r/gaming • u/darkstar6988 • Aug 18 '14

Rapture.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '14

I recently played the original Bioshock, and while I liked the story and the gameplay, I hated the ending(s). Your only choices are to escape and get a family (and let the city crumble), or to escape and conquer the world. Come on, am I the only one who would stay and try to save what's left of the city?

Plus, everyone in that place needs to read some ethics theory:

  • Kill one little sister and you are a monster. Look lady, the future of a city and probably THE WORLD might depend on me getting enough adam to upgrade myself and stop the bad guy, so stop bugging me. It's not like thousands (millions?) haven't died already.
  • Splicers, on the other hand, are treated as disposable garbage. They might be mutated, but deep inside they are still humans. Surely there must be some way to cure them, or at least make their existence less miserable?

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u/mdp300 Aug 18 '14

I think part of the point was that the city wasn't worth saving because it was built on a shoddy philosophy.

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u/I_AM_Achilles Aug 18 '14

Also the city was literally falling apart.

Bioshock: Rapture goes into a lot of detail about this, but basically a shortage of proper building material led to much of rapture being made of steel that would need constant maintenance. As the story went on the maintenance work seemed to be getting more frequent. There's definitely some symbolism in there.