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Eh. Mid. Lovecraft pastiche (you can actually pinpoint which stories and even which passages he's drawing from) but without the pulp, so the end product ends up more as a dusty and sleepy gothic novel you'd find deep in some forgotten corner of the a library somewhere. The lack of setting descriptions is really killing me, too. I can't picture this story in my mind. Ironically enough this is the one thing the guy doesn't take from Lovecraft, and the story suffers for it.
 
Eh. Mid. Lovecraft pastiche (you can actually pinpoint which stories and even which passages he's drawing from) but without the pulp, so the end product ends up more as a dusty and sleepy gothic novel you'd find deep in some forgotten corner of the a library somewhere. The lack of setting descriptions is really killing me, too. I can't picture this story in my mind. Ironically enough this is the one thing the guy doesn't take from Lovecraft, and the story suffers for it.
It's an English village isn't it?
At least that's what I thought it was.
 
I refuse to necro the dead thread. My STALKER playthrough is going well. It's a comfy game that randomly spikes in terror factor. I will say that I'm having a really hard time seeing why it is/was so special when it came out though. Watched a few autistic deep dives into the game(didn't spoil any game stuff) and I at least get it from the a-life side of things, but that's it. Even then the a-life system seems to be a "what if" more than what it actually is because Slav Jank is eternal.

Ended up watching some Ukrainian/Russian fanfilm that was pretty neat too. Might give Goons a look today.
Having fun means you’re a tourist.
It can. They aren't mutually exclusive. I think we've had enough examples of this the last decade+.
was the author a woman?
Was it that obvious?
 
Even then the a-life system seems to be a "what if" more than what it actually is because Slav Jank is eternal.
The a-life system really started to shine with the sandbox survival spin offs like Anomaly. Still jank, but god damn it is really cool for emergent encounters and stories. For example in Garbage, I scouted a group of loners in an anomaly field hunting for artifacts, one guy did find something and reported it over the radio. Later on while shopping I heard gunfire and later still I did find the bodies of the loners and a bandit corpse besides them. After that I got into a fight with a gang of bandits while leaving the area and one of them had the artifact. That was a way more compelling encounter than any Bethesda game just rolling the dice and throwing an encounter at me.
 
It's an English village isn't it?
At least that's what I thought it was.
Yeah it's some rural town with typical British houses off the side of the highway, according to Street view. Never would have pictured it myself.

I will say that I'm having a really hard time seeing why it is/was so special when it came out though. Watched a few autistic deep dives into the game(didn't spoil any game stuff) and I at least get it from the a-life side of things, but that's it. Even then the a-life system seems to be a "what if" more than what it actually is because Slav Jank is eternal.
It's very exotic. Nowadays we take it for granted, but this was probably a lot of people's first look into the post-soviet world at that time. It was for me at least, even if I didn't realize it. There is a kind of underlying wonder just at how exotic and different it is to anything we know.

A-Life does still work as a psychological tool to make the game world feel more alive. Giving you the sense that every npc in the game is a real being that'll still exist and do their own thing even if you don't notice them or interact with them. Feeling like you're just another interloper trying to eke out a living in the vast and dangerous world of the zone is oart of the charm, and something you definitely notice once it's taken away from you.

And nevermind just how unique the Chernobyl exclusion zone setting and all the anomalies and artefacts really are. Products of the Soviet world just as much as the jank.
 
New video on the Harvey's casino bombing, haven't watched it yet but did see Count Dankula's video on it.

The thing that's bewildering is the current image for the video:
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At least from what I've heard, the bomb was too complicated and big to have a realistic shot in disarming, so the Feds just evacuated the hotel instead. But the image makes it sound like they were lazy and bombed the hotel themselves. I know "FBI Man Bad" is the default nowadays, but at some point it's just being retarded.
 
New video on the Harvey's casino bombing, haven't watched it yet but did see Count Dankula's video on it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=78FLQuhvyO4
The thing that's bewildering is the current image for the video:
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At least from what I've heard, the bomb was too complicated and big to have a realistic shot in disarming, so the Feds just evacuated the hotel instead. But the image makes it sound like they were lazy and bombed the hotel themselves. I know "FBI Man Bad" is the default nowadays, but at some point it's just being retarded.
Government bad, unless they could be hurting people in a red state than there's no evidence for it. But when in a YouTube video FUCK DA POPO!

I hate the government too but come on.
 
Gonna watch this Cast, shit my opinion out on it. But first
That was a way more compelling encounter than any Bethesda game just rolling the dice and throwing an encounter at me.
Sure but that's modded, which was my point. I'm not denying the systems capabilities are fuckin insane, but from what I gather the team themselves have literally never been able to make it work in game. What's there in the vanilla game is still pretty nice but it's nowhere near the level people have hyped it up as after almost 2 decades of modding has colored their experience.
Not sure what Bethesda has to do with anything, but I guess I'm glad you got that off your chest. It's nice to have a safe space for brave opinions.
It's very exotic. Nowadays we take it for granted, but this was probably a lot of people's first look into the post-soviet world at that time. It was for me at least, even if I didn't realize it. There is a kind of underlying wonder just at how exotic and different it is to anything we know.
I think that's the main thing grabbing me, honestly. All the other stuff I've experienced so far is cool but it's not new or unique to me. But since I rarely consume any sort of slav media it feels alien enough that I'm charmed by the accents and brutal architecture. Bonus for not everyone speaking English. I like being left out like that. It's great atmosphere.
 
Not sure what Bethesda has to do with anything, but I guess I'm glad you got that off your chest. It's nice to have a safe space for brave opinions.

Most games, when they have random open world encounters they basically roll a dice in the background and pick an encounter from a pool to spawn in just out of sight so you will run into them and despawn when you walk too far away. Bethesda RPGs do this a lot and stalker 2 too. A life (when it is working) is amazing because it basically makes RNG encounters obsolete by allowing encounters to happen organically.
 
At least from what I've heard, the bomb was too complicated and big to have a realistic shot in disarming, so the Feds just evacuated the hotel instead. But the image makes it sound like they were lazy and bombed the hotel themselves. I know "FBI Man Bad" is the default nowadays, but at some point it's just being retarded.
I really hope Wendi doesn't go the same way as Dankula and just push "government bad!" as the moral of every story. I stopped watching dank regularly after his MOVE bombing video where he swept for niggers who shot at firefighters for no reason and got themselves killed.
 
The last story was another completely inoffensive outing. Which I'm honestly starting to become fond of. I can get behind a story that's simply "ok". It also didn't hammer you with its influence which was nice, least I didn't feel it did. But at this point they really should just do some Lovecraft proper. Not sure if they could handle his 10 dollar words though.
 
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