History YMMV / Metro2033

** Death of [[spoiler: Boris]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Stepan''': BORIS! My Friend! WHY?... The Bastards! Boris I swear on your memory - they wont rest while I'm still alive!"]]

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: Contrary to [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames the usual norm]], the game received many positive reviews and is a good seller on Steam.

** Lurker shrieks

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mmMAukry0 The Tower]]. It sums up Metro's bleak, oppressive setting perfectly. It's also playing during the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome game's prologue]].

* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/{{Metro 2033}} Oy vey, where to start?]]

* DudeNotFunny: Ulman's sense of humour. Most of the time.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2uVfCy4s1U Ending Theme]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mmMAukry0 The Tower]]. It sums up Metro's bleak, oppressive setting perfectly. It's also playing during the [[CrowningMomentofAwesome game's prologue]].

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIfZt12NNg The Tower]]. It sums up Metro's bleak, oppressive setting perfectly. It's also playing during the [[CrowningMomentofAwesome game's prologue]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: The game is vastly more available and well known than the book.

** Actually, even the bastard gun is surprisingly accurate so long as you take the time and care to line up your shots and don't lean on the trigger.

* [[ATeamFiring A-Team Firing]]: A common complaint against the game is the lack of feedback on whether shots hit or miss. Depending on skill level, this trope may or may not be in effect because of this. Might be somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] considering the quality of the firearms you find.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz59N4Tw2OA Trolley Combat.]] After one of the hardest stealth sections in the game (especially if you didn't know about the [[EasyLevelTrick shortcut]]), you get to go on one of the machine-gun equipped carts that you were dodging five minutes ago and murder everything in sight. Whilst [[CrowningMomentOfFunny honking the]] [[MostWonderfulSound horn.]]

* ShoutOut: It may not be a coincidence that the Librarians look like gigantic [[DiscWorld apes.]]

** The whole conflict between the Communists and the Nazis is loaded with narm. Even assuming that ideology can overcome the need for basic survival, how seriously the followers of each side take it starts bordering on absurd. It feels like both sides are UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WarReenactors, only they shoot at each other with ''actual'' bullets.

** The whole conflict between the Communists and the Nazis is loaded with narm. Even assuming that ideology can overcome the need for basis survival, how seriously the followers of each side take it starts bordering on absurd. It feels like both sides are UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WarReenactors, only they shoot at each other with ''actual'' bullets.

* TheWoobie: Admit it. Artyom needs a few hugs,

** And the Lurkers. They swarm, take up ammo, and can dive into their instant-kill rat-holes at a moments notice.

* NightmareRetardant: Lost Catacombs. Scary until Bourbon starts to hump the gate and scream like he's having an orgasm. Just watch any video with commentary, you'll invariably get a "He's really getting it on with that door, isn't he?"
** Too bad the whole sequence degenerates into horror soon after.
** Bourbon's ecstatic yelling creeped me ''right the fuck out''. He was clearly going insane and succumbing to the malevolent influence of the catacombs. It's easy to make fun of in hindsight, but when you're immersed in the game it's one hell of a scare.
*** EnthrallingSiren anyone? He claims to have heard "''a beautiful song''" and begs the [[HellGate gate]] "to sing to him alone".

*** I don't recall ever being given this advice in English; they said something about having told me earlier how to deal with them, but the line of dialogue explaining that I should stare them down was never delivered.

* TearJerker: Ending of the book.
** Also in the book, when Artyom [[spoiler:says farewell to his stepfather, who stays to defend [=VDNKh=], even though the tunnels will be collapsed, to contain the "threat" of the Dark Ones]]
** The "shrine to hope" in Cursed. After Khan tells you that you have to go on without him he takes you through a small hole in the wall and you come out in a small, circular room filled with candles and the pictures of the fallen of Cursed. It actually gave this troper a flicker of ''hope'' after all the darkness and despair he'd seen while playing the game.
*** Even more so if you look at the door before finishing the two tasks to safe Cursed. There are 3 ghosts of soldiers standing in front of it. They won't kill you only push you back if you try to go through that door. They essentialy prevent you from trying to sneak away while the rest defends the station. It's easy to see them as ghosts of those who died defending curse, still helping the living.
* Some of the background dialogue while you're leaving your station (forgot which one) at the beginning of the game. Including a dad telling his son his mom will really enjoy his drawings when she eventually comes back and a woman asking you from the other side of the door you're knocking on to find a key because you know she's bedridden (and she thinks you're her husband). Of course, some are kinda funny, like a man cracking his door open to tell you he's a bit busy (and you can see a lady friend in the background...).