I'm pretty sure this kind of thread has been made before, but I thought I'd make a new one; see what people are currently into. For me, I don't have much to play as I've beaten all the games I've wanted to play this year so far, so the last new game I played was Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. I would recommend it to those that love Deus Ex, and sci-fi, stealth fps'. I enjoyed it for the most part, but felt it lacked in the story department, not because I thought that what was there was lacking in quality itself, but that there wasn't more of it, and I was disappointed that you don't go to as many places in the game as you did in Human Revolution (or really, any of the Deus Ex games). The issue with the game for me was just how much content was there, and how much I really wanted to continue playing it. Human Revolution I beat multiple times, and I can't really muster up the motivation to do that again with this game, at least not right now.
Since I couldn't find motivation to do that, I thought about other games I could play as I read Bioshock: Rapture, because the Bioshock Collection is honestly the game I'm looking forward to next. The game I came upon was to go back through Metro Redux. I went through Metro 2033 only, and stopped less than a quarter of the way through Last Light Redux, but along with 2033, I recommend both. Redux is a better game than the original 2033 that was on the Xbox 360 and PC, but it does have some worse aspects. In the update, they made the voices of the children voiced by adult actors (I'm pretty sure), and for a game that wants to make the player feel for the world and its inhabitants, it made it a lot harder to do so with the goofy sounding voice work, when in the original, it was children doing the voices from what I remember.
They took a couple (okay, maybe one) NPC interactions out, like where someone jokes around with the player character Artyom about helping out with his pigs. It lent humor to a dark world, and even though it was a small bit, it stood out that they chose to take it out of Redux. Though I love that they made the game play pretty much exactly like Last Light, they took even the soundtrack to Last Light and inserted into 2033, and though I liked Last Light's soundtrack just fine, it is an aspect that disappointed me, because I felt that where the tracks were placed in the original 2033 were suited better, and its own original tracks should have been left in. They change that, but don't change the voice work to prominent characters, which makes it jarring when you go from 2033 to Last Light.
Yeah, those are the issues to both those games, but otherwise I do recommend them. They're actually quite similar in how you play, Deus Ex is just more open, while Metro is more linear.
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