Bioshock Infinite: What I'd like to see in the DLC (Spoilers Inside)
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I love the game BioShock Infinite. A beautifully crafted story set in an amazingly detailed and rich living environment where the game play itself was fun, challenging, and varied. All-in-all, one of the top 5% of games I've played - maybe higher.
And there's more to come. I've already gotten the Season Pass. I want to continue my stay in Columbia. But for those of you who have played and beat it (SERIOUSLY - SPOILERS ARE COMING) you know that the story has a definite beginning, middle, and an end. You know, I mean, he drowns. game over....
But - then there's the scene after the credits, which somehow gives us hope. Even if it makes no sense whatsoever in the context of the narrative.
Of course, I don't want to play a game where I, as Booker DeWitt, raise my infant daughter without her mother and struggle to pay back my massive gambling debt. So I seriously hope that the DLC doesn't pick up the story from there.
Also, Irrational Games has said there will be no multiplayer. So anyone with hopes of a Skyline & Vigors powered battleground with your friends are out of luck. (Personally, I'm glad they are sticking to the single player experience for this game. Although a spin-off title that is all-multiplayer, or multiplayer focused would be okay in my book.)
So if it can't add to the end of the story, and can't go multiplayer - what is there to do?
Here are my thoughts, and my hopes, concerning the impending BioShock Infinite DLC.
Focus on other characters. In previous titles, we've been given the chance to play as other characters, specifically the "heavy hitters" - Big Daddy and Big Sister. Well, what if we were able to take the role of Songbird and just tore the city to shreds? Or a Handyman? Or maybe take the role of a "normal" person - like master hunter Preston E. Downs, or Captain Cornelius Slate, or the infamous Daisy Fitzroy herself?
Then there is the obvious - be another Booker. Maybe you are the Booker who became the Martyr of the Vox. Or maybe your a Booker who is closer to Comstock - so you take the side of the Founders. Or maybe they actually let you explore that option a little at least. The pre-game game Industrial Revolution left the impression that you would actually get to change choice. It could be like a Fallout New Vegas where you get to back one faction, or the other, or try to take them both out and set yourself up as the new Prophet, or at least the new leader of Columbia.
I'd also like the chance to further explore a pre-uprising Columbia. Like before the False Prophet was revealed even. No shooting, no explosions - just a nice turn-of-the-previous-century city in the sky, with a lot of racism and religious zealotry. The fact is, the team at Irrational put a lot of thought and effort into setting all that backstory up, and I'd like to explore it. I'm not saying I want to be Comstock or anything, I think that would be too easy - who really stands to oppose him? But some scenario where I can explore different time periods. Even getting out into the city of the Future Lamb of Columbia, with the Boys of Silence and the Masked Founders.... More of a stealth mission type thing.
What I hope they don't do is let you play as Elizabeth. I think it would be boring to run around invincible to gun fire, and scrounge for items to throw to an AI Booker, and open tears at his command.
What do you hope to see in the BioShock Infinite DLC? Share your comments below.
Focus on other characters. In previous titles, we've been given the chance to play as other characters, specifically the "heavy hitters" - Big Daddy and Big Sister. Well, what if we were able to take the role of Songbird and just tore the city to shreds? Or a Handyman? Or maybe take the role of a "normal" person - like master hunter Preston E. Downs, or Captain Cornelius Slate, or the infamous Daisy Fitzroy herself?
Then there is the obvious - be another Booker. Maybe you are the Booker who became the Martyr of the Vox. Or maybe your a Booker who is closer to Comstock - so you take the side of the Founders. Or maybe they actually let you explore that option a little at least. The pre-game game Industrial Revolution left the impression that you would actually get to change choice. It could be like a Fallout New Vegas where you get to back one faction, or the other, or try to take them both out and set yourself up as the new Prophet, or at least the new leader of Columbia.
I'd also like the chance to further explore a pre-uprising Columbia. Like before the False Prophet was revealed even. No shooting, no explosions - just a nice turn-of-the-previous-century city in the sky, with a lot of racism and religious zealotry. The fact is, the team at Irrational put a lot of thought and effort into setting all that backstory up, and I'd like to explore it. I'm not saying I want to be Comstock or anything, I think that would be too easy - who really stands to oppose him? But some scenario where I can explore different time periods. Even getting out into the city of the Future Lamb of Columbia, with the Boys of Silence and the Masked Founders.... More of a stealth mission type thing.
What I hope they don't do is let you play as Elizabeth. I think it would be boring to run around invincible to gun fire, and scrounge for items to throw to an AI Booker, and open tears at his command.
What do you hope to see in the BioShock Infinite DLC? Share your comments below.
1 comment:
I have yet to finish this game, but I must give it two thumbs up so far(borrowing from the late Roger Ebert). It runs and looks great even on low graphics with textures on high on my Samsung Laptop which only has Intel HD 3000 graphics.
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