The video is simply magnificent for everyone who are not familiar with Stalker. Everything that is needed for a person who was not familiar with the series and decided to plunge into this world for the first time. The only thing I want to say is that the concept of the game was initially not at all connected with what we got in the end. There was production hell in the development of the game was planned for 2004, but everything was postponed due to the ambitions of the developers who wanted to make a dream game. And the original game had a completely different look, although it had core features and mechanics that were greatly modified. There was even a plan that random NPCs had to go through the main quest (which, as for me, was very fantastic and unrealistic. Therefore, the game was released with bugs, cut and in the form that it has now. I can't say that this is something bad, but the game really has a look that a person from the publisher THQ at that time decided to rush the developers who were too carried away by the process and delayed the development, which had to abandon many features such as: transport, personal backpacks, diseases, sleep mechanics, finding more documents, new factions, characters, old main plot with different endings, various mutants that were not in the original. The game should have been even more hardcore and takes much longer to complete. That all remained in the design documents and were then transferred to modifications and which can be seen in old builds of the project "Oblivion Lost" (the original name of the game). Initially, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was not planned to make more than one games, only one and that's it. In fact, this is true, but we can say that Clear Sky, which is a prequel to Shadows of Chernobyl, and Call of Pripyat, which is already a sequel to the 1st game. But in fact, these are add-ons that complement the main game. I hope for them too there will be a video because they are worth a separate analysis. In any case, it was interesting to watch. I hope there will be more videos on stalker, you know how to tell a story and lead to a topic and delve into it, this is very unusual for a video game reviewer. Thanks for the video!

Its weird how the g36 is good in most games but irl it's meh

Bro what is the first montage song you played?

The world is dangerous - but beautiful. And the atmosphere caught us for decades. <3

Oh no. Here come the western goobers

Such an underrated video ❤

Apparently the game was heavily influenced by Roadside Picnic. A sci fi short story. Essentially the same plot of STALKER but instead of a 2nd Chernobyl explosion, it was.............aliens who decided to visit earth momentarily, in a variety of locations, and left a UNGODLY amount of strange and radioactive junk all over the place.

The AN-94 has a 2 round hyper burst, Not a 3 round.

I hope this blows up upcoming to the new game, this was a incredible watch

Good video, nice music choice and sound design

The amount of keybinds really intimidates me.

Good video, subscribed. I like the commentary describing the guns and how they came about.

Good video 👍

dope

Channels like yours are my favorite. Guys who don't make game reviews for a living but because of their passion for the game. Great video and review.

Just beat it myself for the first time. The lab and ending portal run through the plant were absolutely brutal. What a journey. I immediately bought the other two games, can't wait to jump into them. I can see why this series gained a cult following.

double barrel is s tier if u run jump into enemies

Super under rated video! I thought this was a much bigger channel when I first watched it, super well done video!

Welcome to the series! I've played these games since a couple months after the release of the first one in 2007, and kept playing over all these years with mods like Anomaly/GAMMA. Can't believe Stalker 2 is finally almost here! The documentary they posted on youtube about developing it during the war was a crazy story.

great video dude!!!

The ports on Nintendo Switch are actually fantastic. I played the originals on pc back on release and its as accurate as i remmeber it. Texture lod tricks , lighting and everything else is completely included.

So excited for the new stalker to come out, first time playing any of the games in the series so thanks for the video man!

correction: the reactor didnt have a second meltdown it was the storage for the radioactive materials having a accident

This is good! Informative, funny, and well crafted. Just missing a bit about the atmosphere in the tunnels.

45:50 A fun little fact those hanging bodies are bodies of alpha version of zombies just reused here. However it wouldn't be against duty for excessive use of force like that suicide squad trying to assault the main Freedom base. That aside this one of the most unique stalker reviews out there! I hope youll be doing the rest of the series too

Hello. Thank you for this nice video. It always warms my heart when I see newcomers experiencing this game series for the first time. I've completed all the trilogy back in summer of 2021 and man did I love it. <3

For yall S.T.A.L.K.E.R.™ is a difficult survival horror but for me and many other eastern europeans it's a daily life simulator. You see, I was once walking by the tunnels under a local gas station and suddenly a bloodsucker jumped me from the tunnels took all my money and said: "Watch your ass, stalker, because the monolith will be bi-curious in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2™". Since then I've joined the local body pillow hugging nationalist militia, I go to a bubble tea place every day to exorcise it for 3 hours and I kill every member of the clear sky faction i see. Be aware of the monolith my dudes.

vss, IN B TIER?!?!

0:51 I thought my PC crashed 🤨🤨

Dude got the Vss, best weapon in the game, and didn't even use it.

arby's, RIP Fellow loner

Getting insta killed by the monolith made me wanna d I e

Can’t wait for stalker 2!

The dude at 2:38 really looks like one of the pmc faces from tarkov. Also dope video man! Surprised i never played this game growing up

Great game - always was. Despite that, the state the remake launched in on PC robs it of any right to be called a masterpiece.

Then what was the point of releasing a survey if fans wanted a remake of Dead Space 2

heard nothing but great things about this game but never played it, think it's time I do so especially with the 2nd game just around the corner. Great video mate. keep up the hard work🤝

Just a note! My speech through out the video is inconsistent since I’ve be struggling recently with it. (Speech impediment) But I’m happy I got this video out and I hope you all enjoy! Consider dropping a like as that helps the video out a lot more than you know. 🙏

Hey Kaz, thanks for this, tbh I wouldn't be able to watch through all of this BUT this will help me sleep, this will be like a friend telling me a good night story. Thank you :>

The Callisto Protocol is better than the Dead Space Demake as well as the RE4 Demake.

i'd actually prefer to get The Callisto Protocol 2 over Dead Space 2 remake. Because... Dead Space 2 already exists and TCP 2... does not.

Blooper team, despite all expectations, did I FINE job of remakes SH2. I know it has its critics, often fair, and I do not think they could Independently create something of Silent Hill quality without the thick groundwork of Team Silent laid, but I will be incredibly interested in which direction they go next. Silent Hill 1 remake (most needed graphically)? Silent Hill 3 remake (next in narrative order)? Or Silent Hill 4 remake (most in needed of gameplay tuneups)? I've lost an awful lot of faith in Konami as a company, but I do think Silent Hill is a story that has the capacity to be retold. But I honestly couldn't bet where the remake-lens points next, after The Fan Favourite.

Someone needs to wrest the Dead Space IP out of EA's grubby hands. That game needs a proper publisher behind and current EA leadership will never, ever make a game that doesn't always push their profits into the green year after year.

I actually like the movement and running animations of the original, it gave weight to Isaac he actually felt real heavy

Great vid! Only disagreement is with Hammond. I thought his voice acting was much more authentic and fitting with his crew.

Ah yes, this game had some kind of bad rep for a time, where fans didn’t acknowledge it as a proper Silent Hill game: This is all caused by misinformation about the game, which stems from it being intended as an unrelated survival horror game titled ‘Room 302’, only intended as some kind of spin-off game to the main series. Fans interpreted the release of the game is only being named Silent Hill 4: The Room as it wouldn’t sell otherwise, whereas there has been some responses from the developers over time. What happened was that the series had become stale at that point to which Team Silent (the original developers of the Silent Hill games within Konami) wanted to try new things and the fourth installment would be a perfect opportunity to try those out. Some of those ideas worked, other did not. The reason why it felt different was not because it DIDN’T start out as a Silent Hill project, but that it WAS with some new elements added for experimentation instead of relying on fanservice (which the following games fell into). Did it have its own problems? Oh, sure! BUT, it also had some elements that worked out quite well - and whether the Silent Hill title came early on in development or not, it was ALWAYS gonna be developed by Team Silent; it was ALWAYS gonna feature music and sound from Akira Yakaoka; and it was ALWAYS gonna reference Jacob’s Ladder, Twin Peaks and Stephen King, all of which had influenced the series at that point - so it was always gonna be a Silent Hill game in spirit if not in practice. If you still didn’t like it, that’s perfectly alright as it wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Just don’t use “it’s not really a Silent Hill game” as an excuse to hate the game, as it is kind of a weak excuse.

Isaac is more looking badass in the original, and Nicole is old and ugly in the remake, while Kendra is less attractive, what have they done???

Great video and analysis and you managed to piss off the tourists and consoomers, good on you. I played the remake first (PS5) then went back and played original (on my PC with graphic mods), its not even close. New DS is zombies in space, its an action game pretending to be survival horror. The worst part for me was the voice acting, the ending, the ambient music and the zombie chickens pretending to be necromorphs. EA knows there is an audience that will buy any crap as long as you give it a nice shiny coat of paint while ignoring everything that made the original scary to begin with. Thumbs up and Bloober team can go F themselves