I've just seen them in my library. It was a wonderful surprise.
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Nice! I love when they give enhanced versions to original fans!
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Reviews are a damned mess because of review boosting based on the original games, the goodwill of the devs and to honor a dev who passed away in the fights against the invading Russian army, while there is also review bombing for cutting out Russian language and "being political".
There are some proper reviews about performance and features, but it's in the minority. At least with the first game I'd wait for the reviews to clean up, if you didn't get it for owning the original games, and planning on buying.
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Uggg. Thanks for checking. It's true, the reviews are a mess
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Yeah I mean I just had a quick look when I saw it got released, think it had less than 100 total reviews at that time. I'm not a tiny bit surprised that russians are gonna reviewbomb it but there were a lot of genuine negative reviews when I saw it
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Even in English there was at least one review that called removing russian language "political".
Invading a sovereign nation is also kinda political, but this is the level of current reviews in quite a few cases.
(On a slightly different note, the praising of the games without actually playing is just as misleading)
Also, there has been 6 hours for the reviews to get a bit better, it can count a lot around release :)
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I think so. Looks like they added the enhanced edition to the old subs.
They didn't add it to all collections though. You have to know which sub it is and check with SteamDB.
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So in the original, during the firefights, NPCs on both sides shout things in Russian(I assume it's Russian - I don't speak it)
Played a bit and that's all gone. Feels dead
The currency in inventory used to be "RU"(I assume rubles) now it's "SD"
Along with many other examples in reviews(blurred Soviet posters, removed Russian language) it feels this is more of an attempt to take a jab at Russia than actually bring an improved version of the game.
The result is an inferior game with political overtones and new graphical options very poorly integrated
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When hating Russia one shouldn't forget the ultimate sacrifice by the "voluntary" liquidators from other Soviet Russian Republics. Without them the catastrophic explosion of the nuclear reactor would have had even more serious consequences for huge parts of Europe.
One should always differentiate between population and government of a nation. You may hate the regime while still respecting the nation's people.
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Oof! the reviews are brutal. Better to ignore and check back after a couple of years.
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The original game had Russian voiceover, was written and voiced in Russian, and that's all gone - also, now the Soviet posters were blurred etc
You're altering the original product. That's not "Enhanced edition", that's a "remake"
Which is sad given you neglected the games for decades, only to change the title spelling, do some political/language changes, slap some "modern" graphic filters and throw them out there
These might be the games with the most amount of mods to fix the original to a playable state. I'll wait for the mod community to restore the original audio/ fix the blur issues/ other technical problems and give it a go
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natasha doesen't understand ukranian speech, lenin invented really very difficult language lmao
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Wow I'm glad people got them for free because looking at reviews - no one would pay for them
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From the reviews and what is said on this thread it might have been made only as a way to say they dislike Russia still and remove all Russia related content from the game - which might be a decent amount (not sure never played or owned them before)
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yeah, it also added the achievements (which the originals didn't have and was kinda the reason I skipped on it) tho and I've been getting into achievement hunting for the last couple of years
as for the whole Russia deal, I honestly don't give a shit and it's understandable on their part to say the least - as long as the game itself is good. which, by the looks of it, still needs some patches of improvement right now
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Stalker fan here.
The sole upside of the remaster is Steam Deck support and the addition of achievements. In every other aspect, it’s a downgrade: the visuals are heavily blurred, old bugs persist while new ones have surfaced, and all references to the USSR—Soviet posters, certain buildings, and wall art—have been excised. The Russian voice-over is gone as well. Even offering it free to owners of the original can’t salvage such a slap-dash release.
Examples:
https://imgur.com/a/TgBU5Bl
https://imgur.com/a/FJNremw
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How to fix the awful blurry look in SoC
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2427410/discussions/0/600779107615124228/
Post by Set-115689 #4
[quote=Set-115689;600779107615124976]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VEdASIiwfA
additional/alternate step
turn anti aliasing off
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I'll be interested in trying these out at some point after some patches drop.
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From their Twitter,
"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation will receive a free upgrade to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition on May 20, 2025.
New shaders, lighting, textures, gamepad support, Steam Deck, Steam Workshop, and more."
In a reply, they mentioned:
"If you have old games, you will get all three games for free. But it will be another product, not an update for the old games.
So, eventually, you will have the Original Games and the Enhanced Editions.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl — Enhanced Edition
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky — Enhanced Edition
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat — Enhanced Edition"
The Enhanced Editions were released just today. They also have steam achievements.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427410/STALKER_Shadow_of_Chornobyl__Enhanced_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427420/STALKER_Clear_Sky__Enhanced_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427430/STALKER_Call_of_Prypiat__Enhanced_Edition/
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