Tak!I probably played this recently enough that I liveposted it on my glitch account, but those posts are gone now, like tears in the rain
I love that you're encouraged to walk around and chat with the team, and you even get useful information and side quests just from hanging out
It's almost relaxing being able to just wander around outside without constant filter stress
video games allow us to live out our most outlandish fantasies, like having an old white guy in authority admit he was wrong and apologize
Metro Exodus was as good as I remember it being. It feels substantially longer than the previous two, although maybe some of that was due to each chapter being a nonlinear open world with optional side objectives instead of a very linear plotline. I think I must have played on a harder difficulty before (this time was "normal"), because I breezed through areas I remember retrying A Lot before.
I like that there was a lot of focus on the other characters instead of just being The Artyom Show, and the other characters taking active roles in the various missions helped provide a feeling of all being in it together, again instead of Artyom Saves the Metro. It's a little amusing imo that we've suddenly forgotten all about The Dark Ones.
It looks and performs great as always, and each area has a consistent environmental theme. I got lost at least once in each major area (which also could have contributed to the feeling of it being a long game) - the map is very low-res, and at least once my objective was marked as being the place I had just come from.
I'm interested to see how they're going to bridge the story to Metro 2039.
