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Fuck him.

I mean, seriously. His opinion is bad and he should feel bad.



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Lol, his butthurt is clearly strong. I'd give it a solid 7/10. I'd give the original Bioshock a 9.





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. 



The gamespot review staffs needs a total flush after all the shit happened so far.



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That was harsh. This game is a solid 5/10. More average than vanilla ice cream.

Slightly interesting location was about all that held this up ... take that away and you have a bland shooter that makes Call of Duty's campaign look advant-garde by comparision.

Don't get me started on the story...

I will give the series credit though for at least having a point ... even though it is incredibly stupid and self-contradictory. It goes as follows ...

Bioshock: Objectivism/Egoism is bad

Bioshock 2: Communism/socialism/altruism is bad

Bioshock Infinite: America/jingoism is bad

Basically, any idealogy is, by default, evil. The game's creator ignores the fact that consistant adhereance to this is also an idealogy.

Should just call it Nihilism Infinite.

Worth a rental just to see the very nice locals/setting and the M. Night Shyamalan twist that happens in each game I guess.



Gamespot is a joke anyways. Their news coverage sucks, their website design is horrid, and they purposely give out "controversial" review scores for the sole purpose to get people riled up. Haven't visited them regularly in a solid 2 years.



I wonder why BioShock (usually) gets such good reviews from the press. I played the original and thought it was pretty overrated too, yet all the reviews were glowing. With Infinite it played out exactly the same.

Do Irrational have naked pictures of all the game review editors?



I hope you all realize this is a "second look" review and is very obviously click bait. Here is their original review http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/bioshock-infinite-review/1900-6405762/



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