The Rise & Fall Of Columbia - FULL Bioshock Infinite Lore 

Hope you guys enjoyed this video? I personally love Bioshock Infinite because it was so different to anything I’d experienced story wise before. Let me know what you think!

I was never able to play the games when they were fresh out in the world, but Bioshock has some truly fascinating lore behind the series.

there 3 things that amazed me: 1. The game itself. 2. How the writers actually came up with the story 3. How you broke it down that made me finally understand it after years of being confused

In one part of the game it shows you Comstock's timeline. It showed his date of birth and during a loading screen it showed Booker's ID. Which had the same date of birth. I thought it was weird and came up with a theory that these two men where probably the same guy. I finished the game and was shocked. Great game 10/10.

Bioshock Infinite has one of the most tragic stories in gaming where a father and daughter are never meant to have a normal life as a family no matter what timeline they are in.

I honestly think the idea of Columbia attacking cities on the surface like New York is terrifying. Seeing Columbia quite literally looming over the city is scary itself. This is why I love infinite so much.

You know I bet during the development of Infinite the entire team facepalmed themselves because they couldn’t use the name “Rapture” for a religious city floating in the sky.

I wonder how different the original Bioshock Infinite would have been compared to the one we got. Apparently Songbird was going to be a stalking boss that will come and go throughout the game. And Elizabeth was going to play a bigger role in combat mechanics.

Infinite was the only Bioshock game I got bored with fast but I'm more than happy to learn the lore, cheers.

It took this video, ten years later to finally make sense of Bioshock Infinite's clusterfuck of a plot to me.

what makes this game's lore even more believable (and despicable) is that the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the Boxer Rebellion were real historical events. frankly, I find this fact of history to be truly horrific.

It was a serious cluster fuck, and it all leads to Bioshock 1.

For a city in the sky it sure fell hard

I'd honestly had so many questions about it since this came out so many years ago so I'm extremely glad you made this. Absolutely loved it and would love to see more like this. Amazing work.

Game is still fire. I just reinstalled it to play it for like the 6th time. It's like watching your favorite movie. You can't do it all of the time but those times you do after months or years, FIRE. And it looks amazing maxed out on pc. Performance is fantastic too.

BioShock, and in particular Infinite, is my favorite game ever. Yet I never pieced together until you pointed it out that the "AD" on the back of Booker's had was his daughter's initials. I feel like such a poser right now.

Incredible lore vid! This story really tackles a lot of advanced ideas and it's really intriguing the way all of it goes. Really well done. Well played.

The Lutece Twins remind me of the Gman from Half-Life since they are transdimensional beings with extraordinary abilities.

Infinite is my favourite of the Bioshocks, as an all around experience. One had one of the best meta story twists I've ever experienced, but the combat was sloppy and I hate pipe-maze hacking. 2's story was too much of a retread but combat was tightened up considerably. I love the richness of colours, the anachronistic music, and bashing in the heads of a bunch of racists.

Thank you, I was in the kitchen pacing back and forth trying to piece together the story and I couldn't figure it out but your video saved time and effort because of your effort.

Thank you so much for this thorough and intriguing history! I adore the Bioshock series and this sort of in-depth storyline shows me even more why. It's all truly a masterpiece! As an aside, I think Elizabeth is the most charming, wonderful character of any game.

I feel so sad when Elizabeth died it such a good game for me

My question about the ending is that even though the Elizabeth’s kill Booker before the baptism, aren’t there infinite timelines where he wasn’t drowned? This Booker was killed preventing Comstock and Columbia, but is our POV Booker the only one that matters? The part during the festival where Booker guesses the coin toss shows he’s died dozens of times, so what’s to stop another Comstock from a different reality from preventing Booker from being killed before his baptism? There must be a timeline where the machine isn’t broken and Comstock sees Booker successfully killing him and stopping his plan. Maybe I’m missing something. Great video by the way.

Everything was perfect. Good stuff man, I’m subbing.

Great video, I love Bioshock infinite and this video did an amazing job recapturing the story that made the game so enjoyable

Can't beat this consistent stream of lore videos

I just realized something....was addiction to Vigors(Plasmids) EVER mentioned in Bioshock Infinite, or did the writers just skip over that entirely?

Something about the camera shake and how they're just like... going in little circles at 11:50 is hilarious to me for some reason

The fact that main player had to go through all that and learn all the lore and stuff and his own daughter had to drown him was just so sad i legit almost cried but tysm for explaining the lore its good to know after many years of confusion

Excellent video Fish. I've really been enjoying your videos as of late!

Only played Bioshock 1 and never got a chance to play the 2nd or this masterpiece. One of these days I will.

Hands down my favorite game series......replay it at least once or twice a year......

Great vid on a great game. I’ve played through this game countless times and i still found out new stuff!

Great video! Love how you make it easy to understand.

Please do “Burial at Sea!!”

never stop doing what you are doing. great content.

Thank you oh so much for covering this.

I have watched a couple videos explaining the game and in my opinion this is the best one.

Absolutely amazing video. The way everything is explained. And the editing! Bravo

Always love the bioshock videos!

Actually, wasn't it two? I remember the one from the DLC and the other from the corrected timeline, which was showed post credits, don't know if I'm right, I played a long time ago, but I remember Booker waking, calling for his daughter and opening the door just to find her where she should be all along.

A sacrifice for the algorithm. Love your videos!

Great video! Loved it. :D

Just being picky. We don't know how long Booker was in he Army before Wounded Knee. Slate at one time calls him a Corporal. This would point (but not prove) that Booker had been in the Army a little while and proved himself. As a note, the legal age to join the Army was 18 at the time. So Booker lied to get in. Which raises the question: How much did Bookers life suck that joining the Army was a good idea? Wounded Knee was a one sided battle and a massacre, but the US troops didn't just roll up and start shooting. Also, some Lakota were actively trying to start a fight. The fighting was (at best reporting) started by the accidental firing of a weapon. (A Congressional inquiry actually blamed Congress for what happened since they were not fulfilling treaty obligations.) I think it's hard to say that Columbia had "Christian Values" after some time as Comstock seems to have tossed out most, if not all of the New Testament. The part that has Christ in it, so the Founders are NOT Christians. More accurate to say, Columbia went back to pre-Christian values. A little mixed up on the timeline there. Robert Lutece didn't have to look through a Tear to discover Booker and Anna. He lived in the same reality as they did. (Robert was following Comstock's orders though.) The first time the Tear Machine was used to send a person through was to get Anna. Elizabeth only started to manifest her powers after age 2. Relations between Columbia and the US Govt were strained even before the Boxer Rebellion and in game info points to Columbian forces nearly wiping Peking off the map likely killing hundreds of thousands. Given that Comstock had access to the Tear Machine he must have planned the breakaway from the US. A couple notes. Only the Comstock realities are wiped away. The Booker realities still exist as seen in the after credits scene. And there is evidence that Comstock didn't truly buy the BS he was handing out. In his office aboard the Hand of the Prophet you can find a photo of the Eifel Tower and letters from Victor Hugo (the French writer). Odd that someone who was so pro-American Founders would have things from France in his office. A very interesting take on BSI all in all. Keep up the good work. sm

It's always the massacre of the wounded knee that get to you, never the wounded elbow.

so basically Joseph Smith making flying city Sounds about right

Finallyyyyyy waited so long for this

Thank you for this amazing video. It really explained it simply and understandably.

Great video!

Dear WiseFish! I Love the video, love the narration, I dig what you make of the games' meaning. Hope You're doing well! Best wishes for the New Year! (From Poland, with Love! 😁😘

One of those games when you finish you want to play thru again to catch the hints you missed along the way. An epic plot with a fascinating ending.

In one of the recordings you find out that booker speaks sioux since he's half sioux.

Such a good explanation of the lore. It’s like I’m watching a documentary on the history channel lol

Bioshocks story writers deserve like 5x salary with all the twists they come up with. Like.. i could not have thought of this

Loved the video, but the bit of songbird is wrong. Songbird bonded with Elisabeth because she repaired its breathing apparatus, not because of shared DNA. The Lion with the thorn in its paw

Thank you, I hardly understand the lore until now

I’ma huge fan of YT creators exploring sci-fi and game lore so the algorithm gods stuck again with this recommendation!

Bioshock 1 was great, never played two but infinite blew me away. The first game I ever used 3D audio headphones on and by Christ that opening. Shame we won't get any more

So when they said that Comstock wasnt there at Wounded Knee he actually indeed was, bcause he was Booker...

infinite is my favourite one in the series...it's just so good on every level imo.

I never really understood the whole story. I have played this game 3-4 times. But I do understand the how and why’s now. Thanks!

Even if it wasn't exactly what was promised and I felt there was less in it than BS2 it's still a fun game and the storytelling is just awesome.

Where was the part where Elizabeth caused the 7 hour war in the Half Life universe by opening a rift to the Combine home world?

Wow such a good analysis of the game ! I finally understand the story ❤❤

Man I love the bio shock series it’s always the view of its atmosphere that gets to me

I love this saga.....it's the only game that I had played like 4 times (the complete trilogy). The story is confusing but the game play and visuals are the best of the best 😍😍😍😍😍

I played this game three times since 2013 and never fully understood the story behind this until I watched your video which explained everything very clearly and simply. Unfortunately because of the prearl clutching society that we now inhabit, there will never be another game that touches remotely close on the issues that were explored in this game. Racism, classism, sexism, American exceptionalism. These things were the main things that kept me glued to the screen while playing & coming back to play it two more times. Some of the gameplay was not as fluid as it should have been but the basic mechanics and the vigors were interesting to play around with. Also the many different villains you constantly interact with made it for a fresh experience for the most part. This was an excellent made video by you and I am about to watch the rise and fall of rapture.

you’re so underrated bro

Good video. Thank you for explaining it. This goes show drunkenness of power will forever be the downfall of man.

Such a beautiful and fascinating city

I know this is gonna be great without even watching 😁 I didn’t realize how much I missed from the Infinite story! I only played it when it first came out and may like to play through again. They just don’t seem to make games like they used to during the Bioshock, Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Dragon Age days :(

I loved opening a tear and hearing Shiney Happy People. And then there is the girl you find in the slum district singing fortunate son.

Omg how did you get those beautiful in game shots!? I’m over here trying to snap shots between melee attacks because I can’t get my gun off the screen!

correction: Peking, not beijing was attacked by columbia. further, not all tears were closed and Fink worked with Yi Suchong

You should do one on Elizabeth. I just subscribed.

Thank you for explaining the events of infinite because all the way up to watching this video, I didn't have a fucking clue about wth was going on

Did Comstock know Booker would turn up and fail 122 times at the time when we, the players, experience the game? When you first meet Comstock he says, "Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt? This will end in blood, DeWitt. But then again - it always does with you, doesn't it?"

This story is more convoluted than that of Lost...

I can't wait for Bioshock Isolation!

Wait a minute, so Booker was 16 in 1890 when the massacre happened, he gets promoted to staff sergeant but after a while decided to screw it, get baptized and become christian. Then after some time he becomes preacher, after a while becomes quite influential, actually so influential that he gets not only to talk with congress but also convice congressmen to finanse very costly project, then after a while he found scientist he needed, and after a much much longer while(I mean it takes sometimes a year to build just a house) they build floating city. AND ALL THAT HAPPENED IN 3 FRIGGIN YEARS, NOT TO MENTION THAT ALL OF IT WAS ARCHIEVED BY SOME RANDOM HALF INDIAN TEENAGER. I now know why Comstock thought he was some chosen one, I mean he was - how else just some kid could archieve all that.

It seems like one of the more obvious lessons that we see in Bioshock is "absolute power corrupts absolutely"

An underwater city: Completed A city in the sky: completed Next utopias: -An underground city in Russia based on the ideology of communism -A city in space

Correct me if I'm wrong but during the ending they say that Booker Comstock always create the city if not in the sky than end the see correct

Can you do burial at sea?

It was by far the best PS3 game. And personally, after playing Bioshock 2, this was refreshing!

Columbia fell because well.. it’s society was completely unstable Also fantastic video, I wasn’t the biggest fan of infinite, it was good in some parts and bad in others but you have good narration on it.

IM CHEGGIN OUTTA MY MIND!!!!

6:07 it's weird that a Theocratic city has their own quantum physicist.

Red Vox group: Columbia here we come to take! ^w^ (The Fuhrer arrived to kill them, and use Columbia as a different life). Red Vox group: Oh hell no!!

Wait what, I never knew booker was native America

People who said they don't like this never played it. What a beautiful story

They should’ve had another booker be song bird, it’s suppose to mirror a big daddy and what better person to protect her then another booker who lost his Anna. It would mirror the story in Bioshock 2 of Mark Meltzer and Cindy

Ok i had enough sleep now. Soo you gonna do videos on dead space... Or did you already?

It is time for Bioshock 4.

A comment, a like and a comment to draw the eyes of the algorithm!

I used to love infinite but when i began to think that actually the sacrifice of Booker and Anna doesent mean anything because infinite realities.... it begans to bother me a bit i mean.... Its a bit absurd (to me at least) that one Booker of one reality created infinite realities.... its more logical (to me again) think that was infinite paralel universes like paralel lines and Booker created a rift in between.... So as i said the Elizabeths, Bookers and moon nazis are still a thing with or without their sacrifice.... so the end of Bioshock to me its sad not because it closes the cycle, like the player options you have on the 1rst bioshock with the little sisters.... its a sad ending because its a sacrifice in vain of a daughter and a father trying to help each other dying in the process.

Pls explain the dlc I needed this video to exist so I could understand

If they made this a movie though with Leonardo as the booker 💯 😍

Bioshock need to make a country that combine columbia rapture and america into one country with a very dark secret

I wonder if in the timeline where Elisabeth became the leader, "Sodom" had any methods of defense, e.g. planes. (Because it seems like it's either the 70's or 80's plus some awareness that Colombia still flies there)