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Привет, товарищи! Welcome to  Metro: Last Light is the sequel to 2010' s Metro 2033. If you haven't played Metro 2033, you should check pannycakes's and ApocalypseToast's LP's. I'll be providing a short summary of the first game's events that should be enough to get you up to speed, but 2033 is a great game and you may miss out on some of the smaller details and returning characters, so I suggest you go watch them. I'll wait a bit. All Done? Wait, what do you mean  ? Argh, ok, let's ask Wikipedia:Previously, on Metro 2033 posted:Metro 2033 is a first-person shooter developed by 4A Games and published by THQ. The story is based on Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel of the same name, and is set in the ruins of Moscow following a nuclear war, where the survivors are forced to live in underground metro tunnels. Players control Artyom, a man who must defeat an evil mutant race known as the Dark Ones. To be quite honest, I didn't like Metro 2033 when I first played it. It had a great premise and a fantastic moody setting, but the enemies were bullet spongy as hell and came in swarms, ammo was scarce and you were likely to end up using your Military-grade ammo (the game's currency) just to shoot monsters, which ended up screwing you in the long run. There was a stealth mechanic in place that helped you get through a lot of the human-populated levels, but since the game never told you you could just stealth sections, you ended up fighting your way out. A lot of people recommended playing it in Ranger Mode, because it made bullets waaaay more lethal, which ended up having the side effect of making the game easier since you ended up saving ammo. There was also a Karma system which influenced the game's ending, but it relied on stuff such as "play every balalaika and musical instrument in the game" asides from easier to spot decisions like not shooting the Dark One in the face, and it ended up having causing most people to miss out on the game's Good Ending, so much that the Ranger Ending -where you blow up the Dark Ones- is the canonical ending to 2033, since that's what most people got. The Karma system makes a return in Last Light, and we'll be aiming for the Good Ending. Please note I said "aiming for"; the karma system is a bit twitchy, but since I'm planning on showing off conversations and grabbing all the notes I'm fairly confident we'll get it. I'll be explaining how it works as we run into the positive and negative karma triggers. Depending on how much backtracking I have to do I may do a bonus video showing off the different results for the major decisions in the game, and the other ending. I got Last Light with a GFX card, installed it to give said card a test ride and ended up loving it. The game is more accessible, stealth is easier (a lot easier, bordering on cheap if you abuse it), and it looks and sounds amazing. So grab a drink, dim the lights, put on your headphones, and come explore post-nuclear Moscow with Artyom.  Why are you playing this and not Redux? Metro Redux is a remake of both 2033 and LL in a slightly modified LL engine. As such, there really isn't much difference between the base game and Redux; if you never played either game you'll want Redux, but if you already have a copy of LL you're set. 2033 gains the most from this remake, so if you tried 2033 and found it a bit janky or too difficult you may want to give 2033 Redux a try. I will be playing the DLC missions are on the Redux version of the game, since they're not available for purchase for the base game anymore. Update Schedule? I'll be aiming for updating twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays most likely. Jesus H. Christ you suck at FPSs. That's not a question. Also, yes. Spoilers? Discussing 2033's events is ok, but let's keep the thread spoiler-free regarding not only the story but setpieces and locations as well. Yes, that means not even in spoiler tags.                                         
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HardDisk posted:Nice seeing this. I liked 2033 well enough, but in the end, I liked the world of 2033 more than I liked playing it, so I didn't bother picking LL up. HardDisk posted:Also, you might want to check in with some mod to change the thread icon.  Brownieftw posted:So i hear I ruined a recording session, edmond. I might have to watch now
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TomViolence posted:Great, now I have to reinstall the game and play it myself.  Apep727 posted:I thought that the bad ending was canon because that's how the book ended. Apep727 posted:Anyway, since I took Russian back in college, I can't help but go, "that's not how 'Sparta' should be spelled." I have to wonder why they made that decision. I'm also wondering what the in-game reason is for stuff being written in both Russian and English (the big map, signs, etc.). SardonicTyrant posted:Good to see a thread for this game. I finished it on Ranger difficulty recently and there's a few cool things about Ranger mode I'd like to point out when you get further into the game. Ragequit posted:With your FPS skills, Artyom's survival chances look as bleak as the wasteland you'll be playing in. Should be a fun ride!
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There's going to be bit of Russian thrown around when we meet a new character in Episode 03, so feel free to explain what the hell he's saying when we get to that point.bman in 2288 posted:I'm going to just throw this out there and admit I liked the armor system in vanilla 2033. Less so when I hosed up stealth kills by missing a dude's neck with my throwing knife, but it was interesting to me. I don't think I ever made it to human enemies in the original 2033. I remember scrambling for ammo during the first big fight against a group of Nosalis on the bridge and having a hell of a time when you need to hold your ground with Bourbon at the entrance to Market because the bloody things just wouldn't die. Knives in Last Light are... Well, let's just say we'll be seeing them in action in episode 3; I don't want to spoil the surprise. resurgam40 posted:But yeah, I played through these games once, and again when the remastered versions came out. All in all I preferred the controls for the second over the first as I had more fun with it. But it's a really great series I find, with a really juicy, well done atmosphere... Playing videogames, I've never felt quite so al;one in a world that hates me as when the good old Russians were at the helm! I played a bit of the original 2033 but never finished it, watched an LP, loved Last Light which led me to getting 2033 Redux. I liked Redux much better than base 2033, I think the changes going into LL (which went "back" to 2033 Redux) made the game much more accesible. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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The forums getting ddos'd gave me an excuse to play some more, so it's  Update time! Where we take a walk through Moscow with Anna and observe the local fauna. Journal entries for this update: Xander77 posted:I believe the original Metro shared a problem with STALKER (which makes sense, since the two games were mostly made by the same people): enemies get more and more bullet spongy the lower the difficulty is. I didn't comment on the guns since there was already the Quartermaster's explanation going on and on-screen text saying... pretty much what I would have said since they're standard fare FPS weapons (for now). I try to avoid putting subtitles when there's already text being displayed; I have a bit more leeway when it's subtitles or when there's background dialogue but I still don't like doing it. I do comment on guns as I use them, so you'll see a bit of that in this episode. Alexeythegreat posted:If this were an LP of Metro 2033, I'd help out with language, but I haven't beaten that one myself yet, and don't want to spoil it for myself, so, unfortunately, WELP 
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SardonicTyrant posted:Ranger Mode is a special difficulty that is available as DLC in both Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light. While they're both DLC, Ranger Mode for 2033 was released for free on Steam (it was paid on the 360), but actually cost $5 for Last Light. You could get it "for free" if you got the Special Edition but, needless to say, a lot of people got angry at this, especially considering the developers went on record [citation needed] somewhere saying that Ranger Mode was "the way the game was meant to be played". SardonicTyrant posted:The only real downside is that, since there are no longer any prompts, you can sometimes miss ammo pickups, currency, a boss QTE You know, I'm still not sure if instead of actually deciding and programming which prompts should stay on-screen and which should be hidden, they just disabled the whole overlay for Hardcore and called it a day. It would certainly explain things like the spoiler you mention, which would be a staggeringly dumb design decision otherwise -even considering the "immersive" nature of Ranger Hardcore- and It would also explain why even though Metro: Last Light itself has been delisted (you can only get the Redux editions now), you can still get the rest of its DLC on Steam... but not Ranger Mode. Trying to access the store through the game menu just redirects you to Steam's main store page. Next update will be up sometime on Wednesday; the game's chapters are fairly similar in length at around 20-25 mins, so after getting more comfortable with the whole LP process and having something that kinda resembles a workflow I'm fairly confident I can update twice a week.
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Update time! Where we lose our quarry, but gain a comrade. Journal entries for this update: And here's a bit of dialogue that    
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Xander77 posted:You get to recover the weapons you took from the Sparta armory at the end of Pavel (next to the gate that leads to the Nazi rally)  And here are a couple medkits I missed on the left side:  Also yeah, knives are OP as hell; I was gonna mention it works on mutants after killing one from halfway across a level. Xander77 posted:Pavel actually has a speech about how  Here's the full thing (I included it on the update post as well): Dooky Dingo posted:When you keep touching those giant burning bulbs with your bare hands... 
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Xander77 posted:Yeah, that's a bit more approving in the Russian version. Samovar posted:Edit: What is Khan talking to Alex about in the first video, before you interrupt them? The soldier doesn't actually have lines at this point, if you walk up to them you get that bit with Uhlman going "Pay no attention to this clown, Alex. Open the gates!" you saw on the video. Regarding women in the game... I'm not gonna argue with you there. While some things do make a certain sense in-universe (which we'll see in a few videos), some other stuff could definitely have been handled better.
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SardonicTyrant posted:Oh, but that reminds me of another "no hud" problem: Ranger Hardcore removes the subweapon menu, so the only way to tell if you're switching from, say, knives to grenades is by the (very) faint sound each subweapon makes when selected. So it actually brings up the menu but you can't see it? This reinforces my "they just disabled the whole HUD" theory, that's beyond dumb.  Xander77 posted:I don't think the game even tells you how to use the subweapon menu on regular mode, so good luck if your first playthrough is in Ranger Hardcore. The weird part is that the original Metro 2033 was a lot smarter about that - you just pressed different buttons to switch to knives / grenades etc, and the switch was visible. Removed in Metro 2033 Redux, because the developers don't really give a poo poo about obvious playerbase consensus. You get a lonely "Press TAB to switch secondary weapons" when you pick up your first grenade in chapter... 6 or 7, but that's about it. What's super lovely is that there's no way of switching throwables outside of said menu so I'll have to get creative during firefights, become a Master of Editing, or hope the game remembers which subweapon I had selected when I entered a checkpoint. 
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Samovar posted:Well, I really like Pavel; though I do wish I knew the exact translations for his little exclamations. But that does lead me to what I find... not so great about this game. Same happens in LL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pyw2CTc22I Xander77 posted:I... don't quite follow.
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Mein Gott, looks like it's Update time! Where we mingle with the locals and partake in a bit of exercise. Journal entries for this update: This is (quite) a short update to tide us over until next one is up. After this I will be trying to stick to twice-a-week a schedule, which will probably be Mondays and Fridays. SardonicTyrant posted:Something I just noticed in the Pavel video. It doesn't seem like you looted the ammo from enemy guns, just their bodies. You can swipe the ammo from guns without picking them up.  Xander77 posted:Alternately, learn to speak Episodes 06-08 will feature Pavel calling us all kinds of words in Russian, so you guys will get a chance to make the rest of us feel not so left out. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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resurgam40 posted:Also, wow, good job Spartans, keeping your secrets intact, as one of the biggest and scariest factions in the Metro found out about it and have already started hypothesizing about what's in there. Someone ought to be fired. In their defence, it probably became obvious to everyone something was up when we suddenly launched a missile barrage at the Dark Ones' nest at the end of 2033. Samovar posted:Edit: In the books the Reich is located in three central stations on the Chekhovskaya, Pushkinskaya and Tverskaya lines. If I had to guess, the C is an abbreviated anglicisation of tsentral'nyy (центральный, if Google hasn't betrayed me), but they realised too late that people without knowledge of the Moscow underground probably wouldn't get that. Yeah, they had a combination of the "classic" swastika and a triskelion of sorts; here you can see the station layout Samovar mentions (and D6 off the grid since it's Metro-2):  And here's a closer look at the "C" Apep727 mentions and the Swastriskelion from the 2033 beta:   This is what I could find about the "C", but [citation needed]: quote:"The Nazi faction's symbol is a big "C" instead of any actual Third Reich-related imagery. This C is the Moscow Metro sign for stop/no entry, symbolizing the Nazis' attempts at getting rid of all ethnic groups other than their own." Also, unrelated but: Samovar posted:Finally, it's obvious why Anna calls you rabbit; she's seen your avatar. 
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Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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Xander77 posted:Sound cue. Sound queue is something else entirely. Argh, I completely missed that. Thanks for the spot and sorry all for the mistake. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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We're back! (sorry about that!  )Where we meet a ventriloquist and learn about tails. Journal entries for this update: There's a bit of dialogue if you follow the two soldiers, but since 2 minutes of crouch-walking for a line of dialogue didn't make for exciting footage, here it is:  We now have custom thumbnails on the videos!  Montalvo posted:Really enjoying this LP!  Xander77 posted:That's the problem with ingrained subtitles. (In addition to subs at the top of the video being covered by the title every time you pause / fast forward) I'll check the speedrun out, thanks!
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Samovar posted:Obviously Pavel had to keep repeating that one line at the start. He was going on about a revolution. We'll be getting the weapon you mention, but it's not going to be showing up until we're about 2/3 into the game unfortunately.  Xander77 posted:Forgot to link. Spoilers for anyone watching along at home. stuff.If any of you have a slight interest in stealth games, I recommend you check his channel (sans the Last Light videos, of course ).
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Sale alert! Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux are on sale at Indiegala (they activate on Steam) for 5 bucks each. The Bundle is not discounted, unfortunately. It usually goes for $7.50 in Steam sales so this is a bit more expensive, but it's a great deal anyway.
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Xander77 posted:Are you going to play through the DLC campaigns? If you don't have them, now's your chance to grab the complete Redux version. I never got the DLC (I actually thought they had stopped selling it for the base game since Steam just redirects you to the main page) and since there's so little difference between LL and Redux's engines, I never considered getting Redux, even for the extra missions. At our current rate of 2 videos a week it's going to take us until late December to finish the main game, so we can see what the interest is in seeing the DLC as we go along; I can see about getting Redux during the winter sale if people still want to see more Metro by then.
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Update time! Where we return a favour. Journal entries for this update: SardonicTyrant posted:I would like to see you play the Redux version and go Ranger Easy mode, because then you can start the game with the Azbats and go
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Xander77 posted:There's a fairly good modified Bastard in the room to the right, just before you pass through this door: . I'll probably do a video at some point going Murder Ranger to show off some of the guns that won't be seeing much use during my regular play.Or is it Sputnik posted:Huh... I don't remember ever seeing that toilet. Nice catch with The Internationale; I realised it wasn't the Russian anthem but wouldn't have placed it beyond that. Apep727 posted:I noticed something in this video - your watch actually works. The time actually changes as you play. I'm not sure if it's in real-time, but the time does change. It also jumped back about an hour when you walked into the freezer or whatever that room was with the guy huddled on the ground, but still, that's another neat little detail. The watch is actually displaying irl time whenever you're not using the gas mask. I usually try and record everything in one go, but it starts getting trickier as the game progresses so sometimes I end with 2 or 3 videos for a same level; the time jumps you see in game are where I cut the video to join the various takes. This particular video has 4 cuts: -The one you spotted when walking into the fridge, since I re-recorded the start of the level to grab that conversation upstairs. -An easy to spot one wen I drop down into the sewers the second time. -Throwing the lever to open the gate at the end of the level takes me a bit under 7 hours. -There's one final cut during the cutscene when artyom is crawling up behind the guards at the execution.
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Dooky Dingo posted:If you knock out that guard who is inspecting the grate and he slips into the water, does he drown? If so, does that ruin your no-kill run? Pretty sure it doesn't, that's footage from my first time through the level doing full stealth where I got the achievement for it.  I may have gotten super lucky with his ragdoll when I knocked him out, since his head is above water:  But after some googling I didn't find anyone whining about their missing cheevo for knocking a dude out who then dies on his own a la Deus Ex or Dishonoured, so they probably just didn't program the water in those pipes to be a hazard. "[b posted:subway masturbator[/b]" post="464849077"] You are, aren't you?   thanks
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Or is it Sputnik posted:if you accidentaly shoot, stab or blow up someone in your no-kill run, your savefile is now corrupt and you have to start a new game to get the achievement. Reloading a checkpoint is not enough. Fun! Then we won't be seeing that achievement pop up, I've been doing a lot of murderin' on my practise runs. Samovar posted:That scene with Pavel at the end was where I lost the pacifist run. Fun Fact: You can get the pacifist achievement for that level and still murder the two guards with Pavel, the achievement actually pops up when you're crawling through the back:  Tasteful Dickpic posted:Not only is this kind of a Half-Life game, it's also a far better Fallout 3 than Fallout 3 was. Glad to hear you're enjoying the ride!
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PurpleXVI posted:Does anyone in this game ever stop talking? I was originally planning to make this a voiced LP, thinking I'd have to time any commentary as not to talk over dialogue, but I began playing and realised that people talked way more than I remembered and that the lulls in the "conversations" were not long enough for anything longer than a sentence, which would sound super weird, so I gave subtitles a try. I found I could settle into a nice rhythm with some one-off remarks and jokes in between conversations and longer stuff like mechanics or gameplay stuff when people finally shut up that I I'm also trying to not be too tone-deaf with what's happening on screen, so I try to keep quiet during more serious/sober stuff or a particularly atmospheric bit, even if noone's yapping on at the moment. That's what I'm going for at least; I'm still new at this though, so I may still be calibrating that particular sensor. Hope some of it is making it through.  Also the sound design is fantastic and I wouldn't want to spoil it with my voice. I'm bookmarking your post to link it when I post update 9. It's  incarnate. I'm still not sure how I'll handle it, but I still got some time to figure something out.PurpleXVI posted:That aside, I'm getting a feeling like the gameplay of Last Light is IMMENSELY improved from 2033, not to mention the level design. In LL you have the walk in the park with Anna to get you used to the gas mask and filters and fighting some mutants without seriously putting you at risk: Anna helps you with the Watchers, you have like 3 filters by the time you reach the surface and there's no way to spend 15 minutes there unless you're wasting time on purpose. Then you go into the Stealth training level in the Gulag and head off into Ranger Baby's First Encounter during Facility where you can try your hand at stealth but still murder your way our if you screw it up. In comparison 2033's first stealth section with the Bandits (I think it was the Bandits?) can go really wrong really fast if you're not used to the stealth system or if you don't realise you don't need to murder everyone and can just sneak through some sections. And then you get to the Bridge. The Bridge level will destroy your will to play the game if you're not careful, you get swarmed from all sides and by then you're still running with the Bastard and the Dulpet. SardonicTyrant posted:It's to fill in the awkward silence from hanging around Artyom for any length of time. He missed his calling as an interrogator. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Artyom just can't get a word in lengthwise. PurpleXVI posted:Don't be too reverent about the atmosphere, though, it's a videogame, not a funeral.  PurpleXVI posted:if Artyom in-game was a blood-thirsty berserker, and the player went Solid Snake on everything, it would feel really off, and vice versa. It's a way to give the player a sense of freedom with their gameplay style. PurpleXVI posted:Also, aside from the stealth and tutorial, what strikes me most about Last Light so far is that, from our brief encounters with the mutants to this point, they don't "feel" like bullet sponges. I never played 2033, disclaimer, but I watched an LP of it and the mutant encounters always looked terribly unfun just because every single one of them was a brown bullet sponge with one attack pattern, that you faced in a tunnel, and two dozen of them would come at once. PurpleXVI posted:Books stuff  (I need to read the books, I have 2033 but I've been lazy with my reading lately). Thanks both to you and inscrutable; I know there's such a thing about taking an LP too seriously but it's nice to know that I'm in the ballpark of what I'm aiming for. Update will be up sometime tonight when I come back from work.
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If you have phobias you may want to read this before checking the episode: There are giant gently caress-off Spider-Scorpion hybrids in this update. Lots of them. Update time! Where we become Musketeers. Journal entries for this update:
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bman in 2288 posted:At least they aren't librarians. Wait until we get to the Spiderbug Librarian.  Sorry, just kidding. Or am I? resurgam40 posted:And Artyom is no help at all with his goddamn theories that these critters were always beneath the earth and got woken up by the Apocalypse, why the hell would you write that in your diary now? PurpleXVI posted:The subtitles need the occasional Translator's Note for some of these words because otherwise they're just gonna keep making me wonder. Pavel's using it like it's a friendly term, but it sounds like it should be a slur. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:I've gotta say, I'm enjoying the Three Musketeers references from Pavel, considering your username. Oh, believe you me I'll have something to say about it a (near) future update. I never did read the sequels though, I could never find them over here. For a long time you couldn't get Dumas' books here; It took me a long time to find a copy of The Count of Montecristo and when I finally did the translation was abysmal. Years later I was chatting with my French teacher about the book and its horrible translation and she recommended a particular edition she knew had a fantastic French/Spanish translator and I actually had to go to the publisher because it had been out of print for a while. And then last year I visited the states and got the Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics edition because look at it, it's so loving pretty. so I currently have 3 editions of the book in 2 languages. Why yes, The Count of Montecristo is my favourite book, why do you ask? I should see about grabbing the other two Musketeers novels on my Kindle; as Pavel mentions the first one is kind of a clusterfuck but it's all kinds of fun.
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Apep727 posted:This might make me a bit unpopular, but I didn't really care for The Three Musketeers. I was a bit disappointed in Musketeers since I read it after Montecristo but, as you say, the action was good enough to keep me entertained. It wasn't one of those books I have to power through just to get them over with. Samovar posted:It's not Dumas, but I always liked Les Miserables myself. Samovar posted:Actually, on the subject of Dumas, his father was one hell of an interesting dude. Seriously, just look at this dude:  During the battles in Italy, Austrian troops nicknamed Dumas as the Schwarzer Teufel ("Black Devil," Diable Noir in French). The French – notably Napoleon – nicknamed him "the Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol" (after a hero who had saved ancient Rome) for single-handedly defeating a squadron of enemy troops at a bridge over the Eisack River in Clausen (today Klausen, or Chiusa, Italy). It's a hell of a read.
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If you have phobias you may want to read this before checking the episode: We're back to the small spiders in the cobwebs, but there's a bit of a jumpscare involving one at 5:46 when I turn the corpse over. Skip to 5:55. Update time! Where weird things happen. Journal entries for this update:
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Xander77 posted:You missed the ice-cream secret. Indeed I did. I checked the right side under the stairs on my test run but not the left. Right before heading up the stairs, you can go behind the ice-cream freezer to find a safe with MGR, a filter and a few bullets:    Apparently these are locked in Redux, and you have to find a key?
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Xander77 posted:http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=746760321 PurpleXVI posted:I have to admit that the supernatural stuff in the Metro games feels a bit, eh, lame. Just the most generic hauntings imaginable. Apep727 posted:Personally, I kind of like them. Yeah, they're especially innovative, but given that the setting is an otherwise straight-forward post-apocalyptic scenario, they add a bit of extra flavor. It's an extra bit of weirdness that can't be explained away. I really liked the cockpit flashback if not so much the flashes in the cabin, the moment the missiles launch is fantastic.
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There will be better spooky stuff coming, I promise. For those of you who missed it (and didn't read my spoiler a bit up ), go rewatch the phone sequence and pay attention to the walls when lightning strikes.HardDiskD posted:Artyom and Pavel didn't close the doors to the spiderbugs on their way out. The Watchmen are up there. Let them fight.
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Update time! Where we go to the theatre. Journal entries for this update: Alright, this one's long and as gently caress. I keep my mouth shut during conversations even when they don't have subtitles and I disappear altogether during a later part, so it'll be light on commentary during some parts.I apologise for any overlapping in the not subtitled conversations, the crier in particular is especially annoying since he walks up and down the level screwing my recording and as I mentioned during Pavel some conversation triggers (as far as I've been able to make out) are time based and some depend on position; I went through the level a bunch of times but never managed to get a completely clean recording. Anyone up for a bit of translation? This is the sign near the drunk guy at the beginning:  There's one stand I didn't go to in the market, near the weapons seller; it sells meat:  And finally, this bit of dialogue if you stick to Pavel at the beginning instead of stopping at every conversation: 
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I'd say that was a fantastic scene, but all of Mad Max is just utterly amazing. Thanks for the translations! I wonder what the make bread out of in the Metro. Samovar posted:Edit: I guess Stanislavski is a reference to Constantine Stanislavski? It would make sense. Samovar posted:Edit edit: I like how the one dancer on the far left is not in time. bman in 2288 posted:Like the beggar said, the Bolshoi is poo poo now, filled with people who don't know art or improvement.
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Oct 11, 2016 00:31
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resurgam40 posted:Russia has a really rich cultural landscape to draw from I was going to bring something up when Xander mentioned Pushkin a few updates ago and completely forgot: I'm totally guilty of eschewing 'The Classics' and more serious stuff in favour of fantasy. Not that there's anything wrong with genre fiction per se; we can't be reading super serious stuff 24/7 but I've been trying to alternate between fiction and more historical stuff/classics, but I made the mistake of trying to force myself to read some 'local' stuff first and realised how much I loving hate Tales From Colonialist Latin America (Marquez, Allende, Vargas Llosa) so the lovely genre fiction ended up winning most of the time Russian literature is on my "to read" list, but most of what usually comes up when discussing it seems so... bleak (I may be completely mistaken about this so feel free to shout at me) I have Lolita lined up for my next foray but If you or Xander want to recommend some stuff I'd be more than glad to take a look.
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Oct 13, 2016 14:55
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Update time! Where we lose a friend, but pick up a scent. Journal entries for this update: A short one this time, but still quite talky. Thank you for all the book recommendations, I'll see about giving them a try!
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Oct 14, 2016 18:26
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bman in 2288 posted:That's neat, I played through this game a couple of times, but I never realized until now that Artyom's mother died to a swarm of mutant rats. Another thing, those guys are wearing the same kind of uniform Anna was wearing at the beginning of the game. Artyom's entire station was wiped out by the rats (not really a spoiler, it's like page 3 of the first book): Metro 2033 Novel posted:He didn’t remember his father at all. His mother had been with him until he was five years old. They lived at Timiryazevskaya. Things had been good, and life had gone smoothly and peacefully, until Timiryazevskaya fell victim to a rat infestation. You don't gently caress with the rats in the Metro.
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Irony burned alongside Moscow.
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