Better question for me would be - When was the last time a game you played on PC that *wasn't* good?
Cuz seriously, it's been a while for me. Just about everything I've played in the last year or more has been good-to-brilliant.
Then again, I usually research what I buy and dont just jump into anything blindly. So I usually know which are duds or wont fit my tastes and rarely find myself disappointed.
Never played Stalker! I've got them all I think, but I left PC gaming when they first came out as at the time I couldn't keep up with PC upgrades and console convenience took over.
I later saw the light again...but can't help but think Stalker would be really dated now? Or not....?
I played Call of Pripyat a couple years ago, my first Stalker game and yea, it felt very dated. The actual gunplay is just terrible, the environment is not very big and locations tend to be pretty underwhelming. Open world gaming has just moved on so much in various ways.
Stalker has a lot of great ideas and a great atmosphere, but I really wasn't enamored with actually playing it. Wasn't something I'd call a bad game by any means, I just wasn't really getting hooked into it. Your mileage may vary, of course. Some people will enjoy what it offers more than I did.