i played stalker for the first time today and i actually think i really like this. its really slow and deliberate and i can take my time walking around things instead of shooting everything ever and the grass is overgrown and theres stupid jumpscares that make me pee my pants
i dont play mouse and keyboard games normally so i have been practicing pressing fucking w to run forward while holding x to sprint and fucking hitting spacebar at the same time to hop around and not die? what is this hand configuration?
pictured: my hands while i try to run and hop and shoot in stalker
i just want people to die when i shoot them, i think my starting gun is actually a straw and i am just shooting spitballs at people with shotguns. but when i changed to the shotgun i got to run and hop and swerve around trees and drop idiots (even though id like walk face first into an anomaly or an angry pig or pack of dogs or radiation after my small victory and big perish)
the voice acting is good, theres SO MUCH OF IT? everyones so fucking talkative like these are some lonely dudes who no one will listen to but me because i keep getting infodumped so hard, they’re just very matter of fact about the paragraphs of information they want to drop on an amnesiac you know because my memory is awesome because im a fucking amnesiac COME ON YOU GUYS LET ME GAIN MY BEARINGS
anyway im definitely going to play more of this. the fact that you’re supposed to move around all slow and sludgey gives me more of a chance to get used to the controls, most games just expect you to immediately non stop perform action moves but this has so much breathing room between tense stressful violence. pacing! A RARITY
also i really liked the silly platforming electricity in the cave i hope theres more stuff like that and i will throw all my bolts into every swishing hole forever
i moved the quicksave and quickload buttons further apart because i accidentally quicksaved instead of loaded in a stupid deadly situation. those buttons are fighting now, they are nowhere NEAR eachother