Originally posted by: pontifex
i dunno, i might still pick it up. i'm going to wal-mart today during lunch so if they have it, i'll buy it.
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: pontifex
i dunno, i might still pick it up. i'm going to wal-mart today during lunch so if they have it, i'll buy it.
STALKER 'reminds" me of the original complaints people had about FarCry ... and it turned out pretty good after a few patches
i am still gonna *wait* - i am working on a trade-deal with it after a friend is done with it
you need a really nice rig to run it well
Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: pontifex
i dunno, i might still pick it up. i'm going to wal-mart today during lunch so if they have it, i'll buy it.
STALKER 'reminds" me of the original complaints people had about FarCry ... and it turned out pretty good after a few patches
i am still gonna *wait* - i am working on a trade-deal with it after a friend is done with it
you need a really nice rig to run it well
Think I'll wait a few months too,at least until the new AMD/Nvidia cards are released.
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
The user reviews at Gamespot are pretty high.
I think you guys are just being too picky
Originally posted by: Conky
The best part about this game is the atmosphere.. very immersive and real feeling. There are odd RPG mission things to do which make it unlike most FPS games but not entirely fruity like most RPG games.
The AI is sort of hit or miss... sometimes the enemy is brutal with it's tactics flanking you and sneaking up from behind... other times it can be a bit retarded and a bad guy will just stand there for a minute before realizing that he is supposed to kill you. If this was supposed to be realistic then it just plain missed the mark but overall the AI is better and more lethal than any other shooter I can think of right now.
The worst thing is having to manage the inventory but I guess this is where that RPG stuff comes in. :roll: If you collect too much gear it will weigh you down and you will have to drop some stuff... pray this doesn't happen during a combat moment or you will have to reload your game. Which brings me to another small gripe... there is no quicksave key... you have to save by escaping and hitting save. And you will want to save often because you will die often even if you are a good player, lol.
I think this is going to be a popular game although, like many games, I think it could probably use a little patchin at some point although I've come across no show-stopper bugs yet.
Anyway, I just got this game and I can't stop playing it.
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
The user reviews at Gamespot are pretty high.
I think you guys are just being too picky
I think it's a tad early to proclaim that this game has failed.Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
The user reviews at Gamespot are pretty high.
I think you guys are just being too picky
There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of games out there for various systems. Just because this one is new doesnt make it worth playing over a spectacular game that you may have missed a while ago. You would be far better of spending your money on an oldie but goodie and waiting for this game to hit the bargain bin. I think after the dust has settled and another game comes out that does the open ended FPS right, stalker will be remembered as the game that tried and failed in comparison.
Originally posted by: Conky
I think it's a tad early to proclaim that this game has failed.Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
The user reviews at Gamespot are pretty high.
I think you guys are just being too picky
There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of games out there for various systems. Just because this one is new doesnt make it worth playing over a spectacular game that you may have missed a while ago. You would be far better of spending your money on an oldie but goodie and waiting for this game to hit the bargain bin. I think after the dust has settled and another game comes out that does the open ended FPS right, stalker will be remembered as the game that tried and failed in comparison.
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Conky
I think it's a tad early to proclaim that this game has failed.Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
The user reviews at Gamespot are pretty high.
I think you guys are just being too picky
There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of games out there for various systems. Just because this one is new doesnt make it worth playing over a spectacular game that you may have missed a while ago. You would be far better of spending your money on an oldie but goodie and waiting for this game to hit the bargain bin. I think after the dust has settled and another game comes out that does the open ended FPS right, stalker will be remembered as the game that tried and failed in comparison.
Like I said, just my personal opinion. It has only currently succeeded in making an open ended FPS because there is no other one out there like it to compare it to. It kind reminds me of trespasser - it sure was original, but that didnt make it good.
Stalker is kind of like drinking a blueberry carne asada steak white chocolate milkshake. All delicious things by themselves, but barfworthy when mashed together mindlessly.
Originally posted by: BD2003
Oblivion did open endedness right. Each town had its own personality, and there were various factions to align with, along with endearing characters that just wrapped you into the game. I played it for 120 something hours, and was never bored, nor did I finish everything I wanted to. The "side quests" mattered, there was always a meaningful reward, not to mention a furthering of a side story.
Originally posted by: QueBert
I tried to play Oblivion, I dug the graphics, and enjoyed parts of it, but my problem with it, and I guess with any game that's very open ended. There's this serious plague of Oblivion Gates, they are out to destroy all human kind. And while I wasn't forced to do some of the side missions, why would you be killing wolves that are attacking some crazy chicks rats while certain doom is looming? Seemed like some of the side quests were really lame, especially when you factor in the urgency with saving Kavatch(sp?) and protecting an entire race of people.
I guess without the side quests it would be a short game, but I would have had more fun.
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: BD2003
Oblivion did open endedness right. Each town had its own personality, and there were various factions to align with, along with endearing characters that just wrapped you into the game. I played it for 120 something hours, and was never bored, nor did I finish everything I wanted to. The "side quests" mattered, there was always a meaningful reward, not to mention a furthering of a side story.
We must have played different versions of Oblivion. The NPCs didn't seem to have that much personality. All the towns were basically the same.
I played Oblivion for about 2 weeks before it bored me to death. Copmbat got boring, traveling got boring. The story was very lacking imo. I'm not sure how the side quests "mattered". They added nothing to the game.
oh, and wal-mart didn't have stalker, btw.
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Zenoth
Some game-play videos from me.
#1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KV3MNV9W
Shows some A-Life (wildlife) and a few neutral Stalkers, nothing special, just a humble and calm video.
#2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X8F1J4XL
Another small game-play footage I recorded while playing just moments ago. I died during the footage hehe, I never saw where the shot came from.
#3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X8F1J4XL
From there something went terribly wrong after that (after video #2). The game started to slow down a little (it was after the footage, Fraps wasn't recording anything) after I loaded up the game again (since I died). It was just two or three minutes before the footage, so I went back to that outpost and finished the enemies I could without dying. I took some items silently, and fled back to the small Duty outpost (I'm starting to work for them in my game, the Freedom guys are enemies to me now, firing on sight).
So, from there once I returned I started to record new footage, because I wanted to explore the surrounding areas, which I never explored before. Nothing much goes on, in fact, nothing happens expect at the end.
And that's where the troubled moment is recorded.
Remember I said the game started to slow down and act strangely ? Well, it might have been something about the A.I, or perhaps even the whole area itself it troubled (there was a quest there earlier and it was a mess to finish, due to unscripted A.I behaviors, killing important characters for example, I had to start it again not one, not two but three times to get it done properly).
At the end of the video I attempt to surprise a nearby enemy camp. Three guys from the Freedom faction are there probably talking around a camp fire. I spotted them with my Binoculars, and then tried to find a good attack angle to surprise them. I wanted to throw a Grenade at them just for the kicks of setting them in combat stance.
Well guess what happened ? You'll see in the video ...
It was a major bug, to say the least, A.I-related, but quite major. I saw NPCs running against walls already, I saw some of them pointing their guns to a wall and fire at it for no apparent reasons, I saw many so-so bugs, things that you can live with.
But THAT was totally unexpected. It's surely one of those things that GSC GameWorld must have been frustrated about during the development process. They must have yelled at such situations. Because quite frankly they have to know about it. If they don't, then I don't know where they've been and/or what they've done during the past 6 years or so.
Here's the video showing the major A.I bug at the end. Enjoy ! Or .... rather get disappointed ! (you choose)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HKSIXK2C
Notes: The videos are compressed with H.264. Most of you might need specific video codecs to display the videos properly in your media player(s). I myself am using some codecs from K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, and it does the job well. Others are using the CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack), which should also work well. If the video is in fact only playing sounds with a black screen then it might be because you need new codecs. You might also want to give a try to VLC Meida Player if all else fails, to get it go to www.videolan.org
So, enjoy ! Or rather get disappointed ! (you choose)
can that site be any harder to figure out how to watch the videos? as far as i can tell, i need to download their toolbar to watch anything? either that or your links don't work right.
Originally posted by: Zenoth
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Zenoth
Some game-play videos from me.
#1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KV3MNV9W
Shows some A-Life (wildlife) and a few neutral Stalkers, nothing special, just a humble and calm video.
#2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X8F1J4XL
Another small game-play footage I recorded while playing just moments ago. I died during the footage hehe, I never saw where the shot came from.
#3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X8F1J4XL
From there something went terribly wrong after that (after video #2). The game started to slow down a little (it was after the footage, Fraps wasn't recording anything) after I loaded up the game again (since I died). It was just two or three minutes before the footage, so I went back to that outpost and finished the enemies I could without dying. I took some items silently, and fled back to the small Duty outpost (I'm starting to work for them in my game, the Freedom guys are enemies to me now, firing on sight).
So, from there once I returned I started to record new footage, because I wanted to explore the surrounding areas, which I never explored before. Nothing much goes on, in fact, nothing happens expect at the end.
And that's where the troubled moment is recorded.
Remember I said the game started to slow down and act strangely ? Well, it might have been something about the A.I, or perhaps even the whole area itself it troubled (there was a quest there earlier and it was a mess to finish, due to unscripted A.I behaviors, killing important characters for example, I had to start it again not one, not two but three times to get it done properly).
At the end of the video I attempt to surprise a nearby enemy camp. Three guys from the Freedom faction are there probably talking around a camp fire. I spotted them with my Binoculars, and then tried to find a good attack angle to surprise them. I wanted to throw a Grenade at them just for the kicks of setting them in combat stance.
Well guess what happened ? You'll see in the video ...
It was a major bug, to say the least, A.I-related, but quite major. I saw NPCs running against walls already, I saw some of them pointing their guns to a wall and fire at it for no apparent reasons, I saw many so-so bugs, things that you can live with.
But THAT was totally unexpected. It's surely one of those things that GSC GameWorld must have been frustrated about during the development process. They must have yelled at such situations. Because quite frankly they have to know about it. If they don't, then I don't know where they've been and/or what they've done during the past 6 years or so.
Here's the video showing the major A.I bug at the end. Enjoy ! Or .... rather get disappointed ! (you choose)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HKSIXK2C
Notes: The videos are compressed with H.264. Most of you might need specific video codecs to display the videos properly in your media player(s). I myself am using some codecs from K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, and it does the job well. Others are using the CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack), which should also work well. If the video is in fact only playing sounds with a black screen then it might be because you need new codecs. You might also want to give a try to VLC Meida Player if all else fails, to get it go to www.videolan.org
So, enjoy ! Or rather get disappointed ! (you choose)
can that site be any harder to figure out how to watch the videos? as far as i can tell, i need to download their toolbar to watch anything? either that or your links don't work right.
I said it so many times and I'll say it again here.
MegaUpload is no one's enemy. It never asked me for anything. You guys are using the same browser than me ? Firefox ? I haven't tried with IE nor Opera, maybe that's why. But here is how it works with MU in Firefox: You click on the link (duh !), then it asks you to type in the blank space the required identification letters to start up the download. Once you type them in you then click on "Download". Then a minute-long countdown will start before the download starts. Then once the countdown is done voila ! Suddenly your download is ready and might even automatically start ! Isn't it unbelievable ?
I keep hosting my files there because I never had troubles there myself and they never forced me nor even asked me to download or install anything from them before download any types of files. Some of you will need to check your proxies or cookies or I don't know what. Quite frankly I don't know why some people here are getting all sorts of demands from that site.
Originally posted by: torpid
Just for reference, BD2k3, I take it you did not like FEAR? I thought it was very weak. Even though it was only 11 hours or so, maybe less, it felt like 100 hours because someone thought it was ok to design an office complex with elevators in random places that only go up one flight and staircases that do the same.