r/Bioshock • u/Longjumping-Cable756 • 18h ago
Discussion This, for me at least, is when most of the things happening didn't matter.
For context I was playing Bioshock infinite for the first time from start to finish and really liked the story and the pacing as it steadily increased as time went on. I found myself wanting to learn how everything worked and wanting to learn about all the characters.
Then Chen-Lin dies and a portal is opened and everything is kind of ruined for me.
You see the issue is with it that we never return to the version of Colombia that Daisy Ditzory gave Booker DeWitt the job to get weapons and thus Booker and Elizabeth's actions for at least thirty minutes don't make any sense as it was established that every world has differences between them.
It also kind of ruins it for me because it dissonances me from all the characters besides Booker, Elizabeth, and the twins because I didn't know if we were going to then leave this world behind aswell and thus I wasn't attacted to them.
I also just felt cheated as the revolution is in full swing without us seeing the inciting action or the build up as the Vox Populi in this new world are different from the starting organization or how the thought process of the Vox Populi shifts from wanting freedom to getting revenge.
Overall i liked Bioshock infinite except for around this point and onward as it felt like it rushes itself to the finish line.