BruceLeeRoy
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SPOILER Bioshock Infinite SPOILER discussion
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First Season Pass I have ever purchased. Thanks
BenjaminBirdie
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Co-op, baby!!
More amazing panoramas from Steam community -- same cluster of buildings, but different angles and different times of day:
Also, a really underrated area (or at least, an area not talked about enough) is Fink's place with the golden statues of himself:
I plan to go and take some shots of that area myself, focusing on the room with the diorama of the zeppelin whirling around, and the tall arched factory windows.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Neiteio go into the 2013 High-Res PC screens and look at Neoenigmas shots. They are breathtaking.
Link to them, please?
ProfessorLobo
Banned
There are no less than 11 ferris wheels in the first picture.
Well, it -is- the amusement park district!
HoodWinked
Member
dem bloodthirsty Elizabeths!
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
oh man, bridge adventure dlc please
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Link to them, please?
Just start on this page and go back:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=52282086#post52282086
intheinbetween
Member
just started again Bioshock, and I noticed it takes place in 1948
Well, that could've been handled better, then. Almost everyone I've talked to wonders what it changed, and no one realised that it didn't change anything and "that was the point".
The coin flip works because the result (being heads) is immediate. With the raffle prize choice having a minor impact later in the game with a similar mode of decision making, one would expect the brooch choice to be the same.
I like it was taken in a more subtle approach, than HERE GUYZ LOOK WHAT WE ARE DOIN!!!!
You actually had to think, for once. An that's what make Bioshock Infinite narrative so great. You actually have to think and infer rather than everything having to be laid out for you in a nice little pile.
SolsticeZero
Banned
just started again Bioshock, and I noticed it takes place in 1948
That's more than likely the number for that particular phone. Old phone numbers, especially in a place as small as Rapture, were often four digits preceded by a location code (usually two letters)
Bioshock takes place in 1959 or later (some time after the New Years' 1958 (that is December 31, 1958) riots)
Actually it takes place in 1960
kerotan_eater
Banned
Hmm ... I really am still hesitant on it. When can we expect it all?
Three different self contained stories, an hour to two each doesn't seem like something I can really get immersed into and has the proper narrative/gameplay beats to make it worthwhile experience. Of course I have no idea if its self contained or not, if it will be released episodically like a shpw ala The Walking Dead or if Levine even is working on it and whether or not it feels forced by 2K or simply fillery.
I dunno. Just a little pessimistic here.
P.S. Who's going to be our Elizabeth =(
they said it's self contained previously.
Wow, I've been going through these the last five minutes. Amazing stuff. :O
Yeah you're correct. I just meant it was some time later than 1959.
Saw this gif on Reddit, it's pretty cool (and game me a Wizard of Oz vibe):
If you leave one enemy from the previous wave alive, the next wave does not come, so you can take out zeppelins and stuff with just one guy shooting at the core. I think that's probably what happened to you.
No Elizabeth or equivalent, imo. probably just random side characters.
SolsticeZero
Banned
Yeah you're correct. I just meant it was some time later than 1959.
Saw this gif on Reddit, it's pretty cool (and game me a Wizard of Oz vibe):
That scene was fucking amazing.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Yes it was.
In case anyone was wondering where the intro baptism scene came from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PUDd7LBb88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PUDd7LBb88
There's a difference between being subtle and constructing sequences in such a way that they can be misleading.
How was it misleading though?
A ton of this game was reminiscent of other media. I was thinking of putting together some comparison images. For example: almost all of the posters are based on real WW1 propaganda, as is much of the racist caricatures.
I think it will be shocking how much of what we saw wasn't too disimilar from what actually occurred around 1900.
Once quick example: That Fink poster
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Man I love that song so much.
Has this been discussed
-Who was the dead body in the lighthouse?
-Why did the twins bring Booker back at all?
-The twins only notice the scar on his hand once they pull him through, there was no way they had time to create a whole campaign around "look for the false shepherds scar."
-Who was the dead body in the lighthouse?
-Why did the twins bring Booker back at all?
-The twins only notice the scar on his hand once they pull him through, there was no way they had time to create a whole campaign around "look for the false shepherds scar."
As I explained, it's a very similar style of choice as the raffle target selection - left or right, one or the other, with the effect of that choice manifesting itself later on in the game in some way. It's pretty clear what happens with the raffle choice, so anyone would naturally expect the brooch choice to act the same. There's no indication that it's not, so why wouldn't it? That's where it's misleading.
It was pointed out elsewhere that the brooch choice is closer to the coin flip in that it's meant to highlight the futility of choices, but it doesn't work, because the result of the coin flip is immediate and clearly makes its point in a way the brooch choice doesn't. Plus, there IS no choice to make with the coin flip - Booker always chooses tails and the result is always heads, just make that point even clearer.
I see where your coming from I guess.
But if you just play it for the second time, the Lutece conversation should make that all evident to you;
"Does he row? No he doesn't row!"
Everything makes a lot more sense on a second playthrough. Regarding choices and there relevance.
1. The lighthouse keeper, who was killed by the Luteces since he was an obstacle that Booker would have to face. Also, got the message across to Booker that the people he was dealing with meant business.
2. They brought back Booker for redemption. The whole game is about Redemption, and in this case the Luteces felt awful for what they did to booker, and so wanted to correct it.
3. Don't know what your try to ask with the 3rd question.
It is pretty similar no matter what. You wind up to throw and they catch your arm and notice the brand.
So at the end of the game when you cross the bridge to Comstock house you are in other timeline? 1984? Thats why the old Elizabeth shows you new York and give syou the card. Then she opensa tear to send you back to rescue herself in teh same building.
So, what is Comstock house in 1984? A mental institution? A Sanatorium?
So, what is Comstock house in 1984? A mental institution? A Sanatorium?
@2 it doesnt seem like the Luteces give a shit about what is going on around them...they were like the Cheshire cat, poking and prodding to see what happens
@3 How did everyone know to look for Booker's scar and have posters up and everything for it, if the even the Luteces didnt know about it until he was pulled through
EDIT: Also who was the arch angel that comes to Comstock/Booker? Are we to assume it was a Comstock from another universe or him just using the machine?
People were saying pages ago that it was Old Elizabeth
Love all the things you pick up in another playthrough you may miss the first time.
Lutece's place where they have the equipment in, on a desk near the entrance are two pictures, one having what I can only assume was Booker's NY address, and another having the a picture of the lighthouse circled, with something like "Our only obstacle" written in red on it. What a nice touch.
Lutece's place where they have the equipment in, on a desk near the entrance are two pictures, one having what I can only assume was Booker's NY address, and another having the a picture of the lighthouse circled, with something like "Our only obstacle" written in red on it. What a nice touch.
Voice of Reason
Banned
I thought the Archangel was the Lutece twins? Weren't they simply manipulating Comstock in order to get what they wanted?
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
A ton of this game was reminiscent of other media. I was thinking of putting together some comparison images. For example: almost all of the posters are based on real WW1 propaganda, as is much of the racist caricatures.
I think it will be shocking how much of what we saw wasn't too disimilar from what actually occurred around 1900.
Once quick example: That Fink poster
And the commerical poster art and marquees in the emporia district are directly from the art noveau.
The art in this game is all pretty amazing.
So at the end of the game when you cross the bridge to Comstock house you are in other timeline? 1984? Thats why the old Elizabeth shows you new York and give syou the card. Then she opensa tear to send you back to rescue herself in teh same building.
So, what is Comstock house in 1984? A mental institution? A Sanatorium?
So, what is Comstock house in 1984? A mental institution? A Sanatorium?