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JWeinCom on 10 October 2013
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drakesfortune said:
JWeinCom said:
Pretty stupid criticism. At Wounded Knee people were slaughtered more or less indiscriminately. I believe well over a hundred women and children were killed. There is quite a difference between that and the enemies in Bioshock Infinite, who are all adult males, and will all fire at you, and help hold up a corrupt system that abuses those without power, and are trying to imprison a young girl.


Really?  That's not the same game I played.  Your motives in Infinite aren't made clear until the end, and even Booker seems confused about them.  Plus, for most of the game you're just trying to kidnap her for your own reasons, and you aren't a very good guy in the beginning...  Let's not even get started on the ending either.  Booker's just a bad dude, it seems to me.  Past, present, and future(s)...err future past, future present, past present, future.  When is he good except in your own mind when you (the player) are wishing him to be good?  

Obviously the ending of that game left me very cold.  And I'm a HUGE Bioshock 1 fan.  If it's not my game of the gen, it's tied for it.  Infinite doesn't even feel like it was made by the same people who made the first game.

*spoilers* Booker is contracted to return Elizabeth to New York, and considering that the girl is locked in the tower and clearly wants to leave, it's reasonable for Booker to assume that he's doing the right thing.  And it's not as though Booker is walking around with random bloodlust.  Booker is declared to basically be Satan incarnate by Columbia, and from that point on, he really doesn't have any options.  Everyone in Columbia (except the Vox I guess) is convinced that he is going to bring down their society and are hell bent on killing him.  Booker shoots or he is shot.  By the end of the game, it's pretty clear that Booker is genuinely concerned for Elizabeth and his motivation has shifted from his debt to caring about Elizabeth which goes along well with the main theme. And... you know, he sort of prevents a horrible future of Columbia declaring war on the US from happening, so that's good too.

I never said Booker is exactly a good dude, but there is a big gray area between Ghandi and baby eater where Booker falls into.