Serious Metro RP

[Bi-Em]

A peacefull day turned into a nightmare when sirens started and people started to run to the metro entrance while soldiers were escorting everyone inside.
After few moments a man who seems to be Commander ordered his soldiers to close the door .
Screams of russian citizens could be heard even underground and just few seconds after the door was closed a large explosion could be heard and then silents…

[ This should help people who don;t know about metro series to atlest understand what is going on :D ]

 

[Bi-Em]

Be more then welcome to give your opinion if you think TnB administators and developers should make a Metro RP and don;t use " I don;t think we should let players near the communism and nazis " beacuse its Metro RP it doesn;t mean we need to start off 20 years after the bombs ok?

 

[Greene]

" I don;t think we should let players near the communism and nazis "

 

[snuggles]

i don't think we should let players near the communism and nazis.

no but in all seriousness, parts of what make metro such an interesting setting and world is those factions. not to mention, the fourth reich began from a member of the RNE party, BEFORE world war 3. it's likely that the fourth reich, alone, have been in the metro for a long, long time.

the red line has been around since a few years after the destruction of the surface world; after the destruction of the Central Metro Command, communist muscovites overthrew the head honchos of their stations and began the initial steps to forming the red line.

the communists and the nazis are part of the metro and have been since it's early days.

not to mention; there's not much that could be done in an RR within the metro universe that doesn't in some way include these factions yet is still wide-scale enough to have as many players as want to attend. most of the other stations are peaceful towards one another, not including bandits, or they just leave eachother to co-exist. the war between the red line and the fourth reich is one of the constant and consistent causes of troubles for the denizens of the metro, as the war is a battle for territory (stations), resources, and a battle over ideologies.

metro rp is not a good idea

 

[baby]

i've played too many metro 2033 rps to realize people can't handle it without making it look like they're real life fanatics

 

[Mister Rogers]

the idea behind metro 2033 is wonderful. the setting is interesting, the lore is wonderful. the problem i have is that it's set in Moscow.

now, i get it, im not russian either, dont think that i think im an expert, but i do know more than your average bear. i will say that the general population just doesnt know enough about russian culture to do it right. roleplaying a russian character isn't just googling a russian name, slapping on a description of a tracksuit and saying "ey cHeEkI bReEkI" and downing vodka. and there lies the problem. that's what i'd argue about eight in ten russian/ukrainian/balkan characters are. it's somewhat bearable when they're mixed in with other characters (not really, im screaming in ooc about it) but imagine a whole server full of it.

sorry, not sorry.

 

[Nerdbird]

ive never played metro but from what i heard, it’s a good story, but not a good setting to roleplay in

 

[Doggo]

mr rogers and nerdbird and smart people and i will stand by them

listen to them.

 

[snuggles]

it'd be a good setting to roleplay in, just not gmod roleplay

 

[Kat_]

Also I don’t know when something like this would even pop up since I’m ninety percent sure HL2 is set-up next (which’ll be a long while).

 

[skylion]

heil

 

[Koumakan]

the idea behind metro 2033 is wonderful. the setting is interesting, the lore is wonderful. the problem i have is that it's set in Moscow.

now, i get it, im not russian either, dont think that i think im an expert, but i do know more than your average bear. i will say that the general population just doesnt know enough about russian culture to do it right. roleplaying a russian character isn't just googling a russian name, slapping on a description of a tracksuit and saying "ey cHeEkI bReEkI" and downing vodka. and there lies the problem. that's what i'd argue about eight in ten russian/ukrainian/balkan characters are. it's somewhat bearable when they're mixed in with other characters (not really, im screaming in ooc about it) but imagine a whole server full of it.

sorry, not sorry.

It's just constantly being depressed and bleak, full of gallows humor, and then if anyone insults your mother you kill them. Always drink the vodka if someone gives you some. Pretend it's still the 60's-80's. Sit at a desk half the size of your monitor. Your car has been in the shop for 3 months now with no sight of it ever being fixed any time soon seeing as you spent most of your money on plastic bottles of vodka and buying clothes that make you look a lot richer than you really are, fake gold chain included. Andrei down the street still swears you should try some of that krokodil and go clubbing with him. You secretly wish one day you'll be able to use your brother as firewood. Life sucks but you swear you're gonna try tomorrow, and that's what you've been saying for the past 10 years.

 

[Chad]

metro is a great setting and i love it, very reminiscent of stalker and it borrows heavily from that in terms of atmosphere and especially the paranormal. the electric anomaly being the most obvious example. lots of possibilities there and honestly at that point if you're doing anything outside of wallowing away in a metro and shooting mutants you'd might as well just use stalker's setting and... call it that instead.

unfortunately it suffers from it's own appeal. it's focus is specific issues or moments and a lot of the time that backdrop is heavily political. sadly the setting doesn't seem to translate that well into a gmod rp server. nazis/commies and slavic culture in general aren't something people seem to be capable of representing without being unoriginal (like mr rogers pointed out more fluently) so what you get is this weird result where the server feels like it's not even taking itself serious and it's some caricature of the source material. which isn't entirely the fault of the playerbase, they aren't given much to work with and considering it's set in moscow and eventually the surrounding area it doesn't open up much options for variety on server where HL2, TRP, SRP all give people plenty due to the nature of each setting.

 

[Sinclair]

basically what others said, yeah.

there are some settings that are fucking amazing for video games, stories, movies, books, etc because in those forms they're controlled and written by one person, who is a professional, is russian, and is tailoring it towards a specific audience. roleplay settings have to be able to work when put in the hands of people who arent professionals, who arent as mature, who arent as educated, and in a much less controlled environment where everyone is just set loose in the setting.

half life 2, for example, works well due to the simple yet effective method of conveying stories and ideals, not to mention it is widely known and understood. you are in a dystopia, there are alien overlords, and there are guys trying to fight them. not to mention, the ideals it deals with tends to lean more towards things that arent so close to home for many of us. nobody sane is going to say the combine are the good guys, its clear cut and dry that they're bad. but the humans that work underneath them? thats where things get much more grey and much more interesting. meanwhile, people today still try and champion communism and nazism. both of these idealogoies caused real deaths and real suffering, and survivors of these ideals are still alive, as are their children and grandchildren. all of this combines together to create a very poor set of tools being put into the hands of memers and goofy online gamers.

i fucking LOVE the metro series. amazing fucking games, i recommend anyone and everyone to play them. but its the type of setting that just doesnt functon well in the hands of the average gmod player.

 

[Davebrown]

been done loads of times before

 

[blooregardo]

Now Toy Story RP on the other hand...

No, seriously.

The Toy Story mythology shares many of the same themes of isolation and fear of the unknown as Gluhkovsky's setting. Is a life where you play dead at the sight of a human, cowering under beds and boxes really so unlike the bleak life in the Metro? Much like Artyom's expiditions to the surface, aren't journeys outside Andy's house always perilous treks where the protagonists are encoubtered by unfathomably strange and often hostile creatures? Even the cult of personality surrounding Andy is something that wouldnt be out of place in the Metro.

Yet toys don't have any concept of race, or wealth, nor do they have to eat, nor do they have to understand russian life

 

[snuggles]

i'm gonna strangle you

 

[doog]

Now Toy Story RP on the other hand...

No, seriously.

The Toy Story mythology shares many of the same themes of isolation and fear of the unknown as Gluhkovsky's setting. Is a life where you play dead at the sight of a human, cowering under beds and boxes really so unlike the bleak life in the Metro? Much like Artyom's expiditions to the surface, aren't journeys outside Andy's house always perilous treks where the protagonists are encoubtered by unfathomably strange and often hostile creatures? Even the cult of personality surrounding Andy is something that wouldnt be out of place in the Metro.

Yet toys don't have any concept of race, or wealth, nor do they have to eat, nor do they have to understand russian life

Reporting for duty, sir!

 

[Kashaving]

and to come full circle

srp

 

[Scouser]

@Anri watch toy story 2