I caught onto S.T.A.L.K.E.R. a little late (like 2009 late) but really enjoyed it non-the-less. I've played and completed the unpatched version, and I'm pretty much at the end of Pripyat on the 1.0006 version, and in all honesty, I've noticed more annoying bugs in the later patched version than in the release version I've got Clear Sky sitting on my
bookshelf waiting to be installed, ...