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The much-praised message, as I understand it, was mostly ''racism is bad, jingoism is bad, and religious fundamentalism is the worst'', which, no offence, is neither particularly interesting nor particularly daring. It is going with the political flow and taking potshots at thoroughly discredited ideologies from a safe, popular vantage point - A Mind Forever Voyaging it ain't.

Yes but this is a "Level 0" reading of Infinite. There is more :P

Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S.

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Maybe. But do I have to wade through a lot of questionable gameplay in an unresponsive, shallow setting to get to the good bits? And are they really good? The first Bioshock left me entirely dissatisfied in that respect.

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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Maybe. But do I have to wade through a lot of questionable gameplay in an unresponsive, shallow setting to get to the good bits? And are they really good? The first Bioshock left me entirely dissatisfied in that respect.

It basically boils down to "all games are the same". Just like BS1 had "control in games is an illusion".

You can call me Phi, Numbers, Digits, Ratio, 16, 1618, or whatever really, as long as it's not Phil.

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Yes but this is a "Level 0" reading of Infinite. There is more :P

 

If you mean the multiple universe stuff tacked onto the ending, I didn't like that at all! It felt completely out of place and I think it would have been much more consistent if the game had ended at the doors to Rapture with the DLCs following there and nothing more. Besides the twist at the end is once again the old SS/BS twist, only now taken to the extreme.

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It's the reason of "Infinite" :P

And an homage to early 1900s quantum physics birth.

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Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S.

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It's the reason of "Infinite" :P

 

Yeah, but seeing the other pairs was completely inconsistent and as already said broke the fourth wall badly. I mean all dimension changes before did work differently, why should there suddenly be a dimension with other dimensions visible inside? Also a lot of the audio tape "explanations" were pure Technobabble and I already hated that in Star Trek ;)!

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