GSC closed and Stalker 2 is cancelled

ShadowHearth

Finnaly finished it. Really loved it and mod was great, but I got soooo pissed of near ending. I would have gotten way better ending of not this stupid ****ing npc bug. All of the escorted npcs ( and I saved almost all of them ) got stuck near bus and were just sitting... I reloaded it so many times and could not get them unbugged so it would mean to restart last part again.. **** that... I just watched YouTube good 100% ending.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

heh
there's something like 21 slides that can appear at the end depending on the various choices you made during the game, i saw things this time I never saw the others

I also realised this playthrough that I always sided with beard over sultan.. and if you side with sultan you get other quests to do.. so might have to do another playthrough as short range or mid range guy in misery and work for sultan this time around

marco_polo

This is not news at all really, but its nice to have a another little bit of assurance that all is still well.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/16/gsc-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-still-on-track-no-date-yet/

GSC has yet again moved to assure fans that work on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is still ongoing.

The Ukranian developer said in a tweet today: “To answer the multitude of questions we’ve been getting, #Stalker2 is currently in development, yes. However there is no release date yet.”

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yeah saw that this morning, gave me a chubby

"no release date" is kinda ominous though, i was trying to find a stalker thread in here a while back so I searched "stalker" in the games forum. pretty sure there were threads from 2004 talking about the game

Ciaran500

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

"no release date" is kinda ominous though, i was trying to find a stalker thread in here a while back so I searched "stalker" in the games forum. pretty sure there were threads from 2004 talking about the game

They develop and publish their own games, they don't need to have a public deadline to rush to.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

http://vimeo.com/39690265

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPP

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

so.. stalker 2 isn't happening apparently

Official S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
After a long silence the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 development team is finally back with the announcement. A new studio and project, despite no official continuation of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is reported, it looks like the ideas and spirit S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will live on in the team's new game – “Survarium”

but

Our company appeared in March 2012 in Kiev. Ten years earlier, when at GSC Game World we started developing the renowned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series and continued working on it until December 2011 when the studio was unexpectedly shut down and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 project – frozen. We did not reach agreement with the rights owner regarding the use of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. brand, that’s why we made the decision to move forward as an independent studio with a new project. That day became our starting point for Vostok Games.

http://www.facebook.com/Survarium/info

http://www.vostokgames.com/en is their website

and it's a freeplay MMOFPS

for
****
sake

--edit

Money was the issue. We were not able to secure the rights to continue development of the Stalker series.

from the stalker twitter account @gscstalker

ShadowHearth

FECK :mad:

Sephiroth_dude

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

so.. stalker 2 isn't happening apparently



but



http://www.facebook.com/Survarium/info

http://www.vostokgames.com/en is their website

and it's a freeplay MMOFPS

for
****
sake

sad news

Sarky

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl812VZv9VI

Retr0gamer

The dream is over

Sarky wrote: »

You sir have earned a lot of brownie points for the use of adventure time gifs.

Hande hoche!

Very,very sad news.

gizmo

STALKER Franchise Sold to Bethesda?

Obviously it's only a rumor but between what happened in December, the subsequent "revival" of development, the fallout from the team leaving, their sudden move to a new studio with a new engine and a 2013 release date and the insistence that they couldn't get their hands on the STALKER licence, I reckon something really really weird happened here...

Chairman Meow

apparently thats not true about bethesda. but if it was...stalker designed for a pad, dumbed down for consoles and on gamebryo engine?

gizmo

Chairman Meow wrote: »

apparently thats not true about bethesda. but if it was...stalker designed for a pad, dumbed down for consoles and on gamebryo engine?

Yup, because being dumbed down is a prerequisite for being on the consoles.

When is Dark Souls being released on the PC again? :pac:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yeah 1 complex good game on consoles, maybe two with the witcher
quality argument there

honestly you are such a console fanboy

gizmo

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

yeah 1 complex good game on consoles, maybe two with the witcher
quality argument there

honestly you are such a console fanboy

I'll give you one thing Sir Digby, you're nothing if not predictable

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/01/zone-chernobyl-tarkovsky-video-game/

not really related to the closure of GSC games but im not making a new thread for it and it's a nice read, even if he clearly doesn't think the games are that great

Sarky

"Sub par" graphics? Those games were sodding beautiful. Still are. Maybe he didn't have a decent PC to run it on?

He's dead right about the game's strangely appealing not giving a damn what happens to the player. It's really refreshing not to be the hero, just some guy trying to survive in a world that will go on without you regardless.

AlmightyCushion

Sarky wrote: »

"Sub par" graphics? Those games were sodding beautiful. Still are. Maybe he didn't have a decent PC to run it on?

He's dead right about the game's strangely appealing not giving a damn what happens to the player. It's really refreshing not to be the hero, just some guy trying to survive in a world that will go on without you regardless.

The first one is showing it's age a bit now but mods fix that.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The first one is showing it's age a bit now but mods fix that.

aye, chernobyl can look a bit.. sort of awful before you install complete mod

well, maybe not awful .. but it does look bad compared to how it looks with the mod installed

briany

Sarky wrote: »

"Sub par" graphics? Those games were sodding beautiful. Still are. Maybe he didn't have a decent PC to run it on?

He's dead right about the game's strangely appealing not giving a damn what happens to the player. It's really refreshing not to be the hero, just some guy trying to survive in a world that will go on without you regardless.

STALKER was or is part of a dwindling number of FPS games that have a look, a feel and mythology that is their own. STALKER, Far Cry and Half Life were the only FPS games that really excited me and drew me in, and the tangible worlds they presented had a lot to do with that.

Sarky

There's still life in that style of shooter yet. Day Z is looking to become just such a game, and eastern Europe has delivered some cracking experiences like the STALKER series, Metro 2033, Cryostasis (ok, it had some problems but I thought it was amazing), Pathologik, and I'm sure there are more.

Tar.Aldarion

Somebody get rich and make this happen ffs

gizmo

Sarky wrote: »

There's still life in that style of shooter yet. Day Z is looking to become just such a game, and eastern Europe has delivered some cracking experiences like the STALKER series, Metro 2033, Cryostasis (ok, it had some problems but I thought it was amazing), Pathologik, and I'm sure there are more.

Woooooo Cryostasis!

More people need(ed) to play that game

5uspect

I got a copy free with a graphics card but never got around to playing it beyond the opening. It reminded me of Condemned a bit. I must dig out the installer again.

Sarky

It was visually incredible, and I thought it was bloody creepy myself.

briany

Sarky wrote: »

It was visually incredible, and I thought it was bloody creepy myself.

It reminded me a bit of Condemned with the thick atmosphere and claustrophobic setting.

On the subject of creepy games, has anyone ever played The Experiment? It's set aboard a large wrecked ship and you have to guide a person through the ship using the onboard surveillance system, switching on lights prompting them where to go etc.

Odaise Gaelach

Sarky wrote: »

It was visually incredible, and I thought it was bloody creepy myself.

Loved the lighting, and the colours! I remember having a debate with a friend of mine about which was better looking: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or Metal Gear Solid 4 (which wasn't released at the time). MGS4 had the high polygon count and high-resolution textures, but it was all in that pale yellow colour. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. had the dynamic lighting - shoot a light fixture above a metal grille, and watch the shadows of the grille moving with the light. The bright red or blue lights of a fire or electricity anomaly. And the perpetual feeling that - either in the middle of the wilderness, or in the middle of a gunfight between two opposing sides that, while I had nothing to do them, their bullets were flying over my head - you were totally and utterly ****ed.

briany wrote: »

On the subject of creepy games, has anyone ever played The Experiment? It's set aboard a large wrecked ship and you have to guide a person through the ship using the onboard surveillance system, switching on lights prompting them where to go etc.

I played it for a while; I liked it, but I got fed up of having to wait for herself to shamble from light to light.