God damn it this game ****ING SUCKS.

But it's supposedly a super awesome game, yeah and so is Halo.

Let me count the reasons why this game ****ING FAILS.

1. The inventory system
For some ****ing reason, I have 8 ****ing duplicates of the same god damn pistol. Stop picking up every pistol you find. Sometimes it pairs them up together and has a x2 mark next to it It has to do with the condition of the weapon. and sometimes it doesn't. WHY!? Do one or the ****ing other, not both sometimes. It's really ****ing annoying. And it doesn't help which leads to my next point.

2. Ammo is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
Water everywhere but not a drop to drink. I'm stuck with some shitty ass shot gun that can't do shit, you aim it, shoot once It's a two-shot shotgun that's used for hunting. Not person-to-person combat situations. and you have to wait AN ENTIRE ****ING SECOND for the gun to go back down since the recoil is so huge. It's ****ing useless. Even as a short range weapon, I ran up to some guy, blasted him in the face with two shots and he took me down with 2 SMG bullets. Stop playing on the hardest difficulty if you can't handle it. Another things is during a battle, my strategy is watch a guy die, and take his gun for ammo. Well aparently when the guy dies his ammo runs away and dissapears even though he was shooting it a second ago. Maybe he was shooting blanks. Huh? I've found ammo on every person I've killed so far.

3. Guns =/= Ammo
I have played plenty of FPS's in my time. And always, when you have a pistol, and you see another pistol that's exactly the same, you go and pick it up and it gives you ammo. Right? WRONG. Not in STALKER. Here you have to search the body of the guy not the gun. So when the guy dies, his ammo magically goes from his gun to his body. It's always a pain in the ass to get it and here is why. It's not possible to keep all of the ammo on you in the same gun.

4. The Inventory mouse
I have the mouse sensitivity to maximum and when I'm in game, it's fine. But when it comes to the inventory screen it's like someone added weight to the mouse and it's really slow and it takes 2 whole strokes across ym god damn desk to get from my side of the inventory to his. Which is not good in a firefight, STOP LOOTING PEOPLE WHEN THERE ARE OTHER'S SHOOTING AT YOU. USE THE KNIFE OR RUN AWAY. and you have no ammo and you need to sget some from the nearest body to you.

5. The controls
This is one of those games that sees a perfectly working system of controls and ****s it all up. I'm used to the following basics.
Shift = Run
Ctrl = Crouch
WASD = Move


But NOOO, STALKER wants to be cool and sets it up like this.
X = Run TOGGLE (Seriously WTF!?) You only ever need to run when you are getting to some place.
Ctrl = crocuh You just said that's what you prefer :/
Ctrl + Shift (AT THE SAME ****ING TIME) crouch lower and no, it's not prone, just a lower crouching Agreed, I don't like it. You can reconfigure the keys though
I = Inventory what did you want it to be?

What does inventory have to do with this? Well along with the beforementioned Shit slow mouse during a firefight, if you happen to have health or ammo you have to take your hand off either the WASD or your mouse and press the I key, then you gotta go back to your mouse, move that shitty cursor to what you want, use it, then press I again all while 6 guys are shooting at you from 100 ****ING yards and hitting you dead on. there are hotkeys for bandages and medkits.

6. The map
Ugh, the worst part. How many of you are used to pausing a game, looking at a map, and knowing where to go? Well I am but instead you have this horrible PDA with the map that doesn't pause the game, alright fair enough BUT to zoom in and out, you have to move the yet again....SLOW ASS CURSOR over to these TINY mother****ing icons, and click on thr right spot on the map to zoom out in the direction you want to zoom out. It's confusing as hell, especially during a mother****ing firefight. This PDA also has useless shit like contacts, people who like you, a diary and more useless shit. agreed, I hate the map. But I don't know what you're talking about icons, they're a good size. Also, all firefights in the game are avoidable, though, so just run away.

7. Radiation
Around the game there are these tiny pockets of radiation. And they are ****ING INVISIBLE. You mean the anomalies? That isn't radiation. All they are, are these tiny rifts and they are insanely hard to see. Fix your eyes, if you can't see them, then I'm worried. It even drains the color from the screen as you get closer to one. When you walk into one, a horrible sound starts, followed by your vision being all staticy and green(Grey, you mean.). And they are near the most random ****ing places, behind a train, in a car factory. WHAT IS RADIATION DOING IN A ****ING CAR FACTORY? DID SOMEONE BREAK THE FLUX COMPACITOR OR SOME SHIT!? It makes no ****ing sense and really kills the whole "free-roaming environment" thing by KILLING, AND RAPING THE "FREE" PART. Oh be quiet. There are 3 or so anomalies per 100 yards and those are all easily found and avoidable.

So **** this game
**** the people who like it
**** it's controls
**** the design team
**** the company that made this game
**** it all

I uninstalled it, ****ing 5GB of shit clogging up my hardrive is insanity.
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No offense to you Miniman, but you really need to play it for more than 20 minutes. Feel free to reply.

Quote from MiniMan

Dear christ your signature is huge. Tone it down.

And I still say it sucks, just too complicated and I was playing on ****ing easy. I learned about the condition of the pistols, but honestly I couldn't tell the difference between either of them. I just didn't like it and I tried, I really tried to like it since it seems popular but no. Doesn't help that I'm a big RPG fan whatsoever.

Oh, and FYI. When I play CS:S I never use the Deagle, sucks dick.

Quote from 2-D

yeah, you find bullets on their BODIES, but not in their GUNS, thats what minimort was talking aboot.

im also playing this atm, i havent gotten far, just beat the first mission. im at the part where you go and find some dead stalker near some tunnel and he has a pda, no idea what to do after that, im guessing you have to time it right to get through the electro-tunnel


and guest, if you slightly resize the 2 joker pictures, it wouldn't relap under the youtube vidya. im guessing on your resolution it probably looks like its on both sides, but on mine and others resolution it can be under it yo.

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EDIT: Ash, are you sure? Can You RUN It? says that I can't play it, but It actually plays very smoothly. I think that website just believes that people put every game on ultra high settings.

Quote from 2-D

the site actually takes the reccomended and lowest settings that the game company says (like on the box).

Quote from Ash

My graphics card just barely plays Half-Life 2 on low everything.

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My graphics card just barely plays Half-Life 2 on low everything.