CSGO is meh like all the other CS games were. Too slow for my liking, while somehow avoiding being utter dogshit.

You can't compare them to older FPS' anyway, the pacing difference is huge with newer ones playing a lot slower. You wont find someone getting their ass dropped within seconds of spawning on a newer game, just like you wont find people taking their time to negotiate a map in an older one.

Sadly the faster games pretty much ended with UT 2k4, UT 3 is just bad, Quake 4 had shit MP, Doom 3 was terrible for MP; so on, so forth

Still there's more than enough people still playing them to make it worth picking them up, they cost next to fuck all now & even a shitty iGPU would score silly high framerates.
Personally I have no interest in slow ass games or all that class/character/hero based crap.