Something beginning with S :)

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/9554/wide24rn.th.jpg (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wide24rn.jpg)
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Stalker?
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You know, I never could understand why everyone made such a big stink over HL2 being delayed less then a year when this game has already been delayed around two years and counting.
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How about... HL2 is a sequel and Stalker is a completely new IP? :wink:
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You know, I never could understand why everyone made such a big stink over HL2 being delayed less then a year when this game has already been delayed around two years and counting.

It was delayed a year from when Gabe said it would definatly be shipping. Most people consider it pretty delayed since long before that. Not a lot of people were expecting to have to wait 5/6 years for the sequel to Half-Life.

Valve and Gabe Newell would have been the vapourware laughing-stock of the gaming industry if it wasn't for Duke Nukem Forever and George Brussard making Valve look good by comparison. ;-)

Vaguely on-topic, that picture looks good, but also looks familiar - looks very much like Far Cry... I think once we start seeing faster 64 bit CPUs, PCs with 2 gig ram and R520/G70 class hardware, we'll see the CryEngine stretch it's legs, and then we'll realise how far ahead of it's time it really is.
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looks good... any more? :D
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Sure do.

Stalker never fails to impress me, simply put it looks photorealistic in motion. Zooming in on a far away object looks utterly realistic...

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1434/sshot27at.th.jpg (http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sshot27at.jpg)
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The character models better look on par with the environment. :wink:
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you think this game will be all dingy and dreary the whole way through? does time pass? weather? what's with the dingy dreary environments in practically everything? don't even monster infested areas have good weather sometimes?
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lovely :grin:
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you think this game will be all dingy and dreary the whole way through? does time pass? weather? what's with the dingy dreary environments in practically everything? don't even monster infested areas have good weather sometimes?


These questions directed to me?

If so, I was talking about quality...
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you think this game will be all dingy and dreary the whole way through?
Well, it IS russia after all... Isn't it sort of a requirement that the weather looks as rotten as everything else over there? :)

Someone posted a link to a nighttime movie, but it might be scripted like HL2 because enemies wear nightvision goggles in the cutscene. Then again, the game is supposed to be open-ended from what I've read, so the day/nighttime cycles should change automatically methinks.

Weather would be cool too, but I don't expect it. There isn't even weather changes in WoW... :)
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http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8154/ss61oa.th.jpg (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss61oa.jpg)
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bleh.... high res + low poly is tiring me :( enough with the flat or pointy heads! Is this even using stencil shadows? If not then, invest in some polygons!
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bleh.... high res + low poly is tiring me :( enough with the flat or pointy heads! Is this even using stencil shadows? If not then, invest in some polygons!

It looks great to me - three points on his head - not really bothered as long as he looks good,nor will the most of the "normal" gaming population IMO, but hey everyone has their standards ;)

I can't wait to see how the game plays.

If anything I'd like to see some more grass on the ground in the last screenshot.
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Well, chances are I won't even notice during gameplay, but right now I just find the model out of place considering the environment. :)
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STALKER is prolly only game i am really excited about.... it might bring new things to the genre if it deliveres on promises....
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http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8154/ss61oa.th.jpg (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss61oa.jpg)

Where are the guy's shadows?

Environments look killer but that fullbright model just made me cringe.
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