Is it retro yet? I always got filtered by this game because I have no clue what i'm even meant to be doing, still pretty fun though.
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>>12420149>I always got filtered by this game because I have no clue what i'm even meant to be doing Same. I thought it was a regular FPS but you supposed to talk with npc's, buy stuff etc. Not my taste.
>>12420149>>12420157the original stalker games are rpgs, so you start off weak as fuck and get stronger as you play the game what are you having trouble with?
>>12420159>What are you having trouble with?No clue where i'm going, I always walk into a place full of people who just automatically attack me.
>>12420249You have the quest log that tells you where you need to go.
>>12420249>No clue where i'm goingjust find strelok anon.
>>12420159>the original stalker games are rpgsThis is the most retarded post I have ever seen on /vr/ in my entire life. And it's not even true that you start out weak, you get an incredibly powerful 1 shot everything pistol handed to you immediately then an incredibly powerful 1 shot everything from 50 yards away shotgun literally 5 minutes later.Clearly the people interested in stalker are too young to be on /vr/, given both the responses in this thread and the OP itself being dreadful.
>>12420159>the original stalker games are rpgs
>>12420374stalker as an rpg is some meme that's spread in the last few years. even "progression" doesn't make an rpg, most games have progression. rpg has been diluted by marketing teams until younger people don't know what one is at all.
>>12420561That's not some new phenomenon. People in the 90s considered jarpigs like FF7 to be RPGs, when they were really just proto-moviegames with the same depth of "RPG" systems as a modern Assassin's Creed game.
>>12420374>>12420528>no arguments>just seethingyeah they're rpgs
>>12420582even Far Cry 3 is more of RPG than S.L.O.P.E.R
>>12420585incorrect
>>12420589FC3 have light RPG elementsS.H.I.T.T.E.R. don't
>>12420571there's a far cry from ff7 which still has systems under the hood to an fps with realistic bullet physics.
>>12420592yeah it does>>12420601it doesn't have realistic bullet physics, stop judging games off shitty mods
>>12420604it's not a hitscan game, it has realistic bullet physics. it's not an rpg where player skill matters, you point and shoot. it's just that some guns have balancing issues to contend with, this is separate from the physics and doesn't make it an rpg, it makes it simulationist. you haven't even made a cohesive argument why you consider it an rpg. afraid?
>>12420615>player skill*character skill
I love the depressing vibe.
>>12420149>I always got filtered by this game because I have no clue what i'm even meant to be doingread the manual. follow instructions in the game, play through the "tutorial" part. if that is still too hard. download a mod and edit it to make it easier with more starting money and ammo for your rifle.
>>12420149To be fair the game was supposed to come out in 2004 or I think 2005 I guess that means we can only post prerelease content?
>>12420149>I have no clue what i'm even meant to be doing,You literally get a waypoint on your pda
>>12420159>what are you having trouble with?With stupid RPGs not being my taste, basically.
>>12420149Excellent game, one of my favourites. It's one of those games you have to give it a few hours to get into it, the start is pretty slow and a bit dull but it does get better, especially once you start exploring the underground labs. One tip is that you want to get heaps of medkits and anti radiation meds and a sniper rifle with as much ammo as you can find for it before travelling to the chernobyl area at the end of the game, because once you go there you can't go back to the main area of the game and the guys you fight are quite a bit harder so the sniper makes it a lot easier. Make full saves occasionally too instead of just quicksaves so you can travel back to an earlier point in the game if you need to. Also you can ignore buying the exosuit, it's really expensive and weighs a lot and you don't really need it.The ZRP mod is good too, it adds fast travel so you don't have to walk so much.https://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html
>>12420149How scary is this game? I've always been curious about Stalker but it looks too scary to play.
>>12420947>fast travel>miss all the cool a-life shit at level transitionsWhy would anyone want to use this? The maps aren't that big in SOC. Use stamina artifacts. Learn the game, or at least spam energy drinks>>12421025>How scary is this game?There's a few spooky parts but it's not a hallway of jumpscares or anything. There's a lot more action setpieces. Most of the time you're attacking dogs or regular dudes with guns.
>>12421025i'm a little bitch when it comes to horror games but I was fine outside of a couple parts where I had to turn the volume down and listen to a podcast while playing
>>12421025Less scary than your average horror game, more scary than your average shooter. It's somewhere inbetween, it doesn't constantly spam you with jumpscares and shit, but the parts that are meant to be spooky really nail the scary vibe.
>>12421027>Why would anyone want to use this?all the walking can get annoying after a bit. Especially on subsequent playthroughs. Also you can't fast travel across the map, only to level transitions in the same area you're currently in
>>12420830>With stupid RPGs not being my taste, basicallyYou are stupid or trolling
Just played and beat Stalker myself. I used to be like the OP and >>12420157 and I'll be honest, what got me to finally enjoy it was playing on normal until I got a rifle with a scope, then switching it to master. Retroactively, I'd probably play the whole thing on master difficulty and spend the first bit of it collecting various things to sell and engaging more with the bartering mechanic, but if that doesn't sound fun I think if somebody played it the way I did, just on the normal difficulty until you get some mid tier weapons, they'll have a lot more fun if they find themselves getting filtered every time they try and attempt it. The other aspect is that much like a Bethesda game, your main waypoint is more of a suggestion to your exploration and emergent gameplay that just happens. You gotta kinda just get lost in the world and learn the gunplay, but once you do it's probably one of the the more immersive experiences you'll have.
>>12421484Not a single word of this post is even remotely correct and it's horrifying that zoomers walked around collecting stacks of medkits to bruteforce the game. I don't think I can ever discuss stalker again reading this thread, clearly this is poison. What a shame.
>>12421486Wut? I barely had medkits for 3/4ths of the game and only kept them on me for injured NPCs. I also played everything after the initial military vs stalker fight the recommended way. Are you schizo posting?
>>12421493its a known schizo tranny
>>12421495Aaaah. At first I thought he was responding to the wrong post, then thought he might legit be schizo. Shame I was right.
>>12421493Bruh it's literally just a shitty slavjank version of RE with an open world instead of actual level design. Like how hard is webm related, it ain't that deep dude. Like I see people openly posting about mandalore and other slop tuber essayists now here, like openly linking these dudes, and I just KNOW where you fake clueless retards came from. Get the fuck off 4chan dude. You people suck.
>>12421498Now that's you've snorted a huge fart from your ass now what? How does that change that you're fucking retarded?
>>12421502Literally one of your favorite games only a few months ago. Pure schizophrenia.
>>12421508How do you think I know how the game works, retard? If it attracts retards huffing their own farts and comparing it to skyrim I'll throw it straight in the trash. Im fully prepared to move on. Get the fuck out of here.
>>12421502>first encounter with bandits (easiest human enemy type)>gets lucky rng with misses>disingenuously pretending this is a good example of the game in its entiretyWhere's that Jannie when you need him. This dude stinks.
>>12421518You are a janny and I'm certain you're frantically paging a mod now. Literal weeks of spamming the board with shitty bait rpg threads with nothing done and I'm sure the mod will conveniently come in to take action now. This isn't discussion. There is no discussion in these threads. It's all spreading disinformation and poisoning the website.
>>12421515you'll always be a codexnigger no matter how much you try to larp as an arcade veteran :-)
>>12421508If I'm understanding the situation correctly it looks like he stopped liking those games because they attracted low quality shitposters, which is understandable.
>>12421530I have literally never, not even once, posted on codex.
>>12421535you just like the exact same games and post and act exactly like them
>>12421525I always hope people like you are trolling. The levels of unpleasant autism people somehow have managed to delve into now of days would make the most staunch /b/fag around 2010 blush. I really can't help but wonder if the government has perfected their whole "ai attack on 4chan" thing and just unleashed the worst kind of artificial posters to just dry up and form of conversation with their weird shitposting and overly aggressive nature.
I'll trigger his psychosis.shitclear
>>12421538>you just like the exact same gamesCodex is a board made by a NMA poster to circle jerk over black isle and bioware games, with a staff that basically turned the site into an outrage mill because this generates royal paypigs that think they're "fighting the good fight". As you can see, there are no black isle or bioware games, I never liked those games and have always thought they are terrible. Obviously Codex is not a place for me. Additionally, I've found that I'm happier and have more people to discuss games with when I play the games I am playing *now*. This was a big realization for me, that I can revisit games I was really impressed with and thought we're impossible when I was a teen, and actually beat them now with the experience i have. Additionally, I played a lot of fighting games over the last few years, and played with 4chan a lot, and did not include them because I had a lot of stalkers at the time. I dunno if you've ever been to /fgg/, but it's bad!
moeblob is still doing his shtick of making a thread about him, huh? got to admit he's effective.how is this game /vr/, by the way?
>>12421561It's pre-December 2007, so going off board rules it's retro.Hopefully the mod gets around to cleaning up the thread as I think it's an interesting game to discuss.
>>12421571Yeah it's really interesting discussing how stalker is an open world sandbox rpg like my favorite game skyrim
>>12421571who cares about rules? this is not a retro game in any way.as far as i can tell there's nothing interesting to discuss about it here either, this is a basic /v/-tier thread.
>who cares about rules?you should as you keep getting banned and seething about jannies every thread
>>12421579no, i'm not farquaad. i'm being real.
>he thinks the jannies give a shit about the rulesLOLLMAO EVEN
i feel bad for people who care about this website, whether for good or ill, who want to save it or ruin it. tis just a place.
>>12421579I like how he's implying other people are samefags yet he's obviously doing it in this very thread. I can only imagine what this individual is like irl.
>>12421594Stop fantasizing about me. It's creepy.
>>12421484Sounds right to me. Other person that replied to you is clearly really gay which is why they're so angry. I'd say play it on master too.
>>12420149>Is it retro yet?>Windows XP (Service Pack 2)andWindows 2000 (SP4)>Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier, and official game titles for those platforms released no later than December 2007Any game that was made for XP is retro
>>12421615Yeah, I think if you go into it with the right mentality on Master you'll have a much better time. Current games tend to dump you right into the action, where as I think with Stalker it's a good idea to explore a bit, find junk, sell it, and build up a bit of an arsenal before you jump in. By the time you get to the mid game you won't have to be scavenger nearly as much (or really, at all), but that early game can turn people off as you are just thrown into the world and your instincts tell you to just keep following the yellow. Really, I feel bad for people that get filtered as I was one of them and almost missed out on a really fun game because of it.
>>12421640>Stalker it's a good idea to explore a bit, find junk, sell it, and build up a bit of an arsenal before you jump inNo it isn't lol, SoC always gives you exactly what you need.
>>12421484I don't understand what you're talking about, the game is fairly linear. You just go from zone to zone.
