#irrational games

[cercicelle]

no one talks enough about how funny it is for Booker to suddenly change clothes (gear) in the midst of battle

#ok i guess its fine for him to i mean elizabeth changed clothes and it was the peak of her character arc #even i can change clothes too elizabeth #bioshock #bioshock infinite #booker dewitt #elizabeth comstock #elizabeth bioshock #2k games #irrational games #fanart #kobart

[kinmeki]

I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question.

#digital art #character design #illustration #drawing #draw #digital painting #dessin #dibujo #art #digital drawing #fanart #andrew ryan #bioshock #irrational games #portrait #painting portrait

[buyanelephantdkvz]

#elizabeth bioshock #bioshock #bioshock infinite #elizabeth comstock #columbia #nightingale #demo elizabeth #irrational games #judas

[a-bluedream-posts]

Elizabeth (NY2023) by AyyaSAP

#elizabeth comstock #elizabeth #bioshock #bioshock infinite #bioshock series #bioshock fanart #irrational games #2k games #pinup art #video games #video game vixens #ayyasap #ayya saparniyazova

[nickolashx]

System Shock 2 (1999)

System Shock 2 is a 1999 action role-playing survival horror video game designed by Ken Levine and co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios.

You awake from the cold chill of your cryo-tube to discover cybernetic implants grafted to your flesh and the crew of the starship Von Braun slaughtered.

The infected roam the halls, their screams and moans beckoning you to join them as the rogue artificial intelligence known as SHODAN taunts and ridicules your feeble attempt to unravel the horrifying mystery of the derelict starship Von Braun.

#system shock #system shock 2 #system shock remake #horror #horror game #horror games #survival horror #psychological horror #classic horror #psychological #playstation #psychological horror game #pc game #pc games #irrational games #bioshock #bioshock infinite #psychological fears #shodan #space game #space horror #old game #old pc games #old video games #old school games #old games

[lulu2992]

Inktober 2023, Day 1: Dream.

Don’t worry, Booker, it’s just a dream. …Right?

#this took so long :’) #inktober #inktober 2023 #inktober2023 #bioshock infinite #booker dewitt #2k games #irrational games #my art #fan art #traditional art

[mvfm-25]

" A masterpiece unveiled! "

PC Zone Magazine n80 - September, 1999.

#Looking Glass #Looking Glass Studios #Irrational Games #Electronic Arts #EA #System Shock #System Shock 2 #SS2 #Shodan

[nintendumpster]

#system shock #system shock 2 #irrational games #looking glass studios #pc games

[artbythermalcom]

"Skyfall"

Thanks for sticking around with me in 2023 and can't wait to see what 2024 has in store till then...

Here's to Everyone and Have a Happy New Year!

Enjoy!

#artbythermalcom #art #bioshock infinite #bioshock #elizabeth #booker #fan art #elizabeth comstock #booker dewitt #columbia #irrational games #skyhook #video games #video game fanart #new years eve

[nexusyokai]

Bioshock Infinite: Daisy Fitzroy FanArt

Top Quote:

"When I first seen Columbia, that sky was the brightest, bluest sky that there ever was. Seemed like Heaven. Then your eyes adjusted to the light, and you see that sea of white faces looking hard back at you."

#bioshock #bioshock infinite #fanart #digital art #daisy fitzroy #video games #irrational games

[cercicelle]

just your average father daughter bonding time, no cities in the sky or steampunk enemies coming to kill them at all.. just normal

#bioshock #bioshock infinite #booker dewitt #elizabeth comstock #elizabeth bioshock #2k games #irrational games #fanart #kobart

[nekroticism]

Elizabeth 🖤

#bioshock #bioshock infinite #elizabeth #gaming #irrational games

[fm-synthesizer]

#bioshock #irrational games #fps #horror #dystopian #video game gif #gif #gifset #bioshockedit #replayed this game for the past couple of hours #it was so fun and creepy! #I really missed it lol

[a-bluedream-posts]

Elizabeth by FantasyAi

#elizabeth comstock #elizabeth #bioshock #bioshock infinite #2k games #irrational games #pinup art #ai art #ai art generation #ai artist #video games #video game vixens #FantasyAi

[superectojazzmage]

Thinking about doing a BioShock replay so getting this old essay/observation thing I had in my drafts for awhile and actually making it, but something I’ve kinda realized is that the reason (or maybe just one reason) that BioShock Infinite isn’t as fantastic and well-constructed compared to the iconic original (or even 2) and has had people souring on it a lot in the years after it’s release is that it forgets the real core that BioShock was built around.

Namely that what BioShock is really about is video games themselves as a medium. BioShock is a story about video gaming, a meta exploration of video games and their gameplay, narratives, and developments. The world of Rapture is carefully constructed entirely around this idea.

Rapture is a small, isolated, contained location where people are free to do whatever they want within the confines of the “system”, just like the world of any video game. A playground where people can be whatever they want to be and do whatever they want to do without fear of consequences, even things that would be regarded as evil in a normal world.

Things like plasmids and vita-chambers and Adam and Eve are all video game mechanics taken to their logical conclusion — upgrades/spells you have to genetically modify yourself into a monster to use, checkpoints that literally stitch your mutilated body back together when you come close to death so you can keep “playing”, experience points that are an actual physical substance you need to acquire to become stronger, power-ups and health pickups that are literally just addictive drugs in hypodermic needles.

And, of course, the famous “would you kindly” twist and everything involving Atlas/Fontaine and the way you can do things/use items that all the NPCs and enemies can’t is all one big warp on the idea of player characters and how players behave in video games. Your character is basically a human robot, a living weapon bred and altered and programmed from birth to be able to be like that.

You can use checkpoints and do all these freakish upgrades to your body because you’re built to be able to. You do everything the objective marker/weirdo over the radio tells you to is because that’s what you usually do in video games you’re programmed to do it, and it’s engrained so thoroughly in you that even after the spell is ostensibly broken, you just instinctively default to following a different voice’s orders. And the splicers, those dumb enemies you’re fighting? Previous players of the “game” who got in too deep and now stalk the maps, killing everything in sight and obsessively hunting for more experience points and unlockables.

The characters of Rapture, the people who built it, are twisted parodies of game developers. A controlling, hypocritical, and narcissistic auteur director, Andrew Ryan, who doesn’t believe in anything except himself and his “vision”. The pretentious prima-donna artists and writers like Sander Cohen who pour their neuroses into the work and on their coworkers. Character designers represented with a crazed surgeon, Steinman, who views people like paintings. An environmental designer, Langford, so obsessed with getting every detail right and perfecting the trees that she doesn’t notice or care about the office around her burning. Uncaring, abusive managers and producers like Suchong who don’t care what they have to do to get the project done. Cutthroat meddling executives like Fontaine who slip into the artistic world and play it for their own ends. And all around them, hapless programmers and play-testers and interns responsible for the actual nuts and bolts that make the game function suffering under the crunch or being discarded at a moment’s notice when they’re “outmoded” or try to unionize.

The central point of BioShock at its core, is to deconstruct and examine the nature of the medium and genres of video games. It is an exploration of what a world would have to be in order to function like a video game world does, it’s setting carefully constructed around this idea, and the answer is… a horror story. It’s a tale that can only really be told as a video game, because it is so inextricably linked to that medium of storytelling.

Infinite doesn’t have ANY of that.

There’s no consideration for the artform and construction of video games, no commentary on gaming culture and ideas. The worldbuilding has no central theme beyond whatever theme was in Ken Levine’ head at the moment, hence why the game cycles through God knows how many ideas without doing justice to any of them and has a completely nonsensical setting and overall plot that looks superficially smart but falls apart at a moment’s examination. The characters don’t map to anything. The gameplay doesn’t map to anything, and in fact is usually completely incongruous with the setting and story. The only thing that maybe could be seen as a twist on the gaming medium is the multiverse plot point/lighthouse scene possibly reflecting on the idea of sequels, but even then it’s so half-formed that I can’t even really discern what point they’re trying to make.

You mindlessly slaughter thousands of people to get to the next cutscene where your characters suddenly become actual thinking humans again and start responding to death realistically. You down drinkable plasmids that are barely even tangentially acknowledged by the narrative.

Compare how intensely interwoven things like plasmids and vita-chambers are with the story and worldbuilding of OG BioShock with how vestigial and barely acknowledged similar things are in Infinite. Compare the complexity and nuance of OG BioShock’s setting and characters with the cartoonish stereotypes and simplicity of Infinite’s entire cast except maybe Booker and Elizabeth themselves. Infinite can barely pick a single thesis to discuss, let alone grapple with its nature as a video game. If BioShock 1 and 2 are a story that could only be told in video game form, Infinite is like a book or movie shaped peg that Ken Levine is smashing into a video game hole.

I don’t know where I’m going with this other then making this observation but yeah. I am curious if Levine will have learned the lesson with his upcoming not-BioShock game Judas, or if it’s going to be the same pretentious bundle of incoherently jammed together ideas that Infinite was.

#bioshock #bioshock 2 #bioshock infinite #bioshock infinte burial at sea #ken levine #irrational games #video game #gaming #media analysis #long post #longpost #discussion #judas game #feel free to comment and/or contribute or debate or whatever

[lulu2992]

Inktober 2022, Day 12: Forget.

“Go ahead. You’ll be doing me a favor.” - Elizabeth

#what a scene #especially in first person #inktober #inktober 2022 #inktober2022 #bioshock infinite #burial at sea #bioshock infinite burial at sea #burial at sea episode 2 #elizabeth dewitt #elizabeth comstock #atlas #irrational games #ghost story games #lobotomy #orbitoclast #forget #my art #fan art #traditional art #bioshock infinite spoilers #burial at sea spoilers