What are your thoughts about GSC Game World?

**Regeneration** · April 14th, 2007, 03:53 PM

You probably saw the latest articles about stolen materials from HL2/D3 inside STALKER. Do you think they really stole it? Personally, I’m not sure about it, but something is indeed wrong in GSC. One time I played one of their games (Heroes of Annihilated Empires) and it looked like a lame version of WarCraft 3. So my final question - do you think they are guilty? or not? and why.

IModAmd · April 14th, 2007, 03:58 PM

I think They are not guilty ! ... well.... it's can be just an error ... or maybe the guy do the textures are the same than d3/hl2 ! WE dont know !

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Mac Daddy · April 15th, 2007, 12:47 AM

Lets face it guys in this day and age someone has created something the same as someone else. I think this whole issue is a load of bullshite started by a bunch of people who need a hobby or need to get laid

I am working on a project based on a riff I wrote in 1991 on the guitar. Bands including Slayer have released songs with a similar riff but did I sue them ??

Anyone get my point ??

gen.Rage1991hrv · April 15th, 2007, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

I think this whole issue is a load of bullshite started by a bunch of people who need a hobby or need to get laid

yes you have point

but when you look closely you will see that every game have something from other game
like scenario , gameplay and rest of shit
but whay did hl2 put sdk??? if they dont wonth that someone use it??? lol
like Mac sad it "this whole issue is a load of bullshite"

Amana · April 15th, 2007, 06:55 AM

1. no doubt stalker is a great game, mostly if you have an über equipment to play it, and it doesn't remind (resemble?) me - in all aspects I could think - other title. I played DOOM3 (argh, what a mistake, spent my money) and HL2 (THIS is a great game), they are still installed in another PC, and it's quite difficult to me see any texture that is *absolutely* equal. The water is similar, but it is so inserted in different ambiences that I really doubt someone could say anything, without extracting (is this correct?) the correspondent file to compare.

2. pple in gsk forum (the insiders/residents) tend to think 2 things: the 1rst, like Mac Daddy said; the second, "bah, this is an 'western x eastern' issue", something like "this is hypocrisy, so no one (and we aren't saying developers did) in the 'west' side do things alike, huh?"

To have a complete opinion, I probably would need to understand how a texture like the ones which have been questioned is done, how people in this industry deal with ideas, etc... nope. Forget it, in my very little knowledge about all this I can only state one thing: STALKER is a good game, and will remain installed and randomly played in my "background" PC until I have a brand new video card to ultimate my new rig.

Dyre Straits · April 15th, 2007, 08:33 AM

I've only played a little of the demo for STALKER and MY first thought was: I've seen this game before -- F.E.A.R.!! Well, it does also have some similarity to HL2, which I've completed and played at least a couple of times.

But, that's beside the point I want to make. Here's my point: With Microsoft and others releaseing the game development TOOLS to the public with which to create games, how in the world will people avoid similarities??? There's no way! All that can be done is to try to make the experience different enough that you don't actually feel like you're playing a copycat game.

I don't really have an educated opinion on whether anyone stole anything from the other games for STALKER, but, I wouldn't be in shock to find out that there may have been things that were intentionally included. Think of it this way: How many TV programs, Movies, etc, have you ever seen where someone did a 'send up' of another program? I'm even seeing comic strip writers referring to other comic strips and using characters from the other strips these days.

I can only imagine that it would be deemed 'illegal' if the 'copying' is done without express and written permission or with a very transparent intent to simply show 'honor' to the other content.

Well, there's my two-cents worth and a little more.

IModAmd · April 15th, 2007, 08:20 PM

Maybe they use the same things from 1 company ! We dont know but ... is just an idiot thing ... 3-4 things copied why sue them?i Played to stalker ... and D3 and Hl2 and i check really harder and i see an difference !