Bought the OG Stalker Trilogy, got the remasters for free.
Compared to the OG Stalkers, this was a bad move from GSC. Removed content, censorship and so on, they literally did a remaster just to remove the russian/soviet related content due to the war, there were no fix to [strike] bugs [/strike] Anomalies, got hard locked from achievements and had to play a different playthrough.
Sure, some might say that's the STALKER experience, and I completely agree with them, it's always funny when something unexpected comes from the game, such as sudden crashes, bugged AI and instant spawn enemies. But that was fun when you didn't had achievements, you didn't had a motive for the game to be perfect, you could sit, get trolled by the game and rage, but for completionists like myself the fact they didn't fix anything was a pain in the ass, making you lose so much progress over a bug that could have been fixed before release if they planned including achievements as they did.
Also they removed mod support for an extensive library of mods that made STALKER be alive even after so many years.
Only good thing from the remaster is the modern hardware support for modern CPUs with higher clocks and DX12, better textures, adding some configurations and the achievements, the rest is pure child tantrum over a war most of us consumers of STALKER content didn't asked for, hell even in so many cases it affected us negatively, delayed releases, developers that got KIA or migrated, and so on.
As much as a STALKER fan I am, and as much I despise this war, I must say, as a consumer of STALKER, these remasters aren't worth it if you want to experience the complete experience.
Just play to get all the achievements, uninstall and never play again (literally what I'm doing)
4/10 Hate when politics are brought to good games and they get ruined for it
