Why is it so good, and how come we've never gotten a game like it since?

the game isn't challenging, even on Master you get like plenty enough of ammo/medkits etc. on almost every corpse, money is never a problem and as long as you're not retarded and know how to aim in the head (or stupid enough to use the shitty ass pistol for more than five minutes) then you'll have no problems. And once you get the VSS the game becomes a cheesefest

you're right that the survival aspect isn't that difficult in vanilla but it's still really easy to get btfo and one shotted by enemies

> Metro>Stalker
Dumb cunt

Holy shit, is that really the cover. It does look like the coomer edit, lmao.

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How new are you?

exploring in soc and cs his more rewarding than cop. Pripyat is full of empty structures

even if you manage to get fucked you can quicksave at every time so it can really only waste you like a couple seconds of gameplay

the thing is 2007 is where the consoles were going big and PC was falling behind so everyone who played back then was mostly a single digit IQ console casual who got blown back and mistook the game for some insane hardcore shit (and probably didn't know what a quicksave is)

play oblivion lost remake if you want to play the old build of stalker. Lost alpha is dissapointing and the cinematics are bugged and low effort.

stfu tranny

>Why is it so good
It was ambitious and full of soul.

>how come we've never gotten a game like it since?
We got two: CS, CoP.
To alternative answer: because west sucks at making games these days, and the console AAA studios would never ever use as much effort on a single title.

Anomaly
Call of Chernobyl

Call of Pripyat was better. SoC is still great, but CoP improved on everything except X-labs (it really lacked in this particular department).
>three large open world hubs
>fucking dusk and dawn
>beautiful world in general
>new, original artifacts
>better side quests
>that one building with a fuckton of bloodsuckers
>controller wrecking your party
>better shooting
>anomalies that are actually large locations
>more interesting characters
>that tomb you go through on the way to Pripyat

>oblivion lost remake
Wasn't a 3.0 version in the works for that
What happend?

Did they fix the AI?

lol stay mad newfag

>Why is it so good, and how come we've never gotten a game like it since?
Same can be said about maplestory

>anonmeme
yay everybody like misery...

it's a game that doesn't give a fuck about you or the NPCs and doesn't pull any punches

yeah the beginning can really make someone think the game is ridiculously hardcore on first playthrough, but I think the reputation for difficulty is also sustained through the mods that actually make the game insanely hard and grueling. which imo is the best part about the franchise

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kys cuckchanner

abandonned i guess, the last version is 2.5.
more or less...

What is DA BESS mod for this series? I hear good things about COC

SoC sucks shit though.

most mods idea of difficulty is "ah ah every enemy has aimbot and can oneshot you across the map, also you have to eat every 30 minutes or you starve and you only have 10kg of carry capacity by default"

If you didn't play each of these games on release without mods, and didn't end up loving the shit out of them... You don't belong on Yas Forums

>do i fit in yet

its not the apocolypse retard. it's a bunch of dudes going to a war zone in a 30km area. there will be TONS of supplies.

Best mod for immersion in both SoC and CoP?

I like metro but it's a completely different game.

>play anomaly
>all those 1x1 inventory icons of random shit that makes the game 50% inventory management, 30% reloading because you got 2 shot from 100 meters away, and 20% walking from one place to the other to do a mission and then the quest giver got shot before you made it back
However it's still fun and actually way better than Misery, if only the inventory shit was done a little better and it didn't still suffer from a bullshit amount of stutter, it would be amazing

If you didn't reply to shitty bait, people would stop posting it.

>muh quicksave abloo bloo bloo
Kill yourself consoletranny.

Doubly kill yourself. Shitty freeplay mods, especially ones with misery trash, should not be recommended to new players at all.

Problem with COP is that the zone felt half dead. Outside the areas of interest that come pre circled on your PDA there was very little going on. Bandits being neutral was retarded as well. You barely had to fight anyone.

Those suck, you spend more of the game sat in trade screens and menus squinting at poorly modelled items with huge description boxes figuring out what banages look like and then finding out they cost 1k each while an artifact will sell for 500ru. I get Stalkers an autistic game that's why I love it, but like most things autistic people take it too far.

CoC is a foundation for submods to be put into. I did have a lot of fun wit it though, bit it's a shame no one really made any defining mod for it. I like arsenal and faction warfare mods and just run around shooting stuff and building a stash of rare guns.

The visuals and atmosphere are pretty fucking good.
The rest not so much.

Because it's an actual "apocalyptic rpg".
One where you spend half an hour in a bush, hiding from a pack of dogs, then spending another 2 hours in a firefight with your shitty rusted pistol where you can get one tapped.

Anomaly
Call of Chernobyl

Absolutely, you cant docshit unless you spend ten minutes fucking around with batteries and the 1000 new items you need. The lead container for artifacts was bullshit as well.

>Problem with COP is that the zone felt half dead.
EVERYONE STOP THE PRESSES, THE EXCLUSION ZONE FELT DEAD
>Bandits being neutral was retarded as well. You barely had to fight anyone
That is a fair complaint. I forgot about that but now that you mention it I must admit it's true. Although mutant encounters were more intense than in SoC (although more rare as well, or at least that's how I felt).
I kinda like that change though. You travel across the zone for a longer time and start getting comfy because nothing was happening for a while and then HOLY SHIT IS THAT A BLOODS-
Did CoP have chimeras? I don't think it did, I don't remember any. That's another disadvantage.
Still I think it's better than SoC thougg.

There's an entire mission dedicated to killing a chimera, user.

Ah yes now I remember. I cheesed it by hiding between two pipes so the chimera would keep aggroing but couldn't reach me. Bitch was tough as fuck, I'm not proud of it but I did what had to be done.

Correct, this is what I will never forget from my stalker experiences

Dead as in nothing ever happened unless you were in one of those zones. SoC was good because it felt like anything could happen any time

But it didn't.

I played it vanilla on master difficulty and fucking dropped it at the army checkpoint, what mods do I install that still-vanilla but improves on AI and shit cause I swear to god, those army men are just terminators

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>I want to cheat with mods because the AI is too good for me and I suck at the game
>gimme mods that improve AI
ehhhhhhhhhhhh?
git gud you faggot, learn how to use cover, positioning, leaning, and intellect

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If you wait a while some bandits will appear and get into a firefight with them, you can then kill them after they pick each other off.

>he rushed into army checkpoint without thinking

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>Why is it so good

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It really isn’t that good, main story consists of go to this place and kill all the bandits / mercenaries / monoliths, loot and repeat. Side missions aren’t worth a drop of piss.
Call of Pripyat however is fantastic; Except for the ending, SoC was miles better in that regard.

>some drunk russian asshole can literally shoot you with a shotgun with pinpoint accuracy while you peek your head out from cover
>cheat
Just give me some mods anyway please, the game looks really old

>the cover looks like an edit of the cover
an hero you fucking retard

>getting filtered at army checkpoint
Working as intended.

>the game looks really old
so is fucking bang bing wahoo and people are still playing vanilla till this day. suck it up

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Just wait... youtube.com/watch?v=WDCNlqMgnvo

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>good
Only if you are American slavboo. Otherwise it's a shitty buggy game with dead openworld and shitty gunplay.
Дoлбoeбы вpoдe этoгo дoлжны гopeть в aдy. Meтpo cyкa этo пpaвильный cтaлкep хyecocинa тyпaя нy-нy

>stalker 2 is coming out
oh yea i fucking forgot about it, looks like there is a reason to live through corona after all... thanks for remidning based user

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Absolute shit taste.

Did you rush it?!

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nah, I'm installing a mod

No, I talked to them and they said fuck off so I brought my gun to his face and he had two niggas in the back ready to bushwhack me

Maybe don't run headlong into a heavily armed outpost when you've got a leather jacket and a pistol like it's some wimpy console shooter, eh retard?

>SoC was good because it felt like anything could happen any time
Fake and gay. SoC has worse a-life than CoP

>Metro was Stalker done right,
Tы хyecocинa, и твoя мaмaшa coceт y кpacнoлюдa.

>literally the only game i looked forward in the early 2010's
>gets canceled in 2013
>gets uncanceled early 2019
my heart can't take it, its literally still the only thing i've been excited for in a decade almost

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Бaзиpoвaнный и кpacнoтaблeтoчный