Everything GREAT About Bioshock!

"A man chooses. A slave obeys" Is a line seared into my brain. Such an amazing game.

Bioshock might be one of the best games of all time the story, the art, the creativity of the city and abilities. As a kid I was so scared of the start and the characters. All just amazing and beautiful. Can’t wait for the next one

16:06 What's funny about that is that there really isn't that much of a difference in the amount of ADAM you get, you can rescue all the Little Sisters and you still get all the ADAM you'll likely need.

I recently started playing the remastered version and it didn't disappoint, the game mechanics of plasmids and guns are even today a revolutionary idea to gameplay

I really, really hope you do Bioshock 2 as well after this. It got a lot of flak when it had to stand next to the first game, but I really enjoyed its more self-contained story and emotional connection. Possibly even more than the first one. Plus, the multiple endings there feel like they make more sense, since you're influencing someone else's idea of what is right and wrong.

I started playing the series in chronological order and I’m currently at Bioshock 1. And I gotta say playing this game right after Burial At Sea Part 2 is something else.

Until Bioshock horror games I’ve never touched and still haven’t but when I saw the Big Daddy it opened my eyes to how horror games can have amazing character designs

This might be a controversial opinion but I actually think having the two endings actually works great on a narrative level. The big twist when you get to Ryan as many have pointed out is a brilliant deconstruction of the concept of "player choice" because as it points out we are doing what the developers intended regardless of which "choice" we make in video games. But if you look at it from a narrative perspective, Jack thanks to the mind control implanted on him never had any ability to choose for himself until that moment where he corners the first little sister since Fountaine did not want to risk showing his hand to Jack at this point and that choice ultimately comes to define him. He can become every bit the monster that both Ryan and Fountaine were, killing and exploiting others for his own benefit leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake without a shred of remorse or humanity. Or he can rise above his fathers and as Tenenbaum put it give the Little Sisters what was stolen from them by the monsters of Rapture, a chance. Additionally, the good ending has Jack not only rise above his fathers, but it is also serves as great middle finger to Ayn Rand and her repugnant beliefs.

Atlas being the same name of a god banished by the Greek gods to carry the sky after leading the titans against the gods is also pretty neat reference.

One thing I don't think many people know is that in fallout: New Vegas is that if you beat Mr house to death with a golf club, you gain the achievement "a man chooses, a slave obeys", inspired by this game

What you stated in the beginning of his surface world life. jack isn’t that old. He probably didn’t have much of a surface life to begin with given his role. Due to the very genetic modifications and memory implanting by Suchong, Jack thinks he’s lived a normal full life, but in reality he’s only four or five years old at the time of the game. But due to the alterations he has the build and mind of a 24 year old. He was smuggled out of rapture in 1958 and Fontaine states he was no more than two, he returns in 1960

I always go for the good ending and it never fails to get me misty eyed

One thing to note about Point Prometheus is that Mary Shelly's Frankenstein has the subtitle, 'a modern day Prometheus'. And it is indeed at point Prometheus that the most Frankensteinian experiments took place, Ryan even calls the bog daddies Frankensteins at one point. And the proving grounds were Raptures natural and scientific museum at one point. So all in all Atlas/Fontaine has quite literally placed himself at the pinnacle of Rapture, and through his injection of ADAM has ascended to the status of a true titan. Point Prometheus is also in the tallest building in Rapture and located at Olympus heights. with Prometheus of Greek mythology being a titan that would climb to the top op Mt Olympus, home of the gods. In rapture, the residents of Olympus Heights were equally the elite.

I'd love to see Gaming Wins take on something fun and silly like "Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero".

36:30 I always saw it as Ryan daring Jack to break free from his conditioning. Ryan respects his objectivist philosophy. A tool designed to free the mind from all constraint. So he tries to impart his wisdom onto Jack. To free him. By bluntly confronting Jack with the alternative. Being a slave inside his own body. He gave his life, on his own terms, in the hope his philosophy might free his killer. Something something died for our sins.

Always love it when people talk about how they feel about Bioshock. Interested on seeing your view on Bioshock 2, Infinite, and DLCs.

The first introduction to the city send a shiver down my spine every single time

Oh man i remember when bioshock at the head of the debait of weather or not "Are video games art ?" and man I remember the BioShock series fondly. Bioshock was the one the prime games that was used for the side of video games are art. I would love to see you do the other BioShock games especially the infinite and burial at sea DLC with how that DLC sets up Bioshock One's story line.

Played it after College. Mom banned M games due to my younger siblings, but I could rent it and play it at night after everyone went to bed. Which was... a thing. I ended up having to return it RIGHT after Julie Langford was murdered and I harbored intense guilt over that for years since I wanted to fulfil her dying wish. Irrational, yes. But I love it and 2. Brigid Freaking Tenenbaum is one of my favorite characters of all time anywhere (her and Cyan Garamonde) due to her massive pre game character arc that is just WONDERFUL. And then Mark has to go and be great too. I miss Something in the Sea. Honestly surprised you didn't talk about Brigid in the video. I'm not sure where to put her in, but she has some large parallels to everything and also survives Rapture.

I would love to see a Spec Ops: The Line video one day soon. It’s a thought I’ve had a lot watching this channel, but especially hearing you dive more into the philosophical, psychological side of the story of BioShock, I think you’d find a lot to love and think about there. Plus the morality choices offered in that game are a much better true test of a player’s moral beliefs, since there’s never really obvious right or wrong answers and it‘s more about determining what actions you can live with yourself for taking. It took a bit of a toll on me the first time I played it, and I’d be really interested to hear your thoughts on it because of it.