metro 2033 vs metro last light?

I can't choose. But that's because I rate immersion and atmosphere way higher above optimisation and tacticool-ness. Probably the reason why I still love Vampire - The masquerade: Bloodlines.

You just get sucked into the game!

I'd love 2033 to get updated and play 2033 and 2034 with the Oculus Rift.
After that, get them and Stalker developers together to make me a new Stalker, dammit!

 

2033 performance is horrible even with a 290 Ive just discovered, MSAA = weird shadowing / cloning the image, AAA = fixes that problem but FPS range from 70 right down to 20 in the same inside location

 

MSAA is unbearable in that game. Light sources also cripple the performance. There was a scene somewhere in the beginning with some gates opening and light coming out, on Ultra the frame rate just halved the instant the light could be seen.

 

Only one of them had boobies. /thread

 

Only one of them needed :boob:

Angry Joe - Ayssntittays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBIjSFbHEM

 

~33FPS with 2x7970 @ 1125/1375MHz @ 1080p, Very High DoF & Tess On, 4xMSAA, no PhysX.

Went 1440p, turned off DoF, Tess, and AA, and play with FPS almost always around or above 110FPS, not dipping much. Didn't try that same scene though.

 

I agree with boobs


Both felt to generic, especially this plastic look by characters.

 

The graphics in LL are stunning in places

 

Yeah ill get round too it, addicted to Dayz atm.

 

I've watched a couple of pretty amusing videos of DayZ gameplay, looks like fun

If you haven't seen it: - The Wiggles (Funny starts about 1m in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6o8x67ApM8

 

LL has very good animation, especially with the spiders.

 

The very high settings are known to cripple performance even with very high-end systems.

The particle effects in particular, usually present alongside heavy lighting such as in the mentioned scene where the doors open, are a killer. Probably an optimization issue.

I'm running 1080p with HIGH, DoF and Tessellation enabled. Antialiasing is set to AAA, using driver-level FXAA instead and Vsync on.

60 fps all around regardless of location, activity etc. so far. The plusside is there really isn't that much of a notable difference in quality between HIGH and VERY HIGH, apart from motion blur imo in 1080p.

 

Felt like I had to mention one more thing about 2033 in addition to everything already mentioned:

the games atmosphere and the events described in it are exceptional, but there was one thing in particular in 2033 no other game could achieve.

I remember vividly when I first got to the surface. I thought I'd been playing smart so far but very soon realised I was running out of ammo, had only a couple of minutes left in filters, had no idea how far the objective was and the area in ahead of me was populated with monsters.

This was the first time any game was so palpably able to portray the feeling that damn, I will not make it, I will die here.

Sure, restart from previous level, stock up on filters and ammo and retry. But still, it was something new, even disturbing atm.

 

I really need to get 2033 finished, havn't played it for a good while now, and enjoyed what ive played so far, got LL waiting to be done after

 

2033 had less polish but much better atmosphere. Definitely scarier. Towns are much more interesting.

Last Light is more polished, a bit more fun. Some CoD narrative style mixed with Metro 2033's bleakness.

I think I preferred 2033, to be honest.

 

Had that in LL in the section with the little boat you had to call in.

I made it... nearly choking to death on the doorstep of that church.

It does indeed add a little bump to the scaryness factor of the atmosphere. You get this "****, time is running out..." feeling.

 

Yep but in real life I would be running a lot faster if my filter was going bad. No actually I would probably just hang out at the bar and let someone else save us. If only they could have added a panic perk where you can run full speed cause it's kinda a bit slow really.

 

The moral of the story here?

PANTS ARE BAD FOR GAMES

SAY NO TO PANTS

 

can't seem to finish Metro 2033, Last Light I've played normal, hardest, and now I'm finishing in Ranger mode... peacefully. Going for zero kills Amazing how this game shapes your morality, at first I wanted to just shoot everything. Then you get to know the atmosphere, the reality that everyone is just like you and born into the same survival situation. When you get to ranger mode, you won't want to take out more than 2 or 3 bad guys. So yeah, the original Metro for me was boring and didn't have an exciting story, it was confused. Last Light is well thought out and dynamic, the environment changes from radioactive lands to strip clubs to some really amazing metro cities.

Also I tried playing both games on my previous gpu, a 7950. It just couldn't hang with the requirements of this game, with a 290 I finally got away from stuttering and low framerates. So a crossfire or heavy duty card is key for a good experience.