S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Expansion Features “A Complete Set Of New Locations”

@curly haired boy: I'm sure console gamers like a challenge as well.

@EtisArap: not to mention the difficulty level. gamers used to regenerating health and being impervious to anything smaller than an entire clip are NOT going to fare well.

curly haired boy

@Ping5000 IS OUTRAGED BY BLIZZARD'S VOICE CAST: Don't just stand there, come in!

Nitro378

going to the same locations for the third time is still far from running'n'gunning in North Africa, Normandy, etc., for a freaking thousand times, and I gladly accept it.

salaminizer

@forzak: Examples? Both Halo Wars & EndWar were poor shambles...

Optimaximal

@Jolan: Ahh, but will the add-on too CoP be developed by a third party and feature a stint in a WW2 bomber!

Optimaximal

@el_rezzo: I bet CoP2's multiplayer will have novel and unique ideas that get mostly ignored by the gaming populace, and CoP3 will just not get much attention at all, and then CoP4 will be massively successful but just change its name completely in order to distance itself from the first three.

Oh, and CoP6 will add snowmobiles.

@EtisArap: Expect that in Stalker 2, using a new engine.

MrKlorox

what are you talking about same locations Luke? This game has completely new locations - which will be vastly larger than any of the previous games as well

keppj0nes

@misc.insanity:
Scavenger, Trespasser, Adventurer, Loner, Killer, Explorer, Robber.

Zezibesh

@forzak: And look how enjoyable it is compared to PC play.

Zezibesh

What is STALKER an acronym for, again?

Funny i just reinstalled stalker with the ultro mod and 1.005 patch. runs pretty perfectly compared to launch. It finally feels like the game they showed off all those years ago. /sigh please please please thq. please run your games through QA

Dralex789

@EtisArap: They said the same about RTSs. They haven't perfected it, but they did a fine job.

forzak

@Ping5000 IS OUTRAGED BY BLIZZARD'S VOICE CAST: Get out of here, Stalker.

Interim

New STALKER sounds interesting.

@Monsoon77: For me, Clear Sky had a consistent fatal bug that CTDed every time I was supposed to ambush a machinegun nest near the end of the game. It was running well for the many hours until I got to that point, and then the game went splat. I don't know if this is common or not, but conveniently, the Bug Report email that crash data is supposed to be sent to is dead and keeps bouncing back.

Desi Quintans

I hope they give us Russian voicetracks. Engrish has an intrinsic dumbness attached to it.

@Monsoon77: Clear Sky, for me anyway, ran pretty well on max. The occasional graphical problem, but no major game breaking updates since the latest update.

Hopefully they make it a completely free formed environment, and remove all of the bad load times. The game was so incredibly immersion, and it always felt odd when the game would have a load time there and break the immersion factor for a second.

EtisArap

@Sullyville: They're amazing games-- if you have the proper mods. That's the bad part.

Interim

All of these unnecessary full stops make things even more confusing.

Shakespeare

@Cosmitzian: I have no idea how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would work on console. They would have to completely redo the inventory and several other features just to fit the damn controls on a gamepad.

EtisArap

@Josepiphus: HSSS.. want PC goodness? Get a good PC :P

Seriously, these days making a decent PC is a lot cheaper then most think.

I have never been in a gameworld as bleak and convincing as the ones in STALKER. Even Fallout 3, brilliant as it was, didn't manage to immerse me so completely. It must be something in the water. Literally.

Sullyville

Are the expansions as glitchy as the game was? Im interested in reinstalling this on my laptop to play the expansions.

Monsoon77

@Jolan: Nice, I'm thinking Call of Pripyat 1 will be great too, although the change in health system in CoP2 will divide fans.

el_rezzo

I wish they would port these to a console. It's half the reason I ended up buying fallout 3, hoping it would have the same sense of atmosphere and exploration.

God I wish my pc didn't die...

Josepiphus

I bet Call of Pripyat 2 and 4 are better than 3 and 5

@TheOddOneDies: They're putting in around 70 hand-crafted quests, (sort of) admitting that the old system of randomized quests was pretty... bad.

Some people seem to mistake "mission design" as "level design". I think the level design in SoC is just brilliant but the repetitive mission design ("Kill Stalker X for me", "Get me artifact Y", "Collect monster part Z") could indeed use some fresh ideas. Grinding just isn't fun.

TheOddOneDies

Finally, a real game.

searanox

"Won't running around the same palce for a third time seem a little, well, boring?

Course it would."

Surprisingly, no. In fact, I'd like to see ALL of the original areas as well as new ones.

DocSeuss

@Desi Quintans: I haven't had a single bug issue since patch 1.08; would recommend you try playing with that patch.

DocSeuss