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Posted by OtZman on Sun Mar 25th at 2:37pm 2007

Just had a look at the screenshots here: http://www.stalker-videogame.com/ and they look awesome. If anyone has tried it, please also state the specs of your PC and how well the game ran on it.




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Posted by Naklajat on Sun Mar 25th at 5:45pm 2007

I'll let you know in ~5-6 hours image

Judging by the videos I've seen it looks like first-person Fallout, and with the generally favorable reviews (lot's of 8's and 9's) I have a feeling that resemblance to Fallout works well.


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Posted by Junkyard God on Sun Mar 25th at 5:45pm 2007

Yeah, I'm in love with it. People say it's crap, and you need a monster of a machine to run it on anything above medium settings (low runs smooth on fairly crap pcs thouhg).

The side quests are nice but useless, and there is little purpose to explore all the places other than satisfying your curiosity, but other than that it's amaizing.

I love it, and I reccomend people to try it.


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Posted by RedWood on Sun Mar 25th at 5:57pm 2007

it's on one of the 4 front pages of new egg right now. I'm thinking about it.



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Posted by OtZman on Sun Mar 25th at 6:49pm 2007

I think it looks absolutely amazing, judging from the videos and screenshots. I'm thinking about whether or not I should upgrade, as my comp is getting a bit old, especially with C&C3 comming out soon, and all. I think I'm gonna give it a try on my current setup, and if it runs too slow, or is way to awesome to play on less than maximum settings, I'll wait and play it after I've upgraded.

? quoting Junkyard God
Yeah, I'm in love with it. People say it's crap, and you need a monster of a machine to run it on anything above medium settings (low runs smooth on fairly crap pcs thouhg).

What's a crap PC these days? I have no idea any longer, I only know mine was really good like 2.5 years ago.


EDIT:
I'm installing the game right now, and the Setup program checks for the hardware on my machine, and apparently my current setup meets the system requirements!

Here's what's in my machine:




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Posted by Crono on Sun Mar 25th at 7:01pm 2007

I don't have a "monster of a machine" and I'm able to run it on fairly high settings.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 25th at 7:05pm 2007

Can you post a few screens Adam? I really liked the fallout games. (Except the last one, which was only passably good)

Since you seem to be the first or second to actually play it in this thread, how good is it?





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Posted by OtZman on Sun Mar 25th at 7:12pm 2007

Woa, the games takes up a massive 9.6 GB.

Orph, have a look at the game website for screens.




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Posted by reaper47 on Sun Mar 25th at 7:26pm 2007

I haven't read the reviews yet. Is this more of an RPG? That would be awesome.

The fights look a bit counter-striky/farcyish which turns me off.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 25th at 7:37pm 2007

I am beginning to think that 9 gigs is going to be just within normal params soonish.

I will look at the screens provided I guess. I just favor user taken ones.





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Posted by rs6 on Sun Mar 25th at 8:02pm 2007

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I haven't read the reviews yet. Is this more of an RPG? That would be awesome.

The fights look a bit counter-striky/farcyish which turns me off.


I have read its an FPS with RPG elements, very light RPG elements. I just got the game, and haven't it played it yet though.



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Posted by Crono on Sun Mar 25th at 8:02pm 2007

Yeah, I haven't really played a whole lot since the end of the term was going on. I was just noting that, it's not a beast of a game. I think if you have a lot of memory (it uses quite a bit of GPU memory, system memory and virtual memory) you should be okay.

As far as I know the game has RPG like aspects. There's no leveling system, though, you can buy and trade objects with other people in the game.

How would "Far-Cry-Ish" fights turn you off? It's not like they were bad (or anything like Counter-Strike, for that matter)

So, even if I was willing to take screens (it's a pretty large hassle, all and all) I've barely begun the game. And there's plenty of good screens online at various sites. Videos too, which would give you a better impression than anything, besides playing it.


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Posted by reaper47 on Sun Mar 25th at 9:09pm 2007

I mean the hyper-realism theme. Ok, there are radioactive psycho-zombies (which is great) but it sounds like one of these games that has 50 different hyper-real weapons which are all the same. And stamina bars. Oh how I hate stamina bars.

Looks like a great game, though. I'm just very, very picky with games I'd buy. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


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Posted by Crono on Sun Mar 25th at 10:06pm 2007

Actually from what I've seen so far, the weapons are fairly realistic. They're all pretty inaccurate too (which is mostly realistic, because they're all some sort of machine gun)

It's really something you'd have to check out to see if you like it or not. I wonder if there's a demo.


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Posted by Stadric on Sun Mar 25th at 10:46pm 2007

This game peaked my interest a few years ago, and it's been in the background ever since. Now with its release, I figure I should pick it up, I have a computer that can run it on at least on medium settings.
I'll read some more about it, look at a few screenshots and game play videos, and probably end up picking it up tomorrow.

It's about time I played something without headcrabs.


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Posted by reaper47 on Sun Mar 25th at 11:38pm 2007

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It's about time I played something without headcrabs.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 25th at 11:42pm 2007

I got into Empire Earth pretty heavy when it first came out. When EE2 arrived I was excited, but, the game failed to capture. It was a poor continuation IMO.

I would like to find another game like EE, that I could play with some of the Snarkpit members.





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Posted by RedWood on Mon Mar 26th at 12:23am 2007

I anyone is wondering how well they can run this then use this. http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
It's the first one under "S".

Wow recommended gfx card is ATI x1850 or nVIDIA 7900. Evan worse for me is the recommended AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+.



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Posted by Riven on Mon Mar 26th at 1:14am 2007

Hey, Orph, I'd be willing to play with you; I have EE, but haven't installed it in a while. I'd also be willing to play: AOE III (maybe II, I'd need to reinstall that too) Rise of Nations (gold edition-the expansion that is), Civilization IV(Warlords expansion, if ya have it.), and C&C Generals (unfortunately, I don't have its expansion)


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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Mar 26th at 1:22am 2007

I lost most of my games when my home burned down. I might be able to locate one or two from your list but don't count on it. I really don't know which games were burned, and which were in storage.

I will keep an eye out and would appreciate a game or three.

Also, anything new thats multi-player and some of the SP members can buy them.

Sadly when my home burned, I lost almost everything game related.





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