Why I'm Afraid of STALKER 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Today, DJ Peach Cobbler experiences a Stalker 2 anxiety attack. After becoming a cult-classic, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise is soon going to receive a sequel in the form of the imaginatively titled: STALKER 2.
But will GSC Game World stay true to the soul of what made Stalker a cult-classic to begin with? In the pursuit of having "modern" features, can what made Stalker special...disappear?
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idk probably
Music used:
Sovngarde - Skyrim OST
Skyrim Main Theme
God of War Main Theme - God of War 4 OST
Awake - Skyrim OST
God of War Main Theme - God of War 4 OST (yeah, again)
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Hopes and Dreams Undertale Cover by EIM Piano • 【Undertale】 hopes and ...
108 Bits of the Zone - STALKER 2 OST
Stalker Ambient Guitar Tracks
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Portal 2 Main Theme
Cypher - Stalker 2 OST
Firelake Dirge for the Planet - Stalker OST
Ending Triumph - Half Life Alyx REMIX
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Cypher - Stalker 2 OST (YES, AGAIN)
That droning digeridoo is from the STALKER Anomaly mod, and can be found here:
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ALRIGHT, so I only learned literally while uploading this video...that the “Complete" 2012 mod that I've been using...adds fast travel, which I literally spent a decent portion of this video insisting shouldn’t be in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, at least not without making it super obtuse and a pain like in CoP or Clear Skies.
I didn’t use fast travel, of course, because I was unaware the mod added such a sickening feature.
I just wanted no more bugs and prettier graphics, is that so much to ask for?
As it stands, this is a crappy oversight, which shouldn’t detract from the thesis of the video. I was looking forward to making just one Stalker video without a major mistake, but I guess I can’t have nice things...
The community manager of GSC GW responded to this video on their post on r/stalker: "We love most, if not all, the games that you've mentioned in the video, but as much as we want to make the Zone more appealing to the mainstream audience, the fact that we are based across the globe from the studios that are making these games heavily influences our vision of the gaming trends. While S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will definitely be different from the previous installments (a lot of time has passed, technology has evolved, yadda yadda yadda) the unique cultural imprint that every developer is carrying just won't allow us to make the game identical to what our colleagues are making. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was always about loneliness, the struggle for survival, and being just a cog within a grand mechanism, inner workings of which cannot be comprehended by a regular human. It's a feeling many of us can relate to and we hope to let you in on our perception of this feeling."
"stalker 2 was allways about loneliness..." so true
Link to that response please
@@jerichoelopez I can’t link it since TH-cam keeps deleting it but you can easily find it yourself, it’s on r/stalker on a post named “are ya winning r/stalker?”. Scroll down to the very bottom of the post and you can find the response.
this does bring a smile to my face
Oh thank god they are listening to us. Still a little uneasy about a new Stalker coming out though.
>have a fully upgraded exoskeleton, best armor in the game
>die in 3 hits from a mutated rat
Sounds about right.
Nah, Stalker isn’t that unfair. At worst your armour gets shredded
Shit happens
Such is life in the zone
that's because you didn't appeal to the Cheeki Breeki gods and slav crouch to punch the rat
When I received a quest from Lebedev that asked me to help Clear Sky guys capturing a point, I thought "nah, I will check out this anomaly field first". Then the quest just completed and I got no reward. The Clear Sky guys captured the point without me. None of other games could give me a world that feels so alive like that of Stalker.
I recognize your name, you're an Anomaly mod developer right? By the way, this has nothing to do with STALKER, but, may I ask what your nationality is?
@@BlyatifulButter Viet Nam
@@GhenTuongHB Dude, no way, I'm from Vietnam too! I had been thinking that your username weirdly sounds like Vietnamese. Well, it's nice to know that STALKER is getting more recognition from the Vietnamese gaming community. Thanks for your hard work đồng chí!
funnily enough, if i remember correctly the original design idea of Stalker was a game that can complete itself without the player's input. an NPC could just do the main quest as well and reap the rewards of the story without your aid.
hah funny, in mine they all died trying without me lol
Dude, stalker hits you weirdly when the place you work at is an old warehouse in the Polish forest, and it literally looks like a location from the game.
Can you hear that sound in the forest?
Those grunting sounds.
They are not boars or wild pigs... They are the sound of Snorks.
@D_ans I can help you with the bandits
A Cursed polish Forest? That's almost as dangerous as a regular Finnish Forest
Spot on. If you live in a slavic country everything is so......familiar
@D_ans do they cheeky breeky?
Something that made STALKER great especially at the time was A-Life system. The mutants and factions will continue doing what they do, with or without you really. It’s even a nice touch that when you die it just says “You died to the zone” and the world continues on until you reload.
Pop out from Duty's spot to head to Yantar and find this Loner guy just getting hounded by dogs as soon as I finish loading. Love this shit
@@dignusdingus3709 💀💀💀💀
Exactly! I sometimes just sat down at the roof of Skadovsk, just watching how the world lives on its own through the scope of my VSS and smoked a cigarette before even doing anything remotely "active" in the game
@@Bednar121 HA! knew i wasnt the only one doing this shit!
@@3rdcain356 *insert I Feel You Wojak meme here*
I've been playing anomaly mod every day since I discovered it. In other games, I've never cared about seeing random NPCs back at town, nor been so upset at finding their bodies several days later. RIP Georg Lucky Bastard. I love Stalker.
Same here. RIP Yury Bustard, legend of Freedom torn apart by pseudodogs.
It's so fucking true. I started a new loner run just a couple weeks ago, and after a while the military attacked the Rookie Village, wiping out basically every loner there aside from Wolf and Fanatic. The village has been empty for days and it felt so weird and sad to sit down near the campfire where usually there were 5 or 6 guys while others walked up and down the road.
@@sledgetype0029 you have to revenge them, thats what I would do cos I hate militari bois in the Stalker anyways 😀
@@HeavyMedal and that's what i did. Loaded myself with ammo and bad intentions, then killed every military guy at the cordon checkpoint and at their base in agroprom. To this day i still check the rookie village every now and then to protect the rookies
Rip Dennis Iroquois
"When the player is big, the world feels small." This is why I get so quickly bored while playing games.
Great video!
Probably why I really don't enjoy Dying Light 2 as much as I enjoyed the 1st one. That, and the story just fucking sucks to play.
I only die from Rad zones and fall damage. Everything else is a cake walk.
@@slothprizon66 yeah sadly
@@slothprizon66 you could said the same thing with dying light 1 but that your opinion
Thats such a shame really, because it really takes that feeling of "there are great and terrible things out there and they will find you if you don't run and hide" right out of the game experience. Its like every survival horror is becoming Fallout 4.
I really like how in Shadow of Chernobyl you were never the main character, how the world just sort of existed and you went with it. I remember once being with an important character to the story and we got caught in a gunfight with the military. He got shot in the head and fell straight down and I just... sort of stood there... like, no plot armor, no checkpoint, no mission reset, it just happened. You could still carry out the mission with the info on his PDA, but it's like, it was so different to any other game. That's the moment I realized how immersive this game was.
Was it mole? God he gets dropped so much in my playthroughs.
I was on a work with the bandits, and they kill the leader of my squad that day they didn't pay me because the leader was supposed to pay me. I spent all my ammo in that mission
not a single ruble
funny story: On my recent playthrough as a mercenary in Anomaly, I was on my way to Sultan(The Bandit's Leader) and his mission for me is to kill a mercenary and that mercenary was on Dead City, but I've never paid any attention to it because my dumbass thought it's all about the money and I don't give a crap even if he's my ally or comrade. Consequently, that backfired because not only did I kill a mercenary in Dead City, but I killed a fellow mercenary with his fellow squad nearby like 3 meters away from him. And I went to Sultan and got my money, but as a result I have a restraining order from never entering the Dead City ever again. A few missions later, I forgot about the squad, but they sure did never forgot about my dumbass face and have any opportunity to kill me in any chances they got. And they sure do... And that's what I learned from the Zone, never be greedy.
you shut down the miracle machine, brain scorcher, infiltrate the cnpp and destroy the c consciousness and aren’t the main character apparently
I was exploring Red Forest as a mercenary in Anomaly and I was with 2 other guys. With 1 of them I had been on numerous missions and expeditions, the other was a complete stranger to me. We ran into a chimera and my friend died almost instantly. The fact that I had known that man for maybe 3 in-game days and he just dies with no warning or nothing, but the zone just continued on. Absolutely nobody cared. That's what makes the STALKER games so. Fucking. Good.
STALKER games are the only ones where I couldn't manage to feel that my character was OP at any point, like you can get the best armor, the best gun with the most powerful ammo and a bunch of rare artifacts stacked and you were strong but not invincible all you needed was a bloodsucker or some monolith guys to remind you that
That's my favorite kind of progression. You don't level up or become a god, you just become more seasoned. You learn how to navigate The Zone and you find better guns to shoot but you never master The Zone. Complacency gets you killed.
IGN get's a review copy of Stalker 2.
Reviewer - There's no fast travel, the game is not fair and it's full of bugs. I wouldn't recommend it.
Every Stalker - Почему? Звучит идеально.
Smagu, kad lietuviai gerus žaidimus žaidžia :)
@@metalwarrior6668 mažai žmonių žaidžia šiuos žaidimus. Pabando Shadow of Chernobyl ir net neišeina iš Cordon. Pathetic
@@bratanpaul9058 Kas būtų jei Misery mod'ą pamėgintų ? :D
@@metalwarrior6668 Misery gal biškį pažaistų, bet Dead air pabandytų ir mestų
Prisimenu kada pirma kontroleri sutikau almost had a heart attack
Your point when you've said: "When the player is big, the world feels small." really hit the nail on the head. I'll take this with me from this video!
Late to this, but one thing that always fascinated me was waiting after the you are dead screen. A mutant drags you off to the bush to take a bite at you, few minutes later some stalkers come by and kill them and loot your body with no chill. This is what makes stalker unique, the zone is always alive.
Gonna try this, just get murdered and observe
consider this a year late suggestion, if you like that you should play rain world, also amazing story, don't spoil yourself even if you don't play the game, it feels so good to figure things out, very similar things happen in that game, get killed by a lizard, proceed to watch it drag you body back to its nest only to be faced with 2 other lizards teaming up to eat your corpse and kill the other lizard, they win, watch them get impaled by a vulture, vulture take your body, you respawn in utter understanding that you are just another maggot in the middle of a complex food chain.
@@habos will check it out!
Western Gaming: "you are God! nothing can survive you... they are beneath you!"
Eastern Gaming: "you are nothing... so go out there and be something, or be dead."
I prefer games coming from eastern developers these days.
That´s just eastern european culture in general now that I think about it. In an american film the protagonist saves the world, in eastern european (and especifically russian/soviet works) the protagonist barely has a hold of himself
In my opinion, that's the thing in Eastern Europe. Eastern Eurioeans understand that they are nobodies and are just a part of a huge machine that wouldn't care much if they would disappear.
I think you meant Slavic, asian game are borderline power fantasy though
@@mcom6859 Blood has spreaded through their grass for thousands of years, they sure know what pain is, and thus
The little joys of life. Such as sharing a bottle of Cossack to a fellow s.t.a.l.k.e.r meantime a lonely guitar sounds its old chords in the radioactive storm
My insurance on stalker 2 is the modding community.
and as bad as it can be, i can always rely on Anomaly mod :D
As far as I have heard, they are making the game as mod friendly as possible which is the right call.
@@Afterburn7 makes me trust the devs even more. They know what happened to stalker with the mods and they embrace it.
I hope they have spent countless hours playing all of them, then they can't go wrong.
Imma be mad if they don't get uamee on the soundtrack
I'm hoping the modding will also come to console. It'll be great to have another modable game that isn't from bethesda. If there is other modable games I dunno what they are
I do wish more games had a story where you’re effectively unknown or someone tiny in the grand scheme. It’s honestly an enjoyable thing
souls games are right up ur alley. its even baked into the narrative.
@@flamingmanure
Literally platinumed Bloodborne haha
In kenshi your character is no one special...literally your character is the same as everyone else and has the same potential as everyone else since every character in the game can all go from level 1 to max level no matter who they are, plus even when your at max level while you can totally beat like 30 starving bandits by yourself that doesn't mean that you will do it flawlessly
@@Ruinfire-fs9xu Rimworld fits this bill too
Unless you mod it to hell and all of a sudden you have a bunch of anime girls with nuke launchers
Try Kingdome come deliverance, you'll love it.
Some games: You Are Going To Die
Other games: Nothing Can Kill You
Stalker: That guy ded LMFAO
Also Fallout. I'm weirdly atracted to games with radiation hazards in it.
@@denismadarbiev6374 Older fallouts, sure. But FO4 and FO76 are a complete joke and are taking a piss on the franchise. FO 2 and NV are the absolute best parts of the series
@@Apost0345 I never played FO 1 and 2, so my experience is 3 + mods, than New Vegas + mods, and FO 4 seemed not as good at first but you should try it, its still a Fallout game for all intents and purposes in my book
Stalker: you shouldn't even gone out of bed
@@denismadarbiev6374 I played through it a couple times when i used to be a huge fallout fan. But, at least in my opinion bethesda made fallouts don't stand a chance against Interplay and Obsidian ones
Wow, never realized it, but Stalker is kinda like Gothic was. Thats probably explains why many fans of both games are from Poland, Russia etc.
Ahh. The GOTHIC games are german tho.
@@headiii_plays Made in Germany yes, but Eastern Europe soaked the games up. There's even official dubbing because it was so well received.
They both have npc called wolf too
@@Johnsmith-rj5gt I only know Wolf from Gothic 2. Where is Wolf in Stalker?
@@vapomaster6967 wolf is in cordon
Honestly, one of my favorite examples of this game not caring about me was when I got a mission from Duty to kill an enemy VIP in the Dark Valley. This was in the Call of Chernobyl mod, and I was just your run of the mill Clear Sky soldier. I fought the military in the swamp, gunned down bandits in the Cordon, kicked freedom ass while pushing through contested territory between them and Duty, etc. Every time I would either have to play my engagements carefully or hole up in a building and take pot shots outside of it while almost always walking away beaten to shit. So when I got to the Dark Valley, I immediately started moving towards the bandit base, when a Pseudogiant decided that my shit was unfucked and wanted to remedy that. Took a whole bunch of mags but I took it down, and then proceeded to make my way back to the enemy base. The whole fight in the base was me taking out the front guards, sniping as many people as I can, pushing in, falling back into a tower, and holing myself up in the tower like a the boogeyman hides in the closet. Took a while but I killed every bandit in the base and just barely came out alive, and decided it was time to go looting to make a profit. Found their armory, and while I was in the building I got a notification. "Defend the base from mutants."
I was all alone. In an enemy base. Where I had just murdered everyone defending it. And the game just told me a horde of mutants were about to come barging in to realign my chakras. Needless to say I decided it was time to run. Unfortunately the horde of dogs outside disagreed. The only reason I lived was because I fell back into a building with military soldiers, and because of my actions on Duty's behalf and my constant killing of freedom and bandits, they were at the very least neutral towards clear sky now. So in other words, if I hadn't been such a duty fanboy, I might have ended up with a squad of really well equipped military soldiers unloading their guns into my chest as a horde of dogs wanted to eat my soul. The game didn't save me because I was important, it was just a series of unfortunate events that I only managed to survive due to previous technically unconnected actions, and even then it was by the skin of my teeth.
Holy Anomalies ! this story encapsules almost all the most important tropes of why STALKER series ( and mods ) is so loved and held to the highest esteem - thank you for your nice short story - I wish you and your journeys IRL and into the zone the very best of luck! Greetings from a longtime STALKER head / southern bavaria.
Totally worth reading
That's awesome!
CoC sucks play anomaly
@@KookoCraft This was before I knew anomaly existed. Also, I disagree, but eh.
I only played stalker cop but in that game there was fast travel of some kind, as you could travel with random stalkers to wherever they were going, although usually when you did that you got attacked by like 15 dudes and died immediately
Fast travel was always there in a form of guides (think Skyrim carriages). Just shows that before making a video about something it might just be worthwhile to do a little basic research. Both main point of this video are based on the false premise and misinformation.
@@ElidanVideos Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat had them. Although, I really wouldn’t call the guides FTing you to a destination as a true FT.
Seeing as the locations you went to through the Guide, are ONLY accessible through the guides. You cannot travel to them on foot like in Shadow of Chernobyl.
(Unsure about foot traveling to another map on CS, I didn’t really play that one much.)
@@ElidanVideos It's not fast travel, you have to get to a guide to use it. And if you want to go to anothe part of the zone, that's atleast 1000 rubles
other games: *nothing can stop you, you are a god*
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : HAH look at that loser he just got rekt by an anomaly
Me: "Hahaha, brainscorcher goes BRRRR"
Anomaly ? Most first time players get killed by flesh or rats
Not even that, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wouldn't even glance at you when you die. Because it doesn't care.
or bandits blast you with their shotguns and loot your body.
don't be so cruel to the newbie, those vortex anomalies have more confirmed deaths than the chernobyl accident itself
Funny thing about this "Marked One" title from the first game is that, considering the post-Soviet setting, it is actually more like a prison nickname you'd get from your inmates, which is ironically opposite to the usual "Chosen One" you get to play as.
Journalist "Well, its a big world, so theres fast travel right"
GSC World " *snorts* "
you actually have fast travel but you have to pay for it lol
@@Vonluchestein And the guides usually cannot take you wherever you want. The option to join a travelling group in CoP was probably the best form of fast travel that could actually work for Stalker 2 imo.
@@matejkazbunda4769 yeah its really restricted, just a few places but i think that's nice
Yes there is...
If you can haul your lazy ass there and pay for it with your kidney
I don't think they know what fast travel is
devs be like "every game has to be SKYRIM!!"
Every gamer wants to marry Todd Howard, and every developer seeks to copy him. This is the way. He WAS in the chess club, you know.
@@DJPeachCobbler i hope igi will stay same as it was before
Amen
@Joe Mama yeah man i mean tell me another game that lets me traps people souls inside a fork
Faxanadu was the Skyrim of the '80s.
being so unimportant makes the moment where Npcs acknowledge your skills (in Call of Pripyat) feels so much better, because i know that because i shoot good and kill well that the npcs now know me for that
In Stalker its not your character or destiny that makes you survive insurmountable odds, its planning, preparation, and a healthy supply of good luck. Very few games have had me stop mid "dungeon" realizing I'm out of resources and not as well equiped as I thought before leaving and grinding for better equipment before coming back. Stalker makes you consider the dangers of just moving to the next region, and if you are unprepared on anything, you're going to be lost to the zone real quick
Hands down one of the best games I've ever played in my life and I do frequently revisit the zone. Cheeki Breeki Stalker
Yessss it's the best game franchise, definitely the one that had the biggest impact on me. There is just nothing like it, and being a slav, zone just feels like home, a scary one but still home
Check out stalker anomaly, its a stondalone mod that adds a bunch of mods together and it is amazing
Same! Few years back I got to build my first proper gaming pc and guess the first game I played on it - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Sorry, let me rephrase it - I meant games... All three of series. First as Vanilla game and then the glorious mods!
A shame it kinda bored me
It took you 6 minutes to start talking about Stalker 2 almost half the god damn video. Although I do not see why they would add fast travel when they had guides previously in CS and CoP. I still walked everywhere mostly since the zone could be so dynamic at times. Especially when you get into mods.
I was literally confused when he talked about fast travel. Although I'm too stingy to pay a guide, they do exist.
@@abnerdoon4902 Yeah I never really used guides I always tried to save every ruble I could. Although in CS there were a few bugs where you could get infinite ammo by selling flash drives for money and buying them back for nothing.
@@abnerdoon4902 just hunt for artifacts. Even the shit ones sell for a few thousand and it adds up.
@@MrAdamske What if I told you I hoarded all of the artifacts I could get my hands on in a stash. Have you seen 30 artifacts in a single room glowing and floating around? My main source of income is doing hit jobs and looting the dead and selling their shit.
@@abnerdoon4902 I try to stack them into pillars or shrines or make massive pentagrams. Also jamming in as many artifacts as possible into Hawaiian's or Sidorovich's offices is fun. They start phasing through the NPC's. Once meet a friendly (most likely bugged) bloodsucker that followed me after I killed the lair xD
Just one thing on fast travel - there is fast travel in Stalker series ;P You can just talk to some guys on your way and offer them money so they take you safely to your destination. I don't remember if this mechanic was present in SoC and CS (in this one I think - yeah), but it was definitely present in CoP.
That is basically if you want to go to the other side of the map, not just fast travel like other games since the 3 zones in CoP dont really connect to each other like previous 2.
CS had it yea, You paid a guy in a certain location & he'd take you to any "major" area's you have discovered on your travels etc.
@@pz_faust6866 except you can fast travel inside 1 area
Imagine they turn Freedom into the good guys and Duty into a non redeemable evil faction. The Zone needs to be destroyed now more than ever.
Redditors would love it then
"Why it either Nazis or Fascists with video game factions"
Good points actually.But I think that GSC does know that community of Stalker is kinda diferent if you know what I mean, they wont create a world filled with massive amount of popping-out quests that just remind a player YOU HAVE TO DO IT.I really enjoyed all of 3 Stalkers and the one thing I adore is the atmosphere.Thing that you can approach the fireplace with few rookies around it and listen to the guitar song while waiting for the rain to end is more breathtaking than all of this cp2077 hype.Even if fast travel will be in Stalker 2, I wont use it, just because I want to meet some other npc's, take a look at entire environment is around me and feel the atmosphere just like I did 10 years ago
God the campfires. They are just so damn perfect. You walk out of garbage, you are ambushed by a bloodsucker in the middle of a night, you barely kill him and without any medkit or bandage you stumble onto a group of stalkers sitting next to a campfire, just drinking and playing guitar. It's honestly the best moment I have ever experienced in games. It just feels so real, even with the shitty graphics you still feel like you are there and so is the stalker Vasya to your left. Best games ever
true. but only if the devs realize this and create stories allowing for chats with every single npc u meet. who knows u might get a job or info. but players need more than stash locations and loot. new stories have to be implemented on npcs. creating a truly alive world is also about creating detailed npcs. changing evolving scripts according to your replies or questions. if this game comes out like a polished metro we just go back to anomaly with 30 added mods.
You guys have to take a look at Scum. You can play it pve or pvp. game gives options to raid with friends or to be a loner and do construction and hunting scavenging. impressed so far. great graphics and super detailed item interaction like stalker.
TRUE :))
Yeah, why bother starting to compete with Ubisoft on their kind of open world when they already have their own niche where they are kings?
Rip stalker 2
after so many dissapointing realses, ive finally learned my lesson. I will NEVER hype about a game until AFTER they realease it.
Same
Ptsd in cyber punl
This is why I think games need to focus on atmosphere. I think one of the reason breath of the wild is so good is that unique fantasy setting, and this is why I think cyberpunk still has potential. Overall, I think environment is so important in creating a good game
As you could guess from my profile picture, I´m fairly invested in the stalker series.
I must say, that I got your videos recommended for a few times now but ignored them.
But after watching this one, I looked at the rest you had to offer, and what can I say, you got another sucscriber ontop of the 2718 existing ones.
Came for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stayed for the content.
Wanna try some Zone Sportsmanship Challenges?
Stalker anomaly???
@@gregdaweson4657 I started with anomaly, bought SoC, then CoP and finally Clear sky, which sadly dies once everytime I get past darkvalley. Also tried my hands on call of Chernobyl and gunslinger.
@@judsongaiden9878 and what would that be exactly,swimming contest in the great swamps? :)
@@anomolous5487 Anomaly is cool, but I find it a bad mistake to start with it, because after you played the first 3 games, it's just a complete different perspective, not to mention all the thing you might miss. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to tell that you suck, thisis mostly for people who wants to start with Anomaly but stumbled into this comment.
This is kind of the same reason I stopped playing the Witcher 3 halfway through and bought the previous game to actually understand all the shit what people are talking about: Why am I supposed to be negative to this redhead chick? Why is this black haired chick supposed to by my lover?
Dude, you are the rare example of a gamer that actually understands what good games are. literally every point you made is solid.
Stalker anomaly gave me the same feeling dark souls gave me when i played it for the first time.
i am no one and the world fucks me over everytime i make a mistake.
Stalker was suppose to have those rough edges. It's part of the atmosphere.
Slav jank at it's finest
yep crashes and uber ragdoll glitches makes the finest of atmospheres
@@marianocarusso932 aw cmon, the ragdolls are funny
@@manformerlypigbukkit dont get it wrong is what i love the random bullshittery of Stalker
The glitches are not part of the game,
They are a part of the Zone.
Then there is modded Stalker, like Misery mod or Anomaly. You feel even more vulnerable, yet you are given a fair chance at success... most of the time.
Anomaly just had a new update a few days ago. No matter what happens to Stalker 2, mods for the first game will continue to exist, so I ain't worried.
Even if Stalker 2 turns out to be main stream, the modding community is going to move earth and sky to turn it into an Anomaly 2 for sure xD
I do love Anomaly. Nothing gets that adrenaline pumping like running around with armour that is about a % better than running around naked at the start of each play through.
My favorite playthrough of SHoC was with a compilation of mods I found called "AMK Complete." Brought back a lot of things like full pager activity where STALKERS would report all sorts of daily events/sightings (which you could investigate and actually see for yourself), emissions/weather, less restricted A-life etc. It's the closest thing I've found to playing the game that GSC wanted to make when I started following development in the very early 2000s.
@@Mister_Don888 not really
@@Mister_Don888 it's a fantastic game you don't need to know much about the rest of the games since this one is pretty much a compilation of the 3. it is very well made and even if you are a beginner you will get the hang of it. but be warned it is addicting as hell (speaking from experience)
I respect your ability to speak in such a way that you sound like you're correct while being 100% incorrect, 10/10 would watch again
Bruh gow 4 got some killer storytelling in that canoe, don't @ me
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remember there are no friends in the zone
the stalker 2 trailer
I'm currently playing SoC on my PS5 and I'm so insanely in love with this franchise now. I really hope there isn't fast travel, a vehicle to help you get around just a little quicker sure, but not being able to have the fast travel is so terrifying to me, also Darkwood *chef's kiss* 10 outta 10 for making the player feel like they are just another piece of garbage that means nothing just trying to survive like everyone else. Stalker nails that itch that ive been missing in video games now a days, it fills that empty hole that is the desperate instinct of self preservation that video games are lacking now a day. That feeling of, oh i could go into that building there but i dont have to because there could be a bloodsucker or chimera lerking around any corner in there, so I'm *NOT* going in there because i want to live, but I really want to know what's in there, and no matter how good your equipment is, you can absolutely get bodied in an instant if you walk in there. That is the feeling a survival game should give you, especially an open world one.
Darkwood be like "yes meat?" To the player
Why is he keep avoiding the fact of Call Of Pripyat existence ?
He hasn't gotten to it yet I think. Last I saw he's still doing Clear Sky.
It takes a LOT of time to clear each game. Like it took me 60+ hours JUST for Shadow of Chernobyl, and this is while I'm already a headshot machine. Because there's so much to see and explore and prepare and do before heading into the finale.
You're kinda fucked if you head into the finale unprepared, let me tell you that.
@@JohnPeacekeeper bruh i beat shadow of chernobyl in 12.5 hours.
And i aggre with the fact going into the end unprepareds sucks. I went there with eco armour an ak with a bit of ammo and my wits
@@ivory231 If you will play for canon ending of SoC, trust me, you WILL spend a LOT of hours to prepare and going through to the end. Armor will shredded to zero durability, every ammo you bring will run out and weapon will be broken.
Maybe i was bad in shooters but this sections its really was ballbusting 4 years ago.
@@Edgariki i agree i tried to do it and failed like 1m times
Stalker... The game that makes gamer the man.
"...held together by *Slavic hopes and dreams" as someone from Slovakia, the fuck you mean by hopes and dreams? Finding two socks in my apartments with less than 3 holes in between them?
I have hopes that it'll stay true to the original stalker games. But I get the concerns.
I just want a polished Stalker game with good graphics, good animations and less bugs
And I'm all for a seamless open world, as long as there isn't fast travel. If there has to be fast travel, it should be turned off by default
@@aurin_komak or like it was in call of Pripyat where you find and pay a fellow stalker to take you to a place in close to mid proximity of you
@@coopdeshroop8948 i prefer seamless
I hope the Devs can understand the importance of finally finishing STALKER as they first intended way back. It's just a matter of making that original idea true and not let greed influence their work. I think they're passionate enough to make the good call
@@aurin_komak I think they meant regarding fast travel. That's probably the best way to do it while staying true to the old games. It was there for those who wanted to use it, and it was rather expensive if I remember correctly.
This is also why i want to play a game where you play as a simple soldier in an army.
For a while, I've been searching for a game that presented a certain challenge/scratched a certain itch. I wanted a survival type game where I was always just one wrong step away from death, but I never felt cheated. Stalker is that. Alongside the thick atmosphere and progression loop, I can't get enough of it.
Play darkwood
Project Zomboid
Yeah, this video hitting different with the Non Fuckable Toucan news ...
Honestly your videos on this franchise describe why I love it almost perfectly. It's something I could never really explain myself.
New stalker has been temporarily suspended...we know why
“It’s like Twitter, but fun!”
-This vid get's recommended to me
Oh, great! I've been meaning to get back into stalker.
-1 min into the video
Oh, he's one of those...
god damnit the kratos law and order joke killed me
ok now we just need to figure out how to get GSC to watch this.
They seem to be pretty active on social media.
@@MTNDEWGANG they might've even seen this.
It's popular video actually I won't be suprised if they watched this.
Stalker has never been dead. We have a huge community and thousands of mods. Many of these mods evolved into full-fledged games. PS: Watch the movie as well.
Just got this video suggested, watched and came to two conclusions: This is a really good video, like, not the kind of thing I see everyday in youtube. Analogue to stalker, its unique, has character and passion put into it. It's weird how it made me feel mainly two things: Happy to find a really good yet STILL small channel with great content and at the same time sad, for I have a channel myself (not this one), I've planned videos with stalker as subject and they will never be as polished as this one. Keep up the great work pal, this channel is going far soon enough. Cheers
I didn't understand why you would be afraid of it, i get it now
They're not doing nfts
@@syntax2679 I'm glad they listened to the huge backlash and went back
Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits. None of them will stop Duty on it's triumphant march towards saving the planet!
svobodu ne ostanovit!
@@yaboidee really? watch as i crush your little shit base.
So there is a way that they could implement fast travel into stalker 2 without completely breaking the game I believe. If you remember in the stalker games there were guides that would take you to another part of the map for a small fee. If they just did that instead of like a Skyrim kind of fast travel then I think I’d be fine with that.
Yeah, I'd say that's fair. Anything that doesn't turn the world into nothing more than a bunch of icons on a map
@@DJPeachCobbler For sure. Love your vids man 👌
an interesting idea i've had would the travels being interrupted, à la Fallout 1
@@Jeanpierregilbert666 a mod known as The Faction War has that, your character would automatically consume food at transition points, ammunition would be expended because he encountered dogs or something (not too much), and I think there was a potential to get robbed. Only mod I've seen do it, it wasn't unfair it literally just added to the immersion. COP and OGSR also have guides that you can pay to take you to different areas, its still analogue as fuck (not marked on map, have to find on foot and talk to them, figure out what area you want to go to)
maybe you could pay some guy in a Lada to drive you to points but only ones that follow a road or some shit.
You got some points, but I'm not very concern, honestly. Devs never gave me a reason to be worried. Remember, that after gsc went shut, owner, Grigorovich did not sold the rights to stalkes (and I'm sure there were offers from west), because he didn't want the title to be turned to call of duty. Check mate.
One thing I love about STALKER is the significance that comes with each action. Each bullet I shoot has the potential to end a life, or save one. If I shoot this mutant now instead if knifing it, I might really be wishing I had those bullets later. Same thing if I do knife the mutant - I use a medkit now that might come in handy in 10 minutes after I end a gunfight. Each item is so significant, and everything costs rubles. Nothing is free or easy to get, and nothing is trivial. You are on the same level as the other bandits and stalkers that will try to gun you do an and snatch your shit.
You've just perfectly summed up the core reason why I enjoy Stalker. The only difference is that I wasn't able to find a word for it.
The one that never played stalker, will never know what the true game is! But hey, cheer up, even if they fuck up, we have a modders that cant wait to give us TRUE STALKER EXPERIENCE!
exactly what im thinking. get the vanilla then await for the real heros to shine.
Not every game can be modded.
But lets hope they make it so that it can be.
In the first dark souls. The first part of the you can't fast travel. And yes, it can be a pain, especially when you're cursed. I like the first part because you need to get ready to survived what is ahead of you and find the better path to get to the point.
But when you unlock teleportation it is all gone you just need to remember which bonfire the merchant is.
Stalker Anomaly is a good representation on what Stalker 2 should most likely resemble. I fear Stalker 2 will not be Stalker, but I hope it turns out just as legendary and a pedestal for generations to come.
I cant play other stalker games ofter the anomaly
@@mertmustafayalcn1860 Me neither
That's the only game I ALWAYS have installed
Honestly? I enjoy my anomaly, being updated, modded over a year right now (CoC earlier, even longer), but I wouldn''t like s2 to be like that. I'm chill with whatever devs gonna throw, knowing, good old team is working on it while we speak, and some new artists. The 'trailers' that gsc released, are not really trailers. They are just representation of atmosphere, that devs want to achieve. So, with that in Your mind, You still think they gonna F this up? Everybody is kinda worried about franchise, it have the half life 3 curse on it. After a decade expectations of community raised so high, they cannot be fully met, but remember this: original stalker was not the greatest in terms of graphics, mechanics, or even AI. People loved it, and still love for ATMOSPHERE. The constant threat, deadly enviroment, mysteries of people creations and motives and zone itself. Sort of romantic, melancholic song of a long dead world. The curiosity of unknown, that push people over fatal edge, the emotions that comes from individuals thrown in such alien reality. All of that sprinkled with amazing sountracks... Anomaly is great, don't get me wrong. It's most impressive mod, that set new boundaries in our minds, when we thought, that nothing else could be squezed from good ol
xray engine. BUT... there is not much new to see honestly. It's a empty 'open world'. Sure, it have some new plot... But it just doesn't feel important. Travel stretched too much, to make gameplay longer. It is kinda shallow to me. Great mod, but it just lack this spark for me. The spark of exitement for next travel from safety of Bar, to next, deadly, unseen place. There is nothing more for me to find, all is left, is grind.
Anomaly overrated many better mods like op2
Anomaly for westerners and fake fan
@@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404 Bro, i can guarantee you i have played more stalker mods than you have. Stalker anomaly has its own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to being a stalker game, op has its own.
9:39, "Cant remember the last seamless and massive open world game ive played.."
Black Desert Online. No fast travel, massive open world.
Not to mention how Thor lied about being a well fisher, killed the most beautiful ox and risked the life of a giant just to try to fuck up the world serpent that he doesn’t like - that was the tightest shit ever
Man, I never thought that someone would mention Darkwood in my entire life. And knowing that you like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (man, that's fucking an ass to write that title all the time) AND Darkwood is incredible, because I too think Darkwood have a great atmosphere, even with his simplistic top down perspective, which makes it even more incredible.
There is one!
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You instigated the Ukraine conflict to stop stalker 2 from being made didn’t you
Was thinking of Darkwood literally seconds before you mentioned it, love it!
I found your channel this last month. The way you start your videos and then flip them is great. Keep up the great job!
6:11 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Is...a feeling. And the feeling is, you getting glassed in a grimey slavic alley by Cthulhu in a tracksuit.
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Cheeki Breeki Iv Dame!
They could just stitch the three games together like a demented voodoo doll from the depths of Goo Lagoon, give it thigh highs and a ribbon in its hair, and I'd be content.
..... what?
That is called stalker anomaly
severely underrated channel. just 4 thousand subs whaaaaaaaat. 4 001 now
Mans really called god of war a bland gray mass, I feel like we played different games
Normal people: God of War 4
Dj Peach Cobbler: God of Warfare
Eh I think that there are other things STALKER does that normal games do not. Simulation AI, ballistic physics. An open world where the AI is more dynamic, deadlier, with mods or as per original docs - more equal to the player. These things I personally like a lot and think are massive advantages over the dead worlds or simple shooting of Far Cry or Fallout (modern).
Agreed, almost equal playing field is amazing
Definitely. However, the only complaint I've had throughout every game and mod is that there's only a few hundred stalkers in the zone, but the player always ends up racking dozens to hundreds of kills in a very short time. For example, my custom Call of the Zone character "Valeri Brave" has killed 200 stalkers in under 2 weeks, Monolith/Zombies making up a total of about 50.
@@NotSnidge Yeah though I think its more like a thousand stalkers in total. And some leave / others enter the zone. Also, the military and mercs technically should not count.
>he knew
Here we are, 3 years later, and there is now actual game play footage from Stalker 2.
Great video, I would recommend playing the game called “Kenshi”
Kenshi Gang, assemble.
If STALKER 2 ends up getting fast travel, it would be interesting if they made a compromise and make it so your fast travels can be interrupted by random events alla Fallout 1-2.
Or maybe have bus stops like in Farcry 2 and the silt striders in morrowind.
>barley knows about stalker games
>talk about stalker 2
Would you mind being specific as to what I missed? I know not mentioning the guides was a big oversight, but I assumed it would be clear that my concern lies with consequence-free and simple fast travel. In retrospect, I should've made that far more clear.
@@DJPeachCobbler Just by using the Complete mod in this day and age when ZRP exists sets off my alarm bell. The Complete mod series for the games add a bunch of other non-fast travel related balance changes making the game significantly easier while not fixing as many bugs as it should. Aside from that, as you’ve said not mentioning the guides in the video definitely gave off the impression that you didn’t know what you’re on about as it’s not an obscure feature (though from memory I don’t think it was in Shadow of Chernobyl?). Talking to wandering NPCs will also allow you to fast travel with them for free to their target location or somewhere else for a fee in Call of Pripyat, which was the game with the largest open maps. I’d be surprised if something like this wasn’t included in Stalker 2 if they felt it was needed for those maps.
@@TheOfficalZombie97 Ohh I still remember dowloading complete mod for the first and only time to play the games bug free, just to realise the mod made the game easy mode on all difficulties and of course, introduce new bugs that vanilla didn't have.
Kingdom Come Deliverance is another great example of a game where you start as nobody, which in some ways makes it better then Skyrim, even though I like Skyrim.
There are two ways that i find stalker to make its world so believable, the lack of fast travel, and when there is fast travel it costs your sons college fund, and the other people in the zone are just as easily dispatched as the player, as long as the player shoots first
todd hole is criminally underused in this video, 0/10
fast travel is okay if it's gonna be like CoP - for a price,limited and mainly immersive (guides or tag along with a group of stalker that go that way)
"...thats sort of the thing about rough edges they do lend something a certain ... texture" -DJ Peach
Don't worry, Stalker 2 will never come out
Hey man, Clicked on this link fast, also hope you posted this on Reddit, the boys there are all excited bout your uploads ya know that?
Anyways if it's STALKER... I'm sure mods will always come to fix whatever it breaks.... OR if STALKER 2 is a disappointment we can all forget it exists and continue playing Anomaly or Dear Air or Call of Chernobly.
Nice vid btw.
Also, prediction for me is that traversing the zone will probably work same as CoP with guides which you have to pay.
According to GSC, they try to make modding as easy as possible and that the game will have a seamless open world
@@aurin_komak Confirm, they will add modding tools for community, to make life easier.
honestly the only moment i felt like "well at least somebody(actualy something) cares about my death, was then i noticed: mutants will sometimes drag your corpse around to other or away from other mutants, just so they can enjoy a meal alone or together. 10/10 mechanic watched what the heck they gonna do to me ever since.
Pull a far cry 2 with the whole bus thing
ill be proud to say i was here when you only had 2k subs when your channel inevitably blows up.
I was there... 3000 years ago...
Me too yeah yeah ahm ahm me too “in beavis sound”
I tried STALKER quite late in my "gaming career" ... actually, i tried it the moment i was sure this career had reached its very end and no game could possibly catch me as much as older games did.
Now, in your video, there is this moment when the clumsy guitar music starts that random stalkers play arround campfires... and i instantly got a chilling freeze running down my spine.
THIS is the magic of stalker.
Umm... You know, there was some sort of fast travel in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you could ask a guide to "take you to..." and you had a few options, depending on the amount of money you had (they were paid, ofc), and the specific guide
Approximately 9 months ago Ubisoft made Far Cry 3 free for about a couple of days. As soon as I heard about this I quickly downloaded Ubisofts shitty game launcher and collected my free Far Cry 3. I than proceed to downgrade Far Cry 3 to an earlier version so that I didn't need to ask for Ubisofts permission to play a game.
I made it about half way through Far Cry 3 because at that point it started to get really boring.
3 months after that I buy Assassins Creed 2 because that was pretty much the extent my old laptop could run.
I felt exactly the same with AC3 as FC3; bored, irritated and I felt my soul leave my body, just a little, when I realised I'm only gonna play about half of this.
After than I set a promise for myself that I'm never going to play another Ubisoft game for as long as I live.
Well, no one has to worry about Stalker 2 now
You forget that Stalker CoP already had a good system for fast travel. You ought to pay someone in cash to escort you to some nearby location.
I like games with a history in other media, there's the Stalker film, which is something to behold, and I finally read Picknick, which is a more than worthy template. Paired with the chance to set foot in the forbidden zone that is Chernobyl, it was an obvious choice for someone who almost never plays FPS/RPGs, the more story, the less interest. I know the story of Stalker only from skipping through playthroughs. I played both Star Wars Old Republik to the end, and I liked Battlefield tho...
This video provides more reasons why Stalker is so compelling. I played through all three Stalker parts twice. Can't wait for Stalker 2, and let's hope we won't get disappointed.