Metro 2033 Non-canonical ending vs Last Light???

95+% of all players received the Ranger ending in M2033.

 

yeah yeah, whine whine.the canon ending is the same as the one in the book, aka bombs away!this was known way before the game actually came out.

 

Because the "Bad Ending" creates tragedy, which equals good storytelling that Last Light delivers on.

 

Knowing Glukhovsky, and having read the novel... Something in my guts tells me, the bad ending will be the canon. We will find out in Metro 2035, the next novel.
I view Metro 2033's good ending as "What if the opposite happen?"

 

2035 IS last light in book form.

 

Not exactly. The book will go into much more detail. I wish for more Pavel :sad:

 

True.
However, we will see THE true story told as Glukhovsky see it.
Many people think Metro 2033's game canon is 1:1 with the novel. To certain point it is, but not 100%.
The book however is even more dark and bitter.

 

I just got the enlightened ending for the achievement. . .

 

Bang on target.

Also, the "bad" ending in 2033 is much more easier to continue.
SPOLIER AHEAD! (If anyone there didn't read the novel or played the game which is highly unlikely but, safety is the first.)

Spoiler

Artyom's journey needed to be explained more. He can understand the Dark Ones but he's only speculating on what they were wanted to say for him. In his life the others always told him to fear about the Dark Ones, they're hostile and merciless. He's probably got blinded. Artyom is a naive person and he hesitated to do anything. He sacrificed too much to step back from the plan and his friends are have fate in him.

In the end of the book, Artyom doesn't think of the mission as a success, he thoughts what they made is terrible and it's the human side of the things. We often think wrong and we're easily can be manipulated like Artyom with all the bad stuff he heard about the Dark Ones.

Making some trouble with/around the Little One is also gave us more entertaining and better story than just focusing on the Red Line versus Order conflict.
Personally I hope the next sequel will builds up on the good ending of Last Light. It's really time for giving some good for Artyom.

 

I think there will be a 3rd Metro, Metro 2035. So if they want to continue with Artyom's story, the "good" ending for Last Light is the one they'll have to go with. Otherwise, maybe one of the charactors in the DLCs could be the lead in the next game. Then we'll hear people talk about this hero, Artyom, while drinking in bars.

 

I don't believe they left out the information about Anna and Artyom's child for any story telling or lore purposes. A) Anna wasn't important, really she wasn't. B) It was simply not necessary and possibly even over looked - maybe they made the 'bad' ending first and didn't want to go back and make new scenes with Anna, Artyom and the child.


I preferred getting the 'bad ending,' because much like the 'bombs away' finish of Metro 2033, the death of Artyom and the others was more closure and felt as a more appropriate and definitive end to the Metro story.
I also felt that I was inherently good, giving many of the humans a second chance, and only attacking monsters/creatures when I felt threatened - even then, I still got the 'bad ending,' which felt more realistic.

What I absolutely disliked, was :

A) The mystic, Khan and the bit about 'the River' and some of the other borderline supernatural wishy washy stuff that made the story start to look really weak and silly.

B) That the Dark Ones are keepers of morality, in that an entire game's ending is based off whether you were 'good' during the course of it. Well who defines "good?" In this case, it seems the Dark Ones did, and if you met their approval you were rewarded with keeping your life - a.k.a. the good ending. Why are they the judge and jury? Did they not commit their own negative actions? Why are they concerned with the well being of other humans or creatures? These are questions that even players of Metro 2033 could not answer and it leaves a difficulty in understanding why the Dark Ones are so important.

The only thing you can be sure of is that they are powerful - so much so that they can warp reality and vanish. Which always made me wonder, why couldn't they escape the bombs?

I often wonder whether the fault of gaps in the continuity of the story, lies with 2033 or with Last Light.

Yes, but what else is there to talk about? Even in the good ending, the 'threat' to the Metro is over. As players we now know the 'threat' wasn't really the Dark Ones and that the evil humans(by and large) are gone.
Sure they could make up another threat, but then they'd just be trying to out do themselves with something bigger and badder - games like that go down the toilet fast.

As far as I'm concerned, the Metro game lore as we know it, is complete.

I'd rather 4A games acquire licensing for STALKER and put their efforts into that. There's a lot more flexibility in lore/story, and imagine Metro LL as a sandbox? Awesome...!