People saying that it's fine to play STALKER on easier difficulties just because they don't want to die a lot and that they want to take in the story and setting are completely missing the point of STALKER.
I swear, you guys wouldn't even play the STALKER games if the difficulty had been anything like it was originally planned, I'm not that good a gamer but I at least play on veteran difficulty in all mods except for People's Soup where I play on the hardest difficulty, though that's mostly because there's no difference between easiest and hardest in that mod.
I'm no masochist, but I enjoy STALKER when it's a game which will kill me if I don't play it right, because that's the kind of game it was always meant to be.
Also; anyone who legitimately thinks that Complete is a good mod has obviously never played any other mod and, most likely, has never played above STALKER difficulty at most