No, but why not. Prypiat is the best stalker in triology., and now after enchanced update, all bugs are fixed, and graphic is better

Originally posted by Taske:

No, but why not. Prypiat is the best stalker in triology., and now after enchanced update, all bugs are fixed, and graphic is better :mllrrad:

What is the proper chronolohical order of the story games?

Originally posted by merkava808:

What is the proper chronolohical order of the story games?

No need to play the previous trilogy into order to jump to STALKER 2!.
Now if you wanted to know about the Lore by playing chrono to it, will be the following:

1 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R CLEAR SKY
2 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R SHADOW OF CHERNOBYL
3 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R CALL OF PRIPYAT
(THIS WOULD BE THE PROPER WAY TO PLAY CHRONOLOGICALLY)

NOW MY FELLOW STALKER, to recap DOES NOT affect to play first STALKER 2, but you might not understand it's lore (in-game) per se.

I think following the release order is best. Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and then Pripyat.

Shadow of Chernobyl was clearly designed to be stand-alone, whereas Clear Sky was designed to be a prequel. For instance Chernobyl has 7 different endings while Clear Sky mostly only has 1 ending and it's a very dumb one if you haven't already beaten Chernobyl. Clear Sky is also loaded with little references to Chernobyl that are quite nice, where references in Chernobyl to Clear Sky are completely incidental.

I would recommend playing the originals patched with the Zone Reclamation Project, Sky Reclamation Project, and Pripyat Reclamation Project. Those are basically the vanilla versions but with years of bug patches made by the community that are not included in the enhanced editions. Buying the enhanced edition should also add the original to your library.

User @Degtyarev gave you the best answer about chronolohical order, BUT I would recommend you to skip Clear Sky. He's not that important to the story, and it's the weakest in the series, boring. So go play Shadow of Chernobyl first, then Pripyat, and finnaly Stalker 2. See you in the zone bratan ps: wearing a is mandatory

Clear Sky is really quite good with the Sky Reclamation Project. The reason it's so weak in vanilla is that so much stuff remained completely broken or dysfunctional, even after the final official patches, which is what you're left with in the enhanced editions as well.

It's still the weakest game in the series, but it's a lot closer than it would be otherwise. SoC > CoP >> CS instead of SoC > CoP >>>>>>>>>>>> CS.

Originally posted by merkava808:

Thank you!

Only not the Enhanced Edition

I would highly recomend playing the Trilogy first, First Shadow of Chernobyl, 2nd Clear Sky (because you better understand whats going on) and than Call of Pripyat.
In Shadow of Chernobyl the story makes a lot more sense that way + you meet and hear about a lot of the old NPC's from the earlier games, also helps you a little not to make the wrong choice in one mission.

Play the originals. Forget about the AI "enhanced: visuals and forget Stalker 2.

Honestly you can ignore the enhanced editions, they've had content removed from all of them, and the mod tools they relisead from steam are extreamly limited.. Since the OGs were removed and were only left with these, i'd recommend just pirate and mod the orininals. You won't see the true vision of the games with how they stand now. Worse than GL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the original Star Wars Trilogy.

Buying the Enhanced edition also includes the OG for free.

OG SOC+ZRP and OG CS+SRP mods are more stable than enhanced edtion but look worse especially SOC.

EE edition looks better than vanilla since V1.3 and is 64 bit for some ppl might run better than the 32 bit OG.

For mee EE CS runs better and looks better than OG CS.

Stalker 2 has lot of charaters returning from Stalker 1 and many(almost all) locations in S1 are in S2.

All 3 protags the player played in S1 have a decent role in S2.

Gameplay wise Stalker COP is likely the closest to S2 when it comes to weapon durability artifacts,and side quest design.

That said COP is likely the easiest(but also most polished) Stalker so much easier than S2.

S2 difficulty is likely closer to CS if not slightly harder eg.stuff is expensive to upgrade and so on.

Story Wise:
Stalker CS is prequel to SOC and SOC is followed by COP.

CS likely uses 80% of the location from SOC with a few new areas.

COP is in an entirelly new area with nothing used from SOC or CS.

Best to play in release order.

Among the four Stalker games COP is polished the most,SOC and S2 are likely around the same jank and CS is the least polished with questionable game design like the homing grenades Cordon machine gunner where the avg.player has crap tier armor.

Stalker 2 is a much longer game and likely close to the lenght as all three Stalkers combind together.

Ill wait for STALKER 3 back to the motherland russian edition. the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ enhanced edition was garbage .all they did was remove any tie to Russia. bunch of *^%^& nazi's.

Originally posted by Degtyarev:

Originally posted by merkava808:

What is the proper chronolohical order of the story games?

No need to play the previous trilogy into order to jump to STALKER 2!.
Now if you wanted to know about the Lore by playing chrono to it, will be the following:

1 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R CLEAR SKY
2 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R SHADOW OF CHERNOBYL
3 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R CALL OF PRIPYAT
(THIS WOULD BE THE PROPER WAY TO PLAY CHRONOLOGICALLY)

NOW MY FELLOW STALKER, to recap DOES NOT affect to play first STALKER 2, but you might not understand it's lore (in-game) per se.

Hi, friend! I sent you a friend request about this specific issue--would you accept and msg me? Promise not to pester you long....I just want to make sure I do this right. This was my deceased friend's favorite game series and he did not live to see S2 release.