Author Topic: Thinking of buying S.T.A.L.K.E.R (Read 874 times)

Reno Konishino · May 28, 2012, 07:53:05 PM

I am thinking of buying the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games but I can only afford one. So I just wanted some feed back on Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Skies, or Call of Pripyat Which one is better?

Thanks for the feed back

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Tokthree · May 28, 2012, 07:55:22 PM

If you're going for the STALKER games then you need to get SoC first because it was the first released and contains a lot of important details about the story

Reno Konishino · May 28, 2012, 08:02:45 PM

Ah I didn't really consider story thanks.

Morpheus · May 28, 2012, 08:27:06 PM

Just wait until summer sale when they are like 2 bucks a piece.

fred da kiko · May 28, 2012, 08:39:12 PM

i heard ess tee ay ell kay ee arr is a pretty good game...

Extrude · May 28, 2012, 08:40:20 PM

Just get ArmA CO and DayZ. It's like Stalker minus the fact that Stalker has so many horrid features and mechanics.

Tammy · May 28, 2012, 08:47:29 PM

yeah I didn't like Stalker much personally. It has some original ideas but they were not executed very well. I dunno, I might pick it up again if I get really board this summer.

Tokthree · May 28, 2012, 08:50:31 PM

Quote from: Extrude on May 28, 2012, 08:40:20 PM

Just get ArmA CO and DayZ. It's like Stalker minus the fact that Stalker has so many horrid features and mechanics.

>DayZ, a mod which provides a realistic representation of a zombie apocalypse in the form of a game.
>STALKER, a game which involves an alternate reality in which the Chernobyl reactor blew up a second time and did some really crazy stuff.
>Either of them are like each-other in any way other than the fact that they both have guns and are both technically apocalyptically themed games.

Come on now Extrude, that's bullstuff

Reno Konishino · May 28, 2012, 08:52:12 PM

Morpheus Has a point I will just wait. Thanks for all the replies

Extrude · May 28, 2012, 08:53:37 PM

They have very similar gameplay mechanics, both rely a lot on searching, killing, and raiding. Plus in DayZ bullet drop isn't so severe you have to use the guns like an artillery cannon during a firefight.

Tokthree · May 28, 2012, 08:54:54 PM

I've never had such exaggerated problems with the ballistics in any of the STALKER games, not even in Clear Sky

Tomcat · May 28, 2012, 08:56:39 PM

Quote from: Extrude on May 28, 2012, 08:53:37 PM

They have very similar gameplay mechanics, both rely a lot on searching, killing, and raiding. Plus in DayZ bullet drop isn't so severe you have to use the guns like an artillery cannon during a firefight.

Hahaha- no.
And no, STALKER is much more contained- you don't really do much raiding or searching. There isn't a open world multiplayer in STALKER or a single player campaign in DayZ. Plus you don't have to wait 10 minutes to get into a game and search for 8 hours to find a can of spaghetti.

Extrude · May 28, 2012, 08:58:19 PM

I guess I've been playing it wrong because all I did in the 3 total hours I've played is kill any random campers I find.

zackin5 · May 28, 2012, 09:05:29 PM

Play SHoC first. And without any mods, Not even STALKER: Complete (It changes the game play to be easier and adds cheat-ey things)

Tokthree · May 28, 2012, 09:08:33 PM

Complete adds jack stuff apart from graphical tweaks, it's not even very well made for what it is