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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Using Unlicensed Assets From Doom 3?

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-serious-charge dept.

segafreak writes "ShackNews reports that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Shadow of Chernobyl may contain unlicensed assets from other commercial games such as Doom 3 and Half Life 2. Though this has yet to be confirmed by any of the developers involved, if true this would be somewhat worrying. 'Responding to inquiries made by Shacknews, id Software CEO Todd Hollshead stated: I've seen a post on a web forum that claims DOOM3 assets are used in another game, but we've been working hard on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars as well as our own internal project and have not had the time to fully investigate or otherwise verify that the claim is true. Only from what I've seen on the Web, it's concerning. However, it may turn out to be nothing.'"

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  1. Brown AND Gray! by jandrese · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG, that could be true. I'm pretty sure S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has brown walls too!

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    1. Re:Brown AND Gray! by operagost · · Score: 2, Funny

      But does it have crates?

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  2. Re:Specifically... by CAIMLAS · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, it would not be 'ironical'. It would be 'ironic'. Ironical is not a word.

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  3. Re:Specifically... by squiggleslash · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't it be ironical if the reason Stalker finally turned from vapourware into a real product is that they "borrowed" HL2 and D3 assets..

    Indeedy. Or it could be even more ironicalized, and a totally ironicalizational version of "Duke Nukem Forever" could be made using stolen components.

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  4. Re:Possibly not stolen by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 3, Funny

    Still, I've seen this getting a lot of coverage on the web and some people even insulting the developers saying things like "only russians steal".

    Yeah. GSC is Ukrainian!
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  5. Re:Procedural texture generation by C0rinthian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps the troll posts are generated procedurally?

  6. Possibly not stolen-BSDHolders. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I use the GPL as a placeholder.

  7. Finally! by Zhe+Mappel · · Score: 4, Funny

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is the mod that makes Doom 3 fun!

  8. Re:S.T.A.L.K.E.R. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Steal Textures And Later Kreate and Eventually Resell? You started out well... But unfortunately with one "and" used in the acronym and another not-used... It kinda killed it for me.

    Perhaps: Steal Textures, Abduct Lightmaps, Keep Extracted Resources?
  9. Re:Specifically... by Minwee · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's good. You just lie there and be ironical.