Sseth's S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Review is Surprisingly Realistic!
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I maybe a bit late but in the hopes ya see and read this please stream some stalker! I'd love to hear your thoughts. And even if most people don't recommend I totally would like to see you play some stalker anomaly (essentially a free stalker that is modded from the start taking place in the same universe lacking as an indepth main story as the other games)
Stalker is a great game for exploration and world building, because everything in it makes sense, the factions aren't garbage, the combat feels fair, and the things that can and will happen can easily catch you off guard. Definitely would like to watch you play it
I remember the first time going into one of the labs, then seeing objects randomly float in the air. I just barely processed that event in my mind going "What the f-" before they were launched into my face scaring the shit outta me. I promptly fired half my L85A1 mag into the stuff and then starting shooting everything that moved before I realized that there were actual poltergeists I could shoot and kill.
@@SSgtJ0hns0n and then your L85 broke or ran out of ammo like the piece of garbage it is lmao. Been there done that
@@romanwork3978funnily enough the devs seem to be aware of this, as the L85 in-game has terrible durability and also jams a lot compared to the other NATO rifles.
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Duty is garbage. Dumbasses think they can fight the zone with bullets
Streaming a playthru of S.T.A.L.K.E.R will not be a mistake. This game just keeps calling you back, man - the Zone claims another life.
Call of Chernobyl, all games and a bunch of tweaks in one good package. One more interesting thing about it is, the factions ultimately don't rely on you. They skirmish and occupy territory on their own, and the player character's help is well received but ultimately not absolutely required by the factions.
Still can't decide between Freedom or Duty, honestly. Both are right.
Stalker needs to be built in modern graphics...its so good.
i agree both factions have a truth to them, duty wants to protect the world from the zone due to its dangers, and the fact that it just keeps expanding with every emission, while freedom wants to study it due to its supernatural elements creating relics and the anomalies
its up to the individual to decide if they want to help study and understand the zone, or help stop its growth or even help in its eventual destruction
@@eshinnightrunner6290 Duty are really straightforward. Like the military, they want to keep the weird shit INSIDE the exclusion zone as opposed to where they hold dear. This means they have to be douchebags while slaughtering mutants and making bandits keep on fucking off, and the word in that regard is "They'll be alive *TO* hate us, and I'll count that as a win."
Freedom recognizes the above, palms their face and shakes their head, because Duty also fully understands and decides to overlook that handling the crisis that is the existence of the Zone is *not that simple*. If it was a problem that could be handled with bullets and bombs, it would've been dust on the wind by now. They recognize that the Zone is simply beyond man's present understanding, and the route to finding a solution may be the longest haul of modern history. That's why they make effort to cultivate brotherhood among Stalkers.
Insane diametric opposition by ideology can go eat shit. All my homies support self-determined understandable goals.
@@eshinnightrunner6290 Except Duty is probably making things worse where Freedom is actively trying to make the Zone a safer place by holding Monolith at bay at the barrier an fighting mutants
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roadside picnics a pretty good read in my opinion and it also has neat background from the authors in how they got it out and published.
Currently reading and loving it. Strongly recommend for sci-fi lovers.
Can confirm.
Actually the thing you talked about with the bananas already technically happened. Apparently the candy banana flavor was actually based on an accurate to a real life banana breed way back when, but that banana species got wiped out due to parasites for the reasons you stated and now every banana has a different taste form a banana from say 80 years ago. * I wrote this comment in a hurry.
Yeah, that's a common myth. The "extinct" banana species still exists on the Spanish Canary Islands.
@@m.c.schock2933 Less a myth and more an exaggeration. The disease did make it non-commercially viable for most growers causing them to switch to a different variety, it just didn't annihilate them completely. It's kind of hard to imagine a crop being entirely destroyed, down to the last seeds and cuttings, now that I think about it.
@@m.c.schock2933 That makes it worse than extinct.
@@nullpoint3346 How so?
@@m.c.schock2933 Expensive low supply item, and no standard shipping makes it even more expensive.
All for bananas that actually taste like bananas instead of grass.
I actually prefer the grass over those bad bananas.
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Sseth : "Chernobyl, Ukraine. Which is actually based on a Fictional Country here in Europe"
Vladamir Putin during a 2022 Coke Break : _"WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!"_
BRUH
He was paid by sseth to make that reality
pootin literally says that in his invasion speech and his fake "history" articles about Ukraine.
Well, he wasn't wrong
@@Prushinthespirit like anybody asks a "russian"
you should play it, even if its just by yourself. The atmosphere is great.
Especially by himself, personally. I'm not opposed to see it being stream, but personally I believe that either making a Playthrough on youtube or playing by oneself can be better to let the game really sink in without a distraction (f.e. stream chat) if it's a first or second time playing.
You should react to Metro next, very nice game with a similar aesthetic to Stalker
HAY ARTYOM
Would be nice to get military documentary on all those scrap metal weapons from Metro
These Games make the Soviet-European World feel Surreal, but also in some way: Impressive
Guess what? It has similar aesthetic because a lot of STALKER devs came to work on Metro... and as a matter of fact original Metro 2033 is running on heavily modified Stalker engine ( xray engine )
Original Metro 2033 looks very very similar to the Stalker lol
@@kajmak64bit76 And it have same voice actors.
In Russia it's very common to know two or more languages, thanks to the state mandatory language lessons. It might be English, or it might be French, or even German, but pretty much everybody knows at least the basics.
They learn them. They do not know them. russia sucks at other languages generally.
@@PUARockstar I ain't saying that they speak them perfectly, only that they know it alright'ish. I would say, most teenagers can talk and understand simple English sentences.
I recommend Stalker: Anomaly, which is a freeware version with a lot of gameplay changes... but only AFTER you've played Call of Pripyat. It's good stuff.
Shadow of Chernobil is a must, none of the other games (or even most mods) come close to it in atmosphere.
I tried Anomaly, crashed into oblivion every 10 minutes of play, deleted the game after :)
@@UniDeathRaven Must've been unlucky, Anomaly is among the most stable mods. Maybe the PC wasn't strong enough since stalker in general is poorly optimized. Also need to make sure to run off dynamic lighting.
@@anonimus370 my laptop with ryzen 5 integrated graphics runs it pretty well on dx9 so i can say its pretty well optimized
@@anonimus370 Yea, I thought the same, must've been unlucky since I was a huge fan of Stalker.. PC is really strong, might be that I had Steam version of Stalker ?
That guy at the start squatting in front of the huge metal door, he was Super Soos,do not question him, it will come to no fruit.
Well prostitution is in most European countries legal and the different laws to protect prostitutes but it's really complicated the entire thing so yeah I understand that and stalkers are amazing series
Yeah Prostitution is legal in Italy
still shady af tho
Ok that ant analogy was really good on your part, but it does tie into why the book is so good as well, although thats not my primary reason for loving it, that is one of them.
YES, would totally watch a STALKER stream. But don't go straight for the mods. Start with Shadow of Chernobyl, the first game. It's fairly linear in progression (not much backtracking and difficulty spikes) but the levels are open ended allowing for some different combat approaches. The AI, while at times weird, is great. They will roam, flank, sneak around you. The mutant AI is great too - lone dogs will run away but a pack can be absolutely ruthless.
The gunplay is good too - pistols are only useful at really close ranges, while rifles are best used in semiauto.
In my experience, select-fire rifles are best used on full-auto firing 2- to 4-round bursts. Also, pistols have mostly realistic accuracy. You can nail snorks in the head out past average room-length or even "barn-length" distances with a good ol' 1911. In Oblivion Lost, pistols are so accurate that it requires some suspension of disbelieve. Sort of the opposite extreme from Clear Sky. In that mod, if yer eyes are keen enough, you can nail snorks in the head with a pistol of your choice even at sniper-like distances!
SoC has one backtracking moment.
It's not necessary but without return to first location at some stage you cannot reach any of two "true" ending (and miss two final locations).
Need to say - this "side quest" can easily be not noticed and correspondingly - ignored.
@@jurayneskazu64 you're right I did forget that one. Still, I'd say less running back and forth than the other two games.
@@randomfaca Yes, main plot tasks almost daisy-chained on map and can be speedrunned not so hard.
But wandering around map is interesting for many players. And side quests allow to be more prepared for late fights.
"A window is just glass that hasn't cut you yet" ~MHGR
Frankly I didn't expect such a simple statement to shake me so badly.
More Seth? Excellent.
Now can we get some more Rimmy and Rubix Raptor arma 40k?
Shiet like this is why I love Paul - he turns Sseth's talk of (arguably justifiable) filicide of your deranged, radioactive mutant offspring into a monologue about bananas and the concept of the word 'natural'.
Truly this is the duality of man.
Stalker is unique among modern games in that it is quite difficult, even on the easy difficulty levels. It's not like Fallout 4 on easy, where you have to try to be killed. Stalker on easy difficulty is still a struggle. It feels like you're playing a game from the 90s, before developers decided that everyone should be able to beat the game without putting in any effort. It's refreshing.
Difficulty in stalker is more likean intensity meter
Stalker difficulty rescaling is different in that _everyone's_ HP and damage is moved in the same direction.
I think that's because they bungled the difficulty honestly, the thing is that both you and enemies can take more shots. Combine that with limited ammo and it's probably harder than the harder difficulties.
@@DarthMcDoomington should I just play on master?
@@tivvy2vs21 I suggest playing on hard. Master does things like switch the Bloodsuckers cloaking ability permanently on. Or even just finding a good difficulty balance mod.
Fun fact about banana flavoring: It's based on the flavor profile of the Gros Michel banana which sadly is now extinct(It tasted sweeter than the one we have now). The current Banana is the cavendish and yes they are all identical clones so any plague that affects one would quickly devastate all of them if allowed to spread.
Gros Michel is not extinct, it's just very hard to grow on industrial-viable scale since most of farmland is contaminated with fungus responsibile for it's demise. You can still find Gros Michel if you are willing to overpay and go to the specialty store
@@IkkebottExpirson I guess I should have qualified my comment with "Functionally extinct" instead. You are 100% correct, it not completely extinct but it's also not able to come back because the fungus you mentioned is so widespread that even if we tried to grow it back naturally it's got zero genetic diversity so it won't be becoming resistant to the fungus that devastated it on the first place on its own.
@@alexisrivera200xable Not that we'd ever be willing to do so given the investment of time and resources, but could we hypothetically breed a new strain of Gros Michel that WAS more diverse and could resist the fungus, or is it just ruined now and we're stuck preserving it in isolated places?
@@TheAngryXenite I guess they could cross breed it with the cavendish to an extent and genetically engineer it some to make as new specimen that is resistant but retains the flavor profile of the original but its too expensive for any sort of commercial interest to do. There is no real attractive return on such an investment. Sadly possible is not always economically feasible. This is the sort of stuff governments could undertake if the case of improving bio-diversity was important enough for ensuring food security down the road but that is a long shot at best at this point.
That ant analogy is actually almost spot on to the analogy the title of the book is based on. Very cool
"Bathrooms don't tend to have windows."
All our bathrooms have windows.😅
There's a free mod called Stalker Anomaly, basically turns the game into a free roam sandbox where you can go pretty much anywhere and explore to your hearts content.
There are faction specific questlines to follow if you want some direction but for the most part it's just you, the zone and it's occupants.
if you never played stalker. it might be really hard to get into it. its old, dated and has alot of problems. but if you already played it or are willing to put the hours into it. it is a true gem.
Its oldness is part of its charm. It's only technically dated - and by this point, "it takes place in the past" (spoken in Maurice Moss voice) - but it's otherwise timeless and will always be a standard-setter.
Finally, you get to the best game and his best review.
Stalker is a ton of fun, I still play the Anomaly mod that links all 3 game maps and updates the engine. No matter how you play, they're worth checking out and exploring the zone!
Incidentally, the book these games are based on actually uses that ant analogy to describe the visitors and their "trash."
Stalker is a masterpiece. It's one of those games that you can't quite put your finger on other game and say it's really similar.
If you decide to stream, contrary to what everyone else suggests, either go in with vanilla or using the ZRP (zone reclamation project) mod, which is purely bug fixes and no other changes.
What you describe with the drug “value chain” also applies to legal commodities. There is a video where some reporters gave cocoa farmers some chocolate to eat for the first time in their lives. They had never been able to afford it, and some didn’t even know what cocoa was used for.
Get yourself a patron and forget about the rotten monetization of RUclips. The main feature of your channel is the reaction of an experienced person to fictional things. Your reasoning about the prices of fictional drugs is interesting to listen to since you were dealing with real ones. Fight or RUclips will turn you into a channel with reactions to plush toys.
Absolutely stream a playthrough of Call of Pripyat. To this day its still the best game I've ever played, the atmosphere is unmatched and the gameplay is really solid!
You NEED to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R., there is nothing else like it…it’s the perfect blend of action, fridge horror, and the best kind of lore (confusing, sometimes contradictory, and extremely in-depth). You will never regret playing such a unique and charming game.
I never thought watching a reaction of a Sseth video would be entertaining, But this is awesome
Request for Paul to play STALKER!
The Stalker franchise is so good that it did not only spawn a dedicated modding community that supplies you with more than one natural life time of gameplay, but also that it sparked over to other games. The biggest and in my opinion greatest overhaul mod for Fallout 3 contains massive content from Stalker, including artefacts, weapons, armors and especially mutants!
Yes, first time I played Stalker, I had many unsettling moments of "what the hell is killing me? is this a bug? what is going on?"
Absolutely recommend trying to get your hands on a digital (physical if possible for added immersion) version of Roadside Picnic, it's not quite as intense as you'd think given the subject matter but does a superb job of mixing paranoia and isolation while the characters have an almost casual look into the world around them. Big recommend.
2:30 that is legal in italy aslong as it is not controlled by a third party
...oh! Here's a potential video idea. "Halo Except It's Incredibly Cursed" By InfernoPlus. Basically, this dude took an old gem and modded it to a... well, incredible degree. It's quite the journey.
Btw did you know cursed halo 2.0 is out? The gameplay was posted on his alt channel.
Unironically this is one of my favorite games.
Hey MHGR, I've began my binging of your videos with the amazing cultivation simulator video. I have to say, the way you pause a video to go on a loosely related, long, and often confusing rant is very charming. Love the content, keep it up.
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This was pretty much my experience when I went to the CSGO major in Belgium earlier this year - not a single person my friends and I met didn't speak conversational English, and us as three Brits that only spoke the tiniest shreds of Dutch/French (the event was in the Dutch part, but the airport was in the French part) were both amazed and thankful for that.
when you were talking about the ant thing i wanted to say its not called dirt its called soil but good job.
in general there's quite a lot of people in Russia who understand basic English and a substantial amount of people who know it quite well. It really depends on the region though. It's harder to find english speaker in Siberia than in western Russia, for example
they still suck at it compared to most of Europe, even to some areas that also suck at English
To be honest, I liked it better when you show both the video and your face at the same time in the same size windows. But this format is definitely better than the one where you turned off the main video during the comments.
You may try it. It is pretty fun game. And it is not really expensive.
I really want to see you play this.
I saw a play through of a STALKERA mod called Anomaly and my god did it sell the series for me. Of course their was a lot of other mods added in but the atmosphere those mods created was just phenomenal
The stalker games are amazing.
Hard.
Scary.
But so intriguing..
I'd watch some play throughs of it!
Speaking of S.T.A.L.K.E.R, you should react to SODAZ's S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Contract animation!
if you want more S.T.A.L.K.E.R content you should react to SODAZ stalker video
The book is free in English on the internet. Was translated by one of the brothers as a middle finger to Western publishers. Later on there was an official release, but the free version still floats on the internet.
It's a great book. One of those great non endings that tell you that you are reading some high literature. It's actually the authors speciality. And it's not even that nothing happens, it's just they leave you on really ambiguous Zen note....
"Happiness for everyone, free, and no one would go away unsatisfied."
Car thing is kinda both. What lukely happend there was car getting into gravitational anomaly, which indeed lifts and then tear apart things. It should be noted that vehicles weren't finished, and got cut. Modders usually restore them, but are unable to fix underlying issues, thus those anomalies can easily throw car outside map boundaries.
Really looking forward to your reaction to Sseth's Rimworld review
Be good to see you play some Stalker, in addition you should look up the Metro games, they are ahh shall we say successors to the Stalker games, the story behind them is actually hilarious.
The mutant that pulls you in is called a controller. They're one of the easier mutants to deal with in my experience. The distorted guy talking is from a video you can find here on RUclips, but everything else is in the game. They actually inflict a unique mental status effect when they successfully attack you, but you just walk it off and you're fine. I killed that controller shown in the video by just running up to him and pumping him with a 12 gauge shotgun. As it turns out, they're more effective from a distance and can't do much of anything in CQC. The twenty thousand bandits and soldiers and the invisible bloodsucker you encounter immediately before the controller are far more difficult to deal with, and I lost count of how many times I died just getting to that point.
Edit: This is the video Sseth used for the controller. ruclips.net/video/Kl3H4vMqYNo/видео.html
(13:19) OMG HE DIDN'T NOTICE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stalker is a good game and highly recommended for you to play, becareful if you want to try add mods to it.
you say that pretty much everyone in Europe speaks English, but when I when I was in Slovakia during an exchange student program type thing I literally had better luck using a mix of Bulgarian and the little Russian I know when I was trying to talk to the cashiers of the local stores.
That Porsche engine in a VW Van analogy... that's so specific I think you've been looking into the Gumball 3000 history. Wasn't it Jaime Oliver who got his VW camper engine swapped for a 400HP Porsche one?
The commentary about what is and isn't 'natural' reminded me of how we've effectively 'invented' a few dozen new materials not seen anywhere else in nature (Neptunium, Californium, etc)
If you like Tarkov and enjoy older games, you will probably like Stalker.
You should make a series out of playing, learning, and progressing through stalker. I wanna play it and don't know much about it myself, I'll feel a lot better learning it with someone else.
bilingualism is actually a pretty rare quality in russia. even in online communities, ones that are made solely of russians would have you hardpressed to find someone who can piece together more than the one sentence they can remember from school.
To answer your question on the multilingual part. My wife is Russian, and it really depends on which Republic in Russia we are talking about. She's from Tatarstan which is a large section of South West Russia which is a mix of Tatars and ethnic Russians. So you have the native Tatar language with Russian, Turkish, and some Arabic since there is a large Muslim population there. In East Russia, you get a large mix of Russian, Mongolian, and other Ethnic languages. When people think of not being multi-lingual, they are really thinking about Moskavites aka those from the Moscow region including west like St. Petersberg and no, maybe 3-5% speak another language and it's usually English and most of those people work in Aviation, IT/Computers, or Banking.
On the topic of natural/unnatural - I get annoyed at people saying "Why do you eat that? It's all chemistry"
Bitch, water is chemistry. Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it's automatically bad.
"Well if you eat/drink too much of it it'll be bad for you" - if you eat too much of anything it'll be bad for you, eat too much berries and you'll feel like shit.
"Make it fu- go and make it a powerful car"
Don't know about streams, but i would definitely watch recordings of you playing the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series :D
25:00
"All those things are going to work together to make it fuuck- go"
Lol xdddd
1:06 this dude is called Sus and he has a youtube channel with his friends. They are actual stalkers and used to venture into the area around the Chernobyl power plant. I watched a couple of their videos, but have no idea what happened to them since the war started
Shadow of Chernobyl with the Zone Reclamation Project bugfix mod is the most recommended starting choice if you wanna get into this franchise.
I do like that analogy in regards to humans and basal desires.
We're all just learning to behave, and what amounts of those elements allow a functioning society.
Let's go! I really watn to see you play it!
fun fact banana candy is flavored after an extinct banana that was also cloned from one banana
@MHGR on 17:18 Sseth overlayed a different video named "In a perfect World" made by performative artist Justin Kuritzkes.
5:45 Holy Moses ! This was actually a very good point.
Any Chance of Watching some of Tex's Fireteam whisky or Tex talks battletech?
Omg dude yes, this would be awesome to stream
Very informative react video. Would recommend to other Sseth fans.
It's really interesting to see the juxtaposition of your well learned, insightful commentary over sseth's much more comedy based content
since you're pretty versed in the general concepts of drug interactions and chain of command, I'm wondering if you'd be interested playing or watching some videos on Ghost Recon: Wildland. The main premise is that you're a Ghost Team sent into Bolivia to take down a drug kingpin and his entire cartel. The entire organization is broken up into 4 branches...production, smuggling, security, and influence. There are generals and leaders within that bracket you either have to kill or capture, and based on how much you disassemble the cartel determines how the ending plays out. It's got a lot of flaws and it's definitely not perfect, but every general has a full introduction and reason to why they're there and why you have to take them down. There's a video that just goes over all the cartel leaders and their cutscenes, and the briefings are always an interesting watch.
i don't have a bathtub and have windows in my bathroom, guess i'll die
23:09 don't forget it was the soviets that came up with the idea in this universe. Probably they believed it would make the world a communist utopia or something.
uuuhhh, 2 things, 1 Porsche engines in vw beetles and vans is actually quite common and if done correctly is perfectly fine and 2 im pretty new to stalker, still learning the ropes in stalker anomaly, but so far, its great
Bilingual russian here, its not as uncommon among younger generations to be bilingual. Stalker is a great game it was one of inspirations for Tarkov would love to see you play it. Roadside picnic was inspiration for stalker games but they have alot of differences even Stalker movie were deviating from book. If you enjoy stalker give a shot Metro 2033, while its different in genre and premise it has similar atmosphere.
You should react to Welyn's Rust content! He's always really tactical and his narrative is amazing
I would definitely like to see you hit the Zone.
"There is no bugs in Stalker, it's anomalies"
*The Stalker-Franchise is where Soviet-European Lifestyle meets Twin-Peaks and Uncanny-Valley*
_Honestly, that just makes the Games feel better (for me I guess); because it makes it feel more Surreal..._
Banana's today are from a varient created due to a prior strain suffering due a proir thing affecting them like the current ones
Banana candy has a flavour similar to that prior strain and thats why it has a different flavour than modern banana's
it's likely a new varient of banana's will be bred to repeat this cycle.
Anyone who thinks you can get rid of greed is an idiot. Greed is literally a representation of something every living organism on this planet does: the gathering of resources. The more resources you have the better whether you are a plant or a human. Greed is the motivation for just about everything that animals do.
25:00 nice save Paul, nice save
If you're going to play a Stalker game, I recommend the Anomaly, the standalone modpack. It's free, and will keep you entertained for dozens of hours
The driving force of free market systems is the raw profit motive,you dont need the emotion of greed when a system by its nature requires infinite expansion. People will act 'greedily' whether they feel greedy or not
The real life footage from the beginning of the video is from SuperSus a Ukranian urbex youtuber, pretty weird but extremely entertaining. He is now covering almost only current war stuff, as you can imagine.
and it's his footage from Chornobyl I believe
Play it, this is not a recommendation it is an order
I have played the first 2 (shadow of chernobyl and clear sky) to their respective canonical ends, have yet to start call of pripyat.
Sseth mixed the order: clear sky is first(prequel), then shadow(main), and then pripyat(sequel).
GOG versions (except Pripyat), despite normally fixing any issues original game(s) may have had, are still prone to constant crashing (especially clear sky), just as original versions.
My recommendation - if you're going to play them, get the ''(name of installment)-complete'' patch for all 3 mains games, clear sky is basically unplayable without it, they add some stuff cut from final versions, add some new stuff, fix the quests (especially in clear sky) and stabilize the game(s) to such a degree that you won't need to hard+quick save ever so often (since they will crash maybe 1% or less than that compared to at least 50% if playing without the patch).
Also the STALKER Anomaly should be good, I'm not sure how it is related to Call of Chernobyl (will have to try both of them too). Anomaly, Call of Chernobyl and the ''-complete'' patches can be found at the same place - moddb. Hope this helps.
About the clip from 1:05 It's from a youtube channel Super Sus. They do a great deal of urban exploration around Kyiv in Ukraine. You should check it out, it very interesting and they have English subtitles on most videos. Transistria in Moldova is he exact same situation as now in Ukraine with Donbass region. Annexed by Russia in the 90s "to protect russians". It can't be recognized by other countries, because that would just be a green light to superpowers to just start new conflicts in Europe "to protect it's citizens". (Hitler attacked Austria in 1938-39 for the same "reasons" btw)
exactly
Definitely stream some S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It's the sort of thing I'd expect most of your audience to either already be familiar with or, if not, to be interested enough to watch you play. The games go on sale pretty regularly, too. If nothing else, there's also Anomaly, which is a free, stand-alone mod of Pripyat.
I am letting you know that I want to see VOD of the stream of you playing stalker