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Just got my new equipment in: moving from a p4 2.4Ghz with 3GB of ram and a BFG 6800GT-oc 256MB into a Dual Core E6600 2.4Ghz with 2GB of ram and an 8800GTS 640MB. Time to play stalker like it was meant to be played... with dynamic lighting :twisted:

Thats pretty much what I recently upgraded from, your gonna love it! Plays stalker REAL nice like.

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Bleh, if I ever get it working. XP setup refuses to recognize the SATA driver floppy, so I need to slipstream it into the installer :/

Resurrecting this thread to state that I have finally finished playing this vodka binging beasht.

GREAT FOOKIN' GAME AND THEN SOME!

That said, I really enjoyed this game.

I'm looking forward to my next FPS as I feel STALKER has enhanced my gameplay in this genre. It's like an FPS boot camp hell week. It's the first game in a loooong time that really made me think about how to approach each situation, how to choose the right weapon and how to, well, shoot PROPERLY. My headshot count in CS should also improve, I'd wager. I played most of the game at the 'master' setting but did set it lower for a few parts.

Previous FPS's, I would generally get past on blasting away and decent reflexes. Not Stalker. You'd get a nyet-soviet bitchslap of the highest order if you tried that stunt, especially at lower levels.

Anyway, looking forward to the sequel!

I totally agree ... it's great game if you play it without trying to blast you way through as in most FPS's.

I need to sit down and play STALKER again... I gave up pretty early because I got distracted...

Yep ... nigh on as good as Deus Ex all be it totally different ... :lol:

and ... one would hope it to be so much better now they have patched it so much.

I've been quite impressed by the amount of stuff I've seen fixed in the changelog for each patch... and just how few patches there have been. I was expecting a patch a week, basically...

Yeah they seem to be doing right by the people that bought it ...

Oh and by the way ... it is way better than Bioshock.

Yeah, but mate, that ain't exactly hard, y'know?

A mate picked up Bioshock, so I got a chance to play it on his machine. I think I got pretty far, given what I'd just done... and what shocked me was how easy it was to just charge in, nearly kill something, die, get resurrected, kill the thing that had just killed me, rinse and repeat sort of thing. That and that aside from some serious Steampunk Objectivism fanwank, it wasn't actually worth playing. Without him egging me on with "This next bit is awesome, just wait!" I'd have given up about the time I got to Neptune's Bounty, or whatever the hell it's called. My opinion of it from the demo was not changed in the slightest by the full game.

And given that Bioshock seems to be widely regarded as the second coming of the God of videogames... (the first being System Shock 2) I was left wondering why. I didn't even give a shit about the widescreen problem, as he still uses a 21" CRT.