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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - New Trailer | Xbox showcase 2024
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I love the Metro series. I never played any Stalker games.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Those look like the same balls from Metro.
Denton
Member
Which is why Exodus is the best game in the trilogy. And there are still plenty of interior missions.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I've noticed that Ukrainians make some really good games.
MujkicHaris
Banned
The best looking game from the showcase. I love how the contrast due to shadows and lack of light bounces isn't ruined by over-used global illumination.
Beautiful gritty texture work. I can almost taste the bitterness of rust and dirt in some shots. Great work by devs.
Beautiful gritty texture work. I can almost taste the bitterness of rust and dirt in some shots. Great work by devs.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Heart_Attack
Member
Been waiting forever for this one. Love the Metro Games, and the old Stalker games too.
cinnamonandgravy
Member
oh wow actual gameplay, finally
monsters in stalker always looked kinda silly, and these look even sillier.
rest looks good though.
monsters in stalker always looked kinda silly, and these look even sillier.
rest looks good though.
semiconscious
Member
hey, i know i'm probably in the minority here, but, as someone who's enjoyed/replayed the first 2 games, i've found it impossible to even manage to get to the end of exodus. the tiresome train stuff just fucking bores me to death. that, & i really missed the dark, oppressive claustrophobia. without it, metro's just one more post-apocalyptic shooter, imo...
LordBritish
Member
Imagine in Fallout 5 looked like this...
this trailer reminded me of fallout for some reason
this trailer reminded me of fallout for some reason
Stafford
Member
New trailer looks great. But so did the other trailers. Then we saw gameplay from Gamescom I believe last year? And that looked nothing like the trailers, looked rough. Now this dude on YouTube Luke Stevens says he played it and it was very rough, felt like it's still years away. But we know this is coming in September.
Bit worried now. He mentions it early in this video.
Bit worried now. He mentions it early in this video.
Stafford
Member
Here's a longer video by Luke. He is getting destroyed in the comments though, lol. Hardcore Stalker fans ain't having it. I am not very familiar with Stalker, all I know is the trailers looked awesome. Luke however says it looks nothing like what we see in the trailers. Visually, but also how guns feel, how enemies react or more like lack of.
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XXL
Member
Some things in here are definitely concerning, regardless of his criticism of the gameplay.
- Calling it a screen tearing Simulator.
- Saying the trailer looks nothing like what he played.
- The guns feeling terrible, along with the design of the combat encounters.
- Someone walking by, seeing him playing and just saying "woof". Lol. Which is hilarious to me.
I hope this game is good, it was probably my favorite trailer from the showcase. But again, regardless of his criticism of the gameplay, the rest of what he said matters way more to me.
Hopefully I was just an old build, like he mentioned.
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Stafford
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XXL
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Bry0
Member
Did he play the first game and is a fan or not?
If he did that’s concerning, if not his opinion means zilch. (To stalker fans anyway, lol)
Edit: okay I took the time to watch it. Honestly sounds like he never played stalker before and just doesn’t understand the mechanics at all. I.e. the beeping is the location of the artifact, he was supposed to be throwing bolts.
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Well, as a frequent STALKER player (hardly a fan tho) I'd say fans having a pure knee-jerk reaction. Original games were pure eurojunk saved by mods and unique atmosphere.
Listening to Luke is actually more interesting for me because he is a typical modern player who don't give a shit about legacy and looks at the game without attachments. STALKER was always about poorly working technical state and slew of broken promises and the second game is in-line with series reputation perfectly so far.
I will play it but, once again, I'm not holding my breath that STALKER 2 will magically find mainstream success.
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simpatico
Member
If you've seen his other videos it makes sense. Guy is a complete idiot. More important to be worried if he's interested in a game you're excited for.
Stafford
Member
I understand all that. But what I find concerning is that he says what he played look nothing like the trailer. And this is while the trailers all look very good, they always did. The bit about the A.I. does not sound great. Guns feeling bad, etc, but in the trailer the gunplay looks fine. But assuming what he said here is genuine, it's concerning.
But it really sucks that they would mislead the people this badly then. The trailers really make it look like it's a Metro game with good gunplay, very nice visually, etc.
That bad? I've seen some videos of him in the past where he would go on for two hours about a Ubi game, it was just too much really, lol. But again, the fact he says it looks nothing like the trailers has me a bit worried. Regardless of him having never played a game in this franchise.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Yeah, trailers are clearly selling the different concept to the wrong people. It will convert to very confused reception, mark my words.
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R6Rider
Gold Member
As someone who liked first game and really liked Last Light, Exodus was awful. Couldn't bring myself to finish it. Had some of the worst AI I've ever seen in a video game.
semiconscious
Member
Bry0
Member
Idk it looks like a stalker game to me. They show the pda map, they show locations from COP like the area near yantar, they’ve shown rookie village. I think it’s hard to encapsulate what stalker is in a trailer if you’ve never played it, and any similarity to metro is pretty superficial. 4A was started by devs who came from GSC.
I think what GSC should do soon is an extended gameplay demo. Really show people what playing stalker is like in a good 30 minute chunk so people realize it’s not a linear shooter. I could even tell from the most recent trailer that they are going with a ballistic system like cop, and I doubt people playing the demo realize there is an armor system, so they may be shooting people in the chest expecting it to feel like COD and getting confused on why they are taking so many bullets hence “gunplay is bad” or “encounters feel simple” not realizing how the a-life system works in the open world.
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Stafford
Member
However...
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fp...byl-hands-on-xbox-series-x-preview-june-2024/
www.digitaltrends.com
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fp...byl-hands-on-xbox-series-x-preview-june-2024/
Summer Games Fest: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl Preview -
Of all the shooters I saw during Summer Games Fest, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl is definitely the one I want to play more of the most. I have never played the original game. Thus, I had no idea what kind of game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl was going to be. However, once I was...
games.mxdwn.com
The best games we played at Summer Game Fest 2024 | Digital Trends
We played tons of demos at this year's Summer Game Fest, from Astro Bot to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. These were some of our favorites.
www.digitaltrends.com
WitchHunter
Banned
Some next level epic shit trailer. Hope they didn't fuck up the original's atmosphere.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
RadioactiveLobster
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GymWolf
Member
The gunplay look off even in the curated trailer tbh.
P.s. but like someone else said, i don't really trust the dude.
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Solarstrike
Member
video credit: Campfire Stalker
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Almost an hour long trailer breakdown video.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Encouraging to see the big notable improvements in the builds between now and last year.
Hopefully GSC has had time to optimize the game.
Recently played through Chernoblyte and am hankering for more games of the nature.
Yeah but they used alot of the old footage, from few years back.
Stafford
Member
Yeah, some parts straight from the first trailer. I remember DF had a video on that and how impressed they were. I doubt it looks like that in final version.
