Apparently the enhanced editions of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy released today removed the Russian audio track and edited/removed certain references to the USSR

www.pcgamer.com Stalker remaster reviews crater to 'Mostly Negative' as players lament deleted Soviet monuments, yanked Russian language, and blurry graphics that I didn't notice in 23 hours playing

Such is life in the Zone.

Stalker remaster reviews crater to 'Mostly Negative' as players lament deleted Soviet monuments, yanked Russian language, and blurry graphics that I didn't notice in 23 hours playing

From what I'm reading, these changes were already present in the console ports released last year, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 also doesn't have a Russian dub.

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Devs hiring Azov guys to do voice work for the sequel and bragging about buying the abduction vans for conscripts really took away my positive feelings about the series
- Really? I knew about the Azov shit but not about the abduction vans
- They also tried to crowbar NFTs into the game lmao
  Absolute clowns

Because of the repeated UK and USA-led genocides, we're going to remove the English language from the game too, right?

The devs are Ukranian and the comments had a lot of anti-russian sentiments on steam from what I recall.

Didn't all of the generic non-story-critical NPCs speak Russian even when playing in English? Did they patch out cheeki breeki
- Aaaaaa nu cheeki breeki iv damke!!

The soviet union created the modern Ukrainian state but they would like to pretend nothing happened 1920-1990
- Rather than the 70 years as a SSR I bet they fixate on a weird period of 1941-1944 Ukraine
  
  But the Hetmanate! But the Sich! But the evul British for handing over the Banderites to the soviets!!!

If its good enough, russians will mod the ukrainian fascism out of the game.

Get out of here STALKER

I read the Roadside Picnic book that inspired this series, it's pretty cool but I have no interest in trying out the games
- The STALKER film is absolutely worth a watch, but it has even less in common with the games!
  
  Yeah I watched andrey rublev the other day, couldn't make heads or tails of it, but it definitely got me interested in more Tarkovsky
- Have you seen Tales from the Loop and short films by Evan Royalty? Both borrow from Roadside Picnic.
  
  No, but that looks interesting

OpenXRay remains the hope for the original trilogy, even if it's 3/4ths dead

The studio with developers that joined a literal nazi battalion is also filled with nazis? Shocker!

Tit for tat:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/analysis-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-has-caused-a-staggering-amount-of-cultural-destruction
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_language_suppression
- Did you know that Lenin carved out the modern state of Ukraine out of respect for ethnic diversity and regional independence?
  Don't you think it's kind of racist for the developers to reach into the past and project their hatred of Putin onto the old Soviet Union?
  People like Stepan Bandera felt differently than Lenin about ethnic diversity. He preferred to cleanse Jews, Roma, and Russians from his land when the Nazis passed through Ukraine in WWII.
  And the Ukrainian nationalists which fractured the country in 2014 happen to be his biggest fans.
  
  Crazy to skip over WW2 on that Wikipedia artivle I'd call the Nazis killing several million Ukrainians (include a million odd Ukrainian Jews) a form of language suppression.
- do you actually think that there are no ukranians that speak russian?
  
  Practically none that play games and wouldn't understand Ukrainian. Moreover, the Russian subtitles are still available in the games.
- That Wikipedia article is cursed, the most cited source is a article without any authors mentioned by this site:
  
  And that site is full with AI slop, this cant be serious, are you a dumbass?
  
  Watch out, you posted reality and the truth. Liberals really don’t like that, it makes their brain go clunk.
  
  Wow, that must be some kind of cool Traditional Slavic Symbol™
- If you wanna cry about cultural destruction then look at israhell they are the ones blowing up 1000 year old churches
- You did it! You made the emote!
  
  Really a weird account. Supposedly pro privacy but seems to love epic and the epic store.

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