Recent reviews by Renzokuken

Ubisoft be like:

"Here's the most mid boring af slop game ever every single damn year with the most insufferable lootboxes and season pass"

also Ubisoft every 10 years or more:

"Here's a game about a very cool yet obscure topic no one cares because, you know, no one cares but we will do it anyway because we want"

Why can't they stop clownin and go back to being known for details and good narrative is beyond me at this point, greed perhaps.

UWOOOOOOOOOOOOOGHHHHHHHHHH

(no really, memes apart we finally have a PC port and it's excellent. Congrats to all you people at NEXON and thanks)

"Are we getting new functions added like, Technicians being able to perform upgrades without finding the flashdrivers (that one was even bugged by the way), beds in camps to sleep or a sleeping bag?"
Nu GSC: No.

"Are we getting a fix for X64 old constant crashes and lack of instability?"
Nu GSC: No.

"Are we getting better itens at the inventory of Traders, since in the original one you had to mod stuff in because the Traders were bugged as hell and didn't sold specific itens?"
Nu GSC: No.

"Are we just getting a ugly graphic update that turned the game's visual into a blurryahh soup that crashes at Maximum spec in a high end rig, and censors symbols from a dead government from 30+ years ago?"
Nu GSC: Yes.

The original game crashes less than this WTF, what are you people in Nu GSC doing bruh? Taking console ports and putting them on PC, like they belong on PC. Are you Nu GSC people nuts or blind? Stop fooling around trying to be a mix of Nintendo and Valve and fix STALKER 2 before touching the OG triology. What the...

Oh and another thing: I dislike the Soviet Union as much as you guys do. Hell, anyone in Eastern Europe also does, you guys aren't exactly the only ones. Why try to erase history? If people removing swatikas and putting Iron Crosses in their place wasn't embarrassing and cringe enough. How will you explain the evil of something if you don't show people what it is or what symbols does it use? Logic 101ahh decision.

Nu GSC is doing their best to sink STALKER's name; delivering unoptimized stuff, fighting modders and applying dictatorial rules over them, calling the old timers "Russians trolls" and so on so forth. This is going to end so well lol.

Despite the problems Zenimax had with Mick Gordon (and they shouldn't have done that because Mick's musical genius helped DOOM make a comeback at full force), and the combo mechanic that gets kinda boring after some time this still a pretty solid game. Only bad part is the Bethesda.net losing connection every single damn time tho (they stop the game and that's kinda irrating sometimes).

A game perfect in almost ALL aspects without any single doubt

You think you know how to play stealth and 2D games until you play this. On normal it's a challenge imagine the guys on the higher difficulties. Excellent customization mechanic for the guns tho.

I need to find a water chip
I need to find a G.E.C.K.
I need to find my father
Who the f### shot me in the head bruh?
I need to find my son (you're here)

Abandoned and full of wannabe hackers and trolls, basically another old CoD shovelware.

I'm afraid it's been... Nine years.

ie. When a game is released in such a bad unfinished state that it takes months or even years for it to be fixed.

The game is currently better now, with less FPS drop and VRAM/RAM leaks. Still, they now want you to "play fair" while using mods (meaning no achievments if using mods). They also changed the position of some unique guns and gear, didn't do a single change in loot or stocks in the traders (they are accepting the mutant parts but just that). They added a new gun (Fora isn't new it was in the previous games) and also buffed the Gauss and RPG (which shouldn't even be nerfed in the first place it should have been released with both having OP damage since they were like that in the OG games). But we still have no word about NVGs so, well, I think night combat will be terrible forever (unless they add it later and if they do I might change my mind about this game since he's not that bad and has many nice things like visuals and the dub).

I will only keep the review in the "no" because:

1. You don't try to be funny against the community that kept your franchise alive (and nu GSC is doing exactly that).
   
2. You don't port a console game for PCs and call it "PC version" (either you make a game just for ONE platform or port it for BOTH in the right way).
   
3. You don't hype people for a almost dead franchise just to announce almost in release day that the game will be made in a problematic engine just to fix it later (I wish devs stopped with this awful trend of releasing unfinished games but I don't think they even listen to their fanbases anymore).
   
4. And you also don't retcon or literally remove lore things "because of irl events" that's just lame and proves you don't value your own franchise (and honestly many franchises are doing this now which is sad af).

IF you intend to buy this game, do it on a sale for God's sake. And also, don't forget to mod it and support modders here or in other sites, they deserve it.

Even better, if you're new to STALKER play the 3 OG games (not that "enhanced" shi unless you like more unfinished and censored stuff) and also play the mods on PC. STALKER is a brilliant franchise, but sadly it's going through an identity crisis right now. Very common in Current Gaming™.