S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat System Requirements, More Screenshots Arrive

I think STALKER represents the PC platform fairly well. Most importantly it shows the amazing potential, stalker barely taps into the FPS free roam rpg hybrid gaming that we saw I guess way back in the Deus Ex days, but STALKER does atmosphere better than anything, lonely desolate.

But alas their QA process is fail. Clear Sky was just far too buggy for a prequel to a buggy game that everybody said was just too damn unstable and crash happy. I think GSC need to just outsource the QA or do something like increasing the QA at least double that of any of the previous games. Yes they have plenty of room to expand the game mechanics but they really need to nail what they have now, not let stalkers knock you away from cover or have enemies through grenades 99% at your feet...or have the damn thing crash.

Oh and one more thing if they resort to terrible, atrocious linear crap at the end like Pripyat in SHoC or Limansk in Clear Sky they are not reading adequate feedback, the best parts of STALKER are not the parts where they try to be COD 4 or any other game, just be STALKER minus the bugs. Thanks

At least these guys can start and finish their games...and not take 12 years to fail. Just sayin'.

I love the STALKER games, but I gave up after bandits robbed me for all my money in Clear Sky.

I mean that's just unfair. I should give it another try though.

I'll buy this because it is STALKER, ansd the atmosphere of these games have been brilliant and unique.

That said though, they reall need to fix the end of these games. The first STALKER and Clear Sky were both ruined with a 'rush to the power plant' effort towards the last quarter of the game, where a large section of the map became irrelevant and your customised weapon that you spent time and money improving became useless because you had to use the ammo left behind by the endless hundreds of exo-skeleton wearing Monoliths en route to the Chernobyl NPP.

Up to that point though, despite he bugs...games were pretty awesome.

I never got the STALKER craze (although, I thought it was an okay game.) To me, it seemed like the game failed to create an interesting world. Much of the game was empty and bland. A lot of the dialog was also written.. instead of you know.. spoken like every other game has done it for the last half a decade. Many things felt forced/contrived. Not to generalize, but stalker seems very much based on the russian philosophy of functionality. The game "works" but I don't know if GSG realizes that games need to be interesting and compelling. Nothing much ever happened. The zone is supposedly this mysterious place full of danger and wealth, but nothing you experienced made it seem that intriguing.

Stalker seems to really be pushing the visuals, but they also need to create a set of interesting, believable characters, that feel more like real people and not robots, stuck in the zone to facilitate the narrative or something. During the few times that the diaglog was spoken, it had about as much emotion as Microsoft sam. Don't get me wrong, I care about graphics (and they do make a game funner in my opinion), but it seems like they're passing over some other, more fundamental aspects of the game.

The zone's danger had physically isolated it from the outside world due to the danger it posed, but this is the 21st century for crying out loud. You would hear a news report, or some sort of radio message. Just an idea.

I'm a big fan of both SoC and CS but they both have the same problems with bugs and optimization. I play Far Cry 2 on high settings at faster speeds than I play CS or SoC on high. I think we can all agree that FC2 has much better graphics so why the hell is CS and SoC more cumbersome?
I love the games but the whether the problem lies with the engine or the developers it needs to be fixed.
Perhaps an engine change is in order? I think it'd be pretty incredible to see Stalker on the CryEngine.

Wow ANOTHER S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. As if Two Bugged out Crazy Crash Rides weren't enough, they now got another one. -_- But hey I bought the 1st game about a year and a half after release. It wasn't all that bad but I mean S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has been known to release with so many bugs that the first few months are unplayable.

Hopefully they haven't completely given up on their original vision for the game. Does anybody remember when STALKER was first announced? It sounded like a cross between Far Cry 2 and Oblivion. They ended up having to cut their feature list in half. I was surprised they went in a different direction with Clear Sky.

I bought Clear Sky, but it crashed after 15 minutes and I never loaded it up again for whatever reason.

10min video footage of Stalker - Call of Pripyat
http://games.tiscali.cz/news/news.asp?id=32854&r=top

It's not great quality the movie.I do hope that this game has a better storyline and sidequest than the previous ones.Because i found them pretty weak and boring.

SO EXCITED.

I really had to drag myself through Clear Sky to finish it. I liked the original, but CS was just not that impressive. Probably going to skip this one.

I'll buy this.

Oh god please be stable, within at least a month, they never really did finish Clear Sky. I love the Stalker games but the bugs from the last 2 are a serious turn off now. I am very apprehensive about buying this.

I remember rage quitting halfway through clear sky because I got tired of the bugs. I never did finish it! :(

Anyone know any good mods for for clear sky?

tp://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/12015/12015_4a118dda4d844.jpg
looks like the bridge from Half-Life 2 with extra fog but without the trains

This #1 on my "Wait for a Steam Sale" list.

Haven't been able to play Clear Sky yet, but I'm hopeful of this one.