westinlee

Ah, bless you IT. Your forums have good talks. I'm going to make an account... I loved listening to the Bioshock segment in the episode. I agree with you guys on just about everything this time. I am often left underwhelmed when the ending of a story usurps character and story for clever or sci-fi purposes. See: M. Night Shyalaman I wasn't terribly surprised at the irrelevance of the American exceptionalism and racism in the story - even in the first Bioshock, where the gameplay and story seemed pretty intertwined with Objectivism, at the end you fight a green monster and it is A Video Game After All. The Bioshock franchise has a proud history of promising and then denying the player the things that are used to sell the game. The little sister choice in the first game? Uh...well it doesn't really matter because of the huge payout later if you spare them. Ken Levine even said somewhere that he doesn't care about consequences, he just wants you to feel icky when told to make a choice. I wasn't tremendously bummed about this until Infinite's ending. I felt like Elizabeth was sold down the river in the service of And no one else has said as much online, from what I've read. Am I really the only person that thinks this? We were sold a bill of goods, man! It would not have been hard to give her a single beat at the end to make it all come together. True story. I wrote a blog post about it over on my site. Five seconds. Fixed, done, and all I have to feel weird about is everything else. Anyway, like I said, good talk.