S.T.A.L.K.E.R = Terrible?

I first played this only recently and didn't use any mods that time - certainly didn't think it looked crap!

What did you expect from a nuclear disaster zone ?!

Will defo have to try it out with one or two of the mods and see if I can complete the game - I got as far as Pripryat last time but lost my saves somewhere along the line :/
 
TheOtherOption said:
I first played this only recently and didn't use any mods that time - certainly didn't think it looked crap!

What did you expect from a nuclear disaster zone ?!

Will defo have to try it out with one or two of the mods and see if I can complete the game - I got as far as Pripryat last time but lost my saves somewhere along the line :/
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In my opinion of playing this game I'd say that the Pripyat level in Call of Duty 4 is both more atmoshperic and more realistic a portrayal of the aftermath of the disaster.
 
I will have to play the level before commenting directly but I did enjoy the CoD 4 version - it had a similar deserted/rusting look and feel to it but with the masses of enemies to deal with.

I will have to get Stalker installed again and apply a few of the mods and see how different it looks / plays!
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
In my opinion of playing this game I'd say that the Pripyat level in Call of Duty 4 is both more atmoshperic and more realistic a portrayal of the aftermath of the disaster.
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How have you managed to get to Pripyat already?!! Must have been playing non-stop since starting this thread and saying that you hadn't really given the game much time!!!
 
I've been using a guide to work through the game, but yeah, I did post that some hours ago! :p

By the way, I've never been to Pripyat, I'm just basing the realism level on pictures and articles I've read on the internet.
 
Stalker with the 2009 complete mod is absolutely awesome. The graphics, lighting and texturing (parallax) were also very very good for when it came out; the Complete mod builds upon this with newer, more refined graphics, along with tweaked ballistics, better lighting/HDR and better translations (along with the ability to sleep etc), becomes an absolutely beautiful and also pretty damned hard game. Definately worth a play through. [Oh and night time can be pretty damned nasty in some areas in the complete mod]

I actually really liked the original version, but the 2009 Complete mod really does take it up to that next level.

Give it a shot, it's worth it; just expect it to eat video RAM!

Also...don't use a guide :(

Half the point of this game is exploration...
 
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K1LLSW1TCH said:
I've been using a guide to work through the game, but yeah, I did post that some hours ago! :p

By the way, I've never been to Pripyat, I'm just basing the realism level on pictures and articles I've read on the internet.
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Fair enough, good effort :D Can't dislike it as much as you imply in the first post then :p
 
Thought it had some interesting missions but it didn't strike me as anything special and the constant walking between missions did my head in. Wouldn't give it any more than 5 or 6 out of 10.
 
manic111 said:
Fair enough, good effort :D Can't dislike it as much as you imply in the first post then :p
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Thank you. :) And I'd say that I'm certainly enjoying it more now than I was previously. But, it's still requiring my imagination to fill in the blanks with the horrific English in this game. I'd brand myself something of a grammar Nazi, unfortuantely.
 
STALKER was a great game IMO, although at first i was put off because it was far from what i was used to. I see stalker was one of them games where the story and the environment outweighs any problems with the graphics or translation. Not many games have given me a story that was good enough that i just kept playing through the problems and issues i had just to continue the story.
 
Duff-Man said:
I could never get into STALKER either. I found fallout3 to be the game I was expecting STALKER to be.
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It's a Marmite game for sure. To me, FO3 felt like a Disney version of STALKER. Of course, FO3 didn't take 3-4 hours to get going; it was finished by then :p (yes I know explore, side quests etc they were just padding IMO)

Alexrose1uk said:
Stalker with the 2009 complete mod is absolutely awesome. The graphics, lighting and texturing (parallax) were also very very good for when it came out; the Complete mod builds upon this with newer, more refined graphics, along with tweaked ballistics, better lighting/HDR and better translations (along with the ability to sleep etc), becomes an absolutely beautiful and also pretty damned hard game. Definately worth a play through. [Oh and night time can be pretty damned nasty in some areas in the complete mod.
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I've just tried the Complete Mod, won't launch. Should I need install the official patches before I install Complete Mod?
 
I would patch it fully first. Strangely the only versions of the latest patch I could fine were the Russian and US versions. There was one website I found the worldwide latest patch from but the downloaded file was corrupted. :(
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
Thank you. :) And I'd say that I'm certainly enjoying it more now than I was previously. But, it's still requiring my imagination to fill in the blanks with the horrific English in this game. I'd brand myself something of a grammar Nazi, unfortuantely.
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Definately get that Complete mod on then! Patch Stalker to 1.5/6, then install the latest version of the complete mod and patch if needed (theres a link to the official site in the thread around here somewhere). One of the things it includes is a tidy up of the russian to english translation.
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
Well, it's supposed to be based in a real world setting. No? Pripyat is a real place.
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A real world place but in an alternate reality. i.e. 'the zone' exists in the game, but not in real life. Although my understanding was that the developers spent a long time mapping the levels in the game to the actual place - there were a few articles floating about during the development of the game talking about the numerous visits they'd mate to the site to document and photograph the location. I thought it looked pretty amazing tbh. And likewise the COD level.

That is quite insane that you've raced all the way to Pripyat in such a short space of time. I would imagine using a guide would pretty much ruin the game - it's all about exploring and working out for yourself how to survive. It just reads like you really want to play it like it was Call of Duty or something, which is fine if that's what you're after, but you're not really going to get much of a flavour for the game as it was intended to be played doing that. It would surely take all the fear, suspense and exploration out of the game - which were the foundations of the whole thing for me.
 
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