It really doesn't look "great". It's technically solid but it's really not that good looking game, the art direction and color pallet compared to original is just not it.
+ to the comment above. It's looks better in tech ways like engine and animation but in all other aspects it's just looks like every other game on unreal engine. Developers did not the same as they were in the back days. Too much outsourcing work, too much similar assets to the other games.
i remember stalker SoC when i was in highschool, it was bundled with geforce 8800 ultra which was an expensive high end GPU at 2008 back then now, stalker 2 HoC released 16 years later and became heaviest game even for rtx 4090 :)
That's exactly how it is, in 2007, when Stalker first came out, I bought a GeForce GTX8800Ultra to play it on maximum graphics, and now I bought RTX4070Ti Super to also play Stalker 2 on maximum graphics :).
being heavy on performance isn't something to be proud of, visually its good but there are games that look vastly better fe callisto protocol or even cyberpunk if u want open world
@@PeterSereda are you stupid? Baked graphics u mean baked lights on assets? Well no its fully pbr, every light source casts its own dynamic shadows. Guess uv never played callisto protocol
Obviously the game from 2024 looks more advanced when it comes to lighting techniques, geometry, textures, object density etc but that's not really to be praised. On the other side, speaking of art direction and color pallet, the original undoubtedly looks way more photorealistic even if it is incomparably worse when it comes to graphical fidelity. Stalker 2 has really ugly looking colors, it doesn't look realistic not stylistic, it's just a bad color pallet.
Bad reflections and bad shadows. Flat textures of the ground and buildings. Ugly bushes and trees. Stalker 1 has better trees. This does not look like a game from 2024.
i would like to see more videos like this. I'm sure ill see the areas playing through stalker 2 but sometimes my memory isn't the greatest and there were several subdual changes that i didn't realize lol. i also came to realize the map is laid out differently. thank you for the video!
Skybox on the old one has such an artistic value the new ue shader based aproach cannot even come close to a hi-res real life photo lol. I wish they used the old textures for the sky.
I think the colorfulness of Stalker 2 is a sign that the nature of the zone is “recovering” in a way. As Stalker 2 takes place 10 years after the first trilogy. Richter mentioned that even Birds are starting to nest in the Slag Heap. Which is known for its toxic wastes and radioactive environment.
@@LANDEN_BERGER So the real Chernobyl exclusion zone is now literally a reserve in the middle of abandoned buildings, because the zone is protected, there are few people, animals are not prevented from living and breeding normally. And the game shows the consequences of the “fictional” second explosion, so to compare what is, with what never was in principle strange
In the trilogy, the characters were always talking about something and communicating with the main character before he started the dialogue, but in Stalker 2 there is no such thing even in the Ukrainian language
STALKER 2 looks great, but I wish they would've cared a bit more about certain aesthetics, like using the same structure and materials. Now buildings and placements (cars, boxes, chimneys, containers, wooden shacks, watchtowers etc) in the world have a different location from the ones in the previous games.
Stalker 2 looks so childish imo. Especially the bright blue nights compared to the pitch black nights in the first 3 games (they dodnt show it here). Plus the flashlight doesnt even cast any shadows in stalker 2. Hope modders can fix it in a year or so.
@@TheLuri89 yea i looked at the map again and where dead city and limanks should be like just a little left side of yantar above its shrouded in clouds so its probably gonna come in a dlc
@hamzakhalil-gs7oc yes some areas like the power plant have clouds. I guess those areas are passanle further in the game. Or DLC like you mentioned it, but that would be a dick move from the devs when areas like power plant or dead city would be behind a paywall
All the nice lighting,ray tracing, godrays kinda ruin the atmosphere in stalker 2. The original had this dark grey/blue hue that just turns the game into this cold,desolate, unforgiving place. That was the atmosphere I fell in love with
The main difference I notice, don’t know if it depends on difficulty, I’m playing all stalker always on stalker difficulty, but on stalker 2 I notice that is more a walking simulator, what I mean, in stalker og you walk a lot but situation can escalate very quickly, of course there are parts of the game where for story purposes there are stuff going on, but it was more random and alive, in stalker 2 you can walk 15 minutes with nobody trying to kill you or animals fighting eachother…
Thats because ur completely right, the sequel is inferior in game experience to the og, it hurts they just didnt take the og engine, polished it up with 4k/photogrammetry and u good to go Ue5 and the development focus fucked up the game sadly
Please notice how bad and unrealistic dynamic shadows on Stalker 2 are, most of light source dont cast it at all, when on Stalker 1 is a top of quality to this day.
Some dude was yelling at me calling me insults because I was saying they reused Stalker buildings and stuff. I think he thought I was talking shit. He said all types of false bs. 😂 Alot of it is remastered.
2:03 Сразу видно где фотореализм Тона более темные и не такие перенасичение благодаря етому метаду кажица буто картинка из жизни Сталкер 2 боле насичений цветами и ето больши похожи как на какоето дополненея к Фар Край чем на мрачною и тусклую атмосферу
Yeah, well I guess you have no clue how long it takes to make a vide such as this. I always try to make my work as efficient as I can so I frequently use record similar scenes /use the same save files, etc. Just to make my work as fluent as possible. Try on your own to see how much work is required.
@@Cycu1 Hey man I have no doubt it takes a lot of work. I just thought it was really funny that I was watching your other video, and then in that video you specifically put a tag advertising this video, so I clicked on this video, and it was just reusing the same exact footage and music verbatim for most of the video lmao.
Lighting and clarity looks better in original Stalker. Stalker 2 is more disappointing than making me happy in graphics unfortunately. In 2007 Stalker looked adnvanced. In 2024 Stalker 2 looks like a nice graphics mod on original Stalker with killing clarity and lighting.
I like the way the old Stalker looks. In the new Stalker, everything looks new for now, and it's alien to me, for me the game has lost the atmosphere of the Soviet post-apocalypse, it looks more like a Chinese fake.
What do you want to explore? Those buildings have a set geography and they are unkempt. Not everything needs to look like a generic Western "fantasy" slop.
@ original stalker wasn’t mapped 1:1 to the real Chernobyl and surrounding areas. There are plenty of new things that could’ve been added to the sequel. No need for “western slop” whatever that supposed to mean. I just hope that there are actual new locations in the game
Гениальность - это умение сохранить и передать все годные нюансы из предыдущих частей. К сожалению в полной мере сделать это не получилось. Сталке Фар Край
@@SerekPieczarkowyevery stalker game was bugged to shit on release, sometimes the main storylines in the og trilogy were hard locked because of bugged missions. What did you expect… gsc ain’t made a game in 15 years
@@VasyaPupkin-zy6jx в некотором плане да. Но вот, например, ночи во второй части нет, просто вечер на краю заполярья. В первом сталкере ты просто ничего не видишь, как это и должно быть. Не чувствуется состояния уединения во второй части, это из-за не очень грамотного дизайна локации (самый лучший дизайн локации - Тарков), постоянного ожидания подреса в спину, нет ограничения скорости передвижения через заросли и непроходимости, иди куда хочешь. Открытый мир должен быть условно открытым, то есть, хочешь скосить путь через лес, окей, скорость минус 80% и прочие опасности. Кто ходил в лесу, тот понимает, что проще сделать крюк по тропе, чем прорубать. Нет ощущения апокалипсиса, просто зона-попса. Только визуально и аудиально ощущается что-то похожее на ту самую зону. Это фар край 3+
Obviously Stalker 2 looks great, but I'm just surprised how well the first Stalker holds up.
And Clear Sky and CoP already had much better lightning than first stalker, so differance would be less obvious, clear sky is 2008!
whats the song btw nice music
It really doesn't look "great". It's technically solid but it's really not that good looking game, the art direction and color pallet compared to original is just not it.
+ to the comment above. It's looks better in tech ways like engine and animation but in all other aspects it's just looks like every other game on unreal engine. Developers did not the same as they were in the back days. Too much outsourcing work, too much similar assets to the other games.
Honestly GAMMA looks even better. 😮
The designer of original Stalker SoC was real artist. The atmosphere they created is still unbeatable!!! This is Top even in 2024!!!
i remember stalker SoC when i was in highschool, it was bundled with geforce 8800 ultra which was an expensive high end GPU at 2008 back then
now, stalker 2 HoC released 16 years later and became heaviest game even for rtx 4090 :)
That's exactly how it is, in 2007, when Stalker first came out, I bought a GeForce GTX8800Ultra to play it on maximum graphics, and now I bought RTX4070Ti Super to also play Stalker 2 on maximum graphics :).
True, however there were mostly 720 p display. Now 4090 deals with 4k.
I've even increased quality with some mods 😅
being heavy on performance isn't something to be proud of, visually its good but there are games that look vastly better fe callisto protocol or even cyberpunk if u want open world
@@Zamalshkay Callisto has mostly baked graphics. However cp2077 is still good example. They have much bigger budget and more talented developers
@@PeterSereda are you stupid? Baked graphics u mean baked lights on assets? Well no its fully pbr, every light source casts its own dynamic shadows. Guess uv never played callisto protocol
Sidorovic from clear Sky should have been added to the comparison, as it has almost twice as many polygons there.
Why do you play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. DX8 instead or DX9 Max settings Full dynamic Lighting?
Старый сталкер всё ещё великолепен
Там чувствуешь советский Чернобыль, а в сталкер 2 та нет слов СССР и тд. Я в него прост не играл
@MrWardenYT1.19 откуда тебе знать?!?!??!
Cycuszku Ty mój - dzięki piękne za te wszystkie filmiki porównawcze.
Obviously the game from 2024 looks more advanced when it comes to lighting techniques, geometry, textures, object density etc but that's not really to be praised.
On the other side, speaking of art direction and color pallet, the original undoubtedly looks way more photorealistic even if it is incomparably worse when it comes to graphical fidelity. Stalker 2 has really ugly looking colors, it doesn't look realistic not stylistic, it's just a bad color pallet.
Bad reflections and bad shadows. Flat textures of the ground and buildings. Ugly bushes and trees. Stalker 1 has better trees.
This does not look like a game from 2024.
@@DmitriyK2012 facts
@@DmitriyK2012🎤🐓
4:51 lmao
Same jacket, same pose, same music 😂😂
This guy sitting on his desk for the last 16 years and the only thing that makes him older is his lost hair, which we probaly find under his chair 😆
@@TheLuri89He's also just as greedy as before 😂
i would like to see more videos like this. I'm sure ill see the areas playing through stalker 2 but sometimes my memory isn't the greatest and there were several subdual changes that i didn't realize lol. i also came to realize the map is laid out differently. thank you for the video!
Skybox on the old one has such an artistic value the new ue shader based aproach cannot even come close to a hi-res real life photo lol. I wish they used the old textures for the sky.
Stalker 2 better graphic but stalker 1 bring the feel of apocalypse
I think the colorfulness of Stalker 2 is a sign that the nature of the zone is “recovering” in a way. As Stalker 2 takes place 10 years after the first trilogy. Richter mentioned that even Birds are starting to nest in the Slag Heap. Which is known for its toxic wastes and radioactive environment.
@Inkxo3D 10 years really isnt that much, and realistically the chernobyl disasters affects aren't to be close to undone until 2200.
@@LANDEN_BERGER So the real Chernobyl exclusion zone is now literally a reserve in the middle of abandoned buildings, because the zone is protected, there are few people, animals are not prevented from living and breeding normally. And the game shows the consequences of the “fictional” second explosion, so to compare what is, with what never was in principle strange
@@LANDEN_BERGER Who knows, C-consciousness could be controlling the zone and gradually making it less radioactive. They are a Sci-if variable anyways
0:49 glad construction workers work in the zone
In the trilogy, the characters were always talking about something and communicating with the main character before he started the dialogue, but in Stalker 2 there is no such thing even in the Ukrainian language
STALKER 2 looks great, but I wish they would've cared a bit more about certain aesthetics, like using the same structure and materials. Now buildings and placements (cars, boxes, chimneys, containers, wooden shacks, watchtowers etc) in the world have a different location from the ones in the previous games.
Stalker 2 looks so childish imo. Especially the bright blue nights compared to the pitch black nights in the first 3 games (they dodnt show it here). Plus the flashlight doesnt even cast any shadows in stalker 2.
Hope modders can fix it in a year or so.
from cziki to briki
i wanna see dead city, limansk, jupitor and yantar but i cant find a single video showing those locations nor screenshots :((
On the map i saw yantar, so its there. But im not sure if limansk and dead city are in stalker 2
@@TheLuri89 yea i looked at the map again and where dead city and limanks should be like just a little left side of yantar above its shrouded in clouds so its probably gonna come in a dlc
@hamzakhalil-gs7oc yes some areas like the power plant have clouds. I guess those areas are passanle further in the game. Or DLC like you mentioned it, but that would be a dick move from the devs when areas like power plant or dead city would be behind a paywall
@@hamzakhalil-gs7oc Dead City probably won't come. Don't forget it never was in the original games and they don't mention its existence much as well.
@@megagamememe but wasn't generator also not in the original games? So there's still hope for dead city
First Stalker have 20x better atmosphere 🙂
yeah totally
Yeah, Stalker 2 looks like a poorly made UE5 slop clickbait video.
those years between the games fixed sidorovich's gamer dent
Yeah , photogrammetry still rules over PBR lol. On low resolution you cant even tell which is more realistic
Woaw this guitar song is amazing btw
The music makes me want to replay The Last of Us right away 😂
All the nice lighting,ray tracing, godrays kinda ruin the atmosphere in stalker 2. The original had this dark grey/blue hue that just turns the game into this cold,desolate, unforgiving place. That was the atmosphere I fell in love with
name of the song playing
Why not same weather?
Why game from 2007 looks stunning compared with game from 1997 but games from 2024 only look slightly better compared with 2007 games ??
diminishing returns, moorse law
and same with games ig
First trilogy has really fotorealistic graphics and texture. Change of a engine always has a minuses, altough they tried to save the atmosphere.
Because they used to make games, but today they make business and money...
No@@brut6281
Stupid ass bro that’s like saying the 1950s were way better compared to the 1910s and the 2020s only slightly improved on things
Stalker 1!
The main difference I notice, don’t know if it depends on difficulty, I’m playing all stalker always on stalker difficulty, but on stalker 2 I notice that is more a walking simulator, what I mean, in stalker og you walk a lot but situation can escalate very quickly, of course there are parts of the game where for story purposes there are stuff going on, but it was more random and alive, in stalker 2 you can walk 15 minutes with nobody trying to kill you or animals fighting eachother…
enjoy first A-Life imprementation patch
Thats because ur completely right, the sequel is inferior in game experience to the og, it hurts they just didnt take the og engine, polished it up with 4k/photogrammetry and u good to go
Ue5 and the development focus fucked up the game sadly
Please notice how bad and unrealistic dynamic shadows on Stalker 2 are, most of light source dont cast it at all, when on Stalker 1 is a top of quality to this day.
Stalker 2 on low looks miles better than trilogy
@@desgard hahaha good joke 😅
Some dude was yelling at me calling me insults because I was saying they reused Stalker buildings and stuff. I think he thought I was talking shit. He said all types of false bs. 😂
Alot of it is remastered.
2:03 Сразу видно где фотореализм Тона более темные и не такие перенасичение благодаря етому метаду кажица буто картинка из жизни Сталкер 2 боле насичений цветами и ето больши похожи как на какоето дополненея к Фар Край чем на мрачною и тусклую атмосферу
и трава повсюдду, меня просто бесит. Куда не поверни камеру, одна трава с кустами. Идиотизм какой-то.
It's a pretty bold move to a link this video from another video that uses a lot of the same exact footage lmao.
Yeah, well I guess you have no clue how long it takes to make a vide such as this. I always try to make my work as efficient as I can so I frequently use record similar scenes /use the same save files, etc. Just to make my work as fluent as possible. Try on your own to see how much work is required.
@@Cycu1 Hey man I have no doubt it takes a lot of work. I just thought it was really funny that I was watching your other video, and then in that video you specifically put a tag advertising this video, so I clicked on this video, and it was just reusing the same exact footage and music verbatim for most of the video lmao.
Пж, название трека
Lighting and clarity looks better in original Stalker. Stalker 2 is more disappointing than making me happy in graphics unfortunately. In 2007 Stalker looked adnvanced. In 2024 Stalker 2 looks like a nice graphics mod on original Stalker with killing clarity and lighting.
There are a lot of people in the comments section who clearly haven't played the game.
1:55 , ахуеть , там здание во 2 сталкере огромное исчезло.Аномалия...
So this is just visual upgrade.
in ue5 thrre must be puddles every wgrer. and we all know why
I would play Stalker 1 if it supported controller, I know it will run on my hardware.
Ps5
Or ran them trough steam and simulate mnk
Played max payne 2 like that
Basicly the same as the steam deck input conversion
Где большие деревья с толстыми стволами в С2? Все деревца чахлые, тонюсенькие - от этого ландшафт очень не похож на оригинал.
Игра детства которая вернулась. 🤧
La cancion del ultimo superviviente de fallout
I like the way the old Stalker looks. In the new Stalker, everything looks new for now, and it's alien to me, for me the game has lost the atmosphere of the Soviet post-apocalypse, it looks more like a Chinese fake.
20 years for almost 20% improvment... FKN NICE 😂😂😂
stalker 2 look like stalker with UE5 mods lol
those puddles smh
jakość w porównaniu z pop serią dupy nie urywa a tym bardziej patrząc na wymagania 2....
100% same
Durrrrrrrr😮
Гамма была более реалистичная
😢❤️🩹
Тот случай, когда в сталкер2 лучше только освещение и трава с дополнительным мусором, а текстуры лучше в сталкер1.
stalker 2 looks like chinese garbage. stalker 1 has the dark grey atmosphere feels real soviet
broken garbage
Сидор не похож
Это ты ещё Шрама не видел...
@@alexdenn8633 на видео видел
I have mixed feelings about locations being so simular, on one hand it's true to the original, but I think they shoud've explored some new ideas
Like Half-Life Alyx City 17 doesn't look exactly like Half-Life 2 City 17, but it feels like it
What do you want to explore? Those buildings have a set geography and they are unkempt. Not everything needs to look like a generic Western "fantasy" slop.
@ original stalker wasn’t mapped 1:1 to the real Chernobyl and surrounding areas. There are plenty of new things that could’ve been added to the sequel. No need for “western slop” whatever that supposed to mean. I just hope that there are actual new locations in the game
Downgrade
thats the same game ;$ ukrainians are fkin geniuses
Гениальность - это умение сохранить и передать все годные нюансы из предыдущих частей. К сожалению в полной мере сделать это не получилось.
Сталке Фар Край
Yeah, geniuses gave us bugged game. It feels untested above first map. Shame.
@@SerekPieczarkowyevery stalker game was bugged to shit on release, sometimes the main storylines in the og trilogy were hard locked because of bugged missions. What did you expect… gsc ain’t made a game in 15 years
@@VasyaPupkin-zy6jx в некотором плане да. Но вот, например, ночи во второй части нет, просто вечер на краю заполярья. В первом сталкере ты просто ничего не видишь, как это и должно быть. Не чувствуется состояния уединения во второй части, это из-за не очень грамотного дизайна локации (самый лучший дизайн локации - Тарков), постоянного ожидания подреса в спину, нет ограничения скорости передвижения через заросли и непроходимости, иди куда хочешь. Открытый мир должен быть условно открытым, то есть, хочешь скосить путь через лес, окей, скорость минус 80% и прочие опасности. Кто ходил в лесу, тот понимает, что проще сделать крюк по тропе, чем прорубать. Нет ощущения апокалипсиса, просто зона-попса. Только визуально и аудиально ощущается что-то похожее на ту самую зону.
Это фар край 3+
Ubisoft presents...😂
S2: 0/10 😢
russia -14/10