What happened to Metro series?

[REhorror]

Back then we usually new Metro games every 2-3 years (IIRC) but after Exodus, nothing?

Exodus seems to sell a buckload to when it comes to Steam.

[Big Dick]

Exodus pretty much closed Artyom's story. Stories aren't mean to last forever. Games do eventually end, and that's normal

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Big ♥♥♥♥:

Exodus pretty much closed Artyom's story. Stories aren't mean to last forever. Games do eventually end, and that's normal

But there's still a whole of Metro to be liberated/explored.
Would Artyom and Anna just leave the rest of the Metro like that?

[Big Dick]

Originally posted by REhorror:

Originally posted by Big ♥♥♥♥:

Exodus pretty much closed Artyom's story. Stories aren't mean to last forever. Games do eventually end, and that's normal

But there's still a whole of Metro to be liberated/explored.
Would Artyom and Anna just leave the rest of the Metro like that?

Exodus ended with Artyom and Anna finding their peace on the other side of Russia. I don't see any particular reason for them to come back, and in my opinion, any attempts to bring Artyom back to the Metro in the next games would be unconvincing, difficult to believe.

Exodus officially confirmed that the Moscow Metro is not the only place where people survived the nuclear apocalypse. Before that, saving the Moscow Metro in the first two games, we felt like we were saving the world. In Exodus, the significance of the Moscow Metro compared to the whole world is... no longer so great. We can't go back to the Moscow Metro and think we are saving the world (again), after whan we saw and learned in Exodus.

I think that if the next Metro game ever comes out, it will no longer concern Artyom. But for me, as a person who played all the games gradually as they came out, and followed the Metro series for a decade, the Metro games do revolve around Artyom and his story anyway. Without Artyom, his friends, etc. the new game would feel like Mass Effect Andromeda, and would probably follow it's fate.

After all, I can hardly think of a new conflict that could justify a new Metro game.

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

ummm pretty damn sure the good ending of Exodus has artyom stating basically "now i live a peaceful life, but one day we will have to return to the metro and save it"

[Death Approaches]

after all the drama of GSC and the 4A split, the first invasion and them taking their families to Malta, let the kids (now, what, 40s and 50s?) live their lives, we got a trilogy and an ending. Sure I'd love to go back to the Metro proper, but I'm even (begrudgingly) happy with Exodus; which is, afterall, what they were forced to do, too. If the IP is sold? you know whoever bought it wants to make money, so...

I'm guessing their slices of that $250m goes pretty far in Malta. Good on ya, guys!

[mango]

https://www.4a-games.com.mt/4a-dna/studio-update-exodus-sdk

https://www.4a-games.com.mt/4a-dna/2020/11/17/metro-10th-anniversary-studio-update

these two are required reading for this topic.

they haven't quit working on metro but they have seemingly scrapped prior plans and are working on a single player story driven experience set in metro. Though the talks of a MP experience could totally still be a thing, I think we all expect an extraction shooter set as stalkers on the surface or underground.

As for the VR game no that's not all they've been working on, its being worked on by another studio and is a spinoff. Seemingly only being made solely in response to a blatant IP infringing game that they DMCA'd.

Metro isn't necessarily just about Artyom there are spinoff books following other characters AFAIK (I'm not much of a reader outside of 2033) and even DLCs in the shoes of other characters. there's still plenty of room in the metro for games following other characters dealing with the same factions and mutants or even stations in a different time. A war in metro is still going on between several factions in exodus when you leave and if the post in the first link (and newest link) is anything to go by you're going to be dealing with said war.

So no, metro is far from dead, its just been in development.

[Razör]

Originally posted by temps:

Originally posted by FilthyAnimal:

It's not a new main metro game
It's a spinning off

Lol it's a Metro game :) But by all means keep lying to yourself if it helps you cope with regard to not being able to play it.

We want mainline metro games, not meh spin offs with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gimmick

[temps]

Originally posted by 💥☠️💣𖦹👊:

Originally posted by temps:

Lol it's a Metro game :) But by all means keep lying to yourself if it helps you cope with regard to not being able to play it.

We want mainline metro games, not meh spin offs with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gimmick

lol a "gimmick" that is seeing widespread adoption, that companies are pouring billions of dollars into, and that is repeatedly getting new AAA games developed for it. But it's supposedly a gimmick. Yeah... keep trying to cope buddy. I'll be enjoying Metro Awakening.

[Razör]

Originally posted by temps:

Originally posted by 💥☠️💣𖦹👊:

We want mainline metro games, not meh spin offs with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gimmick

lol a "gimmick" that is seeing widespread adoption, that companies are pouring billions of dollars into, and that is repeatedly getting new AAA games developed for it. But it's supposedly a gimmick. Yeah... keep trying to cope buddy. I'll be enjoying Metro Awakening.

So emotional over goggles LOL.