"Enraptured." Booooo. Great story, however. Much better than Goodnight Moon. That story's been on a pedestal for too long. | |
Right off the bat, they say Jack landed in the Pacific despite the fact it clearly states "Middle of the Atlantic Ocean". I know it sounds nitpicky, but really, there aren't that many oceans to get confused with. | |
Wow, that was a good bedtime story. | |
Loved this. "The ending sucked" "Yeah..." | |
this made my day surprisingly | |
That was awesome, i liked the Tenenbaum-nazi bit. BioShock had a great story but a bad ending. | |
Haha cool, i shall read that to my kids someday! also, SPOILERS?! | |
Not a big fan of these kinds of videos, but this one was funny. One and a half thumbs up. | |
They really threw me off when they said Atlas wasn't secretly Fontaine. | |
A bedtime story to a very violent game...awesome! | |
Haha, I liked the bit about Sander Cohen. | |
"Jack then becomes best friends with a play-write called Cohen, he gives him lot's of pretty pictures and then beats him to death with a wrench." "Jack then beat Atlas and either saved all the little sisters and gave them college educations and taught them about all the beauty of the world until he died a much loved hero in his old age... or he ate them all and took over the world." - My two favourite quotes. I loved it, especially the drawing of all the characters. The Big Daddies especially. | |
Entertaining. I was annoyed, however, by the repetetive mentions of Atlas not being Fontaine, the joke was funny the first time she said it, but felt stale afterwards. | |
Hehehe. That was pretty amusing. | |
"Jack became best friends with Cohen, showed him all sorts of pretty pictures, and then beat him to death with a wrench." lol. Hilarious video, and the illustrations were awesome too! | |
That ending was perfect. "That ending sucked!" "Yeah..." I loved the part where she goes on about the college degrees and appreciation of life. | |
Best. Bedtime story. EVER! *sigh* they don't make them like they used to | |
I don't know why everyone hates the endings, I liked them a lot. Pretty funny, but I felt like it was undermining the story the whole time. | |
"The ending sucked." I'm totally gonna tell that bedtime story to my niece. ^_^ | |
One thing I Have learned from Bioshock. Never play it at 10:00 at night. Nice vid too! | |
I have been read way better storys then that... | |
I laughted so fucking hard... | |
hehehe "the ending sucked" made me laugh so damn hard, good story :P may want to put in a spoiler warning, although everyone who is going to play the game has likely seen it by now | |
Wow...isn't it amusing that I just finished my first playthrough of this twenty-seven minutes ago. I supposed I just baaaaarely missed those spoilers. Although they didn't really spoil much, because that story was as predictable as the rise of the sun... | |
Would be a number one best seller Book on tape if we could just Hire the soothing voice of Morgan Freeman to narrate. | |
Awesome. "...named Fontaine - who is dead,and most definetly not pretending to be Atlas -". Tee hee hee hee hee hee. Tennenbaum with a Hitler's moustache is funny too. | |
Mine too, for the 30 mins its started. | |
Well come on now. What did you expect! | |
They seemed a little cliché for my liking.
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Well... you... um... in the UNIVERSE there are a lot of oceans to get confused with! Take THAT! xD | |
Yes, actually (not the psychic thing). *SPOILERS* There's an audiolog in the medical pavilion where Dr. Suchong states that ONLY Andrew Ryan or his relatives can use the bathspheres; that gave the cloning dead away, seeing as you already used one or two by then. The twist about Atlas (you know which one) was spectacularly easy to figure out, especially once you realized Fontaine was a con man. Easy, really. | |
LOL - did anyone else notice in the pic where Jack is telekinetically hucking a dead flaming cat at a splicer, Atlas is throwing metal horns and headbanging in the little pic in the corner? Awesome. | |
Wow, that was perfection. I have a tear in my eye. I like the constant mentioning of how Fontaine was definately NOT Atals. Haha. So true and sad, but also awesome. | |
Somewhere.... In the middle of the Indian Ocean... BIOSHOCK! | |
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The BioShock Bedtime Story
We all know BioShock told a great story, but how would it do as a bedtime story? The short answer: Frikkin' awesome!
Let's be honest here: BioShock was a pretty run-of-the-mill shooter that was lifted out of mediocrity by a brilliant setting and a story that was interesting enough that most people were willing to overlook its many, occasionally glaring flaws. In the end, that's really what it came down to; we've all shot guys before but doing it in a collapsed underwater utopia built by an obsessed Objectivist who dragged an entire population of humanity's best and brightest into a hideously deformed madness? That's an unusual twist, to say the least.
So it's a good story, sure, but is it good enough for a bedtime story? As this video from Gametrailers and Destructoid proves, the answer is a resounding yes - although quite clearly, the quality of the storyteller has a lot to do with.
Personally, I hate being read to. My mind wanders and since I don't have the book in front of me so I can go back and reread what I forgot to pay attention to, I end up just ignoring the whole thing anyway. But this story held my attention; you might say I was enraptured by the telling. And unlike the game, the bedtime story actually has a good ending!
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