Bioshock

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The Other Castle.

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The Other Castle, I'm Andrea.

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And my name is Tom.

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And we host a video game podcast where we talk about the plot, lore, and more behind all your favorite games.

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That includes development, creation, performing, marketing sometimes, and of course, everything that actually happens in the game.

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So you can basically say you played it.

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You get it, you know what's going on.

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Yeah, so if this is your first time, thank you for joining us.

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If you're rejoining us from previous episodes, thank you for coming back.

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And this week, we are doing Bioshock.

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Bioshock.

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Haven't you guys done a Bioshock episode?

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Well, yes, we technically did a Bioshock episode before.

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It was very early in our series, but we didn't quite have the same process.

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We didn't quite have the same format to the show.

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So we wanted to update it and give us a better description of Bioshock than we provided the first time.

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Kind of like a remake?

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Just like a remake, as this game has been remade quite a couple of times.

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Yeah.

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I think they've been able to lean on remastering though, right, because they've actually kept all the files on like other games where they're like, fuck it, ground up, figure it out.

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Correct, yeah.

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Bioshock was made on Unreal Engine 2 originally, and even the remasters are still Unreal Engine 2.5, just like with updated skins and stuff like that.

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Very cool.

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I think we're on Unreal 6 now, right?

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Five or six?

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Five, I think it's Unreal 5 that we're out.

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Gotcha, very cool.

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Yeah, I mean, they're always innovating with that shit.

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Yeah.

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Hello, Molly.

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Hi, Krisha.

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Oh, I've been working so hard.

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Constantly, both of us, we're playing our games today.

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Yeah, for hours.

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Yeah.

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I think I got a good four hours in, I was like, I think I have to put this down, I'm losing my mind.

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Yeah, I got a solid two and a half in, too.

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Ugh, it gets a little brutal, especially with the pressure to be able to understand what's happening, instead of just going pew pew.

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Yeah, right?

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Ugh, it's rough.

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So rough, wah wah wah.

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Anyway, I am very grateful to be here.

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I'm very grateful for our new Patreon friends, and I'm excited to talk about how Patreon is changing for us.

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Yes, the same.

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But anyway, we're here to talk about Bioshock, so let's get started.

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Yeah.

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Our story begins in 1994 at a small gaming studio making a game called System Shock.

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Ooh.

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It was a first-person shooter style action game taking place in a cyberpunk world, and it was available on PC, and it sold moderately well when it was released.

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And this allowed for the team who built the game to branch off into their own group called Irrational Games.

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This is exciting.

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I know where this is going.

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Well, from there, they produced a sequel, System Shock 2, released in 1999, which garnered rave reviews and zero sales.

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Oh, no.

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So critics loved it.

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So this is an amazing game and everyone went great and then just moved on with their lives.

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No one bought it.

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Nobody played System Shock 2, except for those kinds of people who play literally everything that comes out.

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Right, reviewers.

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And for those lucky few, they always felt they had experienced something new, fresh and fun.

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Just nobody else cared.

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Was it just no marketing?

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I mean, if it's a sequel, it's part of a franchise.

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Like the story is going somewhere, presumably, I haven't played them admittedly.

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But, oh, am I part of the problem?

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You know, it was probably marketing, definitely.

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And I just think the people that did play it weren't being loud enough about it.

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Well, you said this was the 90s, right?

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Yeah, of course.

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It's hard.

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Yeah, it's hard.

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The Internet wasn't as strong as it is today.

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So most of this team went on to produce a moderately successful tactical assault first-person shooter series called SWAT.

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SWAT.

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So it's based off the SWAT team and the police forces.

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And it was built in Unreal Engine 2.5, which was brand new at the time.

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And the SWAT series saw production team members come and go, which allowed for a few people to rise to the top, namely writer Ken Levine.

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So they had finished SWAT 4, which was actually the ninth in the series.

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Holy shit, they were banging those out.

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They really were.

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I thought you were going to be like, and they made like three.

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No, no.

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You're talking about like we're at nine.

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Yeah, this was their money series.

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This was what brought their paychecks in basically.

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Oh, that's so funny.

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And they were just really tired of making tactical shooters.

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Their last pitch for a SWAT 5 had gone off the deep end as they wanted to make a game where SWAT teams face off against zombies and werewolves.

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Hell, yeah.

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They're like, fuck it.

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They're going to the Monster Mash now.

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Who gives a shit?

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Yeah, and since zombie games hadn't gained popularity yet, this was universally rejected by everyone they pitched it to.

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They were just ahead of their time.

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Yeah, a little bit, right?

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Yeah, Ken Levine was very much like, just so you know, this was before zombie games.

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Yeah.

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So they started pitching out original ideas to developers.

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One of the ideas they had was a game Andrea is going to be furious.

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They didn't go on to create.

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Oh, wait, really?

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So you would be playing as a cult deprogrammer.

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That is literally my that that's all I've ever wanted.

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I'm not smart enough to get into the programs where you learn how to do this kind of shit.

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And I probably don't have the work ethic to if I'm being 100.

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But this world fascinates me so much.

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Holy shit.

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Honestly, it seems like a lot of people that go into cult deprogramming were former cult members themselves.

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Ah.

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Well, anyway, in this game, your job was going to be to sneak into cults by joining them.

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Oh, shit.

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And then kidnap members in order for you to deprogram them.

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That's so fucking sick.

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I'm so upset this doesn't exist.

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Yeah.

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Ken loved the idea that from one viewpoint, you're saving people.

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And from another, you're taking away their right to religious freedom.

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Oh, my.

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Oh, God.

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Yeah.

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So that was a little bit too high concept and never really got off the ground.

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Also, I never thought about the morality of that one.

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OK, cool.

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Right.

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Oh, I'm struggling.

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OK.

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Anyway, that's so fucking cool.

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And wouldn't you love the team that did like LA.

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Noire to come back and do that?

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So you can see the deep programming happened lifetime in their eyes and shit.

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That would be incredible.

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There's my pitch there.

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If Ken can't pick it up and take it, there's a team right there that would kill this shit.

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It's just disappeared, you know.

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But you know what?

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The team from F-Stop that went on to make Portal 2, there is like an F-Stop like game coming out now.

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So maybe somebody will grab that idea one day.

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Yeah.

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Well, they had a few other ideas they were tossing around.

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And one was about an underwater city set in a time period in the not too distant past.

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This was the game they felt the most passion for, as it would incorporate their favorite innovations from System Shock 2 and combine it with their skills in Unreal Engine 2.5.

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Calling the game Bioshock.

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No, we have a drinking game on this show.

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If you are just joining us, when in the same vein of The Simpsons did it, Bioshock is so iconic for inspiring so much of modern gaming that when you see that in another game, you take a bio shot.

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Yes.

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I have not played the game.

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It's probably dangerous.

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I am just aware of it.

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I do not endorse this game.

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I think that's ridiculous.

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And if you need a binge drink, just do it.

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Like, who gives a shit about, like, gamifying your party?

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That's another thing.

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But I'm not going to call out Bioshock in this one.

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Yeah, when you say you haven't played this game, you mean the Bioshock game.

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You've played Bioshock.

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Oh, yes, excuse me.

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I have played the shit out of Bioshock.

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I was talking about our in-world drinking game that I do not endorse.

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Yeah, Bioshock was one of your big, like, introductions into first-person shooters, wasn't it?

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Oh, I discovered the goblin inside of me the day I played Bioshock.

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Do you remember the day I played Bioshock for the first time?

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I don't really because I went to work early in the morning and you sat down saying, I'm going to check out Bioshock.

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Yeah.

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And then I came home and you had beaten the game.

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You came home right at the very climax, like the very last battle, and I had a blanket over my head.

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The couch was covered in like fucking snacks and wrappers and shit.

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And you were like, hi, are you okay?

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And I said, no, I live in Rapture now.

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And you went, we're returning on the lights.

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There's something wrong.

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You need to eat a vegetable for the love of fuck.

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And I was like, ah.

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Bioshock is a perfect game.

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And playing it all in one sitting for the first time, I consumed it was an excellent choice.

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Oh, yeah.

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And for me, kind of the same thing was that I didn't really care.

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It was a new franchise when it came out, so I ignored it entirely.

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Yeah.

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And I had a friend who I very much trusted who said, give this one a try.

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And oh, I did the same thing.

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I got lost.

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I was at his house for the weekend anyway, and I just sat there and I played that thing to completion.

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That's so fucking good.

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Such a fantastic experience.

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Anyway, so they pitched Bioshock to investors and publishers all over the world, constantly referring to it as the spiritual successor to System Shock 2.

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And the publisher would be like, cool, how well did System Shock 2 do?

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Oh, no.

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And that was the end of the conversation.

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Even though System Shock 2 had great reviews, still, nobody fucking played it, and the reviews were getting them meetings, but their sales were getting them rejections.

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Oh, God.

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So Ken Levine had to think outside the box on this one.

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Most games get a publisher, they build a full game, and then they start doing marketing.

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Ken decided to reverse the process and start with the marketing, then worry about the rest later.

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So he called up a journalist at GameSpot that had written a really great review for System Shock 2, and invited him to see their demo of an extremely early version of Bioshock.

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And it was just an atmosphere demo with a single hallway that connected like three rooms, and there's a lot in this demo that made it into the full game, but a lot that really didn't.

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But regardless, the journalist was really excited by what he saw.

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Very cool.

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So the day after the GameSpot article was released, publishers started calling off the hook.

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Hell yeah, Ken.

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He hacked the fucking system.

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He did entirely.

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And it works because it's a brand new franchise.

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Like, you don't have to check in with anyone.

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You built it.

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It's fine.

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Yeah, and it ultimately landed them at 2K.

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Ooh, hell yeah.

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So with this influx of money, they got a larger team.

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And the part of the team they really built out was the art department, as the game was going to need a ton of new assets and characters.

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Now, the talent they brought on was so insanely good.

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They realized that for the first time in their careers, they can tell a story through the environment as much as they could through the gameplay or cutscenes.

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So the environmental storytelling became that center focus of how they were developing the game.

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Yeah, well, it wasn't really something they'd ever considered before because nobody had done it yet.

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And then Ken Levine saw a 27-year-old doctor pick up a gravity gun, changing video game history.

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Really, Half-Life impacted the development of Bioshock?

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Oh, very much so.

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As much as Bioshock is inspiration to everything else, Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 1 were entire inspirations for Bioshock.

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Oh, hell yeah.

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One of the big things being the things that they developed for the gravity gun that had never been done before, and they incorporated that into telekinesis in this game.

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I can see it.

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Yeah, catching things midair and throwing them back, absolutely.

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Oh, shit, that's cool.

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So they knew they had the right setting and gameplay with the underwater world, which they called Rapture.

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That's where I live.

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That's my home.

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That's your new home.

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My address is down there.

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The idea behind the setting of Rapture came from a desire to create an isolated location like they had done in System Shock.

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For example, if you're playing like a Spider-Man game and it's set in New York, why can't you go over to New Jersey?

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You can't swing that far.

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Ken Levine hated artificial limitations and settings.

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He wanted real limitations, but ones that he as the creator gets to control and manipulate.

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So just organic endings to maps and things like that instead of just saying, nah, you can't do that.

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Yeah, like System Shocks were taking place inside a spaceship.

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Very cool.

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Setting it underwater also just made it easier on them for environmental graphics.

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So looking out a window, it makes sense that you can't see very far when underwater, as opposed to a big open world where you'd have to build out like trees, mountains or cityscapes.

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Clever.

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I love that.

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Underwater, you can just have a few reusable assets like different breeds of seaweed and have the water become murky in the distance.

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Yeah, that totally makes sense.

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Oh, that's so fucking smart.

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And then all the buildings you see outside the windows are just rearrangements of the same building skins.

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Really just simplify the process for them.

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I love this work, smart or not hard, or the shit they're doing.

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I'm sure they worked very hard.

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Excuse me.

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I don't want to disparage anyone, but it's very clever how they're making use of their time and labor.

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I agree.

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No, they are brilliant in their use of it.

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And you don't hear any rumors of crunch culture in this situation either.

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Oh, I love that.

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Not to say it doesn't exist, just to say no one talked.

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I mean, back then, it was so common, they just didn't think to talk about it, too.

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Yeah, they're like, no, that's regular.

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Well, when it came to creating the man that would build Rapture, Ken Levine turned to now controversial author Ayn Rand.

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Oh, we all know where he turned for this one.

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So she's often referred to as the mother of libertarianism.

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Ayn Rand wrote several novels about great and powerful people who ignore societal norms, forge their own paths, and say, fuck you to governments and society at large.

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And books like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are considered pillars of the libertarian ideology.

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And honestly, she was just kind of repackaging Citizen Kane over and over again.

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Oh.

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But Ken Levine was a fan of Ayn Rand's storytelling ability, and he had no idea at the time that there were people forming entire political ideologies and basing their whole personality on these books.

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He just thought, these characters are fucking crazy.

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I should make a bad guy like one of them.

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He did not take the right message out of that at all.

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Not the one that she wanted him to.

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He was just like, you guys are fucking nuts.

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When Ken Levine proposed the Ayn Rand idea, everyone in the room was like, who the fuck reads Ayn Rand?

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19-year-olds.

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Oh my God, does my boss like Ayn Rand?

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And again, Ken didn't know it was like a political hot button, so he just started describing what he envisioned.

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Oh, I appreciate kind of the parallel between him and the future creator not really grasping the right message out of Ayn Rand, which is, I feel like you read it, you know, when you're young and you're like, burn down the system.

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Let's fucking play with society.

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Like you're into philosophy and stuff.

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And then, you know, by the time your spirit goes out in your early 20s, you're like, yeah, who gives a shit?

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Entirely, right?

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You start to learn, you're like, it's not that simple, is it?

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Yeah, we're kind of stuck.

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Well, as he described, the team got behind it, and they all started developing little side stories and characters to flesh out the whole world.

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And they basically focused their feelings about Ayn Rand's ideologies and built characters and stories fueled by their hatred.

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And they especially loved the idea of taking her philosophies and showing the true horror of what would actually happen.

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Yeah, here's what it looks like in practice, dipshit.

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The biggest evolution they were pushing for in gaming, though, was adding RPG elements to a first-person shooter.

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Can you explain what that means?

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Yeah, that's upgrading your weapons.

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That is customizing the way you can play, because you limit in terms of how much you can customize it to the point where you really do have to focus on taking it a certain direction.

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So, it's strategic.

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Yeah, a game that today that you would compare that to is Cyberpunk 2077.

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Okay, gotcha, that makes sense.

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That is a game that went full first-person shooter RPG.

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And that seems very common today.

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A lot of games are doing that, but Bioshock was the first one to ever do that.

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Right, this was a different time.

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And the customizations weren't the only things that they borrowed from role-playing games.

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And in any classic RPG, you also have a shopkeeper.

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A major issue that Ken Levine had in the past with video games, and particularly NPCs like shopkeepers, is that they are basically demigods and immortals.

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They cannot be killed.

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They cannot be slain.

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You can do anything you want to them and nothing happens.

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Just like in Red Dead, if you shoot them through the arm, they'll come to work with their arm in a sling the next day and shit.

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It is still prevalent today, yeah.

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So they brought an element that was present in System Shock 2, which was vending machines to fill the role.

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Oh, clever.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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And the most notable one from Bioshock being the Circus of Values.

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I can hear that in my head.

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It just rang out.

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You can hear the laugh.

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Come back when you've got some money, buddy.

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I still say that because it takes permanent space in my brain.

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Because you heard it so many times playing this game.

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So many times, though.

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Because I was always so broke.

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They reviewed a bunch of royalty-free images from the 1940s and picked a little clown head to be the mascot.

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Oh, just like out of a box of free assets.

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That's cool.

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Yeah, and the idea was to make the clown a sarcastic asshole.

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Honestly, mission accomplished.

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They fucking nailed that.

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And that made Ken Levine himself jump at the chance to voice it.

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Oh, good for him.

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I didn't know he was the voice of the fucking clown.

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Yeah, he plays the voice of the clown of the Circus of Values.

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That's so cool.

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Good for him.

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Well, he was a bit too much of an asshole.

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And players kept shooting the machine after interacting with it.

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And he was kind of back to the same problem that he had with shops in the first place.

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So they cut most of the lines and left it with just like the funniest ones.

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That's really funny.

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And as a creator, it must be so difficult for people to be like, I fucking hate this character so much.

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Bullets are rare in this world, and I'm still going to waste them killing this thing.

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And he's like, oh shit.

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Yeah, he wasn't thinking of the fact that the programmers were all people that were his employees.

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So they're just like, oh, that's my boss.

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I'm going to shoot it.

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That's funny.

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Yeah.

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And 10 out of 10, that's fucking hysterical.

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So I fully backed that.

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Well, anyway, so there's a lot of other like really fun and interesting things that happened during the production of this game, but they're all about decisions they made to like help tell the story.

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So I'm going to continue sprinkling these throughout like the rest of the game itself.

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Oh, cool.

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Ultimately, Bioshock released August 24th, 2007 on PC and Xbox 360 to critical acclaim and in true System Shock 2 fashion.

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Oh, no!

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Middling sales.

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It wasn't until October 17th, 2008 when it released on PS3 did it really start to make waves.

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PlayStation came in clutch for them.

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It did because the people who played it on 360 were saying great things, but the Xbox 360 was a really multiplayer focused system.

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So, like, the Call of Duty were really popular on there, the multiplayer was on Halo.

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They weren't a big, like, single player campaign system.

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People who like those kinds of games tended to flock to PlayStation.

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And so once it released on PlayStation, it really made a splash.

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That makes a lot of sense.

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Now, regardless of platform, it needed word of mouth to spread as it was an original IP and came from a relatively unknown group.

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And that's how I ended up playing it was somebody had to vouch for it.

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Right.

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I mean, you vouched for it for me.

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Yeah.

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And now I live there.

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And figures are a bit murky, having been remade and ported to like a dozen or so platforms.

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But it has sold over 40 million copies since its release.

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Holy shit.

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It spawned two sequels and a fourth game reportedly on the way.

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Allegedly.

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We've been hearing about that for a while.

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I believe it when I see it.

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Well, speaking of hearing about it for a while, after a dozen failed attempts, it's finally getting an adaptation on Netflix.

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Oh, that's really happening.

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I feel like I've seen that, but the photoshopped thumbnails always look really hokey.

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So I'm like, I believe it when I see it.

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It does look hokey as hell, doesn't it?

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Well, hopefully it does happen.

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OK, but that's exciting.

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I mean, Netflix is really fucking swinging for it.

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I think they're probably in a positive position because of how well Witcher is doing.

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Witcher and I would say The Last of Us as well, even though it's a different network.

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Yeah, but Rising Tides, All Boats.

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That kind of thing.

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Fully feel you.

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Well, would you kindly come along as we dive into Rapture for a game so groundbreaking and influential, we did have to develop the Bioshock to call out every time another game references it.

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Here we go, Goombas.

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This is Bioshock.

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The year is 1960, and we're flying over the mid-Atlantic on a commercial plane, smoking a cigarette because you could do that back then.

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That's insane to me.

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Here we have the only voiceover we will get from our star and protagonist, Jack.

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You pull out your wallet and look at a photo of yourself and your parents while saying that they always told you that you were special and destined for greatness, like pretty much any decent parent does.

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My parents are like, you're mid.

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You put the picture and wallet away and pull out a gift-wrapped package complete with a big red bow and a note for mom and dad that requests you not open until with the date itself being covered by the big red bow.

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As you look at the bow, you say to yourself that your parents were right about you being destined for greatness.

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The scene fades to black as you take another puff of your cigarette, and you can hear the sounds of people screaming and the roar of the plane's engines as a voice says, altitude, pull up, pull up.

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You hear the sound of the plane crash into the ocean below as the title screen appears and ominously goes from a shiny, fancy logo to a mossy, rusted and decrepit one.

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Now, this was the last scene that was produced for the game.

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Really?

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Yes, on a day Ken Levine calls the most depressing day of the process.

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What the fuck?

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The day they made the title card?

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No, it was the day they presented their first full demo of the first level of Bioshock.

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And the testers fucking hated it.

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Oh shit!

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The game originally started after the plane crash.

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And this scene wasn't there.

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After the focus test, they realized the big complaint was that the player didn't understand their role in all of this.

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So Ken wrote a quick script and had one of the programmers hop in the booth to record a few lines.

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And with the last couple dollars they had left, they made this scene, and every tester review after that was golden.

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Holy shit!

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I mean, I can't imagine the game without this context, frankly.

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Could you imagine just waking up, floating in the middle of the ocean, being like, go?

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It would be so confusing as hell, but just having that little bit of scene right there was enough to make it okay for people.

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And it tells you a lot of things.

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Atmospherically, it tells you it's the 60s because you can smoke in a fucking plane.

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So you get that immediate context, and you get the context that this is an adult man.

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This is an adult man with a family.

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He's presumably American.

00:24:24.977 --> 00:24:29.037
It feels like a very American kind of Pan Am Airlines situation.

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Like, okay, we have some context here now.

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And without that, you're just, I'm a monster underwater.

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That's not fucking anything.

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Yeah, you're just a dude floating in the ocean.

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So you wake up underwater, outside of the plane, and watching as people's belongings float past you, like a woman's purse along with what I think is the heart of the ocean from Titanic.

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Oh, shit.

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She did drop it in the ocean at the end.

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She did, yeah.

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And you surface as parts of the plane sink past you, and you come out of the water surrounded by a burning ring of fire.

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And you can try to swim around it, but the flames, they grow higher.

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They tend to.

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And if you touch it, it'll burn, burn, burn.

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Anyway, looking around, you can see a lighthouse on an island conveniently nearby and swim towards it.

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There's always a lighthouse.

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The plane sinks around you, and you see the flames guide you towards the stairs of the giant Art Deco style lighthouse.

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He seems very unnerved that no one else has survived.

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Right, he is the only survivor of this fucking crash.

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There is not a body to be seen.

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Right.

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Now, according to Architectural Digest, Art Deco is short for Arts Decoratifs, and is characterized by rich colors, bold geometry, and decadent detailed work.

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Lots of metal, like bronze or chrome.

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You'll see a lot of stucco, stained glass, and carved human figures worked into flat surfaces, such as walls, and especially doors.

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It's just extra as hell.

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Really big and bombastic.

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Yeah, a lot of sharp lines.

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And they chose Art Deco as the style, based on a visit that Ken Levine and his wife took to New York City.

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They went to a Rockefeller Center and looked around, seeing that this was the only section in New York City where every single building looked exactly the same.

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And as he looked around, he turned to his wife and he goes, Oh my God, this is Rapture.

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We need to make Rapture look like this.

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Can you imagine some guy in front of 30 Rock just going, This is Rapture?

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Yeah, because when you hear the Rapture, you think of those guys holding up signs like, The end is near.

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Yeah.

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Also, I love that they were like, Let's go see if we can see Al Roker.

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And he's like, I'm going to expense this as a work trip.

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Well, he and his wife bought a bunch of disposable cameras because this was before you had cameras on your phones.

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And they photographed everything they could from like door knobs to the railings.

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Oh, fascinating.

00:26:46.497 --> 00:26:53.557
So they had to develop a whole stack of fucking Kodak disposables for him to bring back to work and be like, I found Rapture.

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Yeah, and he took that stack of disposable pictures and he gave it to the art department.

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He said, there, that's the inspiration.

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Go, I'll see you in a couple of years.

00:27:02.577 --> 00:27:05.357
Oh my God, how eccentric is Ken Levine?

00:27:05.457 --> 00:27:11.117
He's a little, I don't want to say eccentric and I don't want to say egotistical, but he knows how smart he is.

00:27:12.157 --> 00:27:13.557
That's about what I'll say about it.

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I don't think he doesn't seem to be an asshole boss.

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Yeah.

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He seems to be a pretty fair boss, but I think at the end of the day, he trusted the team.

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That's important in a leader.

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I've never heard anything bad or disparaging about Ken Levine or his teams.

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Right.

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So I'd like to hold on to that thought that he's a good person.

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I would too.

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I would assume the best from him.

00:27:31.337 --> 00:27:32.937
Yeah, but he's a little eccentric.

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Like, this is fun energy for him to drop a stack of a fat ass bunch of disposable fucking camera photos and be like, I figured it out.

00:27:41.297 --> 00:27:48.417
I mean, if you think about it, his inspiration being like the Half-Life team, Gabe Newell's kind of known for doing the same kind of stuff, a little bit eccentric like that.

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So that might have been his mentor.

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Not mentored necessarily directly, but kind of who he looked up to.

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Anyway, so you open a large ornate bronze door into the lighthouse and the interior lights turn on.

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A 30-foot bronze statue of a man's bust is found inside the lighthouse, towering over you, holding a banner that says, No gods or kings, only man.

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A plaque under it says the man is named Andrew Ryan, along with another quote that says, In what country is there a place for people like me?

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Exploring some, you find stairs that take you to a basement in the lighthouse.

00:28:28.057 --> 00:28:32.697
At the bottom, you find a circular submarine-like vessel called a bathysphere.

00:28:32.877 --> 00:28:38.237
Inside, it looks like a gondola with red velvet seats, clearly to keep a person comfy while riding.

00:28:38.537 --> 00:28:39.217
I love that.

00:28:39.237 --> 00:28:40.617
Already so luxurious.

00:28:40.717 --> 00:28:44.417
Yeah, because the outside's all bronze, so yeah, it looks really great.

00:28:44.697 --> 00:28:52.077
There's a lever inside the bathysphere, and when you pull it, the door shuts behind you, and the bathysphere begins to descend into the water below.

00:28:52.477 --> 00:28:59.517
The door has a gigantic viewing window, and you can see the bathysphere descending down and beyond the building of the lighthouse into the open water.

00:29:00.117 --> 00:29:06.577
Just as you enter the open water, a screen pops up over the viewing window, and an image gets projected onto said screen.

00:29:06.897 --> 00:29:16.457
It's an ad for something called the Incinerate Plasmid, and it has some old-timey orchestral music playing softly before we hear a voiceover from Andrew Ryan himself.

00:29:16.917 --> 00:29:20.697
The ad changes to an image of Andrew sitting in a chair smoking a pipe.

00:29:21.657 --> 00:29:26.517
In his address, he asks the question, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

00:29:27.417 --> 00:29:37.317
This is accompanied by an image of a farmer sweating his balls off in the hot sun, an image of an eagle attacking the farmer is next shown, saying, the government thinks the poor deserve it.

00:29:37.677 --> 00:29:42.337
I love the very heavy handedness of all the assets, it's so good.

00:29:42.917 --> 00:29:51.697
The next image is of a giant glowing hand descending from the sky towards the farmer, and Andrew saying that the Vatican thinks it belongs to God.

00:29:52.177 --> 00:29:59.257
Finally, an image of a hammer and sickle appears over the farmer, and he says that Moscow says, it belongs to everyone.

00:29:59.897 --> 00:30:02.657
The music ramps up as the image of Andrew reappears.

00:30:03.557 --> 00:30:10.457
He says that he chose to reject those ideals, and instead chose something different, something impossible.

00:30:11.417 --> 00:30:13.617
He chose Rapture.

00:30:14.117 --> 00:30:17.497
And as he says this, the music swells into a crescendo.

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The slideshow concludes, and the screen retracts, showing us once again the window to the outside.

00:30:25.077 --> 00:30:32.777
The bathysphere comes up over a hill, and we see a massive underwater city as a giant squid swims overhead.

00:30:33.517 --> 00:30:37.457
In the distance, there's fish and other sea life swimming in between the buildings.

00:30:38.397 --> 00:30:51.897
The bathysphere takes us on an exterior tour of the city, and we see covered bridges spanning gaps between buildings, along with what can only be described as people in large diving suits doing occasional repairs on some of their bridges.

00:30:52.397 --> 00:30:56.257
We even see a giant sperm whale swimming between the buildings.

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All the while, Andrew Ryan is telling us that Rapture is a city free of regulation.

00:31:04.297 --> 00:31:11.957
So anyone from artists to scientists can take their visions to the furthest extent because nobody's going to stop them from doing so.

00:31:12.377 --> 00:31:16.377
Anyone can succeed in Rapture, as long as you're willing to put in the work.

00:31:17.077 --> 00:31:21.317
Andrew's voice goes away, and we can hear two people on a radio talking to each other.

00:31:22.437 --> 00:31:28.857
One is clearly in charge of the other, and he says that there was a plane crash on the surface, and someone is coming down in a bathysphere.

00:31:29.837 --> 00:31:32.177
He tells the other guy to go check it out and see who it is.

00:31:32.657 --> 00:31:38.297
Your bathysphere enters a docking bay and goes inside a building and begins to rise up like an elevator.

00:31:39.097 --> 00:31:44.637
The one in charge says to the other guy to hurry before either security or something called a Splicer gets there first.

00:31:45.177 --> 00:31:50.837
You rise up out of the water, and the room you're in is pitch black, and your door is still shut.

00:31:51.877 --> 00:31:59.197
The man that was sent to get you is just outside the bathysphere in the darkness, and he's pleading with someone else that you can't see.

00:31:59.777 --> 00:32:03.377
The lights flicker, and you can just make out another person there.

00:32:04.397 --> 00:32:09.217
A woman with two glowing hooks for hands approaching the stranger.

00:32:09.877 --> 00:32:14.097
The woman lunges forward and pins the man to the bathysphere, lifting him high up.

00:32:14.517 --> 00:32:18.077
She then swipes through the man's belly, spilling his guts on the floor.

00:32:19.297 --> 00:32:22.977
She peers in the bathysphere at you and asks, is it someone new?

00:32:23.497 --> 00:32:27.677
And she leaps onto the roof of the bathysphere, and you can hear her hacking away at the metal exterior.

00:32:28.117 --> 00:32:32.157
Sparks can be seen inside the bathysphere as she tears through the layers of metal.

00:32:32.457 --> 00:32:35.077
But it's too strong, and she gives up and runs away.

00:32:35.777 --> 00:32:38.037
Ugh, it's such a good opening.

00:32:38.057 --> 00:32:41.017
I'm fully just like popcorn over here.

00:32:41.377 --> 00:32:41.757
Fuck.

00:32:42.097 --> 00:32:47.897
When you hit the water and see the whale, it's the wildest moment in gaming.

00:32:48.057 --> 00:32:49.077
It's so crazy.

00:32:49.197 --> 00:32:52.837
When you see Rapture for the first time, it takes your breath away.

00:32:53.197 --> 00:32:57.377
Like, what I would give to play this game for the first time not knowing anything.

00:32:57.477 --> 00:32:57.817
Right?

00:32:57.877 --> 00:33:02.117
It's such a moment, and it's such a complete feeling of just awe when you see it.

00:33:02.437 --> 00:33:03.457
Oh, entirely.

00:33:03.997 --> 00:33:11.557
Well, the voice of the first man, the one clearly in charge, comes over an intercom, and he asks you to kindly pick up the shortwave radio in the corner of the bathysphere.

00:33:12.677 --> 00:33:19.297
Once you have the radio, a man with a thick Irish accent introduces himself as Atlas, a citizen of Rapture.

00:33:19.717 --> 00:33:24.817
He says he's amazed that you survived the plane crash, and he promises to help you get back up topside.

00:33:25.237 --> 00:33:28.837
He helps you draw out the woman with the hooks for hands, referring to her as a splicer.

00:33:29.097 --> 00:33:33.857
You're weaponless, but Atlas has a flying drone with a machine gun on it he uses to chase her off.

00:33:35.137 --> 00:33:38.837
Atlas says you need a weapon and asks you to find a crowbar or something.

00:33:40.537 --> 00:33:43.557
Well, the crowbar is busy helping another first-person shooter hero.

00:33:43.677 --> 00:33:47.537
I can appreciate that we all share one brain cell when it comes to melee weapons.

00:33:48.237 --> 00:33:52.697
And just saying, well, Gordon Freeman did it with a crowbar, so it's gonna be a crowbar.

00:33:52.717 --> 00:33:57.677
The fact that the crowbar has become this ma— I wasn't even going to say meme or character.

00:33:57.697 --> 00:34:01.037
It's a mascot of melee, you know, of itself.

00:34:01.457 --> 00:34:02.277
Fucking brilliant.

00:34:02.297 --> 00:34:03.837
I love it in every single instance.

00:34:04.957 --> 00:34:09.677
Well, instead of a crowbar, you get Bioshock's now-iconic weapon, the Pipe Wrench.

00:34:09.837 --> 00:34:10.677
Hell yeah.

00:34:11.017 --> 00:34:16.517
Which we actually watched the trailer before recording this episode just to see how they advertise it the first time.

00:34:16.837 --> 00:34:24.077
And in that trailer, it's actually from the point of view of a Splicer, but he gets attacked and he had the wrench with him.

00:34:24.277 --> 00:34:26.877
And it's kind of the origin story of what happened to the wrench.

00:34:27.837 --> 00:34:30.217
And it gets dropped in exactly where you find it, right?

00:34:30.237 --> 00:34:34.537
Yeah, you find it in the exact spot that he ended up dropping it in the trailer, which is fantastic.

00:34:34.717 --> 00:34:36.377
Can you imagine if they did that shit today?

00:34:36.577 --> 00:34:39.897
Like the fanfare of all of that?

00:34:40.417 --> 00:34:41.557
Just the little Easter eggs.

00:34:41.577 --> 00:34:46.717
But as we'll find out later, they took a lot of care when it came to most dead bodies you find.

00:34:48.017 --> 00:34:52.317
I just really like the sentiment of they took a lot of care of the dead bodies you find.

00:34:52.917 --> 00:34:53.257
Right?

00:34:53.717 --> 00:34:58.957
You walk through a hallway and see a sign that says Plasmids with a big hand pointing up some stairs.

00:34:59.897 --> 00:35:07.537
You get to the top and there's an old fashioned gas pump or vending looking machine, and it's flanked by two giant pink dolls of little girls.

00:35:08.737 --> 00:35:13.817
It's called a Gatherer's Garden, and there's a big crystal decanter full of a red liquid inside.

00:35:15.097 --> 00:35:19.977
Naturally, you feel a big ass syringe full of the red liquid and inject it straight into your veins.

00:35:20.057 --> 00:35:20.857
Oh my god.

00:35:21.077 --> 00:35:21.857
You know, as you do.

00:35:23.237 --> 00:35:24.897
And now, it's been a while since I've played this.

00:35:24.917 --> 00:35:26.257
Is this prompted by Atlas?

00:35:26.277 --> 00:35:28.597
Or are you just like, oh, mystery liquid?

00:35:28.737 --> 00:35:33.897
Oh, he tells you to at least take it, but I don't remember him saying inject it into your veins.

00:35:33.917 --> 00:35:35.257
Do it intravenously.

00:35:36.257 --> 00:35:37.757
Like people who do heroin.

00:35:38.717 --> 00:35:43.177
And like the balls you have to have to like actually hit a vein.

00:35:43.537 --> 00:35:44.597
It's dark in there.

00:35:44.617 --> 00:35:48.397
First of all, you are not a medically trained professional to our knowledge.

00:35:48.717 --> 00:35:52.197
Well, he tells you that if you're going to make it out of here, you're going to need the plasmids.

00:35:52.317 --> 00:35:53.537
So he does tell you to take it.

00:35:53.557 --> 00:35:56.497
I just don't remember him saying inject it directly into your veins.

00:35:56.497 --> 00:35:58.057
Like, what if it worked under your tongue?

00:35:58.897 --> 00:35:59.277
Right.

00:35:59.817 --> 00:36:01.957
Well, it's funny because after this, you do just drink them.

00:36:02.737 --> 00:36:05.217
Oh, this is the only one you shoot up into your body?

00:36:05.397 --> 00:36:06.597
Yeah, I mean, you have to use.

00:36:06.817 --> 00:36:10.177
We'll talk about that part later, but there's a lot of intravenous drug use in this.

00:36:10.937 --> 00:36:12.597
But it's just all plasmids.

00:36:12.797 --> 00:36:14.257
I hate vein stuff.

00:36:14.257 --> 00:36:15.357
It's so gross.

00:36:15.617 --> 00:36:17.037
I've had some bad experiences, though.

00:36:17.057 --> 00:36:22.177
I got a vein IV thing once and I passed out because they didn't hit in the right spot.

00:36:22.837 --> 00:36:24.017
Yeah, that was terrible.

00:36:24.037 --> 00:36:27.437
So now I'm a little extra cautious, so I like really hate vein stuff.

00:36:27.457 --> 00:36:28.357
I think it's so gross.

00:36:28.377 --> 00:36:28.957
I get that.

00:36:28.997 --> 00:36:30.037
Vein trauma sucks.

00:36:30.057 --> 00:36:35.117
Well, your vision starts to go blurry, and your hands start to contort and twist.

00:36:35.897 --> 00:36:37.157
Atlas tells you not to worry.

00:36:37.377 --> 00:36:39.317
Your genetic code is just being rewritten.

00:36:39.797 --> 00:36:41.037
Be casual, my guy.

00:36:41.057 --> 00:36:42.197
Yeah, nothing to worry about.

00:36:43.357 --> 00:36:46.037
You go to a balcony and lean over it like you're going to puke.

00:36:46.577 --> 00:36:51.297
But instead of vomiting, you fall over the balcony to the floor and get knocked out.

00:36:51.577 --> 00:36:52.777
Oh, you did that to yourself.

00:36:52.797 --> 00:36:53.357
That sucks.

00:36:54.177 --> 00:36:57.777
You'll wake it on the ground just barely with the screen still blurry.

00:36:57.997 --> 00:37:03.077
As you lay there, two splicers stand over you, saying it looks like you just popped your cherry.

00:37:04.277 --> 00:37:07.777
And that you're probably full of something called atom that they want to take from you.

00:37:08.117 --> 00:37:11.137
A loud, guttural, and echoing growl could be heard.

00:37:11.657 --> 00:37:16.537
And the splicers say it's not worth fighting off a big daddy, and that you'll be just as dead either way.

00:37:16.977 --> 00:37:28.917
They run off, and you see a big, hulking something with a drill for one hand in an oversized diving suit, complete with a round helmet that has a half dozen yellow glowing portholes.

00:37:29.997 --> 00:37:34.057
It makes the growl sound you heard before, only this time much closer.

00:37:34.077 --> 00:37:47.477
A little girl that looks like she's died a long time ago and has glowing yellow eyes holding a foot and a half long hypodermic needle bends down saying in an ethereal voice that your stomach is glowing.

00:37:47.997 --> 00:37:53.837
But she says you're still breathing and that they have to wait for you to become an angel before they can do anything to you.

00:37:55.317 --> 00:37:58.997
So the little girl and the hulking beast continue on their walk.

00:38:00.057 --> 00:38:00.657
It's all right.

00:38:01.237 --> 00:38:02.597
She knows you'll be an angel soon.

00:38:05.237 --> 00:38:11.077
You wake up and now, thanks to the plasmid you injected in your arm, you can shoot lightning from your hand.

00:38:11.157 --> 00:38:12.677
Hell, yeah, totally worth it.

00:38:13.257 --> 00:38:14.557
I would fully do that.

00:38:14.577 --> 00:38:17.837
I don't think anyone wouldn't because that's fucking cool as shit.

00:38:18.057 --> 00:38:24.777
Yeah, once you see other people surviving it, you're like, OK, if it sucks for a little bit, but I get lightning afterwards, might be worth it.

00:38:25.457 --> 00:38:26.677
I love everything about this.

00:38:26.897 --> 00:38:30.877
And you use your lightning to open a security door and venture further into Rapture.

00:38:31.317 --> 00:38:36.857
And Rapture is mostly windows because honestly, if you're going to be living underwater, you're going to want to see that.

00:38:36.897 --> 00:38:38.177
Oh, no, that's the whole point.

00:38:38.197 --> 00:38:39.177
You go there for the view.

00:38:39.397 --> 00:38:39.817
Yeah.

00:38:40.297 --> 00:38:45.257
While going through a glass tunnel, the tail end of your airplane comes falling from above.

00:38:45.917 --> 00:38:47.377
Oh, right, the airplane.

00:38:47.477 --> 00:38:51.237
Right, slamming through the tunnel you're in, flooding it instantly.

00:38:52.177 --> 00:38:55.497
And you make your way to an airlock and into a dry section of the city.

00:38:56.257 --> 00:39:05.117
You manage to make it to an elevator, and as you ascend, Atlas tells you that his wife Moira and son Patrick are in a part of the city called Neptune's Bounty.

00:39:05.217 --> 00:39:07.597
Those are the most Irish names you could have given them.

00:39:07.617 --> 00:39:08.717
Oh, it's Irish as fuck.

00:39:08.717 --> 00:39:13.057
I can't imagine a more Irish name than Moira or Patrick.

00:39:13.157 --> 00:39:13.557
Right.

00:39:14.217 --> 00:39:15.097
Holy shit.

00:39:15.117 --> 00:39:15.957
Maybe Seamus.

00:39:16.477 --> 00:39:18.697
Seamus is a bit more Irish, but that's about it.

00:39:18.837 --> 00:39:20.697
Or like, just the word leprechaun.

00:39:23.317 --> 00:39:27.037
He wants your help rescuing them, and then the four of you can get out of Rapture together.

00:39:27.497 --> 00:39:34.537
On your way to Neptune's Bounty, you round a corner and on the wall, you can see the shadow of a woman bending over a baby carriage.

00:39:35.017 --> 00:39:44.377
As you approach, you see that it's a Splicer talking into the carriage, reaching her hand in lovingly saying, You used to be so warm, but now you've gone cold.

00:39:45.517 --> 00:39:47.217
Jesus Christ, that's chilling.

00:39:47.337 --> 00:39:48.557
So you kill the Splicer.

00:39:48.597 --> 00:39:48.957
Right.

00:39:48.977 --> 00:39:50.977
Let's just put her out of her misery.

00:39:51.177 --> 00:39:54.657
There's a big-ass revolver handgun where a baby should go.

00:39:54.677 --> 00:39:58.417
This game's so fucking dark.

00:39:58.437 --> 00:39:58.937
I love it.

00:39:59.057 --> 00:40:04.757
Yeah, and Atlas explains that the invention of plasmids was kind of the cause of Rapture's downfall.

00:40:05.137 --> 00:40:05.737
Whoopsies.

00:40:06.137 --> 00:40:10.177
When you came down in the bathysphere, Rapture looked alive and well from the outside.

00:40:10.777 --> 00:40:15.417
But as you've gone around the inside, you see that it's falling apart and the people are not okay.

00:40:16.297 --> 00:40:22.457
Many have become these Splicer creatures, people who have become addicted to atom and, by default, plasmids.

00:40:23.097 --> 00:40:25.837
And they are willing to kill others in order to steal their atom.

00:40:26.177 --> 00:40:29.237
And atom is the substance that allows a person to use a plasmid.

00:40:29.257 --> 00:40:35.457
And there's also another substance called Eve that you will use that essentially acts as your plasmid's ammo throughout the game.

00:40:35.637 --> 00:40:37.557
Well, where there's atom, there's usually Eve.

00:40:37.677 --> 00:40:40.237
Right, and that's the other, like, injectable.

00:40:40.257 --> 00:40:45.197
You're always going to inject yourself with Eve, but the rest of the game, if you're going to get a new power, you just drink the atom.

00:40:45.597 --> 00:40:49.637
I appreciate the inconsistency there, because after the first one, he's like, I'm going to chug it.

00:40:49.697 --> 00:40:50.037
Yeah.

00:40:51.217 --> 00:40:52.317
That I'm not going to do.

00:40:52.337 --> 00:40:52.917
So sip it?

00:40:53.297 --> 00:40:53.617
Yeah.

00:40:54.157 --> 00:41:06.497
You see more and more evidence of the collapse of the society with blood on walls and, like, posters hanging sideways, and the posters you're seeing are for a New Year's Eve 1959 masquerade ball.

00:41:06.677 --> 00:41:07.517
Fun.

00:41:07.697 --> 00:41:10.677
And this being 1960, so this just happened.

00:41:10.697 --> 00:41:11.297
Months ago.

00:41:11.717 --> 00:41:20.617
It's obvious that the official fall of Rapture occurred that night of the ball, as the Splicers you keep encountering all over Rapture are wearing masquerade-style masks.

00:41:20.757 --> 00:41:22.417
And the masks never came off?

00:41:23.237 --> 00:41:26.757
No, everything went to shit that night and just it stayed that way.

00:41:26.757 --> 00:41:30.337
They're like, I am not packing a change of clothes for the apocalypse.

00:41:30.617 --> 00:41:31.437
We're just going to do this.

00:41:31.977 --> 00:41:36.477
And so this environmental storytelling is part of what makes Bioshock so special.

00:41:36.677 --> 00:41:47.177
Rapture is a very complete world with deep history and lore, and part of the way they tell the story is through audio logs scattered around the city where different citizens essentially leave diary entries.

00:41:47.457 --> 00:41:51.397
This was a very common Bioshock that we've had in other games.

00:41:51.417 --> 00:41:53.457
Yeah, this shows up in a lot of other games now.

00:41:53.477 --> 00:41:55.337
Bendy and the Ink Machine was a huge one.

00:41:55.517 --> 00:41:56.197
Oh, yeah.

00:41:56.597 --> 00:42:01.137
So it's not so different either from like influencers who vlog about their daily lives today.

00:42:01.317 --> 00:42:07.737
But it would be like leaving a tablet with just one vlog on it somewhere unlocked for anyone to find.

00:42:08.177 --> 00:42:21.117
But Ken Levine didn't want to rely on those entirely to fill out the story, because it led to gamers just kind of standing around listening to them or getting them interrupted by instructions from Atlas and having to start them all over.

00:42:21.137 --> 00:42:25.137
And that still happens in the game, but it was happening twice as much.

00:42:26.397 --> 00:42:33.577
So about a year before launch, Ken Levine had the team redesign 90 percent of Rapture.

00:42:33.777 --> 00:42:37.677
Holy shit, just like the environmental levels and like the sets of it?

00:42:37.777 --> 00:42:41.457
They wanted to fill out the environment with the stuff they cut from the audio logs.

00:42:42.017 --> 00:42:42.697
Oh, clever.

00:42:42.957 --> 00:42:48.677
So now instead of being told about a New Year's Eve party, we see through the environment that it happened.

00:42:48.857 --> 00:42:50.557
With like posters and...

00:42:51.077 --> 00:42:55.937
Yeah, I feel like there's posters and invites and other pieces throughout the game that hint at the party, right?

00:42:55.997 --> 00:43:03.677
Yeah, and instead of hearing a story of someone killing a Splicer, we find a dead one with a cash register clearly having been used to bash its head in.

00:43:04.637 --> 00:43:06.077
And you're like, yeah, do the math.

00:43:06.257 --> 00:43:17.677
And in a later zone called Fort Frolic, two of the designers took it upon themselves to make sure that every single dead body you encounter, you would be able to tell how and why that person died through the environmental clues.

00:43:18.137 --> 00:43:19.577
Oh, that's fucking cool.

00:43:19.957 --> 00:43:22.497
It was that level of detail that they were going for.

00:43:22.757 --> 00:43:23.497
I love that.

00:43:23.517 --> 00:43:26.357
That actually makes me really want to go through and look at that level.

00:43:26.737 --> 00:43:30.957
Yeah, somebody went to the attention to make sure that it was, like, accurate, so you should.

00:43:31.077 --> 00:43:31.637
Hell yeah.

00:43:32.137 --> 00:43:35.177
And you eventually make your way to a catwalk overlooking a theater.

00:43:35.817 --> 00:43:43.657
On the stage is that little girl you saw before, and she's taking her big-ass needle and driving it into a dead splicer at her feet.

00:43:44.277 --> 00:43:52.137
As you cross the catwalk, Atlas says she's a little sister, a creature so transformed that they're not even human anymore.

00:43:53.617 --> 00:43:56.077
They drain the atom out of dead bodies.

00:43:56.817 --> 00:44:01.877
Splicers love the atom they suck out of them, so they go after the little sisters.

00:44:02.337 --> 00:44:05.857
And that's why the little sisters have those giant hulking creatures with them.

00:44:06.517 --> 00:44:09.357
The Big Daddy, as we heard those splicers from before say.

00:44:10.157 --> 00:44:13.957
And a Big Daddy's only purpose is to keep a little sister safe.

00:44:14.537 --> 00:44:19.637
And originally, little sisters were just slug creatures called gatherers.

00:44:21.077 --> 00:44:22.517
Just a straight up slug.

00:44:22.537 --> 00:44:23.857
It was just a straight up slug.

00:44:23.877 --> 00:44:28.477
And those slug creatures featured heavily in that original demo for the GameSpot article.

00:44:28.637 --> 00:44:29.557
Oh, no.

00:44:29.917 --> 00:44:32.517
Were there Big Daddies still protecting the slugs?

00:44:32.597 --> 00:44:34.537
Yeah, the Big Daddies were protecting the slugs.

00:44:34.557 --> 00:44:36.397
That must have looked fucking crazy.

00:44:36.477 --> 00:44:41.997
Yeah, nobody understood what the relationship was between the slugs and the Big Daddies at all.

00:44:42.237 --> 00:44:44.697
I wonder if the slug was too alien looking.

00:44:44.837 --> 00:44:45.737
It was that too.

00:44:45.757 --> 00:44:49.857
It was very hard for people to kind of give a shit about the slugs on top of that.

00:44:50.197 --> 00:44:52.797
So they were like, you know what, fuck you, it's gonna be a tiny little girl.

00:44:52.857 --> 00:44:54.157
You're gonna fucking care.

00:44:54.157 --> 00:44:55.777
It was gonna be just a tiny little girl.

00:44:55.797 --> 00:44:57.517
They experimented with little brothers.

00:44:57.537 --> 00:44:59.037
They just thought, it's too much.

00:44:59.057 --> 00:45:00.217
Let's just stick with the little sisters.

00:45:00.797 --> 00:45:04.097
It's a little more innocent to see a little girl with a bow on her head and shit.

00:45:04.097 --> 00:45:05.917
Yeah, that was more the idea they thought too.

00:45:06.237 --> 00:45:13.697
So you drop down into a room on the same floor as the stage, and you can see it through a pane of bulletproof security glass.

00:45:14.377 --> 00:45:17.877
It's the kind with mesh between the panes of glass for extra security.

00:45:18.417 --> 00:45:20.417
You'd see it at a bank or a government building.

00:45:20.577 --> 00:45:23.397
It's basically so you can't touch the little sister for what's to come.

00:45:23.497 --> 00:45:34.937
Because a dumbass Splicer tries to make his move on the little sister, and a big daddy jumps into the rescue and uses his superior speed and gigantic drill for an arm to fuck that guy's day up.

00:45:36.037 --> 00:45:48.197
Ultimately, drilling through him and shoving his body through the security glass, which should be impossible, and the big daddy and the little sister walk off through a door and out of sight.

00:45:49.557 --> 00:45:51.417
And Atlas is like, see, it's all fucked up.

00:45:51.657 --> 00:45:53.757
I love that Atlas is keeping such close tabs.

00:45:53.777 --> 00:45:56.357
He's like, see, with that motherfucker, dude fucked up.

00:45:56.457 --> 00:46:02.217
Yeah, there's some kind of like security can system that they never talk about that Atlas is clearly watching through.

00:46:02.557 --> 00:46:07.497
And you make it to Neptune's bounty, and as you approach it, alarms start going off.

00:46:08.397 --> 00:46:13.157
Atlas says that Andrew Ryan himself is trying to stop you from getting to Neptune's bounty.

00:46:13.757 --> 00:46:20.737
Atlas asks you to kindly hurry up and get to his family before Andrew Ryan sinks this section of Rapture to stop you from escaping.

00:46:20.837 --> 00:46:29.137
As you make your way towards his wife and kids, Andrew Ryan manages to trap you in a room as his face fills a TV screen that takes up most of a wall.

00:46:29.157 --> 00:46:30.417
It's very like Big Brother.

00:46:31.697 --> 00:46:37.437
He asks you who you work for, the KGB, the CIA or some other group.

00:46:38.497 --> 00:46:42.337
Because Rapture isn't a sunken ship to be scavenged.

00:46:42.957 --> 00:46:43.417
No matter.

00:46:43.797 --> 00:46:48.497
He sends a grip of Splicers into the room after you as the TV displays, please stand by.

00:46:49.557 --> 00:46:50.497
Oh, that's so good.

00:46:51.117 --> 00:46:55.417
Atlas gets a door behind you open and you get inside an airlock closing the door behind you.

00:46:55.897 --> 00:46:59.297
In order to get to his family, you need to get through a medical pavilion.

00:46:59.477 --> 00:47:03.877
And if you want to do that, you need to find the doctor who runs the pavilion to get his keys.

00:47:04.617 --> 00:47:06.157
A man named Dr.

00:47:06.177 --> 00:47:06.797
Steinman.

00:47:07.257 --> 00:47:08.237
This motherfucker.

00:47:08.497 --> 00:47:13.497
Oh, he is a tyrannical and maniacal doctor, obsessed with beauty.

00:47:14.157 --> 00:47:23.017
As you approach a door, the world around you changes to almost black and white, and a staticky, translucent, out-of-focus scene plays out in front of you.

00:47:23.557 --> 00:47:25.837
A woman pounding on a door saying, Dr.

00:47:25.857 --> 00:47:30.317
Steinman promised to make her pretty, and clearly nobody is answering her pounding.

00:47:31.457 --> 00:47:35.237
The ghostly scene fades away, and you enter the door she was pounding on.

00:47:35.657 --> 00:47:39.677
The lights flicker, and you can see posters of women on the wall with Dr.

00:47:39.697 --> 00:47:41.937
Steinman's signature across the posters in blood.

00:47:41.997 --> 00:47:43.177
That's so creepy.

00:47:43.877 --> 00:47:52.057
On the ground below, a portion of the Hippocratic Oath is also written in blood, saying, above all, do no harm.

00:47:52.737 --> 00:47:55.237
Again, with his signature, like it was his idea.

00:47:57.277 --> 00:47:59.917
An audiolog goes on to explain the ghost scene.

00:48:00.417 --> 00:48:06.677
Saying that it is a remnant from a time someone shed a ton of atom, leaving a stain on the area, essentially.

00:48:07.417 --> 00:48:15.357
So for example, the woman was in such hysterics, she basically sweat out the atom inside of her, leaving this ghost scene behind.

00:48:15.837 --> 00:48:17.277
Oh, that's so creepy.

00:48:17.337 --> 00:48:20.817
And so a few times you will encounter these like ghost scenes throughout the game.

00:48:20.837 --> 00:48:24.097
Some of them are very story relevant, some of them are just kind of environmental.

00:48:24.237 --> 00:48:25.777
And it's just atom floating in ethos?

00:48:26.417 --> 00:48:29.297
Yeah, it's atom just kind of causing it to stay there.

00:48:29.357 --> 00:48:30.337
Oh, that's so creepy.

00:48:30.797 --> 00:48:33.157
You eventually find a video playing an ad for Dr.

00:48:33.177 --> 00:48:34.217
Steinman's services.

00:48:34.817 --> 00:48:44.357
He asks that if we don't mix the sick and the healthy, or the criminals with the law-abiding, then why should the ugly be allowed to mix with the beautiful?

00:48:44.677 --> 00:48:45.417
Oh, no.

00:48:45.977 --> 00:48:52.057
With the advancements he's made mixing atom with cosmetic surgery, beauty is no longer a goal.

00:48:52.697 --> 00:48:53.877
It's a moral obligation.

00:48:55.617 --> 00:48:56.317
Oh, yeah.

00:48:56.337 --> 00:48:59.137
I can see why he was attracted to the concept of Rapture.

00:48:59.157 --> 00:48:59.997
Yeah.

00:49:00.017 --> 00:49:02.437
And I also see why he had to flee the land.

00:49:03.957 --> 00:49:05.117
He's a crazy person.

00:49:05.137 --> 00:49:06.777
He's a full-on loon.

00:49:07.057 --> 00:49:08.177
Well, you come upon Dr.

00:49:08.197 --> 00:49:10.357
Steinman, and he throws some bombs at you.

00:49:10.397 --> 00:49:11.897
Just immediately bombs.

00:49:11.917 --> 00:49:12.557
Bombs.

00:49:12.817 --> 00:49:15.337
And it blocks your path, making life very difficult.

00:49:15.917 --> 00:49:25.837
Atlas says that elsewhere in the medical pavilion should be some plasmids that can help you, particularly one that allows for telekinesis, so you can throw the bombs back in Steinman's stupid face.

00:49:26.057 --> 00:49:26.757
Like Dr.

00:49:26.777 --> 00:49:27.717
Gordon Freeman.

00:49:27.737 --> 00:49:28.077
Yes.

00:49:29.157 --> 00:49:34.037
And there's also an incinerate plasmid in the area you're gonna need later, so you might as well pick that up now, too.

00:49:34.277 --> 00:49:36.617
So we're just on a little fetch quest.

00:49:37.117 --> 00:49:43.717
Yeah, and one thing we talked about a lot last season in particular is tutorial sections in video games.

00:49:43.957 --> 00:49:44.397
Yeah.

00:49:44.717 --> 00:49:48.597
And every game needs one, and they're essential to setting the player up for success.

00:49:49.817 --> 00:49:50.317
Typically.

00:49:51.417 --> 00:49:51.917
Ken Levine.

00:49:51.937 --> 00:49:57.117
Levine hates tutorials in video games, and he vowed not to include one in Bioshock.

00:49:57.457 --> 00:50:03.417
Again, it's kind of his take on environmental storytelling that really drives the player into learning how the game operates.

00:50:03.937 --> 00:50:09.057
So the most handholding you get is the screen letting you know which button to push for an action the first time you use it.

00:50:09.297 --> 00:50:10.637
And that feels reasonable.

00:50:10.657 --> 00:50:11.957
That's the kind of tutorial I like.

00:50:11.977 --> 00:50:16.457
Like, just tell me once, let me practice it two or three times, and then leave me alone forever.

00:50:16.637 --> 00:50:18.397
Yeah, because after that, you are on your own.

00:50:18.877 --> 00:50:22.197
And the guns in this game are pretty straightforward first-person shooter weapons.

00:50:22.877 --> 00:50:30.077
The design alone tells you exactly what it's going to do, as there's not like five different machine guns or variations of shotguns.

00:50:30.777 --> 00:50:33.597
You're just going to upgrade the one you have along the way.

00:50:33.797 --> 00:50:37.037
And using it once will tell you everything you need to know about it.

00:50:37.177 --> 00:50:39.397
So just have the player use it in action.

00:50:39.817 --> 00:50:47.497
Plasmids, on the other hand, literally, are original to this game series, and each one grants a different ability.

00:50:48.717 --> 00:50:54.057
The challenge for the team was figuring out how to explain the new plasmid without a tutorial.

00:50:54.957 --> 00:50:58.717
And the genius idea they came up with was through advertisements.

00:50:59.157 --> 00:51:04.337
It is the most iconic art piece that comes out of this game, and I love it so much.

00:51:04.457 --> 00:51:08.217
Oh, yeah, I've seen, like, the little guy from the ads tattooed on people, you know?

00:51:09.057 --> 00:51:16.457
We've already seen ads throughout the game on our way to this point, cleverly getting the player used to the idea that raw capitalism was the true currency of Rapture.

00:51:17.437 --> 00:51:18.277
As it is now.

00:51:18.397 --> 00:51:22.357
Yeah, advertising products and services everywhere a person goes.

00:51:22.817 --> 00:51:27.997
And every time you pick up a new plasmid, you watch this 15-second commercial for that plasmid.

00:51:28.337 --> 00:51:33.917
And they're silly, but they're informative and often show horrific depictions of people getting killed in various ways.

00:51:34.877 --> 00:51:41.297
And if the plasmid has a special secondary use, such as, like, lighting an oil spill on fire, the video will also mention that as well.

00:51:42.217 --> 00:51:48.057
To continue with the example of the Incinerate Plasmid, you find it in a small office surrounded by security windows.

00:51:49.157 --> 00:51:55.217
After the advertisement ends, a bunch of splicers show up and start pounding on the windows of the office trying to get at you.

00:51:55.717 --> 00:52:01.017
Looking around, you see an oil spill on the ground, and it goes under the door and out to where the splicers are.

00:52:01.837 --> 00:52:07.537
You light the oil spill on fire and watch it travel to the other side of the office window and burn the splicers to death.

00:52:07.777 --> 00:52:10.897
That is the most satisfying kind of shit.

00:52:11.217 --> 00:52:12.237
I love that shit.

00:52:12.637 --> 00:52:15.157
Yeah, so that is their version of the tutorial.

00:52:15.177 --> 00:52:19.837
They just give you a chance to use it practically, immediately, and then send you on your way.

00:52:19.877 --> 00:52:21.097
They set you up for success.

00:52:21.537 --> 00:52:34.657
Also, while going through the medical pavilion, we can hear Andrew Ryan tell the citizens of Rapture that he will pay out 1,000 Atom to the first person who brings him this new intruder sent by the government to destroy Rapture.

00:52:34.857 --> 00:52:36.057
Like in John Wick.

00:52:37.817 --> 00:52:38.957
There's a bounty on him.

00:52:38.977 --> 00:52:39.517
Put a hit out.

00:52:39.677 --> 00:52:40.337
Yeah.

00:52:40.737 --> 00:52:51.477
Atlas says that anytime Andrew Ryan makes an announcement, he pumps chemical pheromones into the air so that the people associate the happy feelings to hearing his orders.

00:52:51.677 --> 00:52:52.797
Oh, God.

00:52:53.017 --> 00:52:54.837
And that's how he gets them to do his bidding.

00:52:55.957 --> 00:52:59.697
After you collect all the guns and plasmids you need, you make your way to Dr.

00:52:59.717 --> 00:53:00.837
Steinman's operating room.

00:53:01.557 --> 00:53:08.957
He's working on a patient and then gets angry that she's not pretty enough and just starts stabbing her with his scalpel.

00:53:09.097 --> 00:53:10.697
Oh, it's so gross.

00:53:10.737 --> 00:53:14.797
And her cries and pain indicate she was still alive when he started stabbing.

00:53:15.897 --> 00:53:18.597
And he says that all of his creations lately are failures.

00:53:19.437 --> 00:53:28.417
He points up above him, and a light shines on a woman's body, splayed out like a frog having been dissected, saying that one was too fat.

00:53:29.177 --> 00:53:34.517
Then another light on another body above, saying too tall, and a third body appears.

00:53:35.157 --> 00:53:38.217
And her problem was she was too symmetrical.

00:53:40.797 --> 00:53:44.077
Which being symmetrical is the literal gauge for beauty standards.

00:53:44.097 --> 00:53:44.537
Right?

00:53:44.877 --> 00:53:45.897
That's fucking great.

00:53:46.337 --> 00:53:52.557
Then he sees you, calls you ugly, and pulls a Tommy gun so the two of you engage in battle.

00:53:52.857 --> 00:53:56.337
I mean, would it have been better if he was like, you're decent looking, what's up?

00:53:56.357 --> 00:53:57.637
And then pulled a Tommy gun out?

00:53:57.737 --> 00:53:58.817
That would be fucked up, right?

00:53:58.837 --> 00:53:59.257
Yeah.

00:53:59.357 --> 00:54:00.357
Oh, you're too good looking.

00:54:00.817 --> 00:54:01.297
Die.

00:54:01.777 --> 00:54:04.557
After you kill him, you get the key that you need to get to Atlas' family.

00:54:05.737 --> 00:54:13.097
Atlas says he's trying to find a back way in for himself while you make your way to the door to which you now have a key, and he says he'll meet you there.

00:54:13.537 --> 00:54:18.557
On your way, you pass by a pane of security glass and hear an explosion from the other side of it.

00:54:19.497 --> 00:54:24.877
A big daddy gets blasted through the window, hits the opposite wall, and slumps over dead.

00:54:25.177 --> 00:54:25.917
Oh shit.

00:54:26.457 --> 00:54:31.077
You hear its little sister scream as the Splicer that just managed to kill the big daddy approaches her.

00:54:32.057 --> 00:54:36.297
Atlas says, this is your chance to get some atom for yourself, since the big daddy is dead.

00:54:36.697 --> 00:54:42.977
You see the Splicer going after the little sister, and just as it lunges for her, it gets shot by a pistol from up above.

00:54:42.997 --> 00:54:43.737
Oh shit.

00:54:44.437 --> 00:54:50.117
A woman shoots him dead from a balcony, and then she turns the gun on you, saying to stay away from the little sister.

00:54:50.937 --> 00:54:52.237
Her name is Dr.

00:54:52.257 --> 00:54:56.557
Tenenbaum, and Atlas tells you she created the Little Sisters.

00:54:56.977 --> 00:54:59.697
This is the coolest she is in the entire franchise.

00:54:59.937 --> 00:55:00.657
That's true.

00:55:00.837 --> 00:55:02.457
This is a nice moment.

00:55:03.117 --> 00:55:05.217
Don't get used to it.

00:55:06.057 --> 00:55:13.097
Atlas yells at her, saying that you just need a little Adam to get by, and that the Little Sisters aren't even human anymore anyway.

00:55:13.777 --> 00:55:17.557
Are you really willing to sacrifice Atlas' family for an abomination?

00:55:18.057 --> 00:55:23.257
With the Adam the little girl carries, you can increase your plasmid powers in order to help you escape Rapture.

00:55:23.957 --> 00:55:24.617
And it's true.

00:55:24.897 --> 00:55:29.857
Throughout the game, you will use Adam as a currency to gain more powers and abilities if you progress through the game.

00:55:30.037 --> 00:55:37.497
And as you explore Rapture, you're going to encounter Little Sisters with their big daddies, and you're going to have to kill the big daddy in order to get the Adam from the little sister.

00:55:37.897 --> 00:55:43.637
Big daddies are passive until you attack one though, so if you leave them alone, it'll leave you alone.

00:55:43.917 --> 00:55:46.177
But if you fight them, you're in for a fucking battle for your life.

00:55:46.197 --> 00:55:47.857
And they're so much bigger than you.

00:55:47.977 --> 00:55:49.697
Oh yeah, and you're probably going to die a few times.

00:55:50.297 --> 00:55:54.617
And fortunately, there are resurrection pods all over Rapture called Vita Chambers.

00:55:55.597 --> 00:55:57.877
And these are fully explained in Bioshock 2.

00:55:58.257 --> 00:56:02.217
So listen to that episode to get a better understanding of how they work in the world of Bioshock.

00:56:02.217 --> 00:56:04.817
Because they're not explained in Bioshock 1.

00:56:04.977 --> 00:56:05.637
At all.

00:56:06.357 --> 00:56:07.837
It's just, it's good, right?

00:56:07.897 --> 00:56:08.597
Okay, bye.

00:56:08.817 --> 00:56:10.617
No, I love how they use it in Bioshock 2.

00:56:10.637 --> 00:56:11.757
I think it's quite brilliant.

00:56:12.317 --> 00:56:18.997
As you approach the little sister in front of you, Tenenbaum says that there's another way to take their atom that won't kill the little sisters.

00:56:19.857 --> 00:56:22.417
As currently, that's the only way you know to take it from them.

00:56:22.797 --> 00:56:35.817
She throws you a plasmid that she says will give you the ability to remove atom from the little sister without killing it, because it doesn't take all of the atom, just enough to turn them back to a normal person instead of a little sister.

00:56:35.837 --> 00:56:39.117
So you're kind of doing two things with one action.

00:56:39.397 --> 00:56:52.557
Yeah, and throughout the rest of the game, when you approach a little sister, you're given the option to harvest or save the little sister, and harvest gains you more atom in the moment, while saving gives you less.

00:56:52.957 --> 00:56:56.897
I'm going to tell you right now, every single playthrough, harvest every time.

00:56:56.917 --> 00:56:57.737
You evil shit.

00:56:57.757 --> 00:57:00.477
I don't think I've ever saved a single little sister.

00:57:01.117 --> 00:57:05.417
I harvested my first time, and I have saved every single time since then.

00:57:05.577 --> 00:57:06.237
Really?

00:57:06.417 --> 00:57:08.237
You're a much better person than I am.

00:57:08.237 --> 00:57:08.817
Apparently.

00:57:09.217 --> 00:57:18.317
However, every so often, the little sisters show their thanks and leave you a gift of even more atom, which basically balances out the amount you receive, whether you harvest or save them.

00:57:18.337 --> 00:57:19.077
I wouldn't know.

00:57:19.097 --> 00:57:19.837
I always killed them.

00:57:20.057 --> 00:57:22.697
Yeah, harvest does still end up with a little bit more anyway.

00:57:23.077 --> 00:57:27.317
Regardless of what you choose, you still need to try and rescue Atlas' wife and son.

00:57:27.497 --> 00:57:32.197
But if you choose to save them, Atlas gives you shit for it like, you're a funeral.

00:57:33.597 --> 00:57:37.097
Maybe he peer pressured me, and that's why I'm like, team kill.

00:57:38.757 --> 00:57:40.377
Yes, that's probably the source of your bloodlust.

00:57:41.857 --> 00:57:47.897
You finally make your way through the pavilion to a bathysphere that will take you to Neptune's Bounty, where you can meet up with Atlas and his family.

00:57:48.537 --> 00:57:51.657
As you exit the bathysphere, you're greeted with a gruesome scene.

00:57:52.217 --> 00:57:59.157
A man strung up by ropes around his wrists and throat, covered in blood and the word smuggler written above him.

00:57:59.257 --> 00:57:59.657
Oof.

00:58:00.637 --> 00:58:08.037
Atlas says that his wife and son are hiding in a submarine located in a place called Fontaine Fisheries within the zone of Neptune's Bounty.

00:58:08.297 --> 00:58:09.857
And that's how Rapture's kind of broken up.

00:58:09.957 --> 00:58:13.977
It's into zones and that each of them kind of act as their own little community, basically.

00:58:14.717 --> 00:58:20.457
And it's usually revolving around a themed trade, like medical shit in the previous zone or ocean shit in this one.

00:58:20.577 --> 00:58:25.177
Kind of like a Hunger Games where it's like, well, this area loves mining and this area loves fishes.

00:58:25.557 --> 00:58:27.197
We're going into the fishes area.

00:58:27.797 --> 00:58:32.137
A man named Peach Wilkins is blocking you from moving on to Fontaine Fisheries.

00:58:32.217 --> 00:58:33.577
I love a man named Peach.

00:58:33.597 --> 00:58:34.357
That's so cute.

00:58:34.377 --> 00:58:35.997
Yeah, it's a very rare name for a man.

00:58:36.817 --> 00:58:44.037
He's friends with Atlas, but requires a favor before letting you through because his boss, Fontaine, would not be happy with him letting you through.

00:58:45.397 --> 00:58:48.957
He wants a research camera that's located in the wharf manager's office.

00:58:49.757 --> 00:58:52.577
Atlas tells you that Fontaine has been dead for ages.

00:58:54.137 --> 00:58:54.757
Oh, no.

00:58:54.977 --> 00:59:01.577
But paranoid people think he's going to show back up, and he was a raging asshole when he was alive, so they're still scared of him.

00:59:01.977 --> 00:59:03.517
Atlas is like, fuck Fontaine.

00:59:03.577 --> 00:59:04.957
None of my homies like Fontaine.

00:59:05.577 --> 00:59:11.237
And you get the camera from the office while killing splicers and big daddies rescuing or harvesting little sisters.

00:59:11.757 --> 00:59:14.717
The camera is one of the least popular mechanics in the game.

00:59:14.757 --> 00:59:15.837
I fucking hate the camera.

00:59:15.857 --> 00:59:16.977
Yeah, especially to you.

00:59:17.517 --> 00:59:21.417
But you can use it to take pictures of bad guys throughout the game, and it helps you level up your strengths.

00:59:22.417 --> 00:59:26.457
In one of the audio logs, we hear from a mother whose daughter had gone missing.

00:59:27.377 --> 00:59:32.857
Months later, she saw her daughter draining a dead body, accompanied by a big daddy.

00:59:32.997 --> 00:59:33.697
Oh, shit.

00:59:34.637 --> 00:59:39.897
She tried calling out to her, but the child looked right through her, like she had never seen her before.

00:59:39.997 --> 00:59:40.937
Oh, that's horrifying.

00:59:41.077 --> 00:59:42.937
And just walked off with the big daddy.

00:59:43.737 --> 00:59:46.717
So yeah, the little sisters were all alive and real kids at one point.

00:59:46.897 --> 00:59:48.317
And they weren't farmed for this.

00:59:48.337 --> 00:59:49.877
They were snatched for this.

00:59:49.897 --> 00:59:51.237
They were snatched up by Dr.

00:59:51.257 --> 00:59:56.597
Tenenbaum, and she used Adam to change them into the little sisters so they could harvest the Adam from dead bodies.

00:59:56.777 --> 00:59:57.957
That's so creepy.

00:59:58.477 --> 01:00:03.977
You get back to Peach, and Atlas warns you that you still need to be careful around this shifty bastard.

01:00:04.577 --> 01:00:13.697
And he's right, because Peach accuses you of working for Fontaine, and that you were sent by him to make sure he was doing his job, and you fight him to his death.

01:00:13.917 --> 01:00:14.957
Oh, Jesus Christ.

01:00:15.317 --> 01:00:16.597
He's just a little loony-toon.

01:00:16.637 --> 01:00:17.677
A little bit, yeah.

01:00:18.437 --> 01:00:21.437
Atlas says he is in a room just outside the submarine bay.

01:00:21.877 --> 01:00:26.837
He can see his wife and son through a window, but can't get to them, and he's less than a hundred yards away.

01:00:27.057 --> 01:00:29.097
He just needs your help to get through to them.

01:00:29.777 --> 01:00:35.537
The way you're coming in gets you straight into the submarine bay, and Atlas asks you to open the door to where he is so he can join you.

01:00:36.437 --> 01:00:42.917
Andrew Ryan comes over your radio, saying that if you release that submarine, then you will learn what it means to be his enemy.

01:00:43.377 --> 01:00:44.077
Oh, shit.

01:00:44.757 --> 01:00:50.537
You find a control room and pull the switch that both opens the door for Atlas and releases the sub into the water.

01:00:51.357 --> 01:00:57.837
The door to the room you're in slams shut, and we can hear stringed music start playing loud and hauntingly.

01:00:57.997 --> 01:00:59.017
Oh, that's so creepy.

01:00:59.517 --> 01:01:03.637
Atlas can be seen approaching the submarine, yelling to his wife to see if she'll answer.

01:01:04.637 --> 01:01:14.497
The lights start shutting off, and Andrew Ryan comes over your radio again and says, if only Atlas would look up to see you, you could warn him of what's to come.

01:01:14.937 --> 01:01:15.197
Oh!

01:01:15.957 --> 01:01:18.457
Instead, you're just gonna sit here and watch him die.

01:01:19.217 --> 01:01:26.637
Andrew Ryan releases a bunch of splicers into the room with Atlas, and you break your way out of the office you're in to go help.

01:01:28.097 --> 01:01:30.757
Atlas says there's too many of them, and he has to fall back.

01:01:31.637 --> 01:01:34.897
He asks you to get his family out of the sub and to regroup with him.

01:01:35.257 --> 01:01:36.857
It's too dangerous to go that way now.

01:01:38.017 --> 01:01:42.217
You fight your way through the gangs of splicers as you make your way back to the submarine.

01:01:43.097 --> 01:01:45.717
You turn a corner, and you can see it straight ahead.

01:01:46.937 --> 01:01:54.077
As you approach it, the submarine explodes in a ball of fire, and Atlas screams out through the radio.

01:01:55.537 --> 01:02:03.937
Andrew Ryan realizes you're not a government agent, what kind of agent sneaks in and then sneaks out without doing anything?

01:02:06.097 --> 01:02:13.397
So he sets out to uncover this mystery of who the fuck you are by either uncovering it or eliminating it.

01:02:14.657 --> 01:02:19.657
Atlas tells you to haul ass to a zone called Arcadia, where the two of you can come up with a new plan of escape.

01:02:19.977 --> 01:02:25.957
And Atlas is overcome with anger and swears to tear out Andrew Ryan's heart for what he just did.

01:02:27.137 --> 01:02:30.417
And this zone Arcadia is the public park of Rapture.

01:02:30.977 --> 01:02:34.477
It has all the plant life that provides the oxygen to Rapture.

01:02:35.077 --> 01:02:39.657
Andrew Ryan tells a story about how he once bought a forest before building Rapture.

01:02:39.837 --> 01:02:41.357
Bought a forest?

01:02:41.557 --> 01:02:42.757
Yeah, he was that kind of rich.

01:02:43.817 --> 01:02:45.597
That's buy an ecosystem rich.

01:02:46.177 --> 01:02:55.357
And a bunch of religious environmentalists tried to force him to donate a huge portion to build a public park because God planted those trees.

01:02:55.977 --> 01:02:57.617
So he burned the forest to the ground.

01:02:57.637 --> 01:03:02.797
Sorry, I don't remember this at all, but I love it so much.

01:03:03.077 --> 01:03:06.817
Yeah, nobody was gonna tell him what to do with the land that he owned.

01:03:09.037 --> 01:03:14.017
Down here, he built Arcadia so that he could be the god who planted the trees.

01:03:14.797 --> 01:03:16.757
He was like, I did appreciate the concept.

01:03:17.277 --> 01:03:21.917
Through Arcadia is a bathysphere that will take you directly to Andrew Ryan's office.

01:03:22.577 --> 01:03:24.137
And he does not want you to make it there.

01:03:25.017 --> 01:03:27.697
So he locks down Arcadia, trapping you inside.

01:03:28.277 --> 01:03:32.897
And for the second time in his life, decides to destroy a forest that he owns.

01:03:34.317 --> 01:03:42.957
Instead of fire, though, he releases a chemical into the air that will kill all of the plants in Arcadia, which is stupid because, again, oxygen.

01:03:44.977 --> 01:03:49.757
But nobody's going to tell Andrew Ryan what to do with the city that he owns.

01:03:50.397 --> 01:03:51.337
Jesus Christ.

01:03:51.577 --> 01:03:52.297
Full lunatic.

01:03:52.317 --> 01:03:52.897
I love it.

01:03:53.517 --> 01:04:02.717
Atlas says that the head botanist, a woman named Julie Langford, will likely want to save the trees, especially since she was the one who did the actual planting down here.

01:04:03.077 --> 01:04:04.357
Andrew Ryan just kind of paid for it.

01:04:05.677 --> 01:04:12.737
As you go hunting for Julie, you occasionally can see signs on walls to elect Atlas to a government position.

01:04:13.357 --> 01:04:14.497
Oh, that's our friend.

01:04:14.737 --> 01:04:18.777
And some of them have been vandalized, and words like liar are written across them.

01:04:19.217 --> 01:04:22.297
Well, with most politicians, there are going to be liars.

01:04:22.417 --> 01:04:25.757
And Atlas says that he hated what happened to Rapture.

01:04:26.337 --> 01:04:33.997
He moved his family here for a better life, and Andrew Ryan was just as bad, if not worse, than anyone on the surface.

01:04:34.417 --> 01:04:36.637
Well, yeah, that was...

01:04:36.837 --> 01:04:38.817
I feel like you had some fair warnings there, buddy.

01:04:38.837 --> 01:04:45.397
There must have been some literature that hinted at the, you know, philosophy of this guy.

01:04:45.417 --> 01:04:47.617
Yeah, believe people when they tell you who they are.

01:04:48.857 --> 01:04:52.777
So he decided to get into politics in an effort to change things for the better.

01:04:53.617 --> 01:04:55.617
And there were just those who didn't agree with him.

01:04:55.837 --> 01:04:58.437
And that's, you know, that's a very valiant effort.

01:04:59.257 --> 01:04:59.737
Good luck.

01:05:00.097 --> 01:05:07.257
Well, he welcomes you to draw your own conclusions, seeing as the people who opposed him, you've met, and they're all atom-addicted lunatics.

01:05:07.997 --> 01:05:09.437
And trying to kill you.

01:05:10.437 --> 01:05:13.717
Now, he doesn't give a shit what happens to Andrew Ryan and Rapture.

01:05:14.237 --> 01:05:15.457
He just wants to get the fuck out.

01:05:16.357 --> 01:05:18.977
You find Julie Langford, and she does want to help.

01:05:19.837 --> 01:05:27.357
So she sends you on a couple fetch quests so she can create a chemical to counteract the one Andrew Ryan released called the Lazarus Vector.

01:05:28.877 --> 01:05:33.837
After you complete the quests, you go to her office and can see her working through some security glass.

01:05:34.857 --> 01:05:39.057
Andrew Ryan's voice comes over a loudspeaker with a reminder for Julie.

01:05:39.537 --> 01:05:46.657
He reads from her contract that any and all chemicals in Arcadia belong exclusively to Ryan Corp.

01:05:47.637 --> 01:05:51.097
Misuse of company property will result in termination.

01:05:51.737 --> 01:05:53.377
And they don't mean you're getting fired.

01:05:53.417 --> 01:05:55.477
They mean I'm gonna zap you with some shit.

01:05:55.517 --> 01:06:03.737
Well, you watch her office fill with the gas as she chokes on it and dies before ever finishing the Lazarus Vector.

01:06:03.857 --> 01:06:05.577
He doesn't even give her time to stop.

01:06:05.597 --> 01:06:06.997
He's like, I see what you're doing.

01:06:07.037 --> 01:06:09.417
I'm gonna redo the warning and then immediately kill you.

01:06:09.457 --> 01:06:10.817
Yeah, he's gonna justify it.

01:06:11.217 --> 01:06:11.417
Ugh.

01:06:12.197 --> 01:06:16.817
Fortunately, she left behind instructions on an audio log for no reason in particular.

01:06:16.897 --> 01:06:17.697
Yeah, just in case.

01:06:18.257 --> 01:06:26.957
You run around Arcadia collecting the rest of the ingredients for the Lazarus Vector, and as you do, the plant life around you is dying to the point of twigs and sticks.

01:06:27.097 --> 01:06:27.297
Ugh.

01:06:28.197 --> 01:06:34.797
Andrew Ryan tells you that it's just a matter of time before the oxygen is gone, and you'll just fall asleep, never to wake up again.

01:06:35.817 --> 01:06:40.757
After you complete the Lazarus Vector, you release it into the same air vent Andrew Ryan used for his spray.

01:06:41.057 --> 01:06:49.637
And miraculously, the Lazarus Vector causes all of the dead, dying plants to spring back to life, full of foliage, like nothing ever happened.

01:06:49.697 --> 01:06:50.997
Is this how plants work?

01:06:51.317 --> 01:06:51.857
Not at all.

01:06:51.917 --> 01:06:57.437
I have one plant that has seen some rough days and bounced back pretty well, but yeah, that's not how plants work.

01:06:57.457 --> 01:06:59.857
It's underwater science magic, you know?

01:07:01.497 --> 01:07:02.957
Yeah, this is where I'm gonna nitpick.

01:07:02.977 --> 01:07:03.717
You're right.

01:07:04.317 --> 01:07:08.437
Atlas tells you now you can proceed to the bathysphere that will take you to Andrew Ryan's office.

01:07:08.857 --> 01:07:13.457
You stop off at a bathysphere transfer station in a zone called Fort Frolic.

01:07:14.577 --> 01:07:16.237
Oh, I love Fort Frolic.

01:07:16.337 --> 01:07:20.317
You need to get on a different bathysphere to get to Andrew Ryan's office.

01:07:21.237 --> 01:07:29.237
Atlas says that an artist, an absolute lunatic of a man, named Sander Cohen, has the key to that bathysphere.

01:07:30.217 --> 01:07:33.197
And being a lunatic, maybe he left it unlocked.

01:07:33.637 --> 01:07:34.677
Yeah, you know what?

01:07:34.777 --> 01:07:35.637
Just give it a try.

01:07:36.317 --> 01:07:42.697
You go to the next one, and just as you approach it, it submerges into the water below, and the lights go out.

01:07:42.837 --> 01:07:43.737
Oh, God damn it.

01:07:43.937 --> 01:07:45.817
Along with your radio connection to Atlas.

01:07:46.077 --> 01:07:46.677
Oh, no.

01:07:47.377 --> 01:07:56.077
Spotlights appear, and up from the water rises a giant masquerade mask with big bunny ears, as classical music fills the hall.

01:07:57.357 --> 01:08:02.117
Statues can be seen descending from the ceiling, and a new voice comes over our comms.

01:08:03.517 --> 01:08:11.977
The Lunatic artist himself, Sander Cohen, says he's tired of hearing Atlas and Andrew Ryan bicker back and forth over the radio.

01:08:12.897 --> 01:08:19.377
So he turned them both off for you, to give you a chance to enjoy an evening with Sander Cohen.

01:08:21.317 --> 01:08:24.817
I love how this is presented so much.

01:08:24.837 --> 01:08:30.957
Let's just take a break from the silly politics here and have ourselves a nice lounging night.

01:08:31.137 --> 01:08:33.977
Yeah, a little adventure with Sander Cohen is what we need.

01:08:34.037 --> 01:08:34.777
Entirely.

01:08:35.297 --> 01:08:41.257
And since you can't beat him, you might as well join him, and you head into Fort Frolic proper to find Sander Cohen.

01:08:42.337 --> 01:08:47.637
As you wander Fort Frolic, you see that Sander Cohen is an artist of many mediums.

01:08:48.437 --> 01:08:57.197
There are posters on the walls throughout for his many endeavors, such as a sculpture exhibit, his live one-man show titled Why Even Ask?

01:08:58.297 --> 01:09:03.497
A movie night featuring his film Patrick and Moira, a musical, along with many other shows and exhibits.

01:09:04.177 --> 01:09:10.957
You enter a grand room with an ornate Phantom of the Opera staircase and a stage with a red curtain closed.

01:09:11.877 --> 01:09:17.837
Sander directs you to another theater where a man in a mask is at a piano playing a classical tune.

01:09:18.177 --> 01:09:23.877
Sander shouts out at the man for being out of tune and off tempo, demanding he start over again and again.

01:09:24.397 --> 01:09:26.937
And suddenly, the piano explodes.

01:09:27.157 --> 01:09:28.037
Oh, shit.

01:09:28.057 --> 01:09:29.017
And the man dies.

01:09:29.217 --> 01:09:30.817
Well, he should have been on time.

01:09:31.537 --> 01:09:35.817
Sander tells you to take a picture of his body and to return to the room with the staircase.

01:09:36.997 --> 01:09:46.977
When you get back, the curtain on the stage is pulled back, and a bizarre statue of Splicers made of paper mache holding four blank frames is now on the stage.

01:09:48.077 --> 01:09:51.917
He tells you to place the picture you took of the dead body into one of the frames.

01:09:52.877 --> 01:09:57.857
And it will place it in the frame you select using the exact picture you actually took.

01:09:57.937 --> 01:09:58.577
I like that.

01:09:58.817 --> 01:10:00.417
Which seems very simple to today.

01:10:00.717 --> 01:10:01.897
Never happened back then.

01:10:01.897 --> 01:10:04.137
You were like, I'm creating the narrative.

01:10:04.157 --> 01:10:08.497
Yeah, it always picked the spot that you would go in, and it would have its own, like, pre-rendered picture.

01:10:09.577 --> 01:10:10.357
But not this time.

01:10:10.977 --> 01:10:16.337
And Sander gives you a list of three others that he has beef with and wants you to kill and photograph them as well.

01:10:17.577 --> 01:10:20.977
They're all students of his that have betrayed him in some way.

01:10:22.077 --> 01:10:26.057
While hunting for one, we see an Adam ghost in a strip club.

01:10:26.457 --> 01:10:27.037
Ooh.

01:10:27.177 --> 01:10:29.137
And she says, Oh, Mr.

01:10:29.157 --> 01:10:30.277
Ryan, back at last.

01:10:30.977 --> 01:10:31.817
Let's go to the back.

01:10:32.177 --> 01:10:32.917
Scandal.

01:10:33.517 --> 01:10:35.377
You can follow the ghost to a back room.

01:10:36.077 --> 01:10:40.437
Before entering the door, we can hear the ghost woman saying, No, Mr.

01:10:40.457 --> 01:10:41.037
Ryan, please.

01:10:41.657 --> 01:10:42.417
It was Fontaine.

01:10:42.497 --> 01:10:43.497
I didn't do anything.

01:10:44.357 --> 01:10:45.517
And then she screams out.

01:10:46.657 --> 01:10:54.057
When you open the door, you find the ghost's dead body on a bed months old and covered in blood.

01:10:55.777 --> 01:11:01.157
Upon finding the poor woman's audio log, we find out Andrew Ryan and Dr.

01:11:01.177 --> 01:11:06.137
Tenenbaum were using her as a baby factory to make Little Sisters.

01:11:06.417 --> 01:11:08.297
Ew, oh, gross.

01:11:08.537 --> 01:11:09.557
That poor girl.

01:11:09.737 --> 01:11:12.637
And she sold that info to Fontaine.

01:11:13.317 --> 01:11:17.597
And Fontaine used that information against Andrew Ryan in an attempt to take him down.

01:11:18.637 --> 01:11:19.477
Holy shit.

01:11:20.297 --> 01:11:23.717
Fort Frolic is easily the most fun zone of the game.

01:11:24.937 --> 01:11:26.937
Despite that exact story.

01:11:27.077 --> 01:11:29.697
Despite that horror story we just went through.

01:11:30.297 --> 01:11:32.837
And hunting down the other artists is a really good time.

01:11:33.177 --> 01:11:36.097
Especially if you can kill them in a funny position for the camera.

01:11:36.817 --> 01:11:43.997
Eventually, you get all the pictures and place them on the statue, and a triumphant musical cue sounds off as the lights go out.

01:11:45.177 --> 01:11:54.057
At the top of the stage, a spotlight hits the top stair, where Sander Cohen himself descends the stairs in a golden masquerade mask with bunny ears.

01:11:55.077 --> 01:11:58.657
Waving to an invisible crowd, thanking them for the recording of their applause.

01:11:59.157 --> 01:12:01.537
He's like Anarchist Liberace.

01:12:01.637 --> 01:12:02.037
Yeah.

01:12:02.817 --> 01:12:03.497
I love it.

01:12:04.017 --> 01:12:07.817
Halfway down, he whips off the mask and approaches his statue.

01:12:08.717 --> 01:12:16.197
And this is the only NPC in the game that you can walk up to, and you have the choice of letting him live or killing him.

01:12:17.617 --> 01:12:22.937
Either way, Atlas finally comes back over our radio, saying he's been trying to get in touch with you forever.

01:12:23.377 --> 01:12:28.537
Now, would you kindly get your ass over to the bathysphere so we can go after Andrew Ryan and kill the son of a bitch?

01:12:28.817 --> 01:12:32.337
I'm sorry, the super quirky dude asked me for help killing a couple people.

01:12:32.617 --> 01:12:34.137
He was just so weird I had to help.

01:12:34.217 --> 01:12:35.017
Yeah.

01:12:35.017 --> 01:12:39.937
Yeah, I'm sure he has experienced Sandra Cohen plenty of times and would fully understand.

01:12:40.377 --> 01:12:42.977
Sandra Cohen is the Andy Dick of Hollywood.

01:12:43.017 --> 01:12:45.537
Everyone has a Sandra Cohen story.

01:12:45.877 --> 01:12:49.537
All the new Sandra Cohen party, you've all partied real hard with Sandra Cohen.

01:12:50.057 --> 01:12:50.817
He gets it.

01:12:50.937 --> 01:12:52.797
Yeah, he throws the best parties.

01:12:52.837 --> 01:12:53.737
Oh, absolutely.

01:12:54.097 --> 01:13:04.297
The only way to get out of Rapture now is to kill Andrew Ryan and steal his genetic code, which controls the biometrics to the lockdown controls of Rapture and would allow for you to escape.

01:13:05.057 --> 01:13:10.197
You start making your way to his office, and obviously, he throws up every roadblock he can in your way.

01:13:10.417 --> 01:13:10.737
Right.

01:13:11.257 --> 01:13:19.537
He even has bodies of his enemies hanging on pillars outside his office, and he says there's a blank spot waiting for you on one of them.

01:13:19.677 --> 01:13:21.457
That's pretty punk rock, I'm not gonna lie.

01:13:21.977 --> 01:13:26.497
He says Rapture fell about a year ago, yes, but it's on the rebound.

01:13:26.797 --> 01:13:28.137
It's getting better, though.

01:13:28.277 --> 01:13:32.897
Yeah, the shops are reopening, the schools are back in session, and the children are happy.

01:13:33.217 --> 01:13:37.697
It's like towards the back part of the pandemic where they're like, see, you can go outside again.

01:13:38.437 --> 01:13:40.197
Yeah, but you've seen zero shops.

01:13:40.537 --> 01:13:40.917
Right.

01:13:41.217 --> 01:13:43.957
And the only children are the horrifying little sisters.

01:13:43.977 --> 01:13:45.317
Yeah, who are barely human.

01:13:45.557 --> 01:13:49.737
And nothing Andrew Ryan is telling you is even remotely true based on everything you've seen.

01:13:50.117 --> 01:13:54.857
I like that he's lying to your face and you're like, no, dude, I've been in here for hours.

01:13:55.017 --> 01:13:56.777
I can see it's not what you say.

01:13:57.757 --> 01:14:03.517
He says that when Rapture is reborn, the streets will be paved with the tombstones of those who doubted him.

01:14:04.057 --> 01:14:04.537
Gross.

01:14:04.957 --> 01:14:07.217
Besides, what have you ever accomplished?

01:14:07.777 --> 01:14:09.797
Because he built a city underwater.

01:14:10.317 --> 01:14:11.997
Good luck besting a guy who did that.

01:14:12.457 --> 01:14:13.597
What a brat.

01:14:13.797 --> 01:14:14.717
Oh my God.

01:14:14.777 --> 01:14:17.397
Yeah, it's just constant nonstop taunting.

01:14:17.777 --> 01:14:22.757
He's that vine of the little boy that's like, you're disrespecting a future US officer.

01:14:23.657 --> 01:14:25.177
That's the energy I'm getting from this.

01:14:25.197 --> 01:14:26.497
Same energy, yeah.

01:14:26.537 --> 01:14:29.057
I've got the power of God and anime on my side.

01:14:31.177 --> 01:14:33.557
I love that Andrew Ryan's a fucking dork.

01:14:33.577 --> 01:14:40.497
I never thought about it like this in this kind of context, especially as you discuss kind of the Anne Ryan of it all.

01:14:40.637 --> 01:14:44.897
What stories we're taking and how that's perceived from people over 20.

01:14:46.077 --> 01:14:47.857
Yeah, no, absolutely.

01:14:48.357 --> 01:14:51.297
Well, in one of the taunts, he brings up an interesting point.

01:14:51.977 --> 01:14:55.997
A man building a city under the sea is a marvel of human ability.

01:14:56.937 --> 01:15:01.417
A man surviving a plane crash that landed directly on top of that city?

01:15:02.437 --> 01:15:03.437
Well, that's a miracle.

01:15:04.577 --> 01:15:07.037
But only the religious believe in miracles.

01:15:08.117 --> 01:15:12.497
Andrew Ryan is a man of science, which leaves only one possibility.

01:15:13.657 --> 01:15:15.157
You crash landed here on purpose.

01:15:15.977 --> 01:15:16.417
Ooh.

01:15:17.357 --> 01:15:21.817
You fight off Andrew Ryan's roadblocks and manage to cobble together an EMP device...

01:15:21.917 --> 01:15:22.527
Hell yeah...

01:15:22.527 --> 01:15:24.497
.
that will shut down all of the defenses.

01:15:25.677 --> 01:15:31.977
After setting it off, Andrew Ryan panics and decides that if he dies, his city dies with him.

01:15:32.597 --> 01:15:35.397
And he sets off a self-destruct in the city's central power core.

01:15:36.797 --> 01:15:43.477
Atlas tells you the shutdown is in Andrew Ryan's office, and you need to get in there and stop the self-destruct by any means necessary.

01:15:44.177 --> 01:15:47.897
You find an air vent to help you sneak around and drop down into a room.

01:15:48.797 --> 01:15:52.057
There's a wall with papers all over it, like a conspiracy theory wall.

01:15:52.217 --> 01:15:53.457
Of a Pepe Silva wall?

01:15:53.477 --> 01:15:53.937
Yeah.

01:15:54.597 --> 01:15:57.357
There's also pictures of Andrew Ryan, Dr.

01:15:57.377 --> 01:16:03.297
Tenenbaum, Fontaine, and a few others as well as a blank photo with a big question mark on it.

01:16:04.377 --> 01:16:08.717
Written over all of this in thick, dark red ink, probably blood.

01:16:09.317 --> 01:16:11.617
The probably blood is so good.

01:16:12.217 --> 01:16:14.117
Are the words, would you kindly?

01:16:14.937 --> 01:16:25.637
Upon further inspection, you can also find the picture you have in your wallet of you and your parents, as well as screen grabs from security footage of you and different parts of Rapture.

01:16:26.477 --> 01:16:30.397
An audio log is nearby, and it features a man named Dr.

01:16:30.417 --> 01:16:31.017
Suchong.

01:16:31.417 --> 01:16:33.917
He's talking to a young boy about a puppy.

01:16:34.617 --> 01:16:37.357
The boy is excited and happy playing with the puppy.

01:16:37.817 --> 01:16:38.357
Then Dr.

01:16:38.377 --> 01:16:41.577
Suchong tells the little boy to break the puppy's neck.

01:16:42.817 --> 01:16:45.617
And the boy is confused, and he refuses to do it.

01:16:46.317 --> 01:16:49.577
He tells him again, and again the boy refuses.

01:16:50.277 --> 01:16:55.977
The third time that he tells the boy to break the puppy's neck, he adds the words, Would you kindly?

01:16:57.277 --> 01:17:00.917
The boy still says no, but he's crying very hard.

01:17:01.917 --> 01:17:02.577
We hear Dr.

01:17:02.597 --> 01:17:05.157
Suchong say, Good, good.

01:17:06.077 --> 01:17:11.457
As the puppy yelps out in pain, and then goes silent as the audio log ends.

01:17:11.917 --> 01:17:12.137
Ugh.

01:17:13.777 --> 01:17:16.557
Another nearby audio log, also from Dr.

01:17:16.577 --> 01:17:19.797
Suchong, describes the raising of a future big daddy.

01:17:21.077 --> 01:17:24.757
At just one year old, it weighs 58 pounds.

01:17:24.817 --> 01:17:25.897
Holy shit.

01:17:26.197 --> 01:17:30.017
And has the strength of a fit as fuck 19 year old.

01:17:30.877 --> 01:17:31.557
Jesus.

01:17:31.937 --> 01:17:34.537
He's not sure if he's a fan of creating these people.

01:17:39.257 --> 01:17:42.877
He's like, this is an abomination, but okay.

01:17:42.897 --> 01:17:43.617
But it's working.

01:17:43.757 --> 01:17:44.997
But it's working, yeah.

01:17:45.677 --> 01:17:51.177
You exit this back room you fell into and come upon a window to Andrew Ryan's office.

01:17:52.377 --> 01:17:57.557
He's on the other side in a suit, playing some golf on a little putting green on the floor.

01:17:57.777 --> 01:17:58.937
Just rich people shit.

01:17:59.557 --> 01:18:02.797
He asks you, what separates a man from a slave?

01:18:03.797 --> 01:18:08.357
And he answers that a man chooses, a slave obeys.

01:18:09.777 --> 01:18:12.217
The memories in your head, they're not yours.

01:18:12.897 --> 01:18:20.357
The things you remember, your hometown, your parents, the plane crash, can you be sure any of it was real?

01:18:21.197 --> 01:18:25.677
As he says each of these things, you see a flash of that image fill the screen.

01:18:27.217 --> 01:18:28.377
Was there really a family?

01:18:29.117 --> 01:18:34.217
And you see a flash of a baby strapped to wires surrounded by doctors.

01:18:35.837 --> 01:18:38.437
Did the plane crash or was it hijacked?

01:18:39.517 --> 01:18:42.937
Another flash, and we see the package we had on the plane.

01:18:43.837 --> 01:18:46.337
It's open and inside is a handgun.

01:18:47.837 --> 01:18:49.437
And we can see the full note now.

01:18:50.317 --> 01:18:55.297
And the wait until part is coordinates as opposed to a date or time.

01:18:57.117 --> 01:19:06.437
Was the plane actually taken down by a man designed to live out a seemingly normal life, only to be activated by a simple phrase?

01:19:07.497 --> 01:19:08.717
Which of you was sent to kill him?

01:19:09.617 --> 01:19:11.637
A man or a slave?

01:19:12.777 --> 01:19:13.717
Are you choosing this?

01:19:14.617 --> 01:19:15.737
Or are you obeying?

01:19:17.697 --> 01:19:20.797
He opens the door dividing the two of you and invites you in.

01:19:22.077 --> 01:19:32.697
We are then put into one of the five cutscenes of the game, which honestly surprised me this playthrough because I really feel like we all remember Bioshock as not having cutscenes, but it actually has quite a few.

01:19:33.997 --> 01:19:37.617
And it plays out in first person, we just have zero control of the character.

01:19:38.257 --> 01:19:41.917
As you enter his office, he says, Stop, would you kindly?

01:19:42.817 --> 01:19:43.357
And you do.

01:19:44.517 --> 01:19:46.637
He asks if this phrase is familiar to you.

01:19:47.677 --> 01:19:53.917
At that, you flash back to your first plasmid injection, and hear Atlas' voice say, Would you kindly?

01:19:54.857 --> 01:20:03.157
And then you flash through every command and request Atlas had for you, each accompanied by the phrase, Would you kindly?

01:20:03.937 --> 01:20:08.897
Culminating in him saying, Would you kindly head to Ryan's office and kill the son of a bitch?

01:20:09.977 --> 01:20:13.237
As the conspiracy theory wall fills our field of view.

01:20:13.937 --> 01:20:17.437
We're back with Andrew Ryan, no longer flashing through our memories.

01:20:18.437 --> 01:20:20.297
He says, Sit, would you kindly?

01:20:21.177 --> 01:20:22.617
Stand, would you kindly?

01:20:23.277 --> 01:20:24.617
And you follow his commands.

01:20:25.617 --> 01:20:29.797
Run, stop, turn around, all of which you do.

01:20:31.197 --> 01:20:38.517
He hands you his golf club and tells you to kill, reminding you that a man chooses and a slave obeys.

01:20:39.537 --> 01:20:44.897
And as a sign of who you are, you beat Andrew Ryan to death with a golf club.

01:20:45.337 --> 01:20:46.677
Oh, it's so good.

01:20:46.817 --> 01:20:49.397
Breaking the metal off in the side of his skull.

01:20:50.757 --> 01:20:52.197
Even Abby couldn't do that.

01:20:52.317 --> 01:20:52.737
Right?

01:20:52.757 --> 01:20:53.997
Abby wasn't able to do that.

01:20:54.017 --> 01:20:56.197
And I didn't even realize that was a Bioshock at the time.

01:20:56.217 --> 01:20:57.637
I was like, I had completely forgotten.

01:20:57.737 --> 01:20:58.017
Yeah.

01:20:59.317 --> 01:21:02.137
It's like the biggest Bioshock in that whole fucking game.

01:21:03.317 --> 01:21:08.737
I don't know a single person who played through this section whose mind wasn't fucking broken by it.

01:21:08.977 --> 01:21:10.017
Oh, my God.

01:21:10.037 --> 01:21:15.197
The first time it happens, it is horrifying, because you're like, oh, you've been playing me.

01:21:15.217 --> 01:21:16.297
I thought I was playing you.

01:21:16.977 --> 01:21:21.557
It throws into question your every action as you played through it up until this point.

01:21:21.557 --> 01:21:22.097
Yeah.

01:21:22.417 --> 01:21:23.357
It's horrifying.

01:21:23.697 --> 01:21:24.017
Yeah.

01:21:24.037 --> 01:21:27.237
Especially if your choice was to harvest the little sisters.

01:21:28.097 --> 01:21:28.577
Yeah.

01:21:28.597 --> 01:21:30.957
Because he didn't would you kindly you with that choice.

01:21:31.097 --> 01:21:31.957
That's all on you.

01:21:31.997 --> 01:21:32.457
Oh, yeah.

01:21:32.477 --> 01:21:33.737
That's who I am as a person.

01:21:34.177 --> 01:21:37.077
And as a gamer, you're used to trusting your guide.

01:21:37.237 --> 01:21:37.677
Right.

01:21:37.717 --> 01:21:39.277
I don't anymore because of this game.

01:21:39.397 --> 01:21:43.457
This and Undertale really ruined trusting anyone.

01:21:43.617 --> 01:21:44.037
Yeah.

01:21:44.057 --> 01:21:44.497
Period.

01:21:44.597 --> 01:21:45.077
In life.

01:21:45.437 --> 01:21:48.717
Because it's supposed to be your Obi-Wan, your Gandalf, your Morpheus.

01:21:48.737 --> 01:21:49.937
Your guy in the chair.

01:21:49.977 --> 01:21:53.037
You don't get betrayed by the one who taught you everything.

01:21:53.057 --> 01:21:54.017
That doesn't happen.

01:21:54.537 --> 01:21:57.637
It's usually like a student betrays a master, never the other way around.

01:21:57.657 --> 01:21:57.897
Right.

01:21:59.017 --> 01:22:03.637
But here, we realize that we really are slaves as gamers.

01:22:04.717 --> 01:22:07.937
We blindly do what we're told in a video game.

01:22:08.817 --> 01:22:13.757
And we don't think of the logic or reasoning behind it, because we inherently trust that we're being told the truth.

01:22:13.897 --> 01:22:14.337
Right.

01:22:14.777 --> 01:22:21.017
And would you kindly work so fucking well because the character of Atlas is so friendly and old fashioned?

01:22:21.337 --> 01:22:24.997
It just feels natural for him to say it, and you never in a billion years see this coming.

01:22:25.097 --> 01:22:28.437
Yeah, you're like, oh, he's charmingly Irish, Moira and Patrick are gone.

01:22:28.457 --> 01:22:31.777
You're like, yeah, of course, that's just how he talks.

01:22:31.917 --> 01:22:33.637
No, it was a code.

01:22:33.977 --> 01:22:43.137
And the thing that surprised me the most on this playthrough is that myself, and I think most people remember this as being a big twist shock ending to the game.

01:22:44.157 --> 01:22:47.217
Shockingly, we're only about 65% through the game.

01:22:47.497 --> 01:22:49.077
That blows my fucking mind.

01:22:49.097 --> 01:22:53.237
I feel like it's this and then the final moment, and then you're done.

01:22:53.597 --> 01:22:57.837
No, we are just barely past the halfway point when this revelation occurs.

01:22:57.857 --> 01:23:03.377
Holy shit, I haven't played this in like a year or two, so this is all renewed news for me.

01:23:03.597 --> 01:23:08.477
Yeah, Andrew Ryan is just the first Lunatic CEO we had to overcome.

01:23:09.817 --> 01:23:11.477
And now we have a whole new problem.

01:23:12.257 --> 01:23:15.257
Our guide and now former friend, Atlas.

01:23:16.857 --> 01:23:25.317
Now, the Would You Kindly Twist comes so relatively early in the game, because Ken Levine didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal.

01:23:26.857 --> 01:23:31.397
It is literally one of the most iconic gaming moments of all time.

01:23:31.557 --> 01:23:34.717
He genuinely thought it would be a fun little meta joke for the player.

01:23:35.137 --> 01:23:38.277
Oh, no, it changed all of gaming.

01:23:38.417 --> 01:23:40.997
Yeah, it was actually the programmers making the game.

01:23:41.197 --> 01:23:48.577
They saw how powerful this moment could be, and they created the flashes and the montage of Atlas saying it throughout the game.

01:23:49.237 --> 01:23:55.037
And it wasn't until Ken Levine saw it for the first time that he realized he had made a profound and outstanding twist.

01:23:55.717 --> 01:23:57.317
He's like, oh, shit, that was cool.

01:23:57.617 --> 01:24:00.697
I appreciate that Ken Levine can really hone in on things.

01:24:00.957 --> 01:24:06.397
Here's what a door handle looks like at 30 Rock and then be like, oh, yeah, this shit's fine.

01:24:06.417 --> 01:24:06.757
My M.

01:24:06.777 --> 01:24:08.777
Night Shyamalan ass twist.

01:24:09.037 --> 01:24:10.237
I'm going to move on now.

01:24:11.057 --> 01:24:15.517
Yeah, he really thought that just the reveal Atlas was the bad guy would be the mind fuck.

01:24:16.117 --> 01:24:25.037
No, it's an entire commentary on gaming and trusting a narrative in general that shaped an entire generation and a half so far of games.

01:24:25.317 --> 01:24:25.797
Yeah.

01:24:25.957 --> 01:24:26.537
The fuck?

01:24:27.057 --> 01:24:31.477
The other shocking thing, it was also not the original trigger phrase.

01:24:31.917 --> 01:24:32.557
Really?

01:24:32.957 --> 01:24:37.397
For the first year of development, the trigger phrase was Excelsior.

01:24:41.177 --> 01:24:45.437
That's the most upsetting shit you've ever said on the show.

01:24:45.457 --> 01:24:48.117
Wait, so give me some lines right now.

01:24:48.137 --> 01:24:51.317
Oh, it would just be, will you go over there and kill the son of a bitch?

01:24:51.517 --> 01:24:52.337
Excelsior.

01:24:52.357 --> 01:24:54.117
They would just punctuate with it.

01:24:54.137 --> 01:24:55.537
Yeah, he was punctuating with it.

01:24:55.797 --> 01:24:57.037
That's fucking crazy.

01:24:57.137 --> 01:25:02.157
And finally, someone said, this is way too obvious, as nobody but fucking Stan Lee said that word.

01:25:02.177 --> 01:25:05.237
I think it's trademarked for Stan Lee too.

01:25:05.637 --> 01:25:11.477
They might have to pay a licensing fee if they use that as a trigger phrase or a catch phrase or something to that effect.

01:25:11.557 --> 01:25:18.837
Well, this was a relief to Ken Levine because he thought everyone was hating the idea of a trigger phrase for a whole year.

01:25:19.237 --> 01:25:19.477
Oh.

01:25:19.597 --> 01:25:22.277
When everyone really just hated the phrase he chose.

01:25:22.297 --> 01:25:23.497
They're like, no, no, no, concept's great.

01:25:23.517 --> 01:25:25.757
You picked the stupidest fucking word on earth.

01:25:27.577 --> 01:25:34.897
So after some shopping around, Would You Kindly was chosen as it was most likely to slip by players and sound most natural.

01:25:35.237 --> 01:25:40.257
Did you see that Black Mirror episode where the guy gets trapped in a game testing simulation?

01:25:40.277 --> 01:25:40.777
Yeah.

01:25:40.877 --> 01:25:43.737
Yeah, where they drop Would You Kindly in the episode.

01:25:43.757 --> 01:25:44.437
Oh, it's so good.

01:25:44.457 --> 01:25:44.757
Yeah.

01:25:45.317 --> 01:25:52.997
Well, as Andrew Ryan lays there dead, Atlas comes over the radio and says, now would you kindly get Ryan's genetic code so we can get out of here?

01:25:53.017 --> 01:25:55.617
And you know you're being used.

01:25:55.737 --> 01:26:01.437
And honestly, even without the trigger phrase, it's the only way out of Rapture as it's still set to explode.

01:26:02.177 --> 01:26:03.877
Yeah, I mean, there's still that problem.

01:26:04.137 --> 01:26:06.437
And you do your thing and shut down the self-destruct.

01:26:07.617 --> 01:26:14.617
Atlas thanks you, but then breaks into a maniacal laugh, dropping the Irish accent entirely.

01:26:15.357 --> 01:26:20.297
He says Atlas is just a character, one of his many aliases.

01:26:21.097 --> 01:26:23.557
His real name is Frank Fontaine.

01:26:23.777 --> 01:26:25.557
Dun, dun, dun.

01:26:25.697 --> 01:26:28.097
A man you were told died months ago.

01:26:28.277 --> 01:26:29.657
Who ran the fishery.

01:26:30.737 --> 01:26:38.377
Atlas originally was played by actor Greg Baldwin, and he had an American Southern drawl like Benoit Blanc.

01:26:38.517 --> 01:26:39.477
Oh, I love that.

01:26:39.797 --> 01:26:43.917
But people immediately didn't trust him and thought he was up to something.

01:26:47.337 --> 01:26:52.797
There is some commentary there about Southerners that I'm not going to get into, but I will say I think it's very funny.

01:26:53.157 --> 01:27:00.757
So with the game complete and finished, they had to fire Greg Baldwin through no fault of his own.

01:27:01.237 --> 01:27:08.397
They recast the character with Irish actor Carl Hanover and had him re-record the entire game.

01:27:08.657 --> 01:27:09.697
Holy shit.

01:27:09.937 --> 01:27:13.177
And changing him to Irish made people trust him more naturally.

01:27:13.197 --> 01:27:15.917
There's something about an Irish accent that is just trustworthy.

01:27:15.957 --> 01:27:16.997
It's just so charming.

01:27:17.497 --> 01:27:24.977
But then a British team member said the new Atlas actor sounded like a fake Irish accent, even though it wasn't.

01:27:25.557 --> 01:27:29.477
Carl Hanover was just from a part of Ireland with a different accent than like Dublin.

01:27:30.077 --> 01:27:30.557
Oh, OK.

01:27:31.057 --> 01:27:40.457
So they did a focus group test in Ireland, and the Irish players were so excited to finally hear a real Irish accent that wasn't the one you always hear.

01:27:40.477 --> 01:27:41.057
Oh.

01:27:41.517 --> 01:27:47.537
And Greg Baldwin, the original actor, is still in the game as Frank Fontaine.

01:27:48.457 --> 01:27:48.657
Oh.

01:27:48.777 --> 01:27:50.897
As he plays the character from here out.

01:27:51.057 --> 01:27:51.937
Oh, I love that.

01:27:51.957 --> 01:27:53.497
OK, so he still got his bag.

01:27:53.517 --> 01:27:54.937
Like, he still got his credit.

01:27:54.957 --> 01:27:56.457
They just scrapped half his work.

01:27:56.757 --> 01:27:57.937
Yeah, and he still got paid.

01:27:58.217 --> 01:27:58.857
Good.

01:27:59.157 --> 01:28:04.937
I think that's very funny that some people were like, this sounds fake, Iris, and the dude's like, I'm legitimately an Irish person.

01:28:05.757 --> 01:28:06.857
Oh, that's so funny.

01:28:07.057 --> 01:28:13.597
And in later appearances of the character in future games, Carl Hanover plays both Atlas and Frank Fontaine.

01:28:13.637 --> 01:28:14.497
Oh, good for him.

01:28:14.697 --> 01:28:20.337
So Greg Baldwin did lose the part ultimately in the end, but, you know, he still shared it in the first game.

01:28:20.357 --> 01:28:21.677
Yeah, it happens, buddy.

01:28:22.177 --> 01:28:28.697
Now, you did shut off the self-destruct, but you also just gave Fontaine full control over all of Rapture.

01:28:28.757 --> 01:28:29.757
Oh, God damn it.

01:28:29.977 --> 01:28:32.917
And now he can control it the way he always wanted to.

01:28:33.817 --> 01:28:36.977
And he is going to begin his reign by eliminating you.

01:28:36.997 --> 01:28:41.037
I think it's kind of funny that he's like, I'm back to my old personality.

01:28:41.057 --> 01:28:46.177
Like, he said he's a master of disguise, like in the movie Master of Disguise.

01:28:46.417 --> 01:28:51.077
So you think he'd maybe be like, I'm Steve, Steve's a great guy.

01:28:51.197 --> 01:28:53.197
Let me out of Rapture, you know?

01:28:53.377 --> 01:28:56.637
Like, try to start a union that way or some shit.

01:28:56.657 --> 01:29:00.337
But he's just like, fuck it, we're going with personality zero, let's go.

01:29:01.597 --> 01:29:04.897
So he sets off an alarm and sends security drones after you.

01:29:05.077 --> 01:29:06.297
He loves drones.

01:29:06.617 --> 01:29:10.417
You run out of the room, and a rescued little sister is on the other side.

01:29:11.317 --> 01:29:12.757
She gestures for you to follow her.

01:29:13.537 --> 01:29:15.917
She ducks into an air duct, and you crawl in after her.

01:29:16.737 --> 01:29:19.037
And you can see her up ahead, and she motions to you again.

01:29:19.937 --> 01:29:24.437
But the floor beneath you gives way, and you fall, getting knocked out in the process.

01:29:24.717 --> 01:29:26.857
You weigh a lot more than the little sisters do.

01:29:26.877 --> 01:29:28.597
You were a fully grown man.

01:29:28.617 --> 01:29:29.697
Right, but you were desperate.

01:29:31.797 --> 01:29:33.077
You wake up in a room with Dr.

01:29:33.097 --> 01:29:36.677
Tenenbaum's voice, welcoming you to your real hometown.

01:29:37.877 --> 01:29:42.197
The place where you were born and raised, and then sent topside to live out a normal life.

01:29:43.397 --> 01:29:49.017
Only to be called back by Fontaine using your trigger phrase so you could help him overthrow Andrew Ryan.

01:29:49.317 --> 01:29:50.137
Holy shit.

01:29:50.757 --> 01:29:51.717
She and Dr.

01:29:51.737 --> 01:29:55.517
Suchong basically designed your brain when you were a child.

01:29:56.677 --> 01:29:59.577
Placing the trigger phrase in your head with Adam.

01:30:00.257 --> 01:30:05.397
She has managed now to deactivate the trigger phrase, making it meaningless to you.

01:30:05.477 --> 01:30:06.157
Hell yeah.

01:30:06.737 --> 01:30:14.057
But there were other things they put in your head that you don't know about, but Fontaine does, as Dr.

01:30:14.077 --> 01:30:16.217
Suchong taught him in order to control you.

01:30:16.777 --> 01:30:19.617
He can mess with you in ways even she's not sure of yet.

01:30:20.657 --> 01:30:21.597
She tells you that Dr.

01:30:21.617 --> 01:30:30.157
Suchong likely has notes in his apartment explaining how to fully remove all programming from your head, and sends you to collect that information.

01:30:31.477 --> 01:30:40.177
As you venture out, Fontaine chimes in on the radio and says, now that I have no use for you, would you kindly go get stepped on by a big daddy?

01:30:41.517 --> 01:30:47.857
You just keep doing your thing, ignoring him now, and he realizes Tenenbaum must have removed that part of your conditioning.

01:30:48.417 --> 01:30:49.597
Haha, fuck you.

01:30:49.797 --> 01:30:50.417
No worries.

01:30:50.917 --> 01:30:53.437
That's why he has code yellow.

01:30:54.397 --> 01:30:57.137
At that phrase, your vision goes blurry.

01:30:57.237 --> 01:30:58.077
At code yellow?

01:30:58.637 --> 01:31:00.137
And you double over coughing.

01:31:00.357 --> 01:31:00.997
Oh shit.

01:31:01.237 --> 01:31:04.417
Your health bar's max health lowers itself.

01:31:05.497 --> 01:31:09.257
As Fontaine explains that he just told your heart to stop working.

01:31:10.517 --> 01:31:11.517
Holy shit.

01:31:11.577 --> 01:31:16.477
But the heart's stubborn, so it'll take some time, but eventually it will just give out entirely.

01:31:17.737 --> 01:31:18.537
As you head to Dr.

01:31:18.557 --> 01:31:24.557
Suchong's office, your heart will occasionally stop for a moment, further lowering your max health.

01:31:25.617 --> 01:31:30.637
Antenna Bomb assures you that once you have the cure from Suchong's office, you'll be back to normal.

01:31:31.997 --> 01:31:35.737
In Suchong's home office, you find the cure to code yellow and take it.

01:31:36.737 --> 01:31:40.877
And unfortunately, it's like the COVID vaccine, you have to get a booster to get the full effect.

01:31:41.657 --> 01:31:43.517
You gotta break it up into a couple doses.

01:31:43.797 --> 01:31:50.457
You also find an audio log from Suchong calling Fontaine a little bitch who only thinks he's powerful.

01:31:51.217 --> 01:31:54.137
But really, he just rides the shoulders of actual great men.

01:31:55.057 --> 01:32:02.997
He says that Fontaine secretly commissioned a full cure for the mind control in the unlikely event that he gets brainwashed someday.

01:32:03.717 --> 01:32:08.157
Because Fontaine knows, never use a weapon unless you're ready to have it used on you.

01:32:08.177 --> 01:32:10.817
Yeah, Suchong's complaining, but this is just good planning.

01:32:10.957 --> 01:32:13.557
Yeah, he wanted to make sure that there would be a way out.

01:32:14.177 --> 01:32:21.457
Tenenbaum is stoked because she found this secret cure a long time ago and didn't know what it was, and she stole a sample of it.

01:32:22.277 --> 01:32:26.077
So she guides you back to her apartment, and you find it ransacked.

01:32:26.357 --> 01:32:26.817
Oh, no.

01:32:27.117 --> 01:32:30.017
She says that sucks because someone found the sample and took it.

01:32:30.957 --> 01:32:33.017
Only place left is Suchong's office.

01:32:34.337 --> 01:32:39.917
Tenenbaum talks to you much like Atlas did, only this time not using Would You Kindly to get you to do shit.

01:32:40.597 --> 01:32:46.937
She just appeals to your sensitive side, talking about the little sisters you've saved or making you feel guilty for the ones you've harvested.

01:32:47.377 --> 01:32:47.757
Yes.

01:32:48.857 --> 01:32:55.377
She also explains that while she designed the little sister program, she never knew it would cause the fall of Rapture.

01:32:57.817 --> 01:33:02.257
Well, you know, this world wasn't built with consequences at the forefront of everything.

01:33:04.197 --> 01:33:13.917
Ever since she realized how lost the little sisters become, she backed out of the program and has dedicated her life to rehabilitating little sisters back into normal people.

01:33:14.017 --> 01:33:15.497
She's the cultie programmer!

01:33:15.557 --> 01:33:16.357
Yeah, right?

01:33:16.997 --> 01:33:17.637
There it is!

01:33:17.657 --> 01:33:18.397
It lived on!

01:33:21.437 --> 01:33:23.417
You eventually find the cure and take it.

01:33:24.057 --> 01:33:28.077
Your max health returns to normal levels, but there are side effects.

01:33:29.137 --> 01:33:36.217
You'll need one more booster of the cure, and in the meantime, you have zero control over which plasmid you have equipped.

01:33:36.517 --> 01:33:39.357
Oh, you get on like mystery hero mode for your plasmid?

01:33:39.417 --> 01:33:40.237
Yeah, right?

01:33:40.257 --> 01:33:40.817
That's sick.

01:33:41.037 --> 01:33:45.497
By now, you should have 10 or 11 to choose from, and you can typically equip four at a time.

01:33:46.337 --> 01:33:50.337
The side effects just give you a random plasmid for a couple minutes at a time.

01:33:51.257 --> 01:33:54.337
And honestly, I would play the whole game with this if they let me.

01:33:54.737 --> 01:33:55.557
On random mode?

01:33:55.617 --> 01:33:57.677
Yeah, I really enjoyed not having control.

01:33:57.697 --> 01:33:59.177
It kind of forced me to make creative decisions.

01:33:59.757 --> 01:34:01.357
Yeah, okay, yeah.

01:34:01.877 --> 01:34:06.537
And while searching for more cure, you wind up in an office with a big table in the middle.

01:34:06.837 --> 01:34:13.737
On that table is a mutilated corpse of a man with a detached big daddy drill buried into its back.

01:34:15.057 --> 01:34:16.517
There's an audio log nearby.

01:34:17.817 --> 01:34:19.137
In it, Dr.

01:34:19.157 --> 01:34:23.957
Sucong is complaining that he can't get the big daddies to bond with the little sister.

01:34:24.777 --> 01:34:29.457
They're so passive around one another, even if a splicer approaches, they do nothing.

01:34:30.617 --> 01:34:32.477
A little sister starts tugging at Dr.

01:34:32.497 --> 01:34:38.817
Sucong's sleeve in the background, and he gets angry at her for interrupting and smacks her across the face.

01:34:38.877 --> 01:34:39.677
Oh, shit!

01:34:40.597 --> 01:34:45.157
On the log, we hear the low growl of a big daddy, and Dr.

01:34:45.177 --> 01:34:47.417
Sucong's saying, Wait, what are you doing?

01:34:48.177 --> 01:34:51.377
As the sound of a drill firing up is heard, Ha ha ha!

01:34:51.557 --> 01:34:52.117
and Dr.

01:34:52.137 --> 01:34:56.917
Sucong screams his last sounds, revealing the body on the table to be his.

01:34:56.937 --> 01:34:58.197
Hell yeah, fuck you!

01:34:59.177 --> 01:35:04.157
You find the final dose of the cure and are back to your normal self again, able to control your plasmids and health.

01:35:04.697 --> 01:35:10.217
Tenenbaum tells you to head to a place called Point Prometheus to finish this bullshit once and for all.

01:35:10.697 --> 01:35:14.957
You can always tell when a bad guy is scared, because that's when they start offering things to you.

01:35:15.217 --> 01:35:15.857
Ha ha ha!

01:35:16.077 --> 01:35:18.817
And it's usually power if you agree to join their side.

01:35:18.877 --> 01:35:20.537
They're in the negotiation stage.

01:35:20.637 --> 01:35:22.077
Yeah, and Fontaine's no different.

01:35:22.797 --> 01:35:30.997
He offers you the chance to take a submarine topside with a bunch of Adam, where the two of you can rule whole countries, not just an underwater city.

01:35:31.137 --> 01:35:32.717
Oh no, you'd be a god up top.

01:35:33.377 --> 01:35:35.997
Being a silent protagonist, you don't accept his offer.

01:35:36.597 --> 01:35:39.657
And when you find him, he slams a door shut and locks it.

01:35:40.337 --> 01:35:44.697
Tenenbaum says there's only one way to get that door open, and it's for a little sister to do it.

01:35:45.677 --> 01:35:48.977
Problem being, little sisters only trust big daddies.

01:35:49.657 --> 01:35:50.757
And you're not a big daddy.

01:35:52.417 --> 01:35:52.977
Yet.

01:35:53.017 --> 01:35:54.857
Hell yeah, I remember those.

01:35:55.277 --> 01:36:04.777
Tenenbaum says that if you can put together and wear a big daddy outfit, including their smell, you can get a little sister to help you open the door to get to Fontaine.

01:36:05.477 --> 01:36:11.877
So you run around and collect pieces of big daddy suit, all with Fontaine heckling you and Tenenbaum encouraging you.

01:36:12.737 --> 01:36:19.877
And once you are a big daddy, you have to summon a little sister by pounding on the outside of the bronze vents that they use to get around the city.

01:36:20.557 --> 01:36:28.157
Anyone who played Bioshock 2 will recognize the next round of combat, as it's the basis for three quarters of Bioshock 2's gameplay.

01:36:28.397 --> 01:36:28.957
Spoilers.

01:36:29.277 --> 01:36:35.497
The little sisters don't understand you need a specific door open, so you just kind of have to follow her until she reaches it.

01:36:36.497 --> 01:36:40.277
In the meantime, she's stopping off at dead bodies draining their atom.

01:36:40.837 --> 01:36:48.617
All the while, Splicers are attacking her, and your job is to keep the little sister safe from harm, which is difficult if you're trying to keep every single little sister alive.

01:36:48.777 --> 01:36:49.177
Right.

01:36:49.797 --> 01:36:57.197
While following the little sister, Fontaine mocks you for falling for the whole fake family bit, poor Moira and wee baby Patrick.

01:36:57.537 --> 01:36:58.917
Oh, wee baby Patrick.

01:36:59.477 --> 01:37:07.077
If you were paying close attention earlier, you heard me mention a Sander Cohen film titled Patrick and Moira, the musical.

01:37:09.397 --> 01:37:11.797
This is my favorite Easter egg in the entire game.

01:37:11.817 --> 01:37:12.957
It's a really good one, right?

01:37:12.977 --> 01:37:17.497
I think when you said you were going to do this, I was like, oh, you have to call out the Patrick and Moira bit.

01:37:17.997 --> 01:37:19.337
It's the coolest fucking thing.

01:37:19.357 --> 01:37:35.657
I found out about it late in life, and it brings me so much joy that you get a poster of the fake names in your face, as if to say he just looked around like fucking usual suspects and pulled names off of the wall and said, yeah, it's Moira and Patrick.

01:37:37.457 --> 01:37:38.397
So fucking good.

01:37:39.037 --> 01:37:43.397
Well, finally, the little sister gets the door you need to go through and opens it for you.

01:37:43.877 --> 01:37:48.517
She heads back into her hidey hole, and as she does, she gives you her big ass needle.

01:37:49.157 --> 01:37:50.477
Tenenbaum tells you to grab it.

01:37:50.877 --> 01:38:02.097
You're gonna need it to drain Fontaine of all his atom if you're gonna defeat him, because he has spent every minute since revealing himself to you, injecting himself with more and more atom.

01:38:02.117 --> 01:38:03.017
Just juicing.

01:38:03.277 --> 01:38:05.197
Making him super strong and powerful.

01:38:05.577 --> 01:38:09.757
You get to the point of no return elevator and head into Fontaine's office.

01:38:10.797 --> 01:38:15.657
He comes up the radio saying he remembers the day he sent you topside when you were just two years old.

01:38:16.437 --> 01:38:18.777
The sleeper agent's son he never had.

01:38:19.137 --> 01:38:19.337
Oh.

01:38:19.877 --> 01:38:22.897
Putting you down will be like putting down a beloved pet.

01:38:23.597 --> 01:38:25.317
Sad, but necessary.

01:38:25.997 --> 01:38:26.897
Fuck you.

01:38:27.577 --> 01:38:35.097
We enter his office, and it's a cavernous space with a 40-foot-high glass ceiling and windows that scale the whole length of the walls.

01:38:35.117 --> 01:38:35.757
Gorgeous.

01:38:36.597 --> 01:38:38.937
Fontaine is barely human any longer.

01:38:39.237 --> 01:38:42.577
He's just fully nude with Ken doll junk between his legs.

01:38:43.077 --> 01:38:46.217
And he's like a silvery blue color, right?

01:38:46.277 --> 01:38:46.797
Yeah.

01:38:46.957 --> 01:38:48.277
Or should I say Ken Levine doll?

01:38:48.657 --> 01:38:48.977
Ooh.

01:38:50.017 --> 01:38:57.377
Yeah, his skin is like a steel-colored gray, and he stands nine feet tall, and is completely hairless.

01:38:57.617 --> 01:38:58.597
Like a little Dr.

01:38:58.617 --> 01:38:59.497
Manhattan about it.

01:38:59.637 --> 01:39:00.457
Yeah, like Dr.

01:39:00.477 --> 01:39:01.517
Manhattan from The Watchmen.

01:39:02.117 --> 01:39:03.157
But with no dong.

01:39:03.537 --> 01:39:04.357
No dong at all.

01:39:04.557 --> 01:39:05.817
The Plasmids ate his dong.

01:39:07.477 --> 01:39:08.197
Kind of sucks.

01:39:08.237 --> 01:39:10.157
Yeah, it's kind of like a metaphor for steroids.

01:39:12.297 --> 01:39:12.997
It doesn't work.

01:39:13.017 --> 01:39:14.297
Why bother putting it in there?

01:39:14.817 --> 01:39:18.157
Well, for a final boss, he's pretty standard.

01:39:18.717 --> 01:39:19.237
Yeah.

01:39:19.637 --> 01:39:23.437
Yeah, you wear him down until you can shove your needle into him and drain his powers.

01:39:24.197 --> 01:39:28.557
And the play area, if I recall correctly, it's not too complex.

01:39:29.137 --> 01:39:31.477
It's kind of just an open arena.

01:39:31.657 --> 01:39:33.877
Pretty open arena, some walls to hide behind.

01:39:34.097 --> 01:39:36.377
Yeah, I feel like there might be a pillar or two.

01:39:36.497 --> 01:39:36.877
Yeah.

01:39:36.897 --> 01:39:41.297
But otherwise, it's a pretty reasonable fighting space.

01:39:41.497 --> 01:39:47.857
And I don't want to say he's easy, but I also beat him on the hardest difficulty this last playthrough in one try.

01:39:48.217 --> 01:39:48.657
Nice.

01:39:49.157 --> 01:39:54.477
So this is the point on my first run through that you came home from your eight, nine hour shift of work.

01:39:54.497 --> 01:40:10.917
You're like, all right, made some people happy, had a great day at work, heading home to my loving wife, where I'm a full goblin wrapped in blankets, again, surrounded by candy wrappers, like sparkling water cans going, I'm in Rapture, plasmids.

01:40:10.937 --> 01:40:13.177
And you're like, holy shit, are you okay?

01:40:13.197 --> 01:40:14.317
And I was like, no.

01:40:14.937 --> 01:40:20.577
And I was in this battle and you were like, you looked at it, you looked at me, and then you did a double take at the screen.

01:40:20.597 --> 01:40:21.577
You went, holy shit.

01:40:22.117 --> 01:40:23.217
Yeah, you're at the end.

01:40:23.657 --> 01:40:26.037
And I was like, I know, I have to kill Fontaine.

01:40:26.057 --> 01:40:27.357
And you did.

01:40:27.437 --> 01:40:27.797
I did.

01:40:27.817 --> 01:40:32.197
And you know what's funny is actually, Ken Levine doesn't care for the final boss battle.

01:40:32.557 --> 01:40:33.197
Really?

01:40:33.577 --> 01:40:36.717
He doesn't really care for any boss battle he's ever made.

01:40:37.017 --> 01:40:37.677
Really?

01:40:37.717 --> 01:40:38.437
Interesting.

01:40:38.517 --> 01:40:41.717
Yeah, he admits that it is his weakness in game making.

01:40:42.177 --> 01:40:44.737
And in those cases, he kind of just turns to his team to help out.

01:40:45.777 --> 01:40:50.817
I appreciate that he doesn't have the ego to say, no, no, it's right because I did it.

01:40:50.837 --> 01:40:55.497
He has the understanding and humility to be like, this is not my strong suit.

01:40:55.517 --> 01:40:57.457
I'm going to tap in people who give a shit about this.

01:40:57.477 --> 01:40:59.317
I'm going to work on some crazy ass stories.

01:40:59.337 --> 01:41:03.617
Like I do appreciate him as a leader more and more the more you're telling me about Ken Levine.

01:41:03.677 --> 01:41:09.017
Yeah, that's why I was saying before, like when we started, like I hadn't really heard anything bad and I don't have any reason to think of it.

01:41:09.177 --> 01:41:12.837
Yeah, I just, the fact that he can admit his weakness says a lot.

01:41:13.157 --> 01:41:14.137
Very much so, right?

01:41:14.717 --> 01:41:17.897
Well, I just really hope that he changes for his next game, Judas.

01:41:18.317 --> 01:41:19.917
Oh, Judas looks so fucking good.

01:41:19.937 --> 01:41:20.537
Looks incredible.

01:41:21.177 --> 01:41:24.937
Anyway, so Fontaine is still just three stages and then he's dead.

01:41:25.757 --> 01:41:26.417
Groundbreaking.

01:41:28.557 --> 01:41:37.157
On the final stab, we get taken into another first-person cut scene as Fontaine backhands you across the room and you land in a pile.

01:41:38.077 --> 01:41:39.857
He says, he created you.

01:41:40.077 --> 01:41:41.337
He programmed you.

01:41:41.777 --> 01:41:44.057
He sent you away and called you back.

01:41:44.817 --> 01:41:50.057
Everything you believe about life, he created for you and tattooed it inside your head.

01:41:51.117 --> 01:41:53.077
He's your god and your father.

01:41:53.537 --> 01:41:56.197
And if that's not family, then he doesn't know what is.

01:41:56.437 --> 01:41:57.297
Motherfucker.

01:41:57.577 --> 01:42:02.057
It does sound a little like when your mom gets mad and goes, I brought you into this world, I can take you out.

01:42:02.397 --> 01:42:03.757
Oh, it's fully that, right?

01:42:03.777 --> 01:42:05.197
He's being a bratty parent.

01:42:05.317 --> 01:42:08.457
And that's not family, so he really doesn't know what one is.

01:42:09.777 --> 01:42:15.397
He comes up to you while you lay there, sparkling with plasmid energy, ready to finish you off.

01:42:16.517 --> 01:42:22.237
Behind him, you see a team of little sisters start coming out of holes in the wall.

01:42:22.837 --> 01:42:28.457
They climb up him and just start stabbing the fuck out of him with their big-ass needles.

01:42:28.697 --> 01:42:29.657
Let's go, girls.

01:42:30.197 --> 01:42:35.917
Just draining him of his remaining atom while yelling, kill it, as Fontaine stops moving.

01:42:37.257 --> 01:42:38.277
Kill it!

01:42:38.297 --> 01:42:41.097
Yeah, and the sisters just keep on stabbing.

01:42:41.117 --> 01:42:43.117
They do not recognize him as a human.

01:42:43.137 --> 01:42:46.177
They're like, whatever the fuck that is, we are gonna murder it, ladies.

01:42:46.197 --> 01:42:46.777
Let's go.

01:42:46.817 --> 01:42:49.917
He didn't recognize them as humans, so fuck him.

01:42:51.237 --> 01:42:52.017
It balanced.

01:42:52.217 --> 01:42:53.477
It comes all the way around.

01:42:53.597 --> 01:42:57.437
So really, this is the Little Sisters as the hero of the game, not you.

01:42:57.457 --> 01:42:59.057
Right, yeah, they get the final blow.

01:42:59.077 --> 01:42:59.777
Hell yeah.

01:43:00.637 --> 01:43:05.257
The scene fades, and we get a full cinematic cutscene with Tinembaum's voiceover.

01:43:05.997 --> 01:43:18.277
She says that the Little Sisters offered you the literal key to the city of Rapture, and you turned it down, and instead, elected to save the Little Sisters and take them all topside.

01:43:19.297 --> 01:43:25.017
We see the rescued children emerge from the submarine, no longer looking dead and without glowing eyes.

01:43:25.997 --> 01:43:32.837
We see you reach your hand out to help one out, and the scene flashes to an older girl's hand, accepting a diploma.

01:43:33.717 --> 01:43:36.737
Then, a wedding ring being placed on their ring finger.

01:43:37.797 --> 01:43:41.017
Another flash, and the woman is holding the hand of a child.

01:43:42.357 --> 01:43:47.897
Then finally, an old man's hand is seen with IVs going into his veins.

01:43:49.037 --> 01:43:55.697
We see a chain link wrist tattoo on the old hand that we've been staring at the entire game, as it was our own wrist.

01:43:56.377 --> 01:44:08.577
Multiple adult woman hands reach out to hold the old man's hand as it goes limp, and Tenenbaum says that you gave them the one thing they always deserved, a family.

01:44:09.677 --> 01:44:10.937
And the scene fades to black.

01:44:12.737 --> 01:44:15.677
Of course, that's only if you saved all the Little Sisters.

01:44:15.937 --> 01:44:20.237
Yeah, that's not the ending I ever got any time I've ever played this game.

01:44:20.257 --> 01:44:20.897
Oh, shit.

01:44:21.537 --> 01:44:26.677
Yeah, if you harvest even one, you get a much darker ending.

01:44:27.057 --> 01:44:28.777
It's almost like Undertale.

01:44:29.457 --> 01:44:33.917
And this was the only time 2K really stepped in and put their foot down.

01:44:34.437 --> 01:44:35.777
They wanted two different endings.

01:44:36.157 --> 01:44:36.677
Really?

01:44:36.697 --> 01:44:38.417
They wanted your choices to matter.

01:44:38.517 --> 01:44:40.357
They wanted added replay value.

01:44:41.937 --> 01:44:43.837
I went full philosophy on there.

01:44:43.857 --> 01:44:49.277
Like, oh, they wanted to put emphasis on your choices to combat the slave man choice obey thing.

01:44:49.337 --> 01:44:50.137
Oh, that's brilliant.

01:44:50.337 --> 01:44:51.697
No, they wanted to replay.

01:44:51.757 --> 01:44:52.277
I get you.

01:44:52.437 --> 01:44:57.437
Yeah, well, Ken was trying to argue that having a choice goes against the whole point of the game.

01:44:57.457 --> 01:44:58.977
Yeah, it's the antithesis of the game.

01:44:59.357 --> 01:45:05.357
But the 2K execs argued kind of what you just said in that you've taken all choice away from the player.

01:45:05.697 --> 01:45:07.077
You need to give them some.

01:45:07.197 --> 01:45:08.537
Just even if it's a little bit.

01:45:08.677 --> 01:45:09.657
Meet me in the middle here.

01:45:09.677 --> 01:45:12.837
Yeah, and he found it kind of hard to argue that after that.

01:45:12.977 --> 01:45:15.857
And he says that ultimately it was the right choice.

01:45:16.217 --> 01:45:28.317
I believe so, too, because it also just adds to the lore, the philosophy and the cult value of this game, of your choices are being told, one, that they don't matter and two, that they absolutely fucking matter.

01:45:28.337 --> 01:45:29.237
And that means a lot.

01:45:29.257 --> 01:45:30.017
It's really exciting.

01:45:30.237 --> 01:45:32.077
Yeah, and he prefers the happy ending.

01:45:32.537 --> 01:45:34.017
I think that is the canon ending.

01:45:34.797 --> 01:45:35.957
Anyway, here's the sad one.

01:45:35.977 --> 01:45:37.577
Yeah, the one that I get every time.

01:45:37.897 --> 01:45:43.377
The Little Sisters still help you kill Fontaine, but the final cutscene is very different.

01:45:44.417 --> 01:45:48.777
If you killed every single one, Tenenbaum speaks in a very angry tone.

01:45:50.757 --> 01:45:59.417
And if you did any combination of saving and harvesting, even if it's just one off, she speaks more melancholy than angry, but the words and scene are exactly the same.

01:46:00.397 --> 01:46:06.257
Tenenbaum says, the Sisters offered you everything, and you gave them brutality in return.

01:46:06.417 --> 01:46:07.017
Yeah.

01:46:07.297 --> 01:46:12.297
You forcefully grab a little Sister and pull her towards you as she looks at you in fear.

01:46:13.297 --> 01:46:17.457
The scene transition, and there's a large submarine on the surface of the water.

01:46:18.317 --> 01:46:23.297
It's at the base of the lighthouse from the start of the game, and they're digging through the wreckage from the plane crash.

01:46:24.417 --> 01:46:27.177
Suddenly, a bathysphere pops up out of the water.

01:46:28.317 --> 01:46:36.097
Tenenbaum says that, even with all of Rapture under your control, after a time, it still wasn't enough for you.

01:46:37.237 --> 01:46:42.757
As she says this, two dozen more bathyspheres rise up out of the water.

01:46:43.417 --> 01:46:48.437
A door to one of them flies off, and a hook-handed Splicer comes flying out of it.

01:46:49.337 --> 01:46:53.597
It lands on the submarine, and kills the men searching the wreckage.

01:46:53.917 --> 01:47:03.817
We see it run down the hull of the sub, and the camera stops over a nuclear bomb being carried by the submarine, implying very dark times are on the horizon.

01:47:04.997 --> 01:47:06.717
The scene fades to black.

01:47:07.437 --> 01:47:07.657
Ugh.

01:47:08.257 --> 01:47:08.817
The end.

01:47:09.017 --> 01:47:09.957
It's such a good game.

01:47:10.617 --> 01:47:12.877
And that was Bioshock.

01:47:13.037 --> 01:47:14.177
Hell yeah, it was.

01:47:14.197 --> 01:47:15.197
That was so much fun.

01:47:16.057 --> 01:47:17.057
Oh, my God.

01:47:17.077 --> 01:47:22.797
That game is just so fucking groundbreaking and so good and holds up today.

01:47:22.817 --> 01:47:26.217
This was the first time I'd played it, probably in 12 years.

01:47:26.477 --> 01:47:26.917
Really?

01:47:27.097 --> 01:47:31.817
Yeah, I hadn't played this game in so long, and I didn't realize that it had been that long.

01:47:31.837 --> 01:47:33.177
It was so fucking fun.

01:47:33.217 --> 01:47:33.897
Good.

01:47:34.137 --> 01:47:34.917
Good for you.

01:47:34.937 --> 01:47:36.897
Oh, I'm so happy with it, yeah.

01:47:37.177 --> 01:47:40.717
And I'm happy we were able to give it the justice that it deserved with this episode.

01:47:40.797 --> 01:47:47.857
That's one of the games we have a hard copy of on Switch, so when we go to airports, we can have a game we can play without Wi-Fi and shit like that.

01:47:48.537 --> 01:47:49.957
Ugh, it's a perfect game.

01:47:49.977 --> 01:47:51.637
That's like a staple in the catalog.

01:47:52.117 --> 01:47:52.837
It really is.

01:47:52.937 --> 01:47:55.137
And thank you so much for coming along on that journey.

01:47:55.157 --> 01:47:57.737
If this was your first episode, that's what we do on this show.

01:47:57.757 --> 01:47:58.737
Check out some other games.

01:47:59.077 --> 01:48:00.297
We get weird with it.

01:48:00.317 --> 01:48:00.917
We do.

01:48:00.937 --> 01:48:01.717
We try to.

01:48:01.737 --> 01:48:03.037
Oh, this was so much fun.

01:48:03.437 --> 01:48:07.697
I love the Patrick and Moira twists almost as much as the Would You Kindly twist.

01:48:07.717 --> 01:48:08.097
Right?

01:48:08.157 --> 01:48:09.037
It's so great.

01:48:09.657 --> 01:48:17.057
So yes, we do operate on a season schedule here at The Other Castle, so we just finished up our season six just a couple months ago.

01:48:17.337 --> 01:48:19.937
We've got season seven, which we are happy to announce.

01:48:19.957 --> 01:48:21.877
It starts on August 30th.

01:48:21.957 --> 01:48:23.017
Whoo!

01:48:23.157 --> 01:48:29.197
So we'll start season seven then, so please make sure that you are subscribed to us so that way you get reminded when we drop.

01:48:29.597 --> 01:48:35.257
And then also, if you want to see us in the meantime, we do have a Twitch channel as well now.

01:48:35.457 --> 01:48:37.797
Yeah, every Friday at 8:30 p.m.

01:48:38.057 --> 01:48:42.857
Pacific Standard Time, we are going to be running through games we've mostly covered on the show.

01:48:42.917 --> 01:48:45.877
We are wrapped on Ghost of Tsushima, if you want to watch that.

01:48:45.897 --> 01:48:48.457
That's on our Twitch and on our YouTube the next day.

01:48:48.657 --> 01:48:51.437
We've got Goose Game in there, and we've got more stuff coming up.

01:48:51.697 --> 01:48:55.837
We actually decide on what games to do through our Discord and polls on our Instagram.

01:48:55.857 --> 01:48:59.577
So if you also want to see us do something specific, let us know.

01:48:59.597 --> 01:49:05.237
Yeah, and you can find links to our Discord and our Instagram at our website, theothercastlepodcast.com.

01:49:05.257 --> 01:49:09.657
That's the othercastlepodcast.com that's also linked in the show notes of this episode.

01:49:09.697 --> 01:49:13.197
Yeah, and there you can sign up for our newsletter, which comes out every month as well.

01:49:13.217 --> 01:49:16.597
We have merchandise, which we're going to do a new round of merchandise very soon.

01:49:17.657 --> 01:49:19.657
And of course, we have a Patreon.

01:49:19.997 --> 01:49:21.057
Our Patreon.

01:49:21.237 --> 01:49:28.197
So we want to talk about our Patreon real quick in that we are going to fully and completely change what it is and how it works.

01:49:28.677 --> 01:49:33.817
We had separate tiers, we had all sorts of goodies and stuff, but we're going to just simplify it down.

01:49:33.837 --> 01:49:36.537
We're going to give you monthly episodes still.

01:49:36.897 --> 01:49:40.797
Every single month, new episodes will air that are outside of the season.

01:49:40.817 --> 01:49:45.837
They will consist of different things like side quests, DLCs, things like that.

01:49:46.317 --> 01:49:48.077
And we're only going to charge $2.

01:49:48.417 --> 01:49:48.897
That's it.

01:49:48.997 --> 01:49:49.477
That's it.

01:49:49.597 --> 01:49:51.197
$2 to join our Patreon.

01:49:51.277 --> 01:49:53.637
Come on, join us, have fun with us.

01:49:53.637 --> 01:49:57.637
It'll automatically sign you up for the newsletter, automatically get you in the Discord as well.

01:49:57.857 --> 01:50:00.237
But those are both things that you can just sign up for whenever you like.

01:50:00.297 --> 01:50:07.157
Yeah, and you will have access to our entire back catalog, including some episodes that are not publicly available anymore.

01:50:07.357 --> 01:50:10.277
And of course, those exclusive Patreon-only episodes.

01:50:10.297 --> 01:50:17.697
So if you just fill in a craving or if you want to binge it, all access, $2, and we appreciate you.

01:50:17.897 --> 01:50:21.357
Yes, we've done great episodes on games like Tetris over there.

01:50:21.377 --> 01:50:24.057
We've done the Iki Island DLC to Ghost of Tsushima.

01:50:24.357 --> 01:50:27.037
And you've got Pokemon Go coming up.

01:50:27.857 --> 01:50:29.017
Oh, yes, I do.

01:50:29.337 --> 01:50:31.197
I fucking love Pokemon Go.

01:50:31.437 --> 01:50:32.977
I'm still playing.

01:50:32.997 --> 01:50:34.517
It started 2016.

01:50:35.137 --> 01:50:36.137
I'm getting ahead of myself.

01:50:36.577 --> 01:50:40.177
And it's going to be our first full and complete mobile game.

01:50:40.237 --> 01:50:45.417
Yeah, we had some games that have been on iOS and Android, but this one's just mobile, which is kind of fun.

01:50:45.877 --> 01:50:50.537
There's a kind of a general bingo card in my head where we try to hit every kind of game.

01:50:50.857 --> 01:50:52.637
You know, mobile was a tricky one to get.

01:50:52.657 --> 01:50:53.257
What am I going to do?

01:50:53.277 --> 01:50:54.217
Be like, angry birds.

01:50:54.817 --> 01:50:55.837
Them birds angry.

01:50:56.577 --> 01:50:56.897
Right?

01:50:57.397 --> 01:50:58.377
No, I can't do it.

01:50:58.397 --> 01:51:04.757
I'm not going to unravel the Merge Mansion mystery that for some reason has Pedro Pascal in it now.

01:51:05.617 --> 01:51:08.997
He's canonical to that mobile game as the detective.

01:51:09.157 --> 01:51:10.257
You and I will talk about this offline.

01:51:10.277 --> 01:51:11.037
We're going to have to, yeah.

01:51:11.057 --> 01:51:12.277
Because it's fucking crazy.

01:51:12.297 --> 01:51:15.017
And he's so stupidly handsome.

01:51:16.197 --> 01:51:17.797
But anyway, we are so excited.

01:51:18.037 --> 01:51:26.437
Patreon's a really great outlet for us to do some more experimental things and give you guys updates and more behind the scenes of other episodes.

01:51:26.457 --> 01:51:28.757
We always do a season wrap up with...

01:51:28.837 --> 01:51:33.517
Sometimes we address things that have come up in the I'm actually channel of the Discord.

01:51:33.837 --> 01:51:37.977
Come up with other fan theories that we want to discuss that just didn't make it to the full episode.

01:51:37.997 --> 01:51:39.297
Sometimes these got real long.

01:51:40.037 --> 01:51:42.937
But we are having so much fun, and we are having so much fun on the Discord.

01:51:42.957 --> 01:51:44.237
We're having so much fun on Twitch.

01:51:44.477 --> 01:51:45.557
It's just a good time.

01:51:45.577 --> 01:51:52.717
So if you want to activate in the community a little bit, hang out with us, get more out of what you want out of this show.

01:51:52.737 --> 01:51:54.077
It's a great place to do it.

01:51:54.577 --> 01:52:01.057
Yeah, and just I want to say thank you to all of the patrons that we've had already that did do the tier system that we started with.

01:52:01.557 --> 01:52:17.877
I want to start again with Molly Mock Shepherd and Krisha for just joining us, as well as Jackie, Jacob, Ellen, Zaccasi, Steamed Hams, Jake, Melanie, Nathan, and our first ever patron, Teejian.

01:52:18.577 --> 01:52:20.077
Thank you all so very much.

01:52:20.097 --> 01:52:24.657
It is greatly appreciated, and we hope you keep hanging out with us at a lower price tier.

01:52:24.677 --> 01:52:25.917
I feel like that's better, right?

01:52:26.117 --> 01:52:32.237
Yeah, we want to get more of you able to be involved with it, and that'll keep you with episodes, like I said, during the off seasons.

01:52:32.657 --> 01:52:35.157
And we still air episodes during this season as well.

01:52:35.557 --> 01:52:37.457
Yes, and I'm so excited for season seven.

01:52:37.557 --> 01:52:40.397
I have a bunch of games that I'm really excited for.

01:52:40.497 --> 01:52:43.377
One is one that I've loved for decades.

01:52:43.757 --> 01:52:47.017
And I've been playing it nonstop, and the music's stuck in my head right now.

01:52:47.097 --> 01:52:50.957
So I need to go play it a little bit more just to get the music stuck out of my head.

01:52:50.977 --> 01:52:56.137
But thank you so much for taking us on such an incredible journey to Rapture, my second home.

01:52:56.397 --> 01:52:59.497
Yes, and we have Bioshock 2 already available.

01:52:59.517 --> 01:53:00.877
You can go listen to that right now.

01:53:01.657 --> 01:53:05.897
And if you were playing Bioshock with us, I'm sorry and good luck.

01:53:06.217 --> 01:53:11.777
But if you like a Bioshock piece of merch that is on our merch store on our website, theothercastlepodcast.com.

01:53:11.797 --> 01:53:13.837
That's the othercastlepodcast.com.

01:53:13.857 --> 01:53:14.657
This is a fun one.

01:53:14.677 --> 01:53:15.997
I'm excited for season 7.

01:53:16.017 --> 01:53:16.697
I am too.

01:53:16.777 --> 01:53:17.737
I'm excited to come back.

01:53:17.797 --> 01:53:20.877
All right, Goombas, thank you so much for going on that journey with us.

01:53:21.417 --> 01:53:23.297
And this is Tom and Andrea reminding you.

01:53:23.357 --> 01:53:26.617
Would you kindly hit subscribe so you get episode notifications?

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