Metro Last Light - Thread

What's interesting about those review scores - the same case for most games - is how varied they are. Metro 2033 got varied scores too, personally I thought 2033 was one of the best PC games ever made and one of my favourites. What I have learnt over the years is no matter who writes these reviews (IGN, Eurogamer etc), it is still written by an individual human being with their own opinions. If i reviewed an RTS game, I would score it low cos I don't play or like RTS games, so no matter how unbiased I wanted to be when writing the review, I'm still going to struggle as I just don't enjoy those types of games.
 
Just watch TB's WTF.
That's pretty much all you need to know and you can gauge whether or not you will like the game based on that. And if you liked metro 2033, ofc you will like last light.
 
MatsyLR said:
Just watch TB's WTF.
That's pretty much all you need to know and you can gauge whether or not you will like the game based on that. And if you liked metro 2033, ofc you will like last light.
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Just watched the video. Looks great, which like the first, is it's main strength. Quite looking forward to playing it though.
 
Gamespot gave the pc version 90% so big difference compared to IGN's PS3 review of it and also Nvidia users on here should download the new 320.14 beta drivers released today for it.
 
Mint_Sauce said:
What time is this unlocked in the USA? Anyone else going to be using a VPN to unlock?
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It unlocked in the USA this morning.

flyvpn's 20 minute free trial is apparently perfect for this sort of thing but I wouldn't know anything about as it's against the steam subscriber agreement and I happen to be in the USA this morning. ;)
 
Just been reading that the Nvidia advanced Physx actually adds quite a bit to the game.

I have this but I will wait as I'm not sure about VPN's and when and how to use etc. With my luck today I can just see my Steam account being banned.
 
How well can I expect the game to fare on my system in light of the steep requirements?

FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 4GHz
16GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz
GTX 670 2GB @ Stock
 
kmetek said:
moogleys: how do you mean advanced physx?
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Have a read of this it mentions hardware GPU Physx and software Physx. It seems to use quite a few GPU based effects.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/metro-last-light-graphics-breakdown-and-performance-guide

To enhance these effects, and to bring them to a level of quality on par with the game’s other cutting edge features, 4A has once again implemented NVIDIA GeForce GTX, GPU-powered PhysX effects, using the PhysX SDK. Each is realistically simulated, enabling effects to persist in the world, to interact with other game elements, to move without unrealistically clipping through geometry or objects, to be dynamically shadowed and self-shadowed, and to be manipulated by the player, other characters, and other effects. They are also automatically shaded, shadowed and lit like the game’s general geometry and objects, allowing them to blend in naturally without any additional work from 4A’s developers.

Used throughout the game to enhance everything from sparks to smoke volumes, these GPU-accelerated effects fall into a few general categories.
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Without PhysX’s hardware-accelerated enhancements, the destruction of the objects will be pre-canned, the destroyed pieces will fade away as they generically fall, and the general destruction effect will be less exciting.
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Without hardware-acceleration, players will still see visually arresting, non-interactive particle effects with pre-baked, scripted movement that occurs regardless of player interaction.
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Without hardware PhysX enabled, players will see non-interactive, static pieces of cloth in certain locations, and no cloth in others.
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blueshift said:
So you can VPN it now?, isn't that risky?
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According to what I read. Steam get funny if you VPN to make a purchase, i.e. getting a cheaper price because you pretended to be in America or India or some such. Nobody has been banned for just using it to unlock the game.

Not really sure how they'd tell to be honest. People do actually travel around the world.

I also once worked for a company in Liverpool where all internet use went through the corporate WAN and came out in Florida, so if I'd taken my laptop into the office, then the game would have unlocked itself without any deliberate action on my part.
 
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