STALKER 2 vs. Original STALKER Trilogy: Locations Comparison

[@DarkroseV5]

Kinda sad seeing the Clear Sky base abandoned, fond memories of camp fire drinking there, safe for a time from the monsters of the swamps beyond.

[@jacobwalker414]

It's more sad that Clear Sky disappeared at all, i liked that group. Hope, they may be somewhere in the zone. Didn't complete Stalker 2 yet

[@TehMaximaVSK]

It's a shame, Clear Sky was the only faction I chose in its only appearance :(

[@ivanquintana_]

Kinda crazy that all of them got wiped out, even when you eradicate the renegades from the swamps no one in command is smart enough to leave some forces and at least someone that can take over back in the base? They basically had a brain fart moment thinking "If we stop Strelok surely mr emission won't decide to show up..."

[@voxcake]

Some groups disappear, but all locations are at place

[@nickapple3788]

@@jacobwalker414those guys were cool unfortunately Lebedev appeared to be a dickhead so we’re better off without Clear Sky faction

[@Landscape_]

the older games aged good because of good art direction and well placed textures and props, it was so inmersive back in the day

[@NotRealChandlerBing]

And great lighting

[@FlunkedPunk]

Exactly. I think a lot of devs and fans need to learn the difference between graphics and art direction/style. Having a good atmosphere, will make your game a timeless classic. Too many people focus on graphics, instead of style

[@newt4050]

​@@FlunkedPunk exactly what I've been wanting to tell to other gamers, sadly they prefer graphics over gameplay and style

[@mr.crowgamer6250]

​@@newt4050sadly gamers nowadays are braindead

[@dixit8611]

I played Stalker SOC first time in 2007 or 08 on a 8600 GT and 19 inch monitor. I just finished playing Stalker SOC vanilla zero mods on a 55 inch 4k Tv and it is still very immersive today.

[@FSHerrante]

It's amazing how these places not only changed in design, but also over time in the chronology of the games. Corpses seen in previous games are now skeletons or remains. Places where a headquarters had been established are now abandoned and almost ruined, etc...

[@TeamYellowBS]

It's so pleasant to find such comments among the sea of russian tears

[@sentinel9648]

@@TeamYellowBS Are these Russian tears with u in y'r room now??

[@ЧелИзИнтернетаРандомВаще]

​@@TeamYellowBSbro's seeing things that are not there💀

[@DanielCherniq]

Wow the older games have aged very good

[@EvilSSP]

From a distance yes, but when you start comparing closer up details like the weapons themselves it's pretty bad. They were awesome for their time though.

[@woodman94]

​@@EvilSSP too bad "at a distance" isnt ever relavent in this game.

[@ThanatosUA]

Just add SSS mod by Ascii and it will became more modern then ever

[@khelgarironfist3301]

Also the video is just 1080p and who knows how compressed

[@medianinitiantion1058]

​@ThanatosUA Thats for anomaly not for og trilogy...

[@yxfrans6257]

16:00 the walking through the hospital hallway is so realistic, I can't even tell that is game or not if there is no UI. I grown up in China. When I was young my hometown looks just like Pripyat, I believe a lots of people grown up in a communist country has the same feeling. we got all those Soviet Style buildings, statues, gardens huge trucks everywhere but due to the fast developing, they had to get rid of them all and build skyscrapers. My grandfather was working in a factory at that time, so he always bring some scraps back for me and he gave a set of tools as well. I was literally just like the mechanics in this game, helping my friends fixing their toy. I still remember my best well known work was upgrading the BB shotgun. My grandfather got me some strong springs and those springs have same diameter with the BB shotgun spring but much stronger. So I just swap the spring for my "customers", and upgrading their shotgun's "firepower". I got a lots of snacks out of that job but my business got turned down soon later. Apparently BB guns are too dangerous for kids, one kid's tooth got chipped off by the ricochet. Also, for a lots of those old buildings during the cold war, the requirement was buildings must have civil defense facilities, which means there were a lots of building has abandoned underground "bunker", literally just like this game. We just don't have any research center down there. everytime when I play STALKER I feel like I am playing in my childhood dreams. I found a old Chinese photo online, looks just like the game. sigedon.com/shop/photos/after-1945/1990-original-photo-china-shenyang-robotic-research-development-center-science/

[@trustypotato9998]

I hope you dint make those upgrades overpriced like how it is in the stalker games

[@catc15engine]

To me, the Clear Sky base is by far the saddest encounter in the game so far. Bro, it hit me hard when I visited it.

[@UngespielteWelten]

Wow, I really felt the same. It was like to visit your old home. Back then full of life and now completely lost

[@kohlan32]

When I start the game the first thing I do is find the rookie village. And listen to the "good hunting stalker" ahh~good old time

[@Ehrenfried2740]

THIS is the video I was lookin for. Everything ages... Played stalker as an pre pre alpha back in 2002... The main game in 2007 and the 2 follow ups. Now 17 years later, the places and people changed, in game and in my life. I have a blast with Stalker 2, exactly as i had in 2007... I remember the feeling when the first emission hit in Stalker, in the middle of a firefight and the enemies ran, away... Now i had the same feeling when an emission hit in Stalker 2. Man I really love the franchise.

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

In 2002? Damn, that must have been when the levels were massive and the game didn't really have anything else but it was still so far ahead of the time

[@Ehrenfried2740]

@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire yes it was VERY clunky, a short demo thingy, very basic. I still have a vhs tape from that convention where we were at, and i think we filmed it too. But i still remember, it was the run down eastern european look which caught my attention. Because i lived it too And now with Stalker 2, i see those things again i lived through.

[@hunter_0221]

As an army man, I can appreciate that every military base now looks like an actual military base from the inside. Come to think of it, though...they have some experience now.

[@Ehrenfried2740]

As an airforce man I know what u mean... 😂

[@Gravity_studioss]

It makes sense, since the IPSF is an international joint-op effort with proper funding, rather than a national guard unit stuck with rotting surplus gear, low Morale and a lot of corruption

[@ciaacho1]

I like how Clear Sky is always 🐦🎶🧑‍🤝‍🧑 and then Two goes 🌫💀🌫

[@joebreakerx]

Been waiting for this exact video since release, fantastic work!

[@TeamYellowBS]

Thank you!🤗

[@brandedtexas5599]

The building in Zaton, the waste processing station, also has the Burer train tunnel from Yanov attached to it now. Alot of call of prypiats locations are spread out now, while clear skies and shadow of chernobyls areas are moved slightly but still stay true to shape.

[@QueerDisasterKitty]

Except for Army Warehouses and Radar/Brain Scorcher, which sit below Agroprom now for some reason :/

[@FlunkedPunk]

Im ngl, I miss the old ambient sounds. All the frogs and crickets make me feel at home

[@remembertheguy]

i think it wont be hard to make a mod replacing ost i mean even the dinamic fight music alredy excisted in cop and whit some merging it would be nice.

[@PantsuMann]

Makes you realize how amazing the older games looked. Good art direction, lightning, shadows and assets. By far my personal most immersive FPS series I've ever played.

[@seventhfoo]

Bring back the STALKER mini map, I miss it

[@mcfeddle]

The mods shall cook.

[@burnttoast26]

@@mcfeddleNot sure that kind of mod is possible with UE5

[@Toaster_Weevil]

The new game really shines in interiors and under good lighting, but the original games hold up surprisingly well, especially outdoors

[@maximsl]

S2 definetly got better models, but S1 has its unique gloomy dark vibe . I think they have to do something with illumination of S2 , to make it look darker and more grim .

[@TJ-bg4fw]

They compared all three games; they didn’t just use Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

[@kevinrocha1091]

GSC changing illumination is unnecessary, but modders can do these things.

[@tacticalnache7153]

Train hangar in the garbage, my beloved

[@TeamYellowBS]

Are you ok?

[@BlazeBlueY3]

@@TeamYellowBS wydm hes just expressing his love to such lovely location around garbage

[@TeamYellowBS]

I thought he was pointing out a mistake that I didn't make. P.S. And I still can't read it the way you explained it

[@arya31ful]

Alas, no longer Cheeki Breeki without the Bandit Radio.

[@wdavis6814]

It's the best part of garbage ❤

[@Pete-vo2lr]

OG stalkers were brilliant, loved them all. I still remember when I first bought stalker, £29.99 many years ago. Good vibes.

[@craigauclair4026]

The vehicle station was also in SoC, since it's where you rescued Nimble in the first mission.

[@rancor4513]

I think he's showing the area in the newest version of the game? Which is why its all clear sky/ cop

[@denismarecik7451]

In the stalker 2, where are the stalkers?

[@mcfeddle]

I do find the lack of population to be disappointing. I remember the bustle of settlements in the old trilogy, it'd been neat to see similar crowds to Metro.

[@FullAutoWitch]

Kind of hate how shabby trees look now, but otherwise it's amazing to see those locations again. Just as I remember them from years ago when I played original games. Well, most of them, except for Clear Sky's base.

[@NotRealChandlerBing]

I believe users will add better trees in mods ☺️

[@kgoon4689]

Trees look way better imo

[@Originalchili]

​@@kgoon4689love when lighting strikes them and they catch fire

[@josephjt051194]

We definitely need (clear sky-bandit) radio in Stalker 2

[@mcfeddle]

The Rastafarian atmosphere of Dark Valley's Freedom base was definitely lost in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. Bandit Radio is just iconic. But what of Loner radio? Imagine that in Zalissya, or Gurza Dreaming playing in the 100 Rads Bar.

[@OnlineHipHopTV]

The original game looks a lot more cozy

[@remembertheguy]

and also isnt as sad as stalker 2

[@ArquivosHinter]

Maybe it’s nostalgia

[@ciaacho1]

It's specifically Clear Sky that has a lot more neutral populated areas. The original SoC was a lot more desolate and hostile.

[@remembertheguy]

@@ciaacho1 i felt soc was more alive

[@robloxsivcak7004]

because in clear sky the main point is faction wars, not so much sidequests, Also mutants dont fight each other because they Also are taken as a faction 😃@@remembertheguy

[@danweber8382]

The older games have aged so well. But with the emersion in 2 it brings it to another level. Cheers GSC, love this IP so damn much.

[@CTyler84]

Underground and the Brain Scorcher look way more atmospheric and unnerving in the originals.

[@mcfeddle]

I think it's just how quiet they get, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has so much atmostphere, at times to it's detriment.

[@khelgarironfist3301]

I thought there was very little difference and was like wtf.. then noticed the youtube quality was set to 360p lol. Older ones still looking good tho

[@ТотКтоГоворитМногоНеГоворяНиче]

If you want to compare places with each other, you should also do it at the same time and with the same weather. It's like in real life, where the same place will look completely different just because of time and weather.

[@yobrethren]

Вот только в играх трилогии часто "запечённая" погода, то есть в ТЧ Янтарь очень мрачный, а в ЧН солнечный. Так-что погоду очень трудно подобрать, да и не в ней дело.

[@Verdun16]

damn, STALKER 2 feels even more apocalyptic now

[@ebenkleinhans4474]

I always believed Clear Sky was the weakest of the original trilogy, but I am reconsidering this now. The locations shown here from Clear Sky had the most, and greatest, memories for me watching this vid. I just played through Call of Pripyat again, thinking it's time to revisit Clear Sky once more! Thanks for this video, since S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 released, I have been hoping someone would create this comparison! Amazing job GSC!

[@lerouxvermeulen4403]

I've played stalker 2 for like 30 hours, and it feels like i haven't been in half of these places xD

[@johnny5805]

They were of such good quality. that they used all the original 2007 building models as a starting point for the new game. If you've ever seen the GSC Open Source model pack, there are thousands and thousands of models. So it would have been impossible to start from scratch.

[@LiS4472]

Зачем начинать с нуля если многие локации существуют в реальной жизни , посмотрите настоящие фото Припяти

[@patrickkane3826]

Before i even watch this i want to say i was hoping someone would make this and in general if the games shared locations. I played anomaly for a good 40 minutes, not doing much at all, but when i cam across the rookie village in stalker 2 it was all familiar. Also watching people play the old games lately just to keep stalker content in my brain i recognize other things. So point is i love they keep the same world. Now ill watch what you got to show me.

[@XDon_LemonX]

You look just as beautiful as the day you left me...

[@Evgeny_Checker]

За счет фотореалистичных текстур в оригинальном Сталкере, игра до сих пор смотрится потрясно, а так же очень крутой свет и тени без маркетиговых лучей.

[@radchannelbad287]

ТруСталкер мне очень зашел

[@charlie2731]

@@radchannelbad287 true stalker is possibly the best mod I’ve played for the stalker series

[@Saved_Sinner0085]

The craziest part to me is that, with mods, you can get the original games looking about 85% as good as Stalker 2, but you can play them on decent 8 year old hardware no problem. Stalker 2 crushes high end newer systems.

[@Veelaru]

Haven't had a single crash on 4070, nor any severe graphical bugs (a dozen of tiny

[@Saved_Sinner0085]

@@Veelaru that's what I have heard too, it gets worse as it goes on. I also heard the new patch fixes some of the worst dips. The issue is that mid range GPU's should still be able to play on high graphics at 1440p without issues and this game still keeps FPS down on the 50's at 1080p on most newer mid-range cards.

[@mrtimz7666]

It wasn't until moders painfully remade the entire X-ray engine into 64 bit that ANY of the graphic fidelity mods you see now make it look so good and RUN so well. On top of that the launch was terribly buggy and glitchy leaving a lot of people disappointed. It wasn't until Misery, Anomaly and Gamma got popular that people started getting interested and at that point you can say it wasn't even GSC tbut modders that made the game great just like vanilla skyrim or fallout. In 10 years the UT5 engine will get upgraded, hardware will get more powerful and modern will do their thing. In 8-10 years the moders will do the same and a lot more with Stalker 2 when the tools drop and when you UPGRADE.

[@Saved_Sinner0085]

@@mrtimz7666 I would have to disagree about the state of the game prior to those three specific mods you mentioned, it had a very busy modding community since right around the time of release. The Stalker Complete mods and Call of Chernobyl were popular for years before the release of those mods. I remember the original releases too, I had a hard 3-disc copy of the original SOC on launch day. It was certainly buggy but it had a large fan base right from the get go (albeit mostly overseas). I actually played the multiplayer quite a bit when it was launched too and it was quite active for a while.

[@mrtimz7666]

@@Saved_Sinner0085 All of that is digressing from what my point is which is vanilla Stalker is not impressive graphics wise or gameplay wise and it's ultimately the mods that made it look good - which you stated at the beginning of your comment. And what I'm saying ito you s once proper nodding tools are released, once the engine continues to get upgraded and once PC hardware jumps 8 years into the future with RTX 7080s this game will look better and run better . It's been 2 weeks and no patches for optimization or what's more important A-life because if they don't get it working fans will be going back to Stalker moded.

[@rkelypnonu9423]

The main thing I hate in stalker 2 is why are so many locations now abandoned? Why are some locations not even occupied that you would assume are strategic spots to control?

[@Andrey-y6l]

Yeah, and majority of old locations is about nothing, abandoned, empty, seems like added for fan service.

[@Gravity_studioss]

​@@Andrey-y6l Maybe unfinished too. The game is being worked on even after Release, it might get more content via DLCs and patches

[@Gavin.b21]

If you explore the game you will find things that point to future updates holding more in store. Doors with no keys that never unlock, etc.

[@GJJ.]

Stalker 2 did great, when the community starts bringing ideas from old mods to the new game it will be great, the only thing I would change a little about Stalker 2 are details in the emissions and the Controllers' attacks

[@foobar-9k]

Watching this video in 480p... it is incredible how well the old games hold up. I had to rewind a couple of times and went... "Yup... like the older one better, LOL". Good thing for me though, as I'm overdue on a replay of the originals, and I can't afford nor the game, nor the machine good enough to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 :-)

[@heracit4012]

За 10 лет ( в игровом мире) мозаика на стенах восстановилась. Мистика Зоны.

[@theoriginalrabbithole]

Why do I feel like 'That guy who doesn't like caviar'? I actually like most of the Clear Sky examples over the STALKER 2 scenes.

[@luukeksifrozenhillbillyeur3407]

One of the many reasons I'm loving STALKER 2 is the realization of "Wait a goddamn minute. I recognize this place!" after just stumbling into an old familiar place.

[@IghorMaia]

The sound effects playing in the background of the new game totally change the atmosphere of the game.. they make you feel more tense

[@trxsh_oc]

Army Warehouse broke my heart, but was happy to see freedom finally got Rostok

[@Dllayed]

There is a mercenary spawn now (even with snipers on the towers), but after you kill them, it will be as empty as other locations

[@trxsh_oc]

@@Dllayed exactly. made me sad. but the suit there is preem

[@arya31ful]

I always root for Duty (just because of their cool uniform), but even i got relieved they finally shut down that bleeding megaphone.

[@Konghammer1]

Stalker 2 is my first experience actually playing in the series. Something i really like over fallout is you can tell when you've come across a living area. In fallout EVERYWHERE looks like crap, houses with emtire families in them have piles of trash everywhere. In stalker the places people live are actually cleaned up and organized compared to everywhere else. Makes a lot more sense in my head environment wise and pleases my lizard brain.

[@DreyzieArt]

The lighting in the underground sections of SoC still looks amazing.

[@Sh4dow682]

I think theyve done a good job modelling these locations from an older game and engine to this new game and new engine

[@dupapek]

Music from Train Hangar - the best.

[@KingofPNL]

Any game that recreates the old map anew is amazing in my books, i mean the nostalgia you get visiting those old places again is amazing.

[@meetem7374]

Thank you for your job! It would also be very interesting to compare "modern" stalker with mods, like Anomaly GAMMA vs STALKER 2

[@lukeclapp499]

The only thing that kind of sucks about the map shifting was the loss of difficulty progression as you got further into the zone. Back then the Garbage was still pretty far from the plant but now it borders it and to me it makes the map small in some way despite it being a lot bigger.

[@jebbroham1776]

In some ways the older games have a better atmosphere and look to them. Not in many cases but still.

[@FrontSideBus]

It's like visiting the old childhood haunts later on in life :)

[@MoZz..]

Think i needs to try out the old stalker game, of what i hear, A-life works really well there and game doesn't just feel like an empty sandbox.. Stalker 2 kinda feels like that, not to mention the bugs where you have to use noclip/ghosting to get past a door to start a specific mission.

[@stan_p]

it's fixed already, btw.

[@rancor4513]

A-life is fixed?​@@stan_p

[@rancor4513]

Original trilogy is great. I recomend memories of the zone for SoC, and OBR for CoP and Clear Sky. They dont change much and give a good boost in graphics and bug fixes

[@yuliaverzer8451]

Wow! Such a great video, thank you very much!

[@drphalanges1520]

The old games' environments still look fantastic and they feel as atmospheric as they used to. But seeing it all in glorious modern HD was almost like a religious experience for me. It felt like coming home.

[@EdelJaeger]

I didnt play stalker 2 or whatched it anywhere. But why does zone feels so lonely like very few stalkers. Is it because the game doesnt have A-Life or something else?

[@zuhardi]

Years passed. Time has changed

[@Freddy_507]

Great video!

[@TeamYellowBS]

Thank you!

[@_kukaracha_]

thank u for the content

[@TeamYellowBS]

🤗❤️

[@BababooeyGooey]

When mod tools release I hope some modders recreate the Call of Pripyat maps with the new assets. It's cool that the new Zone is closer to the IRL one, but I miss how close together the locales in CoP were. Feels like a familiar old neighborhood.

[@adamlach6572]

I gotta say they did good job at keeping the atmosphere, but i still much prefer original visuals. Something about this certain kind of textures made it more uncanny, not more realistic, but more strange. And the sky textures are clear win for older stalker games.

[@BillyPage1337]

what i don't like about newer game is how they limited dynamic range to how action camera sees the world, so when you shoot inside building you see dark spots inside but outside is overexposed and vice versa when you shoot the outside from inside and inside becomes dark. Lightning is definitely screwed

[@pow7767]

Isn’t that just how lighting works?

[@BillyPage1337]

@@pow7767 my eyes definitely sees world with better dynamic range than camera

[@mormatus]

And I like the way they did in S2. My eyes work very similar way. Although the current frame exposition assessment logic might be improved, true

[@ElfordGameson]

Stalker 2 is just fantastic graphics

[@PocketDrummer]

I'm honestly impressed how well the older games have held up over the years.

[@MiguelMartinez-dx9ox]

Thanks comrade

[@TeamYellowBS]

🤗

[@bartez8558]

6:07 listen closely here!

[@paracetamolicecream]

I hope someone puts out a mod with all the broken locations restored and og factions added. Faction wars with a-life 2.0 is all this game needs to be one of the greatest games of this decade

[@Raibeart4]

I love the attenion that Call of Pripyat recieved in this video. Call of Pripyat does not get enough credit.

[@frost8077]

Northern Farm and Dark Valley look so sad now. Northern Farm used to have Bandits vs Loners/Stalkers action all the time, and Dark Valley used to be crawling with mutants, extra eerie at night. Dark Valley now feels pretty lame I must say. The whole game doesn't feel as lively or intense as the originals. The updated buildings should've had lots of bullet ridden crumbling walls from all the shoot outs over the years, especially Wild Territory. I hear Limansk was cut from the game, tough area with Monolith saturating it most of the time.

[@gast128]

Nice that these old buildings make a return but they should have been placed in the same location.

[@theewatchfuleyeseesyou]

The previous games feel so much more comfy, in 2 I genuenly feel unsafe and uncomfortable walking around the dangers of the Zone, which makes the bases and safe locations so much more immersive and cozy, like sitting at home in a rainy day.

[@louisc6687]

Woaw, stalker build up walls, moved cars, trucks, dock cranes and trains without any source of energy, how incredible is that...

[@say_monn]

Great comparison

[@TeamYellowBS]

Thank you😊

[@Neur0nauT]

Stalker 2 has more details, but less Character.

[@eugenboklan8556]

А Зона это что супермаркет или стадион,что туда толпами валят или всё же смертельноопасное место где гибнут???

[@Gravity_studioss]

​@@eugenboklan8556 Он не имеет в виду "Characters" как "Персонаж" а "Character" в смысле атмосферы. Зона в Сталкер 2 ощущается намного более как стандартные кулисы видеоигры (как например Call of duty), а не как то смертельно опасное место из оригинальный трилогии

[@Butchersamp]

Where is that big building near the quarry from Jupiter? I mean the cement factory is too different in Stalker 2 😢 that was my favorite place of previous Stalker games I used to go to the second floor and see all around Jupiter what a beautiful view, while killing Monolith troopers with my sniper rifle.

[@surfinbird8654]

In Jupiter's area were no Monolith troops, except for the Brodyaga's ex-Monolith group, which was located at the opposite end of the location.

[@srt7248]

there no monolith members outside pripyat, brain scorcher and CNPP, are you mistaken stalker anomaly/CoC as "previous Stalker games"?

[@ZeroReaver11]

the change from the og ferris wheel to the Stalker 2 one was kinda anticlimactic. But everything else was amazing

[@davidkaye8712]

I am currently building a new PC so that I can play this. I am currently watching a KZbinr playthrough the game for their first time, so all these areas are unfamilliar to them but not ot me. It is very nostalgic to see them again but remastered and very faithfully. I cannot wait until the final part of my new PC arrives, the GPU, and then I can download and start to play. You can always leave the Zone, but the Zone never leaves you.

[@alitoprak8214]

eski oyun optimasyon ve grafiksel olarak çıktığı yıla göre daha iyi yeni oyunun sadece karakter modelleri ve animasyonları daha iyi.

[@TheKRID54]

What’s makes me feel bizarre and amazed while playing HoC, there’s no visible transition points between location. Only from this video I realized that I was in few parts of dark valley and didn’t recognize it because continued to think that I am still in garbage. Also how do you get underground of agroprom?

[@reneeeliesermartelotteibar817]

En los juegos viejos lo que más se nota antiguo es la textura del terreno. Es todo muy plano. Lo demás luce bien, aún a día de hoy

[@tarkovic9623]

Increíble lo diferente que es la zona años después, se ve mas vivo que nunca y parece estar mas vacio, a pesar de que el juego te hace sentir solo, siempre revisas al rededor. Estoy encantado con el stalker 2 y la calidad de audio y graficos son excelentes. Soy nuevo en este mundo, nunca jugue a otras entregas pero soy uno mas en la zona. Me encanta la música de stalker 2 al estar solo o en combate. Muy inmersivo y las anomalías me vuelan la cabeza y los mutantes ni que decir, jamas pense que existirian enemigos asi

[@II-bg4my]

The picture looks like the first part with high settings, and the second with minimal settings. The texture detail of the 2024 game is much higher, but the author was able to make an alternative version.

[@dimochka327]

In the new stalker, thanks to modern technology, Pripyat looks great, like a real abandoned city, overgrown with tall grass

[@valentin1028]

I really liked the clear sky base. Sad that it's all abandoned now.

[@coqsoq3756]

Cant wait to play clear sky after i finish stalker 2

[@Rossi-Blue-Gaming]

Even in those scene we can see the poor A-LIFE of Stalker 2.

[@theslavicrat3784]

Just finished Stalker 2, was very fun overall to revisit all those places lol. I was constantly a wojak. I will say however i kind of prefer the old art style. It felt more alien if it makes sense

[@CursedInEternity92]

Is "factory" in the dark valley the x-18 lab? I want to see if you can get into the lab in this version of the game but its hard to find details on it, i also havent played the original for some years but i know it wasent far from the garbage

[@Error-ed5ec]

9:12 FREEDOM !!!!!

[@wnekuu]

Looking at those I'm not sure if new one looks that bad, or old ones look that good, cause in many cases I would say they are very similarly good looking...

[@socks2441]

wow, in half of those comparisons, the first game looks better. which is insane. especially since they clearly were not running it in a partifcularly high/ sharp resolution, which any modern gpu could do. and that game is so freaking old... 2007. damn.

[@AdriswaraInderamufti]

I would like to see a minimap on stalker 2, been playing for a while but not quite a same because of the compas system

[@Tir33nts343]

There is so much soul in the open world of stalker 2

[@mosamaster]

Stalker was a perfect game and Stalker 2 is a perfect game ❤❤❤❤❤

[@emmyloveschris]

Stalker 2 is a LONG way from perfect

[@VS_Gamer84]

STALKER 2 LOCATIONS = STALKER SOC+ STALKER CS + STALKER COP locations... Thats cool!!!!

[@TeamYellowBS]

+ even more new locations

[@zxl6653]

The zone seems so empty now

[@TechOutcast]

100 hour review: Imagine being me in 2014, a high schooler picking up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky on a (((disc))) (optical media bad I know) at the flea market I worked at, Playing it on my heavily modified Fujitsu Laptop, dying to sniping bandits, having those cheeky gopniks steal all of my rubles, and getting completely immersed in the zone, and then going on to play the other games. I fell in love with the series, the gameplay, the characters, the stories. Then came a decade of filler. Though I may have moved on to other titles, nothing could sate my hunger for being just a regular guy, exploring a dangerous hellscape, making a few rubles, and coming out on top in the end. It is nothing short of impressive to see how the developers stayed true to the original games, the map designs, and the lore, while still having it feel like we're all returning to the zone after being gone for a decade. They made this beautiful game all while their country is in the middle of being invaded. That is the most praiseworthy feat I have seen a game studio make in a long time. Being a long time fan, crossing the bridge in the Cordon, seeing Rookie Village down in the valley, seeing Sidorovich in the same spot, listening to the same song as he was when I woke up as the marked one was cathartic in a big way. Yes, the hardware barrier of entry is high, I found that out the hard way. Even playing on suitable settings for an i7 7700k and a 3060Ti, the game looks like a very modern Call of Pripyat, and I love nostalgia bombs. Of course there are bugs, the original games had bugs. You ever spent a weekend trying to figure out how to fix Kruglov not spawning in at the ecologist camp in Yantar? What about losing all of your ammo in Pripyat? Bugs are just a part of slavjank games, it comes with the territory. This is my favorite game to come out in the last few years. So far, I am having a blast. If you like realistic horror, scifi, nuclear apocalypse games, or are just a fellow fan of eastern block weaponry, you will like this game. 9 buterbrods out of 10

[@matiger8357]

main difference is that locations in older games are populated and are not in the new games, we need proper alive system back not the crap we got because of consoles

[@Yourmanbiddle]

They’re set in different times ofc they’ll never be the exact same

[@adamtesar7885]

In the original Stalker - not all graphical effects are enabled. It looked this "faded" maybe on the medium setting. Stalker 1 with graphical modifications looks better than Stalker 2 in some cases :(

[@TeamYellowBS]

You smoke?

[@adamtesar7885]

@@TeamYellowBS any other questions? Stalker Gamma for example...and many others kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6qrh6qaftCmsNk

[@TeamYellowBS]

Wow, a reshade and upscaled textures; I guess that's all gamma fans need. Why do people complain about HoC graphics but play Gamma with 2D grass and 3 polygon trees?

[@frost8077]

That's how I felt about some areas. UE5 rendering 3D textures instead of the original engine's 2D textures results in a weird look at times. I'd say it's more different than better, since I like the way both games look. There was also something nice about the big open areas in the old games. I miss the bigger trees from the old Red Forest as well.