r/Bioshock • • 2h ago

Media BioShock Minecraft progress

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r/Bioshock • • 57m ago

Discussion Infinite - the good, the bad and the down right ugly Spoiler

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So I’ve been playing through the Bioshock series lately. I only experienced the first title when it launched; the others I didn’t get chance to play. I really enjoyed the original at the time. I want to share my opinion, explaining why Infinite felt lacking, and see whether anyone else holds different views.

The good:

The city of Columbia is remarkable. It is breathtaking and feels otherworldly, much like an underwater city—a flying city in the clouds with an early 20th-century atmosphere. The locations blend smoothly like a genuine, lived-in place.
The vigors are impressive; I liked them because they felt like a fresh change to the other two Bioshock games.

The bad:

The combat involves waves of enemies that you face with only two guns. It changes entirely from the first two games, where combat often meant being ambushed while thinking your were safe, very much a horror genre type feeling. It becomes incredibly repetitive; each new area guarantees a set number of enemies and nothing more. Furthermore, the tears combat system felt irrelevant, without any really impact what so ever.
The world, though incredible looking, feels empty, offering almost no reason to explore. I found a voxaphone—fine—but the content was unclear and so minor that I would reach the end of the game and have completely forgotten its content. I loved piecing together details in Bioshock 1 and 2, learning about the city, the story, and the citizens’ feelings; in infinite, almost everything seemed meaningless.
They had a strong chance to make fascism central and impactful, but instead settled on “if the shoe was on the other foot.” It felt poorly done the moment Daisy was about to kill Fink’s boy.

The ugly:
The narrative altered a lot from the other games, breaking immersion; even now, I feel cheated of my time playing the game. The appeal of Bioshock 1 and 2 lay in the storys plausibility: a city beneath the sea collapsing into chaos and dystopia through a manic leader and a miracle drug. In Infinite, the shift toward multiverse tears drove so many bloody events and confusion, then asked you to care.

Bioshock 1 and 2 did not confuse the audience; they allowed story immersion at any play-style. Searching every corner rewarded you with deeper insight into characters and the city’s decay in real time, yet a less investigative path still offered a clear story. Infinite lacks this. I know this better than anyone because I explored every knuck and cranny, hoping to be rewarded as I was in 1 and 2, only to receive a multiverse ending; I felt I had wasted 40 hours on a lazy explanation.

Unless limited to one universe versus another, multiverse stories feel lazy and dull because nothing truly matters. Booker died 122 times before, but we must save the people—who cares? Everyone differs; my Booker is one in a million, so it lacks reality or importance.

In the end, Elizabeth drowns Booker, Comstock dies, and everything that occurred—again, across a thousand disconnected alternative universes—did not happen, and then what? That’s good is it? That’s rewarding?

I was extremely disappointed. What did you think?


r/Bioshock • • 11h ago

Fan Art/Crafts Blue Morpho taxidermy to add to my Bioshock shrine.

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We went to a Witches and Wiccans craft fair today in a nearby town. I was looking through the taxidermy and came across a Blue Morpho. Once we move into a bigger spot, I plan on displaying it near my other Bioshock collectibles.


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Discussion Batim is literally BioShock and I never realized that until now

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During my first playthrough of BioShock 1, I kept thinking about how everything it offered me felt oddly familiar. The setting, the audio logs, the infrastructure, the gameplay, the weapons, etc. And it was only now that I realized that I was basically playing Bendy and the Ink Machine but with a broader color palette. They’re both horror-survival adjacent (at least Batim is), both protags have a plot explanation for respawning endlessly, the abandoned settings are hauntingly beautiful, anyone still living there has gone crazy and violent with time, you get to meet or fight important people from before the collapse, and both of the antagonists are Walt Disney-esque entrepreneurs who directly caused the downfall of their respective domains. Yes, I know the two games are very different from each other, and yes, I know BioShock came before Batim.

TLDR: As someone who both knew Batim intimately when it first released and only played BioShock recently, I noticed they have a lot of similarities.


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Media Haul from a (semi) local convention

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r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Discussion Tried to make Toasty in Hero Forge

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This is actually my first time ever using it. Went a little crazy with the blood.


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Cosplay I’m working on a prop for my Halloween costume

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I’m going as a splicer for Halloween and I just finished making the pipe :D


r/Bioshock • • 18h ago

Discussion Bioshock comabt does get better

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Finally played one of the most popular fps

The setting and story telling was exceptional

And andrew ryan was a very well written character , his speech blew my mind

Now thats all good things

Lets talk about what I felt a little disappointing in the start

The combat

First of all I would recommend not to use mouse scroll for changing weapons if you are playing on pc, that makes the combat even more slow

So the problem during the start of this game was everything died to shock + wrench combo, it was the most efficient way to kill that you don't feel like using anything else, that sounds like a me problem .... Well maybe but no , because you gotta save all your inventory to dump it on the big daddies, the first time fighting them was truly an experience but after that it becomes a chore , a resource check that takes a lot of time, and they are the bosses in the game so basically you gotta do this twice or thrice in same arena

But fortunately later enemies get stronger and no one really dies to shock wrench anymore, so yeah thats good, finally making us use other weapons (now they die to freeze+ shoot lol)

As for big daddies, you later become very strong with search, plastids and weapon upgrade. So taking them down becomes much easier, even for the elite ones, infact now you can make combos of multiple plastids and weapons

Making them go down in seconds is kinda fun

What I wished this game had, more actual bosses.

The final boss isn't hard to beat but I am glad it existed.

I get it that bioshock is more about exploration and immersion in the world of rapture but I wished it had more bosses to increase the momentum of gameplay

Still I had a fun time, I get it why its a classic and I can't wait to play the next one

8.5/10


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Media Bioshock Infinite Dual Screen Wallpapers

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I figured I don't have any Bioshock Infinite wallpapers for dual screen, so I decided to create some while I was on early game.


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Discussion Which BioShock games should I have my friend play?

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Am doing a Game Deal Exchange with a friend currently playing Resident Evil 2 (Remake), who wants me to play it as well in exchange for any game of similar length coming from me. Now I haven't played any of the BioShock games in ages, other than Infinite ~9 years ago? Barely remember playing the others, other than liking the storyline... though I really don't remember a lot at all.

So which shall I recommend?


r/Bioshock • • 2d ago

Fan Art/Crafts Stay Awake with Salts!

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That blue and silver dye mixed perfectly! Check em out and a few others I finished up today at TheTracePixel on Etsy. Enjoy!!


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Discussion Renate Reinsve as Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum

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r/Bioshock • • 2d ago

Media Parallelism

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When all is said and done, it’s still her... Somewhere


r/Bioshock • • 2d ago

Media New gym poster!

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r/Bioshock • • 2d ago

Discussion Found my Songbird and key collectibles after I thought they were lost.

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Divorce is a bitch. Super happy I still have this.


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Discussion Is it me, or is Burial at Sea a lot harder than Infinite?

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I finally got started on this thing, and I'm dying at a pace far above Infinite. Maybe I'm just being too stingy with my ammo, or maybe it's that there's generally less space to move around, but the splicers just seem to hit a lot harder than the Columbians.


r/Bioshock • • 1d ago

Discussion How in the world does Jack live a normal life in the good ending of 1?

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I have played this game like 3 times getting the good ending and it makes me cry every time, but I always hate the last little bit of the game where you're forced to turn into a big daddy. I like the idea but the execution is just bad.

I get the limitations of the game, but the game really makes it seem like Jack just puts on a helmet, shoes, and part of a suit (his arms are clearly still his normal arms)

And big daddies are grafted into their suits, and have vocal surgeries where they can only make weird groaning noises. They also smell terrible but you can get by with that.

How does Jack live a normal life with his adopted daughters even if he apparently gets the suit off? He still makes weird groaning noises over talking. In the 60s, American Sign Language started to become more widespread, but to the average person just he just not talk?

I get the sisters could understand him because i doubt they could just forget being able to speak Big Daddy, but still. I wonder how Jack can live this good of a life smelling

"It's a one way street" my ass.


r/Bioshock • • 3d ago

Media brute does the family guy's dead pose

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who knew the guys behind bioshock where such family guy fans


r/Bioshock • • 2d ago

Discussion So the protagonist of Bioshock 1 how old is he physically and biologically?

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r/Bioshock • • 3d ago

Media System Shock 2 Anniversary Edition is now free on Epic Games

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25th Anniversary Edition is now free until October 5th I believe.


r/Bioshock • • 3d ago

Discussion Bioshock 1 Booker "Retelling" idea

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I know this might sound funny, but I've always sometimes kinda thought how interesting it would be if there was a type of "Retelling" of the original Bioshock where it would be Booker instead of Jack, but instead of being from the 1910s, Booker would've probably been a WW2 Veteran instead. I was also thinking that instead genetically engineered, or Booker would've probably been seen type of "MK Ultra/experimental therapy" type of thing because of his PTSD/guilt and war crimes he had committed. I also think it would be REALLY interesting if the plane actually did crash on accident and Booker just so happened to end up in Rapture, but the "Would you kindly?" plot twist would be more like Booker finally fully remembering his past actions and the war crimes he committed during WW2 too. While I understand why that probably wouldn't really work, but it would mostly just be a "Alternate Universe/What If?" type of thing too. That's just what I think, though. :)


r/Bioshock • • 2d ago

Discussion Voicelines in different languages

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This might be a reach, but as a languages & sound design nerd I've been curious to hear how well the voice actors in different languages compare to the English VAs. Sadly the Wiki doesn't seem to have the audio files outside of English.

Unfortunately I only have access to the game on my Switch as my computer is ancient and dying and probably couldn't run Bioshock.

Is there somewhere out there where the voices (both from the audio logs and radio transmissions) have been archived like the English voicelines have? I've found someone on Youtube who's uploaded a compilation of the French voices but I'm a total audio file hoarder and like having the raw files.

Again I might be barking up the wrong tree here but I would love to be able to hear all of the dubs without having to replay the games in each language (as fun as that might be...)

(P.S. the link in the FAQ about pulling sounds from the game shows an error 404 - again, my PC is busted right now anyway so pulling files myself isn't possible presently, but if I haven't gotten anywhere with this by the time I get a new PC - which might be a while - I'll look into it)

Thanks!


r/Bioshock • • 4d ago

Discussion Out of the 3 protagonists (Jack, Subject Delta, Booker) who do you think win in a fight with each other?

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r/Bioshock • • 2d ago

Discussion What would BioShock look like with DLSS 5?

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someone needs to test it


r/Bioshock • • 3d ago

Discussion I made a Video analyzing Sofia Lamb mind

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