sadness....

there's a game in dev called Survarium that's supposed to come out 2013 but im not sure if its going to be available state side

Bethesda?
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07 ... galyonkin/

no not entirely so far what Bethesda wants to do is buy the IP but this is in hopes to lower competition with their own fallout. many companies have done this. and Survarium is not in canon with stalker but its essentially the same thing.

Fallout is nothing like Stalker. I can't see them as competitors.

[/quote]Fallout is nothing like Stalker. I can't see them as competitors.[/quote]

well yes to us but then again the marketing team at bethesda sued mojang (company behind minecraft) because of their game scrolls sounds like elder scrolls. so i wouldn't underestimate the legal team.

That sort of thing isn't unusual and is an unfortunate consequence of the way trademark law works. In the US at least, if you don't defend a trademark, you run the risk of losing it. Because of this, often companies will go after anything that seems like even the most remote risk of infringement.

Anyway, getting back to the main topic, Bethesda has been known for actually using the licenses they acquire, and STALKER does have elements in common with the sorts of games Bethesda has been known to make. So I think if Bethesda were to acquire the license, they'd likely use it. Of course, right now that's just rumor. The license could turn up anywhere--or nowhere at all.

I wouldn't mind if they casualized STALKER just a little bit~

I'd have been happy if the weapons in STALKER were more effective. Something that bothered me with STALKER was that I was having to dump full magazines into just about anything in order to kill it. By going with unrealistically low damage, I found I needed to carry much more ammo than what would have been realistic in real life. Since STALKER had a relatively realistic encumbrance system, having my inventory cluttered with unrealistic quantities of ammo forced me into making difficult decisions about supplies that I shouldn't have had to make.

I agree. Perhaps it is the mod I used, but SoC felt at least a little bit better in this regard than CS. Even with mutants, it feels like a whole clip is way too much. When you get hit though, you get hit for a lot.