GSC Closed - STALKER 2 Cancelled

Very unfortunate. Loved the Stalker games, for me - more than anything, they drew me in and were very, very atmospheric. Here's hoping someone with a similar vision buys them out.
 
jamie2497 said:
News of the studio's closure first broke on Ukrainian news site UkraNews, which said owner Sergei Grigorovich had informed staff earlier this afternoon.
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He didn't walk in and say "get out of here Stalker" by any chance did he?

Sad news, Stalker is my second favourite game after Mohaa. My gut feeling was however that if it absorbed any console-centric features then it wouldn't have been the same game anyway, but still, would have preferred to be able to make my own mind up.
 
titaniumx3 said:
I do hope STALKER 2 get's picked up again, but hopefully by the same people who designed the orignal or people who were at least fans of the series. It would be pretty easy for a different developer to pick the title, produce a technically superior game, yet completely lose the original feel of STALKER.
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+1
 
The X-Ray engine needs an update just like the source engine imho.

4A Engine is the way imho.

4A Engine

Oles Shishkovtsov and Aleksandr Maksimchuk (programmers) worked on the development of X-Ray engine.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R ( Game Engine) "its inherent inability to be multi-threaded, the weak and error-prone networking model, and simply awful resource and memory management which prohibited any kind of streaming or simply keeping the working set small enough for 'next-gen' consoles" along with its "terrible text-based scripting", which he explained led to the delays in the original game.

Bye bye x-ray old engine haha!, lol.
 
tommybhoy said:
Bad, bad news!

The original Stalker gave me the biggest element of fear EVER in over 29 years of gaming(old codger alert!) when I first went down the drain....... saw and heard the rusty turning red lamp and then heard the moaning, I'll never forget it!
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I know exactly which bit you mean. The bloodsucker scared the crap out of me first couple of play throughs.

It really is all because its too easy to make of money of generic regurgitation of CoD games etc
 
Sad times. SOC was one of the few games I've bought twice, once retail way back and again on Steam. Originality does not pay so it seems :(
 
Sad to hear about this. Shadows of Chernobyl is one of my favourite games. I always come back to it for a play through every so often.
 
Massive massive shame. Loved the first games, cant believe its been canned. I await another developer to take on the project and balls it up!
 
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