well
i had problems with both clear sky and call of pripyat. i was INCREDIBLY dissappointed actually. after i couldnt get into either i went and looked up the story and the way it completely shits and destroys EVERYTHING that happens in the first game was awful. strelok working with ecology and the feds? DUTY AND FREEDOM PUTTING ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES?? SCIENTISTS CONTINUING THEIR WORLD DESTROYING WORK IN THE NAME OF A NEOLIBERAL LIE?? WHAT HTE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE STORY? like even if pripyat did work (when i quick saved the game would freeze for five seconds, when i went into a safe area the game would freeze for ten seconds and the sound would stutter like a skipping cd. same when i went into the menu. considering how much all three of those things happen it was just unplayable on my pc)
okay so mechanically
like poeple have been saying they changed how all the guns feel and like halved the range of everything and the physics just feel completely different. and like every time i play a sequel to a game i feel like im transferring my skills from the first game into a new situation in the second that takes for gratned that i know what im doing. but like the way everything changed just made me feel like i was playing a stalker fan mod total conversion or something. like the final ‘boss fight’ is you shooting strelok in the fucking head over and over with a railgun to ‘disable’ his psi helmet but like. ITS A RAILGUN so he has to have a stupid LIFE BAR. when has there ever been a LIFE BAR in stalker??
this is just embarassing
like id rather put my face in a whirlygig than walk from tactical playground to tactical playground, where every structure has perfectly spaced out waist high cover, like a fucking paintball or lazer tag arena, killing MILLIONS of guys WITH SHITTY GUNPLAY just to take over territory in the zone??? like why do tehy think i care about TERRITORY AND DOMINION?? WHY? there is such a good story in clear sky to be had about chasing strelok into the cetner of the zone the first time he goes, theres so much extra context you can add to the first game but no instead guys its world domination. kill all the factions and be number one. what fucking ever.
time to play psycho realstic hacks where i have to reload my bullets one by one and cook coffee over campfires
like i play a sequel and im hoping 'oh maybe there will be grafitti on the outskirts of the zonenad people with homemade prosthetics and sign of like, LIFE and LIVING and SURVIVAL and COMMUNITY (like when i heard ‘this game focuses on factions’ i thought i could help and build relationships with the ones i like but instead the game is literally like THESE GUYS HAVE MORE THAN YOU YOU GOTTA TAKE EM DOWN A PEG) in the zone but it just gets more and more miltarized, to the poitn where the main character of the third game is a fucking special ops guy. i just dont care, this isnt why i liked the first game at all