"they were all written by the same guys, so how'd [Infinite's story] happen?" It got rewritten 6 months before the game launched. That whole game's development is so crazy it's worth it's own video.

True story: The first time I played Bioshock it took a minute for me to even start moving. The game looked so good at the time I couldn't tell that the intro cutscene had actually ended.

Finally a review that praised Bioshock 2. Easily my favorite in the series for gameplay, but I always see the internet bash it.

There's an audio log fairly early on that says Rapture is biometricly locked to Ryan and his close family and if that's not just outright telling the player the twist early nothing is

"One of gaming's first female characters that doesn't exist entirely for you" >Disregarding Samus, Bayonetta, Lara Croft, Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Trish/Lady from DMC, several Fire Emblem/Final Fantasy characters (take your pick), EVA and Meryl from MGS, Ashelin from Jak II, Cortana, Alyx Vance, Heather Mason, the list goes on. And that's PRE-Infinite.

Rescuing actually results in more Adam in the long run. You spend a short period underpowered but by a few levels in you're FAR more powerful than a harvester actually manages to get

Sandor Cohen isn't necessarily a boss, since he won't attack unless you provoke him to do so

Been on fire with these videos lately man

>You already know the story beats of Bioshock 1, so there's no point in replaying it But didn't you earlier talk about how the plot twist with Andrew Ryan recontextualizes a lot of the game mechanics, such as with the Vita-Chamber? Wouldn't a player want to replay the game with that context in mind, so they can see certain parts of the game in a new light, and see how they foreshadowed the twist beforehand? Surely that's worth at least one more replay?

Yeah, you don't face FPS drops on PC. Rather your game crashes every 5 minutes* *based on my experience with the game, but it depends on the rig as well

the Bioshock remastered trilogy is great.

Anyone: criticizes bioshock Me: *REEEEEEEEEEEE*

Bioshock 2 was the most fun to play one and Minerva's Den is probably the best Bioshock content ever

*begins video by discussing why BioShock is, in his eyes, good yet flawed* Urge to enter nerd rage mode... rrriiissssiiiiinnnnng~ *continues by praising BioShock 2 as an even better sequel* ...Holy shit, this is great! A guy who considers BioShock 2 to be one of the best sequels in gaming! And yes, I'm a fan of BioShock 1, in fact it's my personal favourite game (I played the PC version which makes certain aspects a bit easier), but even I can't deny that BioShock 2 is an underrated gem that has _earned_ its cult following over the past years. INFINITE, on the other hand...

MY MAN! Bioshock 2 is by far the best in my opinion and I love that there are people who appreciate the improved gameplay aswell.

Finally someone who didn't fall for the "Bioshock 2 bad. Infinite good." meme. Nice.

I like the use of the Dishonored soundtrack to the background music

I think of Infinite as a seperate game from the Bioshock series. I don't compare it to Bioshock 1 and 2 mainly because it wasn't in Rapture and with that has a completely different narrative as far as scenery and world-building. There was a narrative reason why the first 2 games were horror -esque. Infinite is its own game; no little sisters, no big daddies, no splicers, no Rapture. I think it tells a great story that gave me a very similar twist ending like the first game. A twist that you can go back and play the game again and see things in a new way. Gameplay-wise I like not being crunched in tight hallways throughout the whole game and with all the Vigors and weapons this game is very similar to Doom 2016, as far as being able to travel around quickly and decimate nearly everything. That's my unpopular opinion. I love all 3 Bioshocks, but 3 is my favorite.

A newer video of yours popped on my Home screen recently and I'm on a binge of all your videos. I subscribed to you months ago but I guess now is the time you really leave an imprint on my brain.

19:18 I don't know if this was intended to be as smug as it sounds, but imma try to counter it anyways. Bioshock 1 is timeless, but I'll agree it's not for its gameplay elements. Kind of like half-life 2 (which I'm sure some people will take exception at me for saying) the gameplay is rough, with creative elements (plasmids/gravity gun). What really makes those games timeless to me is the level of detail with which they regarded the world they were making. I can go back to Bioshock 1 multiple times because I enjoy the city of rapture, I like exploring it, same with HL2's City 17 though to a lesser extent. Bioshock 2 is a mechanically superior game, but the exploration aspects really just hit the same beats that Bioshock 1 (and system shock before it) already hit, which made it less appealing as it felt like I was playing a really long expansion pack more than an actual game. Also, while it's nice that you'd heard of Objectivism in 2019, I'd guess given your apparent age that in 2007 you probably hadn't read much in the way of Ayn Rand, because the target demographic of this game, and games in general, is not the well-read adult (despite the game's rating). Even if by some chance you had, I'm going to give Levine a break and say that the "bash you over the head" symbolism approach was necessary for those of us who were all of 14 in 2007, and not well-versed in philosophical literature. Also true to form, Ayn Rand was also the kind of writer to bash you over the head with her messages, so kudos to Levine for keeping to the source material.

using the dishonored music in the part where you talk about multiple ending eyyyy

I honestly really liked Infinite even though I realize that it does have some flaws and shortcomings. But I still love the story and characters, especially Elizabeth.

4:03 Shock, JUMP and then falling strike to the head for max wrench damage. The momentum adds to damage. Got a hunch from seeing the splicers do the same. Finding this out changed early game, especially on hard difficulty.

Dude I love your critique. You focus on ideas and concepts presented in a story then dive into how well they are presented and communicated rather than "do get the feels" and "is this game pretty" also the challenges of balancing entertainment and artistic vision. You have earned my sub.

I think the reason everyone talks about 1 and Infinite are because of their memorability. They both have unique settings and twists that stick with you (regardless if they're good or bad). BioShock 2 has great gameplay, but nothing else stands out after not playing it for years.

this is actually fairly accurate to my outlook on the series, though through a different lens. overall, the bioshock series is brilliant. 1 is more about the city and the ideology of the city than the player, it just so happens that the player has a major effect on the city. though the gameplay is abit clunky, but easily adapted to once you get into the swing on it. i often do a little bit of keybinding adjusting to make it alittle more 2 like in play, i feel like it helps abit. 2 is about the player and his daughter, a far more relatable story, though less socially impracticable. the gameplay is minorly changed but in such a way that it impacts it heavily in a very good way and arguably makes it a better game than the first and infinite. and minerva's den is just a masterpiece of a DCL with some nice new weapons and a really, really good story infinite is a brilliant game, but a bad bioshock. i never thought it deserve the connection to the previous games with how many tenants of the series it got rid of, gameplay and story wise. both parts of burial at sea feel shoehorned in, to make it properly connect to the previous games, and it doesn't work for me.

Damm, just found this channel and love the humor and depth you go to in these reviews. Keep it up!

Most of the vid was great. I do feel as if the Elizabeth part was a bit.. odd. Kinda felt like you went on a tangent on how “women aren’t treated well in video games” and yeah a fair amount aren’t, but a tonne of them are. Elizabeth was far from the first and the rant’s inclusion just felt so jarring; if Elizabeth was one of the first female characters you considered wasn’t just “for the players” then how high are your standards for characters?

Just went into bioshock 1, set deifficulty to hard and never had any ammo availability issues. I felt like the game perfectly allocated resources and it honestly shocked me

You're the only youtuber I've seen reference Noah Caldwell-Gervais, nice!

Hmmm...you kinda picked apart boss fights as "These feel like just some suped up normal enemy" Yeah. Thats kind of the point. While the world is filled with "Powered people" Its not like crazy super hero stuff. Its way more focused on the it being an actual drug that makes people crazy and do crazy things. Often stupid things. Enemies are jumpy, react in ways that aren't normal. The way enemies moves speaks to the lore of the game. Now if you don't like that aspect, thats okay. But it felt like you missed the point entirely. The world doesn't have great fighting arenas? I don't agree with that at all. The world design is pretty amazing and allows for a lot more creativity when using different plasmids and different weapons. Setting different kinds of traps, forcing enemies to fight a big daddy you enraged so you don't have to fight. Stuff like that.

*sees new kbash video while at work "I'm saving you, for later :)"

I generally really liked infinite because of the whole change in atmosphere. the first 2 games were so dark and oppressive and the free-flying new location finally got me on board and i loved the story. i like rapture to a point, but can't get myself to want to spend more than a few mins there. columbia is nice on several levels, even when its dark. Its convoluted, but it felt like i was able to come in at the end just fine.

I think the reason for "weak" bosses was that they represented the elites, the intelligentsia of Rupture, while Big Daddies and the like were brutes. In other words, Rupture is a world where smart bois rule, muscle bois do the work. If you'd actually played this game (Bio1), you'd know that saving little sisters gives you more Adam in the long run; harvesting sisters only grants you more Adam in the short run, i.e. right fucking now. Other than that, spot-on, man.

One of my favorite videos on the Bioshock series. Great work my dude.

Your channel is so undderated! I love your sense of humour and your thumbnails are great! I really don’t have any critiques of your channel.

Cant tell if old looking 16 year old or adult who needs a new hair style.

I dont know if you're aware but there's an awesome novel "Bioshock: Rapture" that greatly incorporates the characters of Bioshock 1 and 2, it'a good read and even better if you enjoyed Bioshock 2.

thank you for being so excited and funny. my mom died recently and i needed something light and enjoyable and you are exactly that kbash

Great vid as always kbash

With Bioshock 1, I would recommend to turn off the Vita chamber in the options menu. For those who don't know. Vita chambers make it so when you die, you respawn at a Vita chamber (this game's explanation of checkpoints), but enemies you killed stay dead and enemies health stay exactly the same when you die. Vita chambers just break the game. Granted I finished the game before I knew you could turn off these. Edit: I was wrong, don't turn off the vita chamebers. They punishment is too steep. When they are turned off, there are no checkpoints in the game. So when you die, you start at the very beginning of the level

"The bosses in bioshock 1 barley have any character" So you didn't listen to there audio logs then?? Ya know the things that give them a back story that the player can choose to ignore if they please?

I have all the Bioshock games. I played probably half of the first one's remaster. It was affected by numerous glitches which were too tedious to continue with,. Thanks to this video, I no longer feel like I should finish the series! Thanks, KBash!

You hold my exact thoughts on the Bioshock franchise. So you just earned a subscriber

I honestly enjoyed all of them in their own way, I would consider bio shock 1 one of the best games I have ever played and infinite was one of the only games where I felt satisfied with the end. As for Bioshock 2 I think that it’s the most technically sound game with good gameplay but the story isn’t as good. Overall it’s a great series

Lol your reaction to the first game, especially during Andrew Ryan's scene, was the same as mine :^)

Subscribed my dude, can’t believe I’ve never heard of your channel before!

Okay, you got the right opinion about Bioshock 2. 98 good options to go till the compensation is complete.

The original bioshock infinite was supposed to use a whole bunch of new concepts and an entirely different concept story and bosses and it basically was an entirely different game originally even having a different voice actor for Booker it could have been utterly astounding that could have blown the previous games out of the water but do to poor finances and schedules and all around poor management was dumbed down to what it was an unfortunate loss for the industry

Sooo good Kbash!🙏🏿🙏🏿

I tried picking up and playing Bioshock one and I was really bored with the gameplay but loved the aesthetic and narrative so I just ended up watching a play through but after watching this I’m going to consider playing bioshock 2 because I’m more of a gameplay guy.

4:29 I know this doesn't have a lot to do with the critique but god damn that was so funny, the guy floating into the ceiling while on fire and then falling down with that scream LOL

I'm a simple man, I see KBash uploads, I watch how ever many ads on are on it, in their entirety, to make sure he gets that ad revenue.

How are you meant to dual wield if you have to hold a weapon with two hands?

Although I have many gripes with the content, this was really well made!

26:17 Are those Arin's splattering sounds from Game Grumps?

harvesting is always bad you get more adam and resources by saving in the end so optimally always save.

This is an amazing review, liked and subbed!

I've watched several of your videos so far. & you seem like a pretty cool sir. Thanks for the good content, subbed.

Fell asleep lastnight with youtube running, and woke up to this video, its 7:30AM this is my 3rd video ive watched you made and LOL im a fucking fan dude haha. Im glad the algorithm led me to this channel

Just played bioshock infinite about a month a go and think it's great. Honestly don't get the hate for it. I thought people would be more open minded going into playing it. I think Irrational games and Ken Levine deserved that much.

Did i hear Dishonored background music? ;]

This resource draught you talk about never plagued me. I vaguely remember having 2 or three encounters that could kill me, but hey, there’s 0 repercussions for dying and you can chip down big daddies by dying and charging in their face. It’s not fun so I didn’t do it after the first time, but it’s an option. The game can be hard at few points if you use the ice plasmid (I never even touched it) and waste your loot but it’s hard an unpunishing.

Also, I was happy to see that my love of BioShock 2 isn't only confined to myself. THANK YOU KBASH!

I disagree on a few points but find these reviews pretty nice. Although I think the comment about the women in gaming thing is a bit misinformed. This song and dance has gone on and on already and its frustrating to see people wave off the great female characters in gaming from yesteryear and present. Great review otherwise dude

As he was hating on infinite i just kept thinking man, i love infinite so much

5:11 wow i almost never used the camera when i recently beat bioshock 1 for the first time (which i did easy mode and rescuing every little sister i got my hands on instead of harvesting them) because i thought it would just give me useless tips

Bioshock was my first FPS, my first "FP" anything, my first PS3 game, and I was already the age of 19. But I had bought a PS3, and wanted to experience something special, so I bought random games based on popularity, and these games were one of my first purchases. The first two games are still the first and last time I've ever played a game without knowing a single thing about it and forming my own solid opinions solely based on my own experience. Now I'm too wrapped up on social media and adult life to really do that again, but damn. These games are so special to me. Thanks for reviewing them! It was great.

I literally beat the first bioshock yesterday! Still need to play infinite and 2... so i cant watch yet. Sad

The second's gameplay and narrative are superior. The characters are not when compared to Ryan. Overall the better game. Belief in the collective is far more easily abused than belief in the individual. Ryan betrays his belief in individual freedoms when he begins banning books. Lamb sticks to her principles through and through.

17:55 is that Dishonored music in a Bioshock video??? My man, YES

It's so trippy yesterday I finished playing dishonored 2 so I'm sitting here right now, watching this video about bioshock and suddenly hear dishonored soundtrack playing in the background???? I was genuinely confused. Nonetheless amazing video, love it.

BioShock 2 is my favorite of the series, which I know is a nuclear take. Sure, BioShock was a groundbreaking spiritual successor designed for big-brained, 2000 IQ gamers of 2008 (I think it was, anyways). But people see 2 as "They just tossed a Big Daddy in as the player character and it was a cash grab" rather than a BioShock game that didn't need a twist to wedge itself in our brains for decades to come. I also think Infinite gets a bad wrap in general and it totally nails my aesthetic: dystopian idealistic nationstate in the sky where the white man is in char- Sure, the system is streamlined to hell (which is almost never a good thing) and it lacked the wrinkly-brained twist of the 1st game, so of course it can't live up to the first game's shadow (not like anything else on the planet can). It honestly should have been a spiritual successor to the spiritual successor of System Shock. Don't even get me started on how much I love Burial at Sea and the narrative of Infinite (no matter how it's often chastised) REALLY glad you made this video

I loved Jack and Andrew Ryan as a character, I loved the twist, and I loved Rapture! That's all I loved about Bioshock! Bioshock 2? The gameplay was AMAZING! It still had some pretty good characters and the bond between Delta and Eleanor and Delta and Sinclair felt compelling and interesting enough. Minerva's Den was also very good! I agree with 2 being the favorite. I absolutely hate Bioshock Infinite for... A LOT of reasons.

Bioshock 2 is my favorite in the series. I also really loved infinite. The sky setting was even more beautiful then rapture and the world was beautiful. Flying around on those rails and leaping off to air attack people was baddass. I loved the combat and I like having a shield etc

Keep up the great work man.

You are so correct. Certain games pander "feelings" to an impressionable audience and they'll lap on to out like crazy, not even stopping and thinking about the actual quality and construction it's going through. Not to say pure feels games are bad, but something like What Remains Of Edith Finch is still very well designed and has quality/ideas/creativity to back that up.

I'm stoked to see someone actually giving Bioshock 2 a fair shake for once. I though I was the only person on Earth who actually appreciated it. That said, when you were talking about the various reasons why people didn't like the game, you just brushed past the criticism that it was still in Rapture. I don't know how nobody seems to catch it, but that's the single most asinine statement in the entire discussion surrounding this series. Rapture is one of the most iconic, well-realized settings in all of fiction and the concept of a Bioshock sequel taking place anywhere else would have been heresy. The thought hadn't even crossed anyone's mind until Infinite was announced and that was seven full months _after_ Bioshock 2 was released. To say that being in Rapture was a weakness of the game is an utterly worthless statement and an open declaration of ignorance.

Honestly, Bioshock Infinite was super well received at launch, and I kinda feel like it was only so well received because it was a Bioshock game. A lot of people are way more critical of Infinite now than they were when it came out.

Love the Dishonored soundtrack in the background

>"i recently played the séries back to back" >No mention of system shock

You know you can let Sander Cohen live right?

Burial At Sea Part 2 gave me a singleplayer game with TF2's infinite invisibility thing. For that, it is the only stealth game I tolerate.

I've played dishonored way to many times to not get that background music

Thanks for mentioning my video in the description. Your content's pretty good. Your editing, pacing, and humor are really distinct. I'm currently almost done editing my Bioshock 2 video and I'm pretty much with you on everything. Love the combat, it's great, but a significant part of my script hinges on it's narrative failings and they are many. So I go pretty in-depth on Sofia Lamb and Bioshock 2's obsession with retcons and meddling with the first game's backstory. Infinite though.... I'm not with you on that. Not at all.... I'm doing Infinite after Bioshock 2 and I hope I can put a put a compelling case forward as to why Infinite is fantastic.

Bioshock 2’s story is just as good as the other two.

with bioshock one I usually go for melee focused with shock, you can one shot like all none big daddy enemies.

The bosses don't need to be different from normal splicers because not only are they normal splicers in the narrative the combat is deep and varied enough to make any encounter satisfying it's on you for just using one strategy over the others instead of actually using the tools the game gives you

I like infinites story the most and the second game's gameplay the most

I’ve watched your channel a week ago and I’m already in love with your content keep it up dude Also regrow your beard

Dang man, I wanna play Bioshock again now. Need to get on PC...

Bioshock 1 is my favorite game of all time. I think its fantastic, so I dont quite agree with your review but you did make some fantastic points that cannot be denied. But i totally agree with your views on Infinite. If Infinite was more like Myst or hell even a tad more along the lines of Dishonoured I think the game would have been so much better.

Well this was something.

Starved for ammo or cash? What? Even on the survivor difficulty I found myself maxed on ammo and cash constantly

Great video, KBash. On an unrelated note, has anyone told you your voice sounds a tiny bit like Chris Ray Gun’s?

Did KBash just reference Noah Caldwell-Gervais is this a crossover of my favorite youtubers?!?

"There's the dislikes!" Actually liked and subbed at this spot. Great content.

Ah yes, the Eve refill animation, a mechanic to punish plasmid abuse in a game which emphasizes resource management (similarly to how reload animations work in most modern shooters), is annoying when you abuse plasmids. I'm shocked.

the bioshock games are special to me. not because i played them myself, but when i was little and visiting my dad for the two weeks out of the year i could, he'd play bioshock whenever my brothers weren't playing anything. its very strange considering how little i was and how mildly horrifying these games are, but seeing the city underwater and all the blood and the big daddies are weirdly comforting to me. i should play it myself sometime.

The third upgrade for the rivet gun actually weakens the damage to headshots to where you cant instantly kill one on hard mode like you could with just the first 2 upgrades