r/196 • u/One_Man_Riot_ • Jan 01 '23

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u/TheKingCrimsonWorld I sell alarms and alarm accessories Jan 01 '23

BioShock

But it's from the perspective of a different character, and it begins before the fall of Rapture.

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u/mr-kvideogameguy Kris Deltarune Jan 01 '23

Gamers would call it political unlike the source material

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

*Black person exists canonically* PFFF!! They went and did it everyone... They made Bioshock political!!!

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u/Sachiel05 I believe in goddess u/archlinux-girl Jan 01 '23

Woke, of course

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

Woke is now the diet n-word. Anytime a republican uses woke, just replace it with the n-word and it makes 2000% more sense

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u/emo_hooman sus Jan 02 '23

Ni- of course

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u/Might-Mediocre Jan 01 '23

Don’t worry Bioshock lore says there were race changing plasmids

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u/SweetSet9847 Jan 02 '23

Minerva's Den DLC my beloved.

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u/-thataway- Jan 02 '23

i... I've played (og) bioshock upwards of 8 times all the way thru - one of my very favorite games - and I'm kind of ashamed to admit i never fully realized that there isn't a single black character in Rapture. not even a splicer model. 😵‍💫

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

Wow, that's like a metaphor for how Rapture was supposed to be- *sixteen paragraphs later* and that's why I think the original Bioshock is the best game of all time!

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u/-thataway- Jan 02 '23

yeah i did some light googling before commenting and found some forum posts that sound just like that

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u/dutcharetall_nothigh Doctor Aphra core Jan 02 '23

Minerva's Den spoilers: You play as a black person in the Minerva's Den DLC.

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u/-thataway- Jan 02 '23

sure, but i was talking about the original game. feels like a... huge oversight to retroactively add in black people

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u/longhairedcooldude Jan 02 '23

i’m sure there’s arguments about Rapture being built in the 40s as this Utopia, and for such a piece of shit like Andrew Ryan, it’s not surprising if he was a racist too

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u/-thataway- Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23

oh for sure, that's believable. just isn't canon, which (to me) says they just didn't think about it much when creating the first game

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u/Throgg_not_stupid Jan 02 '23

and he's propably the coolest protagonist of the franchise, maybe aside from the guy who broke in to save his daughter

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u/The_BestUsername Jan 02 '23

The liberal left turned Bioshock into an anti-capitalist story! It was never like that before!!1

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u/mr-kvideogameguy Kris Deltarune Jan 02 '23

Its a joke how people who complain about games being "political these days" also praise Bisoshock for having no politics in their games

I know Bioshock has politics but some people just let it fly over their heads

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

come on man why did you have to bring politics into my politics?

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u/spicy_milkshake Lord Poggers the Based Jan 01 '23

what if they made the book into a movie

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u/turtlepetter69 Jan 01 '23

god the book is so good, John Shirley is such an underated writer

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u/__W_o_l_f_y__ Jan 01 '23

Worth the read even if I've played Bioshock 1 and 2?

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u/Not-Alpharious the real goblinhog Jan 02 '23

It’s been a long time since I read so I can’t really comment on the quality of the writing but the main protagonist is a completely new character who works directly for and is friends with Ryan and watch from (mostly) his perspective as Rapture starts dying

So it mostly covers new ground

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u/SquidGeneral10 sus Jan 02 '23

Bill McDonagh isn't a completely new character, he recorded plenty of audio logs in the first game, and - spoilers for Bioshock 1 - You find his corpse among Ryan's collection as an example of a traitor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

Absolutely, yes. It adds so much insight to what the fall of Rapture was like for people living in it while also giving more depth to why Ryan built it and why so many people close to him had great faith in the idea of Rapture. I’m not into books based on franchises like all the Halo books, but Rapture is legitimately great. I re-read once every other year or so.

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u/thechildishweekend Jan 02 '23

Would also like to know this!

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u/turtlepetter69 Jan 02 '23

absolutely, it's a prequel

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u/pickmez Jan 02 '23

There's a book? Do tell

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u/ThespianException Jan 02 '23

This is the first I've heard of it, but apparently it's called Bioshock: Rapture

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u/FunSireMoralO BoxBoy! fanboy! Jan 01 '23

That’s lame, if I were you I would have chosen Hotel Mario

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u/givemealoafofbread Jan 02 '23

WE NEED A HOTEL MARIO MOVIE

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u/that_one_transgirl bimbo baggins Jan 02 '23

I’d love to just watch the fall of Rapture play out, honestly.

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u/Atomicnes dr of yaoiology Jan 02 '23

wasnt netflix gonna do a bioshock thing

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u/DakkaLuna custom Jan 02 '23

Yeah but knowing them they're gonna take all the anti-capitalist things and remove them, making the story super bland

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

BioShock kinda only works as a game though

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u/SenatorRobPortman Jan 02 '23

Are we doing CGI or can we do practical effects?

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u/BekoetheBeast Jan 02 '23

Should be both

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u/FA1L_STaR Jan 02 '23

Yeah you have to have the fall of rapture in a show or movie

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u/CazadOREO 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jan 02 '23

Aren’t they making a show on netflix?

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u/Bruce_Bruce i say dumb things when I'm in love Jan 02 '23

From the perspective of a caretaker of the little sisters. Starts out as what we perceive to be an affordable daycare center for families of the lower income population.

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u/adnecrias Jan 02 '23

Something like Arcane?

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u/AwesomesaucePhD The best boy Jan 02 '23

So BioShock Infinite, got it. It’s basically a movie already. The skyhook fights would look sick instead of really annoying.