Is it actually possible to avoid alerting some of them? Playing on hard it seemed pretty automatic that they responded
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Is it actually possible to avoid alerting some of them? Playing on hard it seemed pretty automatic that they responded
i don't remember but they made an action figure for them so they were probably very early in development for that to happen. the only other Infinite action figure is Elizabeth.
They're in the Heavy Hitter promotional videos.
Concept art also suggests that they weren't a "late" edition.
Agreed.
I would have liked to have seen them employed more, but I suppose much was whittled away through attrition and what we got was where they fit best in the narrative's scope before the game's structure was finalized.
Their original implementation had them absorbing sound, and if they absorbed enough, they'd attack. Their goal was to force you to use quieter weapons/walk and not spring, but then there were issues of playtesters not realizing what was going on...no real way of knowing what the Boys were doing without being told directly in game...and so on.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Sucks that they were used as promotional material. Never killed one on my first playthrough. Only cool thing about them is that they caught me off guard by pulling a bio 1 on me.
on both my hard playthrough and my 1999 playthrough i didn't alert any of them. though i almost did on my 1999 one because i accidently swapped weapons, and i had the ghost ally gear and that thing started shooting at the boy of silence. luckily its aim is abysmal and that the boys of silences are deaf
José Mourinho
cocknose
This, is I guess why I find it so confusing. If drowning one Booker -- the one we play as -- solves the issue of any split timelines after the fact. Then surely that's the end of all Bookers henceforth? He can't make the decision to walk away from the baptism because he's drowned just before it. And if you're correct, and every timeline leads to the baptism -- which now leads to certain drowning death -- then he can't go on to have other timelines with Anna as others have suggested.
BioShock Infinite feels like a build your own plot to me. Either because I'm stupid, or the story really isn't as good as everybody thinks it is.
Buckethead
Banned
It annoys me how they put "Revenge of the Jedi" in French.
The title would be "Revenge of the Jedi" anywhere in the the world, so I'm guessing they ran into a copyright issue.
The title would be "Revenge of the Jedi" anywhere in the the world, so I'm guessing they ran into a copyright issue.
Shooting them does nothing. I thought I was supposed to snipe them from a distance but I kept hitting them and they would never die, so I just ran at them to get it over with.
Not even other universes are immune to the hypersensitivity of
Its called The Art of Bioshock Infinite and its available at your local Amazon.
in that case it's probably due to it scanning over my ghost gun ally. i wasn't sure if it looked at my gun because of the shooting or it just happened to scan in that particular direction. either way, my cover was almost blown by my carelessness
i just ordered that today, hehe
So, guys... I don't think the Songbird sound on BioShock 1 was intentional because Ken didn't have all planned out from day one. Except that part he did. But it's unlikely.
https://twitter.com/IGLevine/status/318940801218523137
https://twitter.com/IGLevine/status/318940801218523137
José Mourinho
cocknose
Snapped mine up the other day. Was just looking through the BioShock 2: Deco Devolution book yesterday. I love a good art book I do.
Entirely possible.Probably that
Shock...
But really, that was just people trying far to hard to find something where there was nothing.
What Andrew said.
BOOM!
But I would also like to hear a post-mortem of the game on Irrational's currently dormant podcast.
It's a shame Geoff Keighley didn't pen a "The Final Hours of..." feature on Infinite, much like he did for Half-Life 2 and Portal 2. Missed opportunity, man.
hey, that's my tweet!
Really? haha Sorry! That should have been your post too...
I was just more surprised to be browsing this thread and seeing one of my own tweets
i saw a few people i follow on Twitter say that.
It would, the silent protagonist in the original wouldn't have made for a very engaging movie, he's basically just talking to people on a radio the whole game. Elizabeth would translate much better.
I feel like you'd have to establish the "formula" with the first movie for all of the shit at the end to make sense.
The Xtortionist
Member
Kinda both. The universe itself corrects the paradox by wiping out the possibility of Booker accepting the baptism.
José Mourinho
cocknose
As I questioned just above, and hope for an answer soon as my brain hurts. How can Booker reject the baptism of he's drowned just before he gets to make the decision? It seems, according to some, that all roads lead to the baptism choice. If so, then surely all Bookers are dead?
Oh god damn it
EDIT and this...although I did see this one and forgot about it
heh
The Xtortionist
Member
Booker is drowned after accepting but before he fully becomes Comstock. He's basically both Booker and Comstock when Liz kills him.
Nah, I don't think you'd have to - the imagery of Rapture is awe-inspiring and intriguing as hell whether you're familiar with it or not. Even "a man, a lighthouse, a city" makes sense solely within the context of Infinite.
Escape Goat
Member
I picked up the Bioshock 1 and 2 pack at Best Buy today for $30. I hate all the backtracking but the style is so impressive its not enough of a pain for me to give up on it. I look forward to observing all the parallels between the two universes.
bodyofanamerican
Member
Am I missing something obvious or is there no easy way to track what voxaphones you're missing?
1. No
2. False dillemma
Oh god damn it
EDIT and this...although I did see this one and forgot about it
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Its setting, impetus, and characters are more accessible, but its ending absolutely is not.
It'd take an ambitious filmmaker willing to pour a lot of vitriol into the process and spend years working for just a mote of renumeration, but I suppose it could happen.
I just don't see how they'd be able to squeeze Columbia and its denizens into a modestly budgeted R-rated flick. There's no way any rational person would try to make this PG-13, and not studio head would okay the film with anything more than a $30-$40 million budget.
Which is the same thing that proved to be deleterious for the first proposed film adaptation of BioShock.
Although Ken Levine claimed that in this sojourn post-Infinite, he was mulling over trying to rewrite the film's script himself. Perhaps something will come out of that?
Shit another...getting these from the Bioshock subreddit
"Bioshock I starts in an airplane and then takes place in the ocean, where as in Infinite, it starts in a boat and then takes place in the sky. Kinda like a yin and yang relationship."
EDIT: and a good comparison that proves the Infinite time line is after the original game http://imgur.com/a/gllDv
"Bioshock I starts in an airplane and then takes place in the ocean, where as in Infinite, it starts in a boat and then takes place in the sky. Kinda like a yin and yang relationship."
EDIT: and a good comparison that proves the Infinite time line is after the original game http://imgur.com/a/gllDv
Levine is too good.
José Mourinho
cocknose
If that's so then that makes sense to me. But I don't recall any part of the game where you accept the baptism and are subsequently drowned. I remember him saying "I'm both". But it hadn't shown Booker accept the baptism. So presumably it was just implied?
Honestly, I had taken the "I'm both" quote to simply be Booker realizing that he could turn out to be either. But, at this point I can't remember the entire ending so perhaps they explained he had at that point accepted baptism and was then drowned.
Our pitiful brains...
The Xtortionist
Member
The Booker you play in the game is one that rejected baptism. Bookers that reject end up becoming gambling drunks that sell their daughters (Anna) to Comstocks from other dimensions.
After returning to the baptism a second time, I believe it was implied by 1. the priest finishing his speech and 2. different circumstances, Liz says "in some cases, you didn't (reject)" (paraphrase) and the other people are gone.
José Mourinho
cocknose
Makes sense I suppose. I'll rewatch on YouTube or something.
you should play through Bioshock 1