Evonisia said:
Vkmies said:
Goliath100 said:
Jimmy, who said that Bioshock has LD? I seen legitimate criticism of the reaction of the NPCs, and that the superpowers make no sense in the world, but the LD thing feels like straw figure.
It was explained that the "blueprints" (or the idea, whatever you wanna call them) for the salts were stolen by Fink and the Lutesces from Rapture through a portal. The same machine that they used to steal Elizabeth. Can't remember if it was explained how Adam can exist there, but I imagine the Lutesces worked out a man-made elixir to replace it that they implemented in the actual salts. What other critisisms have there been about salts? I haven't been following too closely about the argument, and I'd be interested in hearing some more.
The fact that the salts don't cause any mental issues which the plasmids did. The plasmids were a major part of BioShock 1's story and yet nobody thought to take the salts from Columbia? Rapture fell 40 years after Infinite, why did nobody think of this? You could have avoided the whole disaster Ryan... oh wait, they (the writers) don't care and gave a very crap explanation.
Well, the way I see it, salts aren't really plasmids. I mean, the idea for salts (and probably the basic chemistry) came for plasmids, but I imagine the Lutesces managed to morph them very much to their liking, since people don't need Adam for it. Not sure if it's explained like that, but I don't mind if it wasn't, personally. I do, however, understand why some might get annoyed that no concrete explanation is provided (if there really was no explanation).
I think the reason why Rapture never stole salts from Columbia is fairly obvious. As you can see from the mockumentary-trailers, the existence of Columbia is largely a mystery to the surface-world. People know a town flew into the skies at one point, but within a generation or two it became sort of a legend after nothing was heard from them in years. Once in awhile they found a skyhook or something that dropped out of the sky, but there was never contact between the surface and Columbia in a way that would let the scientists in Rapture find salts.
Also remember that these are just one timeline. There are timelines where salts were stolen by Rapture, there are timelines for everything. Everything has happened, everything will happen.
There are some problems with the actual town of Columbia like the water pouring down from it (nobody on the surface notices? Do they get all their water from rain? That's a lot of rain.) and if it doesn't move, why nobody flew a plane and found it hovering around the same place it was first seen disappear. If it does move, how do they get their energy? Well, even if they don't move, that city would use so much energy.
But these are all things I am willing to forget and I am happy to use my suspension of disbelief. I just think Salts were fairly well explained if you found the voxophones. And I think the stuff that wasn't explained is easy to just figure out or come up with a little something. I can see why people call that lazy game writing, but I always liked a little mystery in my game world. We don't know how Links ocarina works, but we can speculate that it's made from the stone that appears in Skyward Sword. Even then, we don't know how that stone works. But we don't necessarily have to. I like when a game lets fans speculate a bit, but I understand the disagreeing opinions as well.