People don't bemoan the existence of vigors just because they're vigors. The problem is that they aren't explained or justified within the context of the game. By the way, Columbia and Rapture don't exist in the same "BioShock universe". They are both two possibilities. It's pretty basic multiverse theory. But anyway. In the original Bioshock the plasmids, ADAM and gene tonics were explained within the context of the game world. Someone discovered the slugs and then they realized they could extract ADAM and refine it and whatnot, thus giving superhuman abilities and properties to ordinary people. Then people did that too much and became splicers and thus, Rapture fell.Extragorey said:
Vigors and salts are never explained within the context of Bioshock Infinite. Don't even get me started on "gear" which is completely ridiculous and random. If vigors and salt are so ubiquitous in Columbia, and they are, why aren't more people using them? That doesn't make any sense. Bad writing and bad game design.
THAT'S the big problem with vigors. Not that they exist at all, but rather the justification and explanation for why they exist in the game world.
Look, it's obvious that Levine and the other people at Irrational thought "hey, plasmids was a huge success in Bioshock, we need to get that into the next one too, especially since we've slapped the Bioshock name on it!" and then they just shoehorned it in there. Basically, this game would have been better off not using the Bioshock name at all. It only suffered from the references. I almost cringed my face off at the end when
Elizabeth said the corny "there's always a lighthouse, always a man, always a city" line.