Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:10:56 +0000 From: Rin Stowleigh Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: STALKER 2 is out Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:10:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.0/32.1071 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-vdWzRQGJ8zUKxZAX807sJ9ENQgyAYuGlVJu1ybLm4PAQZ+pRVEPwGv+m5i1oPh1AbiD6WdPDU3LgPk/!H/s3pFYxrQ+gKNL4kAe59z0bjiirUXazrvMyjW+TcP+M2kQq+bjXVlO9Q9jeb4ebHMYR X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2788 On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:41:35 +0100, H1M3M wrote: >JAB wrote: >> It seems a bit of a mixed experience so far from the reviews and a >> day one patch. I'm going to wait a bit for everything to settle down >> and even then my poor little budget PC is probably going to struggle. >> Then again that's what the Steam refund option is for. > >Am I only one that thinks that being buggy is to be expected, specially >with s.t.a.l.k.e.r.? I mean, there's eurojank, and there's eastern >eurokank. The original game was always an absolute nightmare until there >were enough community fixed to bundle them into a gigapack that makes >the game actually playable. > >Sure bugs, and that are a pain, but for me it would not be a >S.t.a.l.k.e.r. game if it was perfect and without issues. I think the >real issue is that while the first game and its sequels were pretty >niche products and almost underground cult games, S.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 has >been hyped and pushed to AAA game level. A mainstream audience is >probably not ready for it. Interestingly though, it's currently sitting at 18k+ reviews with a "Very Positive" rating on Steam, which on a relative scale at least, is not off to a bad start at all among the whiney / nitpicky audience that gamers (especially the ones that write lots of reviews) tend to be. A lot of games that are actually quite fun get ripped apart on Steam for a variety of reasons, or quickly find themselves in the "Mixed" bucket. I don't know if rating abuse (ratings getting boosted via sentiment in favor of Ukraine in the war) is playing a part in the early success of Stalker2 ratings or not.