It's astounding how amazing all the Bioshock games look, even after all this time and all the revolutions in graphical fidelity they are beautiful games... In their dark, grim, and bloody way.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Some art styles just never age. I love it

I'm gonna say, I wholeheartedly agree with this video. Bioshock 2 is my first pick for a game where player agency and involvement matters the most and seemingly hinges all its gameplay and story on the personal choices the player makes. It's one of the few games I know of where the choices of the player actually mattered long term; not even Mass Effect can *truly* lay claim to that.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

As someone who grew up with Fable, the whole, "Your choices change how the story unfolds" kind of jaded me. Considering really all that changes is trivial things like alignment and what side quests you get. Choices in this one determined how a child psychologically developed. Whether she became a savior or a destroyer of worlds.

@DatBastardOni

8 ай бұрын

@@GamingUniversityUoG I feel like a lot of choice driven games always miss this point. It's not just about a sliding scale of alignment and general good or evil, it's the *consequences* of your decisions and the impact it has on others, short and especially long term. It's, as an example,: jading and insulting a shopkeeper as a one-off dialogue option only to discover later on after a week of in-game time and progression that your little insult was the final straw for his failing career and his life and he proceeded to have a falling out with his wife and kids and you find him about to throw himself off a cliff. And then having the chance to insult him again or talk him down and apologize. I have seen few games with such nuance and care for how real life interactions and decisions affect the world around you.

BioShock 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, so glad to see you look into it! ❤

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

The whole series is awesome. I wasn't sure if I would ever touch on it but here we are!

Bioshock 1 and 2 are still my fave games to this day. Its been like 12 years since I played em, and they're still fresh in my mind.

@UnabridgedGamer

8 ай бұрын

Shame they never made a third, but at least the two are sooo good!

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

I adore these games!

Never thought you would make a video on the Bioshock games.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Me neither. But it aligned thematically with the GoW video so i thought why not

@Beowolf-jy5rc

8 ай бұрын

they are philosophical games both political philosophy (i guess, i may have just made up a phrase) and moral philosophy, but philosophy is more a max derrant thing than a gu thing now that im thinking about it.

I wish the "Now she will grow old and die, knowing that I rejected her" to all abusive parents

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

It is the worst punishment for anyone who has been in the position of a bully. Telling them that despite everything they did, they will be forgotten

@nothingness217

8 ай бұрын

@@GamingUniversityUoG Will you be streaming Alan Wake 2? And when, if you do?

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

I'll be putting up a notification for the time. I saw in my time zone it is going live Thursday at 9PM. So I'm thinking like 9:15PM on 10/26.

Starts game: *HECK YEAH, I'M A BIG DADDY, I'MMA TEAR CRAP UP.* Every Moral Option: Nope, not hurting anyone. Please, just go along with your day. Just a dad going to pick up his daughter from her mom's. Pardon, excuse me.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Lmao basically.

Bioshock 1 & 2 are two of my fave games ever. The Game play The Powers The Weapons The Story The Characters etc judy so epic. Respect and keep up the epic work.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy! These games are definitely in my top tier lists

subscribed. you give me "if jordan peterson played video games" vibe. for better or worse :P

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Lol thanks for the sub dude! Have a big catalogue of other games too if you're interested.

Oh my god you actually did it~! This is awesome! Hopefully this gets as much viewership as everything else

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

If we get an announcement for Bioshock 4 who knows what will happen! And yeah I've been teasing this game for a while. Finally did it

@DatBastardOni

8 ай бұрын

@@GamingUniversityUoG I would love to see this video followed up by one analyzing Minerva Den, as the themes of that DLC resonated with me so strongly and profoundly, as someone coping with cPTSD and grief.

I love your videos and they always make me feel more informed having watched them!

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

That's the goal! I love being a chef and serving food for thought.

well this is/was unexpected, tho with alan wake 2's release imminent something has to be posted, this feel's a lot less direct and more personal like a regular video one would see on youtube (and yet still having one of the most monotone (might not be the right term) voices), im not complaining i like it actually, and the editing is really good it's natural clear and intresting, good video as usual, i should probably watch the video on gow ragnorock now. welp see you later im of to watch that video.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

In a weird way the GoW video and this one lay the ground work for the next Alan Wake video which is going live in 2 days. Think of them like a trilogy. And yeah lol. I have a bad habit of tripping over my words when I speak. Not good at it so my tone of voice is kind of a work around. I'm rather soft spoken IRL for the most part.

@Beowolf-jy5rc

8 ай бұрын

@@GamingUniversityUoG interesting, and i don't mind the voice, it fit's with the professional school presentation style the channel has, im gonna guess ether zane, emil, and the dark place will be the subject of the next video as all 3 do try to control alan and change the way alan perceives reality, also on the subject of alan wake, after watching a video about quantum break that layed out the story, i thought that with it being part show maybe alan wrote and i thought of why as i wrote this comment and might of been a test to see how far he could push reality, as alan wrote for night spring's (quite the apt name now that i'v thought about it for a second, night springs, bright falls, the first word's are literally the opposite of each other and the second word's both relate to water), and maybe the junctions are alan deciding how the story would go, and the reason they can be made is that quantum break is a visualization of the story alan has in his head while writing it. edited to clear up a mistake.

Incredible analysis. Thank you for your work!

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Oh hey, talking about my favorite Bioshock game? I'm down for it!

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Glad to see some Bioshock 2 love in here!

6:40 Sofia's similar to Silent Hill's Dahlia Gillespie then.

You say Lamb used Delta's Big Daddy psychological programming to make him kill himself. I was under the impression her subordinate used the "Hypnotize Big Daddy" plasmid, present in the first game.

This comment is to help this channel in the algorithm.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate it!

@Voltaic_Fire

8 ай бұрын

This comment and like is to help your comment in the algorithm. 😁

Earned a subscriber

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Welcome aboard. What kind of games do you like best?

Not a father, but a daddy

@GamingUniversityUoG

7 ай бұрын

Haha what about Mary Poppins Y'all?

I have to get the ending where she kills her mother.

@GamingUniversityUoG

7 ай бұрын

I wish we got some post story that shows what became of them. Eleanor and Sophia

I'll give this a watch later, but it's interesting to me how I didn't like Bioshock 2 that much and didn't play through it too far before I stopped. And that was back when I was a kid and had much more motivation and focus then I do now, I was able to beat Infinite and 1 all in one summer but I never managed to get through 2, I just didn't like it all that much. I guess to me it just felt like a retread of 1 and by the time I had finished 1, I basically had had enough of Rapture. I definitely wanna give 2 a replay at some point tho.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

I watched a friend of the channel, Generally Break, do a playthrough of this game after I made the video. Weirdly enough we agree the theming is superior in this one even if the storyline is missing out on the big twists that 1 and Infinite had. I guess preference comes down to what you're looking for in a game.

Bioshock is a wonderful series to add to your ponderings, aside from being great games they do offer a whole lot of the weird and wonderful to analyse. Would you kindly take this comment and 'like', and continue the series.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Liked!

A Bioshock 2 video!?! It's no psyconauts but hey I'm not going to turn down one of my favourite games being analysed

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Probably going to work on the next Psychonauts this weekend. Glad you're a fan of Bioshock too though !

Hah, I was just playing this

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

Perfect timing haha!

Bioshock 1 and Infinite are much better, especially in terms of the themes this University covers. The metanarrative of character and player free will is well done in both and light years beyond what most contemporary ludonarratives were doing. Shame Levine fell into development Sheol for years, only to emerge with Judas, which looks interesting but is still just an FPS. Also, check out The Talos Principle if you haven’t; definitely up your alley and a somewhat surprise sequel is coming.

@GamingUniversityUoG

8 ай бұрын

My playthrough of Talos principle is up on the secondary stream channel. GU_Streaming. Definitely check it out. That game was awesome.