Never played the original as it looked a bit grey and clunky, but then played Last Light and really enjoyed it, so got the revamped M2033 Redux when it came out and have been playing it recently.

It's pretty much like Last Light i.e. really rather good. Combat and controls are a bit clunky (trying to track the fucking mutants when they are attacking you is a bit like trying to swat a swarm of wasps with your cock whilst someone shines a strobelight in your face) and there sometimes feels like a mission/story/gameplay disparity, but other than that there's a lot of captivating stuff about this game. Graphics are good, world design is well done, the NPCs are entertaining and the atmosphere is spot on. It's some bleakly post-apocalyptically RUSSIAN, like Last Light I wonder if it is actually a real-life documentary.

Good stuff. 

yourface=myarse 

It was always fun in the Metro games to step off a very slight slope into what should have been a few inches of water only to immediately plunge into the abyss. 

But that's not the main thing that stands out for me tbh. 

I always assumed it was due to the abrupt transition from walking to swimming causing the player's POV to switch almost instantly from 5 feet above to 1 foot below the water line.

Maybe that's a glitch or just the way they decided to program it.

They were pretty good games regardless. A lot like the STALKER series where the good stuff was more than enough to offset the weird design choices. 

Never played the Redux but I have played the original when it was optimized to all hell. 

Just hit 1.0 on Steam and has a Free version and a �8.99 full version. Looks like the free version is pretty feature rich and will give you a decent taste of the game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhrgXk6RQDY 

go to the 1:13 mark - that is literally UT's Deck16 map

Hmmmmmmm..... 

Free is too expensive. The video gives a good taste of the game, UT2k16 wants it's game back. No bargepole long enough for that toss. 

I downloaded it cuz free. I don't really play multiplayer much these days, though. When I do it's UT99 and I'm either way better than everyone else on the server, or I get destroyed. No in-between. 

Looks neat, I am wondering if they are actually using the Quake engine -

http://www.pcgamer.com/brutal-new-fps-mixes-hexen-doom-and-quake/ 

Looks... interesting. I've never been a huge fan of levels based around "real" locations, but it does look like a good romp based on the trailer.

Some parts of it really do look quite quake-like, don't they? The only thing that makes me doubt that idea is the player movement. I can't say i've ever seen anything quake1-based do that much with the player controller before, although that hardly means it's impossible... Maybe it's more quake2 based, or something. 

the ability to do flips in the air is pretty cool, though it didn't seem like the guy was in the air long enough to use it much. if you have a rocket launcher and more air time, you could use thse jump pads to clean up a crowd of enemies before you land, which could be pretty cool. The arcade tank game Assault had a thing like that.

https://youtu.be/vrG9ZRrSrT8?t=55 

It looks pretty neat, wish the gameplay snippets were longer though. The dual-wielded shotguns are giving me Marathon flashbacks. (I really wish those games held up better these days.) 

 

https://twitter.com/4AGames/status/776450712343486465 

... Should I be hype?? 

 

I might have to play them again. I bought them cheap on Steam a couple of years ago, but only played through once. They're not perfect and some things were very annoying, but overall pretty good. 

I started playing the first one but quickly put it down because fighting waves of those annoying, badly-designed melee enemies that were all over the start of the game was not really fun for me. Plus I didn't didn't like exploring the settled areas very much. I should give it another chance, though, if everyone seems to like it. I've heard Last Light is better.

STALKER is one I've had for a while but haven't got around to. Thing is I have two other lengthy RPGs I really want to play (namely Pathologic and d-d-Dark Souls), so it may take me a bit. 

Fucking listen and pay attention next time. Proper good modern FPS games, for the atmosphere and style especially (yes the melee monsters are chaotic and frustrating, but there's more to it than those).

Also that Dusk game looks fucking awful. Retro = too lazy / cheap to use a decent engine and using nostalgia as an excuse to churn out utter fucking dogshit. 

then it probably would be retro inspired. Hell, I make Quake maps for funsies, and making a really detailed game is time-consuming and therefore costly. It's not lazy to make low-fi assets, it's economic. 

Also that Dusk game looks fucking awful. Retro = too lazy / cheap to use a decent engine and using nostalgia as an excuse to churn out utter fucking dogshit.

It's got nothing to do with using (or not) a decent engine. They are probably using Unity or something (I wouldn't even be surprised if they are using Unreal) But yes it's obviously a lot cheaper to make art assets that look like they came from 1996 instead of 2016.

Dusk looks awful because the art is just shit. It doesn't look as good as games like Quake or Hexen, because those games had talented artists behind them. Good artists can create amazing-looking retro games and the low polycount / pixel density does not have to be a barrier to how stylish/awesome you can make a game look. 

Dusk looks like shit next to quake and that's inexcusable to me. It looks like shit next to doom.

the gameplay seems fun though