S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl – Cane and Rinse No.656

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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“Hi. Why are you here?” Our Tony's nomination for the 14th year of podcasts is 2007's first-person survival horror, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl. Leon, Jon and James join him in immersing themselves in this notoriously demanding and spiky - if ultimately rewarding - FPS. We also hear tales from The Zone via our trusty community contributors. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_656.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. Main Menu by Vladimir "MoozE" Frey2. Dirge for the Planet by Firelake edited by Jay TaylorYou can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello everybody and welcome to the Kain and Rince podcast, Volume 14, issue 656.
0:34.7	Today we're going to be talking about Stalker, Shadow of Chernobyl.
0:39.5	Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Tony Atkins.
0:42.5	Hello.
0:43.8	James Carter.
0:45.0	Hi there.
0:45.9	And John Salmon.
0:46.8	Hello.
0:48.4	Stalker, Shadow of Chernobyl, originally known as Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl,
0:53.8	now renamed to reflect the Ukrainian spelling, as it's a Ukrainian place.
1:00.4	Particularly, this came up in the wake of the announcement of the sequel, which had originally been announced under the spelling with the E, but then following the 2021 re-invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces,
1:16.3	I think they wanted to express and stress their independence, hence chicken Kyivs are now in your
1:25.0	supermarket.
1:26.9	Well, they are over here anyway.
1:28.3	I don't know if that's reflected elsewhere, but there we go.
1:31.9	Ironically, is it ironic?
1:35.0	Stalker is just called Stalker in both the Ukraine, not you, sorry, in Ukraine and the Commonwealth
1:42.7	of Independence States countries, which is Russia and surrounding.
1:46.7	Stalker apparently stands for scavengers, trespassers, adventurers, loners, killers,
1:51.3	killers, explorers and robbers, according to the IMDB.
1:54.1	What is stalker, if you don't know, it's a first person semi-open world survival horror shooter.
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