BioShock™ | Or, A Perfect Paradise Where Nothing Bad Ever Happens 

Im starting to think that Verac is just one of the voices in my head that can take control and has started a youtube channel on his own.

Any game is immediately better if you are allowed to create a bee based build

i was half expecting another "Verac Veracsplains to the woman that lives with him about the game." but getting her to play it so you can put it in the video is just as wholesome and enjoyable.

You notice by the ends that Verac was living in a low income environment as he had to walk to gamestop to obtain videogame. Me ,as a frenchman simply had to gro trough the cloud of smoke du to smoking as well as the wine press to the local merchant selling cereal boxes and video game magazine . this is how cool kid got video game

Verac really embraced his true self for that intro.

I just noticed, all three original Shock games use the Medical wing as their first level. It's an especially major fuck you in the original System Shock, because the Medical deck is Shodan's cyborg factory, and is fucking FULL of her lobotomized footsoldiers, not to mention it's where all the crew members who got infected by her mutagen virus were sent when they started showing symptoms, so it's chock full of goddamn mutants too, and at that point in the game you have a lead pipe, a dart gun, and a taser. I think most people don't get into System Shock 1 because, even after you get used to the control scheme, the game has no chill with the opening level and immediately brings the hammer down. Only the worthy may pass.

I saw Fauna play this game, it was seeing Mommy Nature walk through a failed utopian society all before she would collapse it since it now falls under her domain.

4:59 If anyone was wondering (probably not, but still...), Rapture is underwater because Ryan was convinced that humanity would be wiped out by nukes. Also Oceangate would have done really well down there...

The Toronto bit had me dying.

I would watch my father play this game when I was in middle school. We both got so into the story that my dad would set up many save files so he could show me cutscenes and audio tapes I might have missed because I had a set bedtime and he would want to keep playing the game while I was asleep. He would replay the save files (maybe replay them on hard difficulty) for me to catch up with the story. I remember him being so excited to show me the plot twist. I know it kept him up late playing but he was so happy to replay it again the next day for my reaction. When it came what to do with the Little sisters, my dad went the evil route to see what would happen and deleted that save file since he only had daughters irl and felt harvesting the little sisters was a deadly sin so I only saw the true good ending.

You forgot to mention that we had to do rocket jumps downhill and uphill. Lovely review, as usual!

Normally I skip over the RU-vid recommended because it's some creator that has put 0 effort into things. I'm incredibly glad I clicked this video.

We await the Monster Girl Quest review :)

I remember playing a wrench only run, which was the style at the ti-- Anyway, another great and funny video. Thanks Verac, and thanks Verac's roomba for the B-roll LUL

14:28 How Verac met his future free labor for life.

that intro does a fantastic job of basically explaining the entire premise xD

"I'll be the virgil to your dante" this line was the mark of a true writer

A modern day Bioshock review without a Titanic joke, that probably took restraint

I really agree with your stance on this. Even when you get audiotapes from victims of Rapture, after putting into perspective the grit of adam production and how pretty much everyone lapped plasmids up while knowing damn well that that orphanage wasn't charity, you get really cynical with everyone that isn't a Little Sister.

In a utopia who’s gonna scrub the toilets? That question answers whether you’re actually a utopia, or more likely a dystopia.

How did it take so long for me to find this channel. You're fantastic and I am now eternally subscribed.

How do you sum up Bioshock's plot in one sentence? "A bunch of rich people who don't want to pay taxes or obey laws create their own country, and it goes about as well as expected."

The Houdini Splicers really want you to think they're teleporting around, but don't believe their lies. The nerds are just turning invisible and sneaking around.

I actually really liked the second Bioshock all the more, due to the story and body horror biology science getting amped up. Pity the third and final entry into this series fell flat so badly, I swear, that games story is more about how a video game studio had ITS baby stolen and how none of THEIR choices mattered.

Bioshock has one of the best videogame plot reveals at the end. Its great because its a twist that is a suprise to both the player character Jack and also the player who is playing the game. Truly ahead of its time

Now you gave me the idea of Bioshock but there was this dinosaur obsessed scalie, now there is also dinosaur splicers, thank you for having the image burned into my mind.

Can't wait for you to review Bioshock 3, a thing that is absolutely gonna happen :))

The Ougi joke was really good, I appreciate that.

“Hey Jack can you test this golf club out for me?”

We appreciate the efforts of the Floor Gremlin

The masculine urge to do drugs and drown.

Bioshock infinite is not a bioshock game and nothing you can say will convince me otherwise

Ah...a classic of video game history and you didn't spoiled the fun, very good Verac!

Verac out here with nothing but back to back bangers

I always liked how bioshock can also be interepted as a game about player agency

What’s with libertarians and dying horribly underwater?

Man, everytime I think I love Verac more, he releases a video on one of my favs of all time. Thank you, you weird hero femboy cat-thing, you!

5:01 as a Toronto dwelling goblin myself, that would certainly have a positive effect on the housing market

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but that hacking minigame was originally released for the Amiga as “The Assembly Line” in 1989, and was repackaged and distributed by LucasArts in 91 as “Pipe Dream”. Used to be one of the only games I could play on my stepdad’s Mac when I was a kid. It holds up pretty well for a 35 year old design

This is the kind of content I love: shitpost level humor with actual analysis.

"Now, this might strike some viewers as harsh, but i believe everyone involved in this story should die" Based answer

5:00 the idea of airdropping kill dozers in like they are killstreak reward drops from a call of duty game is the best idea i have ever heard.

Welcome to rapture, a dreamers utopia! (As long as you have a case of thalassaphobia!)

Verac i would just like the say thank you, you give me hours and hours of content to watch comfortably over and over again when i'm tired, havin' a bad day, whatever. even when i'm just doomscrolling and can't find anything to really catch my attention there you are. screaming your schizophrenic illusions frantically into your mic for us all to hear. thank you for how much effort you put in and i truly hope you continue to grow and enjoy this line of work. you'll have our support till the end. ♥

Well i mean... Adam kindly asked us to help. How anyone can say no to this?

You see Verac, Rapture was going perfectly well until they started letting "them" in the city

A man chooses. A verac obeys.

Hey, hey, the libertarian Utopia was completely fine and sustainable until they added literal magic (plasmids) into the populace. So to be 'that guy': "UGHHH, IT WASN'T TRUUUUUUUUE LIBERTARIANISM, TRUE LIBERTARIANISM HASN'T BEEN TRIEEEEEEED" "UHHHH, ACKTUAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY".

Babe wake up, new Verac video

I love seeing you cover single player games

I have a semi love/hate relationship with this game since I love the setting and the amount of different options you get, but the shooter gameplay is about as soggy as its environment compared to some more polished games of the genre and some of the story moments feel really stupid in hindsight when you think about them. 10/10 I hope everyone plays this game at least once, because there's nothing like unleashing a swarm of bees on your enemies like they just stepped into a mid-summer outdoor barbecue and the family insists that they eat outdoors.

That pajama sam pic activated flashbacks. How are you so precise with these hits to my psyche.

The ed edd n eddy sumo sound effect when the big daddy chucked the splicer through the window made me laugh hard af. God thank you 🤣

Best part? We're actually getting a System Shock 3 game now. Which is sort of weird, since Bioshock Infinite came out with acclaimed praise and a sold like hotcakes (even though it was hot dog water in quality)

This is weird timing because I just finished Bioshock 10 days ago Edit: also, thanks for not spoiling anything for the people who haven’t played it even though this game came out when I was a little baby

I remember Bioshock as being interesting, but overly memed at that time. Pretty much all of the contemporary games included a reference to the twist and Andrew's favorite saying. Like how System Shock 2 was somewhat spoiled by everyone memeing it to death.

Where it went wrong was due to Ryan not having watched Spielbergs acclaimed cinematic adaption of Michael Critons Jurassic Park and had Goldblum give his glorious wisdom of "you got so caught up in if you could but did not consider if you should". No excuse for it either cause according to Infinite; suchong and fitz were dicking around with timelines so there is no reason for them not to have dropped by 1993 and enjoyed the cinema masterpiece of Jurassic Park. Fools, the whole lot of em

Im so glad i found this channel, your videos are hilarious. I think only Therussianbadger could make me laugh this much during a video.

"CANADA IS RIGHT THERE!" cracked me up SOOOOOOOOOO hard 🤣

Ugh, I hated Capri Sun growing up. Was pissed off whenever it was in my lunch. I always had headaches after drinking it. Then I learned years later that the pouches had fungal and lint infections. No wonder I felt sick, that drink sucked!

Replace Adam with Fentanyl & you get L.A

Roomba wife 😂

Fun fact: the first mobile game I ever downloaded was basically a carbon copy of the BioShock hacking minigame because I wanted to play it more

re: that review: if BioShock was the first game to make you feel something, then you haven't played many good games

5:08 The Toronto bit is kinda fuckin true. You’d have activists of all varieties on your side just to change what’s goin down

I was waiting for a new video from you :) I’ve watched most of them already

8:57 It is like a prism of Verac... How many Verac before implosion?

5:01 Bold claim to make, because Canada is well known for its proficiency in war crimes, and for its ferocity when hockey and maple syrup are threatened.

Blessed with great quality content and HIS VOICE (DAMN I LOVE IT) Thanks Verac.

Bioshock 2 + Minerva's Den review when? The amount of Ken "Pretentious Fckface" Levine's face in this video gave me aneurism.

you can’t just casually drop a Pajama Sam reference and not say anything about it. I thought that was a fever dream I completely forgot it existed

That dexter and the ed edd and eddy one is goated.

It isn’t a drug problem, it’s a drug solution. And in this case the solution is BEES! (Also I’d totally watch you and the floor goblin play Stardew)

3:40 She would be great at finding secret rooms.

BioShock is so creative. I could never imagine a world where rich men purposely put their faith in simple steel and glass keeping them safe against meat-crushing deep sea pressure.

Dr. Steinman is terrifying

The message of Bioshock isn't JUST that Ayan Ran's idea of a utopia is dumb. It's that the idea of ANY utopia is dumb, because they never account for the human element.

"My beautiful roomba wife" Why the fuck does that also sound like my wife when she plays any kind of 3D game lmao

8:09 hold up what the hell is going on in that news message?

5:00 just saw count dankulas video on the killdozer so I get this reference now

You forgot the most important part of Ayn Rand's books, the homoerotic relationship between the manly main characters, she was like the proto yaoi obsessed woman

good recomendation as always love ya verac and give a big hug to the madam

Comment for the algorithm gods \○/

All the armored games I played as a kid made me addicted to silly pipe minigame. Oh and bioshock was cool too I guess.

It just sucks that after u beat all the games and all dlc there’s nothing to play anymore but these games are so great

Bioshock was a pretty big deal when it came out. It really kickstarted the whole "games are art" thing with games journalists. Certainly pushed more storytelling into gaming when before story was pretty much a backdrop to gameplay.

The reason they didn't invade Canada is because they were smart enough to remember the war of 1812, where we kicked America's invading ass out (thanks in no small part to the first nation's help and eventually the British too, but still.) They didn't want a repeated second loss to Canada on their track record. So they figured chilling with Dagon to be a better choice I guess.

oh boy, my favorite type of youtuber really funny reviewer that has made a video like 3 months ago about my hyperfix. also bioshock 2 better fight me.

That dexter game just unlocked a core memory

Holy shit that's a cool channel. Please do Noita at some point as well. You'll love it.

Ah, crap i dropped my spaghetti in front of the whole comment section. My bad

Clicked subscribe at "I never finished 1984!!!" 😂

First time I've seen somebody with an anime profile picture worth listening to.

once you realize that money is abundant in Bioschock, you can just hack everything by paying for it (this took me a few playthrough tp even realize that you can hack things with money) lol and once you can start creating auto hack tools, its game over for having to actually having to hack anything

your best vid yet keep it up

Man i just wanna live where Verac grew up

8:53 oh I get it

One madmen went loose... Whats the worst that can happen

Another banger game choice Berac On the note of banger games, if you're still looking for something for your streams, Homeworld Remastered is currently free to keep on Epic. All your space genocide dreams come true for the price of $0!

Rewatching Verac vids to idly pass the time till he drops the next blessing upon us