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Sin317
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prudislav
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Shinin
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A sad day for pc gamers, but a good day for the console peasants
i9 7500K, GTX980 Quad Frozr VI, 24GB RAM
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 19:53 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 20:00 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 20:06 Post subject: |
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BTW a more complete translation of 1C Ukraine's Sergey Galenkin speculations (that had close relations with GSC): http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33318860&postcount=302
| Quote: | 1)The game was going to be a PC exclusive. GSC didn't have resources for console development and publishers didn't want to pick it up for consoles because of two possible reasons: 1)it's a single-player post-apocalypse title from Eastern Europe won't likely to sell well in Europe and US 2)GSC's terms of deal were too crazy for them.
2)Grigorovich didn't like the direction of the game, but some people say that the game was turning out great.
3)Grigorovich has been thinking about closing the studio for almost a year. Possible reason - he just got bored with this. <- trollololololol
4)Law enforcement version isn't likely to be true because STALKER IP isn't registered in Ukraine and they would get nothing
5)The guy on twitter is just a PR from South Africa, he didn't know and is looking for work now
6)Grigorovich still owns IP. He can give it to somebody but there are no suitable studios except 4A which have tense relationship with Grigorovich. |
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 21:35 Post subject: |
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33320911&postcount=347
| Quote: | somebody from the team posted in comment section of the blog post. He said that Grigorovich assembled the team during the lunch and told the developers that the project and the company are closing. He gave them their salary, a STALKER calendar for 2012 and some games magazine (with a preview most likely).
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TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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sausje
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 21:41 Post subject: |
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Nobody sneaked early alpha build out? 
Proud member of Frustrated Association of International Losers Failing Against the Gifted and Superior (F.A.I.L.F.A.G.S)
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 22:01 Post subject: I have left. |
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Slizza
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 22:04 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 22:26 Post subject: |
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| Shoshomiga wrote: | I dont get this why people like stalker games.
I tried to play stalker 1 twice, once when it came out and then a year ago with the latest patch and mods.
Both times it was a buggy, unoptimized mess with bad animations and ugly disproportional character models and it also pretends to be open world but in reality the maps are smaller than hl2 maps. |
I liked the games mainly because of the atmosphere and exploration. The world felt realistic (other than the mutants and anomalies).
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vort1
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 22:42 Post subject: |
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Grigorovich is the one to blame in this situation. Worked there in times of Clear sky, and production standarts were so shitty, that I thought CS may never see the light of the day. All talented devs moved to local 4A Games, Crytek and Ubisoft offices after or even before the release of SoC. Grigorovich himself visited his workplace like once in a month, sat there for hour, and that was all the interest in his own company. BTW government problems with GSC is strictly the case of pirated software and some tax issues, and this accusations is rightful, for I confirm it myself.
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Roach_666
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Dec 2011 23:05 Post subject: |
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| Shoshomiga wrote: | | I dont get this why people like stalker games. |
In one word - inaccessibility.
That's why.
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Last edited by Interinactive on Tue, 5th Oct 2021 04:36; edited 1 time in total
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Sin317
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 00:23 Post subject: |
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yeah it does make a lot more sense once you realize no one was trolling about the clothes but then again, if he didn't want to make games in the first place, why the fuck did he start making games?
either way, actishit and blizzard will probably do more damage to gaming than the stalker series cut short, but for those who don't need way too much hand holding it's quite a longing goodbye.
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 00:38 Post subject: |
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i'd rather let any good series rest in peace than it being raped, even worse when it's being done by it's developer (bioware, io interactive, etc)
well, 2012 isn't looking too good when it comes to innovative games, there's nothing i can think of that sounds interesting EXECEPT Dishonored, which i have some high expectations for
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 00:55 Post subject: |
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Weird. So now I find out this Grigorovich guy's loaded and some kind of celeb?
Who the fuck is he?
Clothing line?
Books?
Damn, I don't understand the Soviet Union anymore.
Also, this:
| Quote: | | Then why didn't he think of passing his position to someone else? |
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 00:57 Post subject: |
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33326429&postcount=424
| Quote: | ok, I think that's pretty much it.
http://alogvinov.com/2011/12/gsc-r-i-p/
the dude is a quite known russian games journalist.
-The game existed in the form of the engine mostly
-The engine itself lacked some crucial features (like cutscene editor) and the overall impression was that the team wasn't able to produce a game that would meet high expectations from a modern action title.
-Not many people were working on the game. Most efforts were focused on the clothing line, comic books, movies, merchandise
-merchandise, clothing line etc. etc. weren't really successful
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Bah such a shame.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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vurt
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 00:59 Post subject: |
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Too bad. The first in the series is one of the best PC games ever created imo, up there with System Shock 2 and Half-Life 1, same superb atmosphere. But yeah, probably better the series ends now than leaving us disapointed with some half-assed derp version, that'd actually make me more sad and upset.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 01:02 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | the team wasn't able to produce a game that would meet high expectations from a modern action title. |
This is the crucial sentence, and it revolves around the meaning of "modern action title" 
I'm almost convinced that nothing of value has been lost ;( |
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 01:09 Post subject: |
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| Venn wrote: | Weird. So now I find out this Grigorovich guy's loaded and some kind of celeb?
Who the fuck is he?
Clothing line?
Books?
Damn, I don't understand the Soviet Union anymore.
Also, this:
| Quote: | | Then why didn't he think of passing his position to someone else? |
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There are 65 stalker books released and they meant to inform guiness for breaking the record of longest running series of books based on a videogame.
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 01:15 Post subject: |
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There are 65 stalker books released and they meant to inform guiness for breaking the record of longest running series of books based on a videogame. |
The books any good?
translated to english?
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Dec 2011 01:22 Post subject: |
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| human_steel wrote: | That's actually one of the screens taken by an ATi tester.  |
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That was a beta screenshot, right? I guess GSC didn't have time to add the NextGen® Bloom© 
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