Metro Exodus

I hope it stays like this going forward, never liked the dark ones side of the game anyway...

also the source material ends in year 2035 and exodus is in 2036 and also the darkie one child is fanfic

>the destruction of heaven/hell
did I miss something?

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Did you not play the first game? There are ghosts everywhere. Some people think it's because heaven and hell were filled up after the war, some people think everyone is actually dead and the metro is purgatory, etc.

wouldn't the best way to focus on the metaphysical be the bad ending or another character since the good ending felt like the story was over

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It's been close to a decade since 2033 came out man, I forgot. I assume most that super natural shit was radiation messing with their brains

Bad ending turns your game to metamagicalphsycs side stuff and good ending gives you far cry
pick your poison

>took the valve to the last area like a retard
>mfw Miller gives me the railgun attachment for the pneumatic gun

She literally carries the game and it makes it a 10/10 instead of a 8/10

in the bad ending artyom got off the death train something that you apparently cant do according to khan

Why is 2033 still not on kindle?

Most of it sure, but there's definitely some unexplainable heaven/hell stuff going on in the first game, and the first 2 are full of ghost and weird paranormal experiences.

I liked it. Made the world feel really hostile and lonely. I hope they focus in on that. They lost a lot of the charm in Exodus. It was a good game but it felt more like Fallout and Mad Max than Metro.

>sneaking around Volga
>draw the attention of two mutants
>kill them
>three more hear the shots start running toward me
>fuuuuuuck
>take off sprinting
>ground fucking collapses
>hi anna
Fucking kino, also Volga makes me wish for Stalker in this engine

Did you not explore?

Publishing issue. Glukhovsky mentioned a while back on his social media pages that the publisher for the book has issues with the Kindle Marketplace and nothing will budge.
He's self publishing his next book, at least.

>tfw no russian waifu to scout the nuclear wasteland with
why are we even here just to suffer lads?

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You either didn't play the game or didn't bother exploring the map. One of the first houses you can explore has literal ghosts just like the previous metros.

Y'all patted your waifu too?

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Thank goodness for pirating.

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I NEED to lick her asshole after being sweating a lot on caspian sea sun

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So which STALKER game is the best?
And did they fix Lost Alpha?

Holy fuck the Aurora is comfy, it's reawakened my love of trains entirely.
>standing in the snow in front of the locomotive, watching occasional puffs of steam from the cylinders and belches of smoke and cinders from the funnel
>snow flurries dancing in the headlight
>standing in the "bridge", hearing the omnipresent hiss of steam through old pipes, practically feeling the warmth rising from the glow of the stokehold below, along with the faint voices of the mechanics working below

Based. Anna scenes are especially comfy

Slavic story powers ultra instinct limit broke in Exodus.

I accidentally skipped the winter train-riding section right before the Volga. Did I miss any good boy points, or can I just watch it on Youtube? I didn't realize what I missed at first, and now I can't go back without overwriting quite a bit of progress.

It also has lethal radiation. Can't stay there for more than 30 secs without dying.

>no battle between fully armored aurora with turrets against another train or giant mutant
Upsetting

I can't find anything about this Mercenaries DLC mentioned at the end of the article.
Interesting read, regardless.

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decently sure who you kill or dont kill has more impact than listening to conversations

Interesting. Do you know what his next book is?

>put the giant fucking plow on the front of the train, complete with waist high metal plating and open spots to shoot from
>game ends
they kinda blew their load with the only train fight being in the beginning of the game

Just finished
Everything past caspian felt rushed, the 2 actual sandbox levels were unsurprisingly boring as fuck because that's what open worlds do to a game. Got the good ending, ranger hardcore.

how are the sales for this one?

An open world, horror-centric Metro set in Moscow could be rad.

How much does this fucjing game take place in the damn desert and does the game end in the damn desert?

All russien women have aids of some form and are drug riddled sluts, do not bother.

>east german that lived in moscow and other parts of russia for thirty years.

youve got 2 more maps though they arent as big. deserts the midpoint of the game.

Explain what takes up the majority of the game then because i fucjing hate desert levels and reminds me of that stupid story arc from battlefield one "MUH ARABIAN STRONK WOMEN" shit...

The Chinese overlords are pleased, rest easy, faithful drone.

You can clear the Desert part real quick. I spent the most time on the first map, it all depends on how much you want to look around really.

i didn't buy this one. just asking, since i'm not downloading the fucking Epic Cancer launcher.

This. 20 dollar game at most.

deserts the longest. probably a third of the game. volga would be a fourth.
once you leave the desert no more open world.

>single
There's 2 and one of them is very clearly a squatting baby dark one
And no, I don't mean the Caspian desert easter egg

first game was so fucking good
ive never played a more half life but more metal game ever
was so disappointed with the "redux" which was just a fucking console port
so sad that "improvements" must come with such high disregard for quality
First still has my fondest memories of a stealth mission since forever.
Dropping from the underside of that cart, and sneaking up past commies/nazis(same shit really)
Popping dynamite into their carts as they arrive, Sneaking past a buncha dudes pumping the the pnumetic rifle or w/e the ballshooter was called.
Reloading from start of the mission to experience all the different routes, even tho the entire level is basically just one Huge shaft with wooden bridges and a deep deep tunnel.
was really disappointed that they "improved" the stealth mechanics seen in casual titles like ubishits far cry

It did well according to some UK physical sales statistic, sold more copies than previous Metro. No one is going to tell you the sales on Epic Store because Epic is not that nice to publish them.

How much do you get to be on the snow area which is the normal metro before you are thrown into some buttfucj afrika/middle east desert shitland map that makes metro feel not metro anymore?

>try patting her a second time
>she gets all animated while talking about muh surface
>Artyom pauses and doesn’t pat

good job reading the mood artyoom

end of the game is a return to a metro and above ground city. roughly 3 times the length of the bunker shooting gallery.
id say a fourth of the game feels like old metro. its pretty spread out youve got the very start and the very end.

>UK sales
So look up the previous UK sales for the context. 10k instead of 5k is more for example.

if you want aids sure

>blow up train in the intro level
>go to high five a dude but he doesn't see
>awkwardly shrug hand away and they anna runs in to hug you

Is artyom autistic?

>starts badmouthing people who didn't believe in life on surface like she wasn't on your ears 24/7 telling you to drop your retarded dream until like a month ago
>artyom stands up and leaves instead of putting up with this bullshit anymore
>he has a retarded father-in-law that got tricked by inbred cannibals some hours ago to listen to instead
god bless interactivity

Yes
>always spills spaghetti and never talks to others but can talk to himself just fine

How shitty will this game be if I buy it on xbox one?

She readily admits that she was wrong for doubting him and her excitement is more than his.

>playing an immersive FPS on a console
I mean do you, user. If you don't have a PC I guess it's your only choice.

I do but there is no way I can run it on my PC. I may just wait it out until I upgrade.

is the game really only the swamp/snow area, the bunker, and the dessert?

Yes. There are only five levels. It's a very short game.

There are 2 more areas after the desert

holy shit thank god there are 2 levels more, i only heard that are three. this open world shit sucks, yet it is somehow better then far cry, which has like 10 iterations.

I hope the last 2 are military zones, fuck this open empty world meme

>kill bandits, save game do other shit, next main quest mission bandits be black.

theres a forest its short then you go back to a metro but thats short too.
majority of the game is volga and caspian. you could speedrun em and make it short. the largest chunk of the game is desert if you explore it

They're not military zones.

>I hope the last 2 are military zones, fuck this open empty world meme
hehehehe
HEHEHEHEHE

Just replay the first 2 to hype you up.

They're better games anyways.

>no "after this there is no return dialogue"
>didn't explore volga
>only went to the 2 outpost, met the based non cultist dad by the teddy bear.

feels bad..

last light is trash

But what happened to the aliens? They were such huge parts of the first two games that's it's weird that they're absent

you can replay chapters

can i overwrite killing people too?

One of the characters directly says that once you find the rail cart there won't be any more time to fuck around. It's easy to miss though.

How is life in Russia? Is it the shithole that we see on the dash cams or is there something worth while in there?

They fucked off elsewhere because they don't want to get nuked again.

>last desert mission
>walking up to barons office
>told there is a harem on the way
>ohboyjigglebonesahead.jpg
>knock out the asshole about to beat the slave
>phew, no firefight
>knock out the asshole beating the woman
>time to go loud I guess
>walk past stripper-less stripper poles while gunning
>oh man, I probably scared them off with the gunshots in the previous room
>get up to baron's suite
>another firefight, yadda yadda, end scene
>look up playthrough on youtube
I fucking missed seeing tiddies on my first playthrough because I helped someone. What kind of player reward system is that god dammit?

its safe to assume they are all dead and humanity won.
yay for bad ends.
probably the only difference is instead of all dying at d6 like in bad end ll the few survivors surrendered or retreated.

They're not ayys

user, the good ending in LL is canon, otherwise Artyom and everyone else from the main cast would be fucking dead.

Volga just screams stalker

If it's cannon... Why did Anna end up having Artyoms child in the metro compared to what happened in Exodus?

like i said they just change it a bit. it doesnt make that much sense if darkones saved them. if that happened sparta would still control d6 and have enough power to not be absorbed by hansa. artyom makes his mad trips to the surface mostly out of guilt over having killed all the dark ones desperately trying to find any life outside the metro.

Because they don't understand why Metro is good.

What? That is only mentioned in the bad ending

>open world
>horror
Why do retards think this works?

>Why did Anna end up having Artyoms child in the metro compared to what happened in Exodus?
Because that was also in the bad ending? Have you even seen the good ending?

Why are you making up convoluted headcanon just to kill off the dark ones when nothing in the good ending contradicts anything from Exodus?

I forgot what the good ending was until I rewatched it now.

have you ever played Stalker?

>best
SoC
>LA
no it's still shit

>On the subreddit

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Does anyone else have issues running this game? First I've had stutters every time a new level loaded, prompting me to restart the game to fix it. Now I've reached the dead city and it's locked at 40 frames underground, even if I set it to low. It's like the game starts breaking down the more I play it, because it runs at smooth 60 otherwise.

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It's completely fucked over here and surprising to say that it was actually not this bad when the USSR was around but after it fell it went to shit very fast. My parents moved over to russia and chsnged names to avoid being hunted down for being germans and they fled from germany due ti fears of being slaughtered by the allies after the war was over and were afraid that the allied nations would hunt down and kill all germans and believed the best chance in surviving was to flee to russia and pretend to be russians to stay under the radars.

I left russia long time ago but the moment it was no longer ussr is when the rampant drug abuse went higher than the United States suburbs and the crime shot up higher than detroit combined and honestly there is not much difference made exceot now you have drug addicts, criminals, degradation of the nation and the love and patriotism erroding into abyse. The worst part is that the russians do not miss the ussr because of communism but they miss the ussr because despite stalin and the corruption, there was a sense of community and there was a real drive abd determination for future and inspiration of progress typically speaking. Pretty much it was not as shit as it is now and today russia makes the former russia look good and the love and human nature do not exist especially in russia and everyone is out for themselves now.

It is literally a free for all right now over there.

>It's completely fucked over here and surprising to say that it was actually not this bad when the USSR was around
It's nice to know you haven't visited Russia since the 90's

USSR --> lawless shitshow of violence, drugs and crime --> oligarchic mafia state.

A lot of Russians today only support the mafia state BECAUSE it reminds them of the USSR, not because they prefer it to the USSR.

All the ghosts died.

I was around it at the time and it sucked as well but it sucks alot more now and it just isn't censored now, it's romanticized as hell.

How does that have any relevance to what I said? Your entire post is a fanfic

>How does that have any relevance to what I said?
I assumed you were trying to point out that Russia has improved since the immediate post-Soviet years. Which it has. But the nostalgia for the USSR remains, and you shouldn't confuse support for the current regime as a shift away from that nostalgia when the mafia state's support is partially rooted in leveraging that nostalgia.

what exactly is "it", comrade?
Are you not glad you can post in Yea Forums without being monitored?

>On the subreddit
CRINGE. How about you don't bring reddit trash here? We don't WANT it and we don't NEED it, Yea Forums is Yea Forums, its Yea Forums, and its not reddits dumping ground, could you FUCK OFF and go back? You newfags are ruining this place.

Why are they trying so fucking hard to make me like Anna? Seriously. Having characters go out of their way to fucking slob your knob just so you feel bad when something awful happens to them is so fucking annoying. The second they had her cough the entire fucking maneuver so was so transparent it was insulting. If you're going to force some pathos, at least do it well. I felt roughly ten times worse about the Kid with the dead dad then I ever felt about anna because they tried to push it so fucking hard.

Constant close-up shots, "darling, dear, Arty~~~om" and endless talking about how much she loves the walking personality void that is the main character is so, so awful. If they bothered to voice Artyom and actually give him some personality then maybe I could have bought it, but my god the fact that everyone is so clearly talking to ME and trying to get ME to like them just makes me roll my eyes until they pop out from my fucking skull.

At least Krest makes me like him by telling me amusing anecdotes about his past with some personality to them. The Admiral had more personality in his fucking parrot than Anna has in the entire 2 hours they have you listen to her monologue.

Also, the fact that the games have entirely ditched most of the moral/stealth pacifist viable aspect for traditional COD "gun down these irredeemably evil people" is just the nail in the coffin.

Also, at a certain point, do Bandits stop being Bandits when they become the majority of the population?

Dead City > Volga >> Forest Taiga > Swamp Taiga >>>>>>> Caspian

Holy shit Caspian was such a fucking mess. Millions of markers for shitty enemy spawn points the contain loot you already have. They needed to stretch out the gear drops for the whole game.

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Calm down incel.

>the mafia state's support is partially rooted in leveraging that nostalgia
Yeah that's true and probably the main reason Russia is still a relative shithole, but still, it's not some sort of mad max "walk into an alleyway, get stabbed immediately" shithole like the guy above was implying
The fanfic part was addressed to the post I was replying to, since I thought you were the same guy, by the way

I could give a shit less about this place and the only reason i come here is because the rest of the internet sucks regarding media. Also we are always being monitored so it doesn't matter where you are at because sites are all monitored. I simply stated that russia right now is a hell hole and do not bother with women here because you will either get some disease or rash on your junk and of your lucky you may just get stabbed in the junk and your money stolen. I moved out of russia a long time ago and thankfully left because it don't look like it is getting better anyway.

Just a cold wet isolated hell of a country.

>personality void that is the main character is so
Why the fuck is he a silent protag? Makes no sense, he even fucking voices the diary entries. Game would have been 200% better with him voiced.

nice, cool, and good. enjoyed. lot of cut content though, and a lot of dead end minor plot points that were just mentioned and never picked up.

Actually if you want to experience that then simply go over to either serbia or go over to the cities that are close by to Chernobyl

Last Light, quite blatantly, picks up from the first games bad end.

The story between Stepan and Katya was heartwarming. The Anna story is annoying specifically because it's so blatantly manipulative. If anything, they're trying to corner the incel market through waifu simulations. The Last of Us, or other equally pathos-driven games, at least have the excuse of allowing the Main Character to be their own person rather than blatantly trying to get the player to self-insert.
My only explanation can be that they're trying to get the player to insert themselves in, which was handled in a fucking atrocious manner.

>METRO 2034 books around every fucking corner

cmon now

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What the fuck does the first game's canon end have to do with this

A woman from Hungary told me Russians all have baby faces.
Is that true?

It was so goddamn weird to have people talk to Artyom like he's a human being. At one point they even mention he's quiet, so you can't even assume he's doing it while the player can't hear. What the fuck is the point of characters interacting with him? The game has some god tier aesthetic, but the writing is some of the worst shit I've seen.

Why did your parents leave germany?

What if Artyom's a mute?

He talks to his whole crew once in the good end.

Stalker could have been a horror game if it had tried, and an open world metro would be no different.

It depends on the location you live at. When i used to live in moscow you had a mixture of people that look like they been in the basement for far too long and dont have any pigment in their skin or they look like they trudged through sewege for months but somehow don't smell like shit. The expressions are usually similar to Putin's face with the index of the nose and the angular shape of the hesd then in some regions of russia you have people that look either fucking young like teenage year while being fucking thirty or you got ancient style faces and you be surprised to hear that person is only fifty years old. Mostly in olaces closest to eastern europe look normally okayish if you ignore the scars and drug abuse and the dead expression in their faces. As for the baby face thing, it mainly regarding to younger people having that baby look but that goes away fast over time when you hit your mid twenties.

I just explained it, they did not want to get put in camps and killed for being germans by the allies according to their fears and thoughts after the war was overm

He clearly isn't. The game is retardedly set up as if he is talking. It honestly plays out like the fucking voice lines are missing.

What I don't understand is Metro 2033 didn't really have this problem, it was far less noticable.

>over.*

I fucking hate my samsung galaxy 3 but it been good for this long

>phone posters
get out

Only tech i was able to afford after leaving russia since pc are fucking expensive and forget about a shitty laptop. I could have got a phone from russia but i dont feel like having a flip phone for fuck sakes.

The original Metro 2033 remains an underappreciated classic, even on Yea Forums. Even the walking segments were god-tier.
>the various metro stations and their ambient chatter
>walking through the abandoned tunnel with Khan
>exploring D6
I mean, holy shit, has pure atmosphere ever elevated an otherwise unremarkable game so much?

>walking through the abandoned tunnel with Khan
>walks slower than you
Yeah no thanks

DId it even matter what order I cut the dead bodies down or ringing the bell?

I forget where, but one of the underground areas was especially weird with this. One of the guys is shouting over the radio for Artyom to respond and concluding that Artyom must not be able to hear him. Later on he reports that he can hear Artyom's transmissions again.
Without being able to hear Artyom talk it felt like he was intentionally ignoring the radio calls rather than his radio not being able to transmit. As the player there was really no way to make that conclusion until after the fact.

Yeah that shit was annoying. Even worse in D6, actually.

Playing Exodus felt way more like they made a stalker game than metro

I got the good end, but it doesn't directly show him talking to the crew. What if what we hear were his thoughts?

I'm playing through Last Light and I just got betrayed by Pavel. When the fuck do I stop getting held by the hand and start dealing with the bullshit on my own? It's such a fucking slog to sit there and wait for an NPC to slowly walk around talking nonsense.

You sit for tea right? U dumb virgin

what did he mean by this?

Sit down for tea and watch what happens.

im firing up Metro RIGHT NOW and i better see some SHIT going down

>hurr if you kill anyone you get the bad ending
No thanks

According to Khan, the nuclear war atomized even heaven/hell, rendering the dead of the Metro with nowhere else to go, hence all the spooky shit.

Sip tea, light a smoke and playing guitar while admiral talking to himself until he passed out. Truly kino.

God damn these endings are so boring, sad to see miller dead but i thought it would be something more.

Based. I sat through his rambling because I thought that was part of the mission.

>le radiation would make catfish the size of whales

le nice le bait

radiation just gives everything cancer then kills it, you need to suspend disbelief a bit

>a bit
is an understatement
Apparently all these mutant creatures, including the dark ones, spawned entirely within about a 20 year time frame.
At this point you'd be better off just calling it the FEV than radiation.

I don't think catfish even need radiation for that.

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Okay hold on for a minute. I'm going to say something crazy.

Maybe this game would have been better without combat. Just stealth and comfy instead. The gunplay was really sub-par and stealth kills are as OP as ever. Being a whirlwind of a death doesn't really fit the world either.

Especially for Exodus, It feels like it goes out of its way to say "oh we have to have you do this".

what world are you living in where the stealth is good and the gunplay is bad
it's the complete opposite

I'd say neither is amazing, but stealth is hilariously bad.

I wish the game had some secret soviet sci-fi shit like power armor or robots or secret space rocket programs or some shit.

i fucking hate that killing people that have no connection to anything changes the endings

The swole librarians with telepathic whispers kinda felt like a ripoff of Annihilation's bear.

I remember exploring a house in the Volga, and then it started storming and raining like crazy, shadow people started popping up in the building.

I think I was getting hurt so I jumped through a window or hole in the wall and got the fuck out of there. Kind of panicked a little

the storms are absolutely beautiful to just watch

Shadow people, "demons", and a vision of the past. Was there anything else?

Magic radiation drugs not enough for ya?

The mutant redesigns all look fucking awful, nosalises especially.

>spare everyone in the Volga but kill the tsar-fish
>no one even mentions the fish is dead
>on the train Duke brags about fighting the fish while I was sneaking through the bridge
Guess you're not supposed to mix good and bad. Which is kind of bullshit since killing the fish is the objectively correct choice.

I just want some cool stuff man they are going retarded might as well go all the way

The dark ones are aliens, nigger.

They, quite literally, are not.

Nigger they are clearly aliens, I bet you're just a retarded farm station nigger, get yourself an education.

Ia this some kind of advanced bait

So did you just not play the game or something?
Fuck you don't even have to read the books to know this shit.

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Triggered niggers, go back to your noname station and twang your guitars gutter trash. The dark ones are aliens.

Okay user, do you have any proof of your claims?

Look like aliens
Magic mind powers like aliens
Super speed like aliens
Came from nowhere like aliens
Nothing like any mutant

Aliens.

user that isn't proof of anything. It is just your fanfic theory to explain how bad the actual story of metro is.

They are aliens, we are done talking.

Well they MAY be aliens from Tadjikistan

But user, you are an alien

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>broken glass on the ground
>wow what a stupid fucking uninspired stealth mechanic

>bat bird things getting startled and flying off giving me away
>okay thats nice pretty standard though

>putting out large fires makes a FUCK TON of noise like a small diesel engine turning on
>I see why they did it, Ill take it

>loose metal doors on cars will slam open or shut if you graze them
>damn thats cool

>sneaky paths are littered with poor footing traps that break unless you act quickly
>more good shit keeping it interesting

And then it's all ruined by terrible AI that's blind as a bat and dumb as a rock. And ruined even further by stealth take downs.

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user, at one point in the book where a guy is talking about niggers Artyom thinks he's talking about The Dark Ones.
There's literally more proof that The Dark Ones are niggers than proof they're aliens.

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