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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 7:00
by News Reader
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves
Via Kotaku an Inquirer article reports that, despite earlier claims to the contrary, it looks like the folks behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title are not guilty of art theft. It seems both Half-Life 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use textures from a pack produced by Marlin Studios. The similarities are there because both teams used pre-canned materials for their titles, not because of any tom-foolery on the part of GSC GameWorld.
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Posted: April 19th, 2007, 11:01
by FatherJack
It's not like they'd
deliberately steal from another game.
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 11:08
by Dog Pants
Wasn't one of the big things about Stalker that they'd been to Chernobyl to photograph stuff for textures?
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 11:11
by Dr. kitteny berk
Dog Pants wrote:Wasn't one of the big things about Stalker that they'd been to Chernobyl to photograph stuff for textures?
Yeah, but they bought an alpha for water and a light texture with imp in the name.
The water matched one of the (10 or so) that was used in hl2.
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 11:48
by mrbobbins
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:The water matched one of the (10 or so) that was used in hl2.
Who on earth would notice that
Get a life people, stop staring at water in games and shoot stuff*
*Not real life stuff though, they don't liek that
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 13:02
by fabyak
So now you have all playtested it for me, is it worth me buying S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 13:03
by Dr. kitteny berk
Steal it and see if you like it.
if you do, buy it.
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 13:07
by spoodie
fabyak wrote:So now you have all playtested it for me, is it worth me buying S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Depends. It's far from perfect but if you like the idea of wandering around a desolate and atmospheric game world with some interesting AI then you'll probably like it.
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 13:08
by fabyak
It does appeal to me and was pretty much set on buying it, I was just going to see if anyone had any raging complaints that I had missed
*mutes chicken*
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 13:11
by Dr. kitteny berk
I think spoodie summed it up well.
Very pretty, very interesting, Fairly buggy in places
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 16:21
by Sheriff Fatman
spoodie wrote:
Depends. It's far from perfect but if you like the idea of wandering around a desolate and atmospheric game world with some interesting AI then you'll probably like it.
This. I didn't really like the look of it from all the stuff I saw before release and was quite prepared not to like it. In the end, I enjoyed it.