Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (fer cheap!)

[Foo]

From rockpapershotgun.com:

"STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl is a title that instantly flickers into the forebrain of both myself and Jim whenever the question of the last few years’ best/most important PC games is raised. It is not a perfect game, but it realises a world, a place, an atmosphere, a dream of what games can and should be that pretty much nothing else even tries to come close to. And it’s £3.50 on Steam"

http://store.steampowered.com/app/4500/

If you've never played it, it's worth the experience. Can't knock it for $3.75

[+JuggerNaut+]

yep, just snagged an hour ago, yay slickdeals

[Foo]

The first encounter with a controller FUCKED ME UP

[Lieutenant Dan]

Ah, good game.

I bought it back when it was $5.

[Fender]

http://soc.stalker-game.com/?page=requirements

[phantasmagoria]

I think that pretty much sums the game up

[Scourge]

yep, just snagged an hour ago, yay slickdeals

Try the Stalker Complete 2009 mod. Makes it even goodier.

[Scourge]

http://soc.stalker-game.com/?page=requirements

System Requirements
Minimum: Microsoft® Windows® XP (Service Pack 2)/Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4, Intel Pentium 4 2 Ghz/AMD XP 2200+, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB available hard drive space, 128 MB DirectX® 9c compatible card/ nVIDIA® GeForce™ 5700/ATI Radeon® 9600, DirectX® 9 compatible sound card, LAN/ Internet connection with Cable/DSL speeds for multiplayer, Keyboard, Mouse


Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400/AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 1 GB RAM or better, 256 MB DirectX® 9c compatible card/ nVIDIA® GeForce™ 7900/ ATI Radeon® X1850

[r0n1n]

Try the Stalker Complete 2009 mod. Makes it even goodier.

I second this. I played through it for the first time a month or two ago with this mod installed and the graphics were really impressive. Just make sure you abuse that quicksave feature because it's really easy to die.

[Scourge]

Try the Stalker Complete 2009 mod. Makes it even goodier.

I second this. I played through it for the first time a month or two ago with this mod installed and the graphics were really impressive. Just make sure you abuse that quicksave feature because it's really easy to die.

The mod has been updated just recently.

And yeah, especially at first.

[Geebs]

Stalker with the Complete mod utterly kicks Fallout 3 in the nuts.

[SoM]

even tho i have stalker SoC, i prefer clear sky, now just waiting for call of pripyat

[seremtan]

yep, just snagged an hour ago, yay slickdeals

Try the Stalker Complete 2009 mod. Makes it even goodier.

does this do anything other max out the eye candy?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-compl ... 09-release

edit: nvm, found the full feature list:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009

looks ok i guess

[Scourge]

even tho i have stalker SoC, i prefer clear sky, now just waiting for call of pripyat

Oh yeah, I like Clear Sky as well. Also waiting for Call of Pripyat. From what I've read from people that have played it, they took the best features from both games and combined them. Some say it's better than both. Release for UK and US is 1st quarter 2010.

[Scourge]

does this do anything other max out the eye candy?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-compl ... 09-release

edit: nvm, found the full feature list:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009

looks ok i guess

Made the game a good bit harder and balanced some things out. Definitely for the better. The graphics improvements were nice too, not a priority for me though.