If you're enjoying the video then do consider liking and maybe drop a sub! i cover all kinds of games (mostly horror) so if you like that sort of content, do check out my channel as i do have a few in depth video essays on some games! Just a note! My speech through out the video is inconsistent since I’ve be struggling recently with it. (Speech impediment) But I’m happy I got this video out and I hope you all enjoy! Consider dropping a like as that helps the video out a lot more than you know. 🙏
One is always one's worst critic. I wouldn't have noticed it, if you didn't pin the message. There's such a breadth of accents, pronounciations and different content, you do not sound out of place. Chill, brother :)
45:50 A fun little fact those hanging bodies are bodies of alpha version of zombies just reused here. However it wouldn't be against duty for excessive use of force like that suicide squad trying to assault the main Freedom base. That aside this one of the most unique stalker reviews out there! I hope youll be doing the rest of the series too
@@konyjoseph8731 I’ve read about some of the cut content in this game. This game could have been completely different it’s crazy. I would have loved to see the Sin faction
@@Kazaonyt it truly is a shame just how expansive they wanted this game to meet but they really had to tamper their artistic desires with the limitations of the tech. Thankfully mods like lost Alpha at least gives us a glimpse at what could have been
fun fact: the group led by Scull is actually Duty’s deserters. Gen Voronin mentions that, when you ask him about the squad. They disobeyed the order, and that is why Duty does not mind you killing them
The video is simply magnificent for everyone who are not familiar with Stalker. Everything that is needed for a person who was not familiar with the series and decided to plunge into this world for the first time. The only thing I want to say is that the concept of the game was initially not at all connected with what we got in the end. There was production hell in the development of the game was planned for 2004, but everything was postponed due to the ambitions of the developers who wanted to make a dream game. And the original game had a completely different look, although it had core features and mechanics that were greatly modified. There was even a plan that random NPCs had to go through the main quest (which, as for me, was very fantastic and unrealistic. Therefore, the game was released with bugs, cut and in the form that it has now. I can't say that this is something bad, but the game really has a look that a person from the publisher THQ at that time decided to rush the developers who were too carried away by the process and delayed the development, which had to abandon many features such as: transport, personal backpacks, diseases, sleep mechanics, finding more documents, new factions, characters, old main plot with different endings, various mutants that were not in the original. The game should have been even more hardcore and takes much longer to complete. That all remained in the design documents and were then transferred to modifications and which can be seen in old builds of the project "Oblivion Lost" (the original name of the game). Initially, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was not planned to make more than one games, only one and that's it. In fact, this is true, but we can say that Clear Sky, which is a prequel to Shadows of Chernobyl, and Call of Pripyat, which is already a sequel to the 1st game. But in fact, these are add-ons that complement the main game. I hope for them too there will be a video because they are worth a separate analysis. In any case, it was interesting to watch. I hope there will be more videos on stalker, you know how to tell a story and lead to a topic and delve into it, this is very unusual for a video game reviewer. Thanks for the video!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I've seen some of the cut content and what Stalker could have been was crazy. I would have loved to see the SIN faction, that faction looks creepy as hell. Hopefully, Stalker 2 is the dream game they've always envisioned. And from what they've shown. it looks incredible and im so glad they're sticking to their hardcore roots. only 4 days remain, its been a while since i've been excited for new releases. So glad i played this masterpiece before Stalker 2
@@Kazaonyt It's definitely worth it. It's not a DLC in the usual sense of modern gaming, it's like full-fledged parts of the series. CS is a prequel. CoP is a sequel. They are directly connected by the plot but not in the main story. They are different but connected one with one. They are more lineal. I think you should play them. Especially since Stalker 2 is connected to some things from these parts, which I can't say. Because these are spoilers.
@@Kazaonyt If you're interested how long would beaten all games the main story of Clear Sky - 13 Hours, Call of Pripyat - 15 (like the Shadow of Chernobyl) So it's up to you.
Hey Kaz, thanks for this, tbh I wouldn't be able to watch through all of this BUT this will help me sleep, this will be like a friend telling me a good night story. Thank you :>
Just beat it myself for the first time. The lab and ending portal run through the plant were absolutely brutal. What a journey. I immediately bought the other two games, can't wait to jump into them. I can see why this series gained a cult following.
Honestly what a fantastic video, its a crime that you haven't gotten a lot of views or subs from this but u earned one from me and my friends who i streamed the entire video on Discord to, cannot wait for future content from you. And I can tell you put a lot of work into this video, and a mean a LOT. It personally took me 3 times and over 2 years to get into the games, but that 3rd attempt, I was sold, it truly is an amazing series.
So the reason there's Monolith in Lab X-16 is because in Stalker: Clear Sky, which takes place a few weeks prior to Shadow of Chornobyl, you help a squad disable the psi-emitter. So between the events of Clear Sky and Shadow of Chornobyl, the Monolith raided Lab X-16 to reactivate the psi-emitter in an attempt to close off access to the north of the Zone once more. Then we go through and turn it off again.
Apparently the game was heavily influenced by Roadside Picnic. A sci fi short story. Essentially the same plot of STALKER but instead of a 2nd Chernobyl explosion, it was.............aliens who decided to visit earth momentarily, in a variety of locations, and left a UNGODLY amount of strange and radioactive junk all over the place.
@@itsdantaylor that sounds insane. I know there’s a film called stalker and it’s about the wish granter. So that’s where the inspiration comes from for that plot line
I bought the book because of the game! There was a lot of controversy with book due it being released in Russia and Russian politics The story can be kind of slow and no where near as action packed as the game, but it's still really good!
@@Kazaonyt yeah tarkovsky read roadside picnic i guess haha, both are older than than 1986 tho, so the setting in chornobyl is exclusive to gsc's stalker franchise
Excellent video man. A note about the bodies outside Rostok in the Duty base: They use the model for unarmed zombies from the beta version of the game that got cut before release. Presumably the intent at some point was that they were hanging up zombie corpses either as bait or to scare people off. It is possible they're supposed to be human corpses though. I know everyone is all excited about S2 but the other 2 games are equally as worth playing as well.
1:16:25 Prippyat- YES i felt the exact same way, i loved the og stalker: SoC and was so excited to get to Prippyat to enjoy several more hours of exploring and fighting through it, but nope, you're just passing through, but hey there's always Stalker Anomaly/GAMMA :D
glad i watched this, i love the editing and the general vibe with this particular kind of video essays ! keep it up man (and also i love the music choice, is the song playing at the beginning from neon white??)
@ I just now realize that i’ve already seen some of your silent hill videos ! I didn’t know it was you lol but i love your content also dude don’t stress about your speech, it really ain’t that bad. I only heard you say one word wrong in the entire vid
@@g_abe. thanks, I have had issue with people saying I talk too fast and slur my words in videos. Which is something I can’t help but I’m happy people are saying I sound fine.
heard nothing but great things about this game but never played it, think it's time I do so especially with the 2nd game just around the corner. Great video mate. keep up the hard work🤝
The ports on Nintendo Switch are actually fantastic. I played the originals on pc back on release and its as accurate as i remmeber it. Texture lod tricks , lighting and everything else is completely included.
Id really love for you to do Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat as well. I really enjoyed your video and I appreciate how you went in depth with everything. If you enjoyed Stalker, I highly recommend you try out the wonderful world of mods, everyone knows of Gamm and Anomaly, but there is much more than just them as the Stalker mod community is huge. I myself have a weakspot for the old SMP or Super Mod Project which was effectively STALKER Soup, just throw everything in kind of deal, but it was so fun.
@@SunTzu176 I will be 100% covering clear sky and Call of Pripyat. But I’m kinda burnt out on stalker after playing shadow of Chornobyl and stalker 2. Plus editing and all that, so it will be some time when I cover the sequels. As for the mods, I may do a video on gamma but we’ll have to see. I’m glad you enjoyed the video though, I’m proud of this one 😁
Welcome to the series! I've played these games since a couple months after the release of the first one in 2007, and kept playing over all these years with mods like Anomaly/GAMMA. Can't believe Stalker 2 is finally almost here! The documentary they posted on youtube about developing it during the war was a crazy story.
Hello. Thank you for this nice video. It always warms my heart when I see newcomers experiencing this game series for the first time. I've completed all the trilogy back in summer of 2021 and man did I love it.
Been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R through the GAMMA mod pack and I've been loving it Never played the original games and i sadly spoiled myself the story-line, but that makes me appreciate the trilogy so much more. The game is hard, punishing, it does not forgive mistakes, and yet it feels so real. In real life, you wouldn't be some super-soldier, you'd be one among thousands, more likely tens or hundreds of thousands, even with all the skills to survive, you need to ask yourself if living in a blissful lie is better than seeing the cold truth Great commentary, great music choices, great video :D (i'm still searching for that piano music near the end .v.')
I found ur video while at work and i hope u cover the other games i was hooked start to end hope ur feeling better. Subbing to see what other greatness you create
One interesting note about the weapon and gear degradation. The game was originally planned to have a repair mechanism which let you pay certain traders to repair your items. This feature had to be cut at the last minute because the developers ran out of time and were only able to complete the weapon degradation feature. A community made mod, S.T.A.L.E.R. Complete 2009, patches some bugs and adds the repair mechanism back into the game, along with some graphical enhancements.
Another thing for the controller, if you charge it and get close it can't attack you. It's really slow so you can run past it and get behind it and just gun it down
@@AustinSmith-lo3ts sometime in the future! I’m getting burnt out on Stalker right now and don’t want to commit to a project in that mindset, could deteriorate the quality. I have other games I want to cover right now. But clear sky will be my next project after that
It's wonderful how the release of STALKER 2 makes people discover Shadow of Chernobyl. Still one of my top 3 games of all time for its unparalleled tense athmosphere, world building as well as the story, how it unfolds and the implications. The other 2 fell mostly flat for me, with Call of Pripyat being the worst for having none of the tense athmosphere. Lab X-18 is an experience the first time around; the quiet eerieness punctuated by ambient sounds is fantastic. STALKER is sometimes also called heart attack simulator for a reason. Sidenote: Play the game on highest difficulty. On lower difficulties, some enemy effects are missing, such as psy damage (that you can't heal and that takes a long while to heal on its own) and the ambient noise of nearby controllers. For example, the apparitions near the brain scorcher do nothing on lower difficulties, but on the highest, they deal psy damage. You're missing out if you don't play on the highest difficulty. The firefights aren't much different anyway. Great video and I didn't notice anything with the speech :) EDIT: The special TRS is my go-to gun, too. Easy headshots all day. Also, if you had went to the bloodsucker village at highest difficulty, you'd have constantly heard ambient controller sounds (ear ringing) and distorted vision - making it that much more creepy.
@@firun2635 I was playing on master. And I took a ton of psi damage when I was in the dark valley, wasted all my supplies, I even died to the hallucinations lol. You can see in the video just how fast I die to NPC’s it’s ridiculous, felt unfair at times lol. My brother urged me to play master because it’s the true stalker experience he said. Thanks for watching
I've actually never seen these endings.. it is just all insane! I am wondering if the blind person in the Stalker 2 trailers is the marked one? good video! 01:27:09 when you had too much with your buddy 😂
2:00 the reactor didn't have a second explosion* I think that the creation of The Zone and emissions are all related to the Generators. Radiations were spread just because the damaged reactor was located less than 1 kilometer away from the Generators
@@cryptocrypto5260 well I can’t give the real reason as to what happened too early because that’s a spoiler. The creation of the zone is meant to be a secret until the end, but people believed it was a second explosion because there was a loud bang
The early game lack of damage is tied to difficulty, basically the og game would've had just one setting it being the hardest one. Publishers wanted multiple difficulty settings so they just bumped down the bullet damage so yeah, for the best experience just play in the highest difficulty setting
I did like the history lessons on the guns and when or if you're going to make same type of video on other Stalker games and the ones by inspired the series, hope those return.
@@starioncostumes I obsessed with STALKER now, i've been binging content for it ever since i released this video. I saw all the cut content too, this game could have been completely different. Would have loved to fight the sin faction, SPOOKY
@ I watched your impressions video on it. Looks like a game of the year contender in my opinion. I’m just worried about the optimisation, unreal 5 can be shaky. Silent Hill 2 was pretty unoptimised, but hopefully stalker won’t suffer from the same issues ❤️
@@Kazaonyt no worries! as stated above, I know it objectively/in general does not matter at all- I just personally/subjectively cared about putting it right haha. keep up the good work!
actually ... you can repair armor :) if you have artefacts that boost a resistance like shockresistance for example you can equip a few of those to get your resistance OVER 100% and then let that type of damage hit you :) you will be hit with negative damage and thus heal and it will repair your armor instead
39:46 Duty Propaganda Also in repsonse to your comment I really didnt even notice a speech impediment you sound perfectly fine Also emissions and psy-storms are the zones defenses for people trying to harm or destroy it and the zone grows little by little with them so duty trying to destroy it would most likely make it worse. Which is also why the duty faction is even in existence in the first place because of one of the failed military plans to destroy the zone. Fyi you are probably my favorite person thats new to the zone after this video. you seem alot more genuine then others that are around nowadays
Thanks for clearing some stuff up, I'm very new to the franchise so my lore knowledge isn't going to be amazing but i am starting to get obsessed with it lol
@@OwOchina it’s an awful situation that I can’t put into words. I wanted to avoid anything political in this video simply I want it to be an escapism kind of video. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
@@kyizelma Spoiler warning: It was neither. In 2006, there was an emission caused by the group that birthed a “new” zone. It was perceived as an explosion due to it sounding like lighting and there being an earth quake. This is what created the anomalies and caused mutations of life within the zone. This was labeled as the ‘second disaster’ I obviously couldn’t go into detail at the beginning because that would be spoiling the story too early
Nonsense regarding the reason to swap from TT-33. 7.62x25mm is not stronger than 9x18mm. It was replaced due to the TT not having enough stopping power due to its small caliber. Second reason was technical issues with the TT-33 mechanism. It could randomly go full auto if not maintained right. Makarov fixed all the issues TT had at the time.
@@kurtvollmer2023 I’d liked to know your source for this. You know, for future reference lol. After researching further, I found nothing suggesting that 9x18 is more powerful than 7.62x25 simply because its a smaller cartridge with less powder. The 7.62x25 has a higher velocity due to it having a slightly larger case, this gave it more recoil. also the TT had a larger barrel which made the bullet more accurate at the cost of the gun weighing more. I have no idea where you read that the tt had less stopping power because that just isn't true. 9x18 has a slightly larger diameter which can cause more damage. However, it has less powder and is shooting out of a 3.6 inch barrel. The tt-33 has a 4.6 inch barrel shooing a more violent round. the velocity of that bullet is going to carry more energy, thus doing more damage. But the soviets thought it was too much for a service pistol. So they replaced it with a lighter option, which makes sense. Why carry a heavy pistol around when it rarely gets used. A lighter pistol makes more sense and is cheaper. Also, many posts suggest the TT-33 was fairly reliable.
Is it really the best??? FUCKKCKCKC I went in blind so i had no idea what weapons were the best, just went off first impressions lol. Only thing i knew was that apparently the F2000 was the best
when you said that moonlight was rare, I was so confused because during my first play through I randomly stumble across two of them and now they sit in my ass forever
Sadly not. I think it's better this way though. Makes certain weapons feel more special and you will have to adapt to new equipment frequently. I personally think this enhances the survival aspect of the game more. Scavenging for a new gun during a fight makes things feel much more tense as you won't be able to rely on one weapon to carry. It makes the game a lot more unpredictable. But this is just my opinion
@@BlueWaffle3 Yeah mate. Spent two months playing, researching and then editing it into a video that’s over 1 hour long to play the algorithm game. Nice one
For yall S.T.A.L.K.E.R.™ is a difficult survival horror but for me and many other eastern europeans it's a daily life simulator. You see, I was once walking by the tunnels under a local gas station and suddenly a bloodsucker jumped me from the tunnels took all my money and said: "Watch your ass, stalker, because the monolith will be bi-curious in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2™". Since then I've joined the local body pillow hugging nationalist militia, I go to a bubble tea place every day to exorcise it for 3 hours and I kill every member of the clear sky faction i see. Be aware of the monolith my dudes.
@@Kazaonyt Then you have to pledge your loyality and life to the Empire of Lechia and ensure it will rise once again so the winged hussars on velociraptors will patrol it's borders once again.
If you're enjoying the video then do consider liking and maybe drop a sub! i cover all kinds of games (mostly horror) so if you like that sort of content, do check out my channel as i do have a few in depth video essays on some games!
Just a note! My speech through out the video is inconsistent since I’ve be struggling recently with it. (Speech impediment) But I’m happy I got this video out and I hope you all enjoy!
Consider dropping a like as that helps the video out a lot more than you know. 🙏
One is always one's worst critic.
I wouldn't have noticed it, if you didn't pin the message.
There's such a breadth of accents, pronounciations and different content, you do not sound out of place.
Chill, brother :)
@@kohlrabe1709 that’s reassuring, thanks. I’ve had some people complain about it before and sometimes i just can’t help it lol
@@Kazaonyt It was a really enjoyable watch. Made for a nice evening.
didnt even notice. play on stalker bud, and keep making vids !
I think you did a great job. Very interesting video and very engaging. Subscribed
Channels like yours are my favorite. Guys who don't make game reviews for a living but because of their passion for the game. Great video and review.
@@bisousstuff7872 really appreciate it
Nice pfp LOL
@@Kazaonyt please keep doing the random deep dives on guns n shit. love it
45:50 A fun little fact those hanging bodies are bodies of alpha version of zombies just reused here. However it wouldn't be against duty for excessive use of force like that suicide squad trying to assault the main Freedom base. That aside this one of the most unique stalker reviews out there! I hope youll be doing the rest of the series too
@@konyjoseph8731 I’ve read about some of the cut content in this game. This game could have been completely different it’s crazy. I would have loved to see the Sin faction
@@Kazaonyt it truly is a shame just how expansive they wanted this game to meet but they really had to tamper their artistic desires with the limitations of the tech. Thankfully mods like lost Alpha at least gives us a glimpse at what could have been
fun fact: the group led by Scull is actually Duty’s deserters. Gen Voronin mentions that, when you ask him about the squad. They disobeyed the order, and that is why Duty does not mind you killing them
The video is simply magnificent for everyone who are not familiar with Stalker. Everything that is needed for a person who was not familiar with the series and decided to plunge into this world for the first time. The only thing I want to say is that the concept of the game was initially not at all connected with what we got in the end. There was production hell in the development of the game was planned for 2004, but everything was postponed due to the ambitions of the developers who wanted to make a dream game. And the original game had a completely different look, although it had core features and mechanics that were greatly modified. There was even a plan that random NPCs had to go through the main quest (which, as for me, was very fantastic and unrealistic. Therefore, the game was released with bugs, cut and in the form that it has now. I can't say that this is something bad, but the game really has a look that a person from the publisher THQ at that time decided to rush the developers who were too carried away by the process and delayed the development, which had to abandon many features such as: transport, personal backpacks, diseases, sleep mechanics, finding more documents, new factions, characters, old main plot with different endings, various mutants that were not in the original. The game should have been even more hardcore and takes much longer to complete. That all remained in the design documents and were then transferred to modifications and which can be seen in old builds of the project "Oblivion Lost" (the original name of the game). Initially, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was not planned to make more than one games, only one and that's it. In fact, this is true, but we can say that Clear Sky, which is a prequel to Shadows of Chernobyl, and Call of Pripyat, which is already a sequel to the 1st game. But in fact, these are add-ons that complement the main game. I hope for them too there will be a video because they are worth a separate analysis. In any case, it was interesting to watch. I hope there will be more videos on stalker, you know how to tell a story and lead to a topic and delve into it, this is very unusual for a video game reviewer. Thanks for the video!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I've seen some of the cut content and what Stalker could have been was crazy. I would have loved to see the SIN faction, that faction looks creepy as hell.
Hopefully, Stalker 2 is the dream game they've always envisioned. And from what they've shown. it looks incredible and im so glad they're sticking to their hardcore roots. only 4 days remain, its been a while since i've been excited for new releases. So glad i played this masterpiece before Stalker 2
@@KazaonytSo what's your opinion on Clear Sky and Call Of Pripyat? Or you're not played it?
@@gunslinger7513 Not played them yet. Is it worth playing them before Stalker 2? i've only got 4 days til that releases so i won't have much time lol
@@Kazaonyt It's definitely worth it. It's not a DLC in the usual sense of modern gaming, it's like full-fledged parts of the series. CS is a prequel. CoP is a sequel. They are directly connected by the plot but not in the main story. They are different but connected one with one. They are more lineal. I think you should play them. Especially since Stalker 2 is connected to some things from these parts, which I can't say. Because these are spoilers.
@@Kazaonyt If you're interested how long would beaten all games the main story of Clear Sky - 13 Hours, Call of Pripyat - 15 (like the Shadow of Chernobyl) So it's up to you.
Hey Kaz, thanks for this, tbh I wouldn't be able to watch through all of this BUT this will help me sleep, this will be like a friend telling me a good night story. Thank you :>
Just beat it myself for the first time. The lab and ending portal run through the plant were absolutely brutal. What a journey. I immediately bought the other two games, can't wait to jump into them. I can see why this series gained a cult following.
Honestly what a fantastic video, its a crime that you haven't gotten a lot of views or subs from this but u earned one from me and my friends who i streamed the entire video on Discord to, cannot wait for future content from you. And I can tell you put a lot of work into this video, and a mean a LOT. It personally took me 3 times and over 2 years to get into the games, but that 3rd attempt, I was sold, it truly is an amazing series.
@@spudnick.mp4646 The video has been performing very well actually! I’m glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate the kindness
So the reason there's Monolith in Lab X-16 is because in Stalker: Clear Sky, which takes place a few weeks prior to Shadow of Chornobyl, you help a squad disable the psi-emitter. So between the events of Clear Sky and Shadow of Chornobyl, the Monolith raided Lab X-16 to reactivate the psi-emitter in an attempt to close off access to the north of the Zone once more. Then we go through and turn it off again.
Super under rated video! I thought this was a much bigger channel when I first watched it, super well done video!
Apparently the game was heavily influenced by Roadside Picnic. A sci fi short story. Essentially the same plot of STALKER but instead of a 2nd Chernobyl explosion, it was.............aliens who decided to visit earth momentarily, in a variety of locations, and left a UNGODLY amount of strange and radioactive junk all over the place.
@@itsdantaylor that sounds insane. I know there’s a film called stalker and it’s about the wish granter. So that’s where the inspiration comes from for that plot line
I bought the book because of the game! There was a lot of controversy with book due it being released in Russia and Russian politics
The story can be kind of slow and no where near as action packed as the game, but it's still really good!
@@Kazaonyt fun fact Roadside Picnic is the inspiration for the movie and games.
@@Kazaonyt yeah tarkovsky read roadside picnic i guess haha, both are older than than 1986 tho, so the setting in chornobyl is exclusive to gsc's stalker franchise
Good video, subscribed. I like the commentary describing the guns and how they came about.
Excellent video man. A note about the bodies outside Rostok in the Duty base: They use the model for unarmed zombies from the beta version of the game that got cut before release. Presumably the intent at some point was that they were hanging up zombie corpses either as bait or to scare people off. It is possible they're supposed to be human corpses though. I know everyone is all excited about S2 but the other 2 games are equally as worth playing as well.
@@Chamomileable I will most definitely be playing clear sky and call of Pripyat in the future 🫡
1:16:25 Prippyat- YES i felt the exact same way, i loved the og stalker: SoC and was so excited to get to Prippyat to enjoy several more hours of exploring and fighting through it, but nope, you're just passing through,
but hey there's always Stalker Anomaly/GAMMA :D
I hope this blows up upcoming to the new game, this was a incredible watch
glad i watched this, i love the editing and the general vibe with this particular kind of video essays ! keep it up man (and also i love the music choice, is the song playing at the beginning from neon white??)
@@g_abe. I used a few from Neon white 😉. And thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
@ yeah man considering stalker is my favorite universe i was pleased to get a long video on it
@ I just now realize that i’ve already seen some of your silent hill videos ! I didn’t know it was you lol but i love your content also dude don’t stress about your speech, it really ain’t that bad. I only heard you say one word wrong in the entire vid
@@g_abe. thanks, I have had issue with people saying I talk too fast and slur my words in videos. Which is something I can’t help but I’m happy people are saying I sound fine.
So excited for the new stalker to come out, first time playing any of the games in the series so thanks for the video man!
@@lewiscarroll6986 this video is my first time playing it and I loved every minute of it. My excitement for stalker 2 is immeasurable
heard nothing but great things about this game but never played it, think it's time I do so especially with the 2nd game just around the corner. Great video mate. keep up the hard work🤝
I highly recommend this game. Stalker 2 is looking like a game of the year contender in my opinion. Cannot wait
If you have any questions you can ask me or anyone in the community just don't play anomaly or it's modpack as a first playtrough
The dude at 2:38 really looks like one of the pmc faces from tarkov. Also dope video man! Surprised i never played this game growing up
The ports on Nintendo Switch are actually fantastic. I played the originals on pc back on release and its as accurate as i remmeber it. Texture lod tricks , lighting and everything else is completely included.
Id really love for you to do Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat as well. I really enjoyed your video and I appreciate how you went in depth with everything.
If you enjoyed Stalker, I highly recommend you try out the wonderful world of mods, everyone knows of Gamm and Anomaly, but there is much more than just them as the Stalker mod community is huge. I myself have a weakspot for the old SMP or Super Mod Project which was effectively STALKER Soup, just throw everything in kind of deal, but it was so fun.
@@SunTzu176 I will be 100% covering clear sky and Call of Pripyat. But I’m kinda burnt out on stalker after playing shadow of Chornobyl and stalker 2. Plus editing and all that, so it will be some time when I cover the sequels. As for the mods, I may do a video on gamma but we’ll have to see.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video though, I’m proud of this one 😁
Welcome to the series! I've played these games since a couple months after the release of the first one in 2007, and kept playing over all these years with mods like Anomaly/GAMMA. Can't believe Stalker 2 is finally almost here! The documentary they posted on youtube about developing it during the war was a crazy story.
All weapons are just fine, it's usually the skill of the person using them that makes them suck. Kinda like life
I'm glad you got to experience the original STALKER! This was a very good video! Hopefully you get to explore STALKER2
Hello. Thank you for this nice video. It always warms my heart when I see newcomers experiencing this game series for the first time. I've completed all the trilogy back in summer of 2021 and man did I love it.
@@margarita2077cyber I cannot wait for Stalker 2. It’s been a while since I’ve pre ordered a game
Been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R through the GAMMA mod pack and I've been loving it
Never played the original games and i sadly spoiled myself the story-line, but that makes me appreciate the trilogy so much more.
The game is hard, punishing, it does not forgive mistakes, and yet it feels so real.
In real life, you wouldn't be some super-soldier, you'd be one among thousands, more likely tens or hundreds of thousands, even with all the skills to survive, you need to ask yourself if living in a blissful lie is better than seeing the cold truth
Great commentary, great music choices, great video :D
(i'm still searching for that piano music near the end .v.')
Glad you enjoyed it!
give me a time stamp of the music you want, im sure i can find it for you
@@Kazaonyt
1:35:15 though it already starts a bit earlier
@@ChrisisCroissant Signalis - The Promise
@@Kazaonyt Thanks!
I found ur video while at work and i hope u cover the other games i was hooked start to end hope ur feeling better. Subbing to see what other greatness you create
@@joystickthegaminghusky I will be covering the other stalker games sometime in the future. There are so many games I want to talk about 😮💨
that was a very good video thanks for the good work stalker !
monolith (wishgranter or the voice in ur head) says "your goal is here. come to me"
One interesting note about the weapon and gear degradation. The game was originally planned to have a repair mechanism which let you pay certain traders to repair your items. This feature had to be cut at the last minute because the developers ran out of time and were only able to complete the weapon degradation feature. A community made mod, S.T.A.L.E.R. Complete 2009, patches some bugs and adds the repair mechanism back into the game, along with some graphical enhancements.
I have watched all you vids keep them coming
@@Joel-uh9jq thank you 🙏
Good video, nice music choice and sound design
@@malcomhater video game OSTs coming in clutch. Most of it is from someone called Drackfreee, he makes silent hill inspired tracks
Another thing for the controller, if you charge it and get close it can't attack you. It's really slow so you can run past it and get behind it and just gun it down
This video is immediately based since you’ve used the Neon White OST. Thumbs up 👍
More stalker please this is great!
@@AustinSmith-lo3ts sometime in the future! I’m getting burnt out on Stalker right now and don’t want to commit to a project in that mindset, could deteriorate the quality.
I have other games I want to cover right now. But clear sky will be my next project after that
Ty I really appreciate your video and help
It's wonderful how the release of STALKER 2 makes people discover Shadow of Chernobyl. Still one of my top 3 games of all time for its unparalleled tense athmosphere, world building as well as the story, how it unfolds and the implications. The other 2 fell mostly flat for me, with Call of Pripyat being the worst for having none of the tense athmosphere. Lab X-18 is an experience the first time around; the quiet eerieness punctuated by ambient sounds is fantastic. STALKER is sometimes also called heart attack simulator for a reason. Sidenote: Play the game on highest difficulty. On lower difficulties, some enemy effects are missing, such as psy damage (that you can't heal and that takes a long while to heal on its own) and the ambient noise of nearby controllers. For example, the apparitions near the brain scorcher do nothing on lower difficulties, but on the highest, they deal psy damage. You're missing out if you don't play on the highest difficulty. The firefights aren't much different anyway. Great video and I didn't notice anything with the speech :) EDIT: The special TRS is my go-to gun, too. Easy headshots all day. Also, if you had went to the bloodsucker village at highest difficulty, you'd have constantly heard ambient controller sounds (ear ringing) and distorted vision - making it that much more creepy.
@@firun2635 I was playing on master. And I took a ton of psi damage when I was in the dark valley, wasted all my supplies, I even died to the hallucinations lol. You can see in the video just how fast I die to NPC’s it’s ridiculous, felt unfair at times lol.
My brother urged me to play master because it’s the true stalker experience he said.
Thanks for watching
I've actually never seen these endings.. it is just all insane! I am wondering if the blind person in the Stalker 2 trailers is the marked one? good video!
01:27:09 when you had too much with your buddy 😂
1:20:21
The Voice says: "Come to me"
(Probably the WishGranter speaking)
Edit:I'm Polish,so it sounds pretty similar💀
Makes sense
great video dude!!!
Thanks man!
2:00 the reactor didn't have a second explosion*
I think that the creation of The Zone and emissions are all related to the Generators. Radiations were spread just because the damaged reactor was located less than 1 kilometer away from the Generators
@@cryptocrypto5260 well I can’t give the real reason as to what happened too early because that’s a spoiler. The creation of the zone is meant to be a secret until the end, but people believed it was a second explosion because there was a loud bang
The early game lack of damage is tied to difficulty, basically the og game would've had just one setting it being the hardest one. Publishers wanted multiple difficulty settings so they just bumped down the bullet damage so yeah, for the best experience just play in the highest difficulty setting
I did like the history lessons on the guns and when or if you're going to make same type of video on other Stalker games and the ones by inspired the series, hope those return.
@@MrBlamed I will be at some point covering the other stalker games. Clear sky would be first
Does anyone know the song that starts playing at 47:06? I can't seem to find it using what's listed in the video description.
Geneburn - count down. Sorry forgot to list Escape from Tarkov in the description
@@Kazaonyt Thank you!
This is good! Informative, funny, and well crafted. Just missing a bit about the atmosphere in the tunnels.
Btw what is at 47:09 ?
@@CheeseHovel montage of me doing jobs and exploring
@@CheeseHovel thanks for the feedback. There are some areas I wished I improved. But I learn from each video essay I do 🙏
@@Kazaonyt sorry, I forgot to type tye word song. Sorry. Keep up the good work
@@CheeseHovel thanks! The song is countdown - geneburn
You need make more of these for the other Stalker games!!!
I will sometime in the future :D clear sky will be next. Just want to finish stalker 2
this video deserves 100x more views
@@ripple123 thanks, means a lot 🙏
Can’t wait for stalker 2!
The world is dangerous - but beautiful. And the atmosphere caught us for decades.
I watched your content while i was playing through Stalker for the first time and loved it. I really like your sunrise suit (I think that’s the one) ❤
@@Kazaonyt Thank you stalker! I enjoy your content too, you seem to have spent a lot of time with the games as well! :D
@@starioncostumes I obsessed with STALKER now, i've been binging content for it ever since i released this video. I saw all the cut content too, this game could have been completely different. Would have loved to fight the sin faction, SPOOKY
@@Kazaonyt Yeah, also some of the cut locations could be really interesting! Thats why i am so hyped for S2!
@ I watched your impressions video on it. Looks like a game of the year contender in my opinion. I’m just worried about the optimisation, unreal 5 can be shaky. Silent Hill 2 was pretty unoptimised, but hopefully stalker won’t suffer from the same issues ❤️
Such an underrated video ❤
@@gangstercat7725 ❤️
quite in love with this video and also actually learned some stuff, thanks a lot for this!
@@voluntarilylost no problem sir 🫡
@@Kazaonyt appreciate it! (not that it matters, but regarding the "sir": I am female- rare sight in the zone (in-game) I know lmao)
@ lmao I apologise. 99% of the audience for this video is male according to the statistics. So I assumed you were male, my bad truly 😅
@@Kazaonyt no worries! as stated above, I know it objectively/in general does not matter at all- I just personally/subjectively cared about putting it right haha. keep up the good work!
I am glad that my childhood game gets more popularized
actually ... you can repair armor :)
if you have artefacts that boost a resistance like shockresistance for example you can equip a few of those to get your resistance OVER 100% and then let that type of damage hit you :) you will be hit with negative damage and thus heal and it will repair your armor instead
I had to look this up and it's true. Certified gamer tip
You keep thinking this is just janky looter shooter until "Mooze - dead cities pt.2" starts playing
39:46 Duty Propaganda
Also in repsonse to your comment I really didnt even notice a speech impediment you sound perfectly fine
Also emissions and psy-storms are the zones defenses for people trying to harm or destroy it and the zone grows little by little with them so duty trying to destroy it would most likely make it worse. Which is also why the duty faction is even in existence in the first place because of one of the failed military plans to destroy the zone.
Fyi you are probably my favorite person thats new to the zone after this video. you seem alot more genuine then others that are around nowadays
Thanks for clearing some stuff up, I'm very new to the franchise so my lore knowledge isn't going to be amazing but i am starting to get obsessed with it lol
Saw stalker 2 and went: wtf this is just stalker anomaly lmao
Good video 👍
great video, thank you for spelling Chornobyl correctly and bringing up the difficulties Ukrainians are going through right now
@@OwOchina it’s an awful situation that I can’t put into words. I wanted to avoid anything political in this video simply I want it to be an escapism kind of video. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
0:51 I thought my PC crashed 🤨🤨
@@hbdhow sorry sorry
correction: the reactor didnt have a second meltdown it was the storage for the radioactive materials having a accident
@@kyizelma Spoiler warning:
It was neither. In 2006, there was an emission caused by the group that birthed a “new” zone. It was perceived as an explosion due to it sounding like lighting and there being an earth quake. This is what created the anomalies and caused mutations of life within the zone. This was labeled as the ‘second disaster’
I obviously couldn’t go into detail at the beginning because that would be spoiling the story too early
Nonsense regarding the reason to swap from TT-33. 7.62x25mm is not stronger than 9x18mm. It was replaced due to the TT not having enough stopping power due to its small caliber. Second reason was technical issues with the TT-33 mechanism. It could randomly go full auto if not maintained right. Makarov fixed all the issues TT had at the time.
@@kurtvollmer2023 I’d liked to know your source for this. You know, for future reference lol.
After researching further, I found nothing suggesting that 9x18 is more powerful than 7.62x25 simply because its a smaller cartridge with less powder. The 7.62x25 has a higher velocity due to it having a slightly larger case, this gave it more recoil. also the TT had a larger barrel which made the bullet more accurate at the cost of the gun weighing more. I have no idea where you read that the tt had less stopping power because that just isn't true.
9x18 has a slightly larger diameter which can cause more damage. However, it has less powder and is shooting out of a 3.6 inch barrel. The tt-33 has a 4.6 inch barrel shooing a more violent round. the velocity of that bullet is going to carry more energy, thus doing more damage. But the soviets thought it was too much for a service pistol. So they replaced it with a lighter option, which makes sense. Why carry a heavy pistol around when it rarely gets used. A lighter pistol makes more sense and is cheaper.
Also, many posts suggest the TT-33 was fairly reliable.
Get out of here stalker. Don’t just stand there I said come in.
Get get get, out of here STALKER.
Cheeki breaki floooooooo!
what you are describing is Slav Jank and its funny but god it can be weird and infuriating sometimes
Bouncin on my boys emission to this.
Dude got the Vss, best weapon in the game, and didn't even use it.
Is it really the best??? FUCKKCKCKC I went in blind so i had no idea what weapons were the best, just went off first impressions lol. Only thing i knew was that apparently the F2000 was the best
@@Kazaonyt the binoculars are the best 10/10 weapon
I literally told his ass that VSS with good ammo carries you. Literally just go for headshots.
@@snzr hell naw
Bro has a memory of a freshly brainwashed monolith soldier
@@darcinek real
Bro what is the first montage song you played?
Neon White - Heaven Central Authority
Is that Tobacco or black moth super rainbows music in the background?
26:03 Damn, that's pretty funny xD
when you said that moonlight was rare, I was so confused because during my first play through I randomly stumble across two of them and now they sit in my ass forever
I didn’t find one in my play through but you got lucky! Only 4 spawn points and has a window for its spawn
The snorks appear to be wearing the uniform of the Soviets from the 1980s.
double barrel is s tier if u run jump into enemies
Pretty sure you can fix up your gear if you talk to some traders like the barkeep, they fix up your gear at a price
Sadly not. I think it's better this way though. Makes certain weapons feel more special and you will have to adapt to new equipment frequently. I personally think this enhances the survival aspect of the game more. Scavenging for a new gun during a fight makes things feel much more tense as you won't be able to rely on one weapon to carry. It makes the game a lot more unpredictable. But this is just my opinion
@Kazaonyt and it's a fair opinion, one that I find actually rare
arby's, RIP Fellow loner
the reason why so many ppl aint never start a stalker back in the days was the terrible release version
the script feels like it was written by chat gpt
@@bonchkel0 how rude
You gotta play stalker anomaly gamma bro
@@maurodlobo8708 that’s the mod right? Looks interesting, will try it at some point
The AN-94 has a 2 round hyper burst, Not a 3 round.
@@mzargeot5698 I swear I said 2 round burst? I did in fact say 2 round burst
I am a whore for anything stalker since 2007. This is a great well done video. Good job!
dope
Its weird how the g36 is good in most games but irl it's meh
Monolith wazzup
vss, IN B TIER?!?!
@@Iron_Soil i was just told it’s the best gun in the game. Feel free to call me an idiot lol. I went in blind and had no idea what was good or not
Dip my toes, you mean play the algorithm game and play whats popular
@@BlueWaffle3 Yeah mate. Spent two months playing, researching and then editing it into a video that’s over 1 hour long to play the algorithm game. Nice one
Ayyyyyeeee
For yall S.T.A.L.K.E.R.™ is a difficult survival horror but for me and many other eastern europeans it's a daily life simulator.
You see, I was once walking by the tunnels under a local gas station and suddenly a bloodsucker jumped me from the tunnels took all my money and said: "Watch your ass, stalker, because the monolith will be bi-curious in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2™".
Since then I've joined the local body pillow hugging nationalist militia, I go to a bubble tea place every day to exorcise it for 3 hours and I kill every member of the clear sky faction i see.
Be aware of the monolith my dudes.
@@darcinek can I join?
@@Kazaonyt the militia? Or the fuckery im doing everyday?
@@darcinek Both
@@Kazaonyt
Then you have to pledge your loyality and life to the Empire of Lechia and ensure it will rise once again so the winged hussars on velociraptors will patrol it's borders once again.
@@darcinek I will have to think about that