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Topic	About to beat STALKER SOC (spoilers)
Doe 11/19/17 9:16:44 PM #4:	Well It was a fun game, but it kind of disappointed me. When it first starts and you're just some loser in this town of losers, the atmosphere is fantastic. The rain is heavy and you can hear the barks and howls of rabid wolves in the distance. It's absolutely oppressive and makes the world feel extremely dangerous. When you fight the first bandit camp I felt like you had to use every wit and trick available to you to beat out the situation. However, I think the game loses that feeling around once you go past the bar and fight Borov's lackeys. It gets to a point where your guns and armor are good enough and your resources plentiful enough that the game isn't scary anymore, and that really sucked because it didn't feel like I was that far into the game. There's a point imo where it changes from being a terrifying survival game to a really 'meh' resource-management FPS. Perhaps that's just me having set my expectations incorrectly. I mean I got like 250k at one point through normal gameplay. It also maybe just didn't go far enough. There's not exactly THAT many anomalies in the game and once you know what they look like, that's that. Enemy variety isn't fantastic either. So after a while the game just isn't able to surprise you anymore. The 'Stalker List' was also disappointing, I didn't know if it was gonna be some interactive thing or what with a ton of 'Stalker' NPCs roaming around in the game but it seems like it ended up being pretty static and you fly past the top through normal gameplay. It's basically just an indication of your progression but since it had its own slot in the PDA I thought it would be a gameplay mechanic. It was also surprisingly short, the huge map is very misleading especially since you spend about 10 minutes a piece in Red Forest and Pripyat. There is a point where you suddenly realize the game is actually much smaller than it looks (you thought Vvardenfell was misleading!), especially since all the open space between loading zones gets skipped. The plot is just bizarre honestly and meeting the C-Consciousness didnt really do much for me since it comes out of nowhere. I wonder if it's more satisfying to speak to the Wish Granter. Still liked the game overall. I think I'd give it a 6-7/10. My instincts say this game was an ambitious undertaking from the start and the devs probably didn't get to do everything they wanted to do ~~I mean you literally go through random portals at the end, that's like a bad anime shonen trope. I did like you dropping into the starting trader's office tho~~ I also own Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. Which should I play? I haven't looked up much about them but I've gleamed that people don't like Clear Sky for some reason, but also that mods might make it more playable. --- http://i.imgur.com/iwo6yR9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uqXNtk6.jpg <cite>Doe posted [p:890710234] in About to b... [t:76009895]...</cite> <quote>Well It was a fun game, but it kind of disappointed me. When it first starts and you're just some loser in this town of losers, the atmosphere is fantastic. The rain is heavy and you can hear the barks and howls of rabid wolves in the distance. It's absolutely oppressive and makes the world feel extremely dangerous. When you fight the first bandit camp I felt like you had to use every wit and trick available to you to beat out the situation. However, I think the game loses that feeling around once you go past the bar and fight Borov's lackeys. It gets to a point where your guns and armor are good enough and your resources plentiful enough that the game isn't scary anymore, and that really sucked because it didn't feel like I was that far into the game. There's a point imo where it changes from being a terrifying survival game to a really 'meh' resource-management FPS. Perhaps that's just me having set my expectations incorrectly. I mean I got like 250k at one point through normal gameplay. It also maybe just didn't go far enough. There's not exactly THAT many anomalies in the game and once you know what they look like, that's that. Enemy variety isn't fantastic either. So after a while the game just isn't able to surprise you anymore. The 'Stalker List' was also disappointing, I didn't know if it was gonna be some interactive thing or what with a ton of 'Stalker' NPCs roaming around in the game but it seems like it ended up being pretty static and you fly past the top through normal gameplay. It's basically just an indication of your progression but since it had its own slot in the PDA I thought it would be a gameplay mechanic. It was also surprisingly short, the huge map is very misleading especially since you spend about 10 minutes a piece in Red Forest and Pripyat. There is a point where you suddenly realize the game is actually much smaller than it looks (you thought Vvardenfell was misleading!), especially since all the open space between loading zones gets skipped. The plot is just bizarre honestly and meeting the C-Consciousness didnt really do much for me since it comes out of nowhere. I wonder if it's more satisfying to speak to the Wish Granter. Still liked the game overall. I think I'd give it a 6-7/10. My instincts say this game was an ambitious undertaking from the start and the devs probably didn't get to do everything they wanted to do I mean you literally go through random portals at the end, that's like a bad anime shonen trope. I did like you dropping into the starting trader's office tho I also own Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. Which should I play? I haven't looked up much about them but I've gleamed that people don't like Clear Sky for some reason, but also that mods might make it more playable. --- http://i.imgur.com/iwo6yR9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uqXNtk6.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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