Hey, Miguel. Today, I was supposed to pick up my wife from her workplace, but you dropped this vid, so I have to watch at least 4 times. What do I tell my wife now??

@cantgameright

15 күн бұрын

Pinned because we both need suggestions

@zlivasprava8034

14 күн бұрын

@@cantgameright just show his wife ur video, now she'll be trapped as well. Profit.

@WowSuchFrames

13 күн бұрын

@@cantgameright Do you want a big dinner plate emoji my guy? Are you so hungry boy? Are you? They did not feed you home? Why are you so starved in your life so hard that you got to beg for views when you take out of context stupid stuff and you do not do a react to the whole video? Why does the game has holes? Please ADRESS and explain all the issues Luke Stephens said bro, why are you so hungry my dear? Do you need help ? You surely cannot watch a video alone... Dear Lord!

@shoulderoforion115

12 күн бұрын

tell her the anomaly in the toilet broke it bylat and you got lost in Zone trying to fix it. so that lady would come home to repaired toilet comrade ! That way you can tell her the terrible word that haunts the lives of stalkers wives. "I'm going out there again."

@PsycosisIncarnated

6 күн бұрын

"IDINAHUI SYKAAAAAAAAA IM WATCHING STALKEEEEEER BLYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT"

No way, a game that's advertised as being difficult ends up being difficult?

@lynchmobb119

15 күн бұрын

Next they’ll tell me the elden ring dlc is hard 🤯

@ioverslept.

14 күн бұрын

​@@lynchmobb119Unironically what morons are mad about...

@JayV426

11 күн бұрын

Yeah but it'll have no doubt been dumbed down a bit for a larger audience.

@lynchmobb119

11 күн бұрын

@@JayV426 when it’s not dumb enough for this Luke guy

@IsaButecos

8 күн бұрын

@@lynchmobb119 me when I know nothing about Luke

Gaming journalist when the game don't play for them

@danieldimov8625

15 күн бұрын

@@MadWatcher He means in general, not exclusive to this game presentation.

@itsmedjoom987

11 күн бұрын

No fr tho. It’s like, what did u think it was going to play like? It spawned mods or games that would be some of the most brutal and realistic games on the market.

When I play STALKER 2, I'm cranking difficulty up to max as it's intended.

@Mike-xp8zc

14 күн бұрын

Such is the way of the zone brother

@spirit1803

13 күн бұрын

Same

@AvengeXKing

12 күн бұрын

100% ❤

@legitplayin6977

11 күн бұрын

It made the old games easier tbh

@Swaffelende_Aap

11 күн бұрын

Good hunting fellow STALKER

I warmed my heart to see him getting cooked in his own comments 💀

@AnestNightroad

7 күн бұрын

Yeeeeeeeeeep.

When a game manages to force you to become a more skillful player without having any kind of skill tree, it is a masterpiece. Only the better weapons, suits and artifacts give you the advantage you need. They are all just tools to either make money, get loot or help with a problem at hand. Also the lack of in your face HUD and POI's made the game way more immersive. I would say it even did a disservice to most other games that in their core are enjoyable, but splash the screen with all kinds of extra information that just can't be turned off, turning them to stuff for 12 year olds...

@igorlukyan206

10 күн бұрын

Souls games, terraria for that matter

@itsterres

7 күн бұрын

and metro exodus

@HulluJanne

7 күн бұрын

@@itsterres I started Metro Exodus. The first part was kinda dumbed down for introducing the game so I quit before the game even started (IIRC). I hate when a game forces your hand. Even though there may be pointers and storyline that are important for a new player. But man it breaks the immersion (for me at least).

@itsterres

7 күн бұрын

@@HulluJanne dude play the game at least till u reach the volga and u will be surprised

@HulluJanne

7 күн бұрын

@@itsterres I'm sure I'm missing out. Just wasn't in the mood years back. And I think I should put like 500-1000€ more to upgrade my machine to run it decently.

I don't mean to be an asshole, but Luke Stephens has a track record of ill informed opinions. He just tends to miss the mark on little things and seems to "go with the wind' often times.

@torrb420

14 күн бұрын

I mean Luke Stephens is terrible anyway, so being an asshole to him is probably the least bad thing you could be doing. Dude is a grifting tourist with milquetoast opinions while still being pompous as fuck with them.

@ares12351

11 күн бұрын

Wrong

@CyraXFactor

10 күн бұрын

It’s all opinionated. You can’t expect everyone to have the same opinions as you. Luke likes what he likes. He’s never played Stalker. If he doesn’t like Stalker 2, who cares? He might lack experience and knowledge of the franchise, but if it doesn’t draw him in enough to want to learn it and enjoy it, then so be it. It’s not his kind of game. If that bothers you, then it says a lot more about you than it does about him. And that goes for anyone, not just you and Luke.

@Tommy-hq9ww

10 күн бұрын

@@CyraXFactor I'm not bothered, I'm not even a huge stalker fan. I just don't think his analysis is good, on anything. You can think someone doesn't have worthwhile opinions without being offended by them.

@daveuerk4030

5 күн бұрын

He's a good guy. I like Luke. He does go with the wind, but so does the majority of youtubers.

You can’t just run through stalker. You have to take your time and be patient and methodical or you’re going to have a real bad time.

Luke doesn't actually like games. He likes the easy money that comes with making content about them.

@Maddrax

4 күн бұрын

It paid for this guy's house. Most people are stupid so they're watching shit like that.

So the "Gamerbro" journalist youtuber who grew his YT channel/reputation around parroting trends and ripping off other people's content didn't live up to the "game" part of being a game journalist? What a shocker.

12:09 "Yes, we're being condescending Yes, that means we're talkin' down to you With all that racket from your lips a-flapping We assumed you didn't notice"

@mikezenox

13 күн бұрын

Haters.. isolaters... Noone misses these

As a fan of Stalker I often forget that there are people who didn't play original games, never seen one and might not understand what Stalker is. Maybe they need time to feel the game. You actually gave a good example with Cyberpunk 2077. I also tried it not long after release and couldn't understand it. But last year I tried it again and loved the exprerience.

@bombyo3634

2 күн бұрын

So why didn't u like cyberpunk then but do now. It's the same basically just updated. What aspect do u not like at first?

@user-aquila128

2 күн бұрын

@@bombyo3634 Basically i was not ready for this game at that moment. Amount of mechanics and huge open world made me stop playing this game. I thought i could easily get into the game and quickly figure out what is what. But that didn't happen. For example i struggled with quick hacking. I was not much of a fan of cyberpunk theme either. And overall perception at that time that the game was not in good state made me think I better not play it. When I tried it last year I was a bit more prepared and hyped up. Also they added Ukrainian language to the game so I decided sure I want to try again. And the game just grew on me I guess. I really enjoyed it.

@bombyo3634

2 күн бұрын

@user-aquila128 wow that's an awesome explanation. For tw3 it took me alot to understand the mechanics too and after I did I loved it. Cyberpunk wasn't as hard for me to understand because I know the developer style a bit however it did take time to learn things even still. I love that game. It'd shorter then the witcher but I find myself putting 100 plus hours every time. I think I beat it on ps4 pro, then on xsx 2 more times. I plan on another play through for the ps5 pro of they can get some type of path tracing out of it or close to it and it has graphical updates. Bro ima heavy story narrative guy. I'm a bit nervous of stalker 2 I only played 2 hrs of the original and was lost and it felt new. So I'm like u with stalker 2 with u with Cyberpunk. What should I do to prepare for stalker 2 they story scenes look great and the game play. Please help me brother

@user-aquila128

2 күн бұрын

@@bombyo3634 I think Stalker 2 will be more story based game than previous entries of the series. But this sense of freedom still will be a big part of it. I mean you will be able to explore the Zone in any direction. Gsc said that you don't need to play original games to understand what's going on in Stalker 2, but I recommend it still. See, the first three games are not as complex in comparison to Cyberpunk. Just go where the story takes you. You have it all on the map. If you feel like it do some secondary quests. After Shadow of Chornobyl and Clear Sky it will be easier for you to navigate in this world and you will know what to expect from it. Call of Prypiat is by far the most interesting of the three in my opinion. I encourage you to do more secondary quests there because they better written than in previous games. I think it is a matter of time before you just get used to this games like i did with Cyberpunk and you will enjoy it. Good luck!

We will be playing on master+crosshair and compass off, like God (sergey grigorovich) intended

@BillyTubememe

15 күн бұрын

Griga is out of the game. Now it's his brother, and his God-tier haircut, Eugene.

@MartianDill

15 күн бұрын

Sergiy Grygorovych*

@SpecShadow

15 күн бұрын

Sergiej "Pepsi Man" Grigorowicz buying all that expensive stuff before giving his underlings any money

@LuisC7

15 күн бұрын

@@SpecShadow scummy but it's in good hands now

Note about the use of the bolt in the SGF demo. I did not play it, but here is speculation. The demo might have not had the bolt available. It takes place shortly BEFORE Richter throws down a bolt and Skif's monkey brain says "why do I need a bolt".

@cantgameright

14 күн бұрын

Good observation indeed

@user-is2mj2ig4v

13 күн бұрын

i been playing leaked dev version and it had bolts build is from like 2021-2022

people now just want to have game that plays itself

WE NEED TO SHARE THIS MY CHOOMS.

Babe wake up new CGR vid just dropped

LETS GO 100 RADS BAR WOOOOOO

I think you're placing a little too much hope in our boi Luke after his Kingdom Come "review", but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and avoid the gatekeeping trap.

@chSnake_

15 күн бұрын

I was flabbergasted that he thought that emenies tackling Henry was a lock-on system bug.

@deadshot4245

6 күн бұрын

Kingdom come was great just as any stalker game is too. The secret is you have to get good to be rewarded it isn't handed to you like every other title these last few decades

It's part of the whole Roadside Picnic/Stalker legacy that you can't just walk in a straight line to where you want to go, but have to deal with things that aren't easy to see, understand or traverse.

@osm3008

13 күн бұрын

Incredibly well said man, i see a lot of references to Tarkovsky's movie in the last trailer when characters talk about the zone like saying it's beautiful or it's what you want it to be.

@NIL0S

12 күн бұрын

@@osm3008 Yeah, want to see more of that, the Wish Granter and its genie anthics was basically lifted from the book/movie 1:1.

I don't consider myself a le ebic hardcoar GamerTM, in fact as I've gotten older I've gotten less patient with games. Used to love Soulslikes but can hardly stand them now, and I don't try to "push myself" by choosing the higher difficulties on other games; it's just not fun to me anymore. That being said, this Luke dude just seems kinda oblivious. I know STALKER is considered non-hand-holding and challenging, but it kinda silly that he didn't stop to think, "Okay, if I'm getting rekt by running in guns blazing, I should slow down and think more tactically about enemy encounters." And this isn't OG STALKER which has very jank gunplay, this is a big-budget modern sequel with snappy and responsive shooting. Anomalies aren't that difficult to wrap one's head around either. Sure, some can be tricky to see, and it's inevitable that even long-time STALKER players will run into an anomaly on occasion. But that's another indication that if you get killed out of nowhere, you should slow down and really pay attention to your surroundings. Not just with your eyes but ears as well. So many anomalies have distinct sounds that are easy to track. I don't think this is even an issue of casual vs "hardcore" gaming, it's just using your brain lol (and I don't wanna argue the semantics behind the whole casual/hardcore dichotomy). But I'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt, since he's obviously a newcomer, very likely playing this series for the first time. Plus he had a limited time with the demo, which leads to pressure to see as much as you can in order to get the "full experience." Sadly he didn't realize the full STALKER experience is taking it slow, soaking in the atmosphere, being curious yet wary of the world; and learning the hard way of the dangers of the Zone. BUT still kinda silly of him to run around dying over and over again, and expecting different results.

If you really want to enjoy a game that you know could interest you with it's possible gameplay or atmosphere/setting, you need to push and force yourself to put some hours into the game, and try to understand what it was about, it's like a test of willpower and for your reward you get unique experiences that you don't get from games that you can simply jump into where you understand your goal instantly. Edit: nice video by the way :) earned my sub

Ah 2007, 14 year old me, scared shitless of every weird sound, every shadow, lost in my noobness.

5:04 that's exactly what i commented on his video, he thinks if you can't see the anomaly there is a glitch in the game hahahaha

@willbyrn5920

Күн бұрын

To be fair thought the anomalies were bugging out when I watched people play at gamescom. There was almost a universal confusion amongst the players. Things definitely weren’t working as intended then so idk about this test either.

@KhuniBacha

Күн бұрын

@@willbyrn5920 maybe you are right it could be a bug you were there watching people playing the game and I wasn't, i hope they fixed it by now, we can't say anything until the game comes out let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst

8:44 I've played original Insurgency back in 2019 when the devs was givin' it for free in celebration of release of Insurgency Sandstorm. It was my first tactical shooter and it was pretty rought experience (especially considering that i couldn't get more then 30 fps on my old laptop). All those leanings over corners, snipers killing you from their sneaky spot, RPGs and C4 exploding under your feet the moment you leave spawn and so on. But it was fun, put up almost 240 hours, still my 3rd most played game on steam to this day (however Squad might overtake it soon). For some time i was seriously considering buying Sandstorm, but had no fitting hardware at a time. Too bad they now owned by russian Saber Interactive :(

I feel quite hungry

@cantgameright

15 күн бұрын

God be with you, Henry!

Luke Stephens is the epitome of a gaystation shillbot. He keeps making Starfield hate videos to this day. 🤣🤣

@mabybee

15 сағат бұрын

Does hating Starfield make one a gaystation shillbot?

@iwams1

15 сағат бұрын

@@mabybee Starfield was just one of the examples. Anybody with a functioning brain who looks at his videos will see what I am talking about.

@mabybee

4 сағат бұрын

@@iwams1 what are other examples? I don’t watch him.

I love how good-faith this video is towards Luke, it's abnormally nuanced for what people usually do.

You are like a likable dude and a friend i have never had. Need streams from ya

It is always so refreshing to see someone with a very similar taste in games. Honestly, I think it was important that someone who does not know about STALKER games goes for the demo, because people who know and have player STALKER for years can easily say what the game is about and how similar or improved stuff is there. But no one would have been able to describe the feeling that most of the STALKER fans felt when first getting into the game (I myself dropped SOC around 4 times before getting hooked). And considering that it takes quite a bit of a time before you can actually understand STALKER games and I bet STALKER 2 is going to be even more complex, I think 40 minutes (I guess this was the play time) was not even close to enough to give a judgement about a STALKER games. Though Luke should have did more research and at least should have played the older games or even Anomaly once before trying STALKER 2, but his review only tells me that there is no room for doubt that we indeed are getting a STALKER game and now I am finally pumped.

Hey man, just wanted to say - I really apreciate the content of your channel and your commentary. Cheers from Poland!

on my first run of stalker soc i didn't even knew about bolt until i reached Kruglov escort mission

Yo why is the video production quality so high for such low sub count?

This is probably the game I'm most excited for this year. I'm glad to hear some positive feedback about it, especially this close to release. It's gonna put me in a weird position with Space Marine 2 coming out like 4 days later, but I'm still super excited for both. lol

Im still skeptical. The AI looks horrible and there is no information if A-life is back because it was one of the main reasons that made the original games so good

hey guise im luge stefens and i am game zournalist and i gant see anomaly in de ground blease help me it was nod gommunigated do me

You should asked that Fingarini guy about gabagool.

Damn that Italian impression was on point 🤣

re4 is a masterpiece but damn that first village contact on the ps2 filter a lot of people, a friend of mine give up

Siempre me digo "Quién se haya pasado SoC sin ningún tipo de guía sin sacar el final de quiero ser rico que tire la primera piedra al recién llegado", pero ver personajes como este, me hace pensar que tal vez somos demasiado pacientes, que al final los tilingos del Monolito tenían razón.

Guys get ready for " Mixed reviews " that means it's exactly the game we want.

that fuckin "hello, hello :)" got me so bad haha

Before watching, I was thinking the person in question was just trying to sponge their way through firefights and enemy encounters. But after watching, it was much worse than that.

i watched luke for a while and even i was surprised how much of a casual take he had a real cuphead moment there.

Damn… It’s probably my favourite Stalker 2 video. You have a new sub)

I remember playing Gunslinger mod and making an important save (after finally killing the burer in the aa complex) somewhere bushy around Zaton. An unseen controller kept blasting me with suicide rays and it took me 7 attempts to discover it's location, 4 more to finally find a good cover spot and 5 more to kill the beast. I doubt the gaming journo's experience was anything close.

Didn't play stalker but after this really wanting to play stalker 2

Nice rendition of Professor Sakharov!

I was watching people play at gamescom and to be fair there was a lot of confusion across the board. Everyone was questioning whether or not things were just obscurely implemented or just straight up bugs. I think a lot of it was bugs.

"Only a fool trusts his eyes, the wise Stalker understands that every inch of the Zone is a potential deathtrap. Also, the instant you think you've seen it all or you stop respecting what the Zone is capable of, it kills you." - Rule #1 of the Idiot's Guide to the Zone.

That guy sounds like me when I first started playing the game and it was just pain.

Finally, it was said! Stalker is a game about diving in and searching. Thanks to you and thanks for the content you make.

I mean, this is a guy that is suddenly really hyped for AC Shadows because Ubisoft paid for him to go to an event and sponsored his video (in which he said he’d deliver negatives on the gameplay he saw, but delivered none). He started talking about how the grass could’ve moved better……..

I am interested in hearing your opinions on other Games now.

after playing metro exodus i wanna make every game i play on the hardest difficulty and turn off all my hud for maximum immersion

11:10 someone should make a mod replacing default sounds with this

How hard would it be in comparison to anomaly and GAMMA tho?

@cantgameright

5 күн бұрын

@@hayrotheguye7511 we're not really big fans of Anomaly and GAMMA on this channel. They're fine, a good gateway for players to get interested in STALKER but they pale in comparison to the OG trilogy. It's not even close.

POV everyone who played all the last games coming to take this game on like its nothing

This is why i love metro and stalker great imerson with no hand holding

I found stalker anomaly and first played it when I was going through opiate withdrawals. Something about the hopelessness of the in game world distracted me from my own hopelessness. Perhaps my irl issues enhanced the experience. But I was hooked and played it for a week or two as I went through withdrawals (took time off work). Really fkin helped me. But it’s hard to go back to play it since it has that dark time of my life attached to it. Weird really. I will definitely be playing the 2nd one though. Something about roaming around at night in game with the melancholic radio blasting was just magical lol.

Once a legend said - "you don't play stalker, stalker plays you".

Luge asked visual indicator xD for radiation xD can you imagine ? :D

I've been playing STALKER since childhood, and STALKER is the type of game that's not fun when it is easy. The fun comes from the difficulty. Although it is advertised as a fps survival horror game, it was always more of a tactical shooter more than anything, you just got to go anywhere you wanted and do what you wanted to do (while avoiding hostile factions, mutants, and anomalies). Before leaving camp, you always have to plan ahead. What is your objective? Where are you going? Which gun should you take? How much food and which drugs should you pack? How do you optimize your storage such that you don't become overweight while looting? It was aspects like these that made STALKER so fun to play. It rarely felt like an action game, just because there's a lot of shooting going on doesn't mean you can wipe the strawberry jam off your screen and get in your enemies faces for cool over-the-top takedowns. That's not how STALKER works nor how should it work.

I've been concerned, after watching the trailers, that STALKER 2 has been made too easy. The brutality of the original is part of the appeal and I'm glad it sounds like 2 will be brutal too!

Wasnt the guy in the intro in the hbomber guy vid?

@MK.DANABNORMAL

8 күн бұрын

Yeah

It's good to hear that the game hasn't been dumbed down too much for the casuals. GSC knows their fanbase are suckers for punishment I guess.

Do u have a discord?

I know its not about stalker but man, all i have to say about the 8:44 stuff is that you should try out the g36K in burst mode so you dont waste so much bullets lol

Metro is one of my favorite series

You gotta play to first games to really appreciate this. Im gonna be in day 1

2 and a half minute of my life for a bit that i cant understand the language, nice

I did the STALKER franchise back when it was on discs. Well, Clear Sky was a real problem as I was one of those that encountered pretty much every single game-breaking-bug it had. Still my favorite series of all time. After replaying the series (with mods) a couple years ago, I even spent well over a hundred hours in ANOMALY just role-playing a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I think 2 will be one of the few games I don't wait for a super-sale for (I'm a cheap olde bastard). Good insights Can't Game Right.

everyone sub to this man so he can play stalker 3 in next few years .. we all love his content and bro was so happy when he was watching that trailer for stalker 2

Stalker and Elden Ring have become my favorite games to play because of how much they don't hold the players hand

What a great way to explain how stalker works. I watched Jake’s demo review too and i ended up disappointed (in a way) of how poor his comments were. He clearly expect something different about the game (maybe a cod type of gameplay in an open world?) and just because he didn’t understand the mechanics said it was the worst thing. I’m a new fan of stalker, a console fan actually and I really liked them except clear sky holy shit that game makes me angry every second but CoP is the best for me. The atmosphere, gameplay and side quests were peak among the three. Can’t wait for the sequel

you got to watch him while he played with it

Kingdom come deliverence is soo good

2 years ago, i bought a xsx with plans of playing stalker 2...

@cantgameright

7 күн бұрын

How did you guess that the next video is about?

i shall go pro in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

Seeing that Luke Stephens struggled so much with the game was just what i needed to build some confidence that this will be a worthy followup to the original trilogy.

I really enjoyed this. Nice work.

STALKER is such a sick series. You will suck at first but thats the charm. Get good and you will be rewarded!

When i played on Gamescom it was like Call of Duty. Just Run and Gun not really hard nothing special very flat. So i really hope its hard on reales

I cant trust game journalists. Do you all remember that little game named Cyberpunk 2077?

I think GSC nailed it! After all these years, they make a new Stalker game and it still feels/play as Stalker :D

i subscribed based off your game taste alone lmao witcher stalker cyberpunk kcd i mean shit those are some of my favorite singleplayer games and you had my same reaction to his review lmao "sometimes id just randomly fall over and die" thats called an anomaly my dude

@keandreee

11 күн бұрын

i used to think anomalys were so dumb then i started playing more and more now i love them baiting a flesh into the springboard i think the one that lifts them up and blows them up lmao just beautiful and it wasnt a batman click these two buttons to slam an enemy into a light no i can just kite my enemys into the environmental hazards

Dude what are you talking about in the beginning. How are Alan wake cyberpunk and Witcher 3 hard to get into in terms of difficulty?

@cantgameright

9 күн бұрын

I didn't say they were hard to get into because of difficulty. I said that many games that I love now took a while to generate my interest and enthusiasm for them.

@djstef4549

9 күн бұрын

@@cantgameright ahhhhh ok

Any video game can get you to go to X, kill Y, collect Z. A good game makes it unforgettable, but a masterpiece leaves you with an itch you cannot scratch anywhere else. I havent been this excited for a video game in almost a decade 🎉

My brother wanted to play stalker once, so I let him play the last section of the game. He was doing fine and was using the Vintar BC, until he shot a monolith on the head, while the bullet was traveling through the air the monolithian managed to fire his RPG and one-shot my brother. That is when I said "welcome to the zone".

Lmao, well yeah, people forgot the old stalker games were anything but easy if you didn't know what you're doing. If he wanted a casual funny cyka blyat game he should've just played Planet Alcatraz duology, both games can be exploited to hell and back even by a total fool.

I call it Elden Ring with guns. Played every Stalker game, Anomaly and now past few years Gamma. Which is Stalker on ''drugs'' . Only thing im worried about if its going be better than Anomaly .

yeah tbh stalker is not made for everyone. stalker mods like Gamma/Anomaly and EFP are great and definitely open the gameplay to a much wider audience but end of the day the original stalker franchise is definitely for those who enjoy that genre, or develop the acquired taste. I hated Stalker when I was younger because I was trash and some mechanics felt too tedious. came back to it a little older and fell in love. played DayZ Mod and Stalker almost every day for an entire summer. in regards to the screen tearing/graphical bugs, I hope those get ironed out but I know eventually they’ll be able to patch it in if not. I know that bothers some ppl but as long as the core gameplay is good I can’t wait for the screen tearing fix.

Luke absolutely is the outlier. When I saw his video I was a bit worried because he said it looked nothing like the trailer, implying visuals too. Said that it was very rough and felt like it was still years away. But the other sources all said it has come a very long way since the last demo and that it looks great. I've also been told that Luke is a grifter, a well known one. Honestly, I don't watch much of him, so who knows.

Ive never played OG Stalker games but got into Anomaly during Lockdown and enjoy it since. Of course the learning curve was brutal steep, I learned to love F5 key also some stuff remains janky but I will not complain about an old greatly modded free game. I also dont need to play at hardest difficulty all the time, Anomaly lets you turn off many thing you dont like and iam not ashamed to use the debug menu from time to time :). Often in games I dont want to manage different ammo types for specific weapons or find the right potion to finally beat that monster. Stalker 2 surely will have difficulty settings ( which Luke probably didnt get to choose) and hard is supposed to be HARD. These days a good tutorial and some handholding ( switchable of course) is expected, I dont want to google everything all the time because a game softlocks/ frustrates me. And its a shame that many new games dont reach a level of enviromental help and storytelling like HalfLife today. Thats what playtests and hints are for, its not easy guiding the player just enough to not let input devices fly around :). I hope this game turns out good and releases with only minimal bugs and jank, its eastern european after all :)

I remember my first time playing STALKER and I got my ass handed to me over and over again. I became good because I was forced to in order to survive. One of the best gaming experiences of my life. I can not wait to play 2

Actually more excited for a game that will be challenging and not some run of the mil non immersive shooter

" the gunplay is hard " yeah not shit lmao , wait til he finds out at at the end of soc you have to go trough a gauntlet of monolith equiped with exos and gauss rifles that one shot you , its gonna blow his mind, or clear sky where you bleed by beeing looked at by the enemies

Stalker is the souls of Shooters. Im a new player and downloaded the older game but graphically its just too bad for me but it was hard when we got to shoot out around the cars and trucks

I love stalker series 100% BUT I think , after the preorder bonuses and season pass in stalker 2 I have to admit , I think its gonna be a 5/10 max game . That doesnt matter tho because mod support day 1 🤓👍🏻

Facing a Bloodsucker with a pkm, getting boiled by radiation and starving every two seconds is what makes stalker...stalker, its a game that's meant to kick your ass until you learn to take an ass kicking, accepting this means accepting S.T.A.L.K.E.R.