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Fortnightly Recommendations Thread: What do you suggest? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/patientgamers

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I haven't made a new thread weekly exactly, but with the amount of activity it might need to be fortnightly, here's another recommendations thread.

Let everyone know below a game (6+ months old), that you have played recently, are currently playing or intend to play soon.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've heard of it, thanks for the recommendation. I'll put in on the wishlist. Struggling through STALKER at the moment - can't decide if I like it or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

STALKER is also on my wishlist, sitting there crammed between ~60 other games i'll probably never get to buy/play xD

What do you dislike about it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't find a way to successfully play it that maintains enough realism to be properly satisfying.

The controls are awkwardly difficult in a way I can't properly explain, I'm finding it interferes with the immersion a bit. Particularly the aiming system and the fact a headshot doesn't kill unarmoured human characters in the early game. Also there's a lot of running from point A to point B and back again.

Even so, I think I probably like it. I'm just finding that frustrating in a way that isn't particularly fun. You'll get a bunch of people online saying the difficulty is somehow meant to reflect the mood of the game, personally I don't think that makes much sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I usually don't like the difficulty/depth either if it breaks the immersion and feels artificial/forced. Maybe there are some community mods/official settings to change that?

A lot of games unfortunately tend to increase the "difficulty" by making the tasks more tedious, rather than changing the actual gameplay :/ Stalker seems to fit the bill in terms of your criticism.

I think I'll give it a try anyway, thanks for the insights!