piscian18
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No I'm not trolling, I spent the weekend trying to finish this stupid game and god I can not wait for it to end.
On top of all this I'm gonna be an even bigger asshole and say Stalker:SOC is the exact same game only better in every respect.
*spoilers*
The thing that strikes me as the most frustrating aspect of this game is that you're stuck spending all your time traveling around this big wasteland and for the majority of the game it's shockingly empty and samey. The wasteland all looks the same and the metro is even worse. I mean you will literally see the same square acre repeated ad nauseum across almost the entire map. The metro is the same I'm certain I could show you a picture of the same wrecked train barrier in at least 20 different areas.
Theres maybe 5 enemies in the game and you're going to fight the same super mutant minimum 100,000 times with the same skin.
The perks and skills are meaningless when the only thing you're ever going to put skills into is small guns, science and lockpick. If you don't youre fucking yourself. Worse the shooting feels entirely random even when you have all your points up you'll still miss for no reason.
The story and questing. I'm not sure how to approach this. Maybe its different for everyone but I just never felt like there was any progression and very rarely does anything you do feel like it has an effect on the story. I just wandered around the whole game asking people where my dad was and even finding him was anti-climactic and it doesn't end, you have to do more shit. Thinking back on it the majority of the story is revealed in the last couple hours. You literally learn nothing until you talk to a doctor and find all your dads journals in 1 spot at the end of the game minutes before you meet him.
Too often getting from point A to B feels artificially lengthened. I'm tired and not because "war never changes" but because I'm tired of walking around in samey brown areas and just want this to be over with. At least 5 times I was directed to go somewhere simple but instead I have "find a way around" and it was never a secret passage it was always just the long way around a mountain or some rubble.
I know I'm supposed to forgive this game because it came out 6 years ago, but Stalker came out 8 years ago. Stalker didn't have levels that I can recall. Everything about you and your story was built around exploring "the zone" which looks amazing, god forbid you enable the conversion mod that introduces "Zone storms". Shooting felt good, FPS like. All your skills came from caches of crazy shit you were constantly rewarded with for doing quests or exploring crazy dungeon like fallout shelters. The story and concept were so amazing and off the rails. Fallout 3 it's just kind of "wasteland, raiders, dad, water thing."
Speaking of better, is it just me or were Dialog trees and character interaction more interesting and better in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines?(thats 2004 btw) Theres got to be someone involved from that Dev team because the trees look almost identical but boring. More often than not theres nothing personal in the Dialog trees, am I talking to a person or logged into a terminal? I can't tell.
After everything I'd heard I was really expecting to be blown away and engrossed in the story or the environment, but mostly I just found the residents annoying and story lackluster.
The reason I'm bringing up all these points is that after this for Backlog reasons obviously, I have to move on to Fallout: New Vegas.
Are there major differences this time around? A more Linearly progressive story? Characters? More things to look at than the same goddamn tunnel with the goddamn ghoul for 10 hours? More unique weapons would be a plus. Now I got frustrated with exploration turning up nothing but the same can goods, but the only unique weapon Ive found is Lincolns repeater.
I hate writing off games, if feels like cheating myself, but I am not going through this again with Fallout:Vegas and Fallout 4. I'm hoping someone's gonna tell me they're better games and not just graphically, anyone who knows me around here knows I still play goddamn Wizardry 8. I could give a fuck about graphics if the story is good.
Fallout 3 does not get a score. Fuck this game.
*I'm aware Stalker was broken on launch, I only consider Stalker:Complete to be the definitive game. Fallout 3 was also played with gameplay fix and graphical enhancement mods*
On top of all this I'm gonna be an even bigger asshole and say Stalker:SOC is the exact same game only better in every respect.
*spoilers*
The thing that strikes me as the most frustrating aspect of this game is that you're stuck spending all your time traveling around this big wasteland and for the majority of the game it's shockingly empty and samey. The wasteland all looks the same and the metro is even worse. I mean you will literally see the same square acre repeated ad nauseum across almost the entire map. The metro is the same I'm certain I could show you a picture of the same wrecked train barrier in at least 20 different areas.
Theres maybe 5 enemies in the game and you're going to fight the same super mutant minimum 100,000 times with the same skin.
The perks and skills are meaningless when the only thing you're ever going to put skills into is small guns, science and lockpick. If you don't youre fucking yourself. Worse the shooting feels entirely random even when you have all your points up you'll still miss for no reason.
The story and questing. I'm not sure how to approach this. Maybe its different for everyone but I just never felt like there was any progression and very rarely does anything you do feel like it has an effect on the story. I just wandered around the whole game asking people where my dad was and even finding him was anti-climactic and it doesn't end, you have to do more shit. Thinking back on it the majority of the story is revealed in the last couple hours. You literally learn nothing until you talk to a doctor and find all your dads journals in 1 spot at the end of the game minutes before you meet him.
Too often getting from point A to B feels artificially lengthened. I'm tired and not because "war never changes" but because I'm tired of walking around in samey brown areas and just want this to be over with. At least 5 times I was directed to go somewhere simple but instead I have "find a way around" and it was never a secret passage it was always just the long way around a mountain or some rubble.
I know I'm supposed to forgive this game because it came out 6 years ago, but Stalker came out 8 years ago. Stalker didn't have levels that I can recall. Everything about you and your story was built around exploring "the zone" which looks amazing, god forbid you enable the conversion mod that introduces "Zone storms". Shooting felt good, FPS like. All your skills came from caches of crazy shit you were constantly rewarded with for doing quests or exploring crazy dungeon like fallout shelters. The story and concept were so amazing and off the rails. Fallout 3 it's just kind of "wasteland, raiders, dad, water thing."
Speaking of better, is it just me or were Dialog trees and character interaction more interesting and better in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines?(thats 2004 btw) Theres got to be someone involved from that Dev team because the trees look almost identical but boring. More often than not theres nothing personal in the Dialog trees, am I talking to a person or logged into a terminal? I can't tell.
After everything I'd heard I was really expecting to be blown away and engrossed in the story or the environment, but mostly I just found the residents annoying and story lackluster.
The reason I'm bringing up all these points is that after this for Backlog reasons obviously, I have to move on to Fallout: New Vegas.
Are there major differences this time around? A more Linearly progressive story? Characters? More things to look at than the same goddamn tunnel with the goddamn ghoul for 10 hours? More unique weapons would be a plus. Now I got frustrated with exploration turning up nothing but the same can goods, but the only unique weapon Ive found is Lincolns repeater.
I hate writing off games, if feels like cheating myself, but I am not going through this again with Fallout:Vegas and Fallout 4. I'm hoping someone's gonna tell me they're better games and not just graphically, anyone who knows me around here knows I still play goddamn Wizardry 8. I could give a fuck about graphics if the story is good.
Fallout 3 does not get a score. Fuck this game.
*I'm aware Stalker was broken on launch, I only consider Stalker:Complete to be the definitive game. Fallout 3 was also played with gameplay fix and graphical enhancement mods*
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