Errant Signal - Bioshock Infinite (Spoilers)

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Published on April 9, 2013 7:49:53 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2cSKBFBDQ

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Bioshock Infinite (2013)

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Bioshock Infinite is a game that recently came out and I played it.

Nothing I say here is all that original - most of what I had to say about the game was structural and design stuff, not lit crit stuff. I may or may not do a video on that part of the game in the distant future, but for now I'm sort of Bioshock Infinite-d out.

It's certainly an odd duck - a game that (when it's hitting the right buttons) is impossible not to love, and there are moments and characters here that are simply inspired. After I finished the game I couldn't stop thinking about it for days, and not just because of the ending - it was a game that had left some sort of emotional imprint on me.

And yet I had to force myself to keep playing in parts; to remind myself that there was a reason I wanted to finish a given combat section to see what good stuff waited on the other side. And as I began a second playthrough that curiosity had diminished and I was left with an seething loathing for the bits that prevented me from getting to the parts I cared about. At that point I realized that Bioshock Infinite is a charming two to three hour exploration adventure game padded out to seven to ten hours with some absolutely insufferable shooting mechanics that betray everything the *Shock series has ever been known for or good at. To be clear: It's not a "You changed it from what it used to be!" thing. It's more of a "You took a series of interesting systems and turned them into a stock shooter - worse, a *terrible* stock shooter. Feel bad about yourselves."

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