I've got a long week behind me, so I'll definitely try to get some gaming in this weekend. Maybe I'll see which games I've previously downloaded run ok on Pop_OS since I'm trying to get rid of Windows on my gaming PC.
I've played a little further in Another Crab's Treasure and am having quite some fun. I've reached the next big city and am currently tasked to find some treasure to trade in for my shell.
The dialogue is actually quite fine. I like that basically any NPC and your character curse in one way or another but hide it under PG-language. :D
The colourful atmosphere is fun to navigate through too. It does clash quite a bit with the oftentimes quite dark undertones of the story, but that's exactly the point, I feel like. Makes for an interesting experience.
What about you guys?
I'm pretty sure all games have both. It's been so long since I've played in English that I don't remember exactly, but I think even the English voice setting has some Russian and Ukrainian lines too, like bandit combat shouts or from stalkers sitting around campfires telling stories or jokes. It's just the main story crucial lines that are in English. The original trilogy also did the Metro thing of having the English voices have russian/Ukrainian accents which I liked. Of course original language is best for immersion and some of the most iconic lines from the games are in Russian, like the iconic cheeki breeki
Memories of the Zone comes with russian voice acting as default, and most Anomaly modpacks will as well. STALKER players tend to favour immersion a lot so most want to use original voices. Though I and many others tend to use US English Spec Ops type voice lines from stuff like Call of Duty for the Mercenary faction as it fits them well lore wise and helps create some variety in the zone.
Ok, so I gave SoC a try last night and, man, it does show its age. The voice acting is eh, but whatever, but the gameplay feels so stiff and shaky at the same time. That camera wobble gives me motion sickness too.
Any mods out there that let me turn that off? And anything that, idk, overhauls the gameplay to make it feel more modern? I get that I'm likely asking too much since the game is the way it is and there's not too much I can do about it, ultimately. Thought I'd ask, tho