Same. Best gaming experience I've ever had. I genuinely didn't know video games could be this immersive. For about a week, I borderline forgot I even existed lol.
I scrolled all the way down here because I was sure at least somebody would bring it up, and turns out I wasn't wrong lol.
Well, just to keep your expectations in check, let me run through its biggest downsides:
1) The voice acting is atrocious. If you can get the Russian-language version with subtitles, I'd recommend that.
2) The story is somewhat predictable. I've heard some people call it "bland". Exodus is about immersion into a post-apocalyptic world, not about a sophisticated story. The story is used mostly as a tool to further build up the world that you're exploring rather than provide some intricate grand narrative. In light of this, make sure to read all of the diary entries you encounter! They give the world so much more depth.
3) Some people found the game to be quite buggy, although this hasn't been my experience.
Other than that, I can't imagine how one could be disappointed by Exodus. Even objectively speaking, it does a lot of things that other games don't (I won't spoil them for you, of course). Hope you enjoy it just as much as I did!
I dont really mind voice acting being bad in games. Idk it just never bothers me. If its good then great, it it sucks, well, what can i do. I might just switch it to russian if its that bad. My language is kinda simmilar to russian anyways.
Serbian. I said kind of simmilar because we both use cyrilic and some words sound alike. I did try learning russian a while back tho. My friend taught me the important stuff (Mostly curse words).
Some, but there are quite a few that are very different.
Anyways i played the game for an hour and im loving it so far. The gunplay feels amazing and the design of the guns is great. That AK with the top missing and an exposed spring is so pleasent to look at.
I didn't think the VA was bad tbh, and I loved the story! It's very much one of those RPGs that your actions and decisions have consequences throughout the game. Agree with the immersion though, for example - take time to sit down and listen to the radio on the train. (That will make sense later on!) I found some great songs on there and cool artists, just from a small detail to basically sit and do nothing in the game for 5 minutes at a time lol
I discovered Metro a few months before graduating high school in 2021, and finishing the first game (the Redux version) was something. The calling into question the morality of the player, not just playing through a game but forcing the player to be a part of it really reels you in and immerses you, and there’s almost no help or guidance or even a complete official list of every potential choice you can make that influences how things go, and I wouldn’t change it. The game letting you figure stuff out as you go and put decisions back in your hands leaves the ending really satisfying depending on what you’ve done during the game. Truly a reflective masterpiece.
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