Pour One Out for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Hello to Survarium

I couldn't be more disappointed.

quest. but yeah, stalker!

The title should've been:

"How to bankrupt a new company out of the gate"

I haven't played a stalker game either and don't plan to.

What the fuck.

Seriously, what the fuck. I don't even care any more. Have fun with your MMO guys, I'm done.

This could potentially be very interesting. Will be keeping an eye on this.

Microtransactions soon, fellow stalker.

Well i'm definitely interested in an MMOFPS, and i'm even more interested when it's free!

well that sucks i guess, not that i actually enjoyed stalker, but its never great to have more mmos

I will miss getting out of there, stalker.

Most of my fun with Stalker was listening to Idle Thumbs talk about it. I've tried to play it sooooo many times and I just can't get into it.(same story for Far Cry 2)

Well, the Stalker got out of here.

I did my STALKER grieving last time they announced the cancellation. But this reincarnation actually gives me hope. I'm the opposite of disappointed.
 
I always wanted The Zone in more places than the area surrounding the Chernobyl NPP, and now that's definitely a thing. There were some awesome ideas for online Zone exploration in the old lists of things they were wanting to implement into the first STALKER a number of years before SoC came out. One thing that could suck is that I might fall in love with this game and end up spending waaay too much money on it... or I might hate it.
 
Even though it'll be online only, I hope there will still be the ability to solo or that the levels are so fucking massive that 16-32 dudes could populate one and possibly never cross eachother. Or that you could roam as a pack of bandits, just ganking lone stalkers trying to scavenge for anomalies or whatever. Maybe forming your own corporations instead of simply choosing one of three default factions that are always at odds. Maybe I'm expecting too much for a F2P game.

A moment of silence for my beloved S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

first and foremost the owner of the company shut it down because of personal reasons and not financial (there have been rumors around that the owner of GSC was into some shady shit with some investment companies but they could be just rumors) The reason they just couldn't buy the IP from the GSC owner and finish the game themselves have not been disclosed but i can imagine that the guy wanted ludicrous amounts of money being the greedy bastard he probably is.

A sad day...

So rumour has it that Behesda picked up the rights to the IP. Jerk move to stomp out competition for Fallout or do they plan to do anything with it? Most likely the former, can't see why any company would need two post apocalyptic IPs. Bummer.

......... I'm gonna go play Clear Sky to cheer myself up.... yeah, Clear Sky was my favorite.... and the first one is my least favorite... COME AT ME

(God Damnit I love these games)

Who ever thought it was a cool idea to make the video flicker around while you try to read subtitles, it was not.

I'm just glad they were able to move onto something new right away and are openly talking about it. I'll keep my eye on this!

So rumour has it that Behesda picked up the rights to the IP. Jerk move to stomp out competition for Fallout or do they plan to do anything with it? Most likely the former, can't see why any company would need two post apocalyptic IPs. Bummer.

@Vorbis said:

So rumour has it that Behesda picked up the rights to the IP. Jerk move to stomp out competition for Fallout or do they plan to do anything with it? Most likely the former, can't see why any company would need two post apocalyptic IPs. Bummer.

Fallout 3 is probably the most well known post apocalyptic game out there(for better or worse), trying to snuff out competition doesn't make much sense to me. Neither did the lawsuit over the Scrolls name, so I guess Bethesda (or more accurately, ZeniMax) are crazy.

At least they're making another game. Online FPS makes it sound like it will be less dense in terms of combat, they might get rid of some of the more divisive mechanics like bleeding, hunger, etc. I'll play it regardless. Stalker always had great atmosphere, they should have no problem replicating that aspect. Seeing 100 other people running around a post apocalyptic world might break the immersion - we'll see.

I'm bummed I could never get STALKER to run on my system. At least it was only $2.75 from steam...

@captain_max707 said:

A sad day...

The saddest of days. I don't have much faith in the MMO thing but best of luck to them all the same.

@phrosnite said:

I haven't played a stalker game either and don't plan to.

Cool, bro. Do you make a habit of posting in news threads about games you don't actually have any interest in, or is this a special occasion?

Worst news of the year so far.

Micro transaction Idea: Dirty post apocalyptic coat or torn jeans or rusty AK47 for $1.50 :P

But seriously, Best of luck to these guys! I know they make good games.

@me3639 said:

Worst news of the year so far.

And we've still got like eight months left, which is probably just enough time to squeeze in the demise of both Obsidian Entertainment and THQ.

Fuck this dumb earth. :(

Stalker is dead. Long live Survarium.

I hope Survarium feels like a spiritual successor to the now-dead franchise.

If I'm picking a developer team in a street fight....it's this one. Like Anchorman style.....

Okay. I could sort of see a dirivatoryMMO but a lot less forced. I still wish the real focus was on a Stalker like game; SP/open world/horror-survival-shooter with the strong rpg. Despite the breaking glitches, they (and to be honest the superlative modding community), learned their craft and universe well enough to finally beat them.) GSC crafted a hyper real world with a fairly good logic. For comparison The Witcher 2, though I have not even bought it yet, seems to have that depth of mesh in it's internals. The parts fit in Stalker, and the graphic art often seemed lush. The wastes, the forests, the sun sending it's first beams over the skyline through the misty air at dawn.

And just to mention it GSC had a few ladies. It has become a belief of mine that rpg games with many many parts, even a game like Stalker, benefit from more women involved in art and storyline, the dialogue choices, etc.

MMO set in a STALKER setting that's free to play, sounds pretty fap worthy to me.

You could make a god-damn lemon pastry recipe sound menacing in Eastern Europeanese.

Patrick needs to get off his console peasant ass and get some PC games.

Good lord, FPS MMOs almost never work. Good on them if they manage it, but I don't think they will and it's not what I want. Sad day.

Damn. Well there's always the 1 in 10,000,000 chance that their survival stalkerish mmo is as good as their other games...

This sucks...

@phrosnite said:

I haven't played a stalker game either and don't plan to.

I don't care if you have or haven't, and I don't plan to.

On topic, this is a sad day. You will be missed, STALKER, BRO.

Stalker SHOC and Call of Pripyat were amazing, though I think SHOC was the best. Clear sky was too broken to play so I can't really speak to it. This is a bummer though.

well stalker was originally planned to incorporate mmo elements , they wanted it to feel like a single player mmo , they knew they didnt have the resources to make it online then but they planned its immersion and open world from the get go to seem "larger and more daunting" than a single player setting , this is when they had vehicles and large transition areas between the "hubs" .. so yeh this mmo idea isnt that crazy ... but its still sad news

you will be survived by 2033: last light... sorta, kinda

kickstarter anyone?

Stalker SHOC and Call of Pripyat were amazing, though I think SHOC was the best. Clear sky was too broken to play so I can't really speak to it. This is a bummer though.

One of these days I should try to get into Shadow of Chernobyl again. It certainly seems cool, if a bit unrefined and daunting

And just to mention it GSC had a few ladies. It has become a belief of mine that rpg games with many many parts, even a game like Stalker, benefit from more women involved in art and storyline, the dialogue choices, etc.

Eh, not a fan of the whole MMO scene that everyone thinks is the holy grail. I enjoyed the 3 STALKER games being by yourself, and a solitary experience. I am interested, but I would much rather have a STALKER 2 game.

i blame EA and IGN

I was interested up until I heard F2P.

@x0mb13 said:

@loopy_101 said:

I was interested up until I heard F2P.

I was interested in your opinion until i saw you dismiss a game based purely on its distribution method.

I would pretend I'm interested in what you think about my opinion but I don't make room for half-arsed, 12 year old, comebacks.

Excuse me also for not liking micro-transactions, having to deal with horribly implemented in-game currencies and generally receiving a broken, glitchy, experience that tends to feature heavily in the vast majority of F2P games.

@loopy_101: I know many F2P games are glitchy, filled with microtransactions and the like, but there are a few out there that are perfectly fine.

League of Legends (one of the biggest games in e-sports right now) is a F2P games, and it is constantly being balanced, tweaked, and made better for the consumers. Everything that you can buy with real money in that game can also be earned though just playing. Also, the newly released Super Monday Night Combat is free, and it looks pretty fun.

It reminded me of Huxley and I had to google it it and huh, it actually came out in Korea. I did not know that.