What kinda sucks today is that there just isn't any humor in any games, fps or not. Everything just gets darker and grittier, which isn't bad, except that all games are doing that now, so they kind of look the same. Oh well.lysol3000

That definitely seems like a trend, Team Fortress 2 looks like a refreshing change though, with all the characters looking Pixar/Incredibles-like.

I have to say Oblivion wasn't optimised very well. I havn't played Stalker so I can't say much about that. Oblivion is a massive game, but there are third party optimization mods and tweaks that make the game look much better and play much better (I would say some of the tweaks and improvements are essential to the PC version). How many games are there that Gamespot does a "Make it pretty" feature for?