S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Sunday, 1. April 2007, 17:40:10
Hello
This is my first blog ever and English is not my first language so be kind:)
First I want to say that I`m a gamer. My favorite platform is PC. Some people are complaining that when you want to play PC games you have to buy new computer every 1-2 years to be able to play new games. I admit that`s true but PC gives us thousands of options for us to do. Internet (I know, PSP, PS3 have internet also but...), all kinds of software, tunning, tweaking, programming and first of all, you can play games that is very hard to play on console like strategies or FPS.Recently I played(and still playing)S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl and I must say that I absolutely love this game. The atmosphere, look and design of this game is just amazing. After almost 6 years of waiting THQ and GSC Game World finally finished this huge project.
As I said, this game is very well done. The level of details is just overwhelming. As you are advancing from level to level the game makes you to explore every building and trust me, you won`t find two houses that look the same. The world is big and you can explore it as you like just with few limits because of the story. The best thing about this game is its atmosphere. You can feel destruction, desperateness, fear and death from every inch of the Zone. Strange things are happening there and you will meet even stranger mutants and anomalies on your way trough.
The purpose of this blog is to react on posts and reviews that were focused on bugs and mistakes in this game. Yes there is some bugs that should be solved soon but none of them make this game unplayable. Lately I noticed that game reviews are focus on these bugs and not on good side of many games that are out there. I prefer playing FPS games because of their simplicity and they don`t usually consume so much time, rather then strategies or RPGs. You can just turn it off and come back later and all you have to do is start shooting or find a switch to open the door....but when you play strategy game and you leave in the middle you may forget your tactics or plans.
People please, give them a break(literally). Every time I play game like Doom 3, Far Cry or Half Life I feel respect for people who created these games. It involves lot of planning, modeling, texturing, animating, programing, testing to make game like this. I have some experiences with Photoshop and 3DS Max and I can tell that is not easy to do it. Also this studio is from Ukraine and I really don`t know how they managed to create such a big time game. Generally we consider Russia as a really poor country and here we are. I red somewhere that development of Half Life 2 cost 40 million dollars. I guess that these Ukrainian guys have some sponsors but I doubt that they had budget like that. Even though they managed to make it and I don`t care that it took such a long time. It was absolutely worth it. There is so many sh...y games out there from big studios where they want to make game in less than a year or so and then it`s not worth even trying. This
game has very made-from-heart feel. When you play Stalker you just can`t believe how much work these guys must have done.
Many people write about games things like, it`s too simple, it` too hard, there not enough of this and that, they want perfect sound, perfect graphic, no or short loading times and so on. Just look how big and complex are levels in todays games and you have to understand that to make the "perfect" game is probably impossible. Maybe in 10 or 20 years will have machines strong enough to create photo realistic living worlds with complex AI and behavior. For now we should focus on good games and good things about these games. I know that people that write review are usually trying to be objective and fair but sometimes it looks like they just want to point out
bad things.
All and all I want to thank to all the people that make games, write reviews and specially for gamers from all over the world for playing games.
End of log...
Links
http://www.stalker-game.com/
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/02/07/stalker_preview/1.html
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/stalker/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;score
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74255&page=1
http://pc.ign.com/objects/480/480467.html
This is my first blog ever and English is not my first language so be kind:)
First I want to say that I`m a gamer. My favorite platform is PC. Some people are complaining that when you want to play PC games you have to buy new computer every 1-2 years to be able to play new games. I admit that`s true but PC gives us thousands of options for us to do. Internet (I know, PSP, PS3 have internet also but...), all kinds of software, tunning, tweaking, programming and first of all, you can play games that is very hard to play on console like strategies or FPS.Recently I played(and still playing)S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl and I must say that I absolutely love this game. The atmosphere, look and design of this game is just amazing. After almost 6 years of waiting THQ and GSC Game World finally finished this huge project.
As I said, this game is very well done. The level of details is just overwhelming. As you are advancing from level to level the game makes you to explore every building and trust me, you won`t find two houses that look the same. The world is big and you can explore it as you like just with few limits because of the story. The best thing about this game is its atmosphere. You can feel destruction, desperateness, fear and death from every inch of the Zone. Strange things are happening there and you will meet even stranger mutants and anomalies on your way trough.
The purpose of this blog is to react on posts and reviews that were focused on bugs and mistakes in this game. Yes there is some bugs that should be solved soon but none of them make this game unplayable. Lately I noticed that game reviews are focus on these bugs and not on good side of many games that are out there. I prefer playing FPS games because of their simplicity and they don`t usually consume so much time, rather then strategies or RPGs. You can just turn it off and come back later and all you have to do is start shooting or find a switch to open the door....but when you play strategy game and you leave in the middle you may forget your tactics or plans.
People please, give them a break(literally). Every time I play game like Doom 3, Far Cry or Half Life I feel respect for people who created these games. It involves lot of planning, modeling, texturing, animating, programing, testing to make game like this. I have some experiences with Photoshop and 3DS Max and I can tell that is not easy to do it. Also this studio is from Ukraine and I really don`t know how they managed to create such a big time game. Generally we consider Russia as a really poor country and here we are. I red somewhere that development of Half Life 2 cost 40 million dollars. I guess that these Ukrainian guys have some sponsors but I doubt that they had budget like that. Even though they managed to make it and I don`t care that it took such a long time. It was absolutely worth it. There is so many sh...y games out there from big studios where they want to make game in less than a year or so and then it`s not worth even trying. This
game has very made-from-heart feel. When you play Stalker you just can`t believe how much work these guys must have done.
Many people write about games things like, it`s too simple, it` too hard, there not enough of this and that, they want perfect sound, perfect graphic, no or short loading times and so on. Just look how big and complex are levels in todays games and you have to understand that to make the "perfect" game is probably impossible. Maybe in 10 or 20 years will have machines strong enough to create photo realistic living worlds with complex AI and behavior. For now we should focus on good games and good things about these games. I know that people that write review are usually trying to be objective and fair but sometimes it looks like they just want to point out
bad things.
All and all I want to thank to all the people that make games, write reviews and specially for gamers from all over the world for playing games.
End of log...
Links
http://www.stalker-game.com/
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/02/07/stalker_preview/1.html
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/stalker/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;score
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74255&page=1
http://pc.ign.com/objects/480/480467.html
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