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So who knows something about this S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game?

RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
edited March 2007 in Social Entropy++
Seriously. I've heard almost nothing about it, but it is on store shelves now and I just read a bunch about it and it looks pretty fucking sweet.

What's the deal?

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  • snapsnap Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    No idea. Whats so sweet about it? I can't be bothered to go look for myself

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  • ShurakaiShurakai Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You run around Chernobyl and shoot muties and other Stalkers. Consensus is, great game but wait a month or two for them to patch up the major bugs

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2007
    from the official FAQ
    What is the background story of the game?

    The background story for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is built as a hypothesis of real events to have taken place in the 1980's. Back in Chernobyl there functioned an immense antenna, which, as acknowledged by many specialists, radiated psychoactive waves. On some of our photos, taken during the trips to Chernobyl the body of the antenna can be vividly seen on the horizon.

    According to the unverified rumours, the emission was directed onto Western Europe - as a part of a long-term military experiment on psychotropic influence on humans. Those are semi-documentary facts and rumours.

    The storyline of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is built around similar experiments, propped by conspiracy theory and opposition of special services. With our game we as if think up what could happen in reality.

    This is a story of post-nuclear world with its own laws and characters.

    How big will the open levels and the whole game world be?

    Some of the 18 game levels will be really huge, more than two kilometers in a diameter, and the other just a tad smaller.

    The whole game territory covers more than 30 square kilometers in the form of an elongated rectangle split into 18 parts, with the passage from one to another unconstrained.

    Will S.T.A.L.K.E.R. offer a non-linear game design?

    We rejected the linear play from level to level in favour of such freedom of actions and movement as was seen in "Elite", "Daggerfall" and "Fallout".

    The players will travel the vast territory of the Zone, occupying 30 sq. km. Exploring the Zone, earning money through quests, and gaining experience in combat, stalkers will move along the unconstrained "non-stiff" story line towards the game end.

    An entire world of the Zone will open up before the player. He will be able to plan his development and travel deep inside. Every time the game starts, the player will get a new Zone. Only the important points (dealers' locations, army posts, scientific camps and so on) will remain unchanged. Anomalies, artefacts, monsters will be randomly generated at start. Soldiers patrol the Zone perimeter. Stalkers traverse the Zone in parallel to the player to collect anomalous formations, trade, communicate and fight with each other. Mutants increase their population, migrate through the Zone, devour each other, stalkers, soldiers, take rest and sleep.

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    What I'm hearing is Oblivion + Fallout + Bugs = S.T.A.L.K.E.R

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I think it's set in a very close recreation of the area around the chernobyl reactor and shooting mutant zombies

    and wait what forum am I in

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2007
    I mean, it looks pretty neat.

    FPS + RPG with really cool setting and very pretty graphics and shit

    but I'm wondering

    how the hell did this fly under the radar so much?

    I mean, I couldn't even find anything in G&T about it

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    If you can get it to run it's a really fun game.

    EDIT: Rank there's a 50+ page thread about it in G&T

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  • ShurakaiShurakai Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Also you need top end hardware to make it look decent as of now, its either HDR+DX9 shaders or DX8 2003-04 era visuals.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2007
    oh okay I found the G&T thread, but still

    what's up with this game?

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  • redstormpopcornredstormpopcorn Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Rankenphile wrote: »
    I mean, it looks pretty neat.

    FPS + RPG with really cool setting and very pretty graphics and shit

    but I'm wondering

    how the hell did this fly under the radar so much?

    I mean, I couldn't even find anything in G&T about it
    Not even in the 60-page thread for it? :O

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I can't think about this now I'm still excited about GTA 4

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  • ShurakaiShurakai Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    I can't think about this now I'm still excited about GTA 4

    The main character in both games are remarkably similar

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You get to shoot Russians.

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    This game is hard. First fucking mission theres a bunch of holed up russians. Took it alone, got killed, took a squad with me, got killed. It's fun, it's beautiful but its hard if you're not good at shooting people in the head. Thats the only way to drop them in one shot, otherwise its 4-6 consecutive shots.

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  • AlwaysAngryGuyAlwaysAngryGuy Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I fucking hate this game and bitch about it whenever the opportunity arises.

    I think I'm the only one person who dislikes it. Everyone else is just dumb.

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  • PlainclothesmanPlainclothesman Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Rank, the game was hyped quite a bit a few years ago but got stuck in a long development cycle and people were like wah wah wah vapourware and sort of forgot about it, which I guess is why you hadn't heard about it.

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    it is kind of a cool game

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    BigDes wrote: »
    You get to shoot Russians.

    this is an important factor

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    AlwaysAngryGuy wrote: »
    I fucking hate this game and bitch about it whenever the opportunity arises.

    I think I'm the only one person who dislikes it. Everyone else is just dumb.

    you are the dumb one, fagmotron.

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I played it for like 3 hours and loved it. Then 4 hours and started to get kinda bored.

    then the next day I didn't feel like playing it anymore.

    fourth day I uninstalled it.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    It's been pretty cool although I have no idea where I'm going or what the fuck I'm supposed to be doing.

    Partway through the second quest and I've gotten myself lost - I was supposed to meet this dude who turned out to be already dead, and now I have to get past this impassable fence of radiation.

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  • BerkBerk THE BUDGIE SMUGGLER Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    while I like the non linear aspect of the game its annoying when sometimes you're meant to meet a dude as part of a mission only to to arrive to see his bloody carcass being dragged away by a swarm of mutant pigs.

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I saw some chump being pulled by a dog and started laughing.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Berk wrote: »
    while I like the non linear aspect of the game its annoying when sometimes you're meant to meet a dude as part of a mission only to to arrive to see his bloody carcass being dragged away by a swarm of mutant pigs.

    Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what happened to my dude.

    He had some buddy next to him who was on a blind dog shooting spree.

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  • snapsnap Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    *grumble* i wish my graphics card hadn't broken. I'm using this crappy one I got from woot a while back.

    I'd sure love to play a game with mutant pig swarms.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2007
    The Far Side wrote: »
    it's all "oink oink oink" and then screams of horror

    a lot like any time Tyracora would post

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I've been playing it.

    It's fun.

    Buggy, very hard, but fun.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    did she actually get topless?

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2007
    uglytits

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    you the man now dog

    dot

    oh god why

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  • MGS3-SSMGS3-SS Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You get stalked when you buy this game.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Rankenphile wrote: »
    uglytits

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    you the man now dog

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    oh god why

    What kind of person would share those with the internet? Were they looking to turn someone on? Maybe some kind of elephant?

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  • redstormpopcornredstormpopcorn Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    oh jesus christ the left one has an impact crater D:

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    That was her?

    Oh god

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Ahhh, the memories.

    Good times.

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  • KovakKovak did a lot of drugs married cher?Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    man that thread was beautiful

    i remember it as if it were yesterday

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