ARTYOMI NEED YOU TO FUCK MY DAUGHTER
he never said that
>>745198994*fucks your daughter* *dies* :3
>>745198994Can't wait to kill the evil 4 reich in the next game
only the first metro was alright
>>745199331Train levels were so comfy.
>>745199489I enjoy all three.
what was the point of making good/bad endings if only one ending actually matters? it makes playing the games in a continuity really strange and generally messes up the flow of the game on some sections on if you kill a bunch of people or not
>...
I hate forced open world for the sake of it
>>745200514just game tradition at this pointFirst game is based in that you can achieve the good ending but still blow that black nigger away anyway
>>745199331he literally did you stupid faggot
>>745199657yeah I cant remember the last time I felt this attached to some npcsall the dialogues and interaction on the train felt so genuine, like real people talking
>>745198994It's a shame ranger mode has a terrible save system, this game would have been a masterpiece otherwise
>>745201229>attached to some npcsGame has it's faults but the characters were top level writing.
>>745200820kill yourself mexican
>>745199939there's three?
>>745198994Sir, he's already in.
>>745199489The mutants in the first game are too stupid strong. Wdym is have to waste 2/3 of my AK mag just to kill one overgrown mole? Metro exodus is the only game with more reasonable mutant strength. Even then you still have the ghoul rip off that somehow still take 7-10 round of AK round to put down.
>>745199331It is implied
I played this franchise once and thats enough for a lifetime.It`s good but nothing to come back too. Would`ve loved a russian Fallout, but it`s just a shooter
Hated how artyom never speaksMakes him seem autistic
>>745198994TAK TOCHNO (YESSIR!) KOMANDIR!
>>745198994>tfw got soft locked in library because run out of air filters i think i swapped them waaaaaaaaaaay too early each time
>>745199489Never go full /v/.
>>745198994
>>745202825kek
>>745202825most guys think/hope they'd be Artyom in this situation but in reality they'd be that cuck technician who's in love with Anna but can't do anything about it
>everyone dumps emotional baggage on artyom endlessly in this game>Also suck his dick after every mission>He just sits there and says nothingUnintentional comedy. He's like an autist that is really good at his job but doesn't really speak so good. In short, he's just like me.
>>745198994Good series except for the communist sympathy angle but that's not surprising given the writer has thanked Israel publicly for his education.
ARES
>>745199657Idk, I keep getting second hand embarrassment in those parts. I can't handle intimacy or affection at all.
>>745202343it's goslingesque
>>745198994Sir yes sir ura
>>745202343I think I get why the developers decided on that. They wanted to maximize immersion, and thought giving the protagonist a voice would make it harder to self-insert. However IMO they were wrong, Artyom at this point is a fully established character and we've heard his voice in the journal entries for two-three games now, and his english VA is decent enough that Artyom could've been voiced in real time without issue.Or maybe Artyom's just the strong silent type, like Gary Cooper.
>>745204526>Good series except for the communist sympathy angle but that's not surprising given the writer has thanked Israel publicly for his education.The communist is the secondary bad guy in the first game and the main antagonist in the second game.
>>745205465No, they want Gordon Freeman style immersive player character. Don't worry, you will play as a talking character in the next game.
>>745201770The Librarians?
>>745204526>Good series except for the communist sympathyYou have no idea what is going on in this series kek. It is a condemnation of basically every political ideology because all of it devolves into distrust and corruption and strife. The commies and the wannabe-nazis are cartoonishly evil, and even the designated good guys of the Order are shown to be short-sighted and stupid most of the time.
>>745205570No, these guys, they are way too durable despite being a mere fodder enemy. The parts where you have to hold them off in metro 2033 feels like hell because of it.
>>745205465A talking protagonist is tricky thing to balance. On one hand you want the protagonist to feel like a real person, but you don't wanna make him too chatty. I hate games where protagonist make random comments or quips when entering a new area or something like that.That being said, Artyom being silent in Exodus was weird weird. The first two games are more about Artyom just following orders being barked at him and told what to do so it works there, but in Exodus he's having meaningful conversations with people he knows well.>when Anna starts talking about purpose in life and wanting to have kids>Artyom's still quiet, only thing the player can do is just leave and get upMade me almost shout at the screen. Who the fuck stays silent during that? He should have talked in those sections. He already talks in the loading screen anyway, and in 2033 he sometimes narrated things during gameplay as internal monologue. I think a good compromise could've been Artyom monologuing in his own thoughts during conversation, I don't know why the devs didn't decide on that.
>>745205570Nosalises got alot harder to kill in redux which also gives you less ammo to carry and no early hellbreath.>librariansBetter to run after staring them down fuckers will break your mask fast.
>>745205685The original Metro 2033 has superior atmosphere and artstyle compared to the Redux, however the original's gunplay feels really bad because of how unreliable shooting is and how tanky mutants are. I tried playing it on hardcore and eventually gave up because it was fucking stupid to get mauled by mutant rape over and over again.
>>745199331>he never said thatHe literally did. At one point during the comfy train sections he starts talking about wanting grandkids.Even if he lived, the chance he'd get grandkids is not very high. Artyom and Anna are both irradiated as fuck so who knows if they can even have kids.
>>745198994When the fuck is the next game coming out? It's been seven fucking years since Exodus.
>>745205884I believe in one of the endings she shows a child or something. Could be mistaken since i only played it once. Could also be mistaking it with the previous game.
>>745206382That's the last light blow up d6 ending.
>>745206174next february
>>745206609Fair enough, i was mixing things.
For me, it's the car section from Last Light. Regina my beloved.
>>745205884>Artyom and Anna are both irradiated as fuck so who knows if they can even have kids.The cure that artyom got in Novosibirsk, not only got rid of radiation, but also regenerate damaged organs. They will have children post exodus ending.
>>745205784Same, the artstyle, especially for the NPC's looks weird as hell. But the environment artstyle starts to grow on me, I think they are trying to give a dreamy vibe to last light and it worked pretty on surface levels, but the actual metro level suffered from it due to how bright they make it to be.
I read the book Metro 2033 and found it great, though it is extremely bleak and at times its ambiguity confusing.Were the Dark Ones trying to enter Exhibition/VDNKh because they were trying to talk to Artyom, because he's the only one 'compatible' with their mode of communication?And what the fuck was that thing under the Kremlin? Mutated by radiation, biological weapon, or something that existed pre-war?
>>745208221The scariest thing for me in the book were the librarians. They're pretty scary in the game but in the book they're these quiet highly intelligent skinwalkers who imitate human speech, and the whole scholar caste of Polis is terrified of them.
>You can't kill communist rats. Think of the morality!>You can't kill nazi scums. Think of the morality!Gay ass game
>>745200514In 2033 the bad ending is the original one. The good end was fanfiction faggotry
>>745208631I killed both and got the good ending. You just gotta explore, tip the homeless, and spare prisoners.
>>745208221only the 1st book is goodthe 2nd and 3rd suck, and Exodus is basically a correction/salvage of the 3rd that turns the story into something much more palatable
>>745205616and unfortunately they seem to throw it all away in 2039 just because>boo hoo oinkraine hurt :( plz send more moneyI'm trying to look forward to it especially after waiting this long but i am scared the political shit will be way too on the nose, especially since the game set in Russia won't have Russian dub kek.
>>745202825the male fantasy
>>745199489Last light was aight.Exodus had good moments(mostly the linear areas), the DLC helped carry at moments.
>>745205784I do think 2033 had the best atmosphere/story, and it should be experienced with the ORIGINAL game.Even though the mutants are ridiculously strong.
Metro 2033 Redux > OG Metro 2033gameplay is what mattersthe atmosphere is subjectivethat being said some of the NPCs are quite downgrade but that is a small price to pay.
>>745209257Russia is free to make their own games. Surprised they haven't made a COD clone set in Ukraine or Syria or whatever African shithole they're currently in.
>>745211225tfw no beautiful tomboy wife
>>745212106good goy
>>745198994I want more DLC with Sam, or a new game featuring Sam. Did he make it back to America did he ever find his dad? Don't leave me hanging like this, also I hate those spiders in the underground area when trying to get the satellite photos.
>>745199489Also 2033 > Redux
>>745212987To be fair the book made a big point about needing to wear sunglasses when going up to the surface (and Polis).
>>745212987Changing the music in dead city was a crime.
>>745208221>Were the Dark Ones trying to enter Exhibition/VDNKh because they were trying to talk to Artyom, because he's the only one 'compatible' with their mode of communication?Yes. They're constantly in touch with him, this gives him the sixth sense he possesses. There are multiple moments in his journey where he would have died but the intervention of Dark Ones saves his life. The most obvious one being in the final tunnel on the route to Polis, when he hears a clear whisper telling him to freeze and stop moving.Artyom eventually figures this out, realizes that he only had plot armor because they kept him safe and they're not actually evil at all - precisely at the moment when the missiles are in the air and right before they're wiped out.
>>745201558There's a 4th now but it's VR only
Both the OG Metro and Redux are good for different reasons
>>745205091it's just a gameliterally just play along, no one is secretly recording your reaction
making artyom fully voiced will turn him into a marvel quipping "he's right behind me, isn't he?" faggot
>>745215793you don't play as artyom in the new one, sadlyI was hoping we'd see Anna pregnant
>>745216235It takes place in moscow so we might see khan again.
>>745216359then whats the FUCKING point?
i sure hope the new one isn't open world
>>745216359um its called Novo Kyiv now chuddy
Why are straight men so pathetic
>>745216359he was a great character that just vanished pretty much>>745216425it'll probably be similar to Exodus, with limited open areas
>>745216425its not, they said its basically like mix of Exodus and 2033/LL.
>>745216456I know right? Exodus has only one perfect girl, and that's the loli that you save from the village. And you can't even marry her for some stupid reason. wtf the devs were even thinking.
Artyom being mute in Exodus was stupid desu.
I liked the open world
>>745198994>PILLS HERE!
>>745216686Maps were to small I wanted just cause 2 size maps.
>>745205465>>745205687i always thought he was extremely shy when it comes to speaking, i am not artyom, but in my personal experience people have told me very important things and i just stay quiet because i don't know what to say or get overwhelmed and prefer to stay quiet, so maybe he is like that too
>>745205560Which was a silly approach because they make every playable character in the DLCs yap constantly. Anna, Pavel, Khlebnikov and Sam all talk with no issues.
>>745199657they kill replayability tho
>>745202825It's insane how much glow up Anna has recieved for Exodus
>>745216359>>745216468Khan isn't even real outside the metro. He's basically a supernatural entity.
>>745216686It hardly counts as one. Only Volga and the Caspian sea let you truly roam free. Taiga was just a slightly wider corridor and everything else is completely linear.
>>745216681The DLC with the colonel Kalishnakov had the protag of the story talked. It was great, maybe they were scared of him talking since he never did in the previous games.
>>745217701caspian is hands down one of my favorite areas in any game ever
>>745198994No way fag.>starts fucking the child Dark One from Last Light
>>745217835>maybe they were scared of him talking since he never did in the previous games.He monologues to himself during gameplay sometimes in 2033. I don't know why the devs didn't just do that again.
I wish the freecam mod still worked
I thought Exodus was alright for what it was. You have to go into the game with the knowledge that it's an intentional switchup after the first two games, which thoroughly used up the Metro as a setting. They explored every possible trope and gimmick and scenario Glukhovsky came up with about it. By the end of LL, Artyom can pretty much conquer the Moscow surface by himself when blindfolded. A third game needed to advance beyond that. Besides, even the books make it clear that the outside world very much survived and puts Artyom into the direction of exploring it, albeit in a much worse and unlikeable way (Metro 2035)That being said, I still think the surface should've been more hostile than how Exodus portrayed it. More radiation, more monsters, more supernatural shit, in a much wider radius around Moscow. The Baikal lake in the ending should've been the very first truly habitable area the soldiers find.
>>745216894Anon, I doubt every single time you talk with someone, even in intimate, 1 on 1 conversations, it ends up with you just staring like a fucking retard. Artyom's character being mute in Exodus is about as objectively bad as it gets
>>745218395>He monologues to himself during gameplay sometimes in 2033Nah, I think it's only in loading screens and during the intro cinematics. He never talks to himself during gameplay
>>745200514In these games it's just a fun way to test if you paid attention to dialogue and notes. I don't understand how people struggled so much with getting the good ending in Exodus
>>745219596>He never talks to himself during gameplayhttps://youtu.be/7tu8GLHpNXY?si=eDkAKcsv6wgw1y0v&t=12222Check at 3:23:42.
>>745219781That's obviously not supposed to be talking
I was so spooked by the gorilla monster in the library level.
>>745219914Yeah it's internal monologuing. I thought that's what I wrote earlier but I just said monologuing, my mistake.
>>745198994the audio books for the novels are so good
>>745216894I don't understand how the silent protag with implied dialogue causes so much confusion, is it autism? It seems like the same kind of low IQ retards who had to come up with the term "scale theory" because they're so retarded they actually thought Whiterun had a population of 40 people
>>745211793Stupid. Gameplay is better in OG 2033. Dynamic armor system made shooting people much more interesting in terms of mechanics and visuals. LL/Redux neutered the system. Stealth was also much more fun since you had to very carefully choose which enemies to sneak past and which to kill instead of simply using the gay ass Press F to knock out all the enemies in the entire stations then go around looting their corpses.
>>745220091>that part when the kid succumbs to the Great Worm's psychic invitations and does a flip happily jumping to his death
>>745198994Exodus sucked. The only reason I finished it was for Anna. >>745216359Khan is a faggot.
>>745219976Kek, same nothing else really spooked me in exodus, but those blind mutant Gorilla's that you couldn't make any noise. Or they would be all over you, with broken glass and rubbish everywhere that would make noise if you stepped on it.
>>745215793Yeah that's pretty much what happened with Sam's Story where they gave him voicelines. These are basic shooters and during the levels we already know everything the protag knows, so most of the dialogue is quips
Men want only one thing and it's fucking disgusting.
>>745221569To be in a post nuclear war apocalypse wasteland?
>replay game after years>put it on highest difficulty because why not i've played it before>turns off HUD completely>there's QTEs where you have to press the indicated button at a certain time>can't turn HUD back on without restarting the entire gametotally killed the replay for me
>>745198994Bill?
>>745221726That's not what I was going for.
>>745204329So what? Napoleon was a cuck. Guy like artyom would be an incel irl becauee he doesn't speak.
>>745198994His beret bothers me. I'm like 99% sure it's not supposed to be all puffy like that.
>>745222104he's a hothead and the hot air from his head goes upward and fills the hat
>>745212106I'm pretty happy with Quasimorph, which foregoes current politics and just takes a shit on the idea of american style ancapism and unregulated corporate rule in general
>>745222026t. the cuck technician guy who sadly jerks himself off to the sounds of Artyom breeding Anna
>>745198994Atmosphere is the only good thing about the gamesPlot is dumb, world building is a retarded caricature, gameplay is mediocreBut damn atmosphere is great.
>>745221857That's Last Light. 2033 and Exodus don't go full retard with Ranger Mode.I complained extensively about how fucking stupid Ranger Mode was in Last Light because it just turns the entire HUD invisible, and they had the gall to charge extra money for it.
>>745222581I'm talking about Exodus, never played the other ones tbqh
>>745202825>Men only want one thing
>>745202825this is what my dreams look like 30 seconds before i wake up
>>745208221>And what the fuck was that thing under the Kremlin?The result of a biological attack. That thing is the remnant of the Russian government being forced together like the creature from the thing. That's why metro 2 is empty, they somehow all died from the bioweapon before the missiles detection system goes off, which is strange because the rest of the city got early warning system to evacuate to the metro, yet kremlin didn't. As if the bio-weapon somehow delivered without triggering the detection system.Unlike in fallout, America is implied to "win" the war. In the desert level in metro exodus, there's a recording from the sat-com center how they still see lights from some American cities two years after the war and they can't do anything about it as they can't contact anyone from Russia armed forces.
>>745222660Huh I don't remember Exodus making QTE prompts hidden. It hides the crosshair and traditional HUD elements, but not QTE prompts, and inventory and ammo count can still be checked manually by going into your bag, same as 2033.
>>745222660There's really no point in playing Ranger mode in Exodus. The game already hides the HUD for like 99.9% of the time even on easy.
>>745212265>Being unironically butthurt about UkraineLmao
>>745212987Idk how to explain it but redux has better otherworldly and dreamy vibe to it. It kinda looks like a painting more and help to reinforce that you are playing a game based on a novel. But yeah, 2033 is better for the horror desolate vibe they were going for, the right kinda belong on a more hopeful game adaptation of a novel. Hell the environmental artstyle of redux metro games looks like it might work for an anime game.
>>745199489I like all of them besides Exodus. God I fucking hate everything about Exodus
>>745217585No he's real, play the VR game.
>>745198994I loved the quadruple shotty. Great game. Cried when the colonel died.
>>745223195You can say anything happens in a VR game because no one is going to fucking play a VR game and check
>>745215280um i am
>>745218974>That being said, I still think the surface should've been more hostile than how Exodus portrayed it. More radiation, more monsters, more supernatural shit, in a much wider radius around MoscowThat won't make sense, the nukes only hit cities, it won't makes senses for the countryside to be as radiated and mutant filled as the cities. Hell if anything there should be more safe areas on the countryside.
>>745221365The blind mutant gorillas are easier than the librarian, they are literally blind, you don't have to do anything other crouch walk and throw cans around.
>>745199489I liked the second one even though the plot was a clusterfuck.The third one felt like it didn't innovate on anything, which was weird. I expected the gameplay systems or the monsters or the horror elements to receive some kind of upgrade but no. Really the only good thing about it is the player's crew and teammates, who are cool. And of course the sniperwife.
>>745222104Looks like a real thing
>>745223195There's a VR game?
>>745223664The librarians can be pacified easily so they're not really a problem. The blind gorillas tend to be unpredictable and shattered glass everywhere in some parts of the institute make sneaking past them a bit complex. Especially the final part where there's like two or three in a single room.
>>745223404Fine, just check YouTube video of it>Tl;dwKhan is a real person and is actually a reincarnated Genghis Khan who is tasked to bring peace to the physical and spirit world after the nukes destroyed the barrier between them as penance for his past life atrocities.
>Artyom and the Aurora crew return to the metro to try and recruit people to live on the surface>look inside>everyone is saying Heil Hunter and the metro is united as a dictatorship
>>745223664Nah, the librarians are still harder and more unpredictable, sometimes they run away after getting starred and sometimes they will simply keep slowly walk toward and punches you anyway. You cant snake from them at all. The blind gorillas are easier, even if you got spotted you can just run and break contact and they will forget about you. the librarians,on the other hand, will hunt you down if you trigger them once.
>>745221569i played all the games with as much pacifism as possible, but when she got kidnapped in the Yamantau level i sprinted forward and killed everything in sight like it's Doom
>>745224162Meant for >>745223842
>>745223764Yes and it was very well made and fun despite being a VR game. The only problem is that they make the mutants overpowered again like in original 2033.
>>745224169I mean, that's pretty much the intended playstyle for Exodus. The devs want you to kill the obvious bad guys like the slavers and cannibals but spare the innocent ones like the summer camp kids.
>>745223746Nah you can see it's different. Military berets are supposed to be soaked in warm water and pushed down so that the flap on the side forms to your head and hangs down. The beret Miller is wearing is what it looks like if you just put it on without adjusting it at all, it just becomes a poofy muffin hat.
>>745223725>The third one felt like it didn't innovate on anything,They make humans AI smarter and mutants more reasonable to fight. The latter take less bullet to kill and can be stunned by melee attack unlike in the previous games.
>>745224524Well, I guess he didn't have the time to keep up with the beret protocol what with the apocalypse and all
>>745223725Exodus introduced item crafting and gear customization.
>>745224524That's from the Volga level, he was still genuinely pissed there and didn't care about anything like proper uniform code.
>>745223664Explosive bolts wreck the blind ones on any difficulty.
So the commies lost the war? I thought they were portrayed as the stronger group
>>745225178Are you referring to world war or metro war?World war wise, commies didn't necessarily lose. But they went full retard and kept playing dead for 20+ years after the war, while other countries just moved on and rebuilt.Metro war, the commies are pretty onedimensional bad guys and they get most of themselves killed trying to capture d6.
>>745225416>and they get most of themselves killed trying to capture d6.I forgot about that
>>745225558that's okay, most people want to forget Last Light
>>745199430What about chewing 5 reich?
>>745198994it's hard to play Exodus without constant chair clattering because of Anna. has to be the best gaming wife I've ever seen
>>745205570Just wtf were they? Mutated gorillas?
>>745226221never explainedbut in the book, they likely have some kind of human origin because they can imitate speech
>>745226008What makes her great? She looks mid. I haven't played the game
>>745226221Humans, their behaviour is the exact opposite of a gorilla, gorillas take being starred as challenge while librarian will back away from getting starred at like human children. We also see actual gorilla mutant in exodus and the look nothing like the librarians.
>>745222758In the book, it’s a…thing. Not sure if it’s the combined mass of the Soviet high command or something that manifests from elsewhere. Glukovskey is all over the place in the books.
>>745226362>>745226459They all lack eyes, right?
>>745208873the killer in the first one is having to listen to random background dialogue (that they didn't add any subs for if you play in russian)
>>745226502>Glukovskey is all over the place in the books.To be fair, it's deliberate. The book is not interested in delivering concrete answers, it's more about showing you people desperately building their own myths to fill the space where answers should be. Rarely does it ever explicitly confirm anything.
>>745226756Hence the reason, and much like many examples in Russian science fiction IPs, there are so many more authors adding to it. Iirc, there are about 47 Metro books out there?
>>745226565Librarians in Moscows have eyes, otherwise the strategy of having a staring contest with them wouldn't make sense.The blind ones in Novosibirsk are completely eyeless.
>>745226565in the book the librarians look different>A pointed grey ear appeared from behind Daniel's tipped-back head, followed by a huge green eye that sparkled in the flashlight's beam. The librarian slowly looked out from behind his dying partner, almost shyly, and his eyes sought Artyom's. Don't turn away. Look right there, right at him, right in his pupils... The pupils were vertical; those of an animal. And how strange it was to see vestiges of intelligence in these sinister, impossible eyes!>Now, up close, the librarian in no way resembled a gorilla, or even a monkey. His predatory face was overgrown with fur. The mouth was full of long fangs and reached almost from ear to ear, while the eyes were of such a size that they made the monster unlike any animal Artyom had ever seen, either in real life or in pictures. It seemed to him that this went on for a very long time. Having plunged into the creature‟s gaze, he could no longer tear himself away from those pupils.they also imitate human behavior and speech with eerie precision
>>745222104it looks like a new beret you would see on a cadet
>>745227368the best part of the book was people simply trying to make their ways through tunnels and it's a complete horror show half the timethe best one is where Artyom is walking through the darkness and notices that the echo of his footsteps is starting to happen quicker and quicker, until it starts happening before he even takes a step and he freaks the fuck out
Exodus had some good parts (train sections, on-rails story segments, taiga, DLCs) but the open levels sucked ass.You can tell they were made by separate teams with little cohesion between them.
yes well done bookfags well done HOWEVER
>>745227909would creampie while handholdingalso she was never that thick in-game, must me an edit
>>745227905Exodus exists to rectify the mistakes of the Metro 2035 book. Glukhovsky wrote a book about finding out the outside world still exists but the book made the mistake of making all the characters and factions so unlikeable that it was just annoying to read and left a bitter taste in the end. Exodus reaches a similar point to 2035 but does it in a much more comfy and digestible way, that's what the game is for.
Give it to me straight lads, will the new game be full of propaganda?I want to believe they'll take a more careful and subtle approach with the subject matter but the >SLAVA UKRAINIin the annoucement trailer makes me believe it'll be a game immune to criticism like Stalker 2, where every objectively shit aspect of will get counteracted with>b-but the waaaaarNevermind that the main 4A games studio fucked off back to Malta back in 2014.
>>745228423>Give it to me straight lads, will the new game be full of propaganda?Probably, yes. The game, just like Exodus, is written by Glukhovsky who was even in peacetime extremely critical of the Russian government. They chased him out of Russia when the war started. It may be pessimism but I think we are in for some ham-handed immersion breaking shit with zero subtlety.
>>745228423They all were in the way.I expect the next one just hammering it down even more.
>>745226410>What makes her great? She looks mid. I haven't played the gameI cannot possibly explain it to you if you haven't played the game.
>>745199489Objectively factual and correct
>>745228423S2 had no propaganda in-game (no I don't care about the devs virtue signaling on social media)
>>745228529>chased him outHe left on his own, like other pearlclutching soifaggots
>>745224052>Artyom and the Aurora crew return to the metro>Artichoke alive in 2039>after he got super radioactive AIDS when he visited the Dead CityThere's no way he lived several years after reaching Baikal.
>Everyone has come to their end, my friend. I don't know quite how this has happened but this time humanity has overdone it. There's now no more heaven and no more hell. There isn't purgatory either. After the soul flies out from the body - I hope you at least believe in the immortal soul? Well, it has no refuge anymore. How many megatons and bevatons does it take to disperse the noosphere? It was as real as this kettle.>And whatever you say, we weren't sparing ourselves. We destroyed both heaven and hell. We now happen to live in this strange world, in a world where after death the soul must remain right where it is. You understand me? You will die but your tormented soul won't get reincarnated anymore and, seeing as there is no more heaven, your soul won't get any peace and quiet. It is doomed to remain where you lived your entire life, in the metro.>Maybe I can't give you the exact theosophic explanation for why this is but I know one thing for sure: in our world the soul stays in the metro after death. It will rush around under the arches of these underground tunnels until the end of time because there isn't anywhere for it to go. The metro combines material life with the hypostases of the other world. Now Eden and the Netherworld are here, together.
>>745229654don't worry - the briefcase Artyom brought from the dead city contained Plot Armor, which heals him and Anna of any health problems
>>745228887>S2 had no propaganda in-gameThey did.>not showing that the army and government are a corrupt entity>azov insignia in game>old characters getting ukrainized for no reason (Cтpiлeць)>conscripts getting drafted to death in trucks that say STALKER 2 on themthe last point is especially fucked up
>>745228887yeah thats why i was surprised that 4A was the one who went full in on bandera apologist run in their game, cause they weren't really doing much on their social media that'd indicate this, opposite of GSC.
>>745228529>They chased him out of RussiaTo israel of all places, LMAOI mean he can justifiably bitch and moan about the war as much as he wants but fleeing to israel is kind of a hypocritical move, dontcha think?
>>745228887GSC scrubbed every soviet imagery out of the old trilogy when it came out on current consoles.
>>745198994I ALREADY AM.
>>745230664yeah fortunately the originals are untouched, sucks to be a consolecuck i guess
>>745199489Yeah, Exodus was okay, but felt like it tried to move too far from what made the previous titles interesting.That being a mostly linear experience from A-B with the occasional diversion.
>>745230468>cause they weren't really doing much on their social media that'd indicate this, opposite of GSC.My opinion is that they're overcompensating for the lack of support towards the war because they've been chilling in Malta since 2014, to avoid paying taxes to ukraine.Now that pro-war propaganda is a profitable business, why not cash in with an easy Wnazi ideology is horrible but in fictional post-apocalyptic russia it's especially bad!" rhetoric?
>>745198994i'm glad the new game has a new protagonistlet Artyom and Anna repopulate their settlement in peace, it's time for fresh blood
>>745231150hm makes sense i guessi still hope its gonna be decent at the very least but we'll see, might be the first Metro game i pirate.
>>745199489This but Exodus.
>>745226410What's so great about a woman who has feminity while also being able to kill nosalises and DEEMONSI wonder...
>>745233143Daughterwife spotted. Discard the old hag.
>>745211793>gameplay is what mattersyes, thats why i want to be able to cook grenades, have enemies with actual armor, have actual weapon penetration, have the best levels not cut in half, have 3 weapon slots, have better input buffering and fluidity on virtually every centimeter of the controls, be able to see the magazine more clearly on the guns, have better sound, and better deadlier enemiesyou retarded motherfucker
>>745211793>>745233404oh and dont forget about how they ruined the shambler in redux lmao
>>745233404The details are better but redux doesn't have wallhacking AI so it's still a superior experience
The worst thing about the games is the protagonist being mute. It really makes no sense because both the english and the slavic voice actors are good enough, and we can clearly hear him during the journals.I replayed Exodus a few months ago and kept wondering how on earth the devs failed to recognize how awkward a voiceless Artyom would be. The worst moment was when Anna started talking about serious shit like having kids, and the only communication you can offer is vigorously shaking your mouse or some shit. Dumb as hell.As for the complaints about linearity being bad, I never agreed with that. There is nothing intrinsically better about open or nonlinear worlds. It doesn't actually create more content or more effort or more soul than linear games, at best it's just stretching that same development effort over bigger distances with more filler, and in most cases it's actually an excuse to develop a less interesting game world. Ironically linear games often end up being a lot more focused, dense, and interesting. Focused and dense is what I'd definitely call Metro, and I mean that as a compliment.
>>745233361That's Stepan's adopted daughter, you cannot have her, you'd be stealing her from a real bro
>>745233404the only legit issue Redux has are the insta knives mechanic being too easy to abuse, everything is non-big deal in the grand scheme of things, bar atmosphere which both versions excell at in different flavour, OG for slightly more horror, Redux for the odyssey feeling, cope.
>>745198994It's not Fallout by the way.
>>745233404>and better deadlier enemieshaha yeah>alert one guy>the whole map now has laser guided missiles pointed at you
>>745216614Nastya?
i NEED a slavic womanNOW
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>745238425I NEVER GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
>>745238425>you're basically hanging on by a thread>colonel is dead beside you>the radiation is ticking by, your time is running out>engine starts to sputter>you think this is the end>train horn ringscinema
>>745238519you forgot>Artyom's dread (if player knows how radiation sickness works) contrasted with Kirill's joy
good thing a few blood transfusions completely clears radiation from your systemhaha
>First game was excellent linearkino>Exodus’ open levels are alright but nothing special>Sam’s Story feels pretty linear, and it’s like the best content in that game >2039 is gonna be linear Are we back?
>>745238887>2039>full of zog propaganda
>>745238887sams only problem is the fucking ass checkpointsi lost an hour of progress once because in all my wandering around it didnt save at all
>>745220091Listening to them right now. Just started 2035. The narrator is really Impressive in how he manages to effortlessly code-switch from his dry britbong accent to the various Russian characters with unique vocal inflections.Homer talking about the day his son was born in the second book was genuinely moving and I was not expecting to feel such feels in a cheesy post-apocalyptic adventure story.
>>745222272I'm a churka that fucks Anna while Artyom is dying in Ukraine actually.
>>745238685The whole end of that game was some bizzare hallucination.
>>745238887I think 2039 could do with being hub-based like Deus Ex, but with more action. Stations can be the hub while you explore the surrounding metro line and the surface.
>>745202825This hurts
>hasn't been in ukraine for two decades>doesn't speak ukrainian>the whole studio speaks russian>IP set in fucking russia/soviet union>start removing the sovietjank references despite it being the selling point>piss off the fans>SLAVA UKRAINIWhy do slav studios do this shit? Do they hate money?
>ywn rub her freezing cold feet after a walk around lake baikal
>>745198994Hi brad
