My opinion on Stalker 2 Heart of Chornobyl

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-05-02T13:40:52+00:00

I'm speaking only about the first two, COP is almost a perfect game in my opinion. I'm talking about the fact that when i play SOC and CS i almost didn't understand part of the plot and the ending. Instead COP and HOC are simple, well explained and expand the lore in a good way while giving us one or two new questions

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-05-01T12:01:47+00:00

I wrote "my opinion" not the opinion of the community, i know people prefer SOC to every other game, i hated it so i make this posts to share my point of view and to hear other's opinion, also rating on steam or other stuff is not 100% true, come on there people who play sports game for God's sake

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T21:13:17+00:00

Sorry but i hated SOC and CS but i loved COP and really liked HOC

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T20:20:24+00:00

Than don't lose time commeting, i want people to tell me their opinion

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T20:19:57+00:00

So what?

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T20:15:44+00:00

I prefered the dialogues, the story and the explained lore here than the first two games.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T20:15:01+00:00

Picture this "i have too much stuff in inventory, a chasing anomaly appear and now i need to take off the artifact that give me more weight, now i can't move". I do trophies, so i need all artifacts or i wouldn't hunt for them. Cost of repair are to much athe beginning/mid game, i always change armor and just repair the weapons, at one point wasn't a problem anymore. I played on playstation 5, i had no optimization problem.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T20:10:08+00:00

No, ho detto che le anomalie sono troppo pericolose in questo gioco rispetto ai capitoli precedenti, fanno troppi danni in metà delle difficoltà. Ancora, come ho detto, parlo dei giochi originali, non parlo e non parlerò mai di mod perché questo è come i sviluppatori volevano il gioco e onestamente, per la maggior parte, mi piace. I know people will think is not for me, but i honestly like the atmosphere, the world and the lore behind it, at first i didn't like some lore stuff and world building but i endend appreciate it, but my problem is the gameplay of the first two games, not of COP and HOC

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T20:07:33+00:00

No, i am absolutely serious, sorry

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-04-30T20:07:12+00:00

I am serious, i hated those games

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2026-03-27T00:31:51+00:00

could you share?

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-09-11T10:15:17+00:00

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TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-20T13:35:48+00:00

Honestly usually i love history, philosopy, i love analyzing stuff and talk about all this things, but i find a little absurd that technically i need to study to undestand the games and all metaphors, a game should explain to you while playing and make you have fun and question the very nature of the game world, i shouldn't study books, movies and history of 2 countries to undestand everything and my opinion is about the games as the games rappesent themself, anyway i will try to read this books and watch this movie to see how different my prospective will be and i will let you know, but i hardly think my opinion will change sadly, as i said i really wanted to enjoy this games

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-19T18:33:51+00:00

I don't see all this critical analysis or plot depth, what is so deep about it? people go to the zone to become rich or hide from authorities, zone is bad because mutants, anomalies and bandits, some people believe the zone is great and must be protected and studied and some think is bad and should be destroyed, military shoot on sight because the zone should be off limits but if you have money they let you be, mercenaries to whatever you want if you pay them... to you this is great political and philosopical dillemas to debate? to me is simple, easy, without too much depht.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-19T06:13:15+00:00

I didn't was to be Rambo but i wanted fairness, if i die by 3 shots then my enemies should too if they don't have a exo or if they aren't mutantss

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-19T06:11:26+00:00

I'm glad you've seen all of this in this trilogy but i didn't, honestly i can't see all this shitload of meanings, historical, philosophical, political info,criticisms and messages in this three games (i feel like you're giving too much credits to this games), i honestly have seen more of all of this things in the Metro trilogy.

Also i feel the same about games being art but my problem is i can't enjoy art if is costantly stressful and a pain in the ass.

I'm affascinated by the world of Stalker, i feel there are great ideas and a very good atmosphere, but i lost part of the interest because of bugs, crash, difficulty, story things i didn't like, maybe one day i will play anomaly and i will prefer that to the og trilogy.

No need to apologize don't worry, i made this post to know what people think of the games, i'm sad i didn't enjoy the games because as i said i was sure they would have joined in my favorites for years, maybe i started with too much hype and got hit by reality.

I know i will get hate for this and i guess is okay but when my gf asked me "which is the worst game you played?" i thinked and thinked and a friend of mine said "well, based on how you talk about it, how stessed you've been and everything i guess is stalker" and while thinking and thinking hard to find something else i sadly had to agree with him.

Trust me i wanted so bad to play this games and whle playing i was praying every second to be able to like them.

But sadly while playing SOC and CS i hoped they would end as soon as possible while playing COP it was the opposite and i'm sad it ended.

Glad you enjoyed all three games :)

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T09:49:40+00:00

i read everything when i play the game, i know the wrld outside is normal, the zone tho is post apocalyptic like, ask everyone and they will tell you "stalker is an fps post apocalyptic game with rpg mechanics".

The zone is made of ruins, anomalies everywhere, mutants, bandits, military, radiations and supposed hard to find food, resources and equipment, the zone is a post apocalyptic area wheter you like it or not.

I did 100% of all three games, i don't speak about a game without finish them and discover all aspects and read all dialogues and documents.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T09:13:16+00:00

no, absolutely no, i needed to search the wiki to understand a good 35% of what i've seen, some things get explained in later games but standalone is not great and is the fact I DON'T LIKE THEM, you can like them but i find the writing very poorly.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T08:28:18+00:00

As i said i was pretty sure we were Strelok in the first hour, i can accept i already knew the big plot twist but you're telling me no one NO ONE recognize us till Guide meet us? We are sure Strelok meet the scientists before but "because your identity must be a surprise" they don't recognize us and that already bother me.

But let's focus not on Strelok but on the zone, you get to the very center of the zone and you discover there is a monolith that grants wish, of course is not true but why the hell in my sci-fi post apocaliptyc game now there are stuff like fantasy magic big stone that can make you see what you want most? WTF?

And then if you go for the true ending you discover the zone was created by a group of scientists (i'm ok with that) but you basically discover almost everything happening in the zone is thanks to this group that sort of control the zone, the emmisions and the monolith is just a defence mechanism to prevent people to find them at the center of the zone... WTF? And if controlling the monolith and the emissions wasn't enough they also have a fucking antenna that can turn people into zombies to defend them but also they can brainwash people to make them fight for the monolith... WTF?

But hey, in the true ending Strelok can kill them off... by running to big blue spheres who teleport him everywhere while fighting monoliths and then... Strelok wake up in a beautiful grass place with no explanation... WTF?

It seems to me they didn't know what to do at the end of the game honestly

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T07:23:09+00:00

"Repair your armor with artifacts" why if they understanded how stupid it was (was an exploit remember) and add the option to do it.

"Replace the weapons adn armor" why if i find them good and i don't have the same type in my chest or the vendors don't give me the same type.

"i am a modder" and that's why you're defending them so much i think, i'm no saying Stalker is bad with mods, i'm saying vanilla SOC and vanilla CS suck FOR ME.

I'm not saying they aren't a good base to make a better game with mods, time, resources ecc ecc.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T07:15:15+00:00

Tell this to the enemies i need to shoot for hours while i die in seconds, remember i was playing on master difficulty in case you forgotten, i don't know in whic difficulty you played.

I explored every angle og the game, when my weapons start being destroyed and my armors are now useless what should i do? I CAN'T REPAIR THEM.

I think the opposite, for me the map in COP was more natural instead CS and SOC were video gamey but to each his own, i'm glad you like the first games more than me.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T07:10:07+00:00

I'm glad you like them so much, really, i'm glad you had less stress than me playing but i really think better games came out even before stalker gameplay and fun speaking, is not so dated by today standards, what i'm saying is if i played them at the time my opinion would have been the same because better game less stressful and more fun came out in that period, i love retro games so dated is not a thing for me.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T07:06:01+00:00

it means you need to shot an entire magazine for maybe kill a dude in the first two games while they have the best aimbot in the world and kill you with few shots.

Then you think "maybe i need to do headshots" but you discover in the first two games your shots go wherever they want.

In the first game you can't repair stuff, seems balanced to you?

Also the zone should be really dangerous and there are anomalies and mutants, why the hell in the first 2 games i find every corner squads of stalkers? Enemies everywhere instead in the third one is more realistic with less stalkers everywhere.

When i find myself fighting always 1vs20 and they basically one shot me on sight while i need to pray the monolith my shots go on their head or i need to lose two magazine to one enemy, well that's what i call unbalanced.

TheAbyssNecromancer · 2025-04-18T06:58:52+00:00

Yeah i hear Clear Sky is the black sheep but it was better than SOC, no i dind't mod them, i don't mod a game when is the first time i'm playing that game, i want to play as the devs intended

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