Wille on 9/4/2007 at 11:10
Quote Posted by belboz
But those pictures are normals for bump maps and may have been around for a lot longer than you think, you can find those normals in most 3-d games that use bump maps, so they may have originated from the same source, eg like an independant graphics company that sell the bump map normals to other companies in the game industry. I think I've seen some of those bump maps in the assets file for maya, and 3d-max.
Exactly. Many of the sounds in Stalker are used in other games too, just like some movies use the same old screaming sounds :p. So nothing new here really ;).
242 on 9/4/2007 at 12:06
yes, but it was widely known here from the start of developent. The game's inspired by "Roadside Picnic" and Tarkowsky's "Stalker" (which is screen adaptation of "Roadside Picnic").
june gloom on 9/4/2007 at 13:07
speaking of the tarkovsky film, i just watched it a couple of days ago and i can easily say it's well worth the money. very introspective and atmospheric. even though tarkovsky made his money on extremely long panning shots, the movie doesn't seem like 3 hours. if you're the kind of person with an attention span only for action movies i can't see you enjoying this, but if you like more cerebral fare this might be right up your alley.
Trappin on 10/4/2007 at 04:28
No acknowledgment is given to Arkady and Boris Strugatsky on the stalker game CD credits. Am I castigating the THQ/GMS folks for using such a cool theme? no. Do I hate them with every fiber of my being? no. I do expect people to jump to conclusions, this is the internets after all.
I'm a bit put off that no credit is given where credit is due. I'm talking about real credit here, not the text of a dev chat posted at some gaming site.
Can anyone imagine A.C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick or Ray Bradbury getting stiffed like that?
Pyrian on 10/4/2007 at 04:42
Quote Posted by Trappin
Can anyone imagine A.C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick or Ray Bradbury getting stiffed like that?
Well, yes, easily. Should almost every Fantasy game ever written credit Tolkien? I'm not saying they shouldn't, but it might be a little silly.
Muzman on 10/4/2007 at 05:30
Well, the fantasy genre is pretty large and unweildy. The 'guys called Stalkers wandering around an Exclusion Zone looking for weird artifacts and avoiding anomalies' genre is somewhat smaller.
(btw, if Arthur C Clarke finds any of his ideas or even quotes in your game he'll sue your ass)
242 on 10/4/2007 at 08:50
Quote Posted by dethtoll
speaking of the tarkovsky film, i just watched it a couple of days ago and i can easily say it's well worth the money. very introspective and atmospheric. even though tarkovsky made his money on extremely long panning shots, the movie doesn't seem like 3 hours. if you're the kind of person with an attention span only for action movies i can't see you enjoying this, but if you like more cerebral fare this might be right up your alley.
If you liked it, I recommend to watch also another his classic - Solaris. It's introspective and panoramic too, but considerably more 'pop' and general public percieve it more easily. Still art-house though.
Vivian on 10/4/2007 at 09:33
Ok, if you guys have seen Stalker as well maybe you can answer this - what the fuck was that bit with the owl?
Rogue Keeper on 10/4/2007 at 10:07
Quote Posted by Muzman
btw, if Arthur C Clarke finds any of his ideas or even quotes in your game he'll sue your ass
Many old ideas of sci-fi-fantasy writers have become so commonly used and plagiated to the point that it's hard to prove whether it's plagiarism or mere slight reference/hommage. Outright quotations are different issue.
Otherwise these writers and directors would have nothing better to do than suing each other over and over again.
Kudos, the Stalker movie is gold, certainly one of the best Soviet movies made. Unbelievable how it anticipated and portrayed a real abandoned dangerous "Zone" which has risen few years later.
I have to look out for the book somewhere.
Vivian on 10/4/2007 at 10:56
Whoa, wait. Were both roadside picnic and stalker made before chernobyl happened? Holy shit, the book at least was! Wow, that is amazing.
