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[Metro Last Light] Teaser site Live. Ominous. Reveal is May 24
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Metro 2: Artyom's Pissed.
New Website is Live.
It's a sequel to that game you all have played and made comments towards its atmosphere and Russian-ness. The game has a vague 2012 release date so far but a steady stream of new information. For example...
12-minute gameplay demo just came out
The original Metro 2033 game is based on a novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky. As far as I know this game will branch off a bit from the printed follow-up, Metro 2034, as that book is less action oriented. I can't attest to this personally but then again I can't dispute it either.
In this world Russia lives in Metro stations as Russia is known for doing. Also they messed up the city pretty bad. Aside from the normal mutants, the world is now inhabited by Nazis AND Commies. It's a messed up world where everyone is trying to either kill a simple messenger or make him do all their leg work. It's a world where librarians are nowhere near as helpful as you would expect.
In both games you play as Artyom but that's all secondary to "Holy crap this subway has more variety and atmosphere than it has any right to" followed by "shit Moscow took a turn for the worse." While gazing at the scenery you may notice that you can no longer breathe the air, or possibly that a strange 8ft tall pig man is gnawing on you. You can spend your free time throwing pipe bombs with nails on them at strange winged beasts, leaving them in fear of you developing a bigger pipe with bigger nails in it.
Thread for Metro 2033
First time trying to start a thread so I'm sure It will have some birth pains, but I'll keep working on it as I find new things. I just couldn't stand there not being a thread for this game any longer. I'm sorry if there is one but the search box found nothing and going through pages and pages of threads didn't either.
New Website is Live.
It's a sequel to that game you all have played and made comments towards its atmosphere and Russian-ness. The game has a vague 2012 release date so far but a steady stream of new information. For example...
12-minute gameplay demo just came out
The original Metro 2033 game is based on a novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky. As far as I know this game will branch off a bit from the printed follow-up, Metro 2034, as that book is less action oriented. I can't attest to this personally but then again I can't dispute it either.
In this world Russia lives in Metro stations as Russia is known for doing. Also they messed up the city pretty bad. Aside from the normal mutants, the world is now inhabited by Nazis AND Commies. It's a messed up world where everyone is trying to either kill a simple messenger or make him do all their leg work. It's a world where librarians are nowhere near as helpful as you would expect.
In both games you play as Artyom but that's all secondary to "Holy crap this subway has more variety and atmosphere than it has any right to" followed by "shit Moscow took a turn for the worse." While gazing at the scenery you may notice that you can no longer breathe the air, or possibly that a strange 8ft tall pig man is gnawing on you. You can spend your free time throwing pipe bombs with nails on them at strange winged beasts, leaving them in fear of you developing a bigger pipe with bigger nails in it.
Thread for Metro 2033
First time trying to start a thread so I'm sure It will have some birth pains, but I'll keep working on it as I find new things. I just couldn't stand there not being a thread for this game any longer. I'm sorry if there is one but the search box found nothing and going through pages and pages of threads didn't either.
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Honestly though I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more, getting this or watching Helloween do a LP on this.
Metro 2033 is one of my favorite games ever. That top video is hot stuff and that gameplay video is triple hot.
You just having lived until you've been chased down a dark tunnel by dozens of things and have to run past a hot-and-ready flamethrower to live. Or pissed off a bunch of bandits because your throwing knife bounced off a hockey mask. Or had to sneak through an underground battle against Russian Nazis. Or actually felt bad for Nazis as they wheeze and choke to death on the surface because you broke their gasmask.
Yes, I'm a patient person.
also the bit where you are walking through
Steam page
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All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Its the one I went with, but I never got why it was bad? Like (obvious major spoilers)
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Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
I would recommend reading the book, I don't want to give too much away but there's a lot more detail in there.
Yeah, I was never able to finish Metro when I picked it up cheap as a Steam Midweek Sale (something having to do with a point in the Depot stage where the game world simply disappears due to my computer apparently not quite being up to snuff), but I enjoyed the ride there greatly. As it is though I perfer S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for my post-cataclysmic Russian simulators because of its "openness" as opposed to Half-Life IN SOVIET RUSSIA, but when I can finally get around to finishing Metro I'll do it ASAP.
How satisfied is the author with the use of his IP?
And the ending is bad because:
I got Metro 2033 with the Steam sale. It is the first game I couldn't max out on my PC. After playing this and seeing the faces of the Russians, and then looking at the faces in Deus Ex is jarring. Metro's faces are superior and Deus Ex looks all plasticy like Dead or Alive.
Personally though I thought Metro 2033 was a fine adaptation.
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Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
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it actually builds up from the beginning of the game with things like the kid asking for a bullet to guide you and the game keeps a secret tally of your good actions and your bad actions. I think what ruined it for me is all the bad points from looting bodies.
the actual moment of choice comes right at the end but if you don't have enough good points it's not even an option.
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At least the time will give more people a chance to finish the first game.
Also slightly interesting, one of their tweets mentioning that the game follows the ending that it does because Dmitry Glukhovsky wanted them to. So depending on what they mean, the original author of the books seems to be decently involved in the direction the game may be taking.
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I've looted the hell out of every last body I've come across and still gotten the option for the "good" ending every time I've played the game except for the first time. I didn't even know that could count against you.
One of things that sells the atmosphere so hard is lugging that dumb kid around (which wasn't a great part, but you could do it pretty quickly), then being offered a reward of bullets from the kid's mom when you save him. Yes, some military-grade bullets would actually be very nice to have, but at the same time, these people just lost their home and can use them more than you can. Giving them back is actually a hard decision.
Which is one of my favorite thing about Eastern European devs. They aren't wholly dominated by the corporate-ruled watered-down "decisions" which get thrown into games; they seem to have no real problem with beating the hell out of you with decisions. Not to mention that they have a real knack for building palpable atmosphere.
It wasn't based on good and evil. It was based on (my words) "enlightenment" and "fear/selfishness". The more things you discovered, the more terrible results of selfishness and war you found, and the more you understood how most people were just trying to live, the more enlightenment you got. So this is things like finding a rotten corpse alone in a room full of Nosalises, or carrying a lost child to his mother and letting her keep what little she has left to support said child, or listening to two "evil" Nazis discuss how scared they are of their superiors and how they just want to go home. "Fear/selfishness" is for not giving 'wealth' to those desperately in need, etc.
When you got a "point" in either direction, a sound and visual effect accompanied it. In general, exploration gave you "enlightenment" because you got more and more understanding of just how screwed the world was. A lack of exploration and a few particular decisions gave you "fear/selfishness".
Honestly, it was a good system and far better than most good/evil systems. I hope it or something similar return for Last Light.
I was already drowning in golden bullets by then from exploring thoroughly, so it wasn't a hard choice for me. When I got to the last shop I blew a couple hundred on shit ammo and stocking up and still had several hundred awesome bullets left.
Game looks great though. I wonder if anything happens if you walk into one of those little spiders?
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Buy it
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Pleased to know I'm not the only one that thinks this.
I immediately stuck this on my Steam wishlist after finishing 2033 last month. What a surprisingly fantastic game. I skipped around that demo video a bit and it looks like this one's on track for similar levels of awesome. I hope they pull the FOV back this time, or at least allow the option to change it in game. 2033 is the only game that's ever made me nauseous while playing, and if I hadn't found a way to change it I probably never would have made it through it.
Was 2033 built on an existing engine, or did the devs write a new engine for it? If the latter, they did a damn fine job. I think it consistently looks better than Rage, and even Crysis (not counting uber-realistic mods that make PCs weep) for that matter .
I'm not entirely sure about the engine though. I thought I had read that it was just that they've really optimized and pushed the engine of the first game but it's proving hard to track that down at the moment so I can't be certain that that's what I read. The most concrete thing I can find right now is an August tweet saying they'd talk about the engine soon.
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I take that back. Among a lot of little details he says that it's the original engine. It's an in-house engine they made so they've just been tweaking and optimizing it for this game.
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Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
I noticed this as well.
New interview with RPS. a few comments imply that they'll be showing more of the game soon.
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$5 on amazon download. steamworks so you just take the code they give you and plug it into steam.
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http://www.enterthemetro.com/us/teaser/
countdown to what I assume will be real information
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