Stalker vs Stalker 2 Locations & Graphics Comparison | Stalker 1 vs Stalker 2

[@williamwen3477]

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 :)

[@ДмитрийЛебедев-з4о]

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 :).

[@PeterSereda]

True, however there were mostly 720 p display. Now 4090 deals with 4k. I've even increased quality with some mods 😅

[@Zamalshkay]

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]

@@Zamalshkay Callisto has mostly baked graphics. However cp2077 is still good example. They have much bigger budget and more talented developers

[@Zamalshkay]

@@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

[@whistlestopwonders]

Obviously Stalker 2 looks great, but I'm just surprised how well the first Stalker holds up.

[@Pidalin]

And Clear Sky and CoP already had much better lightning than first stalker, so differance would be less obvious, clear sky is 2008!

[@bmqww223]

whats the song btw nice music

[@zedus4042]

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.

[@dllss77]

+ 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.

[@skygames1990]

Honestly GAMMA looks even better. 😮

[@РустамШуриев-м4щ]

The designer of original Stalker SoC was real artist. The atmosphere they created is still unbeatable!!! This is Top even in 2024!!!

[@painkiller6644]

Старый сталкер всё ещё великолепен

[@MrWardenYT1.19]

Там чувствуешь советский Чернобыль, а в сталкер 2 та нет слов СССР и тд. Я в него прост не играл

[@Fess_23]

@MrWardenYT1.19 откуда тебе знать?!?!??!

[@kailonfors2478]

Sidorovic from clear Sky should have been added to the comparison, as it has almost twice as many polygons there.

[@zedus4042]

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.

[@DmitriyK2012]

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.

[@momsspaghetti4064]

​@@DmitriyK2012 facts

[@vk1926]

@@DmitriyK2012🎤🐓

[@sorinpopa1442]

4:51 lmao

[@gergovanyek]

Same jacket, same pose, same music 😂😂

[@TheLuri89]

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 😆

[@CapitalGearGaming]

​@@TheLuri89He's also just as greedy as before 😂

[@FantasyNero]

Why do you play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. DX8 instead or DX9 Max settings Full dynamic Lighting?

[@Schizm1]

Cycuszku Ty mój - dzięki piękne za te wszystkie filmiki porównawcze.

[@gaborlant5343]

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.

[@hessian144]

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!

[@seaofrage]

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.

[@duyquang3110]

Stalker 2 better graphic but stalker 1 bring the feel of apocalypse

[@Inkxo3D]

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]

​@Inkxo3D 10 years really isnt that much, and realistically the chernobyl disasters affects aren't to be close to undone until 2200.

[@kailonfors2478]

@@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

[@Inkxo3D]

@@LANDEN_BERGER Who knows, C-consciousness could be controlling the zone and gradually making it less radioactive. They are a Sci-if variable anyways

[@playstation5147]

First Stalker have 20x better atmosphere 🙂

[@DTKCEKDRK]

yeah totally

[@commie_remover]

Yeah, Stalker 2 looks like a poorly made UE5 slop clickbait video.

[@johnweak6788]

0:49 glad construction workers work in the zone

[@kilo3868]

those years between the games fixed sidorovich's gamer dent

[@apkidlafirm522]

from cziki to briki

[@Chugumbius]

Yeah , photogrammetry still rules over PBR lol. On low resolution you cant even tell which is more realistic

[@Suesser_Typ]

The music makes me want to replay The Last of Us right away 😂

[@Canniption]

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

[@superhuber]

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.

[@desgard]

Stalker 2 on low looks miles better than trilogy

[@ReVersDC]

@@desgard hahaha good joke 😅

[@hamzakhalil-gs7oc]

i wanna see dead city, limansk, jupitor and yantar but i cant find a single video showing those locations nor screenshots :((

[@TheLuri89]

On the map i saw yantar, so its there. But im not sure if limansk and dead city are in stalker 2

[@hamzakhalil-gs7oc]

@@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

[@TheLuri89]

@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

[@megagamememe]

​@@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.

[@hamzakhalil-gs7oc]

@@megagamememe but wasn't generator also not in the original games? So there's still hope for dead city

[@Григорий-Старцев-97]

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

[@Mrorlgloth]

Why game from 2007 looks stunning compared with game from 1997 but games from 2024 only look slightly better compared with 2007 games ??

[@adrian80_]

diminishing returns, moorse law and same with games ig

[@artem1ism]

First trilogy has really fotorealistic graphics and texture. Change of a engine always has a minuses, altough they tried to save the atmosphere.

[@brut6281]

Because they used to make games, but today they make business and money...

[@Void2_2]

No​@@brut6281

[@fruitslicer]

Stupid ass bro that’s like saying the 1950s were way better compared to the 1910s and the 2020s only slightly improved on things

[@momsspaghetti4064]

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.

[@AdamAJanek]

Stalker 1!

[@D.O.CanMusic]

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…

[@PUARockstar]

enjoy first A-Life imprementation patch

[@jem9825]

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

[@johncunningham1889]

It's a pretty bold move to a link this video from another video that uses a lot of the same exact footage lmao.

[@Cycu1]

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.

[@johncunningham1889]

@@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.

[@JamesBond-mq7pd]

Why not same weather?

[@bcc2033]

name of the song playing

[@MordKirozova]

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

[@DETEKTORScum]

и трава повсюдду, меня просто бесит. Куда не поверни камеру, одна трава с кустами. Идиотизм какой-то.

[@AntonBazzhenov]

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.

[@bearboxlite7940]

Где большие деревья с толстыми стволами в С2? Все деревца чахлые, тонюсенькие - от этого ландшафт очень не похож на оригинал.

[@realalexme]

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.

[@luckynyaa2826]

So this is just visual upgrade.

[@alec7568]

There are a lot of people in the comments section who clearly haven't played the game.

[@Кабачокверсия2.0]

1:55 , ахуеть , там здание во 2 сталкере огромное исчезло.Аномалия...

[@Drivers_Eye]

20 years for almost 20% improvment... FKN NICE 😂😂😂

[@flat_stickproductions209]

I would play Stalker 1 if it supported controller, I know it will run on my hardware.

[@jem9825]

Ps5 Or ran them trough steam and simulate mnk Played max payne 2 like that Basicly the same as the steam deck input conversion

[@SilentForest-cs9dm]

in ue5 thrre must be puddles every wgrer. and we all know why

[@Ranger0802]

La cancion del ultimo superviviente de fallout

[@DetroyTRus]

Игра детства которая вернулась. 🤧

[@loucipher7782]

stalker 2 look like stalker with UE5 mods lol those puddles smh

[@VictorGravit]

Пж, название трека

[@razor696]

jakość w porównaniu z pop serią dupy nie urywa a tym bardziej patrząc na wymagania 2....

[@maltesemike9114]

Durrrrrrrr😮

[@sarineke4975]

100% same

[@evgeniysmirnoff3093]

Гамма была более реалистичная

[@AZSDXC8954]

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

[@AZSDXC8954]

Like Half-Life Alyx City 17 doesn't look exactly like Half-Life 2 City 17, but it feels like it

[@commie_remover]

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.

[@AZSDXC8954]

@ 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

[@shgllhg3672]

😢❤️‍🩹

[@Mortalz2]

Сидор не похож

[@alexdenn8633]

Это ты ещё Шрама не видел...

[@Mortalz2]

@@alexdenn8633 на видео видел

[@nxtmoho9018]

stalker 2 looks like chinese garbage. stalker 1 has the dark grey atmosphere feels real soviet

[@ShortyScientific]

broken garbage

[@AndrewSh80]

Тот случай, когда в сталкер2 лучше только освещение и трава с дополнительным мусором, а текстуры лучше в сталкер1.

[@dghost8]

Downgrade

[@CrowbarKogut]

thats the same game ;$ ukrainians are fkin geniuses

[@VictorGravit]

Гениальность - это умение сохранить и передать все годные нюансы из предыдущих частей. К сожалению в полной мере сделать это не получилось. Сталке Фар Край

[@SerekPieczarkowy]

Yeah, geniuses gave us bugged game. It feels untested above first map. Shame.

[@fruitslicer]

@@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

[@VictorGravit]

@@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+

[@crazy71rus]

Ubisoft presents...😂

[@crazy71rus]

S2: 0/10 😢

[@PUARockstar]

russia -14/10