-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl |OT|
- Thread starter Defcon
- Start date
With all the hoopla over DMC4 going multiplatform, I almost forgot about this game. Glad to see it get a good review from gamespot. I've been waiting a long time to play a new FPS on the 8800GTX. Is it available for online purchase anywhere? I'll like to start downloading it tonight if possible.
hukasmokincaterpillar
Member
Reviews and impressions pretty much have me sold, but I'm wary it'll run like a dog on my crusty old 6800 GT, even on medium settings. Crusty as in I spent $300 on it less than 2 years ago. Sigh. Any older card benchmarks out there yet?
hukasmokincaterpillar said:
You should be fine as long as you have a decent cpu and don't run it at a ridiculous res.
Munin said:
The editor should be able to produce stuff other than multiplayer map with a few tweaks. Personally can't wait to get my hands on it and check it out.
Romance Pie
Member
Good to see it getting good reviews being the company's first game and hope people will end up buying it in respect.
Anyone here going to be making a coop mod for this? wandering through the country with your mate would make this so much more enjoyable, plus the trading system would work very well in helping each other out.
uhh one more week to go D:
Anyone here going to be making a coop mod for this? wandering through the country with your mate would make this so much more enjoyable, plus the trading system would work very well in helping each other out.
uhh one more week to go D:
Fragamemnon
Member
Zenith said:
I think it'll do decent in the US-the reviews are good and the word of mouth is probably going to snowball the game pretty well.
I think it'll sell very well in Europe.
Chiggs
Gold Member
Zenith said:
You might have a point. But there are a couple of things I just want to point out:
1. There are some shiny pixel shader effects.
2. Gothic III sold over 500,000 copies.
Taking that into account, plus the generally positive reviews, I'm going to predict 800k in sales--and that's without any videocard pack-in deals they manage to land.
Chiggs
Gold Member
The system requirements are being severely overstated. Looking over on Rage3D, I can see that some of the folks are already putting together some tweaking tips, and even with Dynamic lighting on, you can generally get pretty good framerates as long as you make a few sacrifices (like grass detail, for instance).
And then there's always the .cfg file. Lot's of stuff you can do in there.
And then there's always the .cfg file. Lot's of stuff you can do in there.
Fragamemnon
Member
Gamespot is usually pretty awesome about having a tuning guide for the big PC releases. They had one for Supreme Commander that was great, and their NWN2 one was very helpful for me as well.
Look for that a week or two after the game comes out if you're having performance issues still.
Look for that a week or two after the game comes out if you're having performance issues still.
Zenith said:
High system requirements? I think FartofWar said he was playing this smoothly with a 9800 pro, which is, if I'm not mistaken, a four year old videocard. And you don't need graphics to sell. I fact, many of the best selling PC games look like ass (like the ever popular World of Warcraft)
Schafer said:
Bingo.
bigmit3737
Member
Chiggs said:
Gothic 3 sold that many copies!! Even after all the bad word of mouth and reviews..
Fragamemnon
Member
White Man said:
The Cossacks series sold over 2.5 million copies in Europe. I was suprised to learn that, given that the games were pretty much niche-at-best here in the US.
Fragamemnon
Member
FartOfWar said:
They're still interesting, but I agree, yeah, they don't really matter too much. Especially the way that most of the top 20 PC games have incredibly long legs (WoW, The Sims 2, Age of Empires, etc.) that make the charts all crazy, whereas the console stuff generally doesn't see those same kind of phenomenon and it's mostly current new releases at the top.
Semi-OT, but-
One thing I took the time to do yesterday (couldn't game, was sick in bed w/ my laptop) was look at how some of the PC forums out there and how the posts regarding the game are handled from a piracy point of view, and the nudge-nudge, wink-wink way in which piracy was danced around but never really mentioned was sort of astounding. That was, of course, when it wasn't outright defended and rationalized.
I came away in thinking that most of the issues that Epic/id hinted at in their recent remarks were really due to the total lax way that the core PC gamer scene treats pirates in their own midst-with not nearly enough hostility and disdain.
It's ridiculous there is actually acceptance of piracy within the PC world, especially since this does not seem to exist among consoles. When I see people talking about pirating console games, I see flamewars erupting. When someone says they downloaded a PC game, it's fine it seems. Hell, there's plenty of people who say they buy all their console games, and none of their PC games. It's a shame such a culture of acceptance exists, and there's really no way to fight it I guess 
.
.Fragamemnon said:
shrug, you see the same thing on console forums
hell, the gamefaqs forums for most gameboy games are egregiously bad
plenty of pc forums are very hostile towards pirates, or outright ban them if they try to make too many sly comments pre-release (or even post release)
I doubt we'll ever know how widespread the problem really is, but the large number of high quality devs going over either partially or totally to the console world is telling
Fragamemnon
Member
FartOfWar said:
I just read that thread. I think it's amazing that people would defend piracy like that, given that they are on a board hosted by people who work on a personal level with game creators and publishers every damn day. It's almost as if there's a segment of core PC gamers that think it's their damn right to pirate a game if they want. Stealing bitches, made even more insane by how damn cheap PC games are to buy new compared to their console counterparts.
It's a shame such a culture of acceptance exists, and there's really no way to fight it I guess
I think we all sort of have to do our part in this. I'm hoping that in future embargoing reviews from non-press for unreleased PC games will continue. It's a start-even if people are pirating the game here, at least they can't talk about it and entice others to do the same instead of going out and buying it like honest folk.
rollingstart
Banned
Piracy on PC is weak, the worst part is that it cant really be stopped (atleast now with Bluray, PS3 has a chance to stop piracy).
I would think especially Stalker would need support, and its only $40.
I would think especially Stalker would need support, and its only $40.
Fragamemnon
Member
Victrix said:
I really only know of two big ones. One is occupied by gaming press/developers and no one pirates there anyway, the other a bunch of real core PC addicts. The hardware-slanted boards were full of pirates for their S.T.A.L.K.E.R. threads, that's for sure.
Fragamemnon
Member
In other news, sweet sweet GFW podcast with STALKERy goodness:
http://zdmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/Podcasts/CGW/032007.mp3
http://zdmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/Podcasts/CGW/032007.mp3
rollingstart
Banned
MirageDwarf
Member
Linkzg said:
Cool. This game is maintaining good average in all reviews. So far, lowest score on GameRankings is 80%.
Am I the only one feeling that there has been slowly increasing amount of PC game talk on GAF? Good sign..
Somebody start official C&C 3 thread...