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STALKER Update

by Matt on June 1st, 2006

A while ago I posted about this game. And since then it hasn’t had the best of progress. But AtomicMPC has an article giving us the “truth behind STALKER“.

STALKER, like so many other games, promised a lot and is now failing to deliver. Or atleast, taking back what they promised. THQ brought in some new guy to light the fire under people’s asses apparently and get the show back on the road. Oh..yeah..and he’s also scrapping parts of the game and changing other things here and there.

‘This is an example of a little bit of how the game has changed over the year,’ said Sharpe. ‘You wouldn’t have [this] type of thing in the game before - it was completely open-ended. So now we’ve added scripted events to make sure you can actually follow the story.’

Alright!! It goes from being completely open-ended to now having scripted events to push you along into the next “open-ended” area. Well whatever. I’ve found that apathy has begun to set in more and more often nowadays until games actually get released and reviewed.

Let them make their changes, bring in their specialists, cut out those elements, and just do whatever. In the end we’ll find out if it was for the best or not. People can waste their time getting all angsty about it or they can just sit back and see what the result is.

You never know, all these radical gameplay and game mechanic changes could make everything the most awesome-est thing evAr.

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