The nature of the game is also not necessarily mainstream friendly at it’s core. Fans of the series love the lack of fast travel and the long, tense walks between locations for literally 20 minutes at a time with nothing much happening (I am one of those fans). But I can’t pretend that’s not an acquired taste at the very least.
100% true, but I also feel like Stalker 2 has pandered more to those casual gamer audiences since they clearly can’t survive as a game developer off of us fans alone.
Stalker 2 definitely feels less abrasive and challenging than previous titles and mods.
But I also have hundreds of hours in GAMMA and Anomaly so I’ve got my biases and know how Im suppose to play. I am use to being aggressively abused and punished by the game, which is a very different experience from the casual “mainstream” gamers.
Yeah if you come from modded Anomaly S2 will feel downright casual, but it’s not even necessarily the challenge that would turn off mainstream players though I think but the pace. Stalker has always been a very slow game (and we love it for it!), but that’s a tough product to sell in today’s attention economy.
On a side note, if you’re into GAMMA etc and truly hate yourself you can check out Stalker A.R.E.A… I was playing around with it a bit just before the release of S2. Disgusting stuff.
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The nature of the game is also not necessarily mainstream friendly at it’s core. Fans of the series love the lack of fast travel and the long, tense walks between locations for literally 20 minutes at a time with nothing much happening (I am one of those fans). But I can’t pretend that’s not an acquired taste at the very least.
100% true, but I also feel like Stalker 2 has pandered more to those casual gamer audiences since they clearly can’t survive as a game developer off of us fans alone.
Stalker 2 definitely feels less abrasive and challenging than previous titles and mods.
But I also have hundreds of hours in GAMMA and Anomaly so I’ve got my biases and know how Im suppose to play. I am use to being aggressively abused and punished by the game, which is a very different experience from the casual “mainstream” gamers.
Yeah if you come from modded Anomaly S2 will feel downright casual, but it’s not even necessarily the challenge that would turn off mainstream players though I think but the pace. Stalker has always been a very slow game (and we love it for it!), but that’s a tough product to sell in today’s attention economy.
On a side note, if you’re into GAMMA etc and truly hate yourself you can check out Stalker A.R.E.A… I was playing around with it a bit just before the release of S2. Disgusting stuff.