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Thought I would start a thread for discussion of both games if that is appropriate?

Spoilers follow.

I just downloaded Pripyat from Steam and I'm playing Clear Sky now. I'd forgotten how hard this game is. Playing Clear Sky on Master and I'm finding it pretty tough going...anyone else confirm this or am I lacking in mad Zone skillz? :D Getting past that auto cannon entering Cordon was a mini-game unto itself.

Pripyat - I fired it up and the first thing I noticed was how bad it looks. It uses a render-as-you-go drawing effect, similar to Oblivion. It looks worse to me that Clear Sky by a fair margin, which is disappointing. I find the active texture drawing pretty distracting and distances look horrid. I've got the game maxed out, using DX10 lighting. My 5870 is handling it fine, just not impressed sadly. In confined areas, everything looks proper and detailed, it's the large outdoor spaces that look poorly rendered.

After seeing Clear Sky, I was shocked at how bad Call of Pripyat looked. That said, it looks like crap at the start, but there are better looking areas further on...

Hopefully...hard to imagine them taking such a big step back? Unless they did it to try and reduce resource loads?

Enjoying CS more now that I've finally got some decent weapons. Nothing like taking on well-armed militia with a crappy pistol and hunting shotgun in earlier battles. :shock:

Clear Sky left me with the impression that GSC Gameworld wanted to see just how much punishment a player would put up with... ;)

I still have not seriously played any of these, until today that is. I finally started the original STALKER, playing with the "Complete" mod which basically collects all the good tweaks and bug fixes along with some better textures.

I played it for about 2 hours and really enjoyed it. Hopefully I can stick with it.

I still have not seriously played any of these, until today that is. I finally started the original STALKER, playing with the "Complete" mod which basically collects all the good tweaks and bug fixes along with some better textures.

I played it for about 2 hours and really enjoyed it. Hopefully I can stick with it.

I really enjoyed the first one, but couldn't get into the second. Too much pissfartin around I lost patience.

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Clear Sky has better gameplay but SoC has better atmosphere.

Velvet - I really, really like the first Stalker. Great game and as others have mentioned, they nailed the atmosphere. Just awesome.

I'm enjoying CS but it's tough going. Good training though...you finish a Stalker game and then play another shooter and you walk through it. :D

Dunno what you guys are talking about, in my mind CoP > CS. The ending to CS was just too rushed. Who cares about the graphics, as if anyone here can run it maxed out on surround anyway. Game is just terrible at scaling based on the resolution.

Dunno what you guys are talking about, in my mind CoP > CS. The ending to CS was just too rushed. Who cares about the graphics, as if anyone here can run it maxed out on surround anyway. Game is just terrible at scaling based on the resolution.

What made CoP different and superior that CS for you?

Also, does the zone have the same layout. DOes it have additional sections to it?

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