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Did you try joiplay, maybe it works?My android user brothers here are starving. When are we getting an update?
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Did you try joiplay, maybe it works?My android user brothers here are starving. When are we getting an update?
She is the gem of this game, there needs to be more content with her and much moreExactly, my maliciphiliac brother! Any playthrough without Malice is heresy! We should have Malice, Malice and more Malice!
There is no thing as too much Malice, right? Right?!
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Yeah, kinda epic, right? And it stucks to your head quite well.
Who said anything about ditching? As any principles, mine have limits too - and those I pointed out, that's all.It doesn't seem like a proper principle if you can ditch it when it becomes inconvenient. Freedom in of itself buys you nothing, it's a means, not an end. Similarly with uniqueness, if it lends itself to making the end result better, it's good, otherwise it doesn't really matter - what use is a novelty that has no appeal?
Stalker won't be nearly as much fun, if it not for the fact that you have to fight the game to get it. It gets ridiculous at times, how this game can just screw you over for no reason. My favorite example is bucket in Novice Village - for some reason, when you step on it, there is a chance it will kick you from below, instakilling you and throwing your corpse 50 feet in the air.I fully resonate with your sentiment, but I would argue that stalker is good despite it's jank, not because of it. It's "soul" aspect comes from the quality of its world-building, the atmosphere, these things are material to the game itself. How much joy, tears, or sweat went into the game is not important here - CoD games have hundreds of people dedicating their craft, crunching hours to get it done on time, but it does not change what it is at the end of the day. Quality has many dimensions to it, and while stalker might not be "refined" in a traditional sense, what makes it good is precisely it has qualities other games don't.
I was talking of consumption as approach, not the matter of fact deed. Yes, if you partake in art, you consume it - no way around.In all due respect, this is consumption of the art by definition. Counter-consumerist perspective would be more akin to believing that what people feel about the artwork is irrelevant because regardless of how many gaze upon it, what their opinions are, art just *is*, it exists for its own sake. While here, you seem excited because it draws you in on a personal level, saying that this is good because it makes you feel those things.
Here comes the interesting part - one's flaws is another's boons, oftentimes. Yes, there exist objective downsides, like subpar dialogues and actors playing as if they were these guys:Liking the prequels is fine, but I would again contest that people tend to like it despite's its flaws, not because of them. I did not mean to imply they were better or worse than the original trilogy, just that a certain aspect of it - the writing (dialogue in particular) - has suffered. Which in turn has led to him selling the franchise off to Disney, when it could have been avoided had he not made those mistakes, which could have been caught had he challenged his notions more, or had people help him with that. It would have just as much "soul" to do that because it would still be his work, just more refined. This is why I don't think it's a good idea to conflate people's ideas and concepts with their personality, it's not a healthy thing for a mind to do, it becomes harder to adapt and grow with time.
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I haven't tried joiplay but will check it out. The app you provided works perfectly so far. Much appreciated!
I can appreciate most of what you said but this I really don't understand, nobody I that I know has fond memories over the stalker games trolling them, most people remember the early and mid-game fondly but towards the end e.g. in shadow of chernobyl it just turns into an uninteresting shooting gallery with bullet spongy enemies that often one shot you unfairly. Likewise when the game crashes, its not fun at all, you can lose hours of progress, or when a quest bugs and you can't complete, these are straight up awful and everyone rightfully says to install the unofficial patch because what's the point in playing a game that doesn't work? When I talk to people they find the first encounter with the bloodsucker scary, or trying not to get killed by the military, or the labs creeping them out. I think the most cruel one in the series was clear sky because the moment you get even slightly scratched you bleed to death in a matter of moments like you have hemophilia, and everyone hated that, it sure gives you memories but not the type you want.Stalker won't be nearly as much fun, if it not for the fact that you have to fight the game to get it. It gets ridiculous at times, how this game can just screw you over for no reason. My favorite example is bucket in Novice Village - for some reason, when you step on it, there is a chance it will kick you from below, instakilling you and throwing your corpse 50 feet in the air.
In Soviet Ukraine, you do not kick the bucket - the bucket KICKS YOU!
Another one is the fact that enemy will remember your position mid-loading. Meaning if you save to close to the enemy - well, fuck you! Now they get X-ray vision and see you through walls for some reason!
It wouldn't have been that much fun, if the game wouldn't have been this huge uphill battle against bugs and janky mechanics. It's basically a huge meme - and that is important! It makes it more memorable.
You gave me a good genuine pause here. I never thought of my game quality preferences from perspective of "copium". And now that I did...I can appreciate most of what you said but this I really don't understand, nobody I that I know has fond memories over the stalker games trolling them, most people remember the early and mid-game fondly but towards the end e.g. in shadow of chernobyl it just turns into an uninteresting shooting gallery with bullet spongy enemies that often one shot you unfairly. Likewise when the game crashes, its not fun at all, you can lose hours of progress, or when a quest bugs and you can't complete, these are straight up awful and everyone rightfully says to install the unofficial patch because what's the point in playing a game that doesn't work? When I talk to people they find the first encounter with the bloodsucker scary, or trying not to get killed by the military, or the labs creeping them out. I think the most cruel one in the series was clear sky because the moment you get even slightly scratched you bleed to death in a matter of moments like you have hemophilia, and everyone hated that, it sure gives you memories but not the type you want.
I can get behind liking things despite of the flaws, but thinking they're actually good seems more like copium, its like having an abusive relationship with a video game, you don't really want to get mad at it cause you like it a lot so you convince yourself what it's doing to you is a good thing.
Yes, if anything it got a little crazier last update - you can scroll up to read the discourse on it, some mixed reactions. There is a walkthrough bundled with the game, but that's about it, it hasn't gotten any better in way you describe it, but it's still worth a try if you didn't get into it the first time, just make a few saves and experiment around to see which paths you like.i want to play this game again but i remember the story being divided in many routes and was hard to keep track of choices each update
is it still like that?
I don't remember any interactions with the infernals when I played but that was some time ago, I think there is a scene with malagar with the spire lair but I don't remember, I don't think anything beats sunken temple in that regard.I already did a playthrough with sunken temple and i really liked the later interactions between Mother and Malice, do the other lairs characthers provide good Malice content ?
Yes, and devs are finding it ever more difficult to actually cater to all the splitting off routes they madei want to play this game again but i remember the story being divided in many routes and was hard to keep track of choices each update
is it still like that?
From the looks of things, it seems to be going the way of all Patreon H-games.is it abondoned ?
There was an update a couple of weeks ago....is it abondoned ?
Hardly. The most recent update was only 3 weeks ago.is it abondoned ?
Quick guide on checking for updates:is it abondoned ?