AMFP Member Review Thread

[MyRedNeptune]

SurvivalHorror, just to let you know, Bioshock Infinite is a complete utter crap, especially with the story.
The insulting goes other way around.

Really? I was quite impressed with Infinite's story. The pacing was good, the themes were cleverly built into the plot, and the twist was great. I perceived it as a family drama from the start, though. The main fault of the game was that the story felt quite disconnected, and the combat ruined it. It would have worked well as a movie.

For me Bioshock Infinite story is just a melting pot of forced exposition and fragmented ideas, none of them were really meaningful and developed. It becomes even more of a mess towards the ending with pretentious theories of parallel universes, which is for me desperately trying to divert our attention from overall blandness and emptiness of the game, Bioshock Infinite is the Inception of video games. However it does have some nice, even beautiful moments here and there, but on the larger scale it failed. And yes combat and other aspects of the gameplay were hideous.

I'm not sure why you find the parallel universes pretentious. The theme is present from the very start till the end of the game. I didn't feel like it was slapped on at all. Can you elaborate?

Also, there's considerable scientific evidence supporting their existence in real life - just a cool fact.

What I enjoyed the most was probably how the main character's memories and thinking were changed to fit his situation when he was carried into the alternate universe, but on a structural level remained homologous to the original ones - it was quite clever, not to mention psychological.

It bears resemblance to how in real life we are drawn to stories, characters and themes that remind us of our own lives and experiences. If you take the time to dig into the messages in your favorite works of art, note how you perceive them, and then connect your findings together, you can be surprised on how deep the patterns can go, all while the selective process that governs our tastes remains mostly unconscious. Somehow, the mind always finds a way to see these patterns, and in many cases it is more clever that our "conscious self" (I hate using those words). I find it pretty fascinating, and I was interested to see Bioshock Infinite touch on this theme of psychoanalysis.