STALKER 2 Officially Dead, Dev Team Founds New Company

[Yapa]

RIP stalker.... this new thing wont have anything on stalker.

It's a totally new game, multiplayer at that....

[wyver]

But I love stalker!

Please, a highly profitable and well budgeted company who has the Will to develop innovating and creative games please buy the license!

Blizzard! Actually no, don't need it to be an MMO or Korean RTS...
Activision! Oh wait, BlizzardActivision and their CoD series...
um... EA! Nah F$%# that!
BioWare!!! Might actually do a decent job... besides the constant gay relationships you can have with other stalkers.
Bethseda? Well... as long as they don't use that same engine of theirs! Otherwise their RPG and atmospheric elements would be great.
Creative Assembly, Sega, THQ? hmmm

It is doomed... I am depressed

ever company you said there would turn STALKER into a bastardisation of the STALKER series making it for console kiddies friendly and stating that they "want the CoD audience" no I would rather see STALKER dead than in the hand of those corrupt and despicable developers!!

[konakona]

Fallout and STALKER mix - unthinkable!

I loved Shadow of Chernobyl but Call of Pripyat has better story.

[Bek]

Raised my hopes and dashes them expertly sir.

+1 on Xray or gtfo. While it could be done in other engines it just wouldn't be the same.

Kickstarter would be the best outcome. Bethesda owning it would be close to the worst. I can't imagine the series just disappearing, I'm sure something will come up in the future.. who knows how long it may be though. At least we have three wonderful games to replay and replay until we each walk into our own anomalies.

[Angeredsoul]

[realOne]

RIP STALKER franchise

Have to wait and see but only time will tell if this new Survivarium game will just end up like another Fallen Earth game, hardly many players.

[Aphyosis]

RIP Stalker. Hopefully Beth won't get the chance to dance on your Corpse =(

[korbain]

+1 on Xray or gtfo. While it could be done in other engines it just wouldn't be the same.

It'd definately be great if they could licence the engine they were developing stalker 2 on.

Just putting it out there, stalker could also look and play amazingly on the new crysis engine if bethesda kept faithful to the design/art direction of the previous stalkers...

[DoHo_]

+1 on Xray or gtfo. While it could be done in other engines it just wouldn't be the same.

It'd definately be great if they could licence the engine they were developing stalker 2 on.

Just putting it out there, stalker could also look and play amazingly on the new crysis engine if bethesda kept faithful to the design/art direction of the previous stalkers...

The problem is 100% going to be artstyle and getting that "feeling". Some guys made a STALKER mod in CryEngine 2 but even when it "looked" like STALKER (which wasn't much despite assets being the same) it didn't "feel" like it.

[darius359au]

"Get out of here Stalker" nooooooo

[Crocadrilla]

I'd rather no Stalker than a western developed Stalker....It's post USSR Eastern Europe personified (gameified?)...so cold and empty and drab...yet the people trying to get by anyway, singing and drinking at campfires and such.

[zakynthos]

Only a Russian or Ukrainian or polish developer could do the stalker franchise any justice.

Kudos to Vostok games for developing Survivarium though.

[steve_rogers42]

i think the guys that made the witcher should have picked it up :3

Also +1 to xray, but if its not possible, then Cryengine 3

[Thee_Stretchy]

He was a good STALKER lets drink to him