Nowadays they prefer Russian gold.

Chornobyl? Really? Don't bother me with the etymology stuff, it's beside the point. It was known to the outside world as Chernobyl for 35 years and even their previous 2007 title used the "Chernobyl" spelling, so it's not like they didn't know this. Makes me wonder what else they may have added in the game with reference to current events...

I'll buy the Chernobyl edition if they get to their senses and release one, otherwise I'll pass on this game like I've passed on all the innumerable alphabet agency propagandizing games in the GOG library. And I've still somehow managed to acquire 1600+ games where the US/UK/NATO/CIA/MI6/etc are not the mandatory good guys. So I'll do just fine without this game as well...

Definitely wishlisted, I never really doubted its release to GoG, now if we can get the Yakuza/rest of the Tomb Raider series over here that would be great!

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Now this is in unexpected pleasant surprise. :)

But around that time, the language spoken in the Rus of Kiev was the old eastern slavik from which old bielorrussian, old russian and old ukranian evolved, also in a few years after the date above and the fall of the Rus, the spoken language in the territory was the rutenian, also called old ukranian.

Because It is all about ethymology, linguistics and the way it is transliterated, not about your political phobias

Not to mention that when Kiev was at it's height, Moscow was uninhabited woodland. If anything, Ukraine is the father of the Rus people. The Muscovites ("Russians") are just the upstarts.

December 2023 is soon?

My point of view is that for an official preorder thingie it is a bit excessive. Maybe I had the preconceveided idea that the game was nearly completed.

Anyway a lot of people consider that with more time the game should be more bug free.

Hear, hear.

Considering gsc guys made it pretty clear they want to be political, it is hard no to talk about their political statements when thinking about buying a game they declared we might never been able to complete because of the imminent end of the world a few weeks ago.

Everything is political. Sadly. I guess.

Beside chornobyl is weird word i'm not familiar with. Will they also remove the russian language option from the game? Any russian based word? I really doubt it.

Anyway.

Stalker games were amazing by the past. Wonder if they managed to do something even better with the current technology.

And nobody mentions that Staraya (=Old) Ladoga was the first capital of the early medieval Russian State (862 AD), LOL. Then the capital was moved to Novgorod (Surprise!). Kiev became the capital only in 882 AD.
Sorry to dissapont you but THE (you don't know that this country's name is always accompanied with the definite article in english and Deutsch?) Ukraine was always no more but the outskirts of Russia.

Chernobyl is a very political thing though. It was an accident, but it still doesn't change the fact that Soviet negligence led to vast tracts of Ukrainian land being poisoned. Ukrainians have llong thought that their Russian "brothers" have always treated them like cannon fodder, nothing but a desolate buffer land between them and their enemies. The Chernobyl Disaster is just another example of that. Gorbachev certainly believed that the disaster contributed to the fall of the USSR.

lol, lmao even