| richardhutnik said: Bioshock seems to be going through different ideological systems, and then takes them to an extreme and throws them into a dystopia. The build the world on this ideological belief or that one, which is more of what I was trying to say. I believe the doing this leads to the game serving as a critique of that ideology. Anyhow, where I got what I said was from another interview, with very likely someone else who got involved with the game. Anyhow, maybe "commentary on" would be a better way of saying it than "critique". |
Sort of, yeah. But the particular ideologies really just give the games their flavor. Some work better than others depending on the setting, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better ideology to justify the existence of a Rapture or a Columbia than Objectivism and nationalism respectively, but you could still plug in any old political belief and it would be serviceable. The common thread of the series seems to be a rumination on utopianism and the psychology of the True Believer, as per Eric Hoffer.
