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The game does some clever things by messing with expectations of people who have played Gothic games. I like how the looming threat of the game seem to be orcs which makes sense as this is a prequel to Gothic. No one takes the orc threat seriously and they appear more and more, the people in charge seem to be even covering for the orcs. I was so focused on the orcs I got blind sighted by the main threat being these guys I was working for and just how brutal they'd be. You get betrayed and used by almost everyone you met. I didn't think for a second that the orc invasion would just be a minor sideplot in a Gothic game. And then the entire plot tied up nicely with stuff that was directly related to your character. I thought the lost brother plotline was just the devs being incompetent and giving you a dark backstory until the game picks up and the real story starts, but everything was relevant at the end.

I'm back playing modded Anomaly. Stalker 2 was good for one playthrough but they betrayed what made stalker stalker at the same time. Lets be real here we play stalker games for the AI and they literally gutted that to try and optimize the game, I would honestly hate to see how the game performed prior to that given that it performs like a steaming pile of dog shit as is.

That's why I have a hacked Vita. The emulation for that system is garbage. The Vita is an awesome pirate ship.

I had to stop playing soc after pulling the three levers in the factory, the gunplay was just too trash to be immersed in the game, skipped CS and went to pripyat which feels better but still bad kinda, tbh imo these games dont feel that good to play, thankfully stalker 2 doesn’t have rng bullet garbage i think

Dude that png issue you have is because your game resolution is too high(higher than the png resolution, most likely 1080p) but it's funny that you talk about the png res in every SAO review LMAO

You don't review Stalker, Stalker review you.

Proceed to shit on shadow of Chernobyl and call it magical. Good review 😂😂

After 15 hours in stalker 2 I put it down for shadow of Chernobyl. I can’t believe it, but SoC is better than stalker 2 at the moment.

Lord have mercy, going down memory lane through the Qing drip clad king DatLJGuy covering the cozy days of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? It's a (early) christmas miracle! Gotta add your latest magnum opus to my watchlist for when the time comes to feast on a mighty good meal, milord. Keep on grindin' & shinin' king. (fingers crossed that the third attempt of my comment will stay visible this time)

To be fair - damage-tied-to-difficulty is just a rumor long time disapproved by data-mining. Changing difficulty really only affects how much health player has - it doesn't affect weapon damage or accuracy - if you feel that your weapons don't deal damage it's because they are inaccurate AF and ADS does nothing. No, seriously, ADS does not affect weapon spread in any way. This was probably made up by elitist GAMERS as a mean to say "you either play on Master or you're not a gamer"... The Vodka thing is mostly a local meme - you see, there was information that consuming small amounts of red wine removes radioactive isotopes from body by replacing them with the elements found in wine as in easiest material to find and consume. So uneducated drunkards heard about it and thought that it's alcohol that defeats radiation so they found another reason to get wasted and devs just played on this meme since you already have in game magical medicine that somehow removes radiation from your body. Regarding weight - there are artifacts even in SoC that increase your carryweight, but finding them is a hassle. Noosphere is a philosophical concept that was popular in Ukraine at the turn of the millenium - hard post-soviet life with failing economy further pushed down by equally squalid but still more powerful russia and lifting of restrictions on religion and faith have brought alot of concepts and philosophical themes to mind. One of such concepts was that Earth aside of atmosphere, also has Noosphere - a layer on which thoughts, wishes and emotions of all living and formerly living beings are located and "Heaven" and "Hell" are perception of human consciousness of getting into contact with the Noosphere. Or something like that, I was like 14-16 when I read that stuff and I was not really impressed. It sounds more like a fantasy/sci-fi concept rather than something real and tangible. Stalker 2 is not really Shadow of Chornobyl kind of sequel, it's a sequel to entirety of all three games, treating all three of them like first part, when you look at the story. Hence it has name "Stalker 2" Gameplay-wise Clear Sky is the weakest - they made guns VERY inaccurate because they wanted players to use new upgrade system. But instead of making ok weapons work better, they just made really bad weapons being just mostly bad. I feel like Call of Prypiat at least partially fixed this issue, but still not completely. Regarding broken Gauss gun - it's a quest with Kardan. You speak with him after obtaining the weapon, he will pass out for few hours, after which you can talk with him, he will send you to some lab and there you can find that fix. After you get it, it's the best Sniper Rifle in the game. While Degryarev's story doesn't sound important, it does show few things outside the Zone - how people live there and how they die and how USS was not ready for the Zone's behaviour.

Definitely waiting for Stalker 2 review too!

nevermind 1:13 gave me PTSD and I have passed away

oh hell yeah eurojank review from my favourite game reviewer

Yeah totally agree with Jorn part, it was dragged out waayy too long and the ending wasnt my fav, although i still very highly recommend playing this mod its really good. Im also one of rarer fans who prefers G1 over G2, because the story and envirnoment is way more interesting, G2 despite many gameplay improvements was very generic. I love all gothic games tho, even G3 :D

I bought the game for the bed scenes 😂

The UI is disgusting. I mean come on. They really need to use Arial or Myriad at best?

I think the game is this Cliff and pals shows up to a secluded *dead island* that geopharm still is active on, Devin gets bitten and infects his friends then they get picked up by the scientist and sent to be test subjects. -But zombie cliff who is suped up by the serum breaks free and starts an outbreak and then the Chinese lady shows up spares Cliff but finds his recording and blows up the island

They switched engines for this game, its Unreal 4, completely different engine from AL and imo LR is the best SAO game, it has the best gameplay, best combat system and best progression in the series, story wise it might be the worst SAO game but gameplay wise its the best action JRPG Aquaria has ever made, you can even change Kirito and create your own unique protagonist

As an enjoyer of Fatal Bullet and Alicization Lycoris, this game is such a disappointment. Yes, Fatal Bullet and Alicization aren't great games-I'd give them a 7/10 at best-but they have soul, and you can feel the effort put into them.

My god. You aim like a pro. I used a XBOX controller so my aim was not snappy as yours. Does keyboard and mouse control really help?

oh... oh noo, just 1 second seeing the gameplay frame.... why... just why. after rewatching SAO and seeing the opening, I'm curious about the gameplay.... whoa it looks weird, there's enemy but the other 3 character is like just hovering around, it looks so bad

Loved the fact that it's the only SAO game with an original storyline, not just you playing as Kirito

There're? Bruh..... 💀

No one cares red is your favorite color. Show your face instead of hiding behind a drawing and maybe people will start caring who you are or what you think.

If you haven’t already tried it yet, give Fractured Daydream a go. It was done by Dimps again, and while you don’t have character creation in FD, in each chapter in the story mode you play as different characters other than Kirito, you unlock all other characters as well, you also get to use which ever character outside of story mode. My main outside story mode is Sinon.

06:40 that song choice tho

I enjoyed the story of this game quite a bit, but having just played through it for my third time and looking a little closer, it's honestly a mess. First off, the cargo you're carrying is directly said to be "the hope of humanity"... Only for us to find out that some scientist was literally just going to sell Phym to the Crimson Queen once he got her, so that was purely BS... Then Phym lets us beat Ashborn, okay, the previous point still holds true since Gleipnir didn't know that but in the world of GE3 that's more than enough to create tension and make her a target... Oh wait, everyone's cool with us being the only special ones who can fight humanities biggest threat and... OH WAIT, nevermind! Suddenly Phym is the key to operating a super weapon that was created before the Ashlands existed... Wait a sec... Why is Odin's power source AGE's (or Phym) when they didn't exist during the era when Odin was built? Fenrir HQ was destroyed right at the start of Calamity according to Soma's story, so how were the people who made Odin before AGE's existed planning on operating it then? Seriously... The Odin plot is so painfully dumb...Which is sad, because it's a great "moment" when you Engage with Phym and beat that stupid centaur thing into a pulp, it's just hard for me to ignore the road we took to get to that moment doing a few too many laps around stupid-town.

Длс это реально прогрев гоев на шекели. Это буквально воплощение знаменитой цитаты Васа из Far Cry 3

The Fatal Bullet main character isn't in the game 0/10

It is time.

The definition of PS1 graphics? Are you on drugs my son?

my god tier SAO game reviewer is back, bless up

even though the game is not the best, I like SAO because of the characters and their stories, which is in my opinion the main focus of the series, gameplay is just an element to achieve the character stories, same with every SAO console games and mobile games i miss Unleash Blading, i hope Variant Showdown will be online very soon

New Bideo Let's Gooooooooooooooo

about the upscaler or wathever problem you mentioned, do yourself a favor and CHECK WHICH VERSION OF UNREAL IS THE GAME RUNNING!! if its ue4 you are in luck if its ue5 you are a tad screwed, but you can easily look up online how to edit the config files of unreal games and turn on or off effects, the crap you complained is the DEFAULT CRAP UNREAL FORCES ON DEVELOPERS!!!! on unreal you already start with a stock "preset graphics slider" and guess what that crap does? yeah it bundles 5 to 7 different crap on one, the lowest disables most of then, medium enables taa from the get go and low AO quality with medium or low?? particles, high is taa with some other crap like capsule shadows or wathever + higher quality ao + SCREEN SPACE REFLECTIONS and so on. in short, yes the idea of changing to unreal 4 was absolutely stupid for them to do so, it wrecked the game dev cycle forcing them to RECREATE EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM or MOST of them they worked on for all of these games throught the last decade which absolutely screwed them over, believe in me game dev aint easy, but also switching engines isnt something any of these devs takes lightly, its a HUMOUNGOUS work. you cant simply port most of the codebase over, each engine have their core far different you HAVE to adapt or redo most of the code its just absurd amounts of work, like yeah the game may look a tad crappier, but you know why also they did that? its less things to waste time on, aka they dont need to optmize the game as much if it already looks hella barebones as the baseline they can focus on making the GAME not the graphics. i dont checked your other videos yet, but also i mostly followed ya just for the sao games lol its legitemally surprising seeing someone who actually play the games and understood why they are proper good and bad and then compare them with each other like a proper game reviewer should do. i believe they switched engines because they were reaching the limits of what they could do with their own, and with the skill ceiling of unreal being high with how much crap you can do on that engine with time and knowing it well, they couldve had also switched it for better graphics down the line. hope you the best gonna comment again if i want to talk about something or noticed something else.

This game screams after thought when people asked when War for underworld was coming as DLC but they didn't do it

I bet half the Dev time for last recollection was porting the engine from a old PlayStation proprietary engine to unreal this really should have been Sao Al dlc

Okay I gotta be brutally honest. I'm starting to like 2 Rage Burst cause it had a lot more Aragami to fight than in any other game in the series.

Ppl dont realize that what made gothic good was the voice overs. The immersion drops heavily without

“It’s the definition of PS1 graphics” You did not play PS1. There is zero chance the PS1 could handle Gothic 1 or 2.

I love it how they pulled a psycho mantis right at the end of the game lol

"the game get's worse with time" - just like every other gothic game xD the beginnings are cool af and it ain't easy to keep that level throughout.

For me , it sits on 4th place, after G1, 2 and 3. The story is quite fan fiction, with plenty of plot holes, and the quests are 70% mundane. The locations are OK, but nothing memorable.

fun review

I feel like Cliff canonically played Dead Island. There's no reason for Xian to be as prominent as she is, there's no reason for her outfit to look like her hotel uniform. There's no reason for Charron to say anything in Escape. There are random zombie types that don't appear in either Dead Island or Riptide (IIRC). Following what we see from Dead Island 2, a lot of the world's culture was shaped by the first outbreak, in Banoi. I believe Cliff, looking for fame, decided to try to look into a shady corporation rumored to be working on a new strain of the Kuru virus, or some other virus. However, he falls into a coma when he gets hit by the boat. The rest of the game is entirely comprised of hallucinations. I'll go even further and say that at the beginning of the game, you're already experiencing Cliff's hallucinations. Everything he does, everything that happens, it's happened before, and within Cliff's fever dream, the events occur out of place. Hell, maybe his friends were never there, and he's just "Shutter Island"-ing them into his memories and hallucinations. One proof of the "fragmented memories" theory is the plane crash. Cliff sees the plane crash, and Xian jump out, but later, Cliff almost gets smushed by the plane crashing. So, did two planes crash? Unlikely. Which one was the real crash? We can't tell. I haven't played the game yet, so I'm largely talking crap, but the cyclical nature of the ending/beginning makes me think I'm onto something...

Quick question, you mentioned you hating Gothic 3. Did you play it with the community patch? It's my favorite of the 3 give it a chance to pop off.

Yeau i get what the game doesnt feel like a lost planet game but isnt bad in my opinion its good enoug for a seqeul but that wil probably never happen

Awesome review! I've been meaning to give this game a shot 😅

I have no idea but when you said the resolution scaled at 50 or some shit, I just laughed LOL

0:20 what in tarnation, I'm digitally enshrined for eternity by the almighty DatLJGuy? neat! That's it, my life is now complete. It's all down hill from here. ""Come watch me strean...sometime" anytime madman (it's been a hot minute). PS Mad respect for the dedication to the grind, Qing drip clad king. Stay shinin', milord <4