16 April 2026 10AM PDT | 7PM CEST | 8PM EST
Metro’s back!
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After Exodus, I really don’t know how I feel about another Metro. Kinda feels like dragging out a dead horse to beat it with jumper cables.
That said, I loved 2033 and Last Light. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hope they somehow go back to basics so we can have another immersive linear story with great characters and atmosphere.
Aw man, I loved Exodus.
While it was different, I did like Exodus in a different way and it felt pretty fresh.
Same, exodus was great
After reading the books, all I want is an open world Metro rpg. Let me play as an unseen observer sent by University station to spy on the rest of the metro’s factions. Let me bet on rat races at Paveletskaya. Let me play as a defender at Sevastopolskaya mowing down hordes of monstrosities. Let me be stalked by Great Worm Cultists near Park Pobedy. Let me compete in the annual stalker race around the ring stations. There are so many factions and independent stations that are never even mentioned in the games let alone visited. I feel like an open world game like that is the only way to do the books justice.
I was almost the opposite, after reading the books I don’t want to return to that world, the first one made it feel dark and bad, but intriguing and full of unknown, second one made it a bit darker, and the third one just made it so dark and depressing, like the Darkest Dungeon, where each step sips your sanity.
It just became massively unappealing, a world of Soviet-style state oppression in a can, without a hope, with no heroes, and where the only way forward is out.
I just played through 2033 and Last Light again for a third or fourth time since their original releases and love both, but I’m now on my second attempt to actually finish Exodus before losing interest because it feels like such a slog to me. I guess I probably ought to finish it now.
lol I could have just refreshed and not wrote almost the exact same take as @Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
I love exploring, so Exodus was perfect for me. The problem is, even after the fourth playthrough, 2033 and LL are still fun purely because of the gunplay/knifeplay, while Exodus has much less combat. So I know all maps, secrets and locations, but there’s not that much combat, so I rush through everything.
