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.

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.

    • 22rw@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • 22rw@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          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!