[2020] Any fellow CS boomers enormously excited by Valorant?

I certainly am :D

Story time! I was first introduced to Valorant (a long time ago now) during an under wraps playtest internally at Riot, where I was among the first handful of employees not on the team to play and all we knew at that point was "it's an FPS".

I had pretty low expectations of the game being to my tastes given the trends of the FPS genre as a whole but was intrigued to see what type of FPS we were making. From the first moments running around in pre-round getting a feel of the movement and gunplay my low expectations flipped to huge excitement; there had clearly been a huge emphasis placed on how the game feels, and that hasn't changed too much over the years. It might not be for all types of players, and that's fine, but for me it was unapologetically the game I wanted to see exist. After I'd completed my first game I got up and went directly over to my now manager and asked that they get me on the project, and haven't looked back since.

A lot of the team share the backgrounds described in the comments of this post. It has been a joy to be able to not only share the game with you players, but also my friends that I've been playing with for decades too.