Metro Exodus is overrated and disappointing
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Metro Exodus is paraded by reviewers, publications, and its fanbase as the epitome of gaming, even though it is not. In 2023, after playing through the whole game again and analyzing it heavily, I found Its open world is extremely flawed and takes away what made the metro series unique, while also not mentioning its outdated gameplay and unmemorable writing. Metro Exodus is not a bad game, but it is most definitely not a lot above average either. I love and adore the past two metro games in the series, 2033 and Last Light, but exodus seemed like a rushed janky mess pushed out to capitalize on the current open-world craze the industry was inside.
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I'm all for free speech but damn, someone take this guy's microphone away
EXACTLY!!!!
Talk about outdated 🗣️
Bro likes tedious games that just give you a slight hint of what to do and a map marker this game is unplayable without RUclips tutorials and skipping enemy’s
@@zoldoba no hahahah millions including me played it without any videos or walkthrough
@@zoldoba Games from the early 2000´s till 2010´s where all the time like this, no tutorial, no hint popping up every 30 seconds, fucking noobs!!!
Disappointing? Maybe for some, not for me. Overrated? Not at all. In fact, this game is highly underrated, and I wish more people played it back in 2019.
Definitely overrated
@@TheOneTrueNoName Just get out of here. Sure, it may have some things that are against this game (i personally dont really like some cutscenes), but mostly i enjoy this game alot. The graphics, atmosphere and i didnt even mentioned guns and their attachments. For some that dont like this game, ok. But dont ruin it for those that love this game. I cant really say if this game is overrated or underrated. The only thing i can say is that i personally recommend this game.
@@ArmoredsoldierCZ If having an opinion you don't like ruins the game for you, that says a lot about you more than them.
@@Espartanica now in english please.
@@ArmoredsoldierCZ Oh, so you can't read either?
In my opinion, there was really no other way for the series to go with a third game other than leaving the tunnels of the metro. During the first two games we so thoroughly explored the original setting that I think it would’ve been very hard for the designers of the game to come up with a third game that did not feel like a rehash.
I think they could have just done what they originally planned metro to be. The entire metro being fully explorable
they should have just made a rehash.
Listening to this guy i wonder if we played the same game. Maybe because im a Slav but i loved the atmosphere of the game. And the story was simple but emotional - sacrifice and saving your loved ones . And i love this type of smaller "open" words games. Yea places to explore are fewer but hand made. In Skyrim you have hundred of dungeons to explore but they all fell the same - similar loot , similar scenery , similar enemies. It this type of games ( like Metro) , much like the Witcher 3 or Gothics you got entirely different regions (or areas) and not the whole world is open from the start. That gives the game a sense of direction and progression. I remember i played Fallout 4 for 60 hours and i realized that the word around me is static - the same dungeons , same loot just reskinned , same reskinned enemies. Stories and quest that have nothing to do with each other. And quests that try to be "serious" and set a dramatic tone , followed by goofy stuff like 300 year old boys locked in freezers , pirate robots that have a wooden rocket ship that makes the world feel more like a trireme park , that an actual place. And if you wanted to stick to just the main story - the writing as bad , simply bad, dull characters that have motives that make no sense and all , and plot full of plot holes. . Here in this game the writing and coherence of the world is far better in my opinion. It sets a tone and it sticks with it. If you don't like it fine , but at least the writers knew what kind of story they wanted to tell. And i played the game in Russian i don't know how the English voice acting is. Maybe is bad i liked the Russian one.
I’m an American who speaks enough Russian to play the whole game in Russian without English subtitles, and I really liked the atmosphere of the game too. Of course, some of the voice acting was cartoonish, and the bandits didn’t swear as much as they probably should have, but overall, I thought it was a very good story, and they kept it simple. It seemed like every location in the game had received a lot of attention, and had been crafted by hand.
I played on RTX 2060 and now 4 years later I play enhanced version on RTX 4060 its very unique game. Minimal hud, compass on wrist, immersive map system and scary and harsh atmosphere.
I opened the video, but stopped my self on the title of the video. I get that he doesn't like it, also, I went over the game in Italian and English, I'm missing russian only now, but still, saying that Metro Exodus is overrated should be worse than war crimes... This game is the closest game to perfection, during intersection levels there are so many dialogues, lore, it's litterally just feels alive (as a Romanian I have an easier time understanding it). The only thing the guy posting the video should do is chanching it into him not liking the game, instead of saying it's overrated... DISCLAIMER: Not spreading toxicity, just spitting facts.
His title is bait because he hates Russia. He can't pronounce the W so I'm guessing is a Ukranian living in Canada, that's why he threw shit at Atomic Heart too, even though the game is obviously not as bad as he said. I'm all for criticism, but fair and honest criticism, not cowardly hide it behind an obvious agenda
you sound like you playing alot of android games.
someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed
Pretty sure the hitmarkers were an option, if you didn't disable it, you can't complain about immersion or whatever
this gotta be the stupidest comment ive seen on youtube in a while. UI does not dictate immersion. Sure, you can disable it to bolster the feeling a little bit, but if a game isn't immersive in the first place, UI wouldn't do bat s*. Your strawman is very hindsighted, it's like saying liquified copper will be drinkable if you put it through a water purifier lol.
True. I’m pretty sure those were in the first two games also.
Yeah @MrGeoff-iv6re , you can disable them in all games but it I'd disable by default in it'd highest difficulty
Nah it’s underrated asf. The story is just *chefs kiss*. The last mission in Novosibirsk is INCREDIBLE, had genuine despair and terror throughout the whole thing it was beautiful
No it's not.
I started playing it last week on PS5 after i got it in...2021? For 9.99€.
Its not a real triple A game. Or at least, it feels more of a Ubisoft game, lacking a ton of detail and with tons of clunkiness and major problems.
For instance, the sensibility at max is WAY too slow. It's at like 30% of what I'd like.
It's really buggy and clunky. The little hold square to crawl is way too slow and annoying.
Shooting enemies feels unresponsive and pretty bad, even with the dualsense haptics and the cool vibration, it lacks impact and especially control.
With the low af sensibility and how the guns feel, it's like I've never held a controller as i barely can kill 2 enemies (i only got to the part right after the little castle of religious people at the start).
This is right after finishing doom eternal and it's dlcs on ultra violence and finding it extremely easy with 3 total deaths, including 2 master levels (the extra lives made it even easier as i finished the main story with like..20 extra lives).
So I'm not a noob at all. But using the little silence pistol to kill the guys with guns and the lobsters, made me feel like a complete and total noob.
And it's not the slower pace that bothers me, my pvp game of choice is hunt showdown. Hunt guns feel AMAZING, regardless of their super slow rate of fire and reload speeds way above 10 seconds for many of them.
Yet metro feels slow and clunky.
The dialogue, audio levels, complete lack of any kind of lip synching, constant crap on the screen adding a layer of weird pixelation, the way the boat controls are and it's staggeringly slow af speed, the forced slow walking if you are as stupid as me and dare to explore the stupid train, the super tiny ass and cramped corridors that get you stuck on random shit with some casual clunky sudden jumps as your character goes over stuff, the loot being barely visible as everything is grey, the really weird and kinda pointless weapon attachment loot system, the unnecessary crafting...
I played..idk..2 or 3 hours and I'm so utterly unimpressed that I'm honestly gonna drop the game to play the other games in my backlog and get back to it later when I have nothing else, which might result in me never playing the game again as 2023 is FULL of releases and I'm getting a ton of them.
The fact that the game is also way too long and yet again...open fuckin world... 😩 😩 😫...I'm really hesitant.
The story hasn't been impressive either.
There was no hook at all.
The only thing that makes me wanna play the game is that the other 2 games left i have to finish are scarlet nexus and horizon forbidden west, both way above the 40 hours gametime. And I'm not in the mood for these open world (ish for scarlet nexus) games. Especially not horizon. But after doom, i can't deal with more fps games.
So it's scarlet nexus time. Or even demons souls remake. Cuz why not.
Wish more games were 3rd person.
Wish more games were linear and not open world.
@@kato093 I literally downloaded it 1 hour ago, loaded it and already threw it in the trash can😂
This game mechanics actually suck and I’ve played a lot of games throughout my experience, and being honest metro was the WORST.
I agree
@@kato093 your opinion is aknowledged and accepted. Not every game is meant for everyone. But comparing metro to doom eternal is not good comparing. The games have really different pace
@@hypiucle265 yh I don’t love the game for any of the reasons the other guy said, I like it for the story and characters. And seen as the game studio aren’t that huge, that’s the best way to judge the quality of this game. I mean look at the first 2 Witcher games before they got all their updates. But I still hold that the Witcher games, all 3 r amazing
I loved the game and was honestly one of the best games I have played for a long time!
then you have a bad taste and haven't played good games
@@lolitaexpresspilot88 been playing games since 1991 the game was awesome
@@SkywatcherAnomalous89 it doesn't matter how long you been playing, if you think this is an awesome game your taste is awful all I am saying, you can play games for however long you want
@@SkywatcherAnomalous89 some people play call of duty and fifa games for decades and they are absolute lowlife subhumans with no brain/no taste, you get what I mean now? Your "gaming experience" means nothing if you are not educated
@@lolitaexpresspilot88 your taste is not everyone else’s taste buddy. 68 people agree with me this is a good game. I enjoyed it and played all the dlc better than many games released today. 👍
novosibirsk dead city is an absolutely masterful level in every respect, stage construction narrative, atmosphere, mission structure, idea, location background and its history. The entire game was of a very high quality level. One of my favorites, both this and the entire trilogy. Probably the closest thing we got next to the stalker close to perfect
true
Agreed, also remember Oskom and the colonel's sacrifice.
Damn what a level,truely deserved a dlc for even deeper dive into story,10/10.Kinda thought it would be interesting to see the sequel to Yamantau bunker.Whatever,this game made me fully complete the pirated version twice and then buy original trilogy😂
Not even going to watch, bro admitted starting it and uninstalling, to re-install and play years later and then call "outdated"
I wonder if he played the same game as us.
@@samuelmansell9749 also you didn't miss anything, one of his complains was a humanimal throwing bricks at him.
Never let bro cook again 💀
I just started this game series and i think it was way ahead of its time, i m loving it. I now bought the DLCs too
It's actually a great game and IMO brings the series to a wholesome close. Just my opinion but if you want the most immersive experience than you must play in Ranger Hardcore with the gamma turned all the way DOWN, turn the spoken language to Russian and the subtitles to English, unless you understand Russian that is. This will make your night-time experience much better and will actually give you a reason to use the NVG's because if not then you rarely ever need to use them.
@@artofwar3046well, maybe nvg doesn't have that much of an use during the volga level but past that? Hell yeah. You gotta dry using them during a sandstorm in caspian level.
Nah, your oppinion is overrated and dissapointing
You guys sure think you're doing something here, other than showing off how fragile you are.
@@Espartanica YoU Guy'S SuRe ThInK YOu'Re DoInG sOmEtHiNg HeRe 🤓
@@Cosmickidd1018 Very mature.
I'm not the one seething at the existence of a different opinion.
WOW!!! I thought this game was awesome...
Super detailed, beautiful post-apocalyptic landscapes, amazing graphics and an emotional script and story... the interlude sections on the train where notably beautiful!!!
I love the fact that enemies surrender occasionally, thats something I havent experience almost at all in games, the different story beats depending on how ruthless you are, all tying into the final act and the success and comradery of your team!!!!
The guns were brutal, charging through the irradiated ruins with the auto shotguns barrel glowing red hot was intense as F***!!!!!
I just completed it for the second time the other day got the good ending both times!!!! and it took me about 30 hours to thoroughly explore the entire game and all areas of the map...
I loved it!!!!
Sam's story is soo good you should play it
sadly gameplay is utter shit... slow/tedious/boring/bad/tragic/dumb.
Because it was
Sam's Story DLC is directed and written a lot better than the main game, Both of those huge improvement makes me exited for the next game because the 1st few hours of the main game was so badly written and directed that I almost uninstalled the game several times.
I know I'm late but I disagree, the world building, locations and lore is certainly better than fallout 4 and 76 at least, unlike Bethesda the makers of the Metro series based it on a actual novel.
I was once like you, rolled my eyes when Ubisoft intro 'WatchDogs 2', a great departure from the original which has good narrative and genuinely feels exciting. But once I dive into WD2 and really played it, I start to find its beauty as well, it's just a different kind of fun. (To put it into perspective, the original felt like Batman or John Wick, WD2 felt like a scooby doo gang meddling about.)
This is more than JUST a point A to point B game, in fact, you were given a choice to whether go linearly or go around to explore the regions along the way. I think the game devs have very cleverly left that choice up to the players. You can speedrun through it (which I can tell from your gameplay dialogues) and kill everyone in sight, or go the long way round and enjoy the view. This game has many shadows of other games that I've enjoyed, the desert in particular brings me back to Mad Max game. That's the kind of nostalgia only a good game can bring to you.
I do agree the bugs annoy me sometimes, but coming from Ubisoft's titles, this is rather polished already. All in all, the reasons you listed are all quality-of-life things which you have put under a magnifying glass, you have to look at the game as a whole, try to understand the lore even if it bores you. You clearly came to this game with a fixed mindset, what you need to do is relax and let the game take you. Life doesn't always go the way you want, just as this game is telling us.
@preacher3958conversations you can ease drop that adds to the lore of the biome, upgrades to your equipment, mostly more lore.
It’s not that different from the other games. The only reason you explore is to get more stuff and run into cool situations. Exodus was no different, the setting wasn’t just set in the metro anymore.
Couldn't agree more and a lot of what he complained about could easily be solved by changing a few things in the settings. Like night-time not being dark enough. Just turn the gamma down and viola night-time is much more immersive. That's why I say Ranger Hardcore is the only way to play if you want the best, most immersive experience, gotta take the Full Dive.
The AI are bugged in many places lmao
I love the story but was surprised at the ending, I wasn't expecting the last chapter to be the ending.. feels so sudden
I immediately felt that Dead City was going to be the ending. It just felt rushed, like an ending you don't really want to do. The train ride leading up to it was very empty compared to the previous one, and the exposition given by Miller is just dreadful. The first part of the level feels like it was meant as an introductory/tutorial map with going through all the game mechanics like climbing ladders and going through crevices, all the while Miller re-explaining everything I've been listening to through dialogs in ELI5 terms, it just feels bad.
@@csorfab agreed, from the dead city to their intended destination there should be 1 more mission to make it more comprehensive.
@@d1want34 My feeling is that the intention was to have a steady feed of DLCs - to continue the story as well as fill gaps. The potential is huge for DLC to continue with Sam reaching the USA - as well as other branchings thru locations all over the world - ie including europe, the UK, Africa and even south east asia! It's very disappointing nothing more has happened after Sam's Story 😞
@@tailfirst that would be awesome if they do it
@@csorfabThe train ride feeling empty in my opinion kinda felt like that was the whole point, it's not supposed to give you a sense of "hype" or tension, It's empty, you're not entering a set piece your entering a cemetery for hundreds and thousands of people. That should make you feel empty.
Your are just wrong
Did you play on easy mode?
Instead of criticising the lack of enemy diversity you criticise the ai?
The ai really good it works in teams they seak cover, rush forward and retreat if necessary.
And the critism regarding the "empty" open world is also really wierd since it's one of the densest in the entire industry.
And the characters were written like in the other metro games, just not as unlikeable. And if you have a problem with a story who takes the time it needs to develop its characters I don't know if that is a game for you. But the poor voice acting point is valid. I don't understand the criticism of the ending especially it has the core gameplay of the previous metros just way better executed and the plot was just as well written as all the other metro games.
No, the AI is a buggy mess.
Couldn't disagree more. I found this much more immersive and interesting than either of the first 2 which I also enjoyed. This was the best version for me. I have heard others complaining about The Caspian, this was my favourite level. Play it on Ranger Hardcore, be patient, think about what characters tell you like don't kill the slaves, or the people of the forest. Dissable the aim markers, play on new game plus and make it even harder, like disable crafting away from work benches, disable save except one per level. It becomes a real challenge. Make all monsters tougher, make NPC's more aware of you and use explosives more often. Play on enhanced PC Version. Play it on high end PC with a good graphics card and max out the quality. Play it on a PC that exceeds the recommended specifications. Do more reading and work on your attention span.
It's ragebait.
Jump scares? Pfff. The scariest part of the metro games is realizing you are running out of ammo and the only thing you keep finding is 3 bullets for a gun you don’t have on you.
2033 and last light were top notch. but this feels weird. the movement sucks. its floaty. and the hold to pick things is ridiculous.
the characters in the previous titles were so memorable like khan and pavel.
also this doesnt run well.
Well, this really shows how everyone has different opinions on things, but, you know, this game has such a huge emotional value to me, someone very special to me gifted me this game, and that last level on Novosibirsk (Knowing I got the bad ending), damn, did it hit hard, it just felt as if the game was directly talking to me as I went through my break up... Anyway, I just loved the game (Specially the Forest level)
I played final sections of game including both DLCs atleast 4-5 times (by reloading the save). Wanted to experience those moments again and again. Most emotional and fullfilling endings amongst all games I played.
This is not triple AAA game lol
Small Ukrainian studio with very limited budget
Console player ... stay quiet, don't talk when you have no idea what you are saying.
Owning a PC doesn't make you a God like you think it does.
Pc lives actually don't matter
I red all three Bands of the books by Dimitri Glukhovsky and honestly I have one thing to say.
This game may be one of many Underrated Masterpieces with it’s own flow, own way of storytelling and most importantly made by talented and passionate Developers that truly care to deliver a handcrafted experience in cooperation with the Writer of the book.
This game is meant to be played in Russian with Language knowledge because the voice acting is very good.
When I say these things are a scarcity nowadays I think we can all agree with these new "standards" of the "Modern Gaming" Era.
Nonetheless I can understand why some young or new gamers may not like this game with its game design and choices made. I love also how slow and realistic the game feels to play. You feel heavy, you feel Human because you are so weak (I only say this because I play on the highest difficulty). A headshot is an instant kill . It reminds me of playing Tarkov mixed with stalker but with an original story and characters.
But for me personally I love it simply because it’s a visual representation of the books and adds so much more depth to it. The only negative I can say for non Russian Speakers stuck on English is that the voice acting there truly sucks… it’s terrible!
Games are Visual Literature.
1 mic is shit.
2 metro exodus pc enhanced or go home
3 xbones are for kids, get a pc if you want to review things
4 the apocalypse genre isn't obscure is the slightest....
shtf
Playing on ranger hardcore does fix some of the problems. Resources are rare, making you engaged and focussed because any other option leads to death. You die in a few shots, so you must be careful and stealthy. Also makes everything more scary because death is easy and you have so few resources to spare. I am struggling through it on the level for my first playthrough, but am enjoying it.
Ranger Hardcore is a must for every game in the series. I wouldn't play them any other way and honestly, I wish more games would take this kind of approach to their level of immersion. IMO there is no other game that does immersion better than Metro. Also, a lot of what the video author complains about is easily solved with Ranger Hardcore difficulty and by turning your gamma down to the lowest it can go. I did that for every game in the series and it made the immersion way better. For instance, I found myself never really finding a need to use my NVG's in any of the games UNTIL I turned the gamma all the way down. Now using NVG's is necessary not optional. Another thing to increase immersion is by turning the subtitles ON and allowing the characters to speak their native language. Like he says in the video, sometimes the dialogue feels a little weird, but I think a lot of that is due to the translation between Russian and English languages. It makes more sense when you hear it in Russian and then read it in English, just my opinion.
Hey man. Don't let all the negative comments get to you. Its okay to be wrong. We all are at some point.
buggy but they tried something different and i think they did a great job
Reminds me of dishonored with the openish world design and lots of depth in the levels
Also bump up the difficulty if its like playing cod hardcore you die in like 1 burst
I think Exodus would be great as a fourth game or DLC. In the book it's been awhile . . . 2035 the book ends with Arytom leaving the Moscow Metro. The first bit in the game Kinda happened except the whole facility ran by Hansa was a jammer and I forget how he got there, but if I remember some merchant with a car drives out there with him. A lot of the cool stuff in the books is just Thanos snapped because up to the jamming tower he sees two headed dog and by this point a lot of the mutants are dead because the ice melted so, the radiation kills a lot of em. His wife not really supportive to his antics with the radio and at this point his hero status is a zero.
Compared to the other books 2035 is a little bit more mature and political in it's content. The Watchers are always mentioned and SPOILER alert it's the official Russian government. They spy on Artyom as he does pretty much everything and on a order can pretty much kill him if commanded. At one point he comes top side with no protective equipment because he messed up at a hansa . . . or was it Red? Checkpoint and was almost executed and topside got chased by a group with armored cars and bikes that I assume was the government and it was crazy . . . He even cheated on his wife with some woman a prostitute. The Reds pretty much collapse due to starvation and the Rangers merge with Hanza because the official government has been propping up both sides but fully supports the Hanza at this point as the best for the metro. The Rangers give out humanitarian aid and a riot breaks out with some pretty heavy stuff going on.
At the end of the book there's radio chatter with government STALKERs ready to take Artyom out but a official Artyom meets in the book is like let him go. This kind of stuff you will never get out of Exodus lol. Even before hand in the book when he meets the government official he berates Artyom for seeing more than the metro and they argue why Artyom sees the world the way he does.
The game has terrible sound design.
i think that your COD like experience was partially caused by not high enough difficulty ... and probably also depending on approach. True ... there was over all less of horror, but once you go on hard or higher difficulty the game gains a lot of depth and it forces you to go more stealth, even the AI gets a lot better for the most part. You need to explore bcs you are always on the cusp of running out of a critical resource and surprisingly it doesn't get too bothersome. Also weirdly the story gets better too, bcs you just can't afford some bad endings bcs you just won't succeed with guns blazing (that's not a good way of fixing the experience itself, but it does a lot). Fair enough ... the story, or the main story isn't anything super spectacular, but for me, it was engaging enough. It's a slower paced game, not for everyone and i myself am not always in that mood. All in all it depends a lot on the type of person playing.
There is absolutely no such thing as an "oVerRaTeD" metro game, in fact the whole series is criminally underrated, and they e never released an objectively bad or broken game, you may not like that exodus wasnt qhite as on-rails as the under ground games but Exodus is/was in no way a bad or outdated game at launch, it just wasnt for some people, i dont like souls games, but i know theyre great games, i just dont like playing them
@preacher3958 gr8 B8 M8, but you're out of your mind, probably spend your time playing fortnite and warzone 🤡🤣
I have to disagree hardly,the story of this franchise is amazing,and its AWESOME that Exodus is escaping the Metro
Honestly the game could've been so great, but it fail short. I love the realistic hardcore gun play and survival mechanics. But the game itself isn't that great. I love that it's a game that is more story based on not completely open world, but the game way too linear, like the enemies will the same paths and do exactly the same thing every single fucking time. And on top of that, it just felt like there weren't too many situations in actually facing human enemies, which I find a big problem with post apocalyptic games in general. I don't want to spend my time shooting dogs, flying bats, worms shooting liquid at me, or good god, fucking spiders (which could've been one of the coolest levels if it were a base for some enemies you had to shoot back at), and on top of all the story kind of started out good but then fails short when it basically turns into a save Anna game and then goes nowhere and just literally ends, lmao.
thats a lot of dislikes there
L take. Lol, lmao even
The amount of people crying about their fair opinion is the real L take
go play fortnite and leave this GEM to people who have taste
lol ratio
All the ratio is doing is proving this fanbase is full of snowflakes.
But keep being proud to demonstrate that fact, I guess.
Metro Exodus is a lot above average.
Never rate again
I don't know what is wrong with me, I loved the previous two games, but especially the first when it came out. Exodus is just boring and the shooting a lot of times feels bad.
I like the game really much. And the playtrough was good and the visuals aswell. I thought that the first and last levels/sections were good, but the rest were just boring. But I was hoping for more of a "Metro" feeling, like more exploring the metro tunnels, more dangerous and irradiated places to explore. That was the main let down (for me at least). The addons were great tho, especially "The Two Colonels", that I think saved me from disappointment.
thats why we have the first 2 parts? the lore had to progress somehow
Bro not to be a dick, but not even god can make 3 whole games about exploring metro tunnels and make the 3rd game interesting.
@@jere508 There’s always a story to be told. Dipping in and out between the metros and the radiated cities is full and juicy. We’ve been stuck in the same metro tunnels for the first two games - going from Exhibition to Polis, from the Reds to the Nazis, from the metros to Moscow - and I think the developers would’ve done the game justice if we could explore more metros or even base the game off of metros like Novosibirsk and it’s horrifying lore. Though it’s still a metro tunnel, there is a different story to be told. Exodus would have been the perfect game if we didn’t have to cross the Volga, or drive through the dried Caspian, or trot through the Taiga forest.
Someone has Battle Royale brainrot…
This guy is why i want free speech taken away
Aight, so I just finished Metro Exodus a few days ago and I must say, I LOVE IT. I like the saga as a whole, even have the first book.
More than "fear", these games (and books) are mostly about atmosphere, about exploring the dark tunnels or a beautiful forest, and yes, it can cause tension and fear, but it's not all there is. And the stories within, I really liked the story in Taiga that Olga and the Admiral tell us about. And yes, if you don't enjoy reading/long dialogues, you miss a lot of the charm. And the open world is praised mostly because it's not an "ubisoft" open world, filled with markers and activities the momet you touch the game. You really need to explore. There's stories too, like a poker game gone wrong or slaves trying to escape their masters.
BUT, i do need to accept the facts that the AI is idiotic and Artyom not speaking doesn't add to the experience, specially the last one since because of that the story is already hit or miss (I did like it, but I can understand why it can be bad).
Overall, I think that defines the game: hit or miss. Just like STALKER, some people love it and some not.
It's awesome you loved it and I definetly do believe it is a "good" game in a sense but I think a lot of it's flaws are not highlighted at all by the majority of media, but yes, it is a game that sticks with some and with some doesn't!
This game is emersive af and way better then it gets credit . Haters will hate this game was a masterpiece!
@@loganmclaughlin8356 masterpiece? Low standards ig
You’ll enjoy the book, it’s a bit different story wise than the game ( because obviously you can’t write an FPS novel) but it is unmistakably metro with the same narrative and motivations. Somehow it’s even creepier than the games, like if you thought librarians were scary in the game, well...give it a read and see for yourself...
For me it was a great game, the gameplay itself is miles ahead of the first two but the open world approach kinda killed the whole vibe. Like a metro would make for the perfekt Open World since you could retain the thight feel of the first two and still have an Open World in the metro itself. Just imagine what Exodus could have been if they made it more like the one DLC where you scavage gear parts and are left to explore an semi Open Moskau. Instead we got a fucking desert. Who thinks of a desert or a forest for a metro game. I wanted more depressing russian Tunnels not a Ubisoft World. Also the heavy focus on stealth annoys me. In the first two I used to start most encounters in stealth but usually ended things loud. Now the game almost punishes you for it. Remeber there used to be an option in the first two so the game would give you more ammo but still keep fights deadly? That's gone now too. Why bother desinging such a beautyfull gunplay if I get to fire maybe 5 mags throughout the Game? And then the dirt. I get they are proud of their jamming mechanic but maybe make it actually possible to use my dam gun. A jam every two seconds is not fun and immersive. Keep the mechanic in but make the time between needed cleanings a lot longer. Theres a great shooter hiding behind all the bullshit and that's what annoys me the most. It could have been THE Metro game, they have always been shooters at their core. Instead they focused way to much on the Charakters and everybodys love live. I'm here to shoot bandits and Mutants, not to watch a russian sitcom. The train chapters also kill the gameflow. Its semi intresting on your first playthrough but already were a chore in my NG+ run.
One of best games I've ever played
Says the game is boring - Also does not play the game as you are suposed to.
Talks about resources not being sparce - Plays on an easier difficulty.
lol
So you admit, the game is only fun if you play the way it forces you into. An open world experience, with a very linear set of rules and paths.
@@Espartanica I think he's trying to say that if the game is boring because it's too easy, why not just turn up the difficulty? No offense, but is that not how it works in every game ever made?
@@theeflea03 If you turn up the difficulty it doesn't make the game more fun, just more frustrating. Because as directly pointed out in the video the AI are buggy and not too fun to fight.
ahhahahahahahhahahhahahahahhahahhah go and play minecraft
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7:22 metro turns into discount madmax 😂
Play with russian dub and eng sub
Lol as if I'm going to take you seriously after AC Unity. That was the worst game launch in history
Then... don't bother watching?
This game dope ASF!🔥🔥
nah play it on ranger hardcore. rangerhardcore is a defrent kind of beast. its so fun and you have to stealth to coserve ammo and decide it you wanna make it out and loud or stealth. belive me that ranger hardcore is the way the game was built upon . you can even play hardcore but i does not belive you play hardcore base on the run and gun gameplay you showed us
My uncles said metro just copied fallout and the only thing that was different is that metro was just set in Russia
A couple of things to note about the game: the point about fighting in light vs dark, and the second being the translated dialogue. The first point is there is a reason why games make you adjust your TV/monitor settings at the beginning. This would allow for better level immersion. Now, even I had to adjust these settings through my playthroughs. My 2nd point is I've read people's comments about how the original Russian version fits the dialogue better. In translating a game or even a movie, or anime, things tend to shift in translation. I also laughed a bit when you spoke about this in your video while showing the end of the Taiga level. It was explained throughout that level that the kids who grew up in that area still behaved as such. It was a literal translation which was done on purpose. While I feel it isn't a true 10 out if 10 game, I thought it was a good game with a good story to tell in the end.
You say that the game is too easy yet it looks like you’re playing on normal. I think you should try playing on ranger hardcore and maybe a couple of new game plus modifiers I promise you it won’t be like COD.
Your outdated and overrated
TimePlayer is exactly the type of person Ubisoft makes its games for.
This is the worst take on a game I ever heard.
You don't know shi
"post apolyptic"
terrible take
I wonder what's the dislike ratio
1.4K Dislikes. As can be expected.
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After Volga game for me falls apart, but that part of game its amazing, and they could legit put whole game there with some underground places, with better story would make this game goty
Exactly. The Volga part was how the game should've look like. Maybe some parts of that village part was nice and Novosibirsk, but the fucking Mad Max shit and jungle people we really didnt need..
@@realbr1kooI love desert maps, so I kinda liked it lol. Ik wym tho, I wish we would've had more open world stuff in the cities tho. Like having to personally choose to go into the tunnels cause it's genuinely not safe up there, sounds cool af to me.
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This guy need to try and play this game on the harder difficulties
Would completely void his complaints about tension and atmosphere because you actually need to be careful how you play in those harder difficulties
Resources are scarce enough that you if approach all or most combat scenarios with humans and mutants like a COD run and gunner you WILL run out of supplies if you aren’t just outright gunned down
You need to be cautious with how you move around the world as you cannot just run headfirst into danger without some sort of plan or some forethought on how to approach the situation keeping in mind what supplies you currently have available
You must search all locations you enter carefully and fully else you’ll find yourself short on supplies at every turn
This dude needs to try the game again on the Ranger difficulties 😂is all I can suggest
Otherwise he’s off his nut and needs to never cook with this opinion ever again
I’m really trying to like this game but it’s so unpolished. Constant annoying glitches and bugs that suck the fun out of the experience. The subtitles are also completely bugged and can’t be fixed. I’ll stick with it for a couple more hours to see if it improves but I can’t understand why this game isn’t criticised more for its general state.
Ive finished it twice with zero bugs or issues that caused me problems
13:00 THIS. It's so weird when the NPCs talk to you and you don't have anything...no dialogue options, no speaking, nothing. The whole Anna thing was just cringe.
I bought it day one. Played 5 minutes and sold it back. The game is hot garbage.
I then played this week Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, i loved them. So i launched Metro Exodus again, and it's still fucking shit. Honestly i would have gone through the whole game just for the completionist side of me but the aim so so bad it's unplayable.
Play Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, this shit is good. Skip Exodus you won't regret it.
Bud you need a more controversial opinion than this to get views, most people who've played this love it as no other games these days from such a small studio can make an as immersive game as this. The quality in every aspect of the game is insane comapred to triple A games these days.
"Exodus seemed like a rushed janky mess pushed out to capitalize on the current open-world craze the industry was inside"
Holy shit I don't think i've seen a worst take on this game than this. The key thing about Metro is it needed to expand, the worst elements of Last Light were its lacks of depth in areas besides those above ground. Being a corridor crawling game with mostly 1 direction to go without anything expansive added too it, of course that is how the Metro is. Long and tight but yet seemingly everywhere. The open world format allows the series to expand and especially design much better encounters and sections that 2033 and Last Light do not have. I do not disagree the game was janky on release but this is a tiny studio who's games is better than all of its rival games released post S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. If we had another Metro game in the style of the 2033 and Last Light I don't think it would work at all.
The best series to compare Metro too in terms of Design is Dark Souls.
Dark Souls 1: A seemingly massive, perfect mess of structure and interconnected locations. Extremely difficult to make and was by chance it ended up as is.
Dark Souls 2: An equally massive world but in the distance it covers away from itself. Minor interconnectivity.
Dark Souls 3: Sprawlling world with plenty of large but small areas to traverse in which interconnectivity is seen throughout. Openness is followed by more non linear areas.
Elden Ring: Massive open world, designed as if it were a real place filled with small locations that are linear to pass through but also accompanied by large areas basically the size of multiple Dark Souls 3 areas covering the same design and structure.
Without going into why the games changed a lot besides saying its difficult to make a game like Dark Souls 1, Metro 2033's concept changed a lot during development and was going to be more like what Last Light was. So 2033 is like Ds2 and Last Light is like Ds3 while Metro Exodus is Elden Ring.
The game is not about the Metro, the Metro is a character and that character changes. That character can be a bus, a plane, a structure built in the middle of a lake, a radio tower, a large goverment facility. Anything. Metro games aren't Metro games because of the Metro but because the immersion of the locations the people live in, traverse. A dying world on the verge of turning itself around, where you must find a new way to live. If the Metro were sewers or catacombs nothing would change about how the world is.
They didn't choose the open world format to capitalize on the open world craze, they are one of the only devs alongside Nintendo and From Software to do something unique with the format. To use it to tell their own tale and combine elements of their past games into one in the best way.
Look at Far Cry, Witcher, Batman Arkham .... series that went open world with the best games still being linear. It doesn't always work, some like Far Cry and Assassins Creed created trends to get bigger and bigger they just made other devs do the same as these games appealed more to casual gamers (No insult to them) to people who just want to play a singular game. The open world format needs a reason to exist and Exodus has that over those games mention before. Narrative is key in a game like this and the purpose of this game is at its simplest terms, a journey. Traversing a large desolate world searching for hope. I find the thematic nature of exodus seriously interesting, you have a goal and you're intent on finding it yet every corner you can't escape the metro. You can't escape the confines of where humanity has hit for so long. Is there reason to allow this hope to push you to your death? Of is there actually something out there. My point being there is so much depth and thought put into this game.
Your opinions on this game, in this video and that statement in the description, is seriously disingenuous to your own intelligence. It confuses me as playing exodus it has what the past games had and much more. Past metro games were unique with their execution and flaws, after the first above the metro section in Metro 2033 the game sort of peters out and runs out of ideas. While Last Light is slightly larger with its exploration and optional routes below the surface, it doesn't last the entire game. Running on fumes through set pieces that lose what you consider to be the uniqueness of these games. Exodus has many many areas that reflect the metro but benefits by having more. While the past games underutilise how the metro should've been used, exodus makes sure its included for story. For the looming narrative.
I suggest you read the novel Metro 2033, only about 7ish hours to get through the 458 page book. Replay 2033 and Last Light, soak in every detail then, yes again, play Metro Exodus one final time. Think about the differences and how things that are missing impacts how you the player feels. A simple example of this is the bustling metros compared to the bleak nothingness in the Volga. You're where humanity once stood and slept and yet its more dead than where humanity is currently stuck, where they are surviving rather than living. There is reasons for why things are different and it isn't because of the broken ideas of how Open World games should be, its because they took the format and did with it what every dev should do.
Edit: WAIT. Idk how I forgot but this game isnt all open world XD. Theres literally several locations with only 2 being "Open World". Play the DLC if your so butt hurt you didn't get the same game.
(dw I know theres spelling errors, I wrote this on my phone on the train to work)
I don't need "controversial opinions" to get views. This video is, in fact, one of my lower-viewed videos, my highest-viewed one is actually, in fact why the witcher 3 was so great.
I made this video because I wanted to, not because I am trying to parade around for views.
I do not want to be the reviewer that panders to the "safe" opinion everyone is echoing. It's great you liked the game but this is my opinion, I don't really care if you respect it or not but was boring.
Also, it is not innovative/different from the average open-world formula, if you watched the video and listened, that's exactly what I was criticizing it, for being a point a ---> b shooter, where the game churns out errands and tells you to go to this place, pick up some things, and then this place, and then this place, rinse and repeat. Not a single moment in the game where it made you think. It's the same Ubisoft crap. It's my opinion and Elden Ring is not comparable for this as there are no restrictions whatsoever on the way you play and progress through the game.
I can go on and on but that is what my video is for, and I'm not going to repeat it here.
@@TimePlayerOfficial Don't bother. These guys are just here to cry that people are allowed to express a different taste than them.
Wow, you wrote a whole ass paragraph, defending your precious opinion. Get real lol
Good take man, this guy has a bunch of fanboys defending him in the comments like Espartanica so I wouldn't get too worried about them.
Honestly I'm kinda inspired to make videos just to nitpick reviews i disagree with xD there's so many points that i agree with but the evidence to support it is really weird!
The OG game (and book) asked you a question: if the whole world is dead, with horrifying monsters roaming not only the wasteland above but creeping in closer, would you want to go on living? It was a poignant anti-war (specifically anti-nuclear) sentiment not seen since Fallout. Exodus just completely rug pulls that entire narrative by offering a fresh outdoor adventure, it is a callous disservice to Metro 2033. As with so many controversial games in the past, it should've been a new IP
The entire point of this game is to save metros citizens and find a new home, its realistic, sorry u like being depressed but irl ppl would search for a better area
@@fpsgamer2975I've seen your other comments, and can see you're not interested in meaningful discussion at all: you just respond to opinions you don't like with overly heated emotion, as if criticism of the game is a personal attack on yourself. You are entitled to your own opinions but maybe take a step back and consider your unnecessary behaviour.
Nah, I think it does it justice, the whole game basically shows you the unquantifiable evil caused by the nuclear bombs and their direct aftermath. Literally causing the formation of human killing mutants, a reintroduction of slavery, religious fanaticism and communities of neglected children. If you play the two colonels it’s even worse and it shows you even grimmer events. All the while Artyom clings onto a shred of hope, that maybe there will be a better future at the end of this seemingly endless suffering that is a constant. If you ask me it’s just something about anti war and the human spirit, at its best ( like Yermak and Miller’s bravery) and at its worse ( Yamantau).
I mostly agree with you. I'm a massive fan of the games, I've read all 3 books and felt emptiness, like missing an old friend, when i finished them. The story of the games are really, really bland, but the atmosphere of the first two is top tier, while exodus just doesn't feel like metro anymore, like they made a new game with the same cast of characters. I mainly played the games stealthy, the stealth is really rewarding if you play on hardest difficulty (i played on ranger hardcore in all 3 games).If you like the first two you should read the books. There's 3 books - metro 2033, 2034 and 2035, the atmosphere is there and the story is overall better than the games' , plus you get to read how Artyom speaks and a lot more.
Some pretty solid points. For me, the main downfalls are the immersion breaking bugs, as well as the unsynced and corny English dubs (I guess this includes some of the writing too). In all fairness, I consider it an improvement from Last Light. I found the story in that game pretty offensively corny and cliché, especially with Anna, Pavlov, and the main villain. In exodus though, It also bothered me how there wasn’t as much supernatural stuff in this game. Aside from that though, it is one of my favourite single player games of all time. Watching your video, I got the idea that maybe we just went it with different expectations. I play these games at the pace of a fucking sloth, turn off all the lights in my room, and crank up the volume on the game. There was definitely a fair amount of pointless areas and run-on dialog, but the slower I played it, the more I really enjoyed the shinning subtleties. As a side note, I also thought the feel of the guns, sound, and customization was near perfect. Not too many will agree with that one, but that’s what I found 🤷♂️.
Kinda funny how opinions are either love it or hate it. Either way, 4A has a lot to improve on in the next metro, and they can definitely use this video for cleaning up the drawing board.
Yeah I tried it out for 3 hours, and couldn't go on. Lmao @ key point that characters babble about bullshit non-stop, man those dialogues pissed me off when we got to Volga, it just kept going and going for no reason and I am Ukrainian so was playing with "original" language immersion, it felt like one of those cheap Japanese web games I used to play in 2000s on Pentium 4 computers in a school computer lab as everything else was blocked or pc couldn't handle it. Its like someone who doesn't give a shit about the series or what happened prior wrote the dialogues for this game, like a student who didn't do anything whole week and pulls an all-nighter to complete the project just so he gets something instead of straight up 0. Jesus what a steaming pile of crap
Metro exodus is a good game but it's an incredibly disappointing metro game.
I loved metro exodus because of a few things it had more characters and I got to explore the surface and yes last light had trips to the surface but not that often with exodus we actually see the entire world and it still has the dark tunnels last light did but it balances out the two of them in a good way
The AI is much better and more aware of their surroundings on ranger hardcore, you cant quicksave so death is a bigger punishment, and the enemies deal a realistic amount of damage, a shotgun blast will kill you or 2-3 buletts from an AK47, but its still not perfect, the AI starts having eyes on their backs and theyre still very stupid sometimes...
I HATED the game when I first played it but I took a week long break and came back with a different mindset and I loved it it’s still Metro just a different flavor
Variety is always good yknow.
I beat it on the RHC difficulty, it definitely makes the game's flaws stand out. The most annoying ones are barely functional stealth (sometimes non-functional) and knockout systems (and yet the game forces you to use them to get a good ending), horribly inconsistent autosaves (sometimes if you're in a shitty situation all 3 of your autosave slots will be polluted/overwritten meaning you can't load an earlier save, other times you'll lose a huge amount of progress because an autosave that should've triggered didn't), aimbot enemies (absolutely lethal when you literally die to 1 shotgun shot from any distance on full health), your legs are twigs and you die from a half-meter fall (running into and over objects also flings you into the air for some reason, potentially killing you), invisible walls blocking bullets (potentially messing up stealth).
In general, the game has a lot of bugs, and it feels like it definitely wasn't playtested nearly enough, those bugs are just THAT much more annoying though when they cause a death that sets you back like half an hour. Also, the part of the dead city level that has worms is the most annoying, frustrating, unfun and poorly balanced part of the game.
As for the story, I didn't really like it, it's not really believable. A major part of the story revolves around Artyom and Anna's romance, which is kinda hard to buy given that Anna literally hated Artyom in the previous game until all of a sudden she didn't, the dialogue is also horrendously bad and I was cringing at certain parts of it. I'm used to bad voice acting in games so it didn't really bother me. The characters also don't really feel likable, and there isn't much development with them considering that you're on your own 95% of the time (except in cutscene levels), and they just swoop in when it's convenient for Artyom.
Also, of the open levels, the only one I really liked was Caspian, and that's probably because I had a car meaning I didn't have to backtrack on foot 99% of the time while getting attacked by random hordes of mutants. Taiga was probably the worst one even though its design was cool because you're forced not to kill the forest dwellers if you want a good ending, and outside of 1 major bandit encounter they're pretty much the only human enemies you meet.
Overall, I was kind of disappointed with Exodus, though not much surprised about it. It's usually how it goes, the further down a game series a game is, the worse it is. I really loved 2033 and Last Light though, even 100%-ed both of them.
Personally I only had 2 problems with exodus. The dialogue and the enemy changes.
The dialogue for much of the beginning and some throughout the game is just bad voice acting, overly chipper interactions, and honestly cliche lines, along with some of the characters kind of lacking personality, like anna for example, she seems much different from the previous game. Anna doesnt seem like someone who grew up in a literal apocalypse anymore. The voice acting and dialogue also seems way more cheesy than the previous games. A little bit of cheese is fine, but throughout the beginning of exodus i was cringing quite a bit.
Second is the changes made to the creatures in exodus, the narcilis and demon are what im talking about. I like the way they both looked before with pale scarred skin and gnarly faces, all teeth and claws. Now the narcilis looks like giant rats with hay fever and a chameleon. The demon doesn’t look like a scary gargoyle anymore. The demons look more like regular monster bats, not irradiated monstrosities that have adapted to survive harsh radioactive winters.
The enemies from previous games just seemed to lose that charm they had.
I loved it, it felt fresh after last light kinda just repeated 2033 and it feels like the end an era despite Metro 4 being confirmed as a exodus sequel
This is a solid game in a great series, I thoroughly enjoyed the refined combat and exploration from Metro 2033 and Last Light. It had all the emotional moments as well as feeling very immersive... Im very excited for Metro 4 and STALKER 2
typical rusher experience
Delete this game couldn't stand the horrible dialouge
the ending was so sudden i thought i was just 70% there not the end also the previous games were shorter but they felt longer and had a better story
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Bro is raking in the cash cause ya clicked on an obvious ragebait video.
Well, fans did ask for an open world style sequel after Last Light, and given the budget that the devs had and taking into account how the development went, I'd say they did a far better job that some of the AAA titles that have incomparable more resourses for development. This is not triple A title. And some guy down here comparing the game's pace and movement sensitivity to Doom, like wtf.
However, I do agree that AI is bad and requires so much work, it's awful. Also, dubbing in English is overdramatised for my taste and the lines overlap quite a bit. I also played it in Russian dubbing and on ranger hardcore so it felt more authentic and the crafting resources and ammo where scarce as hell. No HUD, no highlighted loot, checking every corner for weapon upgrades and resources. Caspian did feel too open in a way that there were no sidequests for such section and that's what is missing here the most, you need to have something beside the main story to fill in the open world for it to work well so I hope they take the time and hopefully have the budget to get that done right if the sequel turns out to be open world or have these open world sections again.
The Dead City was stunning, claustrofobic and eery place, those linear sections and being alone in the tunnels again are the core of Metro series. The Two Colonels DLC is also top tier linear experience and that's where Exodus is at its peak. An attempt to make Metro more open felt fresh to me, but I get that this can be underwhelming for someone who hasn't played the previous two games or if you expect Witcher filled open world.
Another guy failing to understand the point the guy made about Doom and acting like they're the senseless one for it.
This dudes brain is the size of a peanut if he thunks this game is overrated and disappointing , probably has the worst taste in games
Very disappointing review. Complaining for 10 minutes about it being too easy while playing on chicken difficulty is really quite embarrassing. Also, i don't see your point of the game not being scary. The library level was insane, so was the bunker with the cannibals. All in all bad review, very shallow.
Just finished the main story. Not the best game, but above average for sure. They had to try something new, russian metro system isn't endless and open world they created was well done and visually pretty. But bright sun above your head pretty much killed off all horror elements tho. Luckily they still added some underground levels with that had that good old claustrophobic metro vibes in it and that saved the game for me. Stupid idea is that if you want a good ending, you have to avoid killing. Like wtf? You give me all those awesome weapons and then tell me that i cant use them? Well i tried my best and knocked out most of my enemies, but im pretty sure i still got a bad ending. So it was all for nothing. So if you plan to play it and want a good ending then you better google what exactly you have to do to get it