You can *ask* for respect, but there is no requirement that you receive it.

THANK YOU.

Uh...no.

I think this is a fair point, although in my case, there were overlapping reasons for liking both. But yes, this was my point elsewhere about the utter absence of humor in STALKER.

Agree on the difficulty of Vanilla STALKER — although true hardcore types will dispute us. I found playing it with the Complete Mod most enjoyable. Difficult, but in a way that did not break immersion or enjoyment. (Again, hardcore types will likely disagree.)

Yeah, there is no way to run and gun STALKER. You have to be extremely careful in combat.

The only way that they are similar to the Metro games is in terms of the Russian aesthetic. STALKER is open world in the best sense. You can entirely ignore the storyline and just hunt Artifacts or play Factions. And the storyline is fascinating, given the real history of the Chernobyl meltdown and the literary…

Absolutely. I came to STALKER from Fallout and found it satisfying in similar although also substantially different ways. It is a much more difficult game and in some ways a much more immersive game. It is also a far more frightening game, completely lacking in the humor that is so distinctive of Fallout.

Okay, this is really exciting. One of the most immersive, post-apocalyptic games ever made.

Well, we've now confirmed that you can't be more than 12 years old.

Uh...right.

"I'm making fun of a guy doing video game reviews for the public". I am sooo cool.

Game is pretty terrible, and given the quality of the ES franchise, a real disappointment.

He happens to be absolutely correct. The game's PvE grouping mechanics are absolutely awful and there's some pretty clearly shady money grabbing going on.

It's easy to talk on the internet. Saudi Arabia is one of the more retrograde countries on the earth. This is easily demonstrated with even the most cursory research.

What "glory" were you thinking of?

Could you be specific? I haven't seen much by way of trolling or misogynists here.

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I guess what I am suggesting is that it is all going a bit too far....and seems strangely selective, as well.

Hope you don't live in a city. Apparently the life span of a person who lives in a place like New York or Berlin is -10 years due to all the car, bus, truck, etc., exhaust.