I just replayed Bioshock 1 which I hadn't played since I had shitty politics and goddamn I'm honestly surprised a game with such a high budget had such decent politics. Thinking of replaying the other games too, although I remember always having mixed feelings about Infinite
See I went back and played it recently and I think its politics are worse than I remember. It gets all this credit for being anti-Libertarian, but there's a lot of the nihilistic "both sides" stuff that made Bioshock Infinite kinda shitty. It portrays both the capitalist elite led by Ryan and the worker rebellion led by Fontaine as two sides of the same coin, competing interests that are led into conflict by tyrants seeking to put themselves in power. There's this misanthropic attitude in Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite that any and every cause is necessarily corrupted by the flaws of people and you have to remove yourself from their squabbles, which is why I actually think that the game idealizes Andrew Ryan's vision and simply believes that humans are too foul to ever achieve it.
Something about it just really clicked with me. The gameplay is overall improved (You can use plasmids and weapons at the same time for example) and I just loved the levels in it as well as how the story focuses on a father/daughter relationship.
It's been 10 years (!?) since I played it but i do fondly remember arguing with plenty of people that 2 was the best. I did love the big sisters both in design and story.
I just replayed Bioshock 1 which I hadn't played since I had shitty politics and goddamn I'm honestly surprised a game with such a high budget had such decent politics. Thinking of replaying the other games too, although I remember always having mixed feelings about Infinite
See I went back and played it recently and I think its politics are worse than I remember. It gets all this credit for being anti-Libertarian, but there's a lot of the nihilistic "both sides" stuff that made Bioshock Infinite kinda shitty. It portrays both the capitalist elite led by Ryan and the worker rebellion led by Fontaine as two sides of the same coin, competing interests that are led into conflict by tyrants seeking to put themselves in power. There's this misanthropic attitude in Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite that any and every cause is necessarily corrupted by the flaws of people and you have to remove yourself from their squabbles, which is why I actually think that the game idealizes Andrew Ryan's vision and simply believes that humans are too foul to ever achieve it.
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Definitely replay all of them, especially 2 (My personal favorite) and the Minerva's Den DLC.
Even tho it's the weakest of the 3 imo, Infinite (And the Burial at Sea DLCs) are overall still great.
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Something about it just really clicked with me. The gameplay is overall improved (You can use plasmids and weapons at the same time for example) and I just loved the levels in it as well as how the story focuses on a father/daughter relationship.
Please play it.
You won't regret it, I promise you.
It's been 10 years (!?) since I played it but i do fondly remember arguing with plenty of people that 2 was the best. I did love the big sisters both in design and story.
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