Comments on: STACKER: Nuclear Scavenger

By: sJa

sJa — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:01:40 +0000

@ Pew: Oh god that rainstorm shot – amazing (and accidental, apparently). Anyway, yes, the oblique approach to storytelling doesn’t tend to work too well in viodeogames.

By: Pishtaco

Pishtaco — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:52:36 +0000

It’s important to keep hold of a good weapon and armour, to reduce the frequency of attacks and the damage they do. So play it like normal Tetris, but if a weapon or something else you need turns up press space to flip your inventory so you can store it at the bottom.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:23:31 +0000

Hmm. Fun, but I get to the checkpoint and get attacked almost every time I drop something, and die quickly. Am I missing something?

By: spd from Russia

spd from Russia — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:47:18 +0000

I believe the 1st stalker game has some moments that feel similar to the movie atmosphere-wise. and thats one of the thing that made the game so immersive.
also they tried to do the endings somewhat based on the movie/book – but that didnt work that well

As for being harsh on the clear sky, well it deservses it. There are/were a bunch of problems. The game felt untested and buggy. The Russian version was barely playable out of the box. It felt like they`v used the russian release as a substitute for a betatesting, which is an ugly practice. They are fixing it with patches, fortunately, but Im advising everyone to wait for a month or so, till they sort out all the bugs

By: Pew

Pew — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:07:07 +0000

If STALKER was like the movie, we’d keep spending 5 minutes looking at items in a flooded room that represent…. stuff.

Maybe they will make a Solyaris game next with living planet terraforming/Sim City gameplay?

By: sbs

sbs — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:38:51 +0000

After a few tries I managed to get to line 35/40 in the first area, the game just went too fast for keyboard control then.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:21:56 +0000

God I hope Clear Sky turns out to be awesome.

By: Mori

Mori — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:21:14 +0000

Clear sky works really well with the latest patch. The faction wars actually work properly now, amazingly. Also, the game isn’t that hard, even on master. On novice I’d imagine it’s pathetically easy.

By: Mickiscoole

Mickiscoole — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:02:21 +0000

The new patch of Clear Sky makes it so much better.

By: kadayi

kadayi — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:01:16 +0000

*Imagines ‘Come and see’ the game

Dev walkthrough talk:- ‘Now this is the bit where you come back from the marshes to discover your entire Village including your Mum, Dad and baby sisters have all be executed behind your house..”

………… :|

By: dhex

dhex — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:42:37 +0000

russian cinema: the game?

though that is definitely a category of film that could use a save point or three.

By: Xagarath

Xagarath — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:25:12 +0000

I just want a Stalker game that’s more like the original film.
Of course, you’d have to argue philosophy with people instead of shooting them.