Well I just might have to give this game another shot. For whatever reason every time a new STALKER comes out I buy it, play it for a couple hours and then throw it down in disgust. Everybody I know loves the series though, so I must be missing something. The bugginess of the first two games was a big turnoff too. That said those mods make a huge difference. Out of the box I was pretty unimpressed with the visuals DX11 or not. I just wish I could get a break from new titles long enough to give these ones another chance.

For some reason STALKER shadow of Chernobyl has really got me sucked in, and I can't wait to play other games in the series. I like semi realistic gun damage and atmosphere, and although it is frustrating dying sometime, I often find my self figuring out how to over come overwhelming opponents. I like it a lot. Hope this is as good.

I have this, even at almost full settings in DX10. It is eh. I could not get a stable frame rate though. It was hopping from 100-600. No matter what I did with any of the settings.

who cares about visual ??????

STALKER is ALL about atmosphere and setting

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Looks beautiful.

Absolutely.  There is just something special about these series of games.  They are not just beautiful, the beauty IS the game.  Hard to explain I guess, it is NOTHING like Crysis where it is pretty, but thats it.

Its a shame they are overlooked by to many gamers.

Nah, I understand you, and I completely agree. I guess it's overlooked here due to the lack of PC gamers.

sorry, I think you missed my point because I didnt make my point clear enougt :

"who cares about technical achievement (direct Shit or whatever) ? "

STALKER is all about setting/atmosphere and art style

and it just DESTROYs the no soul Crysis ... (that is still a technical marvel but with no soul)

It would be fantastic if they succeed with it.

anyone here already played call of pripyat? tthe game is frickin amazing. Only trouble is i'm trying to run it on a laptop and it's soooooooooooo unstable. I had to turn all settings down to mimimum just so it wasn't aside show and i'm still getting a very poor framerate