S.T.A.L.K.E.R > FEAR and Fallout 3

[Kuchcik]

STALKER is good, but about which one are you talking about? I've played Shadow of Chernobyl (the original one) and Call of Prypiat, and the second one was better.

FEAR (1) was a good game, if you expected action from it. The whole horror thing wasn't scary at all. Slomo was *loving* awesome.

Fallout 3 is... well... Oblivion with guns. It shares all the things right and wrong in Oblivion, I wouldn't even call it a real, serious cRPG, just a simple knock-off, that is still fun, but when you compare it to Fallout 1 or 2 (which are OMGAWESOME) in terms of complexity or story-telling, F3 is metabolic end product. I'm not talking about graphics, or mechanichs, which are obviously way different (isometric turn-based vs 3D FPS).

Also Nicky, I don't really understand the way you compare games, you put 3 different games, that revolve around different things: STALKER is your typical FPS with a couple of RPG/exploration elements, so is Fallout 3, but FEAR? It's just a normal shooter that would like to be scary, but fails terribly at it.

[Mastakilla]

mhm I mentioned FEAR because it fails at being a scary FPS, because there's no real survival factor
Not because the game is similar, nor did I claim it tries to be similar

I'm talking about Shadow of Chernobyl, which I like the most atm.
Clear Sky was too bugged upon release and Call of Pripyat sounds very promising but I have yet to try it out.

Anyway this was a rather impulsive topic anyway, don't look too much into it lol

Bottom line is
I <3 STALKER
Fallout 3 is pretty fun, but not thrilling
FEAR is... well... yeah you already said it

[synthetic]

Playing FO3 at the moment and LOVING it. Much better than oblivion many metabolic end product, similar to TES3 in how well the feel carries, but not entirely. Heavily modded.