Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Smiler]

Metro 2033 is pretty good so far. Some people have described it as a more linear version of STALKER, but I'm not really seeing it aside from it being a game from Russia. It is very satisfying yet frustrating at the same time to shoot all of the bullet pouches off of a guy, just to later scramble around looking for the fucking bullets after the fight.

It's also amazing how much effort they put into the animation and graphics of this game. The optimal settings ask for graphics cards that don't even exist yet. I'm running the game smoothly on normal right now and it still looks pretty.

[Bal]

Most intriguing description I've heard so far is "It's like of STALKER took place entirely in the labs from SoC".

[Smiler]

In my opinion all of the actual eerie parts of the game take place when you are being dragged along by some npc leading you through a tunnel full of ghosts and shit. It would be great navigating through them if you didn't have some asshole telling you to STOP every 20 seconds. I don't think I am that far in the game yet, so that might change.

Also the shotguns suck in this game. It takes both barrels from the double barrel to kill mutants, or most of your ammo in the case of the somewhat semi-auto shotgun. Don't even try to kill people with the shotgun; it takes a shit ton of shots to kill them.

[CJ Awesome]

This is one of those games that I am pretty interested in (largely for the atmosphere) but not sixty dollars interested. Even if I could afford to drop that much, I think I'd be in a much better position to have a solid opinion on it if I spent the about ~20 it will cost around the time I will actually have to play it.

[Smiler]

Yeah, looking back at it, it's not worth full price, but it was still pretty good. It's only problems are that the sections where you have to fight mutants are pretty terrible due to most of the guns being shit against non humans, and the game is pretty short.

[François]

So they give this away if you preorder Homefront on Steam; seeing as Metro is 40 bucks right now and I love it so far, Homefront only has to be 10 dollars' worth of good times for me to feel like I got my money's worth.

The actual shooting's kind of pedestrian, for the reasons Smiler mentioned, but damn, that atmosphere! I love the design and the feel of it all. It's got the desperate scavenging aspect I wish Fallout had, with none of the hokey parody vibe. It depicts a weary, tired human race, on the verge of either self-destructing in meaningless conflict, or giving up in the face of completely incomprehensible outside threats. And where it could have been heavy and depressing, it somehow manages to be noble and beautiful, in no small part thanks to the music.

Metro 2033 (Метро 2033) - Main Menu Soundtrack

[Smiler]

Playing through this with english voices is even better than the russian ones if only for all of the stories you can't understand when they are all in Russian. So far ranger hardcore difficulty has made combat a bit more interesting. Everything drops in a few shots, including the mutants. One shotgun blast kills most of the nosalis.

[Smiler]

I like how in the two playthroughs I have gone through, I have never heard Miller say a damn thing about what you should do against the librarians. And in neither have any librarians ever backed down from me when I stare at them. This is a problem in ranger hardcore, since if one gets close you are dead. So far this section of the game has been 100% bullshit.

On the bright side I guess I haven't had the filter problem that 90% of other players have with this game.

PS: One librarian did back away. But then it hit a hole and then jumped over it and then reset back to pissed off mode. Another one backed away, but it is scripted to chase after you anyways.

[Smiler]

Okay I forgot how bad the ending is gameplay wise. Forget my complaints about the librarians, because aaaaaaaaarg fuck this.

If anyone else starts a playthrough, DO NOT DO IT ON RANGER HARDCORE. In the ending if you didn't break the game with the DLC weapons in the station you find them in, you probably won't have enough military grade rounds to get through the end.

I have the "beat the game on the hardest difficulty level" achievement. I can delete this game in peace, or at least until the next time I want to play it. It is still a good game, especially now when it isn't 50-60 bucks.

[Smiler]

Metro: Last Light E3 Gameplay Trailer

YEsssssss.








Look at those fucking in game screenshots.