They may have been bug ridden anti-paradises that tried to murder players at every turn, but the STALKER games are brilliant in their own way. Really loved Call of Pripyat and was looking forward to a new game in the series. This sucks a lot.
Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com...l-axed-report/
Damn. I remember them from back when Cossacs: Art of War was the shit.
They've had had an impressive run considering how few of their games actually shone through. But i guess they never really recovered from the failure Clear Sky was.
what a bummer. there are few games that can match stalker's atmosphere. one of the few games that puts terror in my heart.
"Epic things start with good songs" -- Me
"There must be some way out of here..."
Said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion.
I can't get no relief"
This is unexpected. I was under the impression the STALKER games sold very well and GSC was rich as fuck. What a shame.
Also, in b4 Razor.
There are rumors with like the GSC / GSC boss was involved with KGB or just straight up shit went politicaOriginally Posted by Eidolon
So perhaps, with some luck, the company can be reborn under a new banner and keep up the good work
aw man ... too bad.
I remember playing stalker at night ... i think somewhere in that very strong contaminated area in a basement with really strange noises coming from a elevator shaft ... sounded like the devil plaing guitar with the elevator-cables. But unfortunatly the game never reveald this.
Basement-level was way too short.
oh wow thats some bad news. the STALKER games had been some of my all time favs due to the awesome atmosphere they create.
:masssivesadface:
edit: looks like they were going to include stalker ghillie suits from the looks of that concept art, now more even mores sads
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First S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was a really special game
This is too bad =(
Alright now what if ...
What if
was perpetrated by
https://twitter.com/#!/joewillburn
as some sort of 'epic troll' to impress his friends at krautchan on a Friday just before GSC left the offices for xmas holidays ... and got fired for it. His tweet about them closing was rescinded immediately, possibly under legal threat of libel/slander/whatever/i get the two confused, but the out-of-a-job tweets are real because he fucked himself out of a job and he's trying to put forth a professional face (rather than saying 'hurr, I got fired for leaking some intellectual property and propagating some shit on a chan board about my company going under. Will you hire me?')
Yeah, like that. Pleeeeaase be something like that.
No. According to other sources he just wasn't informed ahead of time (being a community manager working remotely from South Africa or wherever) which is why he first posted "sorry nop" and then had to take it down when reality caught up to him. Also Ukrainians don't have xmas holidays yet.
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What a shame,the game had great atmosphere. I was also under the impression that the stalker devs were well off money wise, but apparently I was wrong(non-shocker).
We;lp.
Anyway, someone made an eerily plausible guess on SA's Stalker thread as to what could have precipitated this 'Yeah, no. Fuck it, I'm out.' by the GSC CEO
Ugh.
Also, there's rumor that they got the SDKs and dumped a lot of money and manhours into making the console versions, but at some point got told by both Microsoft and Sony that their shit would never fly and they could basically get fucked. Coupled with GSCs bossman Sergei's zealous purchases of cars and mansions, things might have suddenly stopped looking quite so rosy financially and he can't bankroll building from scratch. Or someshit like that. Rumors.
Oh, and a lot of people think 4A games - the guys who made Metro: 2033 - will naturally pick up the Stalker IP, but that's highly unlikely. 4A Games was a splinter group of devs and coders from GSC Gameworld that told Sergei to get stuffed and started their own company. There's a lot of bad blood between the two companies. Equally unlikely is the release of the unfinished Stalker product and/or XRay engine to the modding community.
Shitsux.
On the post-apocalyptic bright side, 4A Games is chugging along and Metro: Last Light will eventually see the light ofdaydanger lamps and glowing anomalies.
I just died a little inside
This has gone straight to badwrong.
It's badong.
Has anyone put Razor on suicide watch yet?
Acutally, he hasn't posted in this thread, it may be too late.
Y U POST HAPPY FACE THEN
Game studios close, tough break.
Stalker is a worthy franchise and will not go to waste. Let's just hope bethesda or ea or activision or thq or fuck me that's alot of bad publishers i guess we are fucked then.
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