WTF STALKER still around

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:05 pm

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Apparently so. <a href="http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/stalke ... ck=topslot" target="_self">Gamespot have done some hands-on impressions</a> of <a href="http://www.stalker-game.com/" target="_self">STALKER</a>, which I thought was established to be vaporware 8 years ago.<blockquote>As we played through the level for the first time, we found ourselves
dying quite frequently, with the opposition cutting through us when we
were out in open positions. However, once we began to push the military
forces back, the stalker allies moved forward and became more
aggressive. Moving away from the area, we could see the A-Life
technology in action as a military helicopter flew in to replenish the
armed forces in the area. Shortly afterward, a THQ representative
demonstrated to us that with a little exploration, you can avoid the
fire fight altogether and find the underground opening that would have
been revealed if you had extracted the allied leader.... While S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is big on ideas, it currently looks a little dated
when compared to its next-generation contemporaries. The protracted
development period has clearly been used to polish the A-Life system
and branching storyline, and you have to scratch beneath the surface to
see these advancements. Thankfully, the game finally looks close to
completion, and THQ seems relatively certain that it will see the light
of day next year. While S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has more bad endings waiting for
its players than it does good, hopefully the game itself will have a
happy conclusion after all those years of work. </blockquote>If it gets released, I am predicting a horrible buggy mess with ambitions far higher than the implentation. I'm also happy to be proved wrong in this case. Spotted @ <a href="http://evilavatar.com/">Evil Avatar</a>

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:52 pm

Are dragons still in the game?

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:06 pm

http://wasteland.duckandcover.cx/stalker/

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:26 pm

They removed mandatory eating and drinking, they removed non-linear exploration and they removed vehicles. It's now a user-friendly straight up FPS with a few 'RPG gimmicks' like a slot based inventory.

(A brief summary of all the changes, as gathered from the last six months fo articles on the game)

MadBill · Post by **MadBill** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:26 am

They should just turn it into a RTS and be done with it.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:10 am

I don't care what other people think, I want the game. It sounds pretty cool anyway u put it unless u want to start comparing what it used to be to what it is now.

Cthulhugoat · Post by **Cthulhugoat** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:03 am

T-900 wrote:They removed mandatory eating and drinking, they removed non-linear exploration and they removed vehicles. It's now a user-friendly straight up FPS with a few 'RPG gimmicks' like a slot based inventory.

(A brief summary of all the changes, as gathered from the last six months fo articles on the game)

Don't forget "good" and "evil" endings. OMFG RPG LOLOLOL

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:10 am

kindly go get smacked with fish on the face, Teats

PiP wrote:If you think it's newsworthy (I doubt?) I might post a news item about this.

Evil Avatar huh?!

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:54 am

I saw a bit of the preview on MTV's GAMER WEEK. Looks awful but I'll still give it a whirl to check out some of that post-nuke goodness.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:12 am

MadBill wrote:They should just turn it into a jRPG and be done with it.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:48 pm

I'd be happy then

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:49 pm

I can understand removing the vehicles, eating, sleeping and other worthless stuff, but what first got me interested about STALKER was the massive, unique and radiated non-linear environment that seemed perfect for stalking and observing weird things and perhaps getting into a gun fight every now and then. That should have been the beef of the game. Too bad it got screwed up by incompetent developers(it can't be THQ's fault since they still seem to pump money into the project).

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:30 pm

VasikkA wrote: what first got me interested about STALKER was the massive, unique and radiated non-linear environment

yup just like I always say. I want to finally see this work.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:38 am

Want to see STALKER, visit Poland.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:49 am

Koki wrote:Want to see STALKER, visit Poland.

Is it really that fucked up?
Like the US Rust Belt, but it is like that everywhere?

During the Cold War Poland had actual Marines.

I figure if they could afford that, then after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Poland would have been able to unfuck itself.

By Rust Belt, I mean the "Dead Factory Zone" concept popular in cyberpunk SF.
Not the fancy new US "redeveloped industry" thing.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:17 pm

Redeye wrote: Is it really that fucked up?
Like the US Rust Belt, but it is like that everywhere?

During the Cold War Poland had actual Marines.

I figure if they could afford that, then after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Poland would have been able to unfuck itself.

By Rust Belt, I mean the "Dead Factory Zone" concept popular in cyberpunk SF.
Not the fancy new US "redeveloped industry" thing.

you really interested?
well glance through these maybey
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheigh ... nomic.html
(notice the years '76-'79 in this first link - this might give you an idea about how much the communists fucked up our economy. Now you see how they could afford things despite inefficient economy? The first sentence in the report is also quite.. informative..)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of ... rm_program
http://www.economist.com/countries/Pola ... 0Structure

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:41 pm

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:49 pm

what is that thing? whale penis? a mushroom? a dildo?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:22 pm

Kinda looks like a giant pale penis with a rabbit head.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:16 pm

it's asparagus
poles come to Germany to harvest them while we pay them low wages for the harvesting