Civvie11: SlavJank Grim Beard: Slavic Magic

Grimbeard, I'm a big fan and I just wanted to say THEY'RE KILLING OUR GUYS, WHERE ARE YOU?!

This is the manifestation of the perfect platonic ideal of all KZfaq content. Its glory will be forever immortalized in textbooks and statues for future generations. This KZfaq content will be seen as an enduring symbol of an untouchable height all KZfaq content creators futilely strive for. It will one day be mistaken as something only existing in myth. Thanks for the plug.

People always talk about Bethesda fans having to fix games, they don't have shit on STALKER modders. Easily one of the best and most dedicated fanbases out there.

Ranking my favorite Stalkers: 5. That guy in the van that's following me 4. The secret Government Agency that spies on me 3. My third grade gym teacher 2. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky 1. You

Can't wait for the Call of Pripyat review

Iirc in soc, Nimble, a surviving member of clear sky, makes mention of the faction and how it was wiped out. The faction isnt talked much about in the series, primarily since it was kind of secretive and not many stalkers knew about it.

Me seeing Grim Beard back to reviewing STALKER again: oh nice Me seeing this video length: *HOLD UP*

Always incredibly happy to see your work!!!!

I think the thing in my life that is keeping me from being truly happy is that grimbeard STILL has only 32k subs. Like how is that possible?

I just grabbed a coffee and got the KZfaq notification for a new Grim video. That's happiness

As a russian, your "Граната!" was amazing. Hats off

Is this some sort of Supernatural spinoff? I'm confused by the lack of Supernatural content.

2:40 "Beautifully rendering a sickly, old, dying world full of cruel people eager to make it even worse if it means more money." G-good thing this is just a video game and not real life, h-haha... hah...

I still don't understand how you have less than 50k subscribers , KZfaq never recommends great channels like yours , if it wasn't for a random commenter recommending you like a year or 2 ago I wouldn't be here enjoying your content , the comment was in the replies of mandalore video about pathologic, i still remember that rainy day like it was yesterday , spent the entire night watching your old videos and wondering why you have the voice of an adolescent lol, anyway, love your videos , wish I could donate but I have no job lmao .

Gonna skip an hour of work just to watch this. #Goth🕸Gamer🐈‍⬛Nation🕷Unite

That machinegun at the start really is the final boss of the game.

Can’t wait for Pripyat

Grim Beard isn’t the hero we deserve, rather the hero that we needed.

Found this channel a few weeks ago, and it's pretty much all I've been watching on KZfaq since, this guy is captivating and has impeccable humor!

i love how professionally unprofessional you are. must take a lot of work keep it up boi!

The only guy who's content you can binge watch and see a negligible difference in quality throughout the years, the only long form reviewer who's reviews I dont watch while falling asleep, because they are so chock full of great writing and editing I actually insist upon paying full attention for the entire video. Keep up the great work.

Loving these longer videos, appreciating how much work goes in to them, and the quality is there throughout. And yes, you should do more Supernatural videos.

I come back to your STALKER reviews every now and again for comfort viewing, hope you do Call of Pripyat sometime!

Such a gem of a channel and it's criminal how you're not over 500k+ subs, your blend of humor, pacing, scripting and overall presentation of your videos are always so intriguing and enjoyable. Keep up the amazing work Grim, stellar work !

Watching this one for the second time... the intro with those iconic phrases made me smile. Thanks for that! Thanks for your work, mate. It is appreciated. Greetings from Argentina.

can't wait for the CALL OF PRIPYAT video actually, I *can* wait. see you all around here somewhere.

I await the review for Call of Pripyat, having finally started playing CS recently, I found CoP changed things up quite a bit more than Clear Sky did.

This made my day better. I also enjoy the supernatural videos, not to over look your dope tracks. I’m a big fan of what you do.

It's a great day when there is new Grim to watch!

Love you and your work man! Can't believe you're not a larger channel. As other have said before, your production level and narrative is absolutely top notch! Keep it up!

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly Is the definitive stalker experience at this point. So good.

Hey Grimbeard. Thank you for your brilliant reviews! I've been a huge S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fan since years before Shadow of Chernobyl even came out. I've spent literally thousands of hours in each game in the series, both vanilla and modded. Hell, I even went to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-fest convention back in 2009, listened to Grigorovitch's Sweet Dreams, and got a free jewel-case copy of Call of Pripyat for wearing an M-65 jacket with blue jeans and heavy boots! Still love each of the vanilla games and can't say which one is the best. Each has things it does better than the rest, and each has things it does worse. Shadow of Chernobyl. It has the best atmosphere of despair and loneliness. Even today, it combines its sound and visual design so good it hardly can be matched by modern horror games. The Yantar section is in my heart forever. It also the only game in the series where you can take the story seriously, although it's evident the narrative in the game is very undercooked and has a lot of holes due to the troubled development cycle. SoC's game design, on the other hand, didn't age well. A lot of systems like artifacts, dialogs, economy, equipment management, factions, stealth are either work bad or don't work at all. The AI is pretty good and the gunplay works, but it the shooting felt a little archaic even when the game came out. Clear Sky. The most beautiful game of the three. Has a less dark atmosphere than SoC, its weather and lighting effects and great art design of the new levels give you the most artistically satisfying presentation of the Zone. Swamps, Red Forest, and Limansk look excellent even today. It's also the only game in the series that has an actual working economy and a lot of really satisfying gunplay. There are not many things in existence better than the feeling you have when carrying out a solo assault on the construction site in Limansk with your suit maxed out and stuffed with rare artifacts, and your AK-74 fully upgraded for close combat. On the other hand, the game is broken in many places. While the severe bugs were fixed, the faction war isn't working as it probably should have, the story is a graphomaniac mess, a lot of content was cut out, and the final level is laughably broken and afwully designed. By the way, originally it was intended that to get from the hospital to the power plant, the player had to go through the massive Pripyat Underground. But that level wasn't finished and appeared only in the next game. You can still hear it being mentioned by Lebedyev at the end of the hospital level. Call of Pripyat. This game is the only one in the series that actually has a coherent, modern game design and world structure. This game is much smaller in scope, but it miles deeper than the previous two. The main story is stupid and almost non-existent, but there are dozens of hand-crafted side-quests which can be finished in various ways and a lot of unique and comparatively interesting characters you interact with. You even gather a party of misfits to go through a big mission with you! What's the best about it all, is that the outcome of almost every your decision throughout the game will be mentioned in the ending montage which is the most satisfying ending montage I ever saw in games: the slides, the music, and the outcomes themselves work just great. Visually, CoP is the least appealing of the three. The game has three really large locations instead of a dozen small ones, so the developers had to cut down on density and detail on those locations to make them work stable on their old engine. The atmosphere is still thick as hell, but the environment feels more artificial than in SoC and Clear Sky. While the overall game design is improved, and all its systems work pretty well, being pierced together by interesting quests, the game feels a little empty. There are not many enemies to shoot, so there's a little motivation to find and upgrade unique weapons, there are many places to explore, but you find mostly supplies you don't need very much, there's no lore or narrative outside quests, and the final section of the game, Pripyat, the city from the title, your final destination, is excruciatingly empty for content. It has only few quests and the game ends pretty clunkily since there's no corridor-shooter level where you'd be given a chance to make use of all the equipment you had been upgrading for the whole game. TL, DR: These games are brilliant but each of them is so flawed and full of missed opportunities and unrealized potential but I can't express enough how I love these great games. Guess, I'll go and replay the vanilla Clear Sky now!

Just discovered your channel yesterday, and love your sense of humour. Good editing and review 'structure' too.

This is some good stuff. You're getting better and better at this with each video.

I found you about 3 days ago and I've been blowing through your content since. How the fuck are you not at 100k or higher? The skits you've got in between footage are great. Parapug and Chad are definitely top notch.

That sea consciousness thing reminds me of You are Empty. I highly recommend you give it a shot if you like that oppressive Eastern European atmosphere. It's janky as heck and it's weird looking but it has its own charm.

I'm stuck home from work with an infected tooth. This is a nice distraction. Edit: due to nasty tooth abscess, I can't, like, make out or anythinnnng

I was trying to remember why I never finished this game but you reminded me why when you talked about the gameplay. You brought up all the issues I had that made me give it up.

You know what they really should have done with the story in this game? Make it so at the end, you find out that actually YOU have been Strelok hunting Strelok all along AGAIN. My mind is blown just thinking about it!

Dude seriously, you make some of the most entertaining videogame content on YT and make me laugh all the time. How the fuck do you not have like 500k subscribers?

I was told I couldn't leave until I liked, commented, and subscribed Can I please leave now... I... I want to see my family again Great vid today!

YOUR VIDS ARE FIRE DUDE. KEEP GOING I LOVE THEM

Thanks, man. Your videos help me get through the day.

I'm continually intrigued by your channel's lore. I wonder if or when will you give the viewers the full picture of this set of stories.

I look forward to your next Stalker review, I love your analysis of these games

i love the nasty surprise bits you put in the stalker vids man

Always a joy to see your reviews! I’m always here, even when I forgo commenting ;) Can’t wait for your Call of Pripyat review! Shadow of Chernobyl is one of my favorite games of all time, but I never got around to CoP.

It's a good day when I get to enjoy some fresh Grimbeard content. GGN for life.

Another stellar video. Great stuff Grim!

Look at the comments, Grim. They really love you. And do you deserve such love? Do you, Grim?

I still don't understand how you only have 32k subs, these videos obviously have some real heart in them.

I've never played these games, but it won't stop me watching a hour long video on them!!

Im leaving a comment here to say i love what u do Mr Grim and please dont stop doing the Supernatural stuff !

Good stuff as always, all the Stalker games are gems in their own ways. And yes make more supernatural videos you beautiful boy.

Grimbo's gotta be one of the best content creators out there I find myself laughing in likely every single video

Your intro is so well done, very 90s punk, it's awesome

Grim you really need to review stalker anomaly, a standalone mod that encompasses all 3 games with a hell of lot of more content, fixes and new stories where you can play as any faction you choose. AND IT'S FREE

Don't know why I've played (and finished it) more times than ShoC (ususally drop after reaching Pripayt, don't want to deal with Monolith and endless corridors in Power Plant filled with hi-tech 1shot-kill aimbots) or CoP, which was too chillout.

It's finally here. Thanks, buddy.

I'm so glad you made this, because I was not going to play it but did play SoC a good bit and Pripyat way more. As well as an unhealthy amount of Anomaly. Of the original 3, I give it to Pripyat for game play, SoC for atmosphere and of course I play Anomaly for both at once. And of course I come here for our shared taste in games and television series filmed in Canada, if anything I want more darkened streams down the road on maybe Lost or Twin Peaks.

Occasionally Stalker reviews pop up on my stream and then I watch them, being a great fan of everything Stalker. Must be the Pole that I am. Thank you for this heartfelt review! You are very funny, I had some really good laughs, and a very good KZfaqr! I'd love to subscribe as you tick all the boxes for me, but unfortunately I've never heard of/played any other games you make videos about. (That's probably why I had to conduct the multiple playthroughs of all the Stalker games in broad daylight and mostly with my girlfriend in the room.) Just watched both videos side by side, slurping on a thin homemade soup, and you took my heart by emission. Yes, the factions mechanic is annoying as hell, and it's really dissatisfying how fast you can grow your faction, it being a moot point anyway.... but I just love the swap at the beginning, and at first it looked like a welcome addition of interactivity, until, well, you said it.... Haven't ever payed attention to the story (I like reading stories in (e-)books / watching them passively), so I can't say that was a sour point for me, but overall: Clear Sky was kinda lightweight. Keep up the great work, I'll probably watch your Fallout videos, just to immerse myself again in the bleak and dour atmosphere of your world...

This made my day. Good vid, Grim!

54:16 That save game name at that juncture in the story. Perfect!

I really like your content. Thank you for your work!

I love the way you make things. Thanks goth dad

Hey Grim, how you doing? Having just developed a crippling addiction to STALKER Anomaly over the last couple of weeks, you can't imagine how happy I am to see you talk about this game series 😄

Definitely my favourite game in the series! I found it far less tedious and more atmospheric than SoC, and more engaging than CoP. Only thing I hate are the grenade snipers.

I love you for this!!!

Nice, you've learnt how to slav squat and peak from the covers, you are almost ready for the Misery mod

I found and survived on this channel (and many other youtube channels in the last 2 years of the pandemic. Thank you so much for the fuckin great content. If you see this comment around, I'm using this same comment to engage, support and praise the creators that I mostly watched on my Xbox over 2020 and 2021 and didn't take the time to feed the algorithim on. FIXING THAT NOW \o/ THANK YOU

Super happy you are reviewing the whole series... Call of Pripyat is probably my favorite one

Great video, and very accurate in my opinion. I just played CS on time I think, but I always go back to SoC and CoP. But the Zone is still beautiful in this game! Will you do CoP next? Cheers!

Yay, I'm glad to see the new video, goth brother!

9:35 the wall texture makes that run a "first bug %" contender

As per usual, wonderful video. Thanks!

Hey man, that intro worked, I liked commented and already subscribe

Grim posts a video: oh nice hell yeah Its over an hour: oh FUCK YEAH

Lots of good points. I appreciate that alternative exit from the Great Swamps being mentioned. :D That's by the way one aspect of Clear Sky that is underappreciated: The different transition points for the maps. At times they add some character to the maps. Same goes for the different anomaly setup, though the latter is clearly something transitional when looking at Call of Pripyat. Even so, I very much appreciate Clear Sky basically being this remix of SoC in terms of environments. The maps are too lively (except for the lacking number of mutants) and people are too loud and too english (SoC uses more Russian), but even so. I especially like the Great Swamps which seem way too big and without much unique content, but that's why I like them. It's kind of an wide open space in which the player can get lost in and enjoy the atmosphere - at least once the faction war is over. It's also worth mentioning that one reason why the A-Life in SoC is so good is the attention to detail and the way the AI is forced to replenish their losses by walking back to where they belong by crossing through parts of the maps. It creates relatively natural, dynamic encounters, but only when the player is around. This way the actual reinforcement process doesn't get impeded. CS doesn't really have this subtlety. It's very much macro vs micro here. Too many men. Also, props for pointing out how anomalies are handled differently in CS. The funny thing about this system is that - as opposed to the faction system - it's not really integrated into the game. As far as I can tell, there is no reason to actually mess around with anomalies or artifacts. I did on my last playthrough and as it turns out artifacts are mostly needed as protection to be able to explore other anomalies :D Still, they started introducing the unique anomalies that made up the majority of them in CoP, so aside from anomalies being more deadly and artifacts being properly integrated into them, that's also a good thing.

Just got out of work and now today is looking pretty grim.

You, cheeky breeky you. You're spoiling us with the classics. Although, this game at launch was one of the few game who actually broke me.

SoC is my favorite followed by CoP. I couldn't finish Clear Sky it just didn't hold an appeal to me and so many mechanic / direction changes they went with turned me off. That being said, keep up the great content! Your channel will absolutely blow up. Keep putting in work and being patient. You make high quality unique content. I look forward to each upload. You'll make it big on youtube if you keep this up

Great review my dude!

Honestly don't even care about most the games you review, just think you're a genuinely entertaining and funny person.

The phone gag made my day! ❤

Grimbeard stalker review saved for Friday ohhhh yeaaaah

The 'blow outs' / psy-storms etc - where you need to find shelter and hide are actually imo an excellent opportunity for world-theme exposition dumps, as other random Stalkers hide inside along with you and tell stories as the storm passes...

Love your channel!

It's really ironic on 42:55 - voice: "Stalker is standing at a crossroads..."

You sir are one of the only notifications i will stop what i’m doing and watch. Regardless of whats going on. Because i know i’m about to enjoy what You put out. Edit: stay beautiful Edit 2: and an hour long video at that! You’re a fucking catch my guy.

you're doin great work

Did that Patron have the name of the number one hit video game Lost: Via Domas?! Legend.

According to the game's lore, emissions are more like a fever; the Monolith faction is more akin to white blood cells.

your videos give off a game dungeon/CV11 vibe. I like it. I LIKE IT.

The desert eagle jams most accurate desert eagle range experiance.

I lost it with a machine gun bit, love your work man!

Oh boy, over an hour of grims sexy narration.

I appreciate your sense of humor so much.

I haven’t played any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gams and am therefore unable to provide the engagement you requested Grim, please forgive me (good video)

Shadow of Chernobyl vid made me sub, always nice to see new fellow STALKER enjoyers.