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Title: STALKER games
Post by: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 11:22:34 AM
Are these games any good?  I've been wanting to play a shooter type game lately and am into the whole survival horror/urban exploration theme.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Tamas on September 18, 2009, 11:28:27 AM
Quote from: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 11:22:34 AM
Are these games any good?  I've been wanting to play a shooter type game lately and am into the whole survival horror/urban exploration theme.

Theme is good, graphics too, controls are iffy, I played the first game and I liked it, but still left me kinda 'meh'
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 11:32:11 AM
What's wrong with the controls?
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Tamas on September 18, 2009, 11:47:59 AM
Quote from: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 11:32:11 AM
What's wrong with the controls?

Not sure, it just felt hard to aim compared to other shooters, IIRC
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Syt on September 18, 2009, 11:55:39 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 18, 2009, 11:47:59 AM
Quote from: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 11:32:11 AM
What's wrong with the controls?

Not sure, it just felt hard to aim compared to other shooters, IIRC

Because they were (claiming to be) using real ballistics?
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Tamas on September 18, 2009, 12:19:41 PM
Quote from: Syt on September 18, 2009, 11:55:39 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 18, 2009, 11:47:59 AM
Quote from: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 11:32:11 AM
What's wrong with the controls?

Not sure, it just felt hard to aim compared to other shooters, IIRC

Because they were (claiming to be) using real ballistics?

No, it was simply annoying, and it was not because the (quite lacking) need to count with trajectory.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Jaron on September 18, 2009, 12:20:37 PM
Stalker games? Practice makes perfect, eh Cal? ^_^
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 12:21:56 PM
 :huh:
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Syt on September 18, 2009, 12:25:02 PM
Quote from: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 12:21:56 PM
:huh:

Don't worry, Jaron is drunkposting again, drawing inspiration from Siege.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 12:28:47 PM
The only person I stalk around here is Ed, and that's only because I like to provoke the posting of random pictures of cats in mildly amusing poses.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Habbaku on September 18, 2009, 12:41:20 PM
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Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Syt on September 18, 2009, 12:43:01 PM
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Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Josquius on September 18, 2009, 01:35:35 PM
I played through the first one in summer, it is really quite awesome.
I can't remember much in the way of control issues.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Ed Anger on September 18, 2009, 01:48:23 PM
Quote from: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 12:28:47 PM
The only person I stalk around here is Ed, and that's only because I like to provoke the posting of random pictures of cats in mildly amusing poses.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftrollcats.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F08%2Fstalker_trollcat.jpg&hash=adb60ed944507c1284c7cd0e5f4ae03d7f74a3ff)
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: sbr on September 18, 2009, 05:11:41 PM
I bought STALKER Chernobyl for $5 on the Direct2Drive sale the other day, haven't tried it yet though.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: The Brain on September 18, 2009, 05:45:17 PM
Gives an unrealistic image of the effects of ionizing radiation.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 06:41:14 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 18, 2009, 05:45:17 PM
Gives an unrealistic image of the effects of ionizing radiation.
Well, that settles it.  NOT BUYING.  :mad:
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Razgovory on September 19, 2009, 12:12:31 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on September 18, 2009, 12:41:20 PM
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I got a harness with the intention of trying to walk the cat and ended up with the same results.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Lucidor on September 19, 2009, 07:46:01 AM
Quote from: Caliga on September 18, 2009, 11:22:34 AM
Are these games any good?  I've been wanting to play a shooter type game lately and am into the whole survival horror/urban exploration theme.
I'd recomend it. I got the impression weapons were a bit underpowered. Normally it takes a few AK rounds to bring someone down, if I remember right.
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: I Killed Kenny on September 19, 2009, 11:16:14 AM
I hate having to walk back to the base every hour or so... why don't we have auto travel?
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Lucidor on September 19, 2009, 12:18:58 PM
Quote from: I Killed Kenny on September 19, 2009, 11:16:14 AM
I hate having to walk back to the base every hour or so... why don't we have auto travel?
That would be nice, yes. In Oblivion, you at least get some skills in athletics and acrobatics running and jumping all the way back to town... :D
Title: Re: STALKER games
Post by: Pishtaco on September 19, 2009, 04:12:19 PM
The first game has a superb atmosphere and is absolutely worth buying for that, despite being a bit ropey in other ways. You will get some survival horror out of it, and a little urban exploration in one of the levels.