S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (series)/Trivia


  • Banned in Russia: Reportedly, the Russian government was considering on banning S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 not only from store shelves but from being played by gamers in the country, even going so far as to filing criminal charges against those in possession of the game on perceived grounds of promoting "terrorism", never mind the fact that GSC (and Ukraine in general) went through literal hell and back for them to stand up against a Russian despot and his so-called "special military operation". It could be seen as a tit-for-tat response to Atomic Heart being banned by Ukrainian authorities on political grounds.
  • Development Hell: First game, whose original subtitle was Oblivion Lost. No less than six years. Calling Stalker "ЖДАЛКЕР" (translation: WAITER) became an Internet meme itself. Astonishingly, when it hit store shelves, it was still an Obvious Beta.
  • Life Imitates Art: Illegal tourists of the IRL Chernobyl disaster area are called "Stalkers".
  • Sequel Gap: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was released in 2024, fifteen years after Call of Pripyat following a long and protracted development cycle.
  • Vaporware: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. A full sequel to Shadow of Chernobyl, was announced in 2010. Not much is known what it would have, as in early 2012 it was put on "indefinite hold" as GSC was forced to close down due to massive financial issues. GSC has since reopened, though there's been no word about the game's status for a while until they resumed development in 2018, only for Vladimir Putin's regime to wage a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 which complicated matters even further.
    • No longer true, as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was finally released in 2024, fifteen years after Call of Pripyat.
  • What Could Have Been: The original game, then titled Oblivion Lost, took place in a futuristic Mayincatec setting before GSC retooled it as a loose adaptation of Roadside Picnic after a chance visit to Chernobyl in 2004.
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