The Success of STALKER games

[@Lintukori]

First encounter with a controller on a service tunnel in first game is still etched vividly onto the back of my head.

[@rajz_]

Man sad. Man see STALKER. Man happy :)

[@isenbull2242]

This bridge is from my city, where I was born)) And I remember those times when that banner with the inscription "Glory to our free motherland" hung. On the right side was a playground, and on the left was the path to the city beach. I don't have a single good memory of the USSR, but thank you for reminding me of my childhood with this photo. PS city ​​of Dnipro.

[@isenbull2242]

4:44

[@TheYamiks]

Fair nuff

[@NativeAuslander]

As someone who never played the original games it's still so impressive what they managed to acheive in 2007 with the small budget they had! Im very hyped for stalker 2 but i am slightly worried about the fact that review outlets have only been able to play just the prologue and not a complete review copy and after being burned with cyberpunk my spidersense is tingling... hopefully I'm wrong and either way I'll buy it because the devs deserve it for producing an amazing looking product despite all the harships endured during development.

[@Greencheez-y]

0:10 this atmosphere is unmatched

[@personmcperson5740]

The main thing in Stalker for me was the live world, where units were moving around on the whole world in real time, and could move between maps.

[@secretchefcollective444]

Jank, but genius jank. I loved playing these games, although only completed one due giving up to bugs. That guitar playing still gives me chills.

[@yami_garasu]

shadow of chernobyl was the bestest cheeki breki chebureki experience 10000/10 👍

[@cbremer83]

I got my kid the STALKER collection for xbox. He is really digging it. I have been a fan since it first came out and he has watched me play it on my PC a bit. Both of us are waiting for STALKER 2.

[@lukespacewolf]

As someone who lives in the United States, it's a real shame that it's rare to find someone who knows about S.T.A.L.K.E.R., even in the airsoft scene. I'll be doing anything I can to change that

[@TehGM]

Stalker games have a real cult following for some reason... Guess that makes me a cultist. A nu cheeki breeki iv damke!

[@neonsamurai1348]

Metro and stalker, 2 of my all time favorite game series.

[@f1neman]

Perfect timing - I just read "Roadside Picnic" :)

[@zacbrown652]

Re-downloading and will be giving it a go! Convinced

[@drakko26]

STALKER board game should be out soon - or rather it is out, I'm still waiting for my copy to come from Gdansk. Also made my own bit of cosplay for halloween.

[@bozo6049]

10/10 video!

[@Gnarfendorf]

Man, one of the few pc games where i still have a physical copy of... such great memories

[@zerthios]

I remember when i got the first game, kinda just found it in a store no idea what it actually was. I quickly fell in love with the series. The atmosphere, the worlds background lore, the freedom it allowed. Super excited for the new game, nothing really has the same feel as STALKER.

[@admiralackbar4767]

Game was a buggy mess, but damn it was its own thing, thick atmosphere, brilliant textures and a perfect setting. Great game.

[@hjm9586]

Ayyy just started a playthrough on SoC. Modded to be as vanilla possible and its been a blast. Looking forward to playing CS & CoP next. Anywhooo now to watch the video :D

[@TheYamiks]

I'd recommend playing CS on anything but MASTER difficulty - it's utter nightmare bullshit otherwise (check my "review")

[@MetallicaFan1442]

Just bought it off GOG which mods did you install or @TheYamiks any mods you'd recommend?

[@FazekasPK]

THIS! All of this is exactly why i love the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. Played through all of the originals and now neck deep in the modded games, like EFP, GAMMA and Anomaly. DUTY is my go-to. I hope i won't regret preordering HoC.

[@renucis2994]

labs video👍

[@blooocki]

If you guys loved the trilogy here are some mods that in my opinion captured the mysterious feeling of the trilogy(also all standalone): Made by Jekan: Return to the Zone(3 story campaigns and a story extraction mode(surprisingly good I normally don't like extraction modes but this one... Loved it)), Goldensphere OGSR(based on Roadside Picnic), OGSR Legacy(pretty much a remake of ShoC with lots of cut content and user made content). Team V.I.V.E.N.T.: Incubator, Dreamcatcher(sequel to Incubator and a lot longer). They have more great mods but they still are hard to understand Machine translations. zaurus' crew: Apocalipsis Trilogy OGSR, Fallen star(also called "Der gefallene Stern" sequel to A-Trilogy), Last STALKER(sequel to Fallen Star) Creators/teams I forgot the name of: True Stalker(if you don't mind cutscene glassjaw), Dollchan infinity, Road to the north(story/free play hybrid, main story starts at Skadovsk), Path in the Mist, Wind of Time(it starts with timetravel from the year 2114 back to 2014 and has some big twists)

[@villings]

big fan of the old s.t.a.l.k.e.r. games! played them all on release. anyway, I love how some gamers™ won't play anything if they can't set the fov to 150 or something

[@goprokrist]

Pls make more Latvia in video games pls pls pls

[@TheYamiks]

Heh. Ill see what i can do

[@goprokrist]

Sorry I have auto correct it's stupid

[@Pateramalina]

when this game came out i remember it was feeling so real :D Specially if you were born in post soviet country. I remember checking every car for enterance, cuz DEVS PROMISED it would be possible... : ( About graphic and Crysis comparison You mention. Stalker started develop in late 2001, 2004 they planned release, 2007 game came out xD.. Game engine was obsolete and crappy to be honest. They made fantastic job with resources they had!

[@TheYamiks]

yep. even for 2004 it would be noticible on graphics, halflife 2 really was groundbreaking.

[@emptee182]

08:44 I take offence at that map, Yugoslavia was a proud member of the unaligned!

[@ciphergamingsouthafrica8502]

Boo hoo, stop being such a gen z get offended so easily, so weak

[@yourmanjimbo]

@@ciphergamingsouthafrica8502 I don't think the average member of GenZ cares about Yugoslavia's geopolitical alignment during the cold war.

[@Noobochok]

God do I wish for a Stalker game based upon EFT mechanics (escept the extraction part, as in EFP but not tacked on but a game designed properly around it). Guess I'll take that wish to my grave.

[@Andrii4312]

Hey, can you please tell what song in background around 10:30

[@TheYamiks]

all the tracks are listed just before the outro 20sec segment

[@judsongaiden9878]

Wanna try some Zone Sportsmanship Challenges? 1:28 / 1:41 At least the average American would know to use a shotgun loaded with buckshot against a bloodsucker. }:-P Seriously, even the sawed-off Mad Max gun does a better job than any 5.45 or 5.56 assault rifle. The only rifle caliber that hits hard enough to be used in place of 12-gauge buckshot is 9x39. Forget 7.62x54R. If we're talking 'nilla ShoC, that is. 4:13 One of my favorite sounds is what I call "the pig in the sky." You'll know it when you hear it. It makes me think that the entire sky is a fleshpig, or that maybe we're all living inside the bulging eyeball of a fleshpig. Or maybe the entire universe is inside the eyeball of a fleshpig, and if there's a multiverse, then it's made out of fleshpigs! 🙃 11:40 Skinflint does in 'nilla ShoC, but it makes sense because Freedom are "anarchists" and don't have the financial connections other factions have that allow traders to have the funds that they have. 11:50 Right?! S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, even more so than the other core Zone games, is the standard-setter for that sort of thing, even to the point of having the right stuff on the correct side of the screen. The other Zone games transpose those for no reason. If we read from left to right, then our inventory should be situated screen-left. 12:18 You can pretend that you're hauling a wheelbarrow while doing that. Back when functional vehicles were going to be a thing in the Zone, the idea was for them to have built-in cargo stashes with payload limits. The KAMAZ would have been able the haul the heaviest payload. Some mods reintroduce vehicles, and some do a better job than others. Oblivion Lost did it better than Lost Alpha if you ask me. Lost Alpha had vehicles with built-in stashes, but the vehicles controlled like they had almost no weight to them. In Oblivion Lost, vehicles didn't have built-in stashes, but you could use slot-2 weapons while driving. 13:51 Or anything in 9x39mm. Has what some of us 'Muricans call a "shuttlecock" trajectory. But that's okay, because it's made to be heavy, slow, and subsonic. 14:09 The real-world term for "bullet spread" is "minute of angle" or "MoA." 19:44 I've always wanted to experience the Zone as a fleshpig. 🤪

[@TheYamiks]

challenge? sure . no guarantees on a video but could hear some suggestions!

[@Insanerobert44]

Remember to always throw a screw before walking in suspicious areas, Stalker!

[@TheYamiks]

RUSH B CYKA!!!!

[@Insanerobert44]

@@TheYamiks and a wild Bloodsucker appears out of nowhere.

[@revakriid]

Would you consider talkibg about CQB FPS games like RON, Ground Branch, and Zero Hour. It's not being talked about recently and they're frequently on sale.

[@ElmundotheGreat]

I love this game with all my being!!! MONOLITHHHH, n Chernobyl is a war zone brother.

[@romanomarov66]

I'm playing ukrainian version of Radiophobia 3 and its amazing

[@bjordan429]

Never tried these, but always heard of them. For someone trying them for the first time, should I go in raw? Or seek out some mods to ease the experience?

[@spiguy420]

Go raw. Maybe stability mods if any.

[@Salvaqe]

Go in raw, see if you like the gameplay and if not I'd think about installing mods. I enjoy playing the games the way they were originally intended but a lot of people don't like the bullet spread and how random it is so they install mods like gunslinger. It's definitely not required but some people can't get behind the old game mechanics and jank so do as you see fit.

[@zalandarr]

i said don't just stand there get in here

[@calanjarvis4788]

Yamiks, please do Elite Dangerous Ascendency review!!!

[@TheYamiks]

naah.... i'll let em cook.

[@fabricioleandro1941]

What do these symbols in the video introduction mean?

[@mtmacy8000]

One thing to point out is if you're going to try any of the stalker games, YOU WILL DIE ALOT. this game doesn't hold your hand and sometimes will sprinkle bullshit in your direction but pulling off that expedition you've been preparing for or living through the hardest ambush that you ever thought possible is a sensation that you'll just keep craving

[@TheYamiks]

well.... ClearSky has BULLSHIT AI...like seriously unfair and unbalanced as fuck. that's an objective reality. but for other games : ye it can be a bit "live,die,reload"

[@xammax_8899]

How did you forget to talk about the ai/alife?

[@TheYamiks]

it's.... questionable. even if it was fully developed how they wanted. the system SOUNDS cool but doesnt really work with the game structure really.

[@blooocki]

​@@TheYamiksactually full A-Life wasn't realised. Yes stalkers and mutants move offline and do their thing, but they didn't have their full scope of their own objectives. Yes they hunt artifacts from time to time, but yeah there was actually supposed to be much more. For example stalkers were actually supposed to also trade with traders with the stuff they found and fought for in the wide world, thus diversifying their inventory. They could also be on their way to do public repeatable quests. If they found that something first they would announce it tho and you COULD ambush them on their way to the quest giver and steal the requested items. Only one mod realised all those features called Oblivion Lost Remake 3.0. But they also added lots of tedious stuff that now other modders are modding out.

[@GrayBeardFPS]

I played gamma but so confused wgat i should be doing i give up 😂

[@ivansmollet]

That's why you dont start with gamma

[@Crowson-Gaming]

No short cuts? man doesnt know bout the dev teleporters

[@duramirez]

You really need to check the pronunciation of the word Genre there's no D in there. I always find this odd because your pronunciation of everything else is good. Why this specific word gives you issues I wonder? 🤔 hehehehe 😆 just as always I am here to poke at you :p

[@TheYamiks]

NO.

[@duramirez]

@@TheYamiks 😆

[@Mistermixmaster]

I tried Stalker Anomaly the other month, but i ended up uninstalling after not understanding anything for like 5 hours and dying a lot to what I felt was random encounters lol

[@warlockiii1846]

If you want to give it another shot set the difficulty relatively low (tourist and damage multipliers for the damage you receive), pick the Loner faction and choose cordon as your spawn location. Do a few quests for Sidorovich and Wolf, this should give you a head start so you can learn the mechanics of anomaly a bit easter Worked for me

[@Mistermixmaster]

@@warlockiii1846 thanks for that, might just do that at some point!

[@blooocki]

​@@Mistermixmasteryou could also try the free remake mods of the trilogy if you can't buy them. OGSR legacy(Shadow of Chornobyl) for example or Last fallout overhaul(Clear sky)

[@Aceonfire-r8b]

Modders didn't take the game to new levels. They literally had to fix it to even make it stable to run. GSC (Greedy Scam Creators), never even finished their games. Sadly, they look like alien technology programming wise to the trash heap that is Stalker 2. And we just keep on making these bootlicker videos. Sad.

[@TheYamiks]

oh look. an opinion.

[@Aceonfire-r8b]

@@TheYamiks oh look, youtube.

[@Kylewats]

Stalker ukrainian game!!!! not slavik!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@darcinek]

well i got bad news for you buddy ukraine is a slavic country...

[@darcinek]

@@NativeAuslander Are you dumb or dumb? Yes russia is eurasian but it is slavic at the same time.

[@darcinek]

@@NativeAuslander bro u r coping

[@darcinek]

@@NativeAuslander Bro u said that russia is not slavic this is cope. Russia is very much slavic.

[@calopsita4465]

​@@darcinekhe deleted the comments?