I thought i was looking for some killer or something!? I hated that my quests seemed to be timed, and mostly involved in killing animals.
Ha! From what i remember i had the option of finding some armour guarded by a wolf or dogs, or killing some kind of pig. Ummm… bringing up your quest log doesn’t help? Heck, just go talk to whats-his-name, the trader. Should pick up a quest line a few hundred yards down the road. When you’re set after a few hours of play, walk all the way up north and transition to the next map. For now, avoid the very south of the map where the military base is unless you want to try to fight them. There’s one or two locations on the north side of the map to explore, but nothing unique. I can’t remember the beginning, but now that you’ve overcome the first major obstacle of the game, I think at this point you want to explore and do a few generic sidequests to build up some loot and gear. You can maybe look around on the east side, but save first. The soldiers will extort money from you each time so it will get expensive. Hey, I guess I can move forward in this game now. I hadn’t noticed that there was a bridge with some soldiers underneath it, and that was an alternative to the tunnel of death anomalies as a way of getting past the railway tracks. And sure enough, there was another way to get across the railway tracks. With that said, I just fired it up again, because it was clear from Naeblis’ reaction that I must have missed something obvious. I play for about 15 minutes, then I die and curse at myself for not saving, and I quit because I don’t want to repeat the last 15 minutes again, doing the same thing again. So when I play a game like STALKER, it isn’t easy to change my ways. It also leads to a much more pleasant gaming experience just to live with your choices and to save infrequently and just handle things as they come. It’s very liberating not to have to worry about that. No matter what game it is, I’ve been trained in the last several years, from around Half Life onward, to not save all that often. Yeah, I have to admit, the save often thing is where the game loses me. If that’s not your thing, that’s not your thing. The tone may have been wrong, but the whole point of an open world (or a pseudo one like Stalker) is to figure it out on your own (and save often). I guess that’s where I’m confused, because I’ve played those games, and I didn’t die easily early on, and I always knew where to go and what to do.
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