Metro 2033 Redux - All Endings (Good Ending/Bad Ending)
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Dark: Destroy him
Also dark : we want peace
Exactly why I turned them to dust 😂 no hesitation lol
both things don't contradict each other they want to destroy him because he's going to nuke them but they want peace means they are not evil or have bad intentions
@@rickramirez2007 no brain either
Yeah this game did literarly a bad job of showing their perspective. They literally tried to kill us at the end and then "We want peace?"
Same logic for Toxic People.
They insult you, you insult them back. And they are like "Don't act so toxic"
Artyom: (after ending) alright now how do I get down from here?
@This Apple Judges 😂
Just Jump
Exactly what I thought tbh
Artyom : hmm it's time to use some glitch of games secretly of No fall damage 😎
@@thisapplejudges6553sing with me sing for the year sing for the love but sing for the tearr
I remember my first playthrough. Without second thought, instinctively, I emptied several clips into the rising Dark one.
Bro, same. I ran, the second I saw the bastard I shot as many bullets as I possibly could
Lmao same
After the entire battles i went through with the ones who make you deaf and the other ones running towards you and biting you. I emptied that revolver no questions asked!
@@link_3018 I am a proponent of old man Millers vision in D6: This is our birthright Artyom, we will reclaim the surface and sky with fire and sword!
Before the damn communists had to fk everything up...
I diddnt even see him laying there for some reason lol
I got the "Ranger" ending and see both. I understand they wanted peace, but Artyoms home was in danger. Both endings are technically good, from the standpoint of Artyom was doing what he felt was right and to save his home. I still have to play Last Light and Exodus, but in Artyoms perspective, he must do what he must to save his people.
Saving the dark ones I think would be better for everyone, he could reason with them and save his station.
@@pompshuffle562 I mean, it's kinda hard to do that when they're chasing you. After everything that's happened to him, and seeing the dark ones all of a sudden, I think what's going through his head at that moment is to run and gun.
@@smokeybanjoboy I imagine I would've jumped for the guns.
But, from reading the books, you clearly see Artyom "transiting" through following his "idol"/badass steps or having a major figure of maturing/spirituality/ascension, that is Khan.
From the game, you can see the dark ones time and time again, showing memories of a bright time and monologuing a possibility of peace. - "Even a kid hated by his parents, do his best to tolerate and understand them" (paraphrasing).
In the end, the karma choices or "non cunt actions" ("cunt, being, shooting a shrine of worship) --- rewards you with not expending medikits and ammo in pointless combats, like, shooting your visions or the things you don't know/understand --- and shows that Khan's philosophies and points of view are valid to a great extense in a world that humanity got reduced to animals living in the tunnels, that is, if they don't forfeit what made them great in >1900 years before the nuclear doom; charity, respecting art, music and good deeds are likely to continue existing, as long as there's enough people to integrate a community... at least, that's what some people believe.
Why didnt the dark ones explain themselves better beforehand. Without subtitles I didnt even understand that they wanted peace.
Also why didnt they prevent WW3.
In the non-redux version its even less of a hint.
Imagine going through all that shit just to let them live and pretend you're the good guy
hahaha true. Not nuking them after so many lives were sacrificed is just stupid
Everyone is just like "yo artyom, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?"
Yeah man, it wasn't your decision to make. Your comrades died for this. Personally I couldn't live with their blood on my hands.
I mean the way I see it is artyom doesn’t find out the true intentions of the dark ones till last light. See that the were solely trying to help humans and be able to communicate with them. A side effect of the telepathic communication was delusions and death for most people excluding artyom.
The dark ones were trying to communicate with humans, they weren't actually trying to kill people. Artyom was unique because he was able to speak to them, thus being able to act as a bridge between mankind and the dark ones. I think the dark ones violence comes from their lack of understanding of humans and their short lifetime existence, they are more or less children. The game doesn't do a great job at showing this as opposed to the book.
The sad thing is that the bad ending is the canon ending
just finish this game , i don't want to play this game all over again just to see some alien just stare in distance.
You don’t have to, just replay the final chapter.
Omg frrrt thoooo is it like that on metro last night aswell ????
@@lilphilly1675 the bad ending to last light is not canon
Hold up, Throughout the whole game the dark ones have been putting your live at risk, to your first vision to your last one. The only time the Dark ones actually helped you was when you were with Bourbon and you had that vision together. Every other time you life is at risk, and lets also not forget the whole reason why you went on this adventure to begin with, They are attacking your home town son. Now because of that one that did help you out by pulling you out of a dark one vision, so we cant say all of them are hostile but their global decision is hostile. Now if you didn't blow them up, your home tower is still dead just like what happened in the cursed station, remember how they gave you a vision and everyone a strong push to the wall and kill some people with that first push, and then they pushed everyone in that wall again. These are not peaceful beings and yes I'm aware that humans are not peaceful beings but they were the ones who instigated violence's first. The good ending is killing them, the evil ending is letting them live so they can kill off everyone.
if the bad ending wasnt the canon ending, there wouldnt be a metro: last light.
and that’s the problem with the game. if people got the “good ending” or the ending that isn’t canon they would be confused on why there is another metro game. poor choices for the devs to do this.
@@zickseealt its to make people happy, or else people will bitch about "Why can't we spare the Dark Ones?!"
@@boywithcrackers3871 No, it's about giving the player a choice. The Metro games give the player a choice to spare life. One of your first combat choices is to either knock out or kill a hostile bandit, so you have a choice to spare his life.
@@_Jebb_ yeah thats the point, people will ask why didn't he spare the bandits?
Possibly no exodus too
The bad ending is actually the good ending. The dark ones had it coming, let's be real.
Dark ones just want peace but humans don't understand this
@@hugegrand Maybe the dark ones should have understood that they were killing Humans, and that's why they needed to be stopped.
I believe the dark one cannot control the behavior of mutant apes, winged demon, Australian sized spiders. These creatures would have conflict with each other. The parasitic nexus needed to be destroyed to save what is left of the ecosystem for mankind by ironically nuking again. The dark ones can have peace but It would be unclear because their telepathy can be misunderstood as a threat that cause humans to black out.
@@hugegrand ...well they didn’t do shit to make us understand....infact they were letting us die by the hands of the mutants....they are powerful, could kill mutants but no.
XD
I appreciate that both endings have some ambiguity. A lot of times the bad ending in games is "Now that you've played through our entire game, something bad randomly happens to your character in a cutscene."
Good Ending: Artjom's comrades: "Yo Artjom, what the fuck did you just do?!"
Bad Ending: Black Ones: "Yo Artjom, what the fuck did you just do?!"
Dark Ones were terrorizing Metro, driving people so insane they die and causing chaos, it's kinda too late to beg for mercy.
They were trying to communicate to the people. They did know it would kill them dark ones are a very peaceful people they even save you in the true ending of last light
These shouldn't be called Good/Bad endings. They are Spare/Destroy Dark Ones endings.
Calling one good or bad is too subjective.
its a game shut the fuck up
@@quickscopethepope1471 chill yo
@@quickscopethepope1471 what the fuck is your problem, fool?
@@quickscopethepope1471 dude. Shut up
@Senpailicious YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU 2 BIT BRAINED LOW LIFE PIECE OF SHIT
The missile ending gave me fallout vibes
new divide vibes
I didn’t even know there were multiple endings, I got the bad ending
Yeah, i still don’t know how the good ending is done. Mf said “if it’s hostile, kill it” and that shit is indeed hostile
@@bd_asian There is this feature called 'Karma' in all metro games, in describes what ending you'll get. On the wiki you'll find a guide on how to obtain and lose karma.
@@alek7998 At least Fallout is straight to the point when it comes to Karma
@@bd_asian True.
@@alek7998 looks like its decided which ending u get based on if u shoot the device or not are u stupid?
After the Library level and those giant spiders you can bet your ass I'm gonna nuke em 😂
btw
Dark one: "We want peace"
Also, dark one: *killed thousands of people
Yeah fuck everything in this game. Burn it to the ground
The Dark Ones didn't really kill anyone.
What do they have to do with the giant spiders and the Library?
@@_Jebb_ Are you with us or against us? Choose you side comrade!
@@jantoth1202 you're right Jan comrade!
@@_Jebb_ They are responsible for the people's deaths and they had no problem constantly assaulting Exhibition. Even in the book it's unclear whether or not the Dark Ones were truly benevolent, but considering that Glukhovsky also wrote the story for Last Light then it's likely he intends them to be. Still, you could make a strong case that the Dark Ones really were a threat that needed to be eliminated with the way they continuously killed people despite knowing that they only fought back against them because they were afraid of them.
For everyone saying the dark ones wanted peace, remember the scene where the Librarian rips apart the Demon? It was safe to assume from the player and Artyoms viewpoint that they were just mindless savages killing not only Humans, but eachother
Librarians and Demons aren't Dark ones
@@chadthundercock4806 you know, throughout my entire playthrough of Metro 2033, I thought they were the same. I thought every monster I fought were dark ones. Demons, librarians, nosalises, etc...
And it seems I wasn't the only one who thought that way. The game did a poor job at communicating the fact that the dark ones are different from the mindless beasts that you had been slaying. Which is why when I saw this video I was like "wtf do you mean by peace? You savagely tore apart and fed on humans in the tunnels"
Only after reading a few wiki articles did I realize that the Dark ones are actually those alien humanoid looking things.
@@ashokrohan7232 the game did a terrible job at recreating the book, overall. I had read the book before I played, there was much more emotion, dark ones were described perfectly and there was much more detail. The action was better too. I'd say the story isn't bad but the game indeed failed. still, the main point throughout the book was that everybody thought dark ones were the same brutes as the rest of the creatures, and you only do realize they are much more intelligent at the very end, before you nuke them
I think the book was better. I feel the game strays from the book.
@@ashokrohan7232That wasn't really that hard to figure out? The people in game clearly differentiate between mutants and dark ones. One of the first diary entries mentions how these people haven't even heard about the dark ones. Doesn't really make sense that they don't know the mutants who are literally everywhere in the metro. Sorry but that is more on you, not the game.
Everybody says that there is a good ending or bad ending, I see the ending as just an ending
U dumb
Same
Since it doesn't effect the following game
Me too
This is the normal ending, and the other is the special ending
Am I the only one who prefers the “bad” ending? The dark ones had it coming tbh
If its hostile you kill it
Same, i know wars are bad but they are the ones who caused this. And all of a sudden they wanted peace even if they caused all of this.
@@comradeakimov but they didn't cause all of this bro
@@comradeakimov The Dark Ones, are a differnet mutation, they are intelligent and sentient, different from the spiders, librarians and the nosalis. The war was with that mutations, the dark ones never killed anyone
@@comradeakimov "the ones who caused this" they tried to communicate with the humans they wanted to help. They expanded thewir next and the more primitive muations attacked the metro as they couldnt hunt in the dark ones nest anymore. The Dark ones didnt cause shit, humans literally launched the nukes which made humans into dark ones, humans were the ones who made the asusmption the dark ones sent the nosalis and demons, humasn were the ones figthing against eachother so much that no fucking scientist was allowed an opportunity to see a dark one, only ex soldiers and kdis of ex soldiers who only knew war and death.
The bad ending is so much more badass
If the presence of the Dark Ones drives ordinary humans insane, couldn't they just have left a note scribbled on some paper? Or grafitti?
"Hello Human. Dark One here. We no want war. Peace!"
I don't remember being given a choice. I shot the Dark One in the weird tunnel and it immediately went to the missile cutscene. I thought that was the good ending...
@Big Ben yeah same here and it turns out that you need to do lots of stuff during the game which is bs imo
You only get that option if you have a lot of morale, Also if you didn't know the bad ending was the canon one
@@somerandomguy___ because there is no good or bad ending it´s just the nomal (Canon) ending like in the books and then there ist the "secret ending" and for secret stuff you have to work in games
It's not the good and bad ending, it's the normal and special ending
true/secret ending
well i'll bare that in mind for the both
THe would explain it much better. Im sitting here on my ass tryna get the good ending by searching all the secret spots n what not. Then get the special ending thinking I did a great job. Came to this vid n was like, but how? Saving them made no sense. Cant wait to go through last light now though!
It’s canon in the novels that he destroys them, and immediately understands right after the missiles launch that they were not trying to harm humans. So he’s like… oops.
2:27 When the dark one is sus 😂😂😂😂
i’m confused, i just finished the game and never even got the option to shoot the dark one or shoot the nuke guide thing.. i just killed the dark one in the dream state thing, came back to reality and the cutscene started with the nukes going off.. so why didn’t i even get an option to choose?
same
to get the choice to shoot or not the dark one you had to have completed some moral checks during the game, you can find how to get it in the wiki
@@blackjap4055 i really was just constantly assassinating nazis and communists and murdering them all lmao to be fair that was morally correct to me
@@Hutch60Xx me too lmao, but apparently not to the devs
@@blackjap4055 fuck it ill take the bad ending if it means killing nazis hahahha. currently playing exodus and i fucking love it. amazing series for sure
I remember the first time I played it I had the option to choose. This time it just automatically gave me the bad ending?? Might've been because I shot all the dark ones I saw lol
There is a moral system in the game, and for some reason hearing the random NPC dialogue increases your moral. You only get the option if your moral was high enough. So second playtroughs, where the player already knows the lore, it is common for the player to ignore the dialogues.
@@jeanluca01 Eu ouvia diálogos, evitava matar, inclusive na parte dos nazistas eu meio q segui uma "filosofia" de não-interferência, não só evitar matar qualquer pessoa como não salvar ninguém, pois cada um ali sabia oq estava fazendo e mesmo q n estivesse não havia como eu saber. Inclusive, se vcs lembram de dois caras conversando na Black Station sobre suas famílias e tals, eu ouvi tudo e nocautiei os dois, e não matei NINGUÉM na estação. E mesmo assim eu não tive a escolha, o Dark One já estava morto depois de eu sair da alucinação.
i shot a child
@@jeanluca01 Is it considered immoral to kill to defend yourself? I heard all the dialogue, gave money to the poor, killed only when necessary (stabbed 2-3 nazis sorry I guess), and got the bad ending. The things you do in the visions (like going in the directions of the black one instead of running away as I did) alter the ending too?
Yeah, if dark ones say “walk on.” You walk on this will increase your moral, anything that’s not hostile you spare, and this is hard to get the good ending because you mostly need to do stealth, in order to you know escape
"It wasn't the right time for us to meet. But there will be other nights, other stars for us to watch. They'll be back." - John Puntam
The "bad" ending is the right call. Regardless of weather or not you've read the books or played the other games the dark ones were causing mass death and so are regarded as hostile. Their way of communicating disorients people leaving them defenseless against the mutants. Destroying this new threat is the only way to keep the metro safe.
Cometed the game today on switch and for some reason it just went straight to the "bad" ending. Don't know if it's a glitch or Nintendo just asked to remove it for some reason. But still would've decided the "bad" ending.
@@josipdelacruz7141 there are several moments in the game that decide the ending. Unlike exodus, 2033 and last light those moral choices are less obvious. The biggest factor in 2033 is helping people in the "safe" zones. Giving them the military bullets and sparing any enemy that surrenders. Honestly my first few playthroughs I got the "bad" ending because I didn't know where the moral events were and if you miss too many your locked into the bad ending.
@@This_Farking_Guy maybe that was it.
@@josipdelacruz7141 You need to; Give bullets to the homeless you see. Save the reds captured by the nazis. Give the bullet to the child on the one metro line. Spare surrendered enemies. Stealth most of your way if you can helps too, so as few kills as possible. Refuse the bullets the lady offers for helping her kid.
Basically do good stuff
I played last light first because it was free on steam. But I still chose the bad ending in 2033 because the dark ones literally throw you off the building if you walk the wrong way in the hallucination. Also, it’s the canon ending
I love the games, just finished 2033 Redux after so long of finishing the original 2033, I got the ranger ending despite doing as good moral/stealthy AS I could, missed things probably
I would not say the alternative good ending is a "good" ending thou, it is very misleading or ppl can easily missunderstand it, its more of a easter egg ending since the true "bad" ranger ending is the canon one.
yeah but the nuke ending is canon to last light so...
For everyone who doesn’t think the good ending is all that good or that the dark ones where the bad guys, I suggest reading Metro: 2033. Clears this whole thing up a bit
exactly it's annoying to see people defend nuking a sentient species without even having read the books.
Then the game did a poor job of explaining things, I shouldn't have to read a book to understand what's happening in the game..
@@tomtruyens7998 you don’t have to really, the game gives enough hints about the dark ones being peaceful that the book isn’t necessary. it’s just that you’ll have to pay very close attention. imo the book would only enhance said narrative, without being required
@@PB-ji5rb After all that lost lives because of them, how can they be peaceful.
@@umutankun2140 it’s not malice on their part, more them being unable to communicate successfully, which due to the humans’ circumstances in the metro drives them crazy. Artjom is the only one who can commune with them, which gives him the chance to negotiate a peace between humans and dark ones. btw metro last light gives some good insight into this as well
IMO there is no bad/good ending, it just depends on your perspective and what you did understand/decide on the whole situation.
For example I was more satisfied when I decided to nuke them because they were turning our people completely crazy, killing them, making us black out in super dangerous environments. Trying to hold us from killing monsters who were mindlessly attacking and they were not clear on their intention at least once until reaching the end of the game. And when they did, they tried to kill us.
My thoughts while playing the game is that they were trying to lie and manipulate artyom
I wanted to try FPS games because i only play cute ones lol. i saw this and the reviews were great. bought it and im so happy i did! i finished the game (achievement unlocked) and i like how it went. I got the 'canon' ending as some of you guys call it :) ill start last light this weekend :)
You only play cute ones? So how was the library level for you? As an avid horror game player even that level made me
Shit myself. It could also be the fact i played ranger hardcore as well.
when I got the ending my dude just woke up, by the time he woke up I had no choice other than watching the missiles fly by my head. He didn't even reached his gun.
yep happen to me didn't know there was more than one ending
I guess we haven't done all the things to unlock the alternate ending. 2 bad :/
Man on Fire I read up on what you needed to do to get the “good” ending I did all of them. I think it must be a bug where the game takes to long to load haha 😂
He said among us
2:27 Among Us reference.
S U S ඞ
Gus
I just realised that I got bad ending on every single Metro game......
Kill less, and go stealth and knock enemmies.
What a game
What a *FUCKING* game
Sad we don't see masterpieces(imo) like this today
I would recommend reading the books as well they follow the same story but are in so much more depth it's insane
The "good ending" is hardy a good one. Any soldier given the choice would protect Mankind from strange alien creatures that give mixed messages. Those ugly mofos had it coming. Not only is the so-called bad ending the canonical ending but is a preferred ending for many I'm sure. Screw the dark ones for invading our planet and Artyom's memory! I'm sticking with the "Ranger" ending.
As stated on the wikia, the dark ones are actually remnants of those humans that did not make it into the metro. They’re not aliens although they sure give off that vibe. And neither were they hostile. They just couldn’t make their point to the humans besides through telepathic visions which drove them insane. Artyom was an exception because he had a meeting with one when he was younger and resisted, thus becoming somewhat of a gate between the two worlds.
@@flyguy9438 I'm all happy killing those mutants they will destroy of replace humanity no way they even have a need for them
Theres actually no good and bad ending, atleast in my prespective. The dark ones is the main antagonist and was attacking exhibition over and over again. They killed hundreds of people maybe even thousands, Yes dark ones did save Artyom but they still killing humans and should be responsible for that. In fact launching the missiles might actually kills lotta mutants decreasing their population in Moscow. I just saying that theres no bad ending in this game but if you disagree i have nothing to do with that.
Its not "Good" or "Bad" - its Hunter's ending or its Khan's ending. Depending on their philosophys it can be always argued as the "Good" ending.
I haven't read the book, but I just finished the game. At first I saved them, feeling like I did the right thing. THen... I realized what hypocrisy it was to let them live while they themselves started the whole damn thing by slaughtering our people in unprovoked attacks. So I went back just to spite them and chose differently; I killed off the Dark Ones with absolutely no remorse whatsoever. The whole plot was that we needed help to defend ourselves from the Dark Ones as THEY were attacking our station. And then they had the balls to try to guilt-trip us into both feeling sorry for them and feeling ashamed of our own actions. "We want peace".. bullshit. Tell that to the good guards and people of the stations you killed. "Bad ending"? Pah! I'd call it the genuine "you reap what you sew, bitches"-ending. This time, humanity really were the good guys and no amount of saccharine soul-searching slush can convince me otherwise.
Yep, you haven’t read the books. But tbh the game makes a poor job of explaining that the Dark Ones are no threat and peaceful.
Yeah the book does a much better job, at first I was with you (fuck the dark ones) but now im seeing there is a lot of nuance to the situation.
You were right the first time. Once you read the book you'll understand. Don't want to read it? Spoilers...
Dark Ones are people who didn't make it to the metro. They want peace, and try to tell that to people telepathically. But the people in the metro go insane. Artyom is the exception because he encountered em when he was young. The reason people die is because monkey brain is too stupid to understand.
What you call attacking your station, is really just the people inside being too paranoid and dumb to understand.
Tbf the dark ones are trying to just talk to be people and they fucking go insane from hearing them so it's not entirely their fault, but even then they can't be allowed to exist if humans wanted to survive
I didnt even have a dark one on top of the tower with me but never had an option to destroy the laser. Really not a fan of games giving you a hidden choice. If you just play along in the game and get a different ending when you had no choices to make then it feels kind of hollow. Like the dark ones attack the stations and you're suppose to spare them but arnt given the option without looking at the wiki for certain hidden choices.
Thanks for the video!
I wanted to get the canon ending because I read the book but the game ending is great too it showed Artyom’s hope instead of denial for what he had done
If I'm being honest, the "good" ending feels like total bullshit to me. These fuckers have done nothing but try to kill me and successfully kill almost everyone who I met that helped me out on my journey. And left everyone else living in constant fear often wiping out entire communities that are forced to live underground. In the dream sequences you literally fail the level if you walk towards them to try and hear them out. Nothing about them in the entire game suggests that they possess sympathy or empathy in any capacity. For all I know, their cries of "we want peace" could just be an evil trick to stop us killing them before they go back to doing everything they were doing to us the entire game.
Maybe I just missed something, it has been a while since I played this game and, frankly, I had absolutely no idea that an alternate ending even existed for this game as nothing within the game actually suggests that there is. I suppose that's at least a unique way of handling multiple endings, I just wish it was a more believable option.
I prefer the bad ending and biew it as the good one cause then it leads to metro last light
Same
I prefer the "bad" ending. If they wanted peace how come they killed so many?
yeah
yea, THEY BRING THE WAR, THEY GOT THE WAR
its not very well explained in the game. According to the book, the mental damage they did to the humans was kind of a secondary effect of them trying to get in touch with humans (the darkones used telepathic communication but most humans just were not psycho/fisiology adapted to this kind of stuff). Its supposed that when they found artyom when child, they noticw he could actually understand them. Many years later (time of the game) Artyom doesnt remember it, but the D. O. keep trying to reach him because they know humans wont be able to live again complete without their help (understanding that humans are just surviving hardly on the metro). More or less thats what its said on the book
They didn't do it on purpose, it's self-explanatory
@@Alexis-hn1yw and how the hell am I supposed to know this just by playing the game? The book seems sooo interesting and it looks like the game doesn't reach its level
The first time i finished it was good Ending.
No regrets playing this game
Edit: 2 years later, by the good ending, i mean killing the dark ones.
looking through the comments and it's like people haven't actually understood the whole point of the "good" ending. yeah, it seems kind of dumb for Artyom to simply go "hey, actually, I don't wanna do this" and stop the bombing but.. if you actually hear the Dark Ones, if you read up on the lore/wiki, they don't look like too much of the bad guys. the game makes you look at them as the bad guys because you have practically no context when you first play through it. "7'0 monsters killing people without even touching them" sounds terrifying, and of course it's going to make them look bad. that's probably what the regular people in the Metro thought. of course they're gonna fear them, they can't exactly understand them like Artyom does. the Dark Ones are trying to communicate with people but- to put it in extremely simple ways- their mind can't understand it and makes them go mad. if you approach the Dark Ones in the visions, you understand them, and they quite clearly state that "they mean no harm,". if you do that twice, in Ostankino Tower you can hear them say "..he can hear us.. he can understand us." and "why? / why is he here?" (i think, i haven't finished 2033 in a while).. Khan is probably the most understanding of the Dark Ones. indirectly, his "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it’s not any more "evil" than, say… fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgement. Let's move out now, it's not safe here." is first referring to the electrical anomaly, but it's also heard in the Black Station level, if you approach the Dark Ones. "It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgement." is a pretty important part here. and "You reap what you sow, Artyom. Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than just act without any thought or doubt." is ALSO *very* important. these all make sense if you think of them talking about the Dark Ones. how come you see visions of children in a playground, sounds of regular everyday life, and views of leaves flowing in a tree? they want nothing but peace with humanity, but people can't understand it, seeing them as 'the threat'. it's their presence and psychic influence that drove them mad, but it's not exactly their fault. do you remember when Alex went on his speech about them being "the next step in evolution" and called them "Homo Novus"? yeah, that literally means "New Man". wouldn't it be understandable if the reason people are driven insane by their simple act of trying to establish peace with humanity is just because they're TOO EVOLVED? of course! that's probably it.
god. it's almost 3 am and i'm writing a fuckin essay on 2033. i wouldn't have it any other way
feel free to correct me if i missed something.
sincerely,
Not A Dark One
haha good good this comment deserve attention
I mean I get your reasoning but I just don't trust them. I got the option for the good ending and didn't even know it first time through, I just watched it play out as it reached for the laser and died. I heard there was 2 endings so I tried to be pacifist and giving n all, but at the end they're trying to kill me, had I known I had a choice I would of ended it the same way. In the end if you don't run away from them/shoot them, then they walk you off a ledge. Why not just tell me "hey listen we'd really appreciate if you didn't nuke the shit out of us, sorry us and humanity got off on the wrong foot but really we're here to help. We'll fuck off and quit accidentally making people crazy because you've proven humans can be good." They coulda just talked it out, told me what they wanted, but instead they try to kill me to stop me. So if killing them makes me bad, then they're just as bad. Also, you're one of the very few people that can stop them, and this is your one and only chance to do so. If they are lying about peace, which I think they are, then that's the end of humanity.
@@shithappens6887 oh god, I forgot I wrote all this for a second, I totally see your point as well though. they gave everyone nearly every reason to be scared, or to downright despise them
I absolutely agree with you saying they should've told Artyom that they're "well-meaning", since they've shown to be able to somewhat communicate with him/show him visions (example, the playground where you first go outside with Bourbon)
thank you for reminding me of this btw, you make some good points
@@shithappens6887 dark ones are humans who didn't make it into the metro. So your opinion is shit either way.
You have to understand that A LOT of players (myself included) thought "Dark Ones" was referring to the mutants (demons, nosalises, librarians, etc).
I played through the entirety of Metro 2033 with this misunderstanding. So when the option was there to nuke them, of course I did. Because I didn't actually know what the hell a Dark One was. Heck for half of my playthrough, I assumed Dark One = Black Nosalises. Because they're dark, get it? The game never really communicated to the player what a dark one looked like. We can only guess. In fact, I never even saw a single Dark One in my entire playthrough of 2033. Yes, there were visions, but I just took it as my character being psychic or something. And that led me to all the wrong conclusions. We completely misunderstood and misinterpreted the entire story.
And then at the end of the game, I assumed Dark Ones referred to the collective hive mind of the mutants! So I thought if I nuked them, poof! No more mutants! Which left me super confused in Metro Last light, where I saw nosalises swarm me in the first chapter.
If you read many of the comments here, they all have that misunderstanding
I DIDNT KNOW I COULD PREVENT THEIR DEATH I JUST LOOKED AT THE SCREEN
You cant in metro last light the bad ending is cannon😔
@@SkylerIsHellaBored No..... look it up lmao
@@desertsane it’s been….a year
@GamerChannelMax
I hope you don't mind, but I linked your video in my recent stream at the end of it! So my viewers (or any who watch it in the future can see both endings!) My first ever playthrough I didn't stream (didn't stream back then) but I did the canonical ending. So the stream I did the Savior/Good ending. Thanks again man! Hope it ain't an issue!
Had no clue that there were other endings to this game. I bombed them and thought that was the best one
You might go ”uhh but they seem nice” it’s legit mind tricks they killed my homies so I killed them
It was more like a suicide
But they weren’t trying to play mind tricks… they were genuinely trying to communicate
@@captainmartinwalker2848 too bad homies still need to be avenged
@@balls4755 what “homies”? Not a single character you know in 2033 get killed by the dark ones lmao
@@captainmartinwalker2848 yeah just the countless people talking about their friends and family disappearing after dark one attacks
I didn't have the option to choose, but when I got the "bad" ending, I thought it was beautiful to see
you destruction loving monster
i dont care if they call me edgy, bad ending seems the best to me.
I guess ending where Puro gets killed is better too.
@@derdoctor1895 D:
Edgy
Fr, too much lives were wasted
Oh my looking at this, the night before I play the whole of it as its next on line to my games to play list. It's basically next to game called "Firewatch". Oh my the ending really feels something I could be emotional a bit again😍. I just look at this to see if it can fit in my mood right now and to know how to choose when I know the whole thing already.
I get the "bad" ending and i'm happy with it. Those mutants can control your mind, you can't make peace with them.
they can't control your mind, from what I understand the dark ones just want to communicate with human but the only way they communicate is through your mind (or called telepathy). But they don't know that doing this makes people minds go crazy.
The thing is, the first ever encounter between them and human is when Artyom was a child, 5 years old iirc. Somehow Artyom minds doesn't go crazy when the dark ones communicate with them, maybe that's why they try going into the metro just trying to communicate with humans but unfortunately they trying to communicate makes people minds go crazy, so humans determine the dark ones as a hostile. After that everytime humans see the dark ones they shoot them immediately, making the dark ones attacks human consciously at that time.
@@big_coin If they don't have mind control, then however convincing and intelligent they are there is no use for their skills. Fellow humans can't turn nazis and communists back to normal so why would a nazi listen to a black alien-shaped creature that isn't even familiar with us, even if he didn't turn insane? I don't think we need a different species to watch over our shoulders and tutor us as we already have an infinity of moral codes and ethics and have studied them for milennia, problem is that all of us don't care or ignore our morals for our own profit in one way or another. Also, how do we know their morals are better than ours? They are quick to break the Golden Rule (don't do to others what you don't want to be done to you) when they use your brain without your consent, so they're in a way brainfucking you, so abusing you.
If the Dark Ones don't have mind control they can't do shit, if they have they are a danger to us as free will is the greatest gift of humanity despite the existence of evil, and they could also use it for evil purposes, like well, making us commit s******, like for example they do with Artyom if he goes towards them in the ending hallucinations.
If they were so smart and good that they could fix us eventually they'd realize that almost all humans are negatively affected by their mere proximity, so they could just learn a thing or two from librarians, isolate themselves and both of us go our own way without bothering the other
I haven't read the books or played the other games, so that's my mistake and they probably explain it well, but 2033 at least does a very bad job at portraying the good nature of the Dark Ones
Hey, can I use a clip of this (the good ending last bit) in a video? I'll credit you of course.
you dont have to credit its just a game lmaao
They only wanted peace after they realized they were going to be destroyed im not going to waste the sacrifices made by my comrades because they had a last second change of heart
I have played this game 4 times. I just finished a run where I didn't kill anyone and I did every single moral point, only to not get the achievement. Not a single guide said you had to shoot the damn targeting lazer.
I think the '' Bad Choice ' is the good one cus the demons and the other beasts terrorised everyone and Artyom by choosing that saved many people and his people
well the idea is that the dark ones didn't mean for it to happen. it was just a by product of their very existence.
@@historynerd2373 What do you mean? If they're some kind of superior race then they should be aware or limit/stop it or at least develop a better way of communication, if they're underdeveloped they seem to be too much of a collateral damage just to stop our consciousness from devouring ourselves. If they're somewhat on par then it just becomes a war for survival at its best, the issue is touching but the form it's delivered in is beyond shitty. The story is just disappointing, there's a sprinkle of everything but no depth or enough tools to have an educated opinion. Even with the Nazis, there's literally no reason to kill them other than the fact you associate Nazis = bad people, I just killed everyone who was fighting the war as a neutral judge. I haven't played the others or read the books, but as a standalone game one cannot possibly feel guilty for getting the default ending
@@Luca48882 You'd probably enjoy the books to be honest, factions are given a lot more depth (especially the 4th riech), and yeah you are correct, this game doesn't do a good job of making you feel like the good ending is good. The delivery and build up in the book for the ending is genuinely upsetting (in a good way)
@@Luca48882 That's why it's the canon ending geinus
Total let down. I completed this on xbox one, killed the alien in the tunnel, awoke and heard 'Artyom missiles in flight' then it fades and goes back to the main screen.
@@jacobmoore6193 I killed the mother by reflex and then stabbed the children.
Now that I say that I realize why I got the bad ending.
@@JoaoEsquivo hahahahah same. But think about it logically, the children would grow and then proceed to murder a bunch of people
I beat it on xbox one as well. Same endings. You must have skipped the cutscene or something on accident. Unless you mean the good ending, in which case you have to do certain things. You can look it up if you wish
When I got to this part I didn’t even get to pick, I just woke up and the lady said 20 second until procedure or something and missles launched.
at the end, i didn't see the dark one in the floor, my ending was waking up from shooting the dark one in the vision and then the missiles came and blow the heck out of them
Gud ending soundtrack ?
Wait... there are two endings?! WTF?!
this game was so short I was expecting way more based off the hype
my ending was different. The dark one was already dead when I left the vision, and the rockets were already flying
So when I completed the game, I shot the dark one in the vision and it just skipped to the end of the countdown, and I didn't have to kill it on floor? I know it's a minor thing but I dont understand why it happened?
same thing happened to me
To get the option, you should get atleast 8 or 9 moral points in the game.. You can find a guide for that on Internet..
@@maazimran9986 thanks for the info :)
Disclaimer everyone that Gamer Max Channel didn't say: This is the original metro not the redux. On redux you don't have the option of choosing between the endings. The redux version is the remastered of 2033 and they probably did it because spoiler kinda, the last light starts like that. The game tells you that you did kill the dark ones. Since they made a sequel (Metro last light) they made it like that so it makes sense. If you play the original one you have the option.
Edit: Jzion Taco
Told me that you need to pass all the morality tests on the game for the option to have the good ending.
Oh God! Ok thanks, I finished Redux last night and I felt bad missing out the good ending tbh. Thanks for this!!
Oh, so that's why the missiles launched right away.
@@pokey5509 Probably
In my playthrough, I didn't get to choose what to shoot. The missiles just launched
@@pokey5509 Yep unfortunately that's the truth, but don't worry. In the original you shoot it and you remember something khaz (forgot the guy's name, the guy that showed you ghosts and all the other stuff) said to you.
The funny thing is that i got the good ending on my first run because i thought it was the canon one
I just beat the game for the first time and I have to say I didn't get the "We want peace" notion in the slightest, never even occurred to me that was an option
I don't know what I did but the game gave me automatically the "bad ending". Part 3:54 - 4:32 is missing.
Same
same, i think its a bug
@@SniperAgeYT Or I was so bad that I didn't deserve to have a choice.
Amogus
" They are among us now "
It doesn't really matter what you get cause Last Light confirms that you did nuke em so this is basically pointles
Tru dat
This aint no mass effect
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@@efeyigit6766 (:
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@He Told Me To Do It (:
omg omg he said it they are among us now AMONG US AHAHAHAHH FUNNI
How do you know to shoot down the lazer thing? And why bring it all the way up just to shoot it down? I had no idea to shoot it down
Weird. I didn't get either ending. When I woke, there was no dark one on the tower with me, only the missiles homing in. There was no chance to shoot the dark one upon awakening. I don't even remember having the gun when I woke, but maybe I did.
There's an invisible morale rating. The less you shoot people and the more you sneak away from or knock them out, and the more you listen to conversations, the higher it gets.
@@gmork1090ohhh so i just shot to many people? And that is why i didnt get the option?
Dude i was literally pacifisting throughout the game and it didn't give me a choice between a good or bad ending
If they want peace why the hell there is a creature following us
what are those red root or tentacle looking like things coming out of the nest of the dark ones?
I didn't even get the option to stop the missiles. I didn't even see the Dark one trying to reach for them, it literally wasn't there for me....
You have to earn moral points throughout your game. I.e. killing/sparing enemies, environment/npc interactions, locations and such. Your screen would slightly brighten everytime you get to earn moral points.
@@doobadood i guess i didn't earn enough moral points. And after replaying the same way i did last time, isaw the dark one, but it was just... Lying there, dead... I guess i will try getting the "Good" ending?
@@leserb9228 the canon ending is still the one you successfully blow up the dark one's home though, its the 2034/Last Light story and no other way. I guess 4A is just trying to test how the player would settle our morality to our playthrough by these "alternate" endings.
I wasn't surprised that I got the bad ending. But I was surprised Artyom didn't got enlighted like in the book. But DAMN, looking up the wiki and seeing all the possible ways to gain and lose moral is fascinating. But, after already beeing drought out by the story only from the book before playing, I don't know if I replay it anytime soon. Oh I really don't wanna do Archives and Library again. Well, another Title off my list. But yeah. Game as a game is great and with loads of detail and special. But that also means its not for everyone.
wait i didnt see the black one trying destroy the laser pod thingy it just gave me the ranger ending (or I was just blind)
anyways, the "Bad ending" (the one where you blow them all up) is technically the cannon ending, cuz in the book that's what artyom does, but he still questions if what he does was good or bad
It won't let me get the good ending the moment I wake up from the vision nukes are falling from the sky
2:27 This game predicted the arrival of the true dark ones!
get out of my head
I never played this series until a few months ago. i actually got all 3 games on steam and i def wish id played then sooner. Ever since ive somewhat switched to PC from console. ive been playing a lot of these older games like the Bioshock series. And ive never played Bioshock before. I might try out stalker next. i also just bought half life 2 as well.
I dont remember shooting the alien lying down I just shot him in the tunnel and immediatelly I got the cutscene with bad ending...
I shot the dark one and then when I snapped me back there was no choice to shoot the missile thing or the dark one, the missiles just launched atomically, there was no count down and no dark one
I didn't get the option in the end because I took ammo to save the kid(was running low), but honestly in the entire dream sequence I was just scared of the dark ones and I thought the bad ending would be that I die. And I honestly just kinda overheard the 'we want peace' part because I was shit scared. And I mean they were saying things like he is going to destroy us, he must be stopped and all. So I might've killed the dark one but if I knew they actually wanted peace then I would've probably knocked down the guidance thing(if I knew that was possible). But if they want peace why do they kill so many people???
they trying to talk to people, but people go mad when they hear them. Artyom is the exception.
You know dark ones were humans that didn't make it to the metro
you can push the device off instead of shooting it at the end
The annoying part is that I can't select the damn ending, it depends on how many times I strummed the guitar at the start.
It's not made clear in the game that the dark ones are trying to help except that one time when Artyom is pulled by a dark one. They are always made to appear as evil. How are the people, who haven't read the books but are only playing the games, supposed to know this? In the ending where Artyom has to go through the mental maze, they could have made the overheard monologue explain Artyom/us how they are trying to help and not kill us. They keep repeating how Artyom should be killed so anyone who doesn't know the books is going to kill them.
i didnt even get the option to shoot the thing I woke up and kaboom
I didnt even know you could prevent the missiles. I just stood there.
what?
@@blair5475 He didn't know that you were able to shoot the thing that launches the missiles
Can someone tell me why I don't have the option to shoot down the radar at the end? I just have a straight wake up and a blast. Has the redux version been altered in any way?
i didn't even see the alien at the end lmao
i didnt even know there was a choice, at the first scene when the dark one approached me i didnt even shoot at him because hunter said if it's hostile you kill it and i literally waited for the dark one to attack me and i died, so next try i had to shoot it. after that at the top of radio station the dark one was already dead so i automatically had the bad ending, i didnt had a choice to shoot the dark one or stop the missiles, weird.
There's an invisible morale rating. The less you shoot people and the more you sneak away from or knock them out, and the more you listen to conversations, the higher it gets. There are also other things that raise morale like giving to those in need.
@@gmork1090 well I did mostly kill everyone so I guess I did deserve the bad ending