Sunday, May 29, 2016

Infinitely Disappointing

You know what's funny to me about Bioshock Infinite...

Before I played it, I'd had the ending spoiled to me by /v/, except that I'd misinterpreted the spoilers and concocted an astoundingly better alternative story that never was.

See, I knew that Comstock was Booker but I'd somehow taken that to mean that Booker went through the events of Bioshock Infinite, then there was a big reveal or some climactic event towards the end after which Booker has a drastic change in character and then travels back in time to set things right in his own way in the new persona of Comstock. There were even small things that pointed to this possibility in the game--like how Comstock knew to be on the lookout for someone with AD on their hand.

I was so excited to reach the ending to see what dramatic reveal was going to be what set the plot of the game in motion. It wasn't until Booker killed Comstock that I realized this was the ending I was going to get. Then all the bullshit scenes that make negative sense like in the OP image was the shit cherry on top of the cake.

I literally couldn't believe the game thought it was "deep story" to insult my intelligence by implying the events of the game that just happened--that tells you there are infinite parallel universes--is dumb enough to insist it could erase all of them with something as simple and dumb as drowning one particular instance of Booker.

What a joke.

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