BIOSHOCK (Zero Punctuation) 

I got a good idea for a neutral ending for Bioshock: Jack refuses the Key to Rapture handed by that one Little Sister, just leaves the city and never wants to see it again.

My cousin decided to replay the game on his laptop a while back. Didn't have his mouse and decided aiming was too difficult on the pad, so he beat the whole thing using only the wrench.

I miss those music intros...

I listened to the first Splicer's entire monologue, and then after she left, and the 'baby' turned out to be a revolver, I laughed

Yahtzee reminds me of Dr. Cox from Scrubs. Every time he opens his mouth it's a five minute rant and not all of it makes sense but so long as you heard the first and last thirty seconds, you basically know what it was.

"I wasn't aware that boiled water could form allegiances." I've watched this review 3 or 4 times and that always makes me laugh.

1:11, Well, no one ever questions how electric gun turrets work. How does electricity form allegiances? I think the creators of Bioshock were implying that the engineers in Rapture built computers that use hydraulics or water flow for the basic logical operations rather than silicon-based electrical circuits. We should totally build water flow-based computers. It would solve the whole overheating problem nicely (not being serious).

I remember hatvesting one little sister by accident but rescuing every single other one in the game, and as a result I was treated like the reincarnation of Hitler. I was pissed beyond belief.

this is IMO on of his best reviews. the music, the review itself, the text in the credits... everything is spot on!

A steam powered turret, with a steam logo. I see what you did...

It's funny how he always starts off sounding calm and level-headed

I can't decide is totally Yahtzee's theme song.

'07 was a good year for shooters... CoD 4, Halo 3, Bioshock and Half Life 2 Episode 2. Any more?

I feel like the easiest (not the best, just the simplest) way to make a moral choice systen is just to add an additional 2 endings so the 4 endings would be: 1.) Good person who stuck to his values if you were completely good 2.) Good person who did bad things (if you were mostly good) You saved the day or whatever but the things you did for survival have scarred you a bit 3.) Selfish (mostly but not all bad) Everything you did was just for you. You harvested little sisters for your own survival for example and only let them live because it was a hassle to kill them 4.) Evil. You did everything you could for your own power or just out of a desire to see others suffer. Bam now you have a gradient that can reflect your actions regardless of what you did and why and you can just improve more from there

"It's incredibly good looking, but then what isn't these days" heh

Wow I forgot how buttery his voice used to be

Damn, Yahtzee was right about himself. He really is a banana growing softer with age. That’s not to say he isn’t still brutally honest these days but I forgot how merciless he used to be early on regardless of the game’s overall quality

So this might seem odd, but if there's anything I've gotten from this video, it's that "I Can't Decide," by the Scissor Sisters is a fucking awesome song and you should totally listen to the whole thing. Thanks Yahtzee.

one of those games I will always come back to every few years. sometimes its a few years longer than others, but its never going to stop being an excellent classic game. No other game has done such a satisfying job of letting me shoot bees at people I dont like.

This video has good music.

I thought BioShock was more Diesel Punk...

The outro song is "I Can't Decide" from Scissors Sisters.

Did anyone else read the thing about mother tereasa eating a baby in the credits? I love you Yahtzee

Okay the octopus's garden part got me

I am sure Yahtzee understood that the charm of the VITA chambers is that they are explained by the story and that Jack is technically immortal when in Rapture, so the feeling of invincibility was actually the developers' idea, I guess.

I love the classic reviews if not just for the music.

Bioshock is one of if not my favourite game.

Before I watched this video an add came up for the bio shock collection

Came back to watch this after his Atomic Heart video. There’s absolutely no indication here that this game would go on to become one of his favorite games of all time, or that he would praise the story as one of the best in gaming. Brilliant.

Man, few games have built up as much of a legacy as Bioshock. It's jarring to see mixed opinion on what has since been considered one of the greatest games of all time seven years later.

Amogus big daddy

Actually I was referring to its storyline borrowing tricks from SS2 (mostly that SS2 pulled a metanarrative stunt on the player and the main character at the same time with its shock reveal) and also using similar setups to SS2's to cause the same sense of isolation, anxiety, and wrongness in Rapture as in the Von Braun. Yahtzee already said quite a few valid things about Bioshock and System Shock 2's similarities in gameplay mechanics, I was looking deeper at their many shared writing tropes.

props for the beatles

the ending song sums up how the morale choice was for me

He said this game was easy. It took me 2weeks to grow balls and fight the first bid daddy. :'(

These old Yahtzee reviews were classics 😌

"In the good ending, you're a virtuous flower child with love and a smile for all the shiny-coated beasts of God's kingdom, and in the bad ending you're some kind of cross between Hitler and Skeletor who's very piss is pure liquid malevolence." LAWL. I laughed almost to death at that.

I just realized that "Sitting like a lemon" is a common phrase.

Maybe its because i havent played its hardest difficulty setting yet, but the restoration chambers in SS2 also didn't cost anything Yahtzee from 8-9 years ago

Phong is an algorithm used to simulate lighting in shaders, it's a way of giving 3d objects highlights so they look more 3-dimensional and realistic. You can wiki it for more info.

It's like he summed up Undertale years later.

Noo, now i have to hear that Scissor Sisters song for hours on repeat. Ive been through this several times, and you just had to bring it up again

I had no idea what those chambers where for at least half of the first playthrough, i thought that dieing was a realoaded save. I didnt die at all, and when I did and realized that those where respawners, I had my greatest I AM A DUMBASS moments ever. And i didnt RTFM

Octopuses garden? Perfect song for bioshock.

Still the best Bioshock even with it´s many flaws

Subscribed for the song at the end. Seriously, that's what won me over.

I can play Bioshock 1 or 2 easily, but System Shock 2 unnerves and scares me too much and I just can't get myself to play if for more than a few minutes. God, why do I feel like such a pussy : (

Aww, the old intro :3

"-Adam, a mysterious substance you can only get by doing terrible things to little girls." Well I have it in excess then. [Not really.]

the song at the credits is what i pent half this night listening to.

I'm good with baby eating.

Once in hard mode I lured a big daddy by the respawn and kept hammering away at him even tho he turned me into pasts every 5 seconds

The endsong always reminds me of the plot important scene of Doctor Who Netflix had to cut because they have to care more about copyright law than the godless heathens at the BBC.

I had a similar experience with Neir: Automata. It was hyped up so aggressively by a few youtube channels I respect, so I made my first ever $60 game purchase and dutifully played through it, only to discover that despite a fair number of interesting and well-executed moments it was still 60 hours of game, large swathes of which are spent just interacting with the mediocre combat mechanics and running around for sidequests, and because I had the cool parts of the ending spoiled, I wasn't stunned by them and was free to notice things like the shockingly stupid twists near the end.

If regular old water while on fire hates the Pope, does holy water while on fire hate ... paganism or something else?

I love BioShock, but playing BioShock after playing all the way through SystemShock 2 is like getting really invested in drinking wine then being told that water is better by some random bloke, so you go back to drinking water only to realize that yeah, it's better for you, but it doesn't taste nearly as good, especially after drinking wine for so long.

Meh, I didn't really play for the gameplay, I played for the story. All my buds said it was mind-blowing, and it was. Nuff said. although, I will agree Bioshock 2 was much more fun, though the story was kind of iffy.

The little sisters were the most well designed moral dilemmas I've ever encountered. I really couldn't kill the poor things even though I had no knowledge of the different endings. It's just a monstrous thing to do even in a video game. I was surprised to see that all my labor was not in vain and the ending was emotionally satisfying and the message was simple, yet sublime: Altruism was the sole thing that saved you, not individualism. Ayn Rand and her counterpart Andrew Ryan are wrong.

I thought that it was okay... He is right though, I was spoiled by Deus Ex for this game.

Phong and normal maps are like textures that give the illusion of high geometry and light interaction. They are pretty much standard today and contrast pretty harshly with the flat textured boxy models we used to use. Yeah...

Honestly gonna be technical bioshock is dieselpunk more than steampunk

You had me at "Octopus's Garden".....

When I watched this review all got from the tone of his voice and from what he was saying was that he just wants to insult things for the sake of acting snarky and making us think he has some kind of "journalistic integrity" when in reality he just throws random and unwarranted insults at a game despite his final opinion.

Ah Yahtzee you just had to make me like you more, playing the Beatles in the intro. Heck, even one of my favourite songs

"Console 'tards." Literally first time I have been offended by Yahtzee. Sorry I play console because I can't afford an expensive badass gaming computer. I would love to endulge in the superior graphics and controls but all I could afford was a PS3. I let it slide though. It wouldn't be a zero punctuation video without dickish alienating jabs at non elite gamers. I'll take the punishment ;P

I wish Yahtzee could still use actual songs, better world

System Shock 2 was crap! Never tried Deus Ex, it looked stupid too!

Did anyone else notice the snippet of "I Can't Decide" is the exact same length as that TF2 machinma of the same title?

Thx you person you put cant dicide in the ending that made my day

I laughed so much when he started playing the Octopus's Garden song.

"you're put into a location knowing little about who you are or where you are. You are soon introduced to mutated monsters out to kill you. You then meet a character that you befreind and walks you through everything. Said character then fucks you over, then you have to destroy said character." That describe so many games. The "evil all along" has many examples on TV-tropes, and loads of games have "In medias res" storytelling. Bioshock and System Shock are similar for different reasons.

Also I found the journey through Rapture to be filled with emotion. Hearing the splicers talk to themselves for the first time sent shivers through my spine. These people had normal, happy lives and now they're just shadows of their former selves damned to live through this eternal cycle of violence and addiction. I rather felt sorry for them. Some of them even found refuge in religion like all desperate people do..and who wouldn't when you see all that's dear to you being teared down apart.

At the end all I saw was the Master dancing!

One of the points of the game was to show the ilusion of choice, to make you think that what you did would have a consequence but in the game its revealed that all the time you were but a pawn in the plot.

Thank you Yahtzee for introducing me to the Scissor Sisters with your excellent choice of outro song!

You can make up for most of these complaints if you go for the brass balls achievement. Still going at that freaking thing. Never realized how much I would miss those vita chambers.

Both of the song choices were perfect

I just noticed the steam symbol on the steam powered turret. XD

I just now noticed that the steam powered turret around 1:16 has the Steam logo placed on the front.

Everytime when watching an old zero punctuation episode "hello 240p my old friend..."

Those burns during the credits though

Yahtzee, you charismatic stallion

"...some kind of cross between Hitler and Skeletor who's very piss is pure liquid malevolence." That sounds like the greatest villain ever.

"Whatever he thinks of it I will agree" Here I quote: "Get your own freaking opinion!"

♪ Oh I could throw you in a lake, or feed you poisoned birthday cake, I won't deny I'm gonna miss you when you're gone... ♫ Damn you, Yahtzee. Now I want to rewatch series 3 of Doctor Who.

i love the song at the end

With that promised land joke I think he unknowingly predicted the setting of Infinite

I was not prepared for 'I can't decide'.

I just now noticed that the turret has the steam logo on it.

Random Documents and Audio Logs; We find them stuck to notice boards, we find them under dogs; We're going to put them in a file and give it a review; And we're bored of all the gameplay, but we've nothing else to do.

Bioshock is my FAVORITE game of all time, I always find something new and intriguing when I play it (probably because I suck) All of his points are valid, and rather hilarious. My favorite review of my favorite game.

3:05 "That one didn't age quite so well"

I got a terrible fight in the surgery ward and now there is a small dent in my roof from my controller.

There technically is a neutral ending. I don't like to think of it as a good, bad and neutral ending, but a happy, sad and mad ending. The happy ending is saving all the little sisters, the sad ending is saving some little sisters while harvesting other little sisters, and the mad ending is harvesting all the little sisters. Some will argue that there's only 1 bad ending, and the difference between sad and mad ending is just tone, but I disagree. The sad ending communicates that you had the potential to be a good guy, but you had a tendency to fall into temptation and sin. The mad ending communicates that you were just plain evil. See how the ending changes just based on tone

From what I understand there's technically a third ending where the only thing that changes between the bad ending and the worse ending is the tone of voice of the nararator.

He apparently thought the 50's were "depression era"

I'm going to use this quote in every day life.

"Oh I could throw you in the lake, Or feed you poison birthday cake..."

I'm surprised he didn't talk about how killing one little sister, even if you save the rest makes you that Hitler/Skeletor hybrid without a second chance. I still love this game.

Is your channel preserved in the US library of congress?