Zero Punctuation: BioShock: Infinite

[tehweave]

I've been waiting for this review for a while. Thankfully, I just finished the game yesterday, so I understand everything perfectly.

Also, while I'm glad he didn't spoil anything, I could definitely tell when he was referring to certain plot twists, but honestly I would have never understood them unless I beat the game anyway.

Great review!

 

[Silk_Sk]

"Maybe they fell out of a reality rift to the convenience dimension."

Good guess, Yahtzee. That dimension would be Rapture. There are hints throughout the game that much of the technology and possibly even culture of Columbia had its roots in a portal to Rapture. The Songbird is the most obvious of these, being basically a godzilla-sized big daddy that one of the audio-logs makes clear was inspired by convenience dimension technology. Vigors are literally plasmids from Rapture re-named.

 

[Atmos Duality]

So this week, Yahtzee launches a barrage of butt related comparisons...a series of ANALogies, one might say.

I didn't play through Bioshock 1 myself until 2010, and I'm not in any hurry to play Bioshock: Infinite either.
Which isn't to say Bioshock 1 wasn't good (it's one of the best games of the "current" console generation), it's just that if I'm going to play something overtly pretentious and hyped, I prefer to wait until the hype dies down.

 

[Something Amyss]

In before someone sarcastically exclaims "Yahtzee likes a game? How can this be??" as if they're the first to do such a thing.

Or like it's the first time it's happened.

I've been up a lot of arses in my time, so if you're gonna be stuck up an arse, Bioshock Infinite is the best possible arse to be stuck in.

*opens mouth*

*closes it again*

It's like...It's like the potential number of jokes overwhelmed my brain and shut it down! I don't know what to say.

Well played, sir.

 

[romxxii]

Summary: Yahtzee likes butt stuff.

 

[NWJ94]

This really surprised me. Game was great and all, but was expecting Yahtzee do to his usual thing of just nit picking harder then ever to find things to crack jokes about and spend half the review complaining about the two weapon limitation. Game must of really hit a cord with him.

Also thank you for voicing my one major complaint with Infinite which is that the Vigors are tragically unrelated to the plot. In the first game plasmids are used to reinforce one of the central ideas, (That a risk to extremist objectivism is that people can be remarkable short sighted.) In Infinite the Vigors are just sort of there and feel more like an addition because it was a Bioshock game, rather than because they really belonged.

 

[Smertnik]

The lack of explanation regarding the existence of vigors really bugged me. Why are they there? How are they made? What's up with these salts? Why doesn't everybody use them if they're apparently freely available? Why are they freely available in the first place? And, most importantly, how do they not make any kind of impact on the society whatsoever?

The moment you get the first vigor is probably the strangest one. You have this festival or whatever and a woman is standing there with a basket full of possession vigors who is all like "Hi everyone, who wants to rob vending machines and make people commit suicide? There's enough for everybody!"

 

[Tar Palantir]

Not even a word on Elizabeth? I'm dissapoint

 

[synobal]

Okay I'm going to get this game. It seems that I have to.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Loved the "Get Out" part.

Quite a positive review, which is well deserved. I really liked the game myself.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Okay I'm going to get this game. It seems that I have to.

That's for the best.

I had a friend who didn't buy the game, and he died of cancer.

True story.

In before someone sarcastically exclaims "Yahtzee likes a game? How can this be??" as if they're the first to do such a thing.

Or like it's the first time it's happened.

I've been up a lot of arses in my time, so if you're gonna be stuck up an arse, Bioshock Infinite is the best possible arse to be stuck in.

*opens mouth*

*closes it again*

It's like...It's like the potential number of jokes overwhelmed my brain and shut it down! I don't know what to say.

Well played, sir.

I demand a fan art of Okami sniffing Elizabeth's ass!

You assume that wouldn't be right up my alley.

 

[synobal]

Okay I'm going to get this game. It seems that I have to.

That's for the best.

I had a friend who didn't buy the game, and he died of cancer.

True story.

Did he perchance die of cancer before the game was released?

 

[R.Nevermore]

In the game it states that vigors are a very new thing. Fink observed a famous biologist (presumably suchong) through a tear and brought the technology to Columbia. This tells me that they haven't existed in Columbia long enough to become a part of the culture.

 

[scorptatious]

I'm pretty surprised Yahtzee likes the game.

Not saying I don't, in fact I really like it myself. I just sorta expected him to tear the game to pieces like he does in most of his reviews.

As for the final level. I actually liked it.

Spoiler

You get to sick Songbird on zeppelins! Friggen awesome!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Okay I'm going to get this game. It seems that I have to.

That's for the best.

I had a friend who didn't buy the game, and he died of cancer.

True story.

Did he perchance die of cancer before the game was released?

That's irrelevant.

All I know is that he had died, and hadn't played the game.


There's no other possible explanation.

Not playing the game kills you.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

It's been three years, and Yahtzee still has yet to adequately explain why he hated BioShock 2 so much. His actual review came down to a load of silly nitpicks of the sort he would normally reserve for games he likes and has to fill time complaining about anyway, and he hasn't said anything beyond "Grr sequels" since.

 

[Sectan]

I would have loved to meet a Ken Levine god at the end. At the most as the spoof ending on 1999 mode or something.

 

[Bbleds]

Yep, can't agree more. This is an amazing game, there are not too many "triple A" games like this sadly. Great narrative that made me really think introspectively and engaging gameplay that, for the most part, complements said narrative. The one minor complaint that I had myself has to do with the streamlining of the series, and just one particular aspect really. Why is there no manual saving? I do not know if that is just a console version issue or if I was just too dumb to find it, but it was a little frustrating when I was wanting to go to bed or leave for work and I was left to the mercy of finding an area that auto-saved. Now I understand perhaps it was done to help players focus and discourage the usual practice of either wreaking havoc on innocent NPC's then reloading or using it as a quick "mistake eraser". But in a a game with large sprawling environments I personally missed it, or like I said maybe I possibly just missed it due to idiocy.

 

[uchytjes]

Q: Why was Elizabeth locked up in the statue?
A: Because last time she got out, the cops had to book her for...

*puts on sunglasses*

... vigorous ass salt.

So. Many. Puns.

Can't. Hold on. Much longer.

OT: the 4 gay guys had significance? I just thought they were there to sound nice and look pretty.

 

[shrekfan246]

As for the final level. I actually liked it.

Spoiler

You get to sick Songbird on zeppelins! Friggen awesome!

It becomes significantly less awesome on 1999 Mode

Spoiler

when you're scrambling around trying to distract and kill multiple Patriots, tossing Possessions at them and Undertowing RPG guys off the side of the ship and laying down Shock traps while trying to blow out the missile launchers on the zeppelins and keep the airship from taking too much damage. Bearing in mind that your shield gets shredded in no time flat and the Patriots are massive bullet sponges.

Hectic and tense as all hell, to be sure, but not in the same fun way the rest of the game was on that difficulty.

OT: Well, Yahtzee really liked the first one, so I'm glad to see the pattern is being kept strong here. I still say it'll take one hell of a game to oust Infinite for my personal Game of the Year.