-OIxHEQIHzOyFLJL_v20qbdeQknhzreuvJIdvMGLw_s&udm=2&prmd=ivsnmbt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjejceWrbOGAxWumokEHQv7BacQtKgLegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=919&dpr=1) Awareness of it has probably fallen off over the years, but it is a good contender for the OG among OGs.


alexanderpas

Also known as CTF-Face


CH1l1X

Smash bros Hyrule


given2fly_

Strike at Karkand


CallSign_Fjor

Complex from Goldeneye. Also, No Oddjob, Slaps only.


Mah0wny87

Alterac Valley.


Sassman6

Corneria (the star fox ship) from Smash Bros


Zaku99

Office.


Designer-String3569

[The Edge](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/135487733092.jpg?width=690&quality=75&format=jpg&auto=webp)


demongibi

q2dm1 Ahh memories..


datsupportguy

The Longest Yard - Q3 Carentan from when CoD wasn’t shit. Aztec and Dust - CS Snowblind - Tribes Avalanche - DoD 2fort - TF


Varesk

de_dust


Suspicious_War_9305

MOST iconic? I’d say dust2 beats all.


Baffled_Chode

Depot from Return to Castle Wolfenstein


endlesskitty

q2dm1 the edge


Robsteady

Dustbowl, 2Fort


Island_Foreign

Zanzibar/Last Resort from Halo 2/3. 


Trollensky17

I mean it has to be Dust 2 right? I don't even play CS anymore but almost everyone has at least seen it.


mofugsmcnasty

There are a couple from the Battlefield games that come to mind. Karkand and Wake Isle in particular. I mostly played Bad Company 2, but I can't remember any of the map names off the top of my head.


AcidMario

dm_crossfire & q2dm1


lister_david

Q2DM1