Comments on: Those Who Survived Tuesday? Metro 2033 Is Back

By: jonelo

jonelo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:56:10 +0000

The game is made by the author of the engine of STALKER and the chief designer of STALKER

By: Chis

Chis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:46:09 +0000

Supposedly this is by some of the team that worked on the original Stalker, members of GSC that left before the rest worked on Clear Sky.

It shows. It looks like it’ll be everything Clear Sky isn’t. Dark, tense, claustrophobic, chilling, creative, and – crucially, unlike Fallout 3 – INSPIRED.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:51:27 +0000

Why are Russians so bleak?

Oh, right.

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:12:19 +0000

Hmm. Am I just crazy or did some of those locations look a bit more detailed and interesting in the old trailer?

Anyway: I haven’t read the novel, but the trailer kind of gives the impression that most of the people underground get wiped out, leaving YOU as the only hope for going above-ground and achieving some tremendous goal.

By: an ape

an ape — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:56:58 +0000

I wouldn’t say that he didn’t take the source material seriously, but rather that he took his goal for making Stalker so seriously that he had to purge out all other elements.

I remember reading about him wanting to make a timeless, genre-less film that would have tremendous impact. Well, bravo Tarkovsky, you did it and what a beauty it is.

By: Mr.President

Mr.President — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:30:03 +0000

I didn’t think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the game was really based on Stalker the movie or Roadside Picnic, though?

You are right, it just borrowed/plagiarised a lot of stuff. It’s just kind of sad that GSC chose to copy the style, but ignore the substance.

By: roryok

roryok — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:20:56 +0000

Do those monsters remind anybody else of Cyril Sneer from The Raccoons?

http://www.bobpitch.com/anon/deathrow_tull_The_Raccoons-Cyril_Sneer_smirking.jpg

YES! =)))

By: roryok

roryok — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:20:05 +0000

I dunno about this one. Two years in development and they couldn’t throw together a new Alpha Demo? Not to mention a new voice-over. “the world with no-place for the mankind”. Indeed.

I also can’t help but notice that the frame-rate has gotten laggy after 2 years of development. It seems like all they did was tweak the lighting and add in a few more people.

By: Pod

Pod — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:32:15 +0000

Darkens? SOUNDS RACIST!!1

I wonder how much of those vids are “ingame”? I mean, clearly it’s some kind of pre-recorded camera path/demo jobbie, but are humans controlling the people, especially when you imbody it, or is it NPC Ai, or is it some form of scripted AI, etc etc etc?

Still, looks cool…wonder what’s taking them so long?

By: pepper

pepper — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:59:19 +0000

Nice, i like how this looks! Although i think the older movie looked better, im no fan off all those movie filters.

By: aldo_14

aldo_14 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:55:56 +0000

One of the reasons I didn’t like Stalker was the way GSC treated the source material. Game developers should just stay away from the classics unless they can take them seriously.

I didn’t think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the game was really based on Stalker the movie or Roadside Picnic, though?

By: Muzman

Muzman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:38:29 +0000

Arguably Tarkovsky didn’t take it seriously either, demanding rewite after rewrite until all that was left was the Zone and the Wish Granter.