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Cityinthesea posted:Artyom wasn't really a silent protagonist in the first game. He did all of the narration, after all. There was a good Let's Play of Metro 2033, that might be useful for someone out there. Full disclosure, I was involved in a very minor way and the video below is mine as well. There were also many great conversations between NPCs, most are lifted from the book. Great stuff for building atmosphere, and some are legitimately spooky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYYFexAMBaw&t=132s
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A former executive at THQ has written a very interesting article on the working conditions of 4A Games. Power outages, loss of heat for days at a time, a small office with only the most basic equipment, shifting publisher demands, and a tiny budget. He even makes the obvious joke that 4A didn't have to look far to be inspired by a bleak post-apocalyptic setting. Jason Rubin posted:When 4A needed another dev kit, or high-end PC, or whatever, someone from 4A had to fly to the States and sneak it back to the Ukraine in a backpack lest it be "seized" at the border by thieving customs officials. After visiting the team I wanted to buy them Aeron office chairs, considered a fundamental human right in the west. There were no outlets in the Ukraine, and our only option was to pack a truck in Poland and try to find an "expediter" to help bribe its way down to Kiev. We gave up not because this tripled the cost, but because we realized that the wider Aeron chairs would require spreading out people and computers, which would lead to extra desks, and that ultimately would have required bigger offices. Yes, really.
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May 15, 2013 17:48
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If you haven't played Metro 2033, Amazon has it on sale right now for $5 for their PC downloadable version.
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May 16, 2013 09:05
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Last Light had a really high-quality marketing. The live-action trailer is my favorite thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mON5WmA5REk
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Jun 2, 2013 19:24
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There are a ton of great conversations in the background of Metro 2033, most of them taken from the book. I made a video with some of the easier-to-miss conversations from the original game, spoilers obviously. My favorite is definitely the story about the tank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYYFexAMBaw&t=134s
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