about foreign words that cant be translated in other language/English , our language has a story... just like "Tocka" in my country we have a famous author , and his novel was getting translated into English, he himself was super fluent in English sonce did his Ph.d in USA but they had a problem, the final sentence in his book mentioned a certain simple emotion that they realized had no proper translation, it was a problem cuz the whole story and the character development feels exponentially less poignant and kinda meaningless if they cant translate the emotion mentioned in the last sentence. it is not even a unique or too weird emotiom either. in author's word he wrote the whole story building up for the last sentence so the author wrote about the experience as "The americans feel angry, get sad, they grieve, feel frustrated, get dissapointed , but they never feel the emotion of *insert the word* . truly bizarre " i still feel weirded out that English speaking people around the world dont have the concept of that particular melancholic but endearing emotion
As a Stalker vet, I'm jealous of these rookies getting to wander into The Zone for the first time. I set foot in The Zone when I was 12. I left it often, but it never left me. We cannot resist its siren call
@@Virgil-280 it’s something that makes me worry on more primitive thing, like basic survival. Not taxes, or payments, or gas. Just my ammo, meds, and carry space.
Sidenote: Tarkovsky, his wife Larissa that acted in the movie and the protagonist, Anatoly died of "suspicious caused" cancer some years after the movie. It was recorded in an abandoned complex of chemical factories and the river is contaminated
@@low_sky9 yes it’s truly sad. Tarkovsky and the others involved gave up a lot to see that production through, and it’s tragic that he and others likely passed away unnaturally young as a result of some dangerous production decisions
Mercenaries caught a Stalker, brought him to the well, dipped him to the waist head down, held for a minute, pulled him out and ask: Got artifacts or money? Nope. Again they dip him, pull him out. Artifacts? Money? Nope. Again they dip him… Artifacts? Money? Stalkers patience’s running out… Look guys, either dip further or hold longer. The water’s murky, how the heck am I supposed to find anything?
Please everyone, read Roadside Picnic, the book is amazing ! EDIT : Also, the movie adaptation is freely available on TH-cam, the photography and ambiance are INSANE !
@thespacebagel9565 my bad, I kinda did that on purpose to sound funny, not like what I said was funny(cringe as fuck actually) js like, contradicting myself
I just paused my STALKER 2 playthrough to watch your video. It’s great to see so many people being introduced to this amazing universe. Incredible video, as always (and great choice of music for the intro 😉). Whether it’s the book, the movie, or the games, all these works are amazing and unique, and they deserve to be experienced by as many people as possible. Now I can dive back into the Zone.
this is genuinely one of the only TH-camrs i still get excited ab a new upload for. I don't think ive seen a video i didn't find informative, interesting or overall entertaining. Quality Content Riloe, Keep it up.
this is unironically one of the most beautiful videos ive watched in a hot minute, absolutely amazing writing and great content riloe. i wish to see you again one day, fellow Stalker
I once again find myself in awe at your diligence and your attention detail, youre a great storyteller and i like, many others, really do hope you continue to produce such a great content.
Roadside Picnic is my favorite SF book, after Solaris. Haunting, gritty and deep, they are unarguably science fiction but that is only a pretext for exploring ourselves. Unexpectedly, cause it's a very high bar, this video does them justice.
Fun fact: the name of the project "C-Consciousness ", i.e. Common Consciousness in russian (on which the game scenario was originally written) writes like Общее Сознание or shortly О-Сознание, which can be prononsed as an Awareness (Осознание)
"... the entire Zone; Everything it represents, the miracles found within, it's all a farce. This scar on the face of the Earth was born from the hubris of a small group of men. It's a meaningless accident that now serves as a mirror rather than a Divine Answer to Cosmic Questions; It says almost nothing about itself and everything about us through how we interact with it." I finally understand Jeff Vandermeer's 'Area X Trilogy' Wow, thank you Riloe 👍
the entire stalker franchise was born bc of the novel Roadside Picnic and, afaik, the novel and the games are almost identical save for the origins: stalker series starts bc of the chernobyl meltdown somehow fucking with reality while roadside picnic started by aliens visiting Earth for unknown reasons before suddenly leaving earth in a hurry, leaving behind their trash which are somehow so valuable to humans
@@Hyde-dg7ef stalker series of games is even deeper, the origin is from humans tampering with what they shouldn't and is almost a reflection on progression. The new stalker short film STALKER: Shadow Of The Zone) has a couple scenes that explain the basis of it as well as being an amazing piece of media
@@Hyde-dg7ef stalker doesnt start because of chornobyl, chornobyl was just used as a cover story for the experiments that accidentally lead to the creation of the zone
@@Hyde-dg7efYes to add to what someone else says, the CNPP disaster is actually not related to “The Zone” being created in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, it’s just the place the scientists chose to do their C-Consciousness experiment
NGL, i never tough you will make a Masterpiece like this about STALKER, Like the idea of you making a video about the games never went through my mind, glad i was wrong!
I can’t help but think that Michael Crichton’s “The Sphere” was based on (or ripped off) Strugatsky’s “Roadside Picnic”: Alien golden sphere in an nearly unreachable place manifesting unconscious desires to the horror and wonder of those who find it. I wish the world gave Strugatsky more credit. I’m glad you took it upon yourself to right that wrong. Time will tell if this video gets GOAT status, but I can already tell it has a permanent residence in my mind-palace… Excellent work, Riloe.
Just in time, I finished my cooking perfect don't know how to make complements more than your videos deserve, more than me fascinated watching it while I'm eating.
amazing video! I am glad you took on the subject that we are told what we want and persue it, instead of just living our lives the way we actually want to, even if we find ourselves lost or wrong with our own beliefs and needs. I know that wasn't your words exactly but that was my understanding related to it
I will always remember the first reading of roadside picnic, and then metro 2033. They were both incredible masterpieces that made me almost obsessed with their ideas. It’s SUCH a cool vibe
As a long time fan of the games, film and book, I must say that you've done an incredible job researching all of this and your presentation is fantastic. Phenomenal video!
This video is so well made! As a Russian speaker I can say that if somebody made smth like this in Russian (there are a few videos but either they are not that well made or not getting you deep enough like this video) this would rlly blow up with the stalker 2 coming out. Rlly hope everyone loved the video as much as me
This feels like heavy inspiration to the virtual reality game called into the radius. The story, lore, mechanics, art, and playstyle. It all matches. Some stuff differs, of course, because you are alone in into the radius and names for items are changed. But I like how much of stalker is used in a newer game.
Another masterwork from Riloe who seems to somehow know my interests on a deeply spiritual level. Roadside Picnic was my first exposure and then I went to play the games
when i clicked on this video i was expecting some game specific lore stuff, i am pleasantly surprised to have found this type of video instead. it was amazing.
Funnily enough, I also went into SoC blind, and I got the True Ending first try. I think it's because that also reflected my own desire: I wanted to know the truth. I wanted to explore. I wanted to save people. Throughout my entire journey, I risked bullets and medkits to keep my buddies alive (not counting enemies like Freedom since I sided with Duty---so I ended up having to assassinate the whole base just so Skull and his gang could live). I took unnecessary risks to check out unexplored areas. And I went through hell in the CNPP being so unprepared with not enough medical supplies and just barely enough ammo for my G36C. But it was worth it to know the truth.
Fantastic video! I recently picked up the audiobook of Roadside Picnic, as I was interested in STALKER 2 and wanted to learn where it came from, and I wasn't prepared for the richness of ideas it had embedded into what is a very down-to-earth, simple story. (Btw, the Strugatsky's comments at 2:30 about the origins of the term were written in the afterword of an edition of Roadside Picnic, an afterword you can readily find online. Also some great insight into how it came to be published and what it was like being a Soviet scifi writer during the middle and late days of the USSR.) I think beyond the way the ideas behind Stalkers and the Zone capture my imagination is how incredible it is that both a film and a game series jumped off from the book's core concepts with their own interpretations of the Zone and the people around it. But all of them keep the core questions and philosophical underpinnings of Roadside Picnic to some extent. Just goes to show how many of us can deeply connect to the Zone and its mysteries.
What a masterpiece of a video. This just put into words ideas I had about the stalker franchise, about my fascination with it, with the concept of survival itself. I feel like I understand myself better with this. Like I'm more of a person, almost.
I was 15 when I found Roadside picnic and that book has grown to become my all time favorite. Also the movie is I credibly well done and a tragic tale straight out of the zone in its own right and worth a watch.
Man I have to say, your editing style is like nothing I've seen before - was a huge fan of your Forever Winter video regardless of not being interested in playing the game. Hope to continue to see more videos from you in the future.
Awesome video! I'm not sure how you manage to discuss relatively dry (if interesting) subjects like philosophy and psychology in such an utterly compelling way, but I'm glad for it.
I could comment about philosophy or game design or STALKER itself, but instead I'd like to point out the video editing: I never expected my favorite soundtrack (Halo 3: ODST) to work _so well_ with ODST. Good find, my man. Nice work.
I saw your forever winter video and immediately thought of stalker, i love the execution and the approach you took to explaining the series. The only thing on my bingo board now is a titanfall video
I knew this was coming and couldn't wait. I knew everything included, but I knew Riloe would put together a banger. This is my favorite game series. I first played the originals before putting hundreds of hours playing Stalker Anomaly, playing through with every faction start. Absolutely well done, Riloe. Good hunting, stalkers
24:38 For those interested, I happen to know what this song is called, and wanted to tell others. Its a song from in-game in STALKER that the npc’s can play on their guitars called “he was a good stalker”
I watched the Stalker movie just out of curiosity after finding out it was inspiration for the games and was blown away. It immediately became part of my top 5 movies. It’s sensational I couldn’t recommend it enough
Exactly, going in blind is the best experience. I watched the movie first, but walking around Cordon for the first time was like, "wtf is going on around here?" and then it gets crazier. That's more of a surface level compared to this video, but going in blind is best for both ways. Nothing like being sleep deprived and then seeing objects in a dark tunnel start to levitate and thrown.
This is but a lone comment designed from the ground up to appease the algorithm we have begrudgingly resisted and accepted as the guide to our interests and subjective experiences manifest as media. That said, let this comment raise this video in the algorithmic queue of worldly interests and topics. Amen.
25:34 I don't think this is true, actually. I'm fairly certain that the Strugatsky brothers intended for the book to be pure science fiction and not be tainted by Cold War politics, as evidenced by them choosing to base it in an unnamed region of North America (which very well might have been in Canada, and not the US), rather than in their home country of the USSR.
I would agree it wasn't about "cold war politics" per se. But the book is a clear critique of capitalism, and while not a direct part of the story, the Strugatskys were CONSTANTLY fighting soviet censors to tell the stories they actually wanted to tell. Picnic was one of the worst, and it took years to actually get past the artistic beauracracy's censorship. The afterword of the new editions of the book, written by Boris, goes into this pretty heavily
I love that i had a similar incident with Fox in SOC. I was walking by his place on my way to check something out and decided to stop and talk to him to see if he had any other missions at the moment. While i was there some bandits walked by and started shooting at me through the window of his building. As I was shooting back I heard a noise behind me and when I finished the fight and turned around I found that Fox had stood up and taken a shot to the head that had barely missed mine.
as a genZer with a short attention span, I have the pleasure to tell you I stayed for the whole 20 minutes of x2 speed video. you're the best. the sheer quality of the content is crazy, friend.
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about foreign words that cant be translated in other language/English , our language has a story... just like "Tocka"
in my country we have a famous author , and his novel was getting translated into English, he himself was super fluent in English sonce did his Ph.d in USA
but they had a problem, the final sentence in his book mentioned a certain simple emotion that they realized had no proper translation, it was a problem cuz the whole story and the character development feels exponentially less poignant and kinda meaningless if they cant translate the emotion mentioned in the last sentence. it is not even a unique or too weird emotiom either. in author's word he wrote the whole story building up for the last sentence
so the author wrote about the experience as "The americans feel angry, get sad, they grieve, feel frustrated, get dissapointed , but they never feel the emotion of *insert the word* . truly bizarre "
i still feel weirded out that English speaking people around the world dont have the concept of that particular melancholic but endearing emotion
"Scientists HATE this ONE trick!!" Scav: "i eat the artifacts"
Crunchy Scav Zhorik ASMR Ep.1 - Mica
Anomalous Bread moment
@@Haw3k121 if Mica didn't want to be eaten then why do they look so tasty?
bandits*
As a Stalker vet, I'm jealous of these rookies getting to wander into The Zone for the first time. I set foot in The Zone when I was 12. I left it often, but it never left me. We cannot resist its siren call
I'm actually installing to play for the first time rn
@@Virgil-280 it’s something that makes me worry on more primitive thing, like basic survival. Not taxes, or payments, or gas. Just my ammo, meds, and carry space.
I left the Zone nearly 13 years ago... it cried out to me, to return, and i listened.
You can take a man out of the Zone, but the Zone never leaves the man. It's with us always. It's Home.
Sidenote: Tarkovsky, his wife Larissa that acted in the movie and the protagonist, Anatoly died of "suspicious caused" cancer some years after the movie.
It was recorded in an abandoned complex of chemical factories and the river is contaminated
And also almost the third of the rest of the movie production crew if i remember well !
@@low_sky9 yes it’s truly sad. Tarkovsky and the others involved gave up a lot to see that production through, and it’s tragic that he and others likely passed away unnaturally young as a result of some dangerous production decisions
@@riloegaming SAD
That is a romantic myth that film lovers(like myself when younger) want to believe. He died of lung cancer.
@@simonjohnston9488lmfao not helping your case buddy.
Mercenaries caught a Stalker, brought him to the well, dipped him to the waist head down, held for a minute, pulled him out and ask:
Got artifacts or money?
Nope. Again they dip him, pull him out.
Artifacts? Money?
Nope. Again they dip him…
Artifacts? Money? Stalkers patience’s running out…
Look guys, either dip further or hold longer. The water’s murky, how the heck am I supposed to find anything?
Lmao good one
Peak writing
It's one of the jokes Loners say at the campfire
Ha! That's so funny, I forgot to laugh. 😅
One of my favourite stalker jokes
Please everyone, read Roadside Picnic, the book is amazing !
EDIT : Also, the movie adaptation is freely available on TH-cam, the photography and ambiance are INSANE !
I can't find it on you tube. Can you pls give me the link
@@nobodycares6633Stalker FULL MOVIE Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky
The quality of this video is unparalleled to anything I've seen before
I second this, gotta say, this is fire, baller, goated, quite magnificent, and a display of true art. One might say, true cinema
It’s good, but were you given internet access like yesterday?
@@thespacebagel9565 yeah
@thespacebagel9565 my bad, I kinda did that on purpose to sound funny, not like what I said was funny(cringe as fuck actually) js like, contradicting myself
The power of max level editing and writing
The wish of a simple man is the most terrifying one.
I just paused my STALKER 2 playthrough to watch your video. It’s great to see so many people being introduced to this amazing universe. Incredible video, as always (and great choice of music for the intro 😉). Whether it’s the book, the movie, or the games, all these works are amazing and unique, and they deserve to be experienced by as many people as possible. Now I can dive back into the Zone.
Just started today! Loving it so far
The Strugatsky brothers were amazing, Roadside, Mountain Inn, Hard to be a King... all genius
this is genuinely one of the only TH-camrs i still get excited ab a new upload for. I don't think ive seen a video i didn't find informative, interesting or overall entertaining. Quality Content Riloe, Keep it up.
Thank you 🙌
CuriousArchive is another great channel.
this is unironically one of the most beautiful videos ive watched in a hot minute, absolutely amazing writing and great content riloe.
i wish to see you again one day, fellow Stalker
Thank you so much!
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Now I understand why my youngest brother spoke so highly of the game when he first played. Your analysis goes quite deep. Pretty damn good job.
I want A-LIFE 2 to fully arrive. I want that consistency of things happening.
I once again find myself in awe at your diligence and your attention detail, youre a great storyteller and i like, many others, really do hope you continue to produce such a great content.
Roadside Picnic is my favorite SF book, after Solaris. Haunting, gritty and deep, they are unarguably science fiction but that is only a pretext for exploring ourselves.
Unexpectedly, cause it's a very high bar, this video does them justice.
@@florinadrian5174 thank you!
Fun fact: the name of the project "C-Consciousness ", i.e. Common Consciousness in russian (on which the game scenario was originally written) writes like Общее Сознание or shortly О-Сознание, which can be prononsed as an Awareness (Осознание)
2:17 The way I keeled over, why did you have to say DECADES old like that 😂 you hurt me man 🤌🏼
Lol
"... the entire Zone; Everything it represents, the miracles found within, it's all a farce. This scar on the face of the Earth was born from the hubris of a small group of men. It's a meaningless accident that now serves as a mirror rather than a Divine Answer to Cosmic Questions; It says almost nothing about itself and everything about us through how we interact with it."
I finally understand Jeff Vandermeer's 'Area X Trilogy'
Wow, thank you Riloe 👍
Hey that’s awesome to hear, thank you!
Riloe. I watched the movie yesterday and I am so thankful for your video. Please more of this, you are so talented
STALKER has to be the most atmospheric and melancholic game in all of gaming, and I always loved it for that!
Enjoyed this video while playing stalker 2 listening to the rain and owl outside. Was a good night.
As soon I heard "stalker" and "zone" I knew this was Chernobyl!
I didn't know it was a novel reference, however.
the entire stalker franchise was born bc of the novel Roadside Picnic and, afaik, the novel and the games are almost identical save for the origins: stalker series starts bc of the chernobyl meltdown somehow fucking with reality while roadside picnic started by aliens visiting Earth for unknown reasons before suddenly leaving earth in a hurry, leaving behind their trash which are somehow so valuable to humans
@@Hyde-dg7ef stalker series of games is even deeper, the origin is from humans tampering with what they shouldn't and is almost a reflection on progression. The new stalker short film STALKER: Shadow Of The Zone) has a couple scenes that explain the basis of it as well as being an amazing piece of media
It’s totally worth reading Roadside Picnic. It’s a great book.
@@Hyde-dg7ef stalker doesnt start because of chornobyl, chornobyl was just used as a cover story for the experiments that accidentally lead to the creation of the zone
@@Hyde-dg7efYes to add to what someone else says, the CNPP disaster is actually not related to “The Zone” being created in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, it’s just the place the scientists chose to do their C-Consciousness experiment
NGL, i never tough you will make a Masterpiece like this about STALKER, Like the idea of you making a video about the games never went through my mind, glad i was wrong!
Best vid combining all the parts with nice narration and beautiful illustrations.
Incredible masterpiece.
I can’t help but think that Michael Crichton’s “The Sphere” was based on (or ripped off) Strugatsky’s “Roadside Picnic”: Alien golden sphere in an nearly unreachable place manifesting unconscious desires to the horror and wonder of those who find it. I wish the world gave Strugatsky more credit. I’m glad you took it upon yourself to right that wrong. Time will tell if this video gets GOAT status, but I can already tell it has a permanent residence in my mind-palace… Excellent work, Riloe.
I watched through the whole advertisement, because you made it sound interesting
Thank you for your part in fulfilling Red's wish. Great content, great editing and format.
И чтобы никто не остался обиженным...
Just in time, I finished my cooking perfect don't know how to make complements more than your videos deserve, more than me fascinated watching it while I'm eating.
One of the most elegant and entertaining videos I've seen. bravo.
amazing video! I am glad you took on the subject that we are told what we want and persue it, instead of just living our lives the way we actually want to, even if we find ourselves lost or wrong with our own beliefs and needs. I know that wasn't your words exactly but that was my understanding related to it
this needs way more love. good freaking job man.
STALKER is a niche series for one specific reason, its not a game series or a novel or a movie, its a vibe
I will always remember the first reading of roadside picnic, and then metro 2033. They were both incredible masterpieces that made me almost obsessed with their ideas. It’s SUCH a cool vibe
@@CaptainAugust I need to read Metro next!
@ the 2nd and 3rd ones are decent but the first one is the masterpiece, definitely a must read
@@riloegamingIt’s another slow read full of philosophical musings on human nature like Roadside Picnic. You’d definitely love it.
It's "тоска́" in russian. And "ту́га“ ( in some cases "журба́" ) in ukranian. Apart from that, great video 🔥
As a long time fan of the games, film and book, I must say that you've done an incredible job researching all of this and your presentation is fantastic. Phenomenal video!
Another Riloe 10/10, keep up the good work
17:20 and yet he yerns for the mines!!!!!!
This video is so well made! As a Russian speaker I can say that if somebody made smth like this in Russian (there are a few videos but either they are not that well made or not getting you deep enough like this video) this would rlly blow up with the stalker 2 coming out. Rlly hope everyone loved the video as much as me
This feels like heavy inspiration to the virtual reality game called into the radius. The story, lore, mechanics, art, and playstyle. It all matches. Some stuff differs, of course, because you are alone in into the radius and names for items are changed. But I like how much of stalker is used in a newer game.
The quality growth with every new video u make. I thought it would be a Stalker 2 review, and did not expect the depth of the analysis
Another masterwork from Riloe who seems to somehow know my interests on a deeply spiritual level. Roadside Picnic was my first exposure and then I went to play the games
Pure goosebumps. This might be my favorite video of your Riloe ❤❤❤
Going into the movie especially, but the whole thing entirely, is absolutely the best way to do it
when i clicked on this video i was expecting some game specific lore stuff, i am pleasantly surprised to have found this type of video instead. it was amazing.
Thank you!
I have loved Stalker, Roadside Picnic, and all of its inspirations for so long, so this got me an instant subscribe.
Funnily enough, I also went into SoC blind, and I got the True Ending first try. I think it's because that also reflected my own desire:
I wanted to know the truth. I wanted to explore. I wanted to save people.
Throughout my entire journey, I risked bullets and medkits to keep my buddies alive (not counting enemies like Freedom since I sided with Duty---so I ended up having to assassinate the whole base just so Skull and his gang could live). I took unnecessary risks to check out unexplored areas. And I went through hell in the CNPP being so unprepared with not enough medical supplies and just barely enough ammo for my G36C.
But it was worth it to know the truth.
Fantastic video! I recently picked up the audiobook of Roadside Picnic, as I was interested in STALKER 2 and wanted to learn where it came from, and I wasn't prepared for the richness of ideas it had embedded into what is a very down-to-earth, simple story. (Btw, the Strugatsky's comments at 2:30 about the origins of the term were written in the afterword of an edition of Roadside Picnic, an afterword you can readily find online. Also some great insight into how it came to be published and what it was like being a Soviet scifi writer during the middle and late days of the USSR.) I think beyond the way the ideas behind Stalkers and the Zone capture my imagination is how incredible it is that both a film and a game series jumped off from the book's core concepts with their own interpretations of the Zone and the people around it. But all of them keep the core questions and philosophical underpinnings of Roadside Picnic to some extent. Just goes to show how many of us can deeply connect to the Zone and its mysteries.
What a masterpiece of a video.
This just put into words ideas I had about the stalker franchise, about my fascination with it, with the concept of survival itself. I feel like I understand myself better with this. Like I'm more of a person, almost.
Very nice video , analysis , synopsis. Perfect little cozy morning watch. Thank you kindly for your time .
I was 15 when I found Roadside picnic and that book has grown to become my all time favorite. Also the movie is I credibly well done and a tragic tale straight out of the zone in its own right and worth a watch.
Beautiful video. I love games and media that say more about the viewer than anything else, and STALKER definitely can match up to that.
Man I have to say, your editing style is like nothing I've seen before - was a huge fan of your Forever Winter video regardless of not being interested in playing the game. Hope to continue to see more videos from you in the future.
Cheers!
Damn.... This is right up there with Jacob Geller. Nice work. Your pragmatic way of explaining is pleasant to listen to.
HOLY SHIT Riloe and STALKER what a combo!
This video is absolutely amazing. I'm so glad I found your channel a few weeks ago.
You are so brave for admitting you went to the wish granter in your very first playthrough🙏
Awesome video! I'm not sure how you manage to discuss relatively dry (if interesting) subjects like philosophy and psychology in such an utterly compelling way, but I'm glad for it.
I could comment about philosophy or game design or STALKER itself, but instead I'd like to point out the video editing: I never expected my favorite soundtrack (Halo 3: ODST) to work _so well_ with ODST. Good find, my man. Nice work.
@@CRDubU Halo OSTs on top!
They say the better the art is the better it must be at reflecting reality
Monolith? Oh monolith, hear my calls, I cannot hear you monolith. Where are you monolith, oh monolith, you have left your children.
I saw your forever winter video and immediately thought of stalker, i love the execution and the approach you took to explaining the series. The only thing on my bingo board now is a titanfall video
Aweome video. Loved that ending.
Best gaming commentary vids on all of YT and it’s not even close.
I knew this was coming and couldn't wait. I knew everything included, but I knew Riloe would put together a banger. This is my favorite game series. I first played the originals before putting hundreds of hours playing Stalker Anomaly, playing through with every faction start. Absolutely well done, Riloe. Good hunting, stalkers
A 40 minute Riloe video. We eating good tonight lads
I love your videos and I'm glad you decided to cover Stalker & Roadside Picnic
Every vid from this dude is better than the most recent AAA games, this man is incredible.
24:38
For those interested, I happen to know what this song is called, and wanted to tell others. Its a song from in-game in STALKER that the npc’s can play on their guitars called “he was a good stalker”
I watched the Stalker movie just out of curiosity after finding out it was inspiration for the games and was blown away. It immediately became part of my top 5 movies. It’s sensational I couldn’t recommend it enough
Longest video on this channel and a subject that is of mass interest to me?!?! Zooo wee mama, i gotta watch this later
Well, that dove SLIGHTLY deeper than I was expecting.
Dungeon Meshi's dungeon could be considered a zone funyli enough
@@nobody4248 love dungeon meshi!!
@riloegaming have you finished the manga, because I found some interesting pararels between some reveals and plot points in the second half.
Exactly, going in blind is the best experience. I watched the movie first, but walking around Cordon for the first time was like, "wtf is going on around here?" and then it gets crazier. That's more of a surface level compared to this video, but going in blind is best for both ways. Nothing like being sleep deprived and then seeing objects in a dark tunnel start to levitate and thrown.
@@frost8077 I’m honestly so glad I never got the majority of SoC spoiled! It was a great expeirence
The Chernobyl cleaners (irl) called themselves Stalkers after Roadside Picnic.
Yes! Kupnyi, whose footage I used throughout the video was one such case
Always making be love and appreciate the thing you are covering ever more.
Finally! Someone who can put to words what I've been feeling about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. this whole time!
Brilliantly told and conveyed. Thankyou
This is but a lone comment designed from the ground up to appease the algorithm we have begrudgingly resisted and accepted as the guide to our interests and subjective experiences manifest as media. That said, let this comment raise this video in the algorithmic queue of worldly interests and topics. Amen.
I read the book but hadn't had a chance to watch the movie yet. I guess this as good an excuse as any to finally watch it. I shall return!
Fun fact the movie annihilation is another Stalker-like, its got all the trappings.
Subscribed, hopefully more well spoken, high quality videos to come. I love learning
Thanks for preventing the spoil ! I've watch the movie and read the book but i'm currently playing the games
Another Banger!
Thank you for this piece.
I knew it! If anyone was going to make a unique video on stalker 2, it was Riloe.
Well, it has nothing to do with Stalker 2 😅 but thank you!
jup, i suppose just stalker makes more sence in that sentance, however my brain was thinking about the timing of the video. Great content though.
@ of course it was in honor of the first new stalker game in decades!
"He was a good Stalker" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
First frame is actually from the movie Nice one
I enjoyed this and found it interesting, thank you for sharing it with us.
Love your vids dude
This might be your best yet
Also I deadass jumped out my seat when I saw a 40 minute Riloe video
You can always count on Riloe to deliver a banger at 7 in the morning
25:34 I don't think this is true, actually. I'm fairly certain that the Strugatsky brothers intended for the book to be pure science fiction and not be tainted by Cold War politics, as evidenced by them choosing to base it in an unnamed region of North America (which very well might have been in Canada, and not the US), rather than in their home country of the USSR.
I would agree it wasn't about "cold war politics" per se. But the book is a clear critique of capitalism, and while not a direct part of the story, the Strugatskys were CONSTANTLY fighting soviet censors to tell the stories they actually wanted to tell. Picnic was one of the worst, and it took years to actually get past the artistic beauracracy's censorship. The afterword of the new editions of the book, written by Boris, goes into this pretty heavily
Wow awesome video thank you for the lore breakdown and literary analysis
This was beautiful!!!
I love that i had a similar incident with Fox in SOC. I was walking by his place on my way to check something out and decided to stop and talk to him to see if he had any other missions at the moment. While i was there some bandits walked by and started shooting at me through the window of his building. As I was shooting back I heard a noise behind me and when I finished the fight and turned around I found that Fox had stood up and taken a shot to the head that had barely missed mine.
RIP Fox 🫡
This byfsr is my favorite stalker lore video
as a genZer with a short attention span, I have the pleasure to tell you I stayed for the whole 20 minutes of x2 speed video. you're the best. the sheer quality of the content is crazy, friend.
Roadside picnic is so awesome. I recommend everyone read it.
So well written it feels like an Arcane's episode