Metro Exodus (Zero Punctuation)

This week Yahtzee reviews Metro Exodus.
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[@bartekltg]

"..that said a lot about this society, where bullets were the most useful day-to-day commodity as opposed to say, tinned food or bog roll", said Yahtzee showing us a picture of canned beans and stack of toilet paper. He is not only a prophet, but he also tried to warn us!

[@JohnnyThousand605]

Aaaaand this is the comment I was looking for. Thank you =)

[@generalrubbish9513]

He's got a fucking disturbing track record, doesn't he? At what point do we start worshiping him as the newest biblical prophet?

[@TheBerzekerC]

And let's not forget 4:16

[@BugsyFoga]

I can't wait for Tetris : assing around in a bush .😁👌

[@LetsGoGetThem]

😁👌

[@LetsGoGetThem]

😁👌

[@Chilihead3712]

Well... with Tetris 99 there is a Tetris battle royale now...

[@alwest4472]

You already got battle royal so why the fuck not?

[@Kanista17]

well we got Tetris Battle Royale, be careful what you wish for.

[@adamk.583]

Regarding the lack of climaxes at the end of each chapter, I felt that that was precisely one of the points the game's story made. You don't get to be the typical Hollywood-like hero: you get in, complete your objective, make your moral choices and get out. This is something Artyom also says in one of his monologues: even though it is ridiculous and stupid to see a whole church devoted to worshipping a mutated fish, you are not the one who decides whether they continue doing this or not. So I really didn't mind this, in fact, I found this perspective to be more refreshing compared to the typical Western-style hero theme that we usually get.

[@mityakiselev]

As a Russian, I can confirm this is exactly how our lives go. Maybe just a bit more subtle than this

[@troypowers750]

Or you know, not like Chernobyl?

[@redrumgmv161]

@@troypowers750 Chernobyl is actually in Ukraine, not in Russia, but yeah, as a ukrainian, I can say, that our lives go the same way.

[@troypowers750]

@@redrumgmv161 same area. That's like saying Hawaii/California isn't in the U.S.

[@redrumgmv161]

@@troypowers750 Same region, yes. But, dude, it's different countries.

[@troypowers750]

@@redrumgmv161 very small like the Mexican countries.

[@brailleeulogy120]

So the first two games have dialogue hinting that there are people still alive outside of metro. One guy talks about how he heard people on radio then one day it stopped. That was in metro 2033. He is referring to before Hansa found the shield program and started it

[@angellara7040]

I really wonder what happened to the tank crew? I think he mentions bandits which implied people living outside of Moscow and I think a trader mentions radio waves from Petersburg

[@commisso3806]

angel lara The tank crew was actually found in one of the books not written by Glukhovsky

[@angellara7040]

@@commisso3806 that's cool. Isn't the domed city in another metro book? I know one of the Exodus characters is from an expanded universe book

[@commisso3806]

angel lara Yeah, Duke apparently. Don't know about the city, but I've heard that at some point you can hear a conversation between two characters from another book on the radio.

[@madotsuki_mk1]

Was there even confidently stated there were no other survivors in the previous games? As far as I know, in the novels it wasn't, characters just didn't know shit about outside world. After all, there is a whole expanded universe of what's basically official fanfics taking place in other parts of Russia.

[@thequillster]

Can't wait for the Anthem zero punctuation, although I'm sure Yahtzee is dreading it...

[@ufuk5872]

Oh no I think he'll love it because the time it take to load allow him to make some tea

[@megakiller999]

It's online multiplayer-ish only so he may not do it

[@thequillster]

@@megakiller999 true, but it's not pvp, and you can technically play all of it solo

[@YourFatherVEVO]

@@ufuk5872 I seriously hope the entire video is a loading screen

[@metametang7628]

I knew anthem was going to be crap. It had EA's corporate hand all over it and with a dying bioware it didn't look like much fun or was even enjoyable.

[@aristoroth3042]

Not seen many people realise this but you can actually kill the 'Big Fish' in the place you get the train car

[@ve6009]

Yeah, I barely found out gonna do it next playthrough.

[@assh1]

i'm pretty sure i killed 2 of them. If you cut the hanging corpse and ring a bell the fish will come to you, then pull the lever and it drops steel bars on it and you can see the corpse, and the second one commits suicide trying to eat you.... or it's an immortal fish that died twice for some reason ? :/

[@Jajalaatmaar]

@@assh1 I think it was supposed to be its dying throes. It's pretty stupid.

[@hotelvictortango]

Yeah honestly I can't agree with this review, because as much as it becomes a "generic open world game" it's still quite amazing and I love what they've done with it, they put hard work into the series and it's stupid for them to use a currency system when a real world survival game you need to craft what you get.

[@mattfahringer148]

Aristoroth you talking about that giant fish you see after the church mission

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

I would totally play a Cooking Mama Survival game

[@Malkheus]

Can't wait for the mining and planting mechanic too.

[@ianrocco8453]

She'd never go hungry.

[@ReleasedHollow]

Cooking mama in the vietcong forest. "Help mama to split this log so we can get the scorpions out, bite off their stinger and then eat them".

[@Cosplaythief]

I would too.

[@Haan22]

Only if we can get some kind of BR coop into it.

[@delilas2398]

I'm surprised he didn't even mention that there's one character with the name "Idiot"

[@JP_Crimson]

Is he one of those potato Russians?

[@bigrigjoe5130]

@@JP_Crimson Yes. His real name is Sergei but his nickname is Idiot because he's incredibly booksmart and rambles about phillosphy and the nature of man while everyone else is just trying to survive.

[@bouncytheboy]

@ShaunDoesMusic super late reply but Sam was in the Metro 2035 book to my knowledge, he doesn't appear in Last Light as he was injured during the battle for D6.

[@All_Mighty672]

@@bouncytheboy and going off of that, it was explained in the game that he was stationed at the embassy when the bombs hit. It seems 100% plausible.

[@brainflash1]

Mad Maximov: The Railroad Cold Warrior.

[@gregorycomey]

Now that's a real man's movie

[@TheGuardDuck]

Aye!... Um, I mean, Da!...

[@trollerpilotxiv3079]

Maximov Rockatanski

[@HenryWayat]

But you CAN kill the fish in the terminal. It's just not your main task... or not even the sub quest. It' s just a possibility for players who accidentally stumbled upon it and did it for the achievement. Also in the desert you can free some of the slaves on the ship and in one of the missions.

[@senatrius7796]

Yes, you can do all that but I think the point is that you get no payoff from it. You kill a mutant that the cult thinks it's their god, and... nothing. Crazy cult is still a crazy cult, no one even brings up in some conversations that you sometimes hear when sneaking about that "hey, our *god is dead*!!". You kill it and then just... leave. Same with the desert level, you free the slaves and... then what. It wouldn't even have been that hard to maybe add a few freed slave npcs helping you out with the baron bit. But you don't get anything. In fact you get so little feedback that I wasn't sure if I did the slave freeing properly. Pulled a few levers and went "Ok, was that it? Is there anything else I need to do?" I know games these days are always handholding you and throwing trophies and rewards at your face like candy, it's refreshing to see a game that doesn't do that. But *something* would've been nice.

[@HenryWayat]

@@senatrius7796 Well, you right. I think only Anna says something about "I glad you saved them, Artyom" before the last mission, and as I've learned, saving slaves is for Demir. If you want him to stay, you need to save all the slaves, I saved the big ship and slaves in main missions but it appears they are somethere else.

[@bigboi9611]

@@senatrius7796 the payoff is the good ending.

[@evanhenderson9461]

@@bigboi9611 Exactly. Plus this is a top tier AA game, not a AAA one and it shows. You can't expect it to be immaculately polished and flooded with content. The few gripes that people do have are legit but nowhere near problematic. It's an amazing game. Probably one of my top 3 of all time.

[@phoenixchase9271]

@@evanhenderson9461 Also worth noting that unlike most western games artynom is not a nation wide heroic superhuman who can deseo love every problem. He and his friends can’t take on almost 1000 slavers. They’ll need the slavers to fight for their freedom which they helped. They manage to cross the bridge safely proving to the cult that maybe heretics are not as much of a threat as they think they are. They tell the children of the forest about the dam and later on we can hear on the radio about them escaping the forest and killing the bandits along the way. Artynom has saved multiple people and probably helped end slavery for at least 200 people. We don’t get to see it because they don’t want to settle down they have to keep moving. He has helped with a lot but again he can’t always win.

[@sixstringedthing]

I'd like to see more of Comrade Buggarov, and his swarthy mate Comrade Pissov.

[@timebomb4562]

Don’t forget the other friend sukmeov

[@ArcturusOTE]

@@timebomb4562 Or Comrade Bitmioff

[@vladimirlestrad3120]

What about Comrade Fukov?

[@indeed8451]

"We just sort of bugger off" -Metro Exodus in a nutshell

[@DinnerForkTongue]

@acevitamin Exactly. Slav literature and general fiction has little fascination for the "hero is the center of the world" philosophy.

[@Modie]

@acevitamin I asked this somewhere else already, but how are you not the hero helping others? You help free the slaves and you discover the breaking damn. Without you, the forest people would be dead and the slaves would still be slaves. But instead of seeing the consequences/results of your actions, you leave before you get a pay off. Basically you are a hero, which the world needs, but you don't get to see the results. Which I would find disappointing to be honest (would because I have not played the game, so feel free to correct me since I only know what Yahtzee said about these places).

[@davvigtu]

That's why it's called Exodus, I suppose.

[@nickstav08]

@@Modie as you travel though the maps areas on the train, you can listen to dialogue/ or the radio to hear how things go down after you leave, artyom and everyone leave the volga because they dont want to have to kill the cultists to survive. You can hear the slaves or the radio rebelling. The games not about "saving" people, its about trying to find a safe place to live.

[@Reallyreallywho]

@@Modie I'd say all those things that we did weren't made for like a hero thing, it's more of a "oh, this is wrong, I can't leave it like this" and so you do that and bugger off because ultimately you have your own shit to deal with. Like you ain't settling down yet

[@RegretfulDeadMan]

"Sh!t's about to get f*cky" Thanks Yahtzee, now I need that on a T-shirt

[@tnaoro]

4:20

[@Gasoline85]

*Who needs unique currency-mechanics when you have...* Micro-transactions? *Crafting!* Oh...

[@JowoHD]

i was expecting that too

[@hayhaa1984]

Thats gonna be for the next metro, watch it become a fan service MMO with micro transactions and custom characters that breaks lore.

[@theLV2]

I too am bothered by this open world trend, and I was very skeptical of this game, but Exodus does open world right. It's not filled with meaningless shit, the sidequests are handcrafted or are simply locations to explore in this absolutely beautiful world. It is the best outcome we could have gotten and I'm afraid if the series was to continue the linear path the reviewers would have shredded it for being too much like the first two games. The crafting system is simple, but it works and it holds its weight. You don't have to manage your inventory and do tedious scavenging for particular materials, you are simply rewarded for exploring with scrap which you use to maintain your weapons and create the most basic supplies which you will find out run out very quickly on harder difficulties, so you can rarely afford to empty whole magazines into enemies. The scarcity of ammo makes this one of the most intense survival experiences I have ever played, much more than some other games that attempted to include this survival aspect. Ammo was valuable in the Moscow Metros, outside it doesn't mean much. It was an interesting idea but poorly executed, and I'm glad they got rid of it. I only used the high quality currency ammo once, accidentally. There really was no incentive to use it since it was so scarce you were better off running away or using the knife if you really got in a bad spot. In the first area you can be violent towards the fanatics and kill anyone who gets in your way, or you can do your best to not harm anyone. Afterwards your companions remark that you were a stranger in their world and you had no place to interfere with their way of life. It's also peculiar that while the fanatics were not openly hostile, most of them hated you simply for being an outsider, and there was nothing you could do to change that. I find that more interesting and realistic than some stupid hero plot where you kill their evil leader and save them all or whatever. You bugger off afterwards because you were on a mission of your own and couldn't be bothered to stop any longer than you needed to. Artyom also remarks later that he helped free the slaves because he felt it was his moral duty, but also says right now there are probably new slaves being tortured and killed back there and in the end he didn't make much of a difference. This futility I'd say is a common theme in Russian works. I think Americans are obsessed with stories of heroism, fights of good and evil and people living happily ever after. Metro Exodus is not such a story and I love it because of that.

[@chocolat2934]

@@kabeltelevizio are you sure it has a happy ending?

[@evanhenderson9461]

@@kabeltelevizio The entire story revolves around never finding a salvageable place to live. It's BARELY hopeful at all and requires immense sacrifice to even get there, with multiple points of futility along the way. Also, it's not a heroic story, at every turn it explicitly tells you you are not solving the world's problems and can't ever hope to do so, you can barely save your own companions. It's a constant struggle against death and the environment around you. You leave every place more demoralized than before until the end IF you got the good ending.

[@evanhenderson9461]

@@kabeltelevizio I mean no humans could realistically survive that. And I find an experimental anti-rad medicine with only 3 vials left to be a fine way to end an overall amazing story. The fact that the train tracks alone are drivable is unbelievable. Can't imagine how you'd want it to end that's not a deus-ex. Realistically everyone should have organ failure and be dead by now. There were only 2 one dimensional villains though. The cannibals and slavers. The fish fanatics and children of the forest were very interesting. Still pretty limited but certainly not one dimensional. And they all had a nice backstory and plausibility. But I understand why some may not like them. Again though, it's a AA game and having enough story content and time to flesh them out more is expensive.

[@evanhenderson9461]

@@kabeltelevizio The games was AA. It has no where near the polish of a AAA game and most consider it AA. And no the morality system specifically defines both the fish and slave fanatics as being morally unjustifiable to kill. The children of the forest also shoot first, that means nothing as dumb as that seems. There's a lot of humanizing moments for the fanatics in the vulga too, like the father and son you meet that debate each other on the religion and the father talks about how he'd love to join you but his son won't leave the religion so he must stay.

[@wearsjorge55]

Being able to trade ammo with the locals could have been an alternate path to mass murder or sneaky bopping

[@blimeyjoe253]

Watching this video a week before it's supposed to come to youtube? Have I travelled to the future?

[@levesteM]

The Far Cry video is the early one

[@blimeyjoe253]

@@levesteM oh, then let me copy and paste this to the other vid

[@enskje]

@@blimeyjoe253 It's gone already

[@Mick0Mania]

I think it just got taken down. Hah! We are the lucky few who got to see it! Wait, that means I'll have to wait longer for a new one....

[@enskje]

@@Mick0Mania Lets find all the videos of the Final boss battle and spread Donkey Kong references no one else will get!

[@mrjack901]

I actually like the "Set things in motion, and bugger off" thing of Metro Exodus. I mean the other Metros had the same thing aswell, the only difference it's that it was with situation considered small, compared with the big thing happening that had Artyom, the Spartans and the Reds attention. But in this case, the events that you set in motion are considered big, while Artyom and his group objective it's considered small. It kinda makes it more believable, yes Artyom is someone that can be considered a Hero in various definition of the word, but he's still someone with a family to take care off, and a goal that he wants to archive. The Illusion of total apocalypse that Yazhe talks about, and says that was broken, I really don't see that. Fallout and Metro say that the world it's the way it is because of Nuclear bombs. Because of that I never had that Illusion, mostly because I doubt that Militaries would send bombs to places without a strategic value, instead of bombing twice over the ones that do. That includes little countries, or giant countries like Russia where the most of their population are close to Europe in cities live Moscow. Not a perfect game yeah, and the fact that they took the Bullet system out kinda of sucked, but still a very good game, that I will most likelly replay again in harder difficulty, like I did with the previous 2.

[@keatonkitsune4064]

I know this is an old comment but, the whole of humanity being in the Moscow tunnels thing was kinda debunked in the first game. Where at the Spartan's above ground base there is a radio operator talking about how he was in contact with a group that living in the countryside and having to fight off mutants. It was always alluded to that more than just Moscow survived, just that contact with any other survivors was kinda non existent.

[@ThatZenoGuy]

Sounds like cope to me. Bad game.

[@FrancisYorkMorganFBI]

yeah, the books made it all very clear that other places even above ground surived. in one of the books people from chile travel to europe via ships to grab something from a bunker. it's implied that they never had to deal with any of the same levels of shit as people in europe. (which makes sense, cause who the hell would strike chile anyways. it's not a big global player.)

[@Safersephiroth777]

@@FrancisYorkMorganFBI Hey how long are this supposed to take place after the Apocalypse? Around 20 years? I find also strange that people can travel through a whole ocean too without monsters or radiation getting them.

[@Axl4325]

@@khamjaninja. the people still fight each other in 2035 to keep up the façade, at one point Miller (or Melnik, as they refer to him in the book iirc) tries to get Artyom to participate on this system around halfway through, when they deliver ammunition and supplies to the Reich, when he flips out and they knock him. I still think it was an amazing story and they motives for the secret government made sense to me. They are like a dictatorship but they don't need to punish people or have curfews, they control the information and keep everyone in the cage and the rest sorts itself out.

[@melongraffers4884]

@2:51 who would've thought that bog roll would end up being the currency of the apocalypse

[@LastNickLeft]

I think it's important to say that this game is partially based on a book Metro 2035, and the plot with Artyom listening to radio and then discovering the radio jammers is taken from the book.

[@dissuede6949]

A bit spoilery for anyone who hasn't played it yet. Otherwise, solid as usual. ..and a really good game at that.

[@KVWI]

Double upload? Is this a mistake? I’m definitely not complaining.

[@zoedorrahm]

Yeah they just removed the New Dawn video like 2 minutes ago.

[@KainGerc]

@@zoedorrahm shame, I had a nice comment about my reaction to most AAA games today is "HA, HA, Stick it up your bum then"

[@TheGuardDuck]

Nice profile pic!

[@Dorumin]

Nice profile pic!

[@lorgon2111]

Kami k a m i i i i i

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

I just love the way he says "Shit's about to get Fuckyyyyy"

[@tnaoro]

4:21

[@discipleinblack]

Not sure what difficulty Yahtz was playing on, but on Ranger mode I had almost no ammo or supplies throughout the whole of the game, and believe me I looked under every nook and cranny. Plus, trading wouldn't have made much sense in this game. There is less of the Supernatural stuff in this game, but the survival aspect is definitely still present on the harder difficulties.

[@hepzibah4573]

but the ai is so bad it doesn't matter. Fights are easy all the time.

[@T4nkcommander]

@@hepzibah4573 lol OK dude, clearly you didn't play hardcore or RHC. The AI gets cheap...

[@hoodedman6579]

@@T4nkcommander It shouldn't be bad on any difficulty, and it probably shouldn't be particularly cheap on any either.

[@49mozzer]

@@T4nkcommander The AI being cheap doesn't make it good.

[@sheeplord4976]

@@49mozzer I dunno which game this guy played. The AI reacts exactly how you expect them to react. The part that makes it easy is that you have an airgun with practically unlimited ammo and next to no noise. Just pick them off one by one. Some missions force you to do it without killing anyone, but all you gotta do there is time your steps and pick your targets so that their bodies are not found before you have taken down the person that would have found them.

[@TheManOfManyNames373]

So which video is getting deleted first?

[@jackpepperpwb]

The other one.

[@Evildandalo]

Yeah looks like the far cry one is gone. Anybody got a mirror or was it shut down that quick?

[@ShadowLady1]

@@Evildandalo need this

[@donanderson3653]

He always uploads a week in advance on the escapist's website. Someone just messed up and posted the far cry video a week early on youtube. If you want to see it, just go to the escapist's website.

[@jackpepperpwb]

You can still watch it on the website linked in the description. They're always one ahead on there, they must've accidentally uploaded this week's one here.

[@Nick930]

Let's see if he actually finished the game before reviewing this time (kingdom hearts 3) edit: Now this is a good one. Lot of fair points. lol love the ending about just never seeing things through, though I kind of preferred the way they did that. It helped to paint the idea that the rest of the world had their own unique problems and you're not some super hero [insert american protagonist here] who's come to fix it for everyone. Hell.. if they made it so you solved everyones problems, you would be complaining about that, because you have... in almost every review.

[@Modie]

To be honest, I have not played the game, but I don't get the point "It helped to paint the idea that the rest of the world had their own unique problems and you're not some super hero [insert american protagonist here] who's come to fix it for everyone.", which was bought up by other people as well. Maybe you can clear it up. From what I understood in this review, you are exactly that: you free the slaves, you show the problem with the damn. Basically without you, the slaves would still be slaves and the forst people would be dead. The problem He brings up is that you do not see the outcome of anything. You do not see, if your help freed the slaves or if the forest people survived. Basically, the whole pay off is missing. So, you are a hero, but you don't get to see the result of your actions, which I personally do not find very interesting.

[@Elcrisso1]

Half way through the FarCry New Dawn review and it stopped and was removed...

[@Diorden119]

Must have been the SJW marxists again

[@SergioSergio12345]

@@Diorden119 What

[@irarelyupload6930]

Di'orden Yes because everything that happens was SJWS again

[@radioactiverat8751]

@@irarelyupload6930 What does that have to do with it? Don't tell me Far cry ND has politics in it. The kind of stuff that liberals get butthurt over when incorperated in a game and it isn't praised to the heavens.

[@thefungus3632]

They uploaded the wrong one. Go to the website if you want to finish it.

[@andrewr6560]

Whoop and there goes New Dawn... guess I should have watched that one first!

[@SPM0717]

It's on The Escapist website here. www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/27/far-cry-new-dawn/

[@kidkangaroo5213]

Go to the escapist site and watch it there?

[@DM-mq6hx]

years later and still this guy is coming out with consistently brilliant writing.

[@vcom741]

1:35 Aaaaaaaaaaaaactually...this was known for a while XD World of Metro 2033, where writers other than Gluhovskiy write their own Metro books, be it in Moscow Metro or in other parts of the world, was a thing for a while lol

[@qwormuli77]

2033, even still in unedited online release, also threw bones about that fact, before "games ruined everything". This review seems to be made by someone that read a story synopsis, instead of reading the whole thing and playing the games with thought in quite a few other ways too. Metro ammunition isn't that _rare_ 20 years after the fall; metro ammunition is shit. The pre-war military issue rounds are the currency. The rest of the world also couldn't really adopt that without worse immersion breaks than the whined about ones, as Taiga for example wouldn't really have enough military presence for a common ballistic mint, the whole Russia inexplicably creating identical monetary system moreso. He also totally missed the entire political tension aspect of the game completely and also most likely the meaning and history behind the faction of Hansa etc.. Well, you really couldn't demand someone to read three books and playing the games with thought to have an opinion about it. Still, feels bad.

[@soulslasher7890]

disagreed with a lot of your points. the point of their travel wasn't to act, judge, jury, executioner. your goal wasn't to destroy their 'electricity is a sin' cult your goal was never to free slaves in the caspian and even though you were originally led to believe so, your goal was never to find occupying enemy forces or a government. an overarching theme throughout the story is that of Artyom's dream: to be on the surface. this dream led you to the scenes of Taiga and Novoskibirsk, but you never stayed there, because it wasn't Artyom's destination. Just another stop. I think the game did a great job conveying this theme.

[@davidmaitland3238]

You do remember that video games are suppose to be fun right? Especially ones set in a fictional setting and can make up any rule or lore they want for the sake of fun, Yahtzee is completely right that the game was boring and uneventful and saying its meant to be that way is saying the game is meant to be boring? "Oh you dont have fun and destroy or join the cult you just walk past and do nothing like you're MEANT to" So if the games not fun maybe its trying to tell a decent story? The story of how Artyom and his mates live under ground and dont want to live underground anymore so they bum around on the surface and don't get much done, damn that's some insane world building.

[@carottefondeurenfer]

David Maitland I disagree totally, game don’t have to be fun. Take paper please, it’s a great game but it’s no fun in any ways, it’s work. Exodus is not really fun but it give other feelings like amazements, despair, sometimes hope and it give satisfaction and immersion. There is a lot of fun games and that’s cool but don’t assume that every games have to be.

[@davidmaitland3238]

@@carottefondeurenfer You need to learn to read because I said the games not fun and doesn't make it up with anything not all games need to be fun, and you're also horribly wrong because papers please is incredibly fun because unlike Exodus it had a real rising challenge balanced with a thoughtful story that made your decisions matter.

[@StealthMarmot_]

I fully expect Comrade Buggerov to be a regular character in upcoming Zero Punctuations.

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

two in one day? is this normal?

[@matthew1882]

We've traveled into the future lads.

[@VertSecretStash]

Don't complain, lets see where this goes

[@Videogamer96_]

Hmm, are they finally ending episodes a week early on the Escapist?

[@jessielefey]

@@Videogamer96_ They might as well, since Facebook uploads are current. So it's less "a week early on the Escapist" and more "a week late on only youtube". I'm still halfway expecting this to be a mistake tho; I guess we'll see if it gets blocked soon or not.

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

Its a sign of the End Times

[@meapickle]

not gonna lie, I always felt metro could benefit from being open world. but I think it would work best as a spin-off game where you stick to moscow and travel openly through the metro and the surface. trading and surviving with no real solid end game. that way it keeps its atmosphere and mechanics while still being like everyone else

[@Axl4325]

Kind of like Stalker but set in Metro, I would definitely play that. Hell, even the books describe actual stalkers going out into the irradiated Moscow to bring back pre war tech and supplies, you could play as one of them

[@meapickle]

@Axl-ng1yj yeah, but u feel like metro would work better. I tried to play stalker so many times, and enjoyed it but stopped and didn't want to start again

[@alexandher_6969]

Is it bad that I’ve been watching this since I was like 7 or 8? I don’t remember. Now I’m 20 going on 21. I use to watch this with my uncle at his office job on down times. Good times

[@nathanielfinestone51]

I started watching these when I was 19 and now I'm 31. I don't even play video games anymore but Yahtzee never fails to amuse 😊

[@surface3122]

To be fair all the buggering off is reminiscent of, and true to, the actual book/story where Artyom constantly encounters characters who carry him through the next stage of the plot and then bugger off themselves, sometimes by dying.

[@daveyishere55]

The difference is that in the book artyom was kind off more of a pussy than on the game where we are shooting gods

[@toprem4037]

3:40 - You just described the first two Metro games, so what's up with this becoming nonsense?

[@TheDakattack3000]

I loved Metro Exodus. Can't agree it was a disservice to the previous games. It basically was a next step for the story it wanted to tell. Felt like Half Life in a way (since it was inspiration for the series) and just exploring the different landscapes and be immersed in it's atmosphere was great. It's not really open world though, open leveled yes but that's a pet peeves of mine that alot of critics have on this game that make no sense. They would often say in 2033 and Last Light that the linear nature was a criticism, so when Exodus decides to go more open leveled they say it doesn't stay true to the series. Crafting makes sense in Exodus because the other people living across the landscape don't have a bullet economy at all. They have their own culture and rules that makes it impossible for that to happen. It's simplistic but it makes decisions more dire on harder difficulty modes which is where it's BETTER to play Metro games anyways. The missions are a medley of different situations but that keeps it feeling fresh and interesting. It might seem like it lacks consistent design, but I welcome it. It's ambitious and does it's job fine without being obnoxious about it. Also you can kill the Tsarfish and really any of my annoyances with Yahtzee as a "critic" is he often overlooks or fails to really explore games for either his comedic style or generally doesn't understand and just says it's bad or crap. Aside from the last character you meet, the final chapter was fantastic and tense. Not to mention for fans it was a emotional moment to see the ending play out the way it did. I loved it. The good ending at least. I hope people don't take this too seriously. Metro Exodus is a great game worth playing. It wasn't "sacrificed" to be trendy or hip. It wanted to tell it's own story and stay true to it's core gameplay simultaneously. Can't really fault 4A either since they are a smaller dev, have a much smaller budget and have endured enough issues like the Steam fiasco as is. Edited in a rant (spoilers of course): I also can't agree that there's no sense of climax or whatnot with each area's issues. The whole point of Metro and it's style is to make you feel like an actual human being amidst this hellish world. You can't just fix people's problems because you have your own shit to deal with. In the Volga you get braked and have to find a way to get back on the road. The cannibals had to be fought because Miller wanted to go to Yamantua because he was a Spartan and aligned himself still to the Russian govt. It was is hope and even if it seemed predictable, it's very real and understandable for why he wanted to see if the govt was still alive. The Caspian? You have your own problems like water and dealing with some sick crew members. Taiga? Anna is sick and dying. Like Artyom is gonna stop and help some people with the dam when his wife is way more important and the pirates were gonna hang him anyways if they caught him. The slaves are mentioned by Giul that they would and we're recaptured because they can't survive the harsh landscape unless they want to die. That's a very realistic thing when you are in a abusive relationship, especially one that's slave to slaver. It makes the Baron and his henchmen more assholish. Metro in a way is suppose to be a game that goes against conventions of modern game tropes but keeps a geniune heart to it's old school mantra for games at the same time. Yeah the quests are "boring" or not full of spice, but you get to hear conversations from people around you about the world. Makes them more than just generic guys to kill and actual people. It's why killing humans isn't always a good thing. It sometimes is, but I never had an issue with who to kill and spare and got the good ending and all the side men saved/spared anyways. You could run and gun everything, but that just shows the combat isn't really made for that. It's meant to be serviceable enough to get you through monsters and mutants which are easier to deal with since they do melee only usually. You get two endings that reflect the choices you make overall by the end and just straight up killing everything is only gonna get you a bad ending (it was warned in 2033 since the bad ending was canon and Last Light and Exodus both result in Artyom dying). It's ALWAYS been stressed in Metro to preserve life because of how few humanity is. It's constantly referenced in Artyom's journals. People say the guns look crappy and aren't good in gameplay, but the guns feel like how someone would actually make them with spare parts and pieces they scavenge over time. Metro doesn't have the wacky nature of Fallout and I think it's that mindset that has put Metro under unfair light that makes it seem more "generic" or "boring". That it's realistic portrayal of how people live in this world is just not worth exploring. Yet...Half Life 2 does so much of the exact same thing and everyone still thinks that game is one of the best games of all time. That game doesn't have amazing gameplay if you stop and really examine, it's Combine AI isn't that great and basic, yet the characters and story are so compelling it's why you replay it. It's why so much of Metro's three games all feel like Half Life in some way. 2033 is the first half life where Artyom is just some random boy that goes on a journey through survival and getting to Polis to stop the Dark Ones, much like Gordon Freeman was some random Black Mesa newbie that has to survive through a research facility and alien gate opening. Last Light was about Half Life 2. Artyom is already a hero in the eyes of his Spartans (much like Gordon was the "Freeman" second coming for remaining human race), he has more mystical moments (similar to the G man cameos and moments he comes to you), has Anna as a companion and eventual wife (much like Alex Vance who has a good relationship with Gordon through all of 2 and it's episodes), Miller becomes more like Eli Vance, etc. The point I'm making is Exodus is the closest of a Half Life 3 I as a fan of that series will ever get. I mean the Exodus' Aurora with Half Life 2's Borealis equipment? Going to a frozen tundra by the end? Anna is your wife that you care for and become more focused on by the end of the game? But yet it never outright is HALF LIFE because it stays on it's own two feet for it's own series. It's more coincidental and homaging to classic games then new ones. It just has a new engine that was made by their own team. 4A stick to their guns on game they make and to say they comply to modern trends is ridiculous. Buggy and simplistic sure but at least it just wants the player to enjoy it's immersion and atmosphere always. It's a slow burn game much like the novels they are based off of. They go against conventions in modern game trends despite having conventional systems common in older games because I see them as respecting that old guard and embracing it. Maybe not the best for some good reason, but it doesn't feel obnoxious to me.

[@hkr667]

Thank you for your reply. You have good arguments for your opinion. I watch ZP for the comedy but for actual review purposes the only opinions that help are people that explain what they (not) like and why. And after like 4 or 5 of those you can generally decide if the game is for you or not.

[@mybrainidont]

I completely agree, and you hit the nail on the head. I really felt like it was a natural next step, even though it was really easy and not as threatening as before. Then again, what was it to do for a sequel? The mythos of it all begs to be explored. I will say the game deserves praise for putting you in some linear and vulnerable settings, because that is what I feel Metro is all about - being all alone and barely making it out by the skin of your teeth.

[@nickstav08]

@Jimmie Toyne i would't say its an "alternate timeline", just that the game is based on the basic premise of the novel

[@hepzibah4573]

@@mybrainidont easy is the last thing a game like metro should be.

[@mybrainidont]

@@hepzibah4573 Agreed. Even on hard its barely that. I got more out of it on maximum difficulty.

[@simonwoodcock5455]

Yartzee doesn't seem to realise that large parts of the plot are basically directly lifted from Metro 2035, the last book in the metro series, and the Author worked on the game. So I hardly think. At lest from a narrative standpoint that it ruins everything metro was and is.

[@Juranas]

We shouldn't NEED the original source material though; if you make an adaptation, that adaptation should and will inevitably be judged on its own merit. Yeah, obviously by not reading the books you 'll miss some references, but as a whole the adaptation should be able to stand on its own. I only played Metro 2033, but the entire game gave me a very strong feeling of "this is the end", that we were just watching the last dregs of humanity dug in in Moscow's metro essentially waiting to die while surrounded by the literal ghosts of the dead. Exodus sounds like a 180 degree lunge in the opposite direction. It probably makes perfect sense in the books, I'll grant you.

[@hoodedman6579]

I don't think he cares about the source material at all; even then, the book could easily have done that too.

[@cynical8330]

That doesn't make his complaints any less reasonable.

[@Jajalaatmaar]

Too bad the book was written 2000x better than the game. The silent protagonist but no silent protagonist writing (i.e. "ARTYOM ARE YOU ALIVE, COME IN ARTYOM? ARTYOM, HOW IS THE REST OF THE SQUAD DOING?" being met with mute silence). In the book you actually cared about the characters and Artyom had a personality. Besides, the story of the games is judged by the games. Not whether or not it lines up with the books.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

@@Juranas You do not need the original source material, though do try to read a book from time to time, gamer. Even in Metro 2033 people talk about submarine or tank survivors on the outside. Next time, pay more attention to the game and not the memes.

[@ghostfreak1309]

Yahtzee: "Shit's about to get fucky!"

[@TheBellman]

To be fair, the twist that the rest of the world was more lively and Moscow was isolated was central thrust of the Metro 2035 novel.

[@tommerker8063]

one point you got wrong though. in the metro book series the metro is also isolated by radio jammers and the rest of the world still exists. si it's less taking a piss on the franchise and more following the story of the book in a different way ;)

[@jailbotmark1379]

It could also just mean Glukhovsky wasn’t expecting 2033 to be the smash hit it was and needed a way write ANOTHER sequel which inevitably would make him more money Nothing wrong with that but of course it makes the continuity feel weird

[@tommerker8063]

@@jailbotmark1379 not realy it's all set up in the first book to a degree

[@allenpate4515]

Wait wait wait wait the world except russia is fine

[@commisso3806]

Jailbot Mark 1 How does taking a risk and making your next work different from the previous one guarantee more money? Glukhovsky outright said the publishers didn't like his ideas for 2034 and 2035 *because* they thought they won't make money.

[@commisso3806]

Allen Pate It's not really „fine” but habitable.

[@nindger4270]

My biggest gripe with it is that EVERY SINGLE AK in this universe is somehow missing the top cover of the receiver. Like seriously, you can manufacture and maintain springs and magazines (which are orders of magnitude harder to make) but you can't bend a bit of sheet metal to keep dirt outside and the internals inside your gun? 1/10. But that's just me being a gun nerd -_-

[@coyote47713]

If i recall only the short barrel has the open top and every other barrel has it closed

[@brendanmatrix6208]

actually its the stock barrel options dont effect the dust cover, and its only for most of the volga level you can find ak parts in the terminal near the nvgs sniper stock sniper barrel and 30 rnd mag

[@bigboi9611]

The light variant doesnt have the covert.

[@augustwest5356]

Yes it is. This game is awesome.

[@StevanDj]

Did you try playing the game more than 5 minutes?

[@Horesmi]

4:24 all from this point onwards perfectly describes life, in general, irl. I love this awkward realism and it's a nice twist. You have a handful of people in a crazy world, it's ok if you can't just fix it all.

[@commisso3806]

I agree with Yahtzee most of the time, not here though. I enjoyed this game. Though I am a fan of the series so I may be a little biased

[@nickstav08]

Yea same, its a good sequel

[@YaBoyLogann]

Yeah. This review feels like he rushed through the game. First off, you CAN kill the Tsar-fish. Second, the bullet trading wouldn't make sense because that was a bartering system used exclusively in the Metro, how are we supposed to assume that every other faction out there is going to value bullets the same way they do in the Metro? Also I'd argue that if you didn't "bugger off" and "saved" all the groups you meet there would be the complaint of how you have to play Hero for everyone. There's only so much you can do with making a game primarily set in one type of environment (especially Metro tunnels at that) The open level world was the next step for the series to take and I thought Exodus was a fantastic game.

[@fabiohenriques4801]

@@YaBoyLogann Agreed. I honestly thought this video was weak.

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

You're not biased you just have your own opinion which can't be wrong because it's yours

[@commisso3806]

Legoldos I'm glad there were only 2 crafting materials because more would just be getting in the way. I'm not sure what do you mean by „unique ways” because this is a shooter. An FPS with RPG elements, of course the main way to kill enemies is to shoot them. You can find weapon parts and upgrades for your equipment, yes there could have been more, but what there is was fine enough.

[@gugualex4283]

Well heck you do have a good point, SPOLIER DOWN HERE Ana it's all bcz of you, we could have stayed more and have more fun and have more events if we weren't soo rushed

[@SerenityPrim3]

fucking loved this video. playing right now, loving the game, but still had to laugh when he said things I had already been thinking. I may watch too much of his videos, cuz I think I'm starting to think like yathz now.

[@CyrilOfTheWind]

Yahtzee I want you to know that you are one of two channels that I can always rely on to make me laugh and feel better. I rewatch your videos when I'm having a poor day and I just starting giggling like I'm trying to convince the other people in the room that I'm not having fun. Please never stop making content.

[@paradoxacres1063]

Knowing that Yahtzee will one day review *HuniePop* it fills me with determination!

[@PsychoDiesel48]

Oh I cannot wait XD

[@seanurbik2689]

KEEP GOING!!!

[@elix485]

Gonna keep on reportig you for spam. Hopefully, it will work.

[@MasterCharlie104]

Paradox Acres Knowing that you will keep making this joke till the end of time.... It fills me with despair.

[@ryanwill32]

You know, these comments make me hope he never does review that game solely because of how annoying they are.

[@The.George]

I agree on some fronts, but disagree on some too. IMO the crafting system is still relatively well balanced and especially on the 2nd hardest difficulty strikes the balance between action and scarcity of resources, where you have to balance between having enough ammo to shoot every mutant in the face, have the medkits to survive those mutans, or have enough gas mask filters to be able to breathe around the mutants. And trading with rounds wouldn't make that much sense, as someone else said, the factions exists in different circumstances, thus developed a different economy. Religious blokes don't trade with outside world that much, not weapons anyway, desert blokes need water much more than ammo and forest blokes don't use guns at all. And if the story stayed within the confines of the metro, people would bitch that it's still the same thing. Besides, the videogames follow the story of books loosely, so that would clash with the books as well, if Artyom would have never left the metro.

[@nickstav08]

Exactly!

[@discipleinblack]

Ditto man. On the last level I died so many times from running out of resources and not having enough filters. Personally I think the game is near perfect. It blends the atmosphere of the previous games, but isnt afraid to make some areas bigger and more ambitious.

[@user-vp6cq4sv3d]

The game is near perfect? It hardly feels like anything at all. I kept experiencing bugs and the movement is so janky. The developers were lazy and don't compliment the previous two games at all.

[@The.George]

@@user-vp6cq4sv3d Well that is your personal opinion, I've fortunately hasn't noticed anything like that. Dunno what else to tell ya.

[@nickstav08]

@@user-vp6cq4sv3d the last two games were full of bugs too

[@kempinukas]

Someone just run through game as fast as he could to make a video: 1:00 The is plenty of paranormal: dreams, sightings, anomaly's 3:23 U can't craft bullets anywhere, only on crafting table, and they a rare 4:38 Actually u kill the giant fish and a pricier, so technically u help them 4:47 U start a revolution, somebody didn't listen to radio broadcast 4:50 U can kill, or coexist with them, if not the dam situation and if u listened to radio broadcast u would learn that wood people escaped

[@tomstonemale]

Listen to the radio broadcast was his problem though, there wasn't a climax or payoff for your involvement on their stories but a radio transmission. It does sounds very underwhelming

[@tomstonemale]

@@andrewhendl3821 I'm not. That the characters are interesting and their subplots have nothing to do with proper pacing and payoff. I remember something similar with the Far Cry series since 3. The setting and characters are interesting but the pacing is terrible and the climax nonexistent, just a bunch of explosions and gunfights. I am going to play Metro Exodus when I finished Far Cry 5 but good storytelling wasn't really a trademark of the series (hope there aren't cringy scenes with the Artyom's wife again), the atmosphere and solid gameplay were

[@NicholasLaRosa0496]

I took my time going through the story. The only character I believe that didn't get much dialogue or story was Duke. Possibly because he could die in the swamp chapter. I mostly found him sleeping or being preoccupied with something.

[@barthslung]

I moatly agree, exceptnI don't think he realy put much effort into it. I killed the giant fish and saved the slaves.

[@galahad3195]

Meh, I still loved it. Games can get stale if they don't change enough over time. Even when I disagree with Yahtzee, he's still hilarious.

[@samscopeproductionz]

Wow I think this is the first time I disagreed with Yahtzee. I get his point about there being too many open world survival shooters, but Metro Exodus never really felt open world because the story was still based along a very linear narrative, like you couldn’t do missions at different times like in red dead or fallout, plus the Taiga level and dead city level being both open world and linear worked incredibly well in my opinion. Also with the bullet currency thing I also get where he’s coming from but there’s no need for that currency outside of the metro, and is what makes the Moscow metro so unique, anyway it’s not like there’s any vendors anyway. Also at some point Tokarev says ‘I don’t like sand, it’s coarse, rough and gets everywhere’ so it’s GOTY forever in my opinion 😂 Still love your videos yahtz 👍🏻

[@SPM0717]

Well it wasn't that exact same quote, but yeah close enough to be a reference.

[@Crazelord91]

The most pervasive survival mechanic of Metro Exodus is surviving the dumpster fire that is the Epic Games Store/Launcher

[@acblook]

It's literally a button that launches a game dude

[@SergioSergio12345]

The Epic launcher has a million problem but using it isn't one. I isnt the Ubisoft store for gods sake.

[@DamienTheCat]

Imagine having such little going on in your life that you get so worked up over downloading a free game client

[@Crazelord91]

@@DamienTheCat Imagine having so little going on you need to comment about someone complaining about a shitty game launcher, and also like your own comment

[@DamienTheCat]

@@Crazelord91 yes. continue to unhinge.

[@LostTimeLady]

"everything is fineski" that got a laugh from me!

[@jackjordan1004]

I loved Metro Exodus... ZP 'review' was just pretty shit.

[@tomrod10]

This is the problem with AAA games. They all look and feel the same.

[@domskillet5744]

Metro isn't AAA tho. More like AA

[@UncleDon226]

I mean, that's kinda the whole point. Ive only played metro last light, but read all the books and it was the big twist that the world survived. The betrayal Artyom felt when he realized there was a massive plot to keep people in the metro just so some elites could be the leaders. The kind of people who would burn the earth if it meant they could be king of the ashes. He actually knew the world was alive when he nuked the dark ones and it temporarily shut down the radio interference machines

[@thequillster]

Double post-apocalypse Zero Punctuation?? Yes please.

[@Red-S-267]

Man this has made me want to replay the entire metro series. Absolutely loved all three games

[@DinnerForkTongue]

The whole Buggerov thing is very reminiscent of STALKER, which I think Yahtz forgot he reviewed a good few years back. The problem I see is that the game's world isn't nearly as unified as the Zone is, so you can't see the other people's stories pan out. The bullet currency was right to be done away with, though. It was exclusive to Moscow anyway, the segregation means nobody outside knew we traded in bullets, so how could you expect that action going on outside? Also the crafting thing makes sense too: practically all guns in the franchise are crafted from junk, and the ball bearing shooters are the most triumphant example of that.

[@nickstav08]

Exactly it would be like an explorer finding an uncontected tribe and giving them a 5 dollar bill for some food.

[@javiergallardojr9048]

I honestly would have liked it if the Military-Grade rounds... around. They would've been a nice, quite rare secondary ammo choice like before; far more effective than the bullets I glued together using scrapped reflex-sights and some sewer shrooms.

[@koatam]

Makes more sense to trade bullets than bottle caps.

[@TheGreatRakatan]

See but that's the problem, trading bullets isn't JUST a narrative thing, it's also an actual game mechanic that interacts with the other mechanics. You might be able to justify removing the narrative portion, but that is MUCH less important than the mechanic. So people outside don't rely on bullets to survive, instead they trade in some other currency that the player might find useful, like have them trade in scrap instead, and limit the thing you can personally build with scrap, so you can either build a lot of low grade stuff with your scrap, or trade in a whole lot of scrap to a skilled worker who can make you a much more powerful tool or bullet.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

@@TheGreatRakatan Sadly I don't think 4A thought that far, or had the time to implement it if they did.

[@Devinj2000]

I will never get tired of this damn series.

[@BugsyFoga]

Two in one is twice the fun 😁👌

[@bobbuilding7264]

banana bread

[@OnlyKaerius]

Giggity.

[@bobbuilding7264]

@@OnlyKaerius Banana Bread

[@Koops997]

Yahtzee you can't have it both ways. I've seen you complain that the world revolves around the main character and that you waltz around changing the entirety of the world like everyone else is made of styrofoam and their heads full of brick but in this one you critique that the world doesn't revolve around the MC and that other characters have to solve their own problems in your absence. Tsk tsk. Though I do suppose it depends on how well it was executed. Worth a play?

[@FenrirNefelheim]

That's the whole point of both the game and the book. Artyom wanted to find a better life for his wife and his future children and other people. Mrs Artyom' dad is your generic stuborn dad that thinks that he knows better but really genuine about it. He is just afraid that the outside world is even worse than dreadful and hollow confines of Moscow's underground. And he really blames you because of all bad things that have happened. The other members of the gang are there too. They are really good written. And than there are these chapters. The cultist...You can not blame them. Their whole world is a really dungerous place and full of unknown. The only person that guides them really cares about them. He tries and succseeds in giving them simple and true understanding of things. They are not a bunch of mad people. They just really believe in their faith. They a just people with their peacefull way of living. Artyom thinks that they are different and have different faith. But do the cultists deserve to die because of that difference? Even if they are trying to kill you because they are afraid? No. The gang helps those who want and need help. But do not meddle with those who do not ask for it. Because they have their own mission. About Baron and slaves...It makes sence. It really does. Good ideas. Really bad way of achieving them. Slavery is a messed up practise. Just because you give a reason to someone to live their lives does not make it any better, that you take their choice and freedom away. The forest kids? Just a bunch of grown up boy and girl scouts that got raised by a teacher that had to become strong so everybody could survive. It felt wrong to me to kill a bunch of good kids. So I did not. It is easier to kill than it to spare someone in this situation. Yes, it is not like the other two parts of the game. Gameplay could be a bit better without the whole crafting system. It makes sence that they would not find your average traveling merchant to sell them stuff. But it could have been made more interesting. But at the same time it makes sence that things a different from Moscow. Differetn places, different climates, different monsters, different stories. But people are the same. So. Should you ignore them, steal from them, and make them see things like you do? Or maybe you should just accept them for who they are, try to understand them, and if they need it, help them? To stay human even in this kind of world? To allow others make their choices and decisions while they do not take the same right from others? The whole point of this game is not in graphics or gameplay, but in the story it tells, the pictures it shows you. Those little and big details you stumble upon while you traverse location to achive your own mission. See how you change others, and how they change you. Like. In the first location you have people believing that all electrics are the works of the Devil. "Huh? What's that? Is the priest is trying something to achieve his own goals and restrict others?" But no. Somewhere on this map you can meet a bunch of people in some kind of lightning rod cage. Why? You see there is some kind of anomaly there that makes chances that a lightning ball of death will fry you to..you know..DEATH! more than 50%. Where was I? Ah, yes. Give people faith and goals? Cultist -- good. Slavers -- bad. Try to adapt to a situation where everytnig seems hopeles and guide those under you? Canibals -- BAD. Scouts -- good. It feels more satisfying to help others and make good, humaine choices and than observe results, than stuffing a bunch of bullets into someone. Though...cannibals and slavers? And mutants? Well...You have those, I guess, to quench your thirst for slaughter. Hope someone will enjoy this dispite my admitedly out of practise english. Stay frosty and remember the Spatan rules: 1. Be shootin 2. Be lootin 3. Be tootin But most of all... *Save people* ... *_All people_*

[@UncleDon226]

The paranormal thing didnt stop because the game developers ignored it. Those were tied to the dark ones and when they were exterminated, the paranormal kindof stopped

[@Zuflux]

The whole, Moscow being isolated from the rest of the world part is taken directly from the book though.

[@nickkelly3199]

You should of at least gave a bit of credit to the enemy dialogue as well, In the first 2 games I stabbed a lot of the enemies because they were all bad guys. Nazi's, Commies Bandits etc. however the dialogue between enemies in exodus gave me enough exposition to actually empathize for some of them. This made it feel much more natural being moral, rather than a chore. This also made keeping the characters you enjoy safe quite rewarding because as you mentioned Deep Silver has always produced strong characters.

[@Thundermonk99]

Is it such a bad thing that we don't singlehandedly free the slaves, save the Taiga residents, kill the Tsar-fish, and save the world? When every event is player-determined and all problems are player-solved, the world and accompanying atmosphere are destroyed. The world becomes a trivial playground for the all-powerful player. The Metro series is all about surviving IN SPITE OF a dangerous, overwhelming world. There's no reason Artyom should be able to singlehandedly fix problems that are much larger than himself. Allowing Artyom to solve all of these problems wouldn't be rewarding, it would just cheapen their emotional impact. It's akin to becoming the Guildmaster of every single Oblivion guild. Metro is refreshing precisely because it eschews the power-fantasy that infects so many games.

[@commisso3806]

BigBadBirna You can kill the fish. Otherwise I agree.

[@Thundermonk99]

@@commisso3806 I read that in another comment. I'm fine with easter eggs allowing for these sorts of things. It's almost akin to killing the giant bear in the Taiga section. Having the bear accidentally kill itself by flinging itself off of the cliff preserves its power. If Artyom could kill the bear with a few bullets, it would cheapen the encounter. Luring the fish seems to exist in that same vein.

[@yebchaos]

But yet.. Its a power fantasy

[@gamersafterglow]

On top of killing the fish and dooming Silantius' fish God cult because if the fish can die then it never was a god and Silantius was bullshiting all along. You can read that in the diary. If you find the real baron on the sea cliff by the cave and kill him Giul manages to stay in control and keep the slaves free as well. I love how these massive story changes come out of obscure side activities.

[@dosilysmith8520]

I do appreciate you spending HOURS playing these games ... then how ever long it takes to make a vid ... JUST so i can save some Time and MONEY by NOT getting said game LOL

[@AshHill07]

Can't wait for it to come out on PC next year!

[@semioticwish]

@dmdeveloper devs dont get to just advertise a release for years, put it up for presale, then take a bribe cross your fingers and blame everything on the playerbase. The game is gonna be out for years and ppl will still be going on about it because of just how big a middle finger it is to the players that kept the franchise alive.

[@semioticwish]

@dmdeveloper I'd suggest just ignoring most metro news for the next few months then, I doubt we'll be hearing anything good anytime soon.

[@NyxSilence]

@@semioticwish if you do this that means you have nothing better to do with your life and if other people do this the same goes for them

[@semioticwish]

@@NyxSilence I think you miss understood? I'm saying that most of the press around metro is going to focus on the drama so if he doesn't want to see it don't go looking for it.

[@BewmBeatz]

@@semioticwish It wasn't the dev's decision, it was the publisher's. That said, a boycott a still justified if you feel wronged.

[@frankyhorn2475]

Shits about to get fuuuuuuckyyyyyy. Might be my new favourite phrase

[@destinedinspector7556]

"Shit's about to get fuckyyyyy~" stealing that for use in everyday conversation

[@residentgrigo4701]

I now finished the game. You can kill the mutant fish the cult worships Yahtz. There is even a trophy for it and the gang had good reason to leave the forest area. The rising radiation made it unlivable, besides the whole dam bursting problem. The good ending is also fairly satisfying, as the journey only stops once livable land and reliable maps have been found.

[@gregstaskowski5915]

"The adventures of Ivan Bugerov and Maxim Getoffonaboutsky?"

[@luffydexter9705]

they reunened metro metro is not full out theys no way a people could survive up on the surfuce with all the dark ones and rads

[@ZetZatar]

I can’t wait until open world Tetris! You can craft your own pieces too!

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

It's Minecraft but the blocks fall from the sky

[@DuckRotation]

I actually want this

[@Gruntvc]

If made by Ubisoft or EA, those extra pieces will cost $5 to $10 dollars each in microtransactions. Pay an extra $100 for the game to play itself and automatically let you win. -_-

[@BigBeakEntertainment]

Escapist: accidentally uploads 2 reviews at once *shit's about to get fucky!*

[@Dogfire45]

I'm surprised he didn't mention the whole epic games store fiasco

[@MystaHector]

Are we gonna fight the mutant fish? Yeah. I killed it. There's an achievement for it

[@kristapsrutkovskis5561]

The whole plot is kind of awkward considering they did contact the outside world in last light because you can overhear two guys talking about it in the church

[@evanhenderson9461]

Only one guy heard a message on the radio and he was considered nuts and a liar. There were only ever rumors of survivors above ground.

[@matthewb391]

Drop a few tons of non crafting metal parts on the mutant catfish based on the what does this lever do method. And promptly bugger off because nobody saw me do it...

[@milanjudak7574]

Well Far cry new dawn review is gone now still managed to watch it xD

[@aw3046]

My brother watches you and he showed me this video because I enjoyed the game. A few of your points were very good, but there was one which is absolute bullshit. The fact that they ditch the ammo=currency mechanic makes *perfect sense*. Who are they going to buy things from? The Volga: No-one The Yamantau bunker:No-one The Caspian:No-one The Taiga:No-one The Dead city:No-one The Aurora crew wouldn't sell you stuff, because you are are on the same mission.

[@agent_hex]

Playing through this now that its on Steam. Wonder if Yahtzee would think better of it if he knew you could do things like kill the big fish, make peace with the cultists, save your friends that die, etc. It's the reviewers lot to go through things fast, but this game definitely is better when you take it slow.

[@rafcobra]

Escapist: I will never, ever, ever want to watch literally anything by Moviebob. If I was addicted to watching videos, got stuck on a deserted island with no hope of rescue, and found a device that inexplicably only had Bob's videos on it, I would burn that device for warmth.

[@HORRIOR1]

Comrade Buggeroff is a great war hero!

[@Lovelykochi]

What happened to the far cry episode? I just watched it on the Escapist website but it’s not playing on YT.

[@EgorKaskader]

It just sort of buggered off

[@Starfals]

What is this secret play list :D also brilliant work as always Yahtzee

[@samwizgamgie3rd828]

I think they want you to pay for the DLC to get those resolution. Because the whole journey is about you and your lovely wife, An'na, to see the ocean. And then shag and have kids and populate less irradiated East Russia. But at the end of the game tells you that once they saw the ocean they packed up and head back to the Metro to bring everyone so everyone can shag and have kids and populate East Russia. I do love the game!

[@staley101]

I actually liked the game. It made a nice change to the previous installments and brought some closure to the series.

[@lewismartin4306]

I can't remember a game yankee isn't incredibly negative about. I know the videos are funny, but the attitude is so pessimistic that I have to unsub to avoid it rubbing off. Its video games, I'd rather keep it a positive hobby and focus on just enjoying them.

[@TheBML2]

Are you ever going to review Ace Combat 7?

[@RandomFlyingPotato]

You know the author is the one who made this story? It goes into a lot more depth in the novels

[@imperialexplorer3412]

I agree with this review no offense to the devs but Metro Exodus doesn't feel like a Metro game. More like a spin off since some of the parts that made the Metro series the Metro series are lost in this open world crating game. Plus the whole Epic Game exclusive bullshit.

[@queekheadtaker7327]

I did like it but it is definitely the weakest game in the series especially narratively as unlike in last light the narratve feels less self contained, the antagonists are mostly one note, and the whole dead world vibe isn’t carried over even partially as well, that whole god is either dead or fucked off and the screaming souls of the dammed feel is just gone. The last third picks up a bit but it’s just feels anti climatic on the whole.

[@JustinY.]

War. War never changes.

[@MehdiTalks]

You really had nothing unique to say?

[@Varza]

I just finished the game without realising that you could craft without a workbench.... I'm actually glad I didn't know that - because I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much. Great game but Yahtzee is right - the crafting didn't feel like it suited so well.