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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves

Posted by Zonk on from the in-the-clear dept.

Via Kotaku an Inquirer article reports that, despite earlier claims to the contrary, it looks like the folks behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title are not guilty of art theft. It seems both Half-Life 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use textures from a pack produced by Marlin Studios. The similarities are there because both teams used pre-canned materials for their titles, not because of any tom-foolery on the part of GSC GameWorld.

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  1. Damnit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    I bought all 38 copies of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. from the local Best Buy thinking it'd be a good investement.

  2. Re:Good thing by RedElf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know, we could make a jump to conclusions matt...

    On a related note to the article, this is good news.

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  3. Re:In the minds of the consumer by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    just as unoriginal aesthetically as the other major players.

    Nah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s dark brown halls look much nicer than DOOM 3's dark brown halls.

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  4. Re:In the minds of the consumer by Volante3192 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Exactly. Time spent creating Unique_Wall_Texture_37 takes time from creating Unique_Mob_Texture.

    I mean, I know every time I go through Half-Life 2, I spent hours looking at wall textures wondering how each would look as wallpaper for my room. I could care less about the striders, the bugs, Dog or Alyx.

  5. WE ALL KNOW what stalker stands for by GonzoTech · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stealing Theiving Appropriating Looting Kleptomanias Extortion R... ER... wait.. doh!

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  6. The perfect poster for STALKER? by myspys · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or maybe anti-Stalker

    http://www.starfild.pri.ee/pildid/ajaviide/imagepa ges/image270.html

  7. Re:In the minds of the consumer by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... they're not thieves, just as unoriginal aesthetically as the other major players.

    Yes, because games sharing the textures for some of their lamps are then all junk. :-s

    Give me aesthetically innovative lamp textures, goddammit!

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  8. Re:I like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Really, a few good chair models is all we need. Don't worry. I hear that Ballmer of Microsoft is planning on cornering this market.
  9. Pff, so the STALKER dev team's innocent... by CaseM · · Score: 3, Funny

    But someone ought to take a good look at Marlin Studios. Apparently some of their textures were lifted straight from HL2!