>>2061434iirc the metro series is a bunch of ex-GSC Gameworld guys and GSC is a ukranian studio. in fact i think Stalker 2 famously got a release trailer with a hard date then and then a week later they got invaded and had to put out a press release basically saying "For obvious reasons, the game is likely to be delayed" and then did a bunch of honestly kinda dark marketing about how their lived experience will influence the vidya when things calm down and dickwaving about getting declared an "undesirable organization" by russia
otoh i cant think of many iconic russian video games, most of the "slavjank" cult classic vidya is made in ukraine or poland
>>2066170not op but afaik russia is similar to canada in that it has a line of mostly unremarkable cities from coast to coast despite amerimutts thinking it is empty except for a few igloos and yuropoors thinking it's near-continuous urbanization like japan. most of the country above that line is empty and will always be empty because it is Cold, Bro
