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gb_remake:
Agreed about Doom3 production value. Game feels like quality work.

I got Stalker: Call of Pripyat recently - couldn't resist picking it up at the ridiculous bargain price it's going for. ShoC was such an uber-awesome game, I thought CoP couldn't be that much worse...

Turns out CoP is very different in some key aspects; everything to do with anomalies and artifacts is different. Actually I like it better - anomalies are now concentrated in unique "anomaly fields" and there are handheld detectors to locate artifacts. The other thing is that killing mutants is now completely pointless since they don't drop anything - not sure I like that. The default attitude of anyone (except mutants and Monolith!) is now Neutral - a bit weird that Bandits aren't "bad guys" anymore. It's more of an RPG in general, but at the same time combat got a lot tougher. Right now (2/3 of the way through) I like the game a lot, but I wonder how replayable it is since unlike ShoC you can't simply go on a killing spree and sell the loot - it is very quest-oriented (think "less random encounters") and the number of quests is finite. We'll see how much sense the freeplay makes.

Anyway, Stalker: Call of Pripyat is a worthy game, even though it can't top the first game in the series when it comes to story and immersion. In some ways, it is probably better even if it doesn't have that aura of utter exceptional awesomeness that ShoC had. It is good that the two games are rather different; this way it's a new experience instead of just a rehash and a good and worthy sequel.

Guess I'll have to buy "Clear Sky" as well then. I heard overwhelmingly negative things about that, but how bad can it be? It's a STALKER game.

Spiney:
I've played Shadows Of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat back to back. Started Clear Sky, but haven't played much since.
Not because it's bad, I'm only at the beginning, but had enough Stalker for a while at the moment.

Really magnificent, special games. I really enjoy the hunter-gatherer sandbox aspect of it. It's the kind of game I wish big studios would pay more attention to.
Make sure to instal the 'Stalker complete' mods, they improve the games on several aspects, also gets rid of a lot of bugs.

Might play through again when I get a new gpu sometime next year.
Engine performance is kind of sluggish on higher settings for me. I feel like it should run a bit more smoothly then it does.

gb_remake:
I run it on Static Lighting because of that. The levels are huge and detailed, so it's excused for running slow...

Special games, yeah. It's more open and more anarchistic than Crysis for example. More RPG, too.

gb_remake:
Any of you guys have farcebook?

ijed:
Never!

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