Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-1915529-20140302160043

Seeing the death of the Trickster in the review was a 'the fuck?' moment.

One thing STALKER does to make you feel stronger (without exp. and levels) is the massive gap between the capability of weapons. Of course in all games a big assault rifle is more useful than a toothpick to kill 5 heavily armed troopers. But going from an SMG to something similar to the Ak-47 felt really good because the 'Ak' is so much more powerful and useful. This is notable because in Crysis (for example), you can go from an SMG to an Assault Rifle but the SMG can still be useful in certain areas. In STALKER, I chucked the SMG and have never looked back. And now I have an even better assault rifle that makes the 'Ak' feel crap. Again, in other games you would find use for the 'Ak' over a highly accurate scoped gun but in STALKER the 'Ak' is gone and forgotten and this new gun kicks ass.

This might be down to difficult gameplay. In Crysis (again as an example) you can quite easily kill an enemy from about 20 meters with a single shot to the head with a pistol. However the pistol in STALKER is very inaccurate and it is easier to get up close to an enemy and unload an entire clip in hip mode instead of trying to go for the 1 bullet 1 kill method, which will just get you killed.

I am glad you told me about the third floor. No doubt that would have ruined my play through. Makes me think how many people never finished the game because they got pissed off too much by that second to pen-ultimate level.

His Quake reviews speak a lot of truth. I also watched his CoD Ghosts review, which he praises. Although he talks as if he is in favour the Quick Time events. Again it's every ones choice what they enjoy, but it proves that he isn't biased for or against certain FPS games. The hallmark of a good reviewer.

EDIT: Also I saw his Hexen 2 review and he does a great job at summing up everything that is wrong with that game. The part where goes through the objectives in Level 1 brings out the painful truth.