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The game has an interesting "meta" aspect because it incorporates the Chernobyl disaster into its storyline, twenty years after after the Chernobyl workers inco
by xsmasher 5y ago
The game has an interesting "meta" aspect because it incorporates the Chernobyl disaster into its storyline, twenty years after after the Chernobyl workers incorporated the novel and movie into their mythology. Real "art imitates life imitates art" stuff.
- gear54rus 5y agoI don't understand why people associate Roadside Picnic with Chernobyl and what happenned there.. Is it only because of the game and its similarities to both novel and movie?
- xsmasher 5y agoNo. The cleanup workers after the Chernobyl accident noted the similarities between their "Exclusion zone" and the zone in the book and movie, and some started calling themselves stalkers. A dangerous zone, controlled by the government where only certain people are allowed to go, filled with invisible dangers. The game just expanded that connection, mashing up Chernobyl history and Stalker/Picinic details, and brought it to the western gamer audience. If part of Australia was overrun by biker gangs I'm sure people would start calling it the Max Max zone. Same thing.