Bye Bye Stalker 2

2011-12-09 17:18:43

#1

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6182|London, England

Article wrote:
LATEST UPDATE: 1c Ukraine’s Sergey Galenkin has blogged about the closure of GSC. He states: “GSC is closed, a fact confirmed by all. The team is almost completely dissolved, the state has only a few people.” Galenkin blames the cost of developing a PC only shooter for a European audience, and a failed console publishing deal, for the collapse of the developer.

The rest of the story, as it happened, below.

FOURTH UPDATE: GSC’s social media manager announces he is looking for a new job here.

THIRD UPDATE: GSC have got back to me with “Sorry, no comments at this point.” That does not sound promising.

SECOND UPDATE: The denial tweet has now been deleted. Hmm. Still trying to get confirmation on this, but it’s looking like GSC is down. Dmitri Bourkovski (apparently not a GSC employee) has just tweeted “Not PR. GSC closed.”

FIRST UPDATE: GSC deny the report on their twitter here. We’ve contacted them for a comment.

ORIGINAL: According to this report from Ukrainian news site UkraNews, GSC has been shut down by owner Sergei Grigorovich. The closure was apparently announced to the workforce earlier today. The autotranslation is messy, so if anyone can explain the sixth paragraph – which tries to speculate on what was going on – accurately, that would be great.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12 … er-2-dead/

So STALKER 2 is done. Being a gamer today sucks total dick

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2011-12-09 17:21:33

#2

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6681|cuntshitlake

Fucking hell. despite the obvious consolizing it would have had, this was one of the only games coming out that i was actually looking forwards to

main battle tank karthus medikopter 117 megamegapowershot gg

2011-12-09 17:22:07

#3

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6688

lul.

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2011-12-09 17:22:24

#4

Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6686

First game was straight trash.

2011-12-09 17:25:37

#5

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6681|cuntshitlake

Doctor Strangelove wrote:
First game was straight trash.

there have been 3. and you are not allowed to have an opinion on any games.

main battle tank karthus medikopter 117 megamegapowershot gg

2011-12-09 17:32:28

#6

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5185|Dundee, Scotland.

stalker was mince. I bought clear sky and soc, so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow and boring.

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-12-09 17:48:09

#7

TimmmmaaaaH: Damn, I... had something for this; +725|6657|Brisbane, Australia

God damn it

https://bf3s.com/sigs/5e6a35c97adb20771c7b713312c0307c23a7a36a.png

2011-12-09 17:50:45

#8

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6870

it's mostly google-translated gaming-journalism regurgitated blog bullshit at this point so I'll wait and see

2011-12-09 17:53:17

#9

iNeedUrFace4Soup: fuck it; +348|6763

SoC had one of the most incredible atmospheres of any game i've ever played. It's not supposed to be some CoD circle jerk. It was just one of those games that was a total mess at first, but still had amazing gameplay.

2011-12-09 18:17:08

#10

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6876|BC, Canada

Thought this would be a thread about war man.

2011-12-09 18:19:57

#11

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5185|Dundee, Scotland.

-Whiteroom- wrote:
Thought this would be a thread about war man.

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-12-09 18:31:44

#12

Stimey: +786|6337|Ontario | Canada

Doctor Strangelove wrote:
First game was straight trash.

it was one of those games that was made by mods

2011-12-09 18:32:25

#13

Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6686

I tried super hard to like stalker. But it was just so fucking bad. Weapons can't hit shit even if it's fucking 10 feet in front of you, your guy moves like he's waist deep in molasses, and of course you spend most of the game walking across the world weapon and armor degradation, it still CTDs all the time you need to hold two buttons to crouch. YOU NEED TO HOLD TWO BUTTONS TO FUCKING CROUCH! As for atmosphere, please, that can't carry a game, and even then I just didn't feel it.

Only thing entertaining about the game was the dude who was all "get out of here stalker." Your game is real pathetic if the only good thing about it is a combination of horrid bugginess and atrocious VO.

And I know there's over 9000 mods for stalker, but if you need a total conversion mod to make the game decent then you've got good mod tools, not a good game.

Also I don't like the CoD nonstop action, ADD shit. But at least you can enjoy that for ten minutes before it gets tiring. Stalker is tiring for the start and it manages to do this without shoving shit in your face constantly.

2011-12-09 18:33:32

#14

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6870

I don't understand how you can not like the game, but then think it's fine with mods

most of what those mods do is make the guns as easy to use as MW/BF3 and add a whole lot of graphics. The game is still what it is

2011-12-09 18:34:55

#15

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6870

lol DSL you literally only played the opening part of the game

enjoy being wrong about everything

2011-12-09 19:14:38

#16

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6740|...

Doctor Strangelove wrote:
I tried super hard to like stalker.

I had a hard time liking it like i had a hard time liking farcry 2

2011-12-09 19:17:39

#17

firebolt5: Member; +114|6372

Doctor Strangelove wrote:
I tried super hard to like stalker. But it was just so fucking bad. Weapons can't hit shit even if it's fucking 10 feet in front of you, your guy moves like he's waist deep in molasses, and of course you spend most of the game walking across the world weapon and armor degradation, it still CTDs all the time you need to hold two buttons to crouch. YOU NEED TO HOLD TWO BUTTONS TO FUCKING CROUCH! As for atmosphere, please, that can't carry a game, and even then I just didn't feel it.

Huh? If I remember you just have to press 1 button to crouch. There were 2 levels of crouch also, a normal crouch and a crouch that was even lower.

2011-12-09 21:40:59

#18

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6989|PNW

I'm not terribly disappointed by this, but I feel for those who looked forward to it. Been there.

2011-12-09 21:55:15

#19

Sisco: grandmaster league revivalist; +493|6561

jsnipy wrote:
Doctor Strangelove wrote:
I tried super hard to like stalker.
I had a hard time liking it like i had a hard time liking farcry 2

But FC2 was übershit though.

https://www.abload.de/img/bf3-bf2ssig0250wvn.jpg

2011-12-10 10:38:15

#20

Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6686

firebolt5 wrote:
Doctor Strangelove wrote:
I tried super hard to like stalker. But it was just so fucking bad. Weapons can't hit shit even if it's fucking 10 feet in front of you, your guy moves like he's waist deep in molasses, and of course you spend most of the game walking across the world weapon and armor degradation, it still CTDs all the time you need to hold two buttons to crouch. YOU NEED TO HOLD TWO BUTTONS TO FUCKING CROUCH! As for atmosphere, please, that can't carry a game, and even then I just didn't feel it.
Huh? If I remember you just have to press 1 button to crouch. There were 2 levels of crouch also, a normal crouch and a crouch that was even lower.

You press one button to lower your head two inches. To actually crouch you need to hold that button and another one.

2011-12-10 10:38:22

#21

globefish23: sophisticated slacker; +334|6541|Graz, Austria

Don't fear!
THQ will squeeze out a Stalker 2 sooner or later.

2011-12-11 13:41:14

#22

Spidery_Yoda: Member; +399|6487

On the importance of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

It's a good article. The bit about A-Life highlights one of the things about STALKER that made it great and unique. It's something that no other singleplayer game does, and modern FPS games seem to be moving more and more towards un-fun 100% scripted gameplay.

2011-12-12 10:06:19