Which Stalker game is your favorite and why?

[TheAlmightySunBro, Silkaire]

I’ve only played Stalker 2 and I was wondering which ones are favored the most by the community.

[Nvision7]

I personally favour the first game Shadow of Chernobyl, I think it felt the largest out of all the games but I also liked Coc as it felt more fleshed out as it was the last instalment before Stalker 2

[Nvision7]

Last Instalment I played I should add

[pizzawolf238]

STALKER 2 is my new favorite, previously it was Clear Sky for the gameplay loop and Faction Wars
The community's general sentiment is that Shadow of Chernobyl is the true classic, Call of Pripyat has all the favored gameplay and mechanics improvements, and Clear Sky is a buggy mess.

[Greyfire]

Anomaly really is my favorite version of the game. Currently, Stalker 2 is excellent with visuals and atmosphere but, it's not quite there in terms of overall gameplay. I do believe once the SDK is released for modders and after some patches and DLC - it Will surpass Anomaly.

[Fluffy Newfoundland]

Originally posted by 0x41414141:

Every one is different.
SoC for the atmosphere. CS for the writting. CoP for gameplay.

Pretty much the same. Althought rn i would put vanilla Stalker 2 in front of Vanilla SoC for atmosphere, cause without mods, Shadow of Chernobyl aged badly not gonna lie.

Then again, Stalker 2 came out more than a decade after SoC so ...

[Strelok]

It's hard to say, I love them all and they all have their own soul. Shadow of Chernobyl have the best storyline and best atmosphere. CS have the best gunfight and CoP is the best to explore and feel the Zone. Really, it's hard to say.

[НАСРАЛ]

SoC and CoP is goat, CS is just broken shooter, but there is interesting story

[R3DSM0KE]

SoC, definitively for the ambiance in the last part of the game. The monolith presence is strong and ominous in this opus.

[Ray tracing is faster]

NLC 7 by far.

Originally posted by 0x41414141:

Every one is different.
SoC for the atmosphere. CS for the writting. CoP for gameplay.

Clear Sky has significant plot holes and continuity errors, albeit not as severe as CoP's. CoP's gameplay has some positives, but also nerfs anomalies by cordoning all of them off to dedicated zones so that you can never actually be harmed by one, except for the ambient temperature increase of heat-based anomalies.

[Siberian Shaman]

CoP but its worth playing them all if you like any of them to any degree.

[НАСРАЛ]

all of them is just a piece of ♥♥♥♥, but we like this ♥♥♥♥ because its ours guys

[DarkFire]

Call of Pripyat was my favourite overall. Good story, refined gameplay mechanics and it was probably the least buggy of the original trilogy. I'll always have a fondness for the original SoC though since it was the first game to introduce us to the zone. Clear Sky had an interesting story but the overall game design was a complete shambles for a variety of reasons.

[nutcrackr]

cop is the best imo but shoc is not far behind, then clear sky, then stalker 2

[Grim Reaper]

Stalker 2 is my new favorite already, but before that it was Call of Pripyat, which seems to be the game with the most influence on the design of this one.

[Touko_Yuu]

Call of Pripyat on the top, followed by both Shadow of Chernobyl and Heart of Chernobyl, going hand in hand. Clear Sky I don't really like, so it's at the bottom of the stack.