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Post by Phattso on Sept 19, 2021 16:45:37 GMT
I’m closing in on the end of this, and I’m kinda torn on whether I like it or not. I’m playing the super duper new version with the ray tracing, on a decent spec PC (well, laptop).
It can veer between looking like the most next gen thing I’ve ever seen one minute, but then looking like an upscaled 360 game the next. For the majority of time, though, it’s a decent looking game with all the trappings of a game made in the last five years.
I’m torn on the open world bits. I’m not torn on the morality being tied to who you kill, when at the start it’s all so difficult and confusing that just making it to the end of a mission is a real trial.
It’s basically a decent semi open world game that lasts about 25 hours, but you don’t realise *how* good until about 15 hours in. I imagine I’d have twice the fun on another play through, but who has time for that?
I remember from the thread back at The Olde Place that a lot of you were torn on the open world bits too, and I get it now. That late game area with Pirates in it was a great example of how it could’ve been. A bit open, but mainly linear. Like Crysis 2. I reckon the whole game being that way would’ve been superior.
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Post by malek86 on Sept 19, 2021 16:55:28 GMT
Metro Exodus would have been better without the open bits for sure, but I could say that of many games nowadays.
Still, can't complain much about what we got, since I didn't like 2033 at all so this was an improvement for me for sure. And like you said, it looks next-gen at times (even on the Series S, where the resolution gets amazingly blurry on occasion, though for the most part it merely looks "soft").
Definitely want to see what 4A does next, and especially how they plan to adapt to the new graphics landscape - we know they wanted to base their next engine on RT with no standard lighting option, but with RT cards being in so small availability right now, maybe they should shelve those plans for another while.
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Sept 19, 2021 19:13:21 GMT
I enjoyed Exodus and played the main campaign on the old RT settings. Played the expansions with the newer version.
It was nice to actually recognise a city in Sam's Story as I went through Vladivostok in 2014.
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Post by Frog on Sept 19, 2021 20:19:36 GMT
I thought the gunplay was pretty poor and really struggled to get past it. That was on a pad though and the m&k experience may be different. It's frequently stunning to look at though.
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Post by Phattso on Sept 19, 2021 21:20:46 GMT
Yeah, combat was so-so. The animation of most of the enemies was so full of twitches and ticks that getting a bead on their bonces - even with mouse and keyboard - wasn't particularly easy. It was actually more satisfying overall when I knocked it down to easy. Less faff of putting three or four shots into each bad guy, getting swamped, and reloading. I just finished it, and predictably got the "bad" ending. I struggle to give much of a fuck either way though as the story wasn't told in teh greatest way, and the English voice acting was... I dunno, clearly the East Macclesfield Amateur Dramatics Society (B Team) gave it their all but it didn't really do it for me. Can't fault them for scope, and it's a pretty impressive maneuver to go back and completely re-tool your game for proper ray tracing, so definitely an A+ on that side of things. Shame the execution couldn't quite keep up. Solid 7/10 for me, with some specific sequences 10/10 and others 1/10.  |
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Sept 19, 2021 21:48:02 GMT
I played on PC and I think I used the XBone controller... I used Russian voices though so avoided the bad dub (and this time around the side chatter was subtitled too so you didn't miss anything unlike in 2033/LL). I agree the guns lacked a little weight but it wasn't a deal-breaker for me. I finished on normal with the good ending.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 20, 2021 6:52:53 GMT
Been playing this a bit after buying the trilogy in a sale (I'd played the original none-redux version of 2033 years ago). Considered playing Last Light first but decided to just skip to Exodus.
So far I'm enjoying it. Visually it's weird though, sometimes it looks amazing, other times I notice a few textures here and there that look like they come from the original game or Fallout 3. The ray traced lighting helps paper over those cracks though.
Gameplay I'm not amazed, nor am I appalled. it's fine.
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Post by malek86 on Oct 12, 2021 18:58:20 GMT
The season pass is on sale for cheap this week. Is it worth it? I assume it's more linear than the main game, if so that would be right up my alley.
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Post by aubergine on Oct 13, 2021 23:13:04 GMT
Hard to get more linear than an alley.
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 18, 2023 21:39:40 GMT
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Post by Vortex on Feb 18, 2023 22:14:22 GMT
To my shame, i still haven't played exodus.
Loved the first one, was a little bit less enthused with the second, and just never got round to it.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 18, 2023 22:35:29 GMT
Oh yeah, I saw this other day. I recently replayed Exodus'and all the DLC, thoroughly enjoyed it. |
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Post by bichii2 on Feb 18, 2023 23:57:50 GMT
To my shame, i still haven't played exodus. Loved the first one, was a little bit less enthused with the second, and just never got round to it. It's brilliant, get it. Apparently the current gen patch makes it look even more stunning |
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