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A little over a year and a half now I was at work. Well, I still often am at work, but this day was special. A friend there told me that he had recently finished a game called Metro 2033, that he was impressed with it and thought it was pretty cool, and I should check it out.

Normally I’m kind of in my own little world when it comes to games, and I only really trust a few people’s opinions. Usually when some one says “hey, check out this game!” and I respond “yeah, man! Sure!” I’m actually thinking “oh my God you pompous moron that game looks like another terrible piece of crap put out by a useless publisher who only cares about making money rather than producing a good game.” And most of the time I’m right. How do I know I’m right, if I don’t play the games? Don’t ask stupid questions.

Anyways, I did decide to buy the game. At the time it was fairly new and still about $40 (or $50?) on Steam, and I waited a while and picked it up for $25 (which is a bit of a sting considering I’ve seen it around $10 on sale on Steam. Right now, without a sale on, it’s $20). I immediately proceeded to install it, and then eagerly wait over a year to actually start it up for the first time.

Why’d I wait a year? I actually have no idea why. I guess I was falling out of love with FPS games at the time, my heart recently crushed by the mutation of my beloved Call of Duty series into some casual teenage and middle-aged beer-drinking good-for-nothing couch-potato icon by people who can’t appreciate a mouse. And, as much as I hate to use the excuse “I was busy,” which is overused nowadays, I suppose that was a little true as well. I guess in reality though I was really too lazy to start up another game. But last month I finally mustered up the courage to enter the Russian Metro, 21 years in the future (or 22 at the time since I started in December)! Continue reading →