Bjossi on 4/5/2007 at 17:25
I could just do the side-mission, I'm still in the Rostok, Red Forest, etc. areas.
D'Arcy on 4/5/2007 at 17:28
I think that if you don't go to the Agroprom underground, you'll only be able to finish the game [SPOILER]at the Wish Granter.[/SPOILER] Which, to me, isn't exactly 'finishing' the game.
Remember that [SPOILER]you need to go there in order to get the information about the secret stash in Pripyat, where you get the decoder that will allow you to enter the secret lab.[/SPOILER]
So that isn't a side quest. That's part of the actual main plot of the game.
steo on 4/5/2007 at 17:32
I would leave it since it will give you more to do on your second run. You'll also completely outgun everything in agropom since you only usually have an AK74 when you go there.
If you don't do it though, it will mean [SPOILER]You won't be able to get two of the endings.[/SPOILER]
Damn, D'arcy ninja'd me. I would argue that it is a side quest, just a big one.
Bjossi on 4/5/2007 at 17:32
It is easy to go off the main road, in that case. :erm:
D'Arcy on 4/5/2007 at 17:40
If you haven't been in the sewers one single time, then you started going off the main road pretty early in the game. [SPOILER]The first time you get to Agroprom you immediately get a 'fly-over' cutscene that will give you a mission to help Mole, who's being attacked at one of the Agroprom compounds (not the one where the documents are). If you do that, Mole will then guide you to the sewers entrance, and then you'll get a new quest, to 'Find Strelok's Secret Stash'.[/SPOILER]
Quote Posted by steo
Damn, D'arcy ninja'd me. I would argue that it is a side quest, just a big one.
So you consider a 'side quest' [SPOILER]to find out the whole story behind The Zone, and who exactly your character is, how he got there, and where did those visions he has throughout the game come from?[/SPOILER] ;)
Bjossi on 4/5/2007 at 17:47
It's not surprising that I missed that part, Mole didn't survive. I'm useless in the nighttime when combat is needed so his death was to be expected.
Martek on 4/5/2007 at 20:35
Quote Posted by steo
I would leave it since it will give you more to do on your second run. You'll also completely outgun everything in agropom since you only usually have an AK74 when you go there.
If you don't do it though, it will mean [SPOILER]You won't be able to get two of the endings.[/SPOILER]
Damn, D'arcy ninja'd me. I would argue that it is a side quest, just a big one.
The two "real" endings are what you miss (and one of those two is the "best" ending both as a nicely "satisfying" ending (mostly) and for additional and fun gameplay :) ).
Even though it is optional to do that quest line to get those two endings, they are considered to be the "real" endings of the game. I consider them the main quest - though in many or even most games "the main quest" is not optional, as it is here. It is still the main questline IMO. Not to be missed. :thumb:
Martek
steo on 5/5/2007 at 00:45
My point was that the quest isn't necessary to complete the game, so I wouldn't consider it the 'main quest', even though it reveals more of the plot.
Bjossi on 5/5/2007 at 00:49
What about calling it a semi-side-quest?
242 on 8/5/2007 at 09:06
Quote Posted by D'Arcy
You had to go there at some point. In fact, you have to go to those undergrounds at least twice during the game. Perhaps you just didn't go to the room where the Urchin is.
And why at least twice? I was there one time and got Strelok's flash card. Now I'm in the Dark Valley going to visit secret lab. Will the plot eventually send me to the Agroprom underground again?
