We take a stroll through Rapture and see what Andrew Ryan has built.
Developer: Irrational Games | Publisher: 2K Games | Release Date: August 21, 2007
Mike, Jacob and Moe share stories about the great year 2007 was for games, how they came to Bioshock, and whether the twist holds up in the current day and age.
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2:00 What did we know about Bioshock coming into this?4:30 Bioshock was like going to Disney world5:10 2007 was a great year for games7:25 Expectations were high and it broke Mike’s heart playing it again8:15 Do the game mechanics age well?8:40 “The Citizen Kane of Games” and Roger Ebert10:10 How did we play it? PC, console, original and remaster11:58 What is Bioshock and how does it start?13:15 Morality system and consequences (or lack thereof)13:50 Who is Andrew Ryan?15:30 Splicers and Atlas16:30 What does the game look like? Answer: dark and creepy19:10 Rapture feels like a character20:00 This game still looks good, and looked great back in the day20:45 What are Plasmids?22:00 What is Adam and Eve and where did it come from? Sea slugs and superhumans23:15 “Little Sisters are Demons”24:00 Big Daddies are like momma bears and just as tough26:00 How did you take down Big Daddies?28:00 Incinerate and Shock28:50 Plasmids and the wrench30:15 Jacob feels the gameplay is dated32:30 KOTOR is the best game ever made and Mike’s co-hosts are trollish dickheads 🙂33:30 The AI is really good34:20 What are your favourite parts of the game?38:30 Jacob and Mike geek out over Fort Frolic and Sander Cohen41:30 What did you do with the Little Sisters? Jacob McCourt is a bad man45:00 Tennenbaum and the different endings48:30 Bioshock and the illusion of choice51:00 Frustrated with a second playthrough52:00 The bad PS3 port made Mike happy53:20 Jacob felt it drags on and doesn’t end well54:00 What we felt about the ending55:00 Randian Objectivism and the politics of the game59:00 Simple impressions on the sequels, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite1:01:00 LBGC connection to Bioshock 21:03:00 What’s next for Ken Levine?1:04:30 Sharing our final thoughts and takeaways1:05:20 Mike almost got a regrettable Bioshock tattoo