Funny thing is in the book series, I was like Artyom, I wanted everyone to find a place on the surface, I idolized Miller and Hunter. Then I read the end and man. Just like Artyom I was broken hearted. They were nothing but puppets. Especially Miller and the order. He was the secret governments bitch. So just like Artyom I basically said fuck them all only Anya and exhibition deserves the surface. I never thought a book series would ever make me feel so many emotions. Truly a masterpiece, I can't wait for more Metro.
I listened to the books on Audible read by Rupert Degas and they instantly became my all time favorite books. Never have I experienced such an extensively fleshed out world as what Dmitry created in his books. It's so bleak and terrifying and yet so believable. The idea that the only way to carry news is my word of mouth by someone lucky enough to make it from one station to the next is sheer genius. These books are absolute gold
I think that my version of "Immersion" is seeing people react to things like people would react as if that setting was their reality. And things like the Red Line Wars is one of those that make the Metro series so compelling to me. I am so glad someone is doing the lore of that world!
It’s tiring in modern games that the factions and people are just so extreme. I want two factions that make sense and I could see my self joining and other real people. I don’t want “blow up the world” or “become slaves to save the world” no. More compelling gangs and people. Real people real factions. It’s so annoying yo have to pick stupid sides
I couldn't help but think of how fallout 4 just added a bunch of copy paste enemies to their game without considering lore knowing fans would make their own when I found out the Caspian is connected the volga and that's why we see similar creatures in both. It's as if the world really exists. Its never just and also theirs mutants or and also theirs spiders theirs always a good compelling reason for it. I can't wait to see what 4A and all the metro guys work on in the future. Truly some passionate stuff real art works.
It's literally all an almost direct, scaled down metaphor for our actual history and how it accumulated to the modern day political situation, if you know your history and the current political landscape. How time and human behavior and history repeats itself and loops like a flat circle, or a spiral. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the west getting the better deal out of this and russia wanting the power it used to have, the rise of nationalism in response to all of this, etc. Being the most obvious vague notions of this. There are far more details, and symbolism in this story. Almost every event, battle, action, deal, important locations is symbolism or metaphor or historic reference getting across this general idea somehow. In a way your observation about these people reacting as if it was a real situation actual human beings are put into coming from an already existing place is pretty spot on.
Not to mention this game I feel, gets some inspiration and aesthetics from Russian writers and philosophers such as Dostoevsky. Also couldn't help make the connection with the book title "Notes From The Underground" by Dostoevsky as well.
i kinda want a game following artyom post-exodus. setting up a village near lake baikal, fighting off bandits and raiders, inviting new groups to join the community, etc.
The rumour is the Spartans will go back to the Metros to try and reveal the secret and finally get everyone to venture out into the world to rebuild. That’s the rumour anyway as it seems to be the way the ending was phrased and the way the books are going
The ending of the books were so damn frustrating(In a good story sense), no one would believe Artyom! He was constantly telling people all the death and suffering was pointless, that a better world existed on the surface. But, no people rejected his words, calling him mad. I’m glad that him and Anna made it out though, even if it was bitter sweet that they were the only ones that left.
To be fair can you really blame them though? Let's be honest, when you've been stuck underground living that kind of life for so many years, the idea that a better world would exist on the *surface* (which they had been told was highly irrigated and have being fed the lie that their country is still under attack) seems pretty far fetched, if not mad. So I really do not blame the people for treating Artyom the way they did.
17:14 Poor Khan. Casually shot in the back of the head with a Gatling Gun while attempting to protect D6. Now I know why Artyom says Khan “simply vanished” and “was never seen again” at the end of Last Light.
@@TheSpekkel1 yeah. I've got 1st English editions that weren't very well translated, they're written in pidgeon english rather than proper english, very choppy sentences and poor grammer
Metro Wars 2033 is a mobile game. Tad buggy sometimes, I have to save and reload cloud data when I close the game, but may just be me so give it a go I say. Alot of lore
@@Niki-cw1cm Yeah this right here, so much fun how it crunches HOI IV, a game thats usually oriented around numbers in the tens of thousands or millions into a game based on dozens or hundreds, to the point that if you have a few thousand well armed men you are a legitimate super power as you damn well should be in a setting where theres maybe 50-60,000 humans left in a two hundred mile radius. Never crashes either. My only issue w the mod is its still very much in development, even the main factions are still not fully written and have incomplete content, and also a more functional issue is that after your second or so major war the game kinda just dies because you quickly become unstoppable due to the small map, other factions not having content, and theres little to no surface exploration mechanics yet. In base HOI or other mods I feel like I have to get 40-50 hours deep on a save to get to that level of indisputable advantage. In the Metro mod I can pretty much get to end game HOI in a day of play.
While the games indeed aren't "fully correct", we still need to remember one thing: They're just adaptations of the books. And there has been slight changes to make them work better, as a games. Hence the second and third installments of the game series, that are actually telling somewhat original stories. Per Dev's opinion, that Metro 2034 (which I am reading at the moment) wouldn't work as a game. That's why they made Last Light, which in itself was (and still is) amazing game. And not to forget, that Glukhovsky himself has been taken part of writing the scripts of game adaptations (he has actually stated in Twitter, that he has begun writing the next installment of the game series). While they're not 100% same, they're still canon. For me, they're two different continuations of the same universe. Like parallel timelines, if anything.
Exactly. And besides Last Light; Exodus mostly takes place after where 2035 ends (if one wants to mesh the 2 mediums together). so beside the first chapter’s alterations, Exodus doesn’t really contradict the book too much.
@@IkeanCrusader1013 metro exodus cannibal high command is different faction from moscow high command that still rules the metro and particularly hanza though.
The other interesting thing to note is that as the books and games have developed that like in real life there are many smaller and independent factions/stations that exists, mutant societies, cults, republics and dictatorships.
Which makes me wonder, what happened to the rest of the world following the collapse? We only know one side, what happened to the rest of the world when the nukes fell? Honestly it gives me fallout vibes to think what might be happening in the US, parts of Canada and south america.
@@Suisfonia Italy has a triology of books; there are city states, as the Nation was barely hit (two nukes, Milan and Rome) The strife Is more "survive in the post nuclear Winter"
@@bardanmalla193 I don't really play alot of FPS besides Prey, Bioshock and Dishonored but had a feeling just wanted to get the story of the first two games before going to exodus which I hear is much larger scale game with a bigger world then previous game since it takes part mostly above the Metro's. Will do!
I recommend the books or audio books, a damn good trilogy, honestly one of the best series I've read and I've read a few hundred books classic included, metro and it's philosophy and journey of life and growth is up there in the top three beyond any doubt. Don't miss out, they make the games better when you play them again afterwarda
The redline always had well equipped troops, but they rarely used them and never in suicidal mass charge attacks because they had less elite troops than the reich had. On the other hand it had a bigger population so could throw in inexperienced conscripts to soften up the reich and then send in the more well equipped troops if the charge did enough damage.
They have the equipment seeing as they were essentially the heirs to the military administration in most places... The also af a gigantic territory with lot´s of borders they need to controle, including surface accesses
Real reason for the suicidal mass charges is to lower the population therefore lower the need for food, as we know from history with communism starvation is always nearby, always. Less people less mouths to feed.
@@INSANESUICIDE Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if this was the case Kills 2 birds with one stone (even if the first bird rarely actually dies, at least the second one will)
@@INSANESUICIDE The food supply is a feeble thing in the entire metro since they only have two real sources of food, shrooms and pork. Both sides in the 35 red line - reich war admit to wanting their penal troops to die, whereas hansa, beacon of peace and capitalism that it is, simply kicks the poor out so none of their citizens are starving
I like how after disaster or devastation of that magnitude , people still somehow managed to wage war against eachother , and not even for resources but for ideology.
A quote from Artyom: "Even the apocalypse didn't stop us from killing one another over ideology" This line always gives me a bit of a dark chuckle, aswell as a saddening realization that human beings have and will always been doing this.
If you read into history, you'd find that people are always going to be at war. Hell, look at the middle east as a PRIME example of this. They've been at war with themselves for *thousands* of years, constantly taking and giving, taking and giving, its like an endless waltz. Its why I wonder if the only way we'll ever stop hurting each other (can't use the other word due to stupid youtube censors) is if it aliens invade (and no I'm not kidding, yes I believe in alien life beyond our planet, it would be naïve to think that we are the only species out there.)
Mean, Artyom did mention that the apocalypse of the atomic war didn’t stopped them from wanting to kill each other over ideology. Meaning that the atomic war was just only a minor setback from them wanting to kill each other.
I really liked the dichotomy between post-war and pre-war ideals, both in the books and games. Dmitry really did a good job of driving home that even after complete and utter devastation, humans still long for war.
@@pedrojuan8050 There are actually Neo-Nazi groups in Moscow like the Russian National Unity so the 4th Reich most likely established by far-right radical elements and other surviving Neo-Nazi groups. Originally it’s their hatred for non-russian/Slavs but overtime they changed it to hatred against humans with genetic defects caused by radiation.
My question, what happened to all the bodies of the civilians mass murdered by Hansa and the Red Line, there was a food shortage but when Artyom and Anna get to Vdnkh there's canned meat called "hash" (looking a little cannibalistic)
In the book I think it says they just burn them and also SPOILER it is also said in 2035 that the pig feed used was actually from the bodies of the dead from the Metro.
My most adored game ever. It's so atmospheric and rich with curiosity. I remember when I first played the game, my mind was filled with so many question about everything I see in the game. It was a great experience.
was pretty satisfying to see the literal mountains of corpses at the end of the heavy squad mission or whatever it was called , but it also goes to show that if hans didnt arrive with his pepper grinder the litteral waves of troops would have overwhelmed the relatively few reich defenders
I love metro 2033 and last light, one of the few games where it actually tried to challenge me Also I see you like to do fallout and metro videos, have you ever considered to make s.t.a.l.k.e.r lore videos too? It's as fun as metro!
I want to play a sort of post-Exodus game where, while the core of the Metro is doing a sort of process of unification, the periferal stations sees new waves of attacks from mutants, also new Dark Ones attacks. I loved the atmosphere of the Spartan outpost in the church in surface, in the middle of the marshes. Maybe new combat units can be raised by some of those stations. VDNKh for example have the need for it. It just lacks the resources. But also the Commonwealth of Europa that had to face the Cult of the Great Worm is a great point from where to start a cool story against mutants and religious fanatics.
Lets get it. Super following if i could. Youre fullfilling my lore dreams for this game. My fav series ever. Finally lore videos. Thank you so much wisefish
Honestly I always got an uneasy feeling going through the various Metro communities. I try to put myself in their shoes and it always feels like the entire place is on the brink of collapsing or being invaded, either by mutants or enemy factions. It's a very desolate feeling. The Metro universe is definitely one where you better not get comfortable wherever you are, because chances are you're gonna have to relocate very soon
got to love this extremely dark and very Russian historical commentary. Also, the idea of Russian Nazis that venerate Hitler seems like the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard and yet you have an entire society of sun-starved people going slowly insane down in the tunnels so who knows how that could affect people long term?
Eh. Fascism seems to infest every Western nation on the planet in one form or another. The idea of ones inherent personal "superiority" over another individual seems appealing, especially to disenfranchised individuals.
The books and games are sheer brilliance and I thank you for easily summing up the important events of these stories that don't quite get a straightforward explanation in their narrative. Well done, keep it up
@@WiseFish even if you have read the books you must listen to them read by Rupert Degas. His skills in narration, accents and voices really puts you in the story better than you ever could yourself.
Such a high production quality. Keep it up man! I applaud you for your choice to render the vids in 4k instead of shitty 1080 like many large channels do.
4K Quality is the future so why not embrace it now. I know some of the footage is lower quality but for the most part I do love that clean 4K footage lol
I am very pleased that foreigners are interested in the 2033 series of metro, and I, as a Russian person and a big fan of the 2033 series of books and games, I am happy with this.
> Survived nuclear holocaust > Moved into metro to live >Decides the best way to pass the time is to have another war because of differing political views. Galaxy brains.
I really wish we can get a game in the near future one where you can pick a faction and has more lore too each. When it comes to metro there is alot interesting lore that comes with this series
Funniest thing ever, Red Line portrayed as evil communism (Author openly tells that), but author also described life on VDNH station (Artyom home) and that literally communism but its described as good. So there is 2 possibilities: - Author intentionaly left 2 variants to co-exist - Author dont know what communism are, and just threw "communism is evil" in the book
The end of the third book was literally just a smack to the face, finding out everything was fake and they all tried to make out artyom was crazy how there is anyone out there still just to find out that he was right this whole time, poor guy, he did get a great ending though
Awesome video, love you use both the games and books, can't wait to see the metro video, hope it covers the spartans or the pirates and pioneers from metro exodus
I wish metro was more sandbox, and you got to customize your character and have cosmetics. There is so much to offer in this game and I feel like it would be so much more fun (not saying it isnt awesome and fun as it is) if it had so much more freedom with the world and your character
I like to think the conversation for the giant red-line / reich war went like this RL watcher : “ Hey wanna get together, have a couple drinks and discuss some stuff ? “ RE watcher : “ Yeah sure, sounds good “ * 3 bottles of shroom vodka later * RL watcher : “ O-o-ok so I have idea, there to m-m-many people right ? “ RE watcher : “ Right comrade, w-what about it blyat ?” RL watcher : “ So what if w-we start a m-m-massive war to lower it ? “ RE watcher : “ T-that idea is so f-f-f-f-fucking stupid I should send y-y-you to the concentration camp “ RL watcher : “ Y-yeah but you * burps * still wanna do it ? * RE watcher : “ Lmao sure “ * proceed’s to pass out drunk *
I really hope the Next METRO game takes us back to Moscow, all those unexplored stations and the uncertain future for it. To see how it lived on while Artyom managed to Escape
Yes in the games that’s true, but in the books there are no dark ones helping, they just fight the Reds off and win so I went with that to make it more about the factions.
@@WiseFish true this is a factions video. I really appreciate your work, I've been a fan of metro since exodus and it's now my favorite game series. I hope more people start making videos, this series deserves to be more mainstream
A funny what if thatd be incredibly akward is if when artyom tried to tell everyone the surface was the place to be, and everyone called him mad, a dark horse appeared. The reich, cut down by floods but receptive to the possibility of rebuilding, listens and goes. With all their remaining population equipment experts and strength left to them.
The reason the Reich has better soldiers and equipment is not only a historical innuedo Most of the pre-war Russian military was right or far right leaning and conservative, as most militaries in the world are, so they brought a lot of guns and skills to the metro, and banded together.
@@WiseFish I've wanted a set since roanoke told me about them, but my 5.00 fakepods work great, and I was considering the skull candy cause I like Purple lol
By the way, someone is making a cool mod for Hoi4 about Metro. It's damn cool. Not yet complete, but the main factions have a focus tree that is awesome and really detailed. Also units are cool and good, you can have simple troops, rangers, chariots and armored cars or even rail tanks and rail panzer. They have improved also technologies and weapons. Amazing. There's no other words to call it. I just hope they add mutants/dark ones as main treat for all factions.
I love 2033 and last light but I’ve never finished Exodus. I experienced the Lighthouse glitch twice, instead of restarting the game again, I just dropped it and never played it again.
You don't have to restart the level or the game for that bug, reloading the save has the same effectiveness as reloading the level or the game because it is just a script hanging. Unless you were on Iron mode.
I just find funny that only 40.000 people survived in Moscow and I don’t think much children survive in metro, and still red line “launches suicidal attacks” and never run out man! This is just so absurd.
wait only 50.000 people are left in the metros? The gameplay of the games and the sheer brutality makes you believe there has to be at least hundred of thousands if there are so many dead bodies.
There is not another game series that is as engaging and immersive, I grew up playing the first two on the 360 then when the Xbox one came out and they remastered them I fell in love again with a long lost memory. Then the third one came out I can’t wait to play these on the series x whenever I can get ahold of one. I don’t think there will ever be a series that I love as much as metro I cannot wait for the fourth installment
This was one of the only games I didn't immediately spoil for myself some how, so I got it for free on Xbox game pass but I played the second one first not knowing of the first or anything of it, For a game I had no idea about, I loved my first experience playing this, who else also hordes the high quality ammo for money alot too?
Bessolov knew well that there was no war going on, but it was a great narrative, because it couldn't proven otherwise. His main goal was to keep everyone inside the metro in fragmented society. This fragmentation occupied the minds of the people and they didn't want to venture out on the surface and so Bessolov was able to fulfill his plans; keeping the russian nation - or at least the last remanence of it - together.
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Why are you making Hansa plural? There isn’t multiple Hansa factions. There is only one and it controls the ring line
Least it isn’t raid
God I hate raid
No.
Funny thing is in the book series, I was like Artyom, I wanted everyone to find a place on the surface, I idolized Miller and Hunter. Then I read the end and man. Just like Artyom I was broken hearted. They were nothing but puppets. Especially Miller and the order. He was the secret governments bitch. So just like Artyom I basically said fuck them all only Anya and exhibition deserves the surface. I never thought a book series would ever make me feel so many emotions. Truly a masterpiece, I can't wait for more Metro.
There's like a Russian version of the Enclave in the Metro series?
@@ct-1177 not like the fallout enclave, but there are russian gov guys in Metro 2035 living in Metro-2 and playing with people in ordinary metro.
@@saszkagru4735 Basically yeah. They're like the Illuminati.
I listened to the books on Audible read by Rupert Degas and they instantly became my all time favorite books. Never have I experienced such an extensively fleshed out world as what Dmitry created in his books. It's so bleak and terrifying and yet so believable. The idea that the only way to carry news is my word of mouth by someone lucky enough to make it from one station to the next is sheer genius. These books are absolute gold
@@MrAdomus Right. It's so haunting, yet you feel like exploring.
I think that my version of "Immersion" is seeing people react to things like people would react as if that setting was their reality. And things like the Red Line Wars is one of those that make the Metro series so compelling to me. I am so glad someone is doing the lore of that world!
It’s tiring in modern games that the factions and people are just so extreme. I want two factions that make sense and I could see my self joining and other real people. I don’t want “blow up the world” or “become slaves to save the world” no. More compelling gangs and people. Real people real factions. It’s so annoying yo have to pick stupid sides
I couldn't help but think of how fallout 4 just added a bunch of copy paste enemies to their game without considering lore knowing fans would make their own when I found out the Caspian is connected the volga and that's why we see similar creatures in both. It's as if the world really exists. Its never just and also theirs mutants or and also theirs spiders theirs always a good compelling reason for it. I can't wait to see what 4A and all the metro guys work on in the future. Truly some passionate stuff real art works.
It's literally all an almost direct, scaled down metaphor for our actual history and how it accumulated to the modern day political situation, if you know your history and the current political landscape. How time and human behavior and history repeats itself and loops like a flat circle, or a spiral. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the west getting the better deal out of this and russia wanting the power it used to have, the rise of nationalism in response to all of this, etc. Being the most obvious vague notions of this. There are far more details, and symbolism in this story. Almost every event, battle, action, deal, important locations is symbolism or metaphor or historic reference getting across this general idea somehow. In a way your observation about these people reacting as if it was a real situation actual human beings are put into coming from an already existing place is pretty spot on.
Not to mention this game I feel, gets some inspiration and aesthetics from Russian writers and philosophers such as Dostoevsky. Also couldn't help make the connection with the book title "Notes From The Underground" by Dostoevsky as well.
i kinda want a game following artyom post-exodus. setting up a village near lake baikal, fighting off bandits and raiders, inviting new groups to join the community, etc.
The rumour is the Spartans will go back to the Metros to try and reveal the secret and finally get everyone to venture out into the world to rebuild. That’s the rumour anyway as it seems to be the way the ending was phrased and the way the books are going
@@WiseFish Hope so. Leave the Metro to the dead, mutants and anomalies. There's some living to be done in the surface.
AHH NUUU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE
I'd like a post apocalyptic city builder
That would make a fun little spin-off game
The ending of the books were so damn frustrating(In a good story sense), no one would believe Artyom! He was constantly telling people all the death and suffering was pointless, that a better world existed on the surface. But, no people rejected his words, calling him mad. I’m glad that him and Anna made it out though, even if it was bitter sweet that they were the only ones that left.
Couls also be biblical in some sense
@@TheSlayer. don't other countries exist still
To be fair can you really blame them though? Let's be honest, when you've been stuck underground living that kind of life for so many years, the idea that a better world would exist on the *surface* (which they had been told was highly irrigated and have being fed the lie that their country is still under attack) seems pretty far fetched, if not mad. So I really do not blame the people for treating Artyom the way they did.
Kinda like the end of fallout 1
@augustuslunasol10thapostle It's hinted that some countries like the US survived by taking minimal damage (whatever that would be In nuclear terms)
The invisible watchers: we do a little trolling
Ulman?
17:14
Poor Khan. Casually shot in the back of the head with a Gatling Gun while attempting to protect D6.
Now I know why Artyom says Khan “simply vanished” and “was never seen again” at the end of Last Light.
Lmao I caught that too 😂
Even though badly translated the metro trilogy are some of my favourite books. Good to see others share my enthusiasm for the world of metro
Badly translated into english?
@@TheSpekkel1 yeah. I've got 1st English editions that weren't very well translated, they're written in pidgeon english rather than proper english, very choppy sentences and poor grammer
@@graarchen9357 Ahh okay, thanks for clarification.
Ugh seriously lol
I don't think I've ever read the term "machine gun" more times in my life, that got so annoying.
Agreed, great books. Translation for the 3rd one isn't as bad though. Try Futu.re if you haven't. Same issues, but also great.
I really want a stradegy game based on the metro wars, so many good stories and options there
i saw a mobile game few years back based on metro factions was turn based i think
Metro Wars 2033 is a mobile game. Tad buggy sometimes, I have to save and reload cloud data when I close the game, but may just be me so give it a go I say. Alot of lore
Hearts of Iron 4 metro mod
@@Niki-cw1cm Yeah this right here, so much fun how it crunches HOI IV, a game thats usually oriented around numbers in the tens of thousands or millions into a game based on dozens or hundreds, to the point that if you have a few thousand well armed men you are a legitimate super power as you damn well should be in a setting where theres maybe 50-60,000 humans left in a two hundred mile radius.
Never crashes either. My only issue w the mod is its still very much in development, even the main factions are still not fully written and have incomplete content, and also a more functional issue is that after your second or so major war the game kinda just dies because you quickly become unstoppable due to the small map, other factions not having content, and theres little to no surface exploration mechanics yet. In base HOI or other mods I feel like I have to get 40-50 hours deep on a save to get to that level of indisputable advantage. In the Metro mod I can pretty much get to end game HOI in a day of play.
While the games indeed aren't "fully correct", we still need to remember one thing: They're just adaptations of the books. And there has been slight changes to make them work better, as a games. Hence the second and third installments of the game series, that are actually telling somewhat original stories. Per Dev's opinion, that Metro 2034 (which I am reading at the moment) wouldn't work as a game. That's why they made Last Light, which in itself was (and still is) amazing game.
And not to forget, that Glukhovsky himself has been taken part of writing the scripts of game adaptations (he has actually stated in Twitter, that he has begun writing the next installment of the game series).
While they're not 100% same, they're still canon. For me, they're two different continuations of the same universe. Like parallel timelines, if anything.
Exactly. And besides Last Light; Exodus mostly takes place after where 2035 ends (if one wants to mesh the 2 mediums together). so beside the first chapter’s alterations, Exodus doesn’t really contradict the book too much.
-Constants and variables.-
These guys are killing off each other while moscow high command is just chilling on their bunker
Oh boy, metro exodus has something to say about that
Not quite the government buuuuuut
Them high command boys sure is good eatin'
@@manscapedgrinch1427 exactly!
@@IkeanCrusader1013 metro exodus cannibal high command is different faction from moscow high command that still rules the metro and particularly hanza though.
I forgot how much I loved and missed metro, the immersion, story and the emotions are only something I can fully get from this and S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Have you seen they're bringing it S.T.A.L.K.E.R II?
@@Timnifico I have my friend I'm excited
@@Timnifico to bad you can't play S.T.A.L.K.E.R 1 and 2 on ps4 :(
@@patchythepirate541 the modded pc version is the only real way to play it the way the devs intended
The other interesting thing to note is that as the books and games have developed that like in real life there are many smaller and independent factions/stations that exists, mutant societies, cults, republics and dictatorships.
Which makes me wonder, what happened to the rest of the world following the collapse? We only know one side, what happened to the rest of the world when the nukes fell? Honestly it gives me fallout vibes to think what might be happening in the US, parts of Canada and south america.
It’s like underrail
@@Suisfonia there are official books about UK, France and Poland, maybe there are others as well
@@Suisfonia Italy has a triology of books; there are city states, as the Nation was barely hit (two nukes, Milan and Rome)
The strife Is more "survive in the post nuclear Winter"
Just started on Metro series. Finished 2033, starting on last light and exodus afterwords.
Hope you enjoy Exodus, I love that game!
Well of you played both first game in short period of time , play on ranger hardcore on exodus
@@bardanmalla193 I don't really play alot of FPS besides Prey, Bioshock and Dishonored but had a feeling just wanted to get the story of the first two games before going to exodus which I hear is much larger scale game with a bigger world then previous game since it takes part mostly above the Metro's. Will do!
@@javierlandaverde4108 good luck , I hope you will have great time
I recommend the books or audio books, a damn good trilogy, honestly one of the best series I've read and I've read a few hundred books classic included, metro and it's philosophy and journey of life and growth is up there in the top three beyond any doubt. Don't miss out, they make the games better when you play them again afterwarda
who else here wants a medium-scale RTS game set in the Metro universe now
That could be pretty interesting
"The barracks are under attack Artjom. Here, I marked them on the map."
- stupid tutorial advisor -
Not quite the same thing, but there is a Metro mod in development for HoI IV currently
Hell, i'd be fine with even just a Red Line mod that's pure combat and no stealth, just the war between factions.
@@gustavskarlismikelsons4295 I believe there is a mod like this for Men of war assault squad 2
The redline always had well equipped troops, but they rarely used them and never in suicidal mass charge attacks because they had less elite troops than the reich had.
On the other hand it had a bigger population so could throw in inexperienced conscripts to soften up the reich and then send in the more well equipped troops if the charge did enough damage.
They have the equipment seeing as they were essentially the heirs to the military administration in most places...
The also af a gigantic territory with lot´s of borders they need to controle, including surface accesses
Real reason for the suicidal mass charges is to lower the population therefore lower the need for food, as we know from history with communism starvation is always nearby, always. Less people less mouths to feed.
@@INSANESUICIDE
Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if this was the case
Kills 2 birds with one stone (even if the first bird rarely actually dies, at least the second one will)
@@INSANESUICIDE The food supply is a feeble thing in the entire metro since they only have two real sources of food, shrooms and pork. Both sides in the 35 red line - reich war admit to wanting their penal troops to die, whereas hansa, beacon of peace and capitalism that it is, simply kicks the poor out so none of their citizens are starving
Na comrade, that was the Brotherhood of Stalanium! Rangers who recovered experimental energy weapons and powered tank armor.
I like how after disaster or devastation of that magnitude , people still somehow managed to wage war against eachother , and not even for resources but for ideology.
A quote from Artyom:
"Even the apocalypse didn't stop us from killing one another over ideology"
This line always gives me a bit of a dark chuckle, aswell as a saddening realization that human beings have and will always been doing this.
If you read into history, you'd find that people are always going to be at war. Hell, look at the middle east as a PRIME example of this. They've been at war with themselves for *thousands* of years, constantly taking and giving, taking and giving, its like an endless waltz.
Its why I wonder if the only way we'll ever stop hurting each other (can't use the other word due to stupid youtube censors) is if it aliens invade (and no I'm not kidding, yes I believe in alien life beyond our planet, it would be naïve to think that we are the only species out there.)
@@a_loyal_kiwi88it’s the sad truth. Nothing in the known universe will stop humans from wanting to kill each other for frankly pointless reasons
Mean, Artyom did mention that the apocalypse of the atomic war didn’t stopped them from wanting to kill each other over ideology. Meaning that the atomic war was just only a minor setback from them wanting to kill each other.
The smallest pettiest difference is enough to bring out the madness in some people.
Yeah it’s really hard to take land when everyone can literally make multiple fortified chock points. Or just giant walls.
Or cave in the tunnel that is usually literally the only way in
Metro 2033: Make it through black station killing everyone!
Me: DONE!
Metro 2033: Make is through black station without killing a single person!
Me: 😱
Good luck there haha I always have to kill, I’m terrible at stealth
@@WiseFish Indeed, cheers. It's one of the trophies/achievements to complete the station with both outcomes.
@@WiseFish The Librarian calling out at the end of the level always gets me
There are two ways u can do black station without killing anyone 1 ninja route actually not breaking stealh 2 speedrun just run
I really liked the dichotomy between post-war and pre-war ideals, both in the books and games. Dmitry really did a good job of driving home that even after complete and utter devastation, humans still long for war.
Fourth reich: **it's established**
Jews, Polish and everyone who isn't one hundred percent russian: "Ah sh*t, here we go again"
Based
I don't read the books or pay much attention in the games. Why did they establish the fourth Reich in Moscow, the home of the enemy?
@@pedrojuan8050 There are a lot of Nazis in Moscow, actually.
@@pedrojuan8050 There are actually Neo-Nazi groups in Moscow like the Russian National Unity so the 4th Reich most likely established by far-right radical elements and other surviving Neo-Nazi groups. Originally it’s their hatred for non-russian/Slavs but overtime they changed it to hatred against humans with genetic defects caused by radiation.
@@carcotasu081 in real life?
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THESE METRO VIDEOS! There’s not enough lore content on TH-cam and this is amazing!
Congrats on 20K.
Thank you my dude!!!
My question, what happened to all the bodies of the civilians mass murdered by Hansa and the Red Line, there was a food shortage but when Artyom and Anna get to Vdnkh there's canned meat called "hash" (looking a little cannibalistic)
In the book I think it says they just burn them and also SPOILER it is also said in 2035 that the pig feed used was actually from the bodies of the dead from the Metro.
Really enjoying these while replaying the game.
Damn I love the Metro Series
Both the Books and the Games
I'm hyped for more Metro Content, Comrade!
My most adored game ever. It's so atmospheric and rich with curiosity. I remember when I first played the game, my mind was filled with so many question about everything I see in the game. It was a great experience.
Was hoping for Hansa after the Exodus reveal. Ah well, always next time ;)
10:40 you can find Lenin in metro last light
Edit: on mision red square just before the Battle
was pretty satisfying to see the literal mountains of corpses at the end of the heavy squad mission or whatever it was called , but it also goes to show that if hans didnt arrive with his pepper grinder the litteral waves of troops would have overwhelmed the relatively few reich defenders
A deeper dive into the hidden watchers would be great to see
Enclave but russian lol.
And more manipulative than “purge the impure,” but yeah
I love metro 2033 and last light, one of the few games where it actually tried to challenge me
Also I see you like to do fallout and metro videos, have you ever considered to make s.t.a.l.k.e.r lore videos too? It's as fun as metro!
I’ve been asked a few times about stalker. I really wanna cover it but I wanna play through it first to see roughly what’s going on
I want to play a sort of post-Exodus game where, while the core of the Metro is doing a sort of process of unification, the periferal stations sees new waves of attacks from mutants, also new Dark Ones attacks.
I loved the atmosphere of the Spartan outpost in the church in surface, in the middle of the marshes. Maybe new combat units can be raised by some of those stations.
VDNKh for example have the need for it. It just lacks the resources.
But also the Commonwealth of Europa that had to face the Cult of the Great Worm is a great point from where to start a cool story against mutants and religious fanatics.
This was a great video man! There isn't enough Metro lore out there.
People like you keep interest for the game going.
Thank you
I recommend you to look at the Dishonored Series. The story isn't long and complex like Fallout or Halo. I think you would probably enjoy it.
I love Dishonoured. Would love to look at that at some point!
Lets get it. Super following if i could. Youre fullfilling my lore dreams for this game. My fav series ever. Finally lore videos. Thank you so much wisefish
Honestly I always got an uneasy feeling going through the various Metro communities. I try to put myself in their shoes and it always feels like the entire place is on the brink of collapsing or being invaded, either by mutants or enemy factions. It's a very desolate feeling. The Metro universe is definitely one where you better not get comfortable wherever you are, because chances are you're gonna have to relocate very soon
The algorithm is working and I appreciate you covering metro lore!
got to love this extremely dark and very Russian historical commentary. Also, the idea of Russian Nazis that venerate Hitler seems like the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard and yet you have an entire society of sun-starved people going slowly insane down in the tunnels so who knows how that could affect people long term?
Eh. Fascism seems to infest every Western nation on the planet in one form or another. The idea of ones inherent personal "superiority" over another individual seems appealing, especially to disenfranchised individuals.
western people venerate communism are even worse
The books and games are sheer brilliance and I thank you for easily summing up the important events of these stories that don't quite get a straightforward explanation in their narrative. Well done, keep it up
Pleasure my dude! Thank you for checking it out, these views help me want to keep exploring these games & books.
@@WiseFish even if you have read the books you must listen to them read by Rupert Degas. His skills in narration, accents and voices really puts you in the story better than you ever could yourself.
Such a high production quality. Keep it up man! I applaud you for your choice to render the vids in 4k instead of shitty 1080 like many large channels do.
4K Quality is the future so why not embrace it now. I know some of the footage is lower quality but for the most part I do love that clean 4K footage lol
I am very pleased that foreigners are interested in the 2033 series of metro, and I, as a Russian person and a big fan of the 2033 series of books and games, I am happy with this.
I just finished reading the metro books and appreciate you making these videos
> Survived nuclear holocaust
> Moved into metro to live
>Decides the best way to pass the time is to have another war because of differing political views.
Galaxy brains.
Really good video, enjoyed it a lot. After playing the games it's so fun to hear other people talk about the games I love. :)
I'm very unused to seeing HUD elements and hit indicators in Metro games. Always cranked difficulty to hide them
We need S.T.A.L.K.E.R, it’s a good pick, it was also made by later metro devs
I really wish we can get a game in the near future one where you can pick a faction and has more lore too each. When it comes to metro there is alot interesting lore that comes with this series
CONGRATS ON 20K HOPEFULLY 100K SOON YOU MAKE AMAZING CONTENT
Thank you dude! Fingers crossed we get that play button soon :)
Comrade did you mean...
The revolutionary war?
Funniest thing ever, Red Line portrayed as evil communism (Author openly tells that), but author also described life on VDNH station (Artyom home) and that literally communism but its described as good.
So there is 2 possibilities:
- Author intentionaly left 2 variants to co-exist
- Author dont know what communism are, and just threw "communism is evil" in the book
3rd one is the socialism is good and soviet regime (as red line references to) is bad af which i agree with
WE NEED MORE OF THIS!!!
WE NEED MORE
WE NEED MORE
WE NEED MORR
How the heck does this dude only have 20k subs lol- even with quality video after quality video.
Betcha by next year this dude'll have atleast 500k!
That would be incredible!
basically the redline and the reich are russian version of gettysburg but in underground civil war
why are you here? go back to zion valley!
To me it was basically the eastern front
@@aramhalamech4204 the white legs are already pushed back
@@joshuagraham3 wait, there are two of you?
Obsidian Entertainment I have some questions!
@@TonyBustaroni it's battle of two garbages. Glukhovsky is an anticommunist, like antifacsist too.
The Red Line and Fourth Reich take the phrase "war never changes" literally
The end of the third book was literally just a smack to the face, finding out everything was fake and they all tried to make out artyom was crazy how there is anyone out there still just to find out that he was right this whole time, poor guy, he did get a great ending though
hanza = hanseatic league
even in the stations, they have a giant portrait of Adam Smith as a counterpart to the portraits of Lenin that Red Line has
Just found your channel and I’m loving it all man. New Subscriber here. Keep it up man! Look forward to seeing your channel grow.
Awesome video, love you use both the games and books, can't wait to see the metro video, hope it covers the spartans or the pirates and pioneers from metro exodus
I wish metro was more sandbox, and you got to customize your character and have cosmetics. There is so much to offer in this game and I feel like it would be so much more fun (not saying it isnt awesome and fun as it is) if it had so much more freedom with the world and your character
What I would give for a dayz style online metro game
I like to think the conversation for the giant red-line / reich war went like this
RL watcher : “ Hey wanna get together, have a couple drinks and discuss some stuff ? “
RE watcher : “ Yeah sure, sounds good “
* 3 bottles of shroom vodka later *
RL watcher : “ O-o-ok so I have idea, there to m-m-many people right ? “
RE watcher : “ Right comrade, w-what about it blyat ?”
RL watcher : “ So what if w-we start a m-m-massive war to lower it ? “
RE watcher : “ T-that idea is so f-f-f-f-fucking stupid I should send y-y-you to the concentration camp “
RL watcher : “ Y-yeah but you * burps * still wanna do it ? *
RE watcher : “ Lmao sure “
* proceed’s to pass out drunk *
I really hope the Next METRO game takes us back to Moscow, all those unexplored stations and the uncertain future for it. To see how it lived on while Artyom managed to Escape
No it should go to Alaska down to California
One mistake, in the games, the Canon ending is that the dark ones help win the battle of d6 and no explosives were detonated by the order
Yes in the games that’s true, but in the books there are no dark ones helping, they just fight the Reds off and win so I went with that to make it more about the factions.
@@WiseFish true this is a factions video. I really appreciate your work, I've been a fan of metro since exodus and it's now my favorite game series. I hope more people start making videos, this series deserves to be more mainstream
A funny what if thatd be incredibly akward is if when artyom tried to tell everyone the surface was the place to be, and everyone called him mad, a dark horse appeared. The reich, cut down by floods but receptive to the possibility of rebuilding, listens and goes. With all their remaining population equipment experts and strength left to them.
Dude I had a ducking heart attack at 17:43 lol
Wait why?
@@WiseFish If you play enough Metro stealthily most of the time the detection sound is horrifying
The reason the Reich has better soldiers and equipment is not only a historical innuedo
Most of the pre-war Russian military was right or far right leaning and conservative, as most militaries in the world are, so they brought a lot of guns and skills to the metro, and banded together.
Great job on the sponsorships and I’m watching all the ads in your videos bro. Can’t wait for the manscaper ad lol, or raycon
Raycon one would be cool I really want a pair of them lol
@@WiseFish I've wanted a set since roanoke told me about them, but my 5.00 fakepods work great, and I was considering the skull candy cause I like Purple lol
By the way, someone is making a cool mod for Hoi4 about Metro.
It's damn cool. Not yet complete, but the main factions have a focus tree that is awesome and really detailed.
Also units are cool and good, you can have simple troops, rangers, chariots and armored cars or even rail tanks and rail panzer.
They have improved also technologies and weapons. Amazing. There's no other words to call it.
I just hope they add mutants/dark ones as main treat for all factions.
I love 2033 and last light but I’ve never finished Exodus. I experienced the Lighthouse glitch twice, instead of restarting the game again, I just dropped it and never played it again.
That’s such a massive shame! I love Exodus but can totally understand you stopping cause of the bugs
happened to me too, luckily i bought it at 20 instead of full price on steam
You don't have to restart the level or the game for that bug, reloading the save has the same effectiveness as reloading the level or the game because it is just a script hanging. Unless you were on Iron mode.
I can’t wait for the 4th metro game
"Even the apocalypse didn't stop us from killing each other over ideology." - Artyom, 2023
Damn never thought of the Moscow metro as one giant Vault Tec experiment that’s the craziest twist ever
Can you please do videos covering every Metro factions upbringing and story? I love your lore videos 👍
I just find funny that only 40.000 people survived in Moscow and I don’t think much children survive in metro, and still red line “launches suicidal attacks” and never run out man! This is just so absurd.
Finally someone is talking about Metro lore.
wait only 50.000 people are left in the metros? The gameplay of the games and the sheer brutality makes you believe there has to be at least hundred of thousands if there are so many dead bodies.
There is not another game series that is as engaging and immersive, I grew up playing the first two on the 360 then when the Xbox one came out and they remastered them I fell in love again with a long lost memory. Then the third one came out I can’t wait to play these on the series x whenever I can get ahold of one. I don’t think there will ever be a series that I love as much as metro I cannot wait for the fourth installment
Here we go again...
Awsome!
Haven't really played or read and Metro media, but where do the tall alien mutant guys fit in?
Looks like you did read the books, good job!
I'm excited for these Metro lore videos, I don't see many of these on TH-cam
This was one of the only games I didn't immediately spoil for myself some how, so I got it for free on Xbox game pass but I played the second one first not knowing of the first or anything of it, For a game I had no idea about, I loved my first experience playing this, who else also hordes the high quality ammo for money alot too?
I'd love to play more Metro games, i'd like to be a son of Artyom or even be a new Memeber of the group joining Lake Baikal
Will you do a video on the Spartan Rangers?
I'd love to!
@@WiseFish awesome
Keep these videos coming friend!
Great video waited for this
Ive only been aware vaguely of these games - from what youve said I might of missed something very cool.
Hey WiseFish. Why don’t you do a video on what the state of America could be in the Metro Universe?
yey more vids lore, that i didnt know about my favorite game
A man doing a very good job
Bessolov knew well that there was no war going on, but it was a great narrative, because it couldn't proven otherwise. His main goal was to keep everyone inside the metro in fragmented society. This fragmentation occupied the minds of the people and they didn't want to venture out on the surface and so Bessolov was able to fulfill his plans; keeping the russian nation - or at least the last remanence of it - together.
I wish they made a game following the Red Line war in the view point of a soldier fighting in it
They did have the faction DLC which I used in the footage where you played as a member of the Reich but yeah a full game on it would be awesome
More Metro lore! Let's gooooo!
I love a good lore video like this.
Well this was interesting to listen too
Love it, metro has got great lore
This reminds me of the events that are happening in the world right now
Thank you for the video! Metro lore is very interesting..