"A man chooses. A slave obeys" Is a line seared into my brain. Such an amazing game.

@BrotherMag

Жыл бұрын

That scene hit me so hard the first time!

@christiangottsacker6932

10 ай бұрын

"ould you kindly?" Broke my mind

Bioshock might be one of the best games of all time the story, the art, the creativity of the city and abilities. As a kid I was so scared of the start and the characters. All just amazing and beautiful. Can’t wait for the next one

@topnoodlebowl1549

Жыл бұрын

While this is true (very true at that) they still seem to be chasing the high they got from the first one ie burial at sea episode 2, hopefully Judas can be different

@theblackbaron4119

Жыл бұрын

If you've read Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand then it's even better :))

@Ghostsoldier2112

Жыл бұрын

I think the bioshock games are great but not the greatest of all time if it comes to environmental storytelling then I can agree bioshock is top 5 easy

@superslicer6

Жыл бұрын

#1: The Last of Us. #2: Bioshock, #3 Spider-Man (Arguable)

@trollingboy9729

5 ай бұрын

@@Ghostsoldier2112bioshock is still better than system shock and prey combined. So it is the best game of all time

16:06 What's funny about that is that there really isn't that much of a difference in the amount of ADAM you get, you can rescue all the Little Sisters and you still get all the ADAM you'll likely need.

@wilddeath1

Жыл бұрын

actually rescuing them gets you more adam overall over harvesting them

@oreothecookie3148

Жыл бұрын

@@wilddeath1 yeah but the difference isn’t that big. And saving them is just as good by endgame.

@jakobthedragonboy

Жыл бұрын

@@oreothecookie3148 You also get upgrades you can't get elsewhere that are pretty damn useful.

@TheThor856

Жыл бұрын

Yeah so he’s just being evil just because

@drewengel7073

Жыл бұрын

@@wilddeath1 You will not. You will get 20 less ADAM than if you harvested 3 Little Sisters.

I recently started playing the remastered version and it didn't disappoint, the game mechanics of plasmids and guns are even today a revolutionary idea to gameplay

I really, really hope you do Bioshock 2 as well after this. It got a lot of flak when it had to stand next to the first game, but I really enjoyed its more self-contained story and emotional connection. Possibly even more than the first one. Plus, the multiple endings there feel like they make more sense, since you're influencing someone else's idea of what is right and wrong.

@theblackbaron4119

Жыл бұрын

In my opinion 1&2 will always be better than infinite. Infinite was a mess during development, I've played all the demos back then I could get my hands on. So it's save to say infinite was not only downgraded massively, but also narratively. Now it's a pretentious mess that tries to retcon the good things of 1. A soulless regenerative shield based shooting gallery with no Bioshock charm or atmosphere.

@jubileechambers2604

Жыл бұрын

I can see that I always enjoyed the first one more because of the environmental storytelling the little hints of everything that you could just pick up from reading things on the walls. There seems to be a lot less of that in 2. I still love two as a game don't get me wrong it's fantastic to play and the story is pretty good I just always felt like the first one felt more throughout and deliberate with the environments.

One thing I don't think many people know is that in fallout: New Vegas is that if you beat Mr house to death with a golf club, you gain the achievement "a man chooses, a slave obeys", inspired by this game

I started playing the series in chronological order and I’m currently at Bioshock 1. And I gotta say playing this game right after Burial At Sea Part 2 is something else.

This might be a controversial opinion but I actually think having the two endings actually works great on a narrative level. The big twist when you get to Ryan as many have pointed out is a brilliant deconstruction of the concept of "player choice" because as it points out we are doing what the developers intended regardless of which "choice" we make in video games. But if you look at it from a narrative perspective, Jack thanks to the mind control implanted on him never had any ability to choose for himself until that moment where he corners the first little sister since Fountaine did not want to risk showing his hand to Jack at this point and that choice ultimately comes to define him. He can become every bit the monster that both Ryan and Fountaine were, killing and exploiting others for his own benefit leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake without a shred of remorse or humanity. Or he can rise above his fathers and as Tenenbaum put it give the Little Sisters what was stolen from them by the monsters of Rapture, a chance. Additionally, the good ending has Jack not only rise above his fathers, but it is also serves as great middle finger to Ayn Rand and her repugnant beliefs.

@jerrythemike3584

Жыл бұрын

Agreed It's kind of poetic if you think about it. The man without any control of his life, which in reality has been nothing but a lie, with no home or family, manages to get what he thought he always had thanks to the choices he made with the little free will he had.

@Li_Tobler

Жыл бұрын

@@jerrythemike3584 omg I'm actually tearing up

What you stated in the beginning of his surface world life. jack isn’t that old. He probably didn’t have much of a surface life to begin with given his role. Due to the very genetic modifications and memory implanting by Suchong, Jack thinks he’s lived a normal full life, but in reality he’s only four or five years old at the time of the game. But due to the alterations he has the build and mind of a 24 year old. He was smuggled out of rapture in 1958 and Fontaine states he was no more than two, he returns in 1960

Atlas being the same name of a god banished by the Greek gods to carry the sky after leading the titans against the gods is also pretty neat reference.

Until Bioshock horror games I’ve never touched and still haven’t but when I saw the Big Daddy it opened my eyes to how horror games can have amazing character designs

@theblackbaron4119

Жыл бұрын

If you're looking for another game that really messed with your perception of a linear narrative, that could be considered horror, which has amazing stylised characters. Then you should play Pathologic (2). You could play one, but just play 2. It's "basically the same" but not. It is the better play experience though.

@eldritchcupcakes3195

Жыл бұрын

considering how many often dive into heavy symbolism with those designs, yeah

@graygarrison3114

18 күн бұрын

Even on Easy mode it's still extremely hard to take down The Big Daddy's They still hit You hard and The Spider and Houdini Splicers are really hard to beat even on Easy mode.​@@theblackbaron4119

36:30 I always saw it as Ryan *daring* Jack to break free from his conditioning. Ryan respects his objectivist philosophy. A tool *designed* to free the mind from all constraint. So he tries to impart his wisdom onto Jack. To free him. By bluntly confronting Jack with the alternative. Being a slave inside his own body. He gave his life, on his own terms, in the hope his philosophy might free his killer. Something something died for our sins.

Always love it when people talk about how they feel about Bioshock. Interested on seeing your view on Bioshock 2, Infinite, and DLCs.

I'd love to see Gaming Wins take on something fun and silly like "Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero".

I always go for the good ending and it never fails to get me misty eyed

One thing to note about Point Prometheus is that Mary Shelly's Frankenstein has the subtitle, 'a modern day Prometheus'. And it is indeed at point Prometheus that the most Frankensteinian experiments took place, Ryan even calls the bog daddies Frankensteins at one point. And the proving grounds were Raptures natural and scientific museum at one point. So all in all Atlas/Fontaine has quite literally placed himself at the pinnacle of Rapture, and through his injection of ADAM has ascended to the status of a true titan. Point Prometheus is also in the tallest building in Rapture and located at Olympus heights. with Prometheus of Greek mythology being a titan that would climb to the top op Mt Olympus, home of the gods. In rapture, the residents of Olympus Heights were equally the elite.

Oh man i remember when bioshock at the head of the debait of weather or not "Are video games art ?" and man I remember the BioShock series fondly. Bioshock was the one the prime games that was used for the side of video games are art. I would love to see you do the other BioShock games especially the infinite and burial at sea DLC with how that DLC sets up Bioshock One's story line.

The first introduction to the city send a shiver down my spine every single time

Played it after College. Mom banned M games due to my younger siblings, but I could rent it and play it at night after everyone went to bed. Which was... a thing. I ended up having to return it RIGHT after Julie Langford was murdered and I harbored intense guilt over that for years since I wanted to fulfil her dying wish. Irrational, yes. But I love it and 2. Brigid Freaking Tenenbaum is one of my favorite characters of all time anywhere (her and Cyan Garamonde) due to her massive pre game character arc that is just WONDERFUL. And then Mark has to go and be great too. I miss Something in the Sea. Honestly surprised you didn't talk about Brigid in the video. I'm not sure where to put her in, but she has some large parallels to everything and also survives Rapture.

I would love to see a Spec Ops: The Line video one day soon. It’s a thought I’ve had a lot watching this channel, but especially hearing you dive more into the philosophical, psychological side of the story of BioShock, I think you’d find a lot to love and think about there. Plus the morality choices offered in that game are a much better true test of a player’s moral beliefs, since there’s never really obvious right or wrong answers and it‘s more about determining what actions you can live with yourself for taking. It took a bit of a toll on me the first time I played it, and I’d be really interested to hear your thoughts on it because of it.

I was just a wee boy of 21 when I played it back in 08; I think I got most of the philosophy, but I've grown and learned a lot in those 15 years so it'd be interesting to go back some time

I love that the splicer is the first enemy we see and that we already get a dreadful feeling because of that encounter and then when you actually have to fight these things...absolutely fucking terrifying enemies

So I've completed all three games in the trilogy multiple times, and was waiting for this video. I am not disappointed

18:08 Actually, the song the spider splicer is humming there is "If I Didn't Care" by the Ink Spots, which is actually the song you hear playing when you walk into the Kashmir Restaurant earlier in the game.

24:51 "IT'S ALWAYS THE BEES!" 🤣🤣 My fave plasmid not gonna lie.

Please do the other games in the series after this!

@joechallenger

Жыл бұрын

I hope he has wins for Bioshock 2.

@z10fury73

Жыл бұрын

Bioshock infinite

@SirFooplesTheThird

Жыл бұрын

​@@joechallenger Bioshock 2 is a great game overshadowed by one if the greatest written games ever. Let's be honest the plot of 2 is wack but the gameplay is FAR BETTER than 1's. 1 is fun but seriously clunky and repetitive. 2 allows more creative freedom and feels a lot more powerful

@joenash4802

Жыл бұрын

The first game I feel gives you more choices compared to 2

I’ll mention that the remaster has a museum to all the cut content from the first bioshock. Some made it to 2 and infinite, but most were left on the cutting room floor with the museum being the only place it’s shown including the slugs and concept art for a level where said slugs were made

Bioshock is one of the few games that actually gets MORE interesting every time I play it. The first time I played it, I was like 10, so all the philosophy went right over my head; I was way too young to understand any of it. But as I grew up and kept playing it over and over again, I started to notice so many things I'd never noticed before. There's always something new to think about or something new to see. This game never gets boring.

I love Bioshock, like Timesplitters, it have its own universe, plot, characters, music.. ah the music is too good! And the intro, just perfect.

Something I'd like to note, this game makes it clear you have no control, the second game says you do have control and that your decisions make you and those who look up to you what they are. The games are at odds but somehow compliment eachother perfectly. What's further, this game had such a big impact on me that I still try to replay it once a year, my first tattoo was the phrase "would you kindly", this game is what made me love the science of genetics and biology something I'm still studying today. This game changed my life for the better, it's why I'll never forget it. And why I will always return to rapture.

This is my all time favorite gaming series please do the other games. 🔥💙

Bit of fun trivia... as well as voicing the Circus of Value and Dollar Bill vending machines in the Bioshock franchise, Ken Levine voices Martin Finnegan.

Bioshock was my very first game series I ever seriously played. I was only able to get into it the year before the pandemic started, but ever since I've been OBSESSED with it. I've been WAITING for you to make this video!! I'm so glad you did, and it came out AMAZING!!!

I was 7 or 8 the first time I played BioShock and to this day it is still one of my favorite game series I have ever played

I have to say, despite enjoying video games since I was a kid, Bioshock is by far the first game to give me literal goosebumps in the beginning, and kept me in awe throughout. Ironically, this is one of the first new games I played after graduating from college with degrees in PoliSci and Economics, and it was so cool to be able to see Rand's Objectivism and Ryan's laissez-faire themes play out in the ruins of this fantastical underwater world. Definitely one of my favorite games of all time!

It's definitely one of the better games of the modern era, I think. Visually stunning, and a FPS with an actual story. I've been meaning to replay it in the form of the remaster at some point. I remember liking Bioshock 2, though I don't recall that game's story so much, beyond the 'you're a big daddy with free will?' or whatever. Bioshock Infinite though. I couldn't get into that, I stopped playing that game like a third of the way through? Interested in where they go with the next BIoshock. A space station or the moon would make sense. Underground could work.

Honestly a remake of this game and the 2nd would be a dream. The setting of one of the more unique one in videogame EVER. Would love to see it remade, with great audio tech & pathtracing. Both games are so unique.

Still one of the greatest games of its generation and still just as timeless today. Its direct sequel is underrated, but its DLC "Minerva's Den" was such a chilling experience.

When you got done with the BioShock franchise you should do the Battelfield franchise. Btw keep up the great work

Love the suggestion of how to take the atmospherics you another notch. Definitely on my replay list, and inspirational game for mixed magic/guns and story

Remember the first ads for this game. First person perspective of a character running after a little girl, meeting the hulking monster in a diving suit and getting his hand drilled through with a bit of gameplay. It looked amazing and terrifying

I know it was just a joke at cinema sins but the apple comment about Andrew would actually kind of fit with all the other religious references, Ryan being like the devil, Lucifer, the very snake that tempted Adam and Eve in paradise, tempting them with an apple

YESSSS. IM HERE FOR IT

I just started playing this again the other day! what good timing

Love this game. Amazing setting, great story, and perhaps the most satisfying ending ever.

Please do a gaming wins on the sequel, It’s seriously just as good as The og Bioshock

bioshock is one of my top 10 games and I wish I could play it again for the first time

I actually think that the song the female splicer hummed was "If I didn't care", but the point stands :)

I would love if you would do Dead Space it’s on of my favorite series it snuck up on me to take that title I played it on a whim and fell in love

I think the best part about Bioshock is just how one of a kind it is, I’ve played it so many times over the years and in my opinion it’s the purest definition of “often imitated but never duplicated”. This game brings me so much joy and memories

Ok kinda late but I’m surprised you didn’t mention in the fort frolic section how Sander Cohen Never once said the trigger phase. So technically in this section, Jack is doing what Sander want out of his own free will, albeit only to continue on, but still something I think is worth mentioning.

i went good ending and hacker focused and i only just played it for the first time last month so i was spoiled on the story still Really enjoyed playing it though, the world and everything its amazing but what i got out of it the most was the child rebelling against their parents, ryan rebelling against god u rebelling against fontaine, in the second game its your daughter rebelling against her mother and in the third game its again a daughter rebelling against her father, and i def noticed everything else but thats what i pulled from it maybe it has something to do with my relationship with my parents? i dont know but it was a fun game and i am def playing them again i loved it so much i beat the second game in a single day not from speed running but just not putting it down. especially cause i got the wrong ending in bio 2 on accident. (also havent played 3 yet wanted the first two to sit for a while) sorry if i have bad grammar but i love these games and wanted to share!

I would love to see a video about Control! Loving the content

God I wish they would make a Bioshock series live action or animated showing the origin of Rapture and its fall

The chain also signify he’s a slave to his genetics being Ryan’s son @7:36 and I remember some years ago it also represents the double helix 🧬

the reveal of rapture is one of m favourite scenes in video game history up there with colm odriscolls death and anor londos reveal

Would love to see you cover the rest of the Bioshock series. I got to the end of Infinite and had not seen the twist coming, I just sat there for about 15 minutes completely mind blown.

Would you kindly do Bioshock 2? It’s so underrated and often gets ignored due to Infinite being the “official” sequel.

Finally a video about BioShock

I like to believe that it’s Jacks choice to pick up the plasmid and shotgun mainly because I believe that his survival is more imbedded in his mind than the mind control.

Don’t know if anyone mentioned it but if u do the math you actually get a lot more when you save the little sisters when you factor in the gifts they leave you.

This is one of the few games that i replayed multiple times especially ng+. Also can say both speeches by ryan, opening and the 'twist'.

Awesome Video Bro!!

One of my personal favorite games from my personal favorite game reviewer. Today's a good day

I search to see if you made a video on this game today so hey I’m happy

Just downloaded the first game randomly to play in january of this year, i knew it was famous so i wanted to know why, and i fell in love with Rapture in the first minutes of the game, so much that i played the trilogy in just a week. Infinite definetly set it as one of the greatest histories i played in a while and i didn't know what i had missed out on, But i'm so glad i played this year and Bioshock is deflnetly in my top 5 games of all time, and i say for the trilogy as a whole, i can't decide between 1,2 and Infinite, i love them all for different reasons.

The posted of this game hangs framed next to me on the right. Incredible good game. Love it.

17:59 😂oh how I love it when videos say this an then YT throws in an advert...almost like they're gonna "me na don't know what your talking about I'm cool"...then when no ones looking....banned...

Thanks for the great content 🙏

Can't wait to see you do bioshock 2 and see you take on the big sister.

Remember that part in Atlas Shrugged where Dagney give a bum a job because she can see that he has talent.

nice one! Bioshock is definitely one of a kind! now waiting for your video for Infinite :)

One of the scary parts is during the flashes of the ‘Would You Kindly’ reveal, where Fontaine says ‘Would You Kindly forget this’ Just how much did Jack do in Rapture that we never saw? And *what* did he do?!

I imagine the main discussion about Bioshock 2 will revolve around the idea of what it means to be human.

@thewanderingcreative7173

8 күн бұрын

Or the nature of parent and child?

@fancyshoes002

8 күн бұрын

@@thewanderingcreative7173 That's also good.

This review made me want to replay my Bioshock Collection.

I have his chains tattooed on my wrist One of the first games that opened my eyes to great storytelling changed me!

You get more ADAM if you save every Little Sister from the presents they give you.

@robertmurdock1848

Жыл бұрын

No, harvesting earns more ADAM, saving earns you exclusive plasmids and tonics you can't get elsewhere. The gifts don't make up the difference in ADAM, you'll have 280 less ADAM saving. More if you use the extra sister exploit.

You harvested? Your free trial of life has now expired.

I have the series on Switch, and I've played it more now than I did on Xbox. Actually got to play it ON the beach at night while I was chilling with my dog and some red wine. Quite the experience!

@RealBradMiller

Жыл бұрын

11:20 holy crap!!! That explains the ghosts! Learn something new everyday!

Now that you did the original you have to do Bioshock 2, Minerva’s den, Infinite, and Burial at sea episodes 1 and 2

34:55 See I saw it the other way around. By the time I got to Ryan I had no desire to kill him, as it was clear he only fell after Rapture did really. I felt sorry for him by then. He had been betrayed by everything, including his ideals, just as much as he had betrayed them. And his betrayal was always reciprocal, not initiating.

As someone who you might call a "bleeding heart", I can't bring myself to get the 'bad' ending where you kill the Little Sisters. I love the imagery of the good ending too much, the idea of all these children (including Jack, who is actually in terms of age still a child despite being my age mentally and physically) finding in each other the family they were all ripped away from and denied. Something good came out of Rapture, and that good was Jack and his found family. They left the underwater hellscape behind and returned to the surface to live out their lives in peace and that's beautiful. Plus going the good route gets you access to the "Hypnotize Big Daddy" Plasmids, which are so fucking useful in gauntlets and standoffs. Also, Bioshock was my first cosplay, a simple sign around my neck that said "Harvest or Rescue" with the Playstation buttons on it. It was actually kind of a hit at the con I went to.

Great great series ❤

Remember in 4 years this game will be 20 years old and it's still beloved.

God your gonna make me want to 100% this game I have the remastered version of all Bioshocks

I've just started the video so ignore this if it was announced later lol I hope you do Bioshock 2, it's my favorite. Played it about 10 times, was really obsessed with it in high school lol.

My favorite joke in Bioshock 2 is when you pick up the golf club in the theme park and hit the Andrew Ryan animatronic in the head with it, you get a trophy called “9-Irony”

Great video. A bioshock infinite video would be awesome too

Man still remember when i first saw the trailers and played the demo

Another detail : At the beginning of the flight, Jack was smoking on a plane,because in 1960, people could smoke inside of a plane until 1988

Another great video. Would you kindly do an Everything Great About the Legend of Dragoon?

If you’re wanting a deeper dive into this game I highly suggest Resonant ARC’s series on Bioshock

Saving the little sisters makes you stronger near the end

@robertmurdock1848

Жыл бұрын

In what way? Harvesting is always more ADAM, the gifts never overtake that upfront advantage.

One little thing to maybe add, the fact that you are related to Ryan is mentioned fairly early on. I forget when, i think when you first reach the market, Altas mentions that Ryan had the vitachambers tuned to his genetic code. Making it so only him and anyone related to him could use them. Yet Jack has no issue with them. Which also kinda make you think...what stopped Ryan from just being revived by one of these chambers after you kill him?

@robertmurdock1848

Жыл бұрын

There's an audio log in Neptune's Bounty that mentions the bathyspheres can only be used by Ryan ,his relatives, and his inner circle, also. It's near one of the two turrets under the wharf when you first enter.

I’m so happy i stubbled across this

Two dings for Sander Cohen and Fort Frolic.

I LIKE that the game has multiple endings, even if they're not great. They show a choice you can make beyond what the people like Fontain and Atlas thought. One that doesn't affect their plans. Whether the player accepts or denies their philosophy. I think the EXISTENCE of a bad ending empowers the good one. Because you have to actively choose it, again and again.

I could never bring myself to harvest a little sister

Omg yes yes yes yes I just palted this game like a week ago yes I'm so happy

I renember getting this in a 5 games for £25 deal at Blockbuster in 09. What a deal