Re: STALKER 2 nears...

On 26/07/2024 18:19, Justisaur wrote:

It's was certainly somewhat unpolished, to say the least, although the compliant about the AI kinda passed by my at the time as I wasn't, and still aren't, really into following games news. If I had to pick one thing that was the most negative it would be the 'aggressive' re-spawns. I still have nightmares over the rail yard acting as a transition point between areas. Did no one think is it really a good idea to make the player fight a hard battle every single time.
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 I don't remember anything about the AI either.  I liked the rail yard. I thought it was genius so you really had to think about if you wanted to go back or not.  (All assuming I'm remembering correctly, it's been awhile.)
 

The rail yard is one that just stuck in my mind. The first time through I very much enjoyed it but after that it just felt like the game was punishing you for no good reason. Generally I'm not a fan of enemy respawns as they quickly become a chore to me. Far Cry 2 and Borderlands 2 come to mind.

Overall though, I very much enjoyed it with the combat being more than just run in guns blazing and how it captured a feeling of exploring a desolate, almost alien, wasteland with an RPG like feel to the whole experience.

 

So I'll definitely take a look at 2 but a lot of that will be dependent on reviews and also a bit of a dabble with let's play videos just to try and confirm it's a game for me. Alternatively, I may just buy it and rely on Steams two hour rule!

 I probably won't buy it.  I was never really into FPSs (though I liked it better than most) and what I heard about the following games/dlcs/remasters or whatever they were never struck me as anything warrenting a play enough to a actually do so, though I thought I would at some point it's been a long time and I think the time has passed.
 If somehow it turns out to be an amazing highly rated game I may try it.

I'll certainly take a look at it as I very much enjoyed the original. Whether the game is still to my tastes I'm not sure. FPSes where one of my favourite genres but I can't think of the last one I bought. Part of that I think is because they seemed to have moved towards open world, grind infested, MTX laden games - can't I just shoot some things! I did have a quick shimmy through my Steam library and I think the last one I bought was either Crysis Warhead or Prey both quite a few years ago.