whats the difference between the stalkers? whitch one should i get

[Gamesick]

what stalker should i get, never played them, i like open world like fallout but also like games like metro where its only in a small play area not open, someone explain plz what stalker is

[Pèpè Silvia]

Get all three, play Shadow of Chernobyl first. There's tons of videos and guides that show you what the game is all about

[Milk]

Call of Pripyat is a very large sandboxy map game.
Clear Sky has a mix of sandboxy and linear maps.
SoC has mostly linear maps with some side areas.

Take Fallout, remove all of the leveling and stat based mechanics, add a much more horrifying atmosphere, and a dash of ukrainian culture.

The vanilla game is very good, but STALKER nowadays is a platform for modding. Everyone who still plays this game generally plays with mods.

Personally I'd get all 3 for 10 dollars, just to save yourself the hassle later.

Here's a video of basically the typical STALKER experience. I'm using the Call of Misery Mod, which is a combination of Call of Chernobyl (which merges all the maps from all 3 games into one explorable area) and Misery (which adds a ton of new items and mechanics, as well as changes the lighting). Vanilla stalker will not look this good. The stuttering happens when the game loads a ton of the a-life (ie all the npcs and such) on the next area of the map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McBE-0AIURE&feature=youtu.be

[Nite69]

if your new to the series play shadow of chernobyl first, has the longest gameplay and the most maps
Clear sky focus's mostly on faction wars
Call of pripyat has a newer version of game engine and feutures but very short storyline and not as many maps

[ghoster]

WTF. Is this question, or a verson of it, asked every 2-3 days? Which one should I buy, what's the difference? It's not like it's a large investment. Buy them all (except Clear Sky, maybe) and start playing. When you find one you like, download a mod or two or more..

[Nite69]

Originally posted by ghoster:

WTF. Is this question, or a verson of it, asked every 2-3 days? Which one should I buy, what's the difference? It's not like it's a large investment. Buy them all (except Clear Sky, maybe) and start playing. When you find one you like, download a mod or two or more..

the summer sale was going on, new players just wanted information on it

[Gamesick]

Originally posted by ghoster:

WTF. Is this question, or a verson of it, asked every 2-3 days? Which one should I buy, what's the difference? It's not like it's a large investment. Buy them all (except Clear Sky, maybe) and start playing. When you find one you like, download a mod or two or more..

sorry for asking a dumb question but iv heard people compair it to fallout and metro and wanted to know what stalker is and which one to start on

[ghoster]

I was just sayin'. It's all cool. I didn't mean anything negative towards you. And it's a good idea to try to find out what you're getting into. I've heard it compared to Fallout before, but I definitely don't agree. And it's nothing like Metro other than the fact that they're both Russian.