Anyone playing STALKER?

[[k]ar|]

I've been waiting for this game to come out for a while - and it's well worth the wait. Supremely atmospheric, quite creepy in places, but above all, great fun.

Anyone else fighting their way through The Zone to Chernobyl?

[k]

[gorvid]

????????????? sounds good....wassit??

[[k]ar|]

Review here...

www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/03/19/stalker_review/1.html

[k]

[jimmyjimjim]

[quote=kar(without the punctuation that makes quoting impossible)]I've been waiting for this game to come out for a while[/quote]

About 3 bloody years!
Taken me a while to get into it, but begining to get the hang of it now. Need some better weapons than the MP-5, and got to find another dealer to sell all of the kit I've picked up of people I've shot...

Edited to get the quoting working and to add - just remembered I forgot to pickup an artifact near my last save position. Better go load it up again.

I read a review sating it was like oblivion but as a fps...never played oblivion; just as well - I wouldn't have any time to spare on it now...

Edited by jimmyjimjim on Monday 26th March 04:57

[RobPhoboS]

ITS OUT ?????????????????

I've been waiting about 2 or 3 years as well !!!!

FK ME gonna go look in game later.

[malman]

Been watching this develop for years and was walking through tesco and spotted it on the shelf - couldn't beleive it finally made it out.

where's the cheapest place to buy

its £17.99 at play.com

[RobPhoboS]

Is there an official download of the full game ?
(you like like rFactor has?)

[jimmyjimjim]

malman said:

Been watching this develop for years and was walking through tesco and spotted it on the shelf - couldn't beleive it finally made it out.

Indeed - very little fanfare for a game with such a long gestation period, that so many people have been waiting for.

Met the first weird ass baddie last night(apart from the giant arse on two legs). Scared me good and proper...until I put a full mag from the AK into it.

[RobPhoboS]

I cant wait to split from work to pick this up...
Think I wont be heading to the gym tonight

[jimmyjimjim]

Don't be too certain about making it in to work tomorrow either...

[RobPhoboS]

hmm.
lol
Sounds good.

Got a 47" monitor to play it on as well, haha

[jimmyjimjim]

Hmm. Good idea. Pc is out from under the desk at the moment with the side off, awaiting memory; perfect opportunity to connect it to the HD LCD...great thinking, batman!

[RobPhoboS]

Do you know if there is a language selection in the game ?

Im in Spain, so its a Spanish disc, would rather everything was in English !

[jimmyjimjim]

Wouldn't worry about it; 98% is in russian, anyway!

No idea, to be honest; just kept clicking next when installing.

[RobPhoboS]

So does the gameplay have important dialoge ?

I'll go downstairs now and buy it, hopefully it will be usable.

[[k]arl]

Well, after some pretty fraught gameplay (my mail-order "Radiation Pack" copy arrived Thursday) I managed to beat the game late last night. Admittedly, I just blew through the storyline missions without getting distracted by the side quests. However, I understand that these add alot of backstory, cool equipment, plus access to some of the multiple endings.


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I have so far found 2 of the 7 supposed endings. Unfortunately, I only had one main savegame which doesn't allow me to go back to where I think the previous branch point is. However, as I'm going to be replaying the game (probably on my new rig when it's finished) I'll be a bit more methodical instead of just ploughing straight through to find out WTF was going on.

All in all, a [k]arl rating of 9/10

[k]


PS - fixed my login name to avoid quote-based annoyance (second time it's been commented on recently)

Edited by [k]arl on Monday 26th March 19:15

[jimmyjimjim]

I was planning on going through the main plot, then starting again and doing as many of the side plots as I could be bothered with. By that time, some of the walkthoughts will be available, and I can have a look and see which of the side plots look interesting...
Have you found a way of consolidating ammo yet? Got annoyed carrying 9 Mp-5's for resale, running out of ammo, and having to swap to each in turn to use up the few rounds each had...

[[k]arl]

jimmyjimjim said:

Have you found a way of consolidating ammo yet? Got annoyed carrying 9 Mp-5's for resale, running out of ammo, and having to swap to each in turn to use up the few rounds each had...

If you right-click on the weapon in the inventory screen, a context menu pops up which has an option to "unload" the weapon. You can also use this menu to mount and unmount weapon mods.

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[jimmyjimjim]

Result! Thanks!

[RobPhoboS]

Started playing last night !

This is awesome, even though Im about 20mins into it, I can tell its going to be great fun.

Graphics look a little odd, everything is set to maximum, just guess I was expecting more (wanted it like Gears of War). STill looks good though !