I'm currently downloading Outlast 2. That shit is gonna be unnerving.

I have feelings about that game, let us know what you think when it's finished downloading and you've put a few hours in it.

Haven't played Outlast 2 yet but from what I've heard, it's pretty damn good.

what did we do to deserve the gem that is shaq-fu

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I have Shaq Fu on SNES.

It really is! :D
I completed both the original and the sequel, got both dirt cheap on some steam sale..
There is a moment in Last Light (I think), where you find the remains of a crashed airliner that went down the moment nukes hit Moscow... I won't spoil anything, but god damn, it stuck with me.


Both Metro games are great, especially now after all the patches etc. They can be a resource hog, but it's a lot better now than it was when they were released. Both are rather difficult, and if you're a game masochist, you can play both without any hud etc.. extremely challenging and extremely immersive.
I also love what they added in Last Light - apart from the main story, you get a series of short missions where you play different characters, sometimes ones you know, and get to know the world more.
Where postapo fallout is kind of fun, with quirky characters and pulp adventures, this world is dark and evil, with hungry/sick characters and adventures that are about surviving ;)

I liked the metro games more than the Stalker games, though they cannot be directly compared imo. Sure it's not open world, but honestly does every game need to be open world ? Only so you can run around collecting "50 pages from a journal that somehow got scattered all over the continent" ?


Generally I don't know how well the Metro books are known outside of Russia/Eastern Europe, but I have like 20 on my shelf ;) And enjoyed most of them.
The guy that came up with this setting, Dimitry Gluhovsky, wrote only 3 or 4 Metro books, but he encouraged other authors to take the world he created and set their own stories in it, so while his focus has always been the Moscow metro, other books explore sometimes very different areas - one trilogy takes the heroes through most of postapocaliptic Asia, as they travel from St Petersburg I believe to Vladivostok on the other side of the continent. One is set in the ruins of "Nowa Huta" (the name literally means "new ironworks"), a Polish city built after ww2, by he communist for workers in such a way, it would minimize the effect of a nuclear blast, full of shelters etc..
I think they released 25 or so Metro books in Poland so far, from what I've heard there are several times as many in Russia.

I could go on for hours about this world, but to be fair, if you're expecting "science fiction", you will be disappointed. It's as science fiction as fallout is science fiction ;) Meaning, sure, science is fun as a plot device but other than that, well, let it go and enjoy the story ;)


P.S.
there are rumors about an open world sequel to both Metro games in the works.. how awesome would that be ?

Nope, it's shit. I mean we're all entitled to our opinions but I am very interested in seeing just how much people are willing to bend over backwards to explain how they enjoy the long kill animations, cheap deaths, retarded story that has one of the worst endings in modern gaming.

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I honestly think that Resident Evil VII broke the spell on the whole run and hide survival-horror, and Outlast 2 just feels antiquated by comparison.

I've still not played it but this is rather unfortunate to hear. The first Outlast was definitely truly good though. I wouldn't say super great but I still had a damn good time with it. It's also rather unfortunate that survival horror is starting to become so overdone that eventually it's just going to repeat itself. Back when Amnesia: The Dark Descent came out (which is still amazing btw) I don't think there were as many big survival horror games. I could be wrong though.

Bro, I've watched several Amnesia playthroughs and I thought I would be good, but even though I'm not to the part where you are seriously in mortal danger, I'm still getting scares from the atmosphere, and I found a scare that I've never seen anyone find before and it freaked me out good. So this is a good game even though I mostly know where the early scares are. I think this might be something that steals my soul.

You're going to absolutely love everything about the game once you reach the end. It's phenomenally paced and you always feel uneasy.