S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

after completing this game mr zelenksyy sent me citizenship of ukraine and i now live in Chernihiv <3 thank you mr zelenskyy

Great game, running it Vanilla (No mods) and I've only crashed twice (when pressing the caps lock button oddly enough). I started with Stalker 2 and coming back to the originals its neat seeing original locations and characters. Remember to save often because there's only auto saving when transitioning areas.

It honestly took a few tries getting into this game as well as the metro series, but as I played through this game, did a few missions, sat around the campfire and listened to a guitar, heard men joking and laughing in a language I didn't understand. I realized how much the atmosphere captured me, the graphics and visuals are actually appealing to look at despite the age. The gunplay although admiteddly visually looks clunky (especially aiming down the sights) feels like actual ballistics to some degree, you aren't going to be hitting your shot perfectly everytime after-all and you gotta prioritize aiming for the head. The game even has it's moments of horror that do feel a bit creepy even for my taste. You play as an amnesiac character who is discovering a world that seems entirely foreign but also like home. It's really easy to put yourself in this position of the character, discovering the anomalies and creatures - seeing what the factions represent and what NPC's think about the current state of the zone. I really do recommend this game and the trilogy. You can take the stalker out of the zone - but you can never take the zone out of the stalker.