GSC Game World announces S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - the official sequel to best-selling game series - in development now. A completely new multi-platform technology developed by GSC will make the core of the game.

"After the official sales of the series exceeded 4 million copies worldwide, we had no doubts left to start creating a new big game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe. This will be the next chapter of the mega-popular game players expect from us" - said Sergiy Grygorovych, CEO of GSC Game World.

The game is scheduled for release in 2012.

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But ,this is awesome news

Eff... 
 
STALKER is not a multi-platform game in my mind. That game has such a broad scope, and has so many complex systems, that I can't see it working on consoles without being simplified to an enormous degree.

So S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is going to be dumbed down? Huh.

Unfortunate news... I love S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but making it multiplatform will compromise what that game is about. Some games need to stay on PC, developers.

This scares me.

FUCK. YES.  

If Metro 2033 can be on consoles, Stalker can, since Metro was far more obtuse with the whole bullets as currency and item decay.

well I won't say it is going multi just yet, sounds like they are working on a new multiplat engine. So whether it is going to get ported or what not I don't think we can say that just yet.
 
however if they dumb is down even in the slightest I will be pissed.

Hitman console rage in 3...2.....1....

"Hitman console rage in 3...2.....1.... "

" If Metro 2033 can be on consoles, Stalker can, since Metro was far more obtuse with the whole bullets as currency and item decay. "

By multiplatform do they mean mac pc?

I think this is good news. Hopefully on top of their to-do list is fixing the fucking shooting mechanics. 
 
Seriously, STALKER was a fantastic game except for the whole shooting your enemies part. It could've been much more responsive.

" I think this is good news. Hopefully on top of their to-do list is fixing the fucking shooting mechanics.  Seriously, STALKER was a fantastic game except for the whole shooting your enemies part. It could've been much more responsive. "

No surprise there.  The only surprise in this day and age would be if a big budget FPS was announced that wasn't multiplatform.  
 
There's no question in my mind there will be some diluting of the game design from going multiplatform, the only question is how much.  Hopefully it will be kept to a minimum a la Bad Company 2 at the very least.

oh man this is great news, and even though I'm a PC gamer, I do think this could work on consoles; the only thing from stalker 1 that doesn't work is the inventory. oh and leaning I suppose, but I dunno why you'd want to lean in the first games anyway.

" @KingWilly said:

" I think this is good news. Hopefully on top of their to-do list is fixing the fucking shooting mechanics.  Seriously, STALKER was a fantastic game except for the whole shooting your enemies part. It could've been much more responsive. "

How much did you play?  I got frustrated with the shooting mechanics my first time through as well and stopped playing before I got out of the first area, but going back to it again I realized the shooting mechanics become really great with better weapons. "

As soon as they get their engine to stop crashing they decide to make a new one to keep the crash-train rolling? Great. 
 
I can't see this going multiplatform as a good thing, S.T.A.L.K.E.R thrived as a very complex and difficult game and dumbing it down to fit in with the console releases won't be good for it.

" Eff... 
 
STALKER is not a multi-platform game in my mind. That game has such a broad scope, and has so many complex systems, that I can't see it working on consoles without being simplified to an enormous degree. "

Great news. I have faith in GSC to keep the PC version as complex and "PC" as it has been - if anything, they may be forced to streamline a few elements for the better, which is a good thing in my book.

" @DukeTogo said:

" If Metro 2033 can be on consoles, Stalker can, since Metro was far more obtuse with the whole bullets as currency and item decay. "

Nope, try again. STALKER is way more complex than Metro and if anyone who says otherwise hasn't played both games enough.  This is sad news.  Either they compromise the interface on PC to make it work on consoles, therefore dumbing the game down, or they keep the interface the same and piss off all the console gamers and reviewers. "

" @yinstarrunner said:

" @KingWilly said:

" I think this is good news. Hopefully on top of their to-do list is fixing the fucking shooting mechanics.  Seriously, STALKER was a fantastic game except for the whole shooting your enemies part. It could've been much more responsive. "

How much did you play?  I got frustrated with the shooting mechanics my first time through as well and stopped playing before I got out of the first area, but going back to it again I realized the shooting mechanics become really great with better weapons. "

When I last played, I was on my way out of the first area and then it crashed. I reloaded and it crashed again. I checked for patches, found it, patched it, and then it erased all my saves.  I had twenty hours invested at that point, and had absolutely no desire to play through it again. "

" @KingWilly: Just keep using single shots over and over and don't go full auto, call of duty style. You save bullets that way and your accurate.    However I don't know how console gamers are going to take this game, since most fps on consoles you can full auto and hit everything. It's going to be too difficult for them, it's like letting them play counter strike source, dying everytime.   "

For me this is great news. I've wanted to play this game for a while, but my laptop has an integrated graphics card and thus couldn't do it justice. 
I'm sure the PC version will still be what fans expect and as long as any console games are a labor of love it should be worthwhile.

I can't wait until the fanboys are so used to this sort of news that they don't have to make idiotic comments with each and every one of these announcements.
 
Anyways, hopefully this means the developers refine their product on all platforms.  I don't think Metro 2033 was a terribly large success on 360 and PS3, so they'll have to decide how they want to spend their development money.  Hopefully they realize they don't have to compromise gameplay mechanics, but STALKER could use a lot of gameplay changes overall anyways.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

" @KingWilly said:

" @yinstarrunner said:

" @KingWilly said:

" I think this is good news. Hopefully on top of their to-do list is fixing the fucking shooting mechanics.  Seriously, STALKER was a fantastic game except for the whole shooting your enemies part. It could've been much more responsive. "

How much did you play?  I got frustrated with the shooting mechanics my first time through as well and stopped playing before I got out of the first area, but going back to it again I realized the shooting mechanics become really great with better weapons. "

When I last played, I was on my way out of the first area and then it crashed. I reloaded and it crashed again. I checked for patches, found it, patched it, and then it erased all my saves.  I had twenty hours invested at that point, and had absolutely no desire to play through it again. "

It took you 20 hours to get out of the Cordon?  I'm a very laidback player who takes his time a lot, myself, and I don't even know how that's possible.  "

Eh... I should have expected multiplatformization. I had such high hopes for Stalker 2. Let's hope they stick as close to the original Stalker design notes as possible, regardless.
 
@KingWilly: I recommend Call of Pripyat. It's the best (and most playable) STALKER by far. I've only had one single crash in it out of the 70+ hours I spent in it.

" @JP_Russell said:

" @KingWilly said:

" @yinstarrunner said:

" @KingWilly said:

" I think this is good news. Hopefully on top of their to-do list is fixing the fucking shooting mechanics.  Seriously, STALKER was a fantastic game except for the whole shooting your enemies part. It could've been much more responsive. "

How much did you play?  I got frustrated with the shooting mechanics my first time through as well and stopped playing before I got out of the first area, but going back to it again I realized the shooting mechanics become really great with better weapons. "

When I last played, I was on my way out of the first area and then it crashed. I reloaded and it crashed again. I checked for patches, found it, patched it, and then it erased all my saves.  I had twenty hours invested at that point, and had absolutely no desire to play through it again. "

It took you 20 hours to get out of the Cordon?  I'm a very laidback player who takes his time a lot, myself, and I don't even know how that's possible.  "

That was the first map? The one I was on before the crash-fest involved a mission in the sewers where this psychic mutant kept trying to kill me.  It's also been a couple years since I played STALKER, so I could be getting my zones confused. "

They need to streamline that game for me to be interested.

" Eff... 
 
STALKER is not a multi-platform game in my mind. That game has such a broad scope, and has so many complex systems, that I can't see it working on consoles without being simplified to an enormous degree. "

" I can't wait until the fanboys are so used to this sort of news that they don't have to make idiotic comments with each and every one of these announcements. 

First Battlefield 3, now this. August is the shittiest month of the year.

It's possible they make the game for PC and make it just like the PC-exclusives, then port it to consoles and "dumb it down" in the process, isn't it? 

" @yinstarrunner: Today I'm just a gamer, and I game on PC as well as consoles.  I've pretty much always been that way since I stopped being a Nintendo fanboy in the early 90's.  The point of distinction is I'm not a fanboy with lots of misconceptions about what this announcement really means.  You might say I understand this better than you.  I understand this sort of announcement stirs a lot of fear in a lot of people, but those people fail to see the positives as well.
 
The biggest issue I see brought up is always graphics.  Sure, good graphics are nice, but the only limitations for a game like STALKER on consoles will be the graphics.  There's no reason to change the depth of the gameplay mechanics, and it's because of perverted concepts of what console or PC gamers want that causes some of those issues.  Sure some other developers really butcher the PC version, but many of those games wouldn't have been made at all if it weren't for the console versions. "

" @Diamond:  What? Gameplay will definitely change. They'll end up stripping out leaning, the diablo style inventory system, reduce the effect of bleeding/radiation/hunger (since there no longer the numerous hotkeys for items). This also prevents the possibility of any type of RTS or indirect unit control aspect.   It's a controller issue. I suspect Far Cry 2 is what Stalker will be like on consoles. "

Good to hear! The first one was unnecessarily complicated and way too damn hard, maybe if they alter the gameplay to fit the console market it will be worth playing.

" Good to hear! The first one was unnecessarily complicated and way too damn hard, maybe if they alter the gameplay to fit the console market it will be worth playing. "

" @yinstarrunner: Today I'm just a gamer, and I game on PC as well as consoles.  I've pretty much always been that way since I stopped being a Nintendo fanboy in the early 90's.  The point of distinction is I'm not a fanboy with lots of misconceptions about what this announcement really means.  You might say I understand this better than you.  I understand this sort of announcement stirs a lot of fear in a lot of people, but those people fail to see the positives as well.
 
The biggest issue I see brought up is always graphics.  Sure, good graphics are nice, but the only limitations for a game like STALKER on consoles will be the graphics.  There's no reason to change the depth of the gameplay mechanics, and it's because of perverted concepts of what console or PC gamers want that causes some of those issues.  Sure some other developers really butcher the PC version, but many of those games wouldn't have been made at all if it weren't for the console versions. "

This will not be S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

I think they should make a similar style game but in a new setting.  They could keep the name, but four games in the same shitty radioactive field might be a bit excessive.
 
They'll need to up their game a fair bit too.  Console gamers aren't exactly forgiving when it comes to rough edges.

It's kind of a bummer yes, but if if the developers are smart at all, there will be a pc version with all the bells and whistles we are used to,  and a console friendly version so those can get a STALKER like experience and if anything spread the name around. That way there will be more STALKER games and then we can hold hands and live in harmony!