S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat gets official site, specs

PCs are cheap. I can build a PC that would have better specs than those recommended specs for cheaper than the price of a Ps3. Thats minus screen/OS of course.

Well if its been a while id think about that new i7 and GTX285 if I were you, not that its damn expensive or anything.

Yeah i noticed that. Massive difference between them. I think it's safe to assume those 'recommended' specs would run the game maxed out, something the dev recommends anyway to show off the glorious graphics of the game. Fortunately i have a 4850 512Mb card, tho tempted to shell out for the incredible HD4890 and put the 4850 in the girlfriends PC.

The minimum system requirements allow you to double click the exe and get the error that you can't run the game. The recommended will allow you to play on medium.

That simple. ;p

Foetoid, this may be my Nvida Fanboyism showing, but i would wait off buying a new card till the 300 series comes out, or the 5000's, WHich im sure will be unviled around the launch of the 300's.

Say Lennoke, are you Lemko, or do you not know what that is?

As in the Ukranian's? Nope, haha. Its just some name I made up, and sounded good.

Oh, I see,

Anyway, did you google Lemko's or are you somewhere close enough to know what Lemkos are? :p

The minimum specs would run the game with the simple, old lighting system which runs in DX8. The recommended specs would run it with the deferred lighting system which runs in DX10.

STALKER has three lighting presets: static lighting, object dynamic lighting, and full dynamic lighting.

Well, Ukraine seems like the popular place to say this happened. (In the media it's always the Chernobyl Disaster in Ukraine, of course it was all the USSR back then.)

Not quite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prypiat,_Ukraine

wasn't that amazing sniper level from COD4 in pripyat?

pripyat is where the Ghillies in the Mist mission in CoD 4 was, so yeah, totally in the ukraine

Pripyat got the worst of it. I've actually been on a tour there... Describing the experience is almost beyond words. You have to be there to get the full experience

Take a fairly large city. Then imagine it without a single living soul... Then try and imagine the eerie silence, while standing on the roof of an abandoned 20 story motel, with a giant shillouette of Lenin running down the entire length of the building, surrounded by buildings of equal size, knowing that only 20 years earlier, this was a living, breathing, city for some 50,000 people, and now, not a single human being lives within that 10 mile radius. Everything was left as it was in April of 1986 - minus what nature has destroyed the past 2 decades, or whatever looters took. The tour guides tell you to stay on the pavement, because your rad meter goes nuts, if you walk off a path, or near abaondened vehicles.

The vehicle graveyard, the ferris wheel, bumper cars, and learning about the nearby bridge where everyone gathered to watch the "glowing lights", coming from Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 were the creepiest parts of the tour, .. But also the most dangerous. We were not allowed to touch ANYTHING made of metal, or stay in an enclosed room for longer than 1 minute.

It's like finding a time capsule in the Twilight Zone. It's a life changing experience. Pripyat will supposedly be uninhabitable for about 1100 years.

Yeah Stalker is a little more shooty and a little less rpgish. In fact, Stalker simply has missions and nothing in the way of character development or anything. You still interact with people in the 1st person tho.

I think the big hurdle in both games was that the first 1-2 hours of the game were the hardest. It really turned a lot of people off. I know I forced myself through the first hour or so of SoC, but ended up falling in love with it after I did. After I beat SoC, Clear Skies was like second nature to me, so that while it was still hard, it wasn't completely foreign or unexpected. Really truly love both of these games and I'm looking very forward to Call of Pripyat.

Guess I just don't have the masochism gaming gene or something. The fact of the matter is that when I play a game, I want to have fun. I don't want to slog through any amount of crap in order to have fun. This is a problem that affects PC gaming in many other scenarios and I believe Yahtzee summed it up pretty well in his review of The Witcher. PC games shouldn't be unnecessarily difficult or complicated just because they are on the PC. Difficulty for the sake of difficulty = shit.

To survive in these games, you generally have to do what you would ACTUALLY do if in the situation. Hide behind a tree and peak out to shoot a bit, running away, not going outside at night, traveling with others....

I agree with Jrinswand, I made it to the very end and was completely unable to survive so I had to give up. It was that or start the whole game over. Thanks but no thanks.

"GET OUT OF HERE STALKER"