Gameranx: "Official answers about Metro: Last Light's Ranger Mode have, thus far, remained unsatisfactory."
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.
Beat Redux and Last Light. Really good games. Haven't played Exodus yet, was thinking I'll get it for ps5 just havent yet. I will.
I'll play it the normal way since i'm not paying 5 bucks or doing the pre order thing
Its Certainly has got alot more coverage online since this had been announced about the ranger mode.
I know I will get disagrees for this, but can we STOP jumping the god **** gun?
Preorder exclusive versions are marketing talk for "first run" copies. Look it virtually any example of this practice and you'll see that they're typically just launch editions. Like I've seen WAY more Bulletstorm special editions than normal editions and it's not impossible to find plenty of these other "special" editions.
Some examples that people might recall...
- Darksiders 2 (I was able to get a BB preorder edition 1 month after release) and several locations still have the edition with the free DLC.
- FF XIII-2 (I can still find copies with the book at BB)
- Dead Space 2 (The CE for that was so unpopular that it hit $20 dollars and I can still commonly find the Limited Edition for the PS3)
- Dead Space 3 (I've still yet to see a standard copy of that)
- Catherine Love is Over Edition (Was common enough to get a lowered rate on Amazon despite being made to preorders)
- FF Theatrhythm stylus was just a pack in, which was easily found well after release.
- Crysis 2 limited editions can still be easily found in stores.
- People are still reporting finding Persona 4 Arena with the OST, my location Walmart still has Catherine art books, etc.
In the end, there are enough examples of "preorder" or "limited editions" being easily obtainable after release, so I will only worry about it when it actually becomes an issue. This was most likely intended as a way to push people to preorder (so they can report high numbers) and will probably be fairly common for at least a month. Since I don't see Metro selling to well either, I fully believe it won't be too rare. Also to support my claims, my friend has a review copy and it came as the limited edition. While it's not definitive proof of anything, I think it supports the edition being the only version at release.
Gonna laugh my ass off at the dorks who will buy this game at launch and later complain about the state of the industry.
This I will admit is messed up but I'm not preordering it anyway. I'm done preordering games. I want to see how the game is first then I will spend my money on it.