Current Events > Playing Bioshock Infinite for the first time (spoilers)

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And so far I still think Bioshock 1 is the better game.

I played the first 2 Bioshocks when they came out but I had basically stopped gaming by the time Infinite came out. I remembered everyone talking about it, it was hard to post on here without seeing people posting some spoilers and talking about Booker and Elizabeth. I don't know full spoilers about how it ends but I did know Elizabeth could open tears and that she's Booker's daughter going in, but I don't know how the game reveals it to you yet. I'm enjoying the game for the most part, I have to imagine I'm at least 3/4 of the way through the game just going off of voxophone progress, maybe more. I think we're about to try to go into Comstock's house, just had the songbird crash our airship and that creepy couple showed up again as we rode up the gondola before I had to stop for the night.

But I can't help but feel I'm not enjoying it as much as I would have a few years ago? It seems like these multiverse stories are oversaturated in media nowadays and I'm kind of burnt out on the whole trope. Maybe when this first came out almost a decade ago it was more mind blowing, but then again I haven't gotten to the end so I'm sure theres so twists and turns I've yet to experience. And I feel like Columbia isn't as...I don't know what the adjective I'm looking for is because the idea of Columbia is cooler than Rapture but I don't feel like Infinite makes you care as much about the city as Bioshock 1 did for Rapture. Once the first impression wore off it felt like the setting could have been anywhere.

I liked how in Bioshock 1 the enemies were the inhabitants of Rapture that were spliced up but in Infinite it's mostly just police or the Vox rebels and the citizens go hide when a fight breaks out, and the wide open spaces and waves of enemies makes it feel like a war game. I also don't like only being able to carry 2 weapons and having to swap them out all the time when I find them. At least we get to keep collecting ammo for weapons we don't have but that system just makes it seem pointless to have to keep weapon swapping as we find them rather than just building your arsenal throughout the game. And the gene tonic system was far superior to the gear system in this game.

I also cared more about the villains in Bioshock 1. Sander Cohen, Dr Steinman, Fontaine/Atlas, and Andrew Ryan I feel are more compelling than Comstock, Slate, Fink, and Fitzroy. I will say Booker and Elizabeth are better than Jack as main characters though. I do like the interactions between the two as the game progresses rather than the silent protagonist trope.