Picked up metro thanks to your retrospective, and so far it's great!

Thank you for the stalker games.

Thank you for showing so many people what great games all stalker and clear sky n call to pripyat are. My go too anytime I'm bored of newer games. I have hundreds of hours playing stalker and its Awsome mods.

Despite gog's user reviews, I prefer Clear Sky over SOC. Mainly for ditching the annoying hunger-thirst system and having different factions you can link up with.

@@paulsmecker2778 goddamn right, i forget how i even found out about it years ago... i think i was just researching "old game mods" or something, and omg. i wish i had a better pc. finished SoC and went straight for the full anomaly 3.0. so much stuff, brain hurts. so rough. so fun. EfT would be another for no horror etc, ehh.

Morrowind is brutal if you are playing the first time without any prior knowledge of old school dice roll mechanics. I remember when it came out on Xbox and I died repeatedly trying to fight the 3 slavers in the cave outside of Sanda neen. Magic was the only surefire way to deal damage in early game. As you move almost a foot every 5 seconds and Your fatigue restores at a rate of -1000 every second. Good memories.

@@jeraminvidalez5334 I remember the first time I played, I wandered into a Daedric ruin at really low level and got clapped so hard! I think the difficulty is what made me love it so much.

@@itspeany4899 yeah

"I don't know if I was right or wrong... but I made it. And I guess... is should be thankful for that." - Strelok.

@@itspeany4899 you want me to stay at lo l

@@itspeany4899 lol ok ppl

@@itspeany4899 you i look pollo oooo ooooo

Deal!

Same

Ah, a fellow Y2Mate enjoyer.

Big same. The frequent gunshots didn't help this time.

@@Shruggernauts adds flavor to your dreams

Ha!! Honestly, that's a pretty typical first time playing STALKER.

Good hunting stalker

Did you finish the series? What would you say about it? I just finished CoP recently too

@@martinadamek7016how did you like COP, I’m barely reaching the endgame portion of CS and I’ve been loving it so far. I’m really excited for COP so what would your honest opinion be on it

Right? I didn't play the originals yet but I've been completely immersed in the Anomaly mod with the Expedition add-on. Never been more addicted to a single player open world game before. Which is saying something since I usually can't sit down for more than an hour or two with these modern open world games, but something about STALKER has me playing for hours at a time and ruining my sleep schedule lol. Sad that an old game like this is still leagues above any game these giant companies with millions in funding can put out.

Stalker 2 looks promising.

@@mamory3791 Idk, that gameplay trailer seems kinda... stiff for STALKER.

@@xJokerzWild its set to release in december so hopefully its gets better

@@mamory3791 development is halted till further notice due to the war. But they offering a free real experience... Just go to Ukraine, grab a gun and Gear. Welcome to The Zone S.T.A.L.K.E.R

I'm glad so many people enjoy these so much.

@@AvalancheReviews That's what happens when you put so much heart and energy into something as you do Jared :)

Nice. What kind of chips and dip?

@@AC-hj9tv The classic one here in Sweden probably would be sourcream and onion chips, as for dip there's a couple variants available but my favorite is probably the one called Holiday, not sure what it is but it's good.

@@Seriouskai wow. Very nice Have a good day brother 🇸🇪

Man I must be unlucky then because I've had a pulse appear almost right next to me multiple times. (thankfully never close enough to be deadly)

@@Andy_Enderson For me it tends to appear during a gunfight/mutant fight as I'm hiding behind a tree begging for my life

I always wondered what those were in Anomaly lmao, I only got one-tapped once 2 steps after saving

I got 1-shotted by a pulse while I was selling junk to the Flea Market trader. I thought I was under a concrete roof so I didn't move (that was a mistake)

this info would have been useful 15 years ago

@@benjapizarro981 ikr like wtf

Thank you I'm playing through for the first time and that has helped me fight the monolith guys

Does this reset when you reload?

@@PolarbearYGT ik I'm kinda late but still: If I recall correctly the super bullet restará after 1 or 2 secs of not firing

Yay! Some fallout rep! Everybody loves to look down on fallout, but they are legitimately amazing games.

@@ibelieveingaming3562everybody likes to look down on fallout? it’s one of the most acclaimed franchises of all time and new vegas is very often recognised as one of the best games of all time

​@@ibelieveingaming3562Everyone looks down on the new ones, New Vegas is literally one of the greatest games ever. And 3 has some of the best settings in any game ever.

Metro is GOATed

Nah new Vegas sucks. 4 is much better

For real! I couldn't put it down when I read it.

I wish for the English audiobook they would've gotten the Metro 2033 narrator. That guy was amazing, but meanwhile the Roadside Picnic narrator sounds like he's a streetwise detective from Chicago or something. (If you haven't listened to Metro 2033 you should. That guy is really good at acting out voices for Russian tunnel dwellers or stalkers, and it makes it such a nice creepy listen, in the dark, before bed.)

he actually addresses this during the 2nd game's review! i think he's just combined his 3 videos on the franchise together because even the timestamps and such are a little bit off.

Source?

​@@matthewjones39 google it, it's easier, but some guys actually checked the code and master difficulty doesn't actually make the game easier. Never did, what actually started this claim is the fact that the original animations are terrible, combined that with the fact that all guns do little damage and the game have bulletdrop it gave the impression that harder difficulty made the game easier when in reality was the player that replayed the game and having more experience found better equipment faster giving the impression that harder difficulty was easier.

My pleasure man!

Hi hear reggae playing

They are great games, I dumped hundreds of hours on them back in middle and high school, still have them in my steam list and hard copies.

I describe it as the most immersive single player fps rpg, simply, nothing compares, and nothing comes close.

@@windshieldwasher6919 I feel like the fact anyone can die with one headshot including you sells that without droning on about rpg mechanics and sci-fi. I've gotten many a Arma or Battlefield player into it just by saying that.

@@ZigealFaust meanwhile in far cry 6, explosive rounds are less effective on humans than vehicles

@@joshgroban5291 lmao

I've been playing Into The Radius recently, and because vr can sometimes be a bit displeasing to play for more than 2 hours due to the toll it takes on the legs and how unpleasant it is to do anything seated, I've been wanting to play something that was what that game was but played on desktop. Never played a STALKER game, but I seen that Anomaly is free and that there was a good modpack called Gamma going around for it so I think I'm going to start there. And before it is said, no I will not play the 15 year old games and never will, I've heard STALKER vets can be pretty ailing when it comes to preaching about purity.

YES!!!!!!!! Some of the most fun you can have is just talking to other Stalkers about a mutant suddenly spawning into Cordon, or some other crazy stories.

That sure is a fact but I doubt it is a fun one my dude.

cast of tarkowsky's stalker you mean. They filmed it 2 times because the first all the footage was developed wrongly and couldn't be used

@@fuckingpippaman I wish they released first version too it looks awesome with fucked up colour

The games today are movies with a few minutes of gameplay in between. Cod ww2 for example.

its also completely unfaithful to stalker and should not be compared to it and there is the whole matter of it kinda stealing code from other projects

@@cropathfinder How exactly is it unfaithful to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? I found the experience to be far better than the original games, regardless of "fixes" brought to vanilla. For my experience so far, Anomaly and M.I.S.E.R.Y. were by far the best S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience I've had. I enjoy watching Provak videos on youtube but so far, all my attempts to make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. work with Provak have resulted in massive failure as the game is buggy and crashy as hell.

@@bicualexandru246 Misery, added a lot of things but It feels like that the modders never thought about if they should. A quick note, I played Misery 2.1(i think) at max difficulty, as recon, on black road but no other modifiers and I quit because the game got easy, more on that later. So time to essay starting with shooty gamplay. Overall, I felt the game did not know the difference between hard, and borderline unfair. It added so much flavor text to items that it was legit not possible to show all of it on certain resolutions. Tooltips were also not updated (like fireball providing less protection than bloodsucker skin, you had to check it in the files to confirm it) which is kinda bad when you want a "punishing" game but you end up lying. It also had item bloat, constant back and forth between traders to check what item is worth more to whom. Economy that was shit (but in fact made to be broken by the player, like just maining shotguns for their high damage and cheap ammo, using shit double barrels to hunt for meat which has a higher selling price than actually mutated tissue sold to the eggheads?). Most stuff is not worth anything but loot you must and kinda have to abuse the fact that NPC's do not play by the rules as you, they have limitless ammo, but even with headshots you come out even on ammo and never gain anything(unless you use the surrender mechanic in which case you get a perfect weapon...suspension of disbelief anyone?) So the gameplay encourages shadowing neutral NPC's so you can loot bodies for...explosives? Mutants are borked. Switching stuff around like, boars take reduced damage to the head and more on the ass (this is beyond my ability suspension of disbelief and is just being annoying). Or the cat that makes literally no noise, which is totally a mutation and not just missing sound files. Or that the pychic mutants just kill you unless you use consumables. So lets get to that. Consumables basically became a thing that you must use. Imagine a person who spends 16 hours, every day on adrenaline shots so he can move (recon having 30kg carry limit made this an obligation), an annoying drain on resources, and hard to believe. Said psychic mutants above? Just use some weed and you are immune to them. The game also had an unhealthy fetish for explosives. Pseudogiant? Just use a single RGD-1, ded. 3 chimeras, 10 cats and 2 poltergheists at Iron Forest or Jupiter? Just use an anti tank warhead rigged up to be a mine that kills basically anything in one hit that you got from dead NPC's who had it for...reasons? Mutant packs are too big but curiously hard to spawn later on (this was the reason why I stopped, there was no longer anything to kill) but a single rifle grenade fixes it so well, that due to the animation most of the bodies rot. The staple of the game, artifact hunting, was barely profitable and made harder by making artefacts out of depleted uranium(weight) and adding containers that are literally lead(just on case one wants to...move). Fire/chemical anomalies cook you in any armour but in science gear, but once you have it, you can have a piknik in the field. The Misery mod is big, but it is big in the sense the picture of the model they added to Yanov station is big. Takes up a lot of space, and hampers performance and the gameplay flows like a river of bricks. The mod gave you items that are just better than we had (recon gets a bonus to artifact usage? sorrly, using a carry frame+kevlar is better than these supposedly priceless artifacts). The animations were jank, eating while moving? impossible. Using a medical kit? The game wants you to think medkits take time to use, but time does not move during the fade out and fade in, so it is a trap to use injectors considering the cost. And this is just gameplay, the story is bad too for my liking. This partially comes from their inspirations of which 1 is okay, 1 is meh, and 1 is shite. In order, Metro 2033(game version), I am Legend and the worst.....The Road (HRUUH). Metro 2033 is the better one but MUCH MUCH more bleak than S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Stalker (the film), or Roadside Picknick, but it has that Eastern Slav mentality of going ahead and just adapting(a thing people did a lot of during and after Soviet times). I am Legend I just do not get, the only inspiration I can see is the fetish for RDX. And the worst....The Road.... I had to read that horriblely out of touch idea of survivalism(it has cannibals with humans kept alive as food, some catastrophe that is never explained and can not be explained in any way other than "God did it", the father has the survival instinct of a brain damaged deer in headlights who does not know what concealment is, who gets saved by a bunker full of food and the ending is horribly american and Deus Ex machina like). The Road is bleak, just like the mod, it is bleak to be bleak, but that makes it tiresome and in several cases, illogical whithin the work. The Misery team had a lot of skill with photoshop to make depressing pictures but believable setting it does not make (especially in Eastern Europe). Stalkers complaining how The Zone is hell(with gameplay mechanics like this sure, but you guys never pay for ammo like I do) but they do not leave cause the outside world is also hell(this is the modding team trying to justify why 5.45x39mm ammo is this expensive even tho the socialist machine churned out so much of it they armed the third world and still had a ton left over, also try not to figure out why the fucking XM8 rifle ,which was never adopted large scale, is in the zone) and people spend money on artifacts instead of...food, water, fuel for the oven....like people do when economy is shit. They also never laugh, ever, even tho black comedy is the cornerstone of Eastern Europe, I know, I live here. Basically, ideas are thrown in that make no sense(bandits eat snork hands to establish dominance over other factions...and get radiation poisoning from it due to low calories and high radiation per hand? why not bloodsuckers? those are also human mutants) and makes the game world feel dead, and illogical. One can imagine living in the Zone as portrayed by GSC, the Misery team made it too edgy and suffers for it. This turned the experience gamey, in more ways than one. It also does not help that the game operates on grey and brown that is not only ugly to look at(and kinda unreal) when the Stalker games showed decrepit grey soviet buildings taken over by the greenery of nature but twisted by The Zone giving it a somewhat unearthly element as the mundane and old has now things that do not belong there while also making those things valuable but in a place that is recognized by people. One has contrast which is interesting, the other is muddy and over time, boring and uniform. TLDR: the gameplay is bloated, gives alternatives to the unique gameplay elements that are better turning those into gimicks at best and traps at worst, mucks up the balance of the game to just make the game hard, while having writing that feels like was made from elements that are "cool" by themselves but put together in ways that creates conflict and not something greater than the whole. I hope you had as much fun reading this essay as I did writing it.

@@Thund3r0v you must be fun at parties.

@@bicualexandru246 provaks version just sucks you are better off just modding it yourself

Happy new year!!!

Aw man, although that will feel incredible, i felt much more satisfied seeing those names in Anomaly after i finished the original games, i won't spoil anything for you, but i highly suggest you play the originals (with mods if you want too), never seen anyone regret doing so.

RIP anomaly brainwashed

@@legion3408 I'm here to tell you I regretted it lol. Idk how Clear Sky and COP are, but SOC on Steam crashes frequently and is borderline shovelware.

@@NoxMonstrum You can install mods which can stabilize your game.

​@@NoxMonstrum Stalker trilogy on GOG is the way to go.

That’s a psudeogiant

My pleasure!

play master anyway, makes the game more fun tbh

😊😊

I can't complain. Just been spending time with the family and getting some work done.

Same here🤧 Avalanche ASMR

yeah except for all the inaccuracies and him talking like some pro when he clerly sucks at the game like his comments about being " constantly low on ammo". Bitch by 1/3 of the game you usually have more russian ammo then u need for the entire game, by the time you unlock bar and further areas you will also start being flooded by more then enough other types. Fun challenge, only buy ammo and don't loot any more then whats in an enemies weapon. Also stalker is and was always intended to be survival lite so it could focus on FPS/horror elements. Don't know where this weaksauce obsession with survival comes but its unfaithful to the series core

did you not see the new darksouls?

Well that's good luck! Hell yeah!

Idk what difficulty you play on, but two weeks are by no means enough for me to even get past brainscorcher. And I mean two weeks of real bungingon stalker.

@@Bradley_UA I always play on master, it is much more fun. Enemies are too spongy on lower difficulties and IMO seem less smart in firefights. Not sure how true that is though. I played this game so much, I know the Zone like my back pocket. Since that includes stashes as well, you get decent gear rather quickly. One of the first thing I do is to raid the military outpost, usually after I retrieve the USB for Sidorovich. I wait for the patrol to get the closest they can to the loner base and when they turn back, I ambush them. Then quickly grab their stuff and GTFO of there. Wait for the rest of the base to start coming after you and smack them in semiauto with the AK as they come. You will die, a lot. But it pays as some of their guns usually end up being in solid condition. You can also pull back to the loner base to get some assistance, or at least some distraction cannon fodder for the military :D Alternative method is to plink the army dudes by the bridge from the top of the silo building by the bridge. With good mods, this gets even easier to pull off, since your starting guns are not bb guns. Then you can farm garbage for artefacts, it is usually chuck full of them in the vanilla version if I remember correctly. Then when at Agroprom you get that nice unique AK and a loner armor in Strelok's hideout, you are good to go. By the time you reach Bar, you have guns and artefacts oozing out of your ears and you are moving like a slug with 59.9 weight on your back :D

Walking around Prypiat for the first playthrough was quite an experience I will never forget. Never was an empty space to tense

It's up there. By FAR the best STALKER

Hard difficulty, or you're playing wrong

I remember having to research whether or not my mother board used agp or pci when buying a new gpu for FEAR. That brings back a lot of good memories.

@@AvalancheReviews FEAR demo was what made me upgrade to the Radeon 2600 AGP card. People will never understand the struggle lol

Anomaly really is the shit tho

@@Boopboob for sure, but anomaly is more a sandbox. Cop Gunslinger is more of a gameplay overhaul. Two totally different boxes of frogs mate 😂

That's pretty damn cool! I love how Stalker and the channel got you to play a few horror games. Plus having someone new get into Stalker is always the best thing. Cheers man! Here's hoping I can recommend a few more games you'll get into!

if you dont like jumpscares try haunting grounds or silent hill 1 idk they dont really have any

That's what these long videos are here for!

Totally agree, Stalker is by far the most immersive fps I´ve come across because it has an incredible atmosphere, while also having those unexpected and non scripted moments alle the time...its like the total opposite of Far Cry, for example

Honestly, stalker has been pretty popular in the West for a while, this increasing when a youtuber called Sseth made a video on the series

I started playing stalker when new, downloaded the game from a emule chinese site called VeryCD, which has a ton of software and games. There it was an ISO dvd. Once I installed the game, even loading was very odd, because it shows what libraries, shaders, textures, etc... Like an incomplete game.... Was really, really odd to me. Then I started playing, then boom. You're dead with 2 shoots, and bleeding out haha!! That was a very good start for a game. Not having unlimited brain dead lives. Then, I felt a lot of atmosphere in the game. too many details. There's a ton of videos also in spanish. There was even a ton of photos from young guys from Spain, Mexico, and other spanish speaking countries dressed like stalkers with patches and everything.

Maybe strelok always kept his helmet on the seva up?

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