The whole first mission sums up the stalker games when you are offered help taking on the bandits. The appeal of Shadow of Chernobyl is that it was the first and it introduced the stalker mood. Im past the 100 Rads Bar and on the way to the X18 lab on the 'Dark Valley' for finding more 'documents' (another generic and un-logical fecth quest) and Im already making a strenght to keep going only to trying to see what is this game has thats truly unique and better than Miserable Pripyat. Yet, I keep hearing Chernobyl is so good or even better than Pripyat from a lot of people.

Theres isnt one sole aspect that its better than Prypiat. The game feels cruder and simply worst than Miserable Pripyat in all aspects - immersion/atmosphere, art/aesthetics, exploration mechanics, combat mechanics, artifact hunting mechanics, sandbox/'open-endendness', AI, NPCs, art/aesthetics, plots/quests, etc. I hunt for the best mods (AMK, Complete and LURK, it seems) try some of them in different installs, pick the one I found more comfortable with and. Then, amazed and bewildered by that experience, I feel compelled to play the other games from the series, specially the original one, which gets even more praise than Pripyat in some circles. Its one of the most immersive and atmospheric experiences Ive had in a videogame, up there with System Shock, Thief and Deus Ex for me.

So I go ahead and try Call of Pripyat with Misery mod. After ignoring the Stalker series for a long time, I decided to give it a chance.Ģ.

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