Shack: No one gets surprised when a publisher announces retailer-exclusive pre-order bonuses for their AAA game. However, very rarely do publishers go on record to admit that retailers are strong-arming them into the practice. But that's exactly what Metro: Last Light publisher Deep Silver did while explaining its partitioned ranger DLC.
The Metro video game series started with a humble b-list title, before building a strong fanbase and becoming a pioneer in the industry.
4A Games celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first-person shooter by offering it free for a week.
4A Games' Metro: Last Light originally launched on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC 10 years ago today, and still holds up.
I got bored of Hogwarts crazy quick and it's bugs, was looking for just any good game got the Metro trilogy for about £8.50 in a Steam sale played through 2033 Redux, Last Light Redux and now am on Exodus. The series is awesome, the first two are like more liner story driven FPS with a few options to confront the levels, stealth, no kill runs and guns blazing, depending on how you play effects the story and its outcome. Third game I'm playing now is heavy story driven (but optional if you don't want to listen you can just walk away... I don't know why you would though) with large open levels that take hours to explore and still some of the best use of RTX I've seen to date, can play this game on ultra with DLSS set to quality, raytracing set to ultra at 4K with no dips, played on Extreme setting and was getting a few drops around water and some interiors.
Cant recommend this series enough and as a new fan I can't wait to see the next game in 2024... I also got the audio books so looking forward to see how well the games follow the original books. A4 Games are extremely talented.
The gaming industry is just getting worse everyday
Wow if thats true its messed up. I didnt even know retailers had the stones to do this. I wonder if this happens with the bigger publishers aswell or just the smaller ones.
I think dlc is only gonna get worse from this point on. I want to thank all the idiots who bought 15$ map packs and other overpriced crap, you caused this if you didnt buy it in the first place developers/publishers wouldve let it go.
I havent bought dlc in 2 years it just isnt worth it. For the price of Borderlands 2 dlc you can get a indie game that lasts longer and is probably more fun. Season passes also such a big scam that many gamers/idiots supported.
This industry destroying itself.
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We need the industry to crash, if publishers gonna lock game modes away, then we might have to buy the online mode in the future. From now on, any publisher that does this, is on my boycott list. Too bad Koch media had to do this, i wanted to play Metro so bad, but now, i'll look for a second hand copy.