Hidden_7 on 18/1/2008 at 00:27
I think it's interesting to see how the reader's voting went, with an overwhelming majority voting Bioshock, and STALKER somewhere back with the other guys, with rather paltry numbers.
Makes me wonder, when people vote for these things do they feel entiteled to vote if they haven't played all the games on the list? Probably will vote for their favorite game, regardless if they have played the other ones or not. I can't imagine someone playing both Bioshock and STALKER and voting for Bioshock for better atmosphere. Sure it had a cool setting, but atmosphere?
Ok, I can imagine some people, but not 31,484 people. The fact that Assassin's Creed is second is just... I dunno that had a solid sense of place, as did Crysis, and The Orange Box had some cool style, but... meh, this is why I don't trust Reader's Choice.
Bjossi on 18/1/2008 at 01:24
Although the vast majority of the voters haven't played all those games, it does reflect people's opinions. Also, STALKER can be hard to get into, maybe many people just gave up on it and played games that babysit you the entire way through like Bioshock instead.
Muzman on 18/1/2008 at 03:13
Quote Posted by Bjossi
Protecting the rookie camp becomes a hobby when you get an exoskeleton and a good NATO rifle like the GP37. Hell, if you're loaded with guns and ammo in a stash (like at the Bar), you could give everyone at the camp NATO rifles. I haven't tried this but it would certainly give the military a hard time.
As an aside possibly better suited to the other thread, I've had terrible trouble with this. The guys at the Garbage camp and Agroprom north are a nightmare and hardly ever take what I give them. The rookie camp are ok for the most part, but they haven't had that many battles. But everywhere else I give people decent nato rifles they seem to run out of bullets (yes the gun was fully loaded what I gave it to them), and after a short battle they've gone back to the pistol, or I come back one day and find them dead with the rifle stowed. There's a bit of brand loyalty that goes on; guys with AKs of one sort or another won't give them up for any other rifle, only an Obukan if they don't have one already (despite the Nato rifles being generally far superior). And guys with
sawnoffs won't take anything else but a better shotgun (like a SPAS or whatever the game calls it). The guys who you give a same 'family' of gun to generally keep them and generally use them. Get them to take another sort of gun and they run out of bullets. My suspicions about this mostly stem from watching the guys under the bridge in Cordon, who take the guns I give them generally and get into a lot of fights with the bandits, even undertaking raids on the farm themselves. There's guys there I've given Thunders and Gp37s and so on. As often as not they've changed to pistols during the battle. If I give them AKs, they didn't do this, not that I noticed.
It's really strange. I guess its like there's different kinds of guns favoured in different areas of the game and the different characters, even the random ones, have different tastes in weapons. Which is cool (although why it means they have to run out of bulletts I don't know), only what's weird is no one else seems to have this sort of thing happen this way when handing out guns.
242 on 18/1/2008 at 09:45
Quote Posted by Hidden_7
I think it's interesting to see how the reader's voting went, with an overwhelming majority voting Bioshock, and STALKER somewhere back with the other guys, with rather paltry numbers.
It's simple. It doesn't mean that readers can't judge justly or have wrong taste, it just means that majority just didn't play Stalker, couldn't compare them, so naturally they voted for the games they bought and played.
BTW, I do the same when I vote :)
Despite Stalker justly got the prize,I still think all those game ratings and prizes are a bullshit, IMO. The games I like the most usually aren't too popular and known. Including Thief.
Hidden_7 on 19/1/2008 at 01:32
See, that's what I'm saying. One feels entitled to vote for a "which of these ones is the best" list despite not having played all the options. It's an odd phenom on these internet polls, since, I dunno, if someone asked you in real life which of 5 movies was "better" and you'd only seen one, would you feel qualified to say that, yes, the one you've seen is better than the other four? I certainly wouldn't, I'd be willing to speak to the quality of the one I'd seen, but would never entertain the idea of saying that it was the better choice of all the options. Maybe that's just me.
theabyss on 17/2/2008 at 02:26
Just yesterday I arrived at the Freedom Base. I talked to the enemies first (the red ones) and they asked me to kill the Freedom sniper for them, but I denied because of the trouble I might get into. So I decided to walk into the Freedom Base and talk to the boss. I gave him the hint that the guys at the beginning wanted to take out their sniper and he gave me a mission to take the whole group out with the support of a few of his Freedom fighters. Tha was quite a bunch of fighters. So we ran to the other base, sneaking around and the first thing I did was throwing a grenade through the broken roof right into the fireplace where they were sitting - taking out 4 of them at the same time. The firefight was surprisingly hard but we managed to do it.
Man I was looting the whole area and collecting so many nice weapons which I intended to sell later. The thing is, if you try to go back to the bar after this mission, everyone will be your enemy, since the guys you attacked were part of the group that protects the bar...argh.....
Not knowing that, I had left all my junk that I was carrying in the little barn and just carried all those weapons without any ammo. When I arrived at the first barrier they started shooting at me - even the stalkers started hunting me. Somehow I managed to lure them behind a fence and knife-kill some of them and proceeded running straight to the bar. Surprisingly noone inside attacked me and I was able to sell all those guns. But on my way out I had a hard time going back to where I came from.
Man, this is so much fun so far...and I am not even close to finish. I try to do most of the side missions this time - so I will be around for a while. ;)
D'Arcy on 17/2/2008 at 14:23
Those guys at the Army Warehouses are a rogue Duty group. If you only attack them after you have befriended Duty, then when you return to the Bar area Duty will be neutral to you, and you will have no problems.
mothra on 24/2/2008 at 16:16
only reading about STALKER makes me wanna go back to it.
gonna fire it up tonight after work. ClearSky, where are you ?
