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GSC is closed, STALKER 2 cancelled [Up5: GSC: Wait for Up6 in mid-January]
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True, but plenty of the developers he did mention make other crappy FPS games that are not CoD, and others don't make FPS in the first place, so were irrelevant to add to the list. It was a silly list wars argument anyway.
Of the ones mentioned, only Tripwire could possibly do a STALKER game justice, the rest would likely fail.
-BLITZ-
Member
God already took that some years ago and now look what he is doing ... AGAIN!
OMG, man! Look at those concept arts. I see laboratories and vaults arts as well
. Those areas was the best thing ever in STALKER series, those dark corners and moments.What an awful news. I couldn't belive this when I first read the topic, I was near to choke myself.
Night_Trekker
Member
...well, as much as I hate to lose 30+ hours of play time, that does sound pretty amazing. Maybe I'll go for it.
indigo-cyclops
Member
That amazing concept art deals the final blow... What a damn shame.
If you're that far in, you might as well continue with vanilla. It's primarily better visuals you're missing out on and some things the mod adds are better disabled anyway (the new hud, the automatic health application, the new scopes, the nullified headbobbing).
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Sad, very sad. We need to complete this list and make a thread for it (I wouldn't count Clover though, since that basically became Platinum Games)
Togglesworlh
Banned
I... I have nothing else to add. )):
So many facepalms. An infinite number.
reptilescorpio
Member
Fuck. Was looking good too. As a high budget PC game that hasn't sold well over the years I was getting worried about how long the development cycle of STALKER 2 was getting.
I think I only got halfway through it on my PC before I got sick of it. I thought it was going to be another Stalker so it was my fault, but it was COD style linear and with checkpoints rather than quick saves!
I think I only got halfway through it on my PC before I got sick of it. I thought it was going to be another Stalker so it was my fault, but it was COD style linear and with checkpoints rather than quick saves!
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Not everything not open world is a COD clone guys... I understand if you don't like it but Metro plays nothing like COD. Much closer to HL2 imo, action adventury, with some room for exploration of alternate paths (even with a couple different endings) or just dead ends that yielded stash rewards, it was not purely set piece and whack-a-mole driven. Hell, even over HL, outside the mutants it had proper AI you could stealth through on occasion (though it was hard to do so you often ended up with big firefights).
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Fork Parker retweeted a fan's tweet that says "@ForkParker Ok, some money-making ideas: get STALKER license for the greater good, release a new trailer and start raking up the dosh!"
Just to get away from the sad news for just a bit - headless kamikazes in STALKER, hehe. At least, if the Croteam boys had their way with it.
edit: And he just tweeted "Dang, wish @gscstalker had given me and the boys at @DevolverDigital a ring before closing up shop..."
Just to get away from the sad news for just a bit - headless kamikazes in STALKER, hehe. At least, if the Croteam boys had their way with it.
edit: And he just tweeted "Dang, wish @gscstalker had given me and the boys at @DevolverDigital a ring before closing up shop..."
Lasthope106
Member
In a previous post I didn't mean to imply that a Western publisher should make STALKER, but fund the original team until the project was completed. I mentioned Chris Remo and Shawn Elliot because they championed Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat when those were released.
In my perfect world Valve would own both CD Projekt and GSC World, with making RPGs and open world games respectively. A few hours later and this news still hasn't sunk in. I'm devastated that this game will never see the light of day, or more expansions to SOC. It just seems too sudden, too out of nowhere.
What a freaking mess...
Rodney McKay
Member
He's a merciful God, that's why.
the browser STALKER game is still in works.
HotHamWater
Member
Salt in the wound.
Neuromancer
Member
=(
rosaceadude2112
Member
Please people, stop suggesting that 4A or CD Projekt pick up the development. My heart is broken enough...
reptilescorpio
Member
I meant more in comparison to Stalker, I did say that I went into it wanting the wrong thing. I was hoping for something more along those lines.
Over 3 titles of which a lot of the sale would have been below $5 I expect going by the amount of Steam sales it has had and the price I know most people picked it up at.
*Puke*
Pixel Pete
Member
Well, the first few pages of this thread were a blast to read. Stalker never really grabbed me despite trying, but I still hate to see developers bite the dust. That list of casualties is depressing....
Lasthope106
Member
At this point, I wish that is the case.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
the game was selling very well in CIS and it had a huge line of popular books. I meant it's in Guiness book as the longest book series.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Source?
And those 3 games had major asset reuse, there's a reason they didn't call any of those S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 like this cancelled one...
I mean, they were all launched in the span of like 2.5 years.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Did you ever do that post explaining why you dislike COP the most? I was always curious why you thought that because I think it's clearly the best one.
Haunted
Member
I want postapokalipsisa.
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
Such is life in the zone.
The game has an excellent pro- and epilogue expansion in the form of Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat respectively. There's plenty of STALKER to go round, even without delving into the mod scene and released alpha/beta versions.
You didn't let him finish. Call Gearbox to tell them to stay the fuck away from Stalker.
yeah, I started writing these posts in some COP-related thread but ran out of steam. There were two of them. There is so much I don't like about the game and I know exact reasons why it sucks (at least in my opinion). But one of the main reasons was that it felt souless and stale (+ it had tons of amateurish shortcomings related to gameplay). It felt like people who were making this game were making it just because they were making it.
Here is another blog post related to the closure. It partially confirms my feeling about COP by the way.
http://easymodeon.wordpress.com/201...7;ймдеве/
The guy was close to the company and he says that the company was slowly drifting into oblivion. The atmosphere inside grew stale, people weren't agitated about working there anymore because there was no real ambition and the company hasn't been changing. Like it stuck into time. He also said that it was pretty apparent to him even years ago that the company will cease to exist if Grigorovich loses his commercial interest in making games. Once Grigorovich mentioned (between SOC and CS releases) that games aren't the main business for him anymore. And this discussion happened before the clothing line, successful book series, Stalker fests and so on. Basically he ends his post saying that the closure isn't a surprise for him, it's more like an official confirmation.
We can wait for official statement but it looks to me like Grigorovich just lost interest and decided to walk away while he still has money and his Ferrari. It happens. People lose interest in what they do.
legacyzero
Banned
Optimus Lime
(L3) + (R3) | Spartan rage activated
This is one of the most horrible pieces of gaming news I've ever had to read. How utterly terrible.
STALKER was SUCH a brilliant franchise. SoC and CoP were two of my favourite games of the last few years, and even though I was wary of the console-oriented direction of Stalker 2, I was very excited to see what GSC would come up with.
It is a sad, pathetic world we live in where CoD becomes the highest grossing franchise of all time, and GSC shut their doors. This should be a real alarm bell to everyone that gaming is sick. Something's going horribly wrong with our hobby.
STALKER was SUCH a brilliant franchise. SoC and CoP were two of my favourite games of the last few years, and even though I was wary of the console-oriented direction of Stalker 2, I was very excited to see what GSC would come up with.
It is a sad, pathetic world we live in where CoD becomes the highest grossing franchise of all time, and GSC shut their doors. This should be a real alarm bell to everyone that gaming is sick. Something's going horribly wrong with our hobby.