how does this game have 84% positive reviews?

[BlackWolf9988]

-terrible performance,
-A-Life 2.0 not working
-insane health of mutants (they adjusted it but its still too much)
-bad economy (they adjusted it)
-no NVG
-no binoculars
-barely any cover to hide in during emissions (atleast in the past game you could hide in a small hole which would count)
-an insane amount of game breaking bugs

im literally softlocked from continuing the main story after 55 hours and currently waiting for a patch to fix it.

while it has its moments here and there with the atmosphere, i am incredibly disappointed as somebody who has been playing stalker games for 14 years. the game should have been in development for atleast another year.

with A-Life 2.0 not working i also dont have any hope for modding in this game, literally the best feature of old games is missing.

thank god i didnt spend full price on it and instead played it on game pass.

Edit: just a little video which fits the topic.

https://youtu.be/6Ov9GhEV3eE

[doscomputer]

politics

[Zibigan]

Considering only 20k people are playing right now on steam and less than 3% have beat the game, it isn't because the game is extremely good.

[A Good Joe]

game fun
pew pew monolith
find artefact
eat many tourists breakfast

[Britt]

I think its a lot of fun, I think it deserves 84%, maybe 78%.

I didn't even know about the a-life thing. The biggest kick in the nootz for me is that freaking stuttering.

[Spiritfarer]

Because its stalker. Devs didn't put anything new to the game, didn't experiment with something. They just made same stalker, how people remember it but with better graphics and more guns. I'd say its 84% oldfags given thumbs up just for the game is looking like stalker with this knife-bolt-crates-jokes-anomalies-dogs-bloodsuckers-sidorovich stuff, not for this game being great or something like that.
Game is mid. Vibes are big part of the game that makes it fun to play. But thats not this game's achievement. Its just memories of the past glory doing things.
Only thing is new and good in game is non-linear plot.
I mean we can take metro exodus as example. Its an sequel? Yea. Is it exact same? Definitely no. They made an experiment with semi-openworld, with this backpack, attachments, crafting, safe-zones on the map, train-travelling, talking with mates. They did it quite well.

And yea, ofc politics part did a bit, ppl want to support Ukrainian devs cause it wasn't easy for them to develop game during a war.

Whats the bug do you have that locks your playthrough? I finished the game yesterday, had no softlocks

[Sentient Minion]

reported and blocked

[Roaming Zombie]

Originally posted by Sentient Minion:

reported and blocked

Reported for what exactly? The man has a point. Where games like Cyberpunk or Star Wars Outlaws got burned down for technical issues, this one gets a pass for some reason while it is in an arguably worse state.

[Spiritfarer]

Originally posted by Roaming Zombie:

Originally posted by Sentient Minion:

reported and blocked

Reported for what exactly? The man has a point. Where games like Cyberpunk or Star Wars Outlaws got burned down for technical issues, this one gets a pass for some reason while it is in an arguably worse state.

I guess thats another stalker vibe people used to already. People say that every stalker game on release is unplayable mess.
Also probably tons of people just started the game, ran around for hour, thought Yea, thats my stalker, thats what i waited for years bumped the thumb up button and dropped it for month or two waiting for patches/mods.
I'm interested in how people like the game before institute, and how people will like it after. Its 2 different games. And i think thats also part of the trick.

[Rhophius]

Originally posted by Roaming Zombie:

Originally posted by Sentient Minion:

reported and blocked

Reported for what exactly? The man has a point. Where games like Cyberpunk or Star Wars Outlaws got burned down for technical issues, this one gets a pass for some reason while it is in an arguably worse state.

Political agenda discussion, its against steam ToS

[King of Yugoslavia]

84% is too low, the game is 90%+
haters gonna hate
stay mad
i have fun
you are mad because someone is having fun
imagine complaining on steam forums because someone likes the game
that's what you are doing
you are sitting there thinking what to write about the game you hate, while i am having good time
keep sitting here, keep hating the game, keep wasting your time on stalker fans

[thestile]

Most of the people don't know what A-Life is and a lot of the other things mentioned aren't enough to destroy a gaming experience. Which is proven by the 84%

[Jarrod]

two words:

vocal minority

till next time this is posted again

[King of Yugoslavia]

Originally posted by thestile:

Most of the people don't know what A-Life is and a lot of the other things mentioned aren't enough to destroy a gaming experience. Which is proven by the 84%

i've played the game since 2007 and I think it never needed any a-life, because it is a shooter, and i am sick of people complaining about alife for nearly 20 years. "proper alife" always was nothing but a fantasy of ultimate ai that does who knows what, but it should be in the game, and it shouldn't be anything that the game has, had or will have

[Grace & Perfection]

Originally posted by existence is punishment:

Originally posted by thestile:

Most of the people don't know what A-Life is and a lot of the other things mentioned aren't enough to destroy a gaming experience. Which is proven by the 84%

i've played the game since 2007 and I think it never needed any a-life, because it is a shooter, and i am sick of people complaining about alife for nearly 20 years. "proper alife" always was nothing but a fantasy of ultimate ai that does who knows what, but it should be in the game, and it shouldn't be anything that the game has, had or will have

I cant tell if you're a bot or just a garden variety idiot.

[BlackWolf9988]

Originally posted by thestile:

Most of the people don't know what A-Life is and a lot of the other things mentioned aren't enough to destroy a gaming experience. Which is proven by the 84%

Having NPCs spawn 30 meters behind me in an area that i already cleared is pretty immersion breaking. Im not kidding when i say i had moments before where i fought 5 bloodsucker (3 of them charging me at once), 4 human squads, 2 dogs and 1 cat attack me all while trying to just explore a village north of the beginner region.