BIOSHOCK INFINITE (Zero Punctuation) 

"Maybe they fell out of a reality rift of the convenience dimension." Yeah, you know what, I'm actually pretty sure that's canonically what happened.

Yahtzee said, "it's good." This is a truly rare occurence....

"Don't you mean second sequel yahtzee?" ".....GET OUT!" I died

"Infinite isn't bad. It's good. Perhaps even great." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, at 4:33 , in the video that you JUST WATCHED.

the best part of this video is that "oh that's the significance of the four gay blokes" isn't just shit Yahtzee's making up to be funny that is actually a thing in the game that becomes thematically significant

im dissapointed that i didnt get to play as a vending machine

One thing Yahtzee forgot to mention is that Elizabeth is an instance of partner characters done right. She is extremely helpful in the heat of battle (throwing you health, salts, and ammo when you need them), needs absolutely no hand-holding (Ashley from RE 4, anyone?), and has an incredible personality, and amazing character growth. I found myself actually caring about what happened to her throughout the game, and wanting to protect her (even though that's completely unnecessary). Great game. Highly recommend to FPS fans, and fans of games with a rich story. Also recommended to gamers who like the latest blockbusters.

I enjoyed Infinite, but I am always haunted by the massively budgeted 90% of this game that was scrapped because it didn't work.

"If this ends with us meeting God, and God looks like Ken Levine, then I am going to fucking punch someone." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, 2013.

its funny how Elizabeth IS a vending machine

Am I the only one kind of fascinated that Troy Baker basically played the same character, in eerily similar stories, to two games released the same year. Think about it, he plays a man, with a sketchy past and set of morals, who recently lost his daughter, must then track down another girl to save humanity. As the journey progresses this girl comes to replace his lost daughter and at the end of it all we are left wondering if what the main character has done is just and whether they are truly redeemed for what they've done.

"Comstock marks out DeWitt as the guy destined to fuck everyone up. So he's forced to fuck everyone up after they turn on him for being the guy who's going to fuck everyone up" Best summary of the plot EVER!!!!

Ok someone needs to work on the audio balancing. Poor Yahtzee's voice is like a squirrel's whisper compared to the intro and outro.

It's good, maybe even great. - Yahtzee

That first moment when Booker sees columbia as he's rising through the clouds. "Hallelujah." Then the music starts playing. That's my favorite part. And there's not even any gameplay in that moment. The design is that damn good.

"Don't you mean second sequel?" "GET OUT." After that line I favorited the video as soon as i got control of myself.

Well, if I've learned anything from these comment sections, it's that if Yahtzee likes a game and praises it, the RU-vid commenters will do all the slamming instead.

he liked it? WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO WITH YAHTZEE!? ....that being said i fucking loved Infinite....and the ending made my cry a little

Even after all these years, I can still remember it very clearly. compared to pretty much any other game I've played, which is nothing, when I look at my games on the shelf I can barely remember having played them, but this, this still holds a massive place in my memory, even though it has been 7-8 years

"Maybe they fell out of a reality rift from the convenience dimension" That's actually exactly what happened according to the dlc

2:19 616 is the main continuity for marvel, and I think the alternate 1985 is a reference to Back To The Future. It makes sense considering that he's talking about alternate realities.

one of the greatest things about yahtzee is his ability to take a ridiculous metaphor, in this case tunneling up ones own butt, and make it not only funny but also make sense, in this case being a metaphor for pretentiousness.

After playing this game like 5x I've noticed another thing I love about the gameplay. When you get a flow for the mechanics and know what weapons and plasmids to upgrade, the game becomes a great arena shooter. A lot of ppl compared it to Call of Duty, but except for some specific fights, if you play on hard hiding and waiting is inefficient. But constantly moving, shooting, setting plasmid traps while shooting, swinging on sky hooks, using Elizabeth to keep manipulating the enviornment, possessing machines and enemies, and setting everything on fire is a blast. Parts that used to kill me easily I can now take down so quickly and efficiently by playing the game more like DOOM than Cod, that the game sometimes takes a few seconds to load the next part possibly in awe of my gigantic testicles

"Don't you mean second sequel?" "G̗̺̭͚̙͟èt̥̣̞̥ ̜̰́o̞̯͇͈̪̱̩u͈̪͟t̶̖" And that's why I love this guy

As bad as the ENDING was, I liked the Good Ending of Bioshock 1. It felt like a legitimate GOOD ending. Not just "You didn't die, people lived. Yay"

Heres an idea 2K could have put into the game: establish that the common people of Colombia does not use Vigors because Commstock condems the use of them. That could not only fill a fairly obvious plot hole but also help build the world and give the player perspective on how much power Comstock truly has. Another thing, the only enemies that actually use vigors are the Firemen and the Zealots, people who are basically considered condemed in the eyes of god by just about everyone in Colombia.

The murder of crows is the best thing ever. An upgrade let's you eventually surround yourself with continuously outward moving mines

So I'm playing the Bioshock collection now, my first ever playthroughs of the Bioshock games, and while I know what arguments people set against B2, I actually like it decidedly more than B1. And I mean much much more. So no, Mr. Reviewer, B2 was not only a worthy successor to B1, with better, more enjoyable and fluid combat, better sound mixing and graphics and better insight into the setting of Rapture and darker and more emotional atmosphere, much less grinding and backtracking, a character I can really care about, and an exploration of the relationship between BDs and LSs that ended up defining the series and making it ICONIC. B2 is also a marked improvement on B1. Bioshock 2 rulez.

Best review I've seen of this game, he points out the few things that aren't that great or don't really connect (example: Comstock wasn't that great of an antagonist, but not bad, vigors seemed to just randomly be there, and some points of the game could be almost too easy) but then he pointed out how they didn't really seem to take away too much from the game and explained how well some things in the game worked. Perfect review!

0:46 really? am i actually the only living being that *enjoyed* bioshock 2? (granted i havent played the 1st game so i can really compare it)

Man coming back to this review and BioShock infinite itself, neither has aged well.

I've scrolled down to the comment section, and I now feel a cold metallic sensation

Wait, did that whiteboard say "616 reality" and "alternate 1985"? As in, mainstream marvel continuity and the Watchmen timeline? Goddamn that's bloody brilliant.

I think i just saw Yahtzee bad talk down to a game for all of about 4 minutes for being a somewhat streamlined version of it's predecessor's without the thematic depth (or sense), before suddenly turning on a dime at the end and declaring that the sky rail systems redeems it in that it could have been much worse and might have been alright, then 8 months later declare it game of the year. I'm genuinely concerned, this is easily the most lax and optimistic review he's ever given a game. I mean the only explanation I can think of is that, in playing this game, he suffered some form of brief stroke and experienced happiness for the first time in however many years, a light which, however brief in it's existence, pierced his palid, grey soul and shown him the way to a more free and beautiful existence. If he ever does anything like this again we have to stage and intervention, we can't let him escape the monotony of his cynical existence and become a genuinely appreciative human being. The damage this instance has brought him has been enough (as evidenced by the fact it made it to his GOTY list), god forbid he should experience another moment of spiritual enrapturement and he could become a genuinely pleasant human being. And I know we all don't want that to happen.

Bioshock 1 = Horror Game Bioshock Infinite = Action Game I personally saw very little connection between the two apart from the title...

What funny is that vigors did actually fall out of another dimension

it takes place in 1912........ we treated people "different"

The graphics are so mesmerizing, I almost forget to move on with the game play. The setting, the story, the way Elizabeth interacts with you,This game was fun without being frustrating in combat and challenges.PERFECTION-PURE PERFECTION!.

the vigors were sort of explained if you find all the voxophones. I believe that jermiah fink sort of stole them from tennanumbaum one of the tears.

2:35 He predicted Burial at Sea Ep.2 (or Ken just kept in mind what Yahtzee said)

"......GET OUT" "Don't you mean prequel yahtzee?"

Its weird how circlejerked this game was for a while. Now pretty much everyone seems to agree it wasn't great.

"It's good, maybe even great." - Yahtzee Put that shit on the fucking box Bioshock.

"A situation wherein a man with a gun is ordering you to dig a shallow grave in the woods has a better ending than Bioshock 1"

1:15 “you’re just in time for the party, because the party is YOU.”

2:20 is that both a Marvel Comics and Back to the Future reference?? I thought it was impossible for me to love Yahtzee even more but hot damn

0:47 Best. Joke. Ever. Of All Time. By Zero Punctuation.

I love the nod towards the "four gay blokes" aka whose anachronistic "God only knows." really is explained about halfway into the game.

"Don't you mean second sequel Yahtzee" "GET OUT" My point exactly.

Bets for Bioshock 4 will be in space. They have done air/sky and underwater. So basically System Shock 2, but w/ newer story and graphics. I mean what else are they gonna do? Underground?

Kolbe, thank you for your sarcastic response. It really adds to the conversation. Bioshock 1 was much more of a sandbox than Infinite, which pushes you "on rails" from one set-piece battle to the next. Also note that "game's" has an apostrophe, "its" does not, and "die-hard" has a hyphen. Proper grammar will help you win arguments, or at least not lose them as badly.

I still like this game. Heck, I'm still freaking PLAYING this game. Which is unreasonable, I've beat it six times and I show no signs of stopping now. Playing it has become a bi-yearly or more event now basically, and I can't stop. I would ask someone to save me, but I still rather enjoy being up Infinite's butt now and then.

2:36 pretty much, buried at sea part 2

0:49 Yeah, that tends to be my response to anyone who pretty much tries to bring up something, so obnoxiously ubiquitous that I could blow my brains out. Especially if it came out around the earlier half of the 2010s.

Bioshock Infinite is Call of Blops in Steampunk.

the ending to this game was like the ending to matrix reloaded, that creator of matrix scene specifically

a small warning to anyone smart or liable, if a game is hard to follow or mildly confusing, any idiot will just call it bad instead of actually focusing on it and trying to find stuff out

Wow. Of all the things it just happens to be Infinite that you like?

Did someone bribe Yahtzee? Because that ending makes absolutely no sense, and for Yahtzee to undetstand it would require him to understand MGS, which he has gone on record multiple times as hating.

3:00 That difficulty gulf made fighting that siren in the graveyard a pain.

"Get out" literally made me lol

My favorite was the first one. The second had a better combat feel, but the drill fell short and most of it is just protecting a little girl and the plot isn't the best. Infinite was a lot of fun but it was more of a shooter which was a hit and miss (GET IT?!) with me. The plot twist in 1 made me pause the game, sit still for 20 minutes, rethink my life, and question the very existence of God. The plot twist in Infinite made me pause the game, look at my brother, we both said "Huh", and then we resumed playing. It made a bit of sense, but it was no where near the sheer mindfuck of bioshock 1, and the atmosphere of Infinite while good isn't on the same fanfuckingtastic level as Rapture.

"don't you mean second sequel, yahtzee?" "GET OUT!" i enjoyed that. in fact, i enjoyed it so much i'm gonna do it again...

am I the only one who was slightly disappointed we didn't get to play as a vending machine?

Holy shit has it really been seven years since 2013

After playing all three I can say that Infinite is my leas favourite.

I wish Ken Levine was God, then history's plotline would be far more interesting.

Someone needs to make that last line their senior quote.

Errol Flynn... OMFG I love you Yahtzee-Escapist-Person. Anyone else get memories from that name? No one? No..? *hides behind the Robin Hood cutout*

figured YZ would have devoted more then half a sentance to Elizabeth, but that is probably for the best.

Why is Charles Darwin suddenly a racist santa?

I'm so glad Mathewmatosis review of this game exists.

Am I the only one who thought the combat was absolutely horrendous? It was like walking from one arena to the next.

I didn't really like Infinite. I had to force myself to play through it when I bought it on release day. Haven't touched it since then. Excited about the Bioshock 1 & 2 remastering though.

I never thought about the paradox of the false Sheppard.. he is branded (literally) as being the person that will bring destruction which in turn actually leads him to bringing about the destruction.

One thing that bugs me about BioShock and it's fans is that a lot of the fans bash on BioShock Infinite but praise the original, mostly on the gameplay. A lot BioShock fans hate Infinite because of it's "repetitive" gameplay when the original BioShock is more repetitive than anything CoD has pulled out in it's years of whoring out every so often year. With BioShock Infinite it's usually, kill baddies here, go over here, hide from SongBird, shoot more baddies over there and then fight a HandyMan. BioShock is basically the same but with more repetitiveness like kill baddies here, hack from extremely annoying turrets by electrocuting it, find a Little Sister, fight a Big Daddy, die countless times by said Big Daddy (and in some rare or usual cases, anger another Big Daddy and die even more), fight more baddies, rinse and repeat. Another thing is that with BioShock Infinite I always used all my Vigors while in BioShock I just use Electro and sap the baddies and walk alway like nothing happen. Now some of you will say that I didn't get the story of BioShock (which either taking 5 Little Sisters to live with you until you die or ruling Rapture and finding nukes isn't something hard to get) but to me, BioShock Infinite had a more thought provoking story in which I think about a lot in game discussions while BioShock is just a happily ever after story of you defeating bad guy and getting out of the city. BioShock and Infinite are really great games and I would recommend to anyone but when I keep seeing the fans of the original hate on the new version for the same problems it has as the original it just bugs me. Also for those who say that they hate it because of all the stuff that wasn't added in the game we saw from the E3 demos, well consider that maybe Ken didn't want to add those in as it didn't fit how he wanted to story to be (but I can agree on Elizabeth having more to do than in-game). I wish you all a good day.

Honestly Bioshock Infinite still gets my favorite game of all time stamp, As well as my first Tat

"Maybe [Vigors] fell out of a reality rift to the convenience dimension" Basically hit the needle on the head there, they were developed through correspondence with Rapture. They would be one of the constants, always a man, lighthouse and some git channeling Zeus.

seems like yahtzee played the e3 version of infinite

And of course the hordes of pseudo-intellectuals calling other people "pseudo-intellectuals" for not sharing in their cynical opinions have managed to to infest the comment section.

Funniest thing about this review is his comments on vigors coming from another dimension as a joke. Truth is they actually did😂

Bioshock Infinite was my Game of the Year of 2013. I've already put 80 hours into it, which is a lot for a FPS for me. Come at me, haters.

I think the main thing that Infinite did for the series was bring back the original Bioshock's theme of freedom of choice, and how we never truly have it. While the first game dealt with matters of free market and individualism, and this one dealt with social justice and racism, they both intersect on the idea that no matter what we do, we don't really have a say in how things turn out. In Bioshock 1, you learn that any action you took as a player was actually a mind control order. you as a person were not under mind control, but the fact that you had to do what this person was saying to complete the game sorta called out everyone playing it. Now in this game, we can see that no matter who many universes Booker goes through, he can't save the weapons smith, and even after killing the Comstock of his universe, he learns that it doesn't matter because at least one version of himself will always become Comstock, and the effects of that one coming to power will hurt every universe. This means that he has to have every version of himself killed in every universe before they can be baptized and become religious. At the last second of the game, we realize that nothing Dewitt actually did matters, because he has to die no matter what.

"don't you mean second sequel, yahtzee?" "get OUT!" [gives me a warm glow all over]

This game was great but it had the potential to be absolutely incredible. I think they should of delayed it further. I want the Bioshock Infinite Beta they showed at E3 and so on

You might say the game SMOTHERS you with its buttocks

Bioshock Infinite was one of those rare, and curious cases of games that on internet discussions is comparable to Infamous's Moral Choice system. There were people who praised it as the second coming of jesus, paraded it in the streets and claimed anyone who hadn't played it in the week it'd been out were missing out on a religious experience. While on the flipside there were also people saying it was the worst thing that ever happened to gaming, that it would crash the market like ET for the Atari and that anyone who ever enjoyed the game should consider suicide. And every guy who thought it was alright, or had some upsides and downsides was just lost in the extremist chaos.

“They [Vigors] are just sorta there. Maybe they fell out of the convenience dimension.” After playing Burial at Sea: Well, you’re not wrong there. Edit: And to remark how Columbia is “comically racist”; that seems actually like a rather faithful depiction of the late 19th - early 20th Century idea of American Exceptionalism, a.k.a. world domination by the Red, White, and Blue (emphasis on White, and English white not Irish white for whatever reason). Less nuanced than Objectivism, sure, but still uneasy to immerse yourself in as a 21st person.

ya know yahtzee saying they shoulda escaped with a parachute made me watch the entire walkthrough to find out why they didnt

@ 0:47 "...GET OUT." roflmao! So much truth spoken in so few words...

About that ending...there's a bit of a plot hole if I have this right. There should be two Bookers when you go back to the baptism. The one who took the baptism and became Comstock and the one you play as who didn't take the baptism. But at the end, there's only the Booker you play as (and if he's time travelled he should be seeing himself take the baptism which if I remember right is what happened first time), but there was only one Booker. So, why do the Elizabeths kill the one who never took the baptism in the first place. The one who became Comstock is now free to do as he wants. Also, if Comstock and Booker exist in a million million worlds then killing one (or however many the Luteces had on their board) won't do anything

Still the best game ive played in around a decade

I loved all three Bioshock games. I played them all three after another and i loved every single moment of it

I felt as if Bioshock Infinite was too short, and I only bought it for $15. I couldn't imagine buying it full price.

Spoiler alert 2:38 "Maybe they fell out of a rift from the convenience dimension" Actually, it is revealed in the Burial at Sea DLC that Finkleton used a rift to travel to Rapture and steal plasmid technology.

Actually, the Vigors did basically fall out of a reality wormhole randomly almost. This is described in the expansion.

Having finally played all three of these games, I can safely say... I actually liked Infinite better than 2. 2 mostly fell flat for me, especially after playing Bioshock 1 and Columbia definitely felt like a breath of fresh air after spending so many hours in Rapture. Even so, it still falls short of 1 and the fact that it's a linear shooter with 2-weapon limit and regenerating health is a significant downgrade. First game is great, 2 is okay, and Infinite is damn good in spite of its flaws.

And how's the bear shitting in the woods index these days

I'm sure someone's mentioned it before, but the whole deal with Vigors was the same way that alternate versions of our reality's songs were spread around and why Songbird treated Elizabeth like a Big Daddy treats a Little Sister ; they were observed from an alternate reality, in this case the Bioshock 1 reality, and created through Infinite's conventional means by the Fink brothers.

Bioshock was a social comentary wrapped into a gloomy world that you were scared shitless to explore. Bioshock infinite advertised it would be the same thing, but ended up being a doctor who episode mixed in with on rails shooting galeries. I'm still somewhat hoping that the bioshock infinite I'm waiting for comes out next year or something.