Bioshock Infinite Explained - SPOILERS

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[IF YOU HAVE NOT YET COMPLETED THE GAME BIOSHOCK INFINITE AND WISH TO GO THOUGH IT SPOILER-FREE I ADVISE YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM THIS THREAD]

As of 9:36 PM of yesterday to 6:06 AM today I completed the game Bioshock Infinite. The ending had to have been more confusing than Inception when I first finished it, but now that I have the brain capacity and knowledge to know how it all can make sense, I’m gonna explain it as simple as I can as I show my opinion about the game.

This game has to be one of the greatest games I have every played. Though I started being a gamer in only 2002/03, I still see the time and effort that was put into this game. I believe Bioshock Infinite deserves Game of the Ye- wait a minute! This game deserves more game of the decade.

Now read below to have me explain it to you.

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It is revealed that the game takes place in a multiverse. Booker is also Zachary Comstock (The Prophet) in multiple parallel universes, meaning that Comstock and Booker are the same person who have been brought together by means of an inter-dimensional passage. The difference in name comes from a deciding point in his life where he could have gotten a baptism and be reborn under a different name (which would have been Zachary Comstock).

Booker, in this new reality with his other self, sees what a horrible person Comstock is and all the hell Elizabeth is put through and decides to end him, which through Elizabeth’s powers means he could kill Comstock before is he was born and save Elizabeth from all this trouble. He does not realize until later that killing Comstock would do this to himself.

After realizing it, he goes back to this original deciding point in time where he could be been ‘reborn’ through baptism. In the ending, Elizabeth takes Booker on a journey to an infinite number of lighthouses (the city of Rapture including), all representing the “beginning” of some kind of journey that is always the same with slight variations.

After Booker realizes that he is just a pawn in an infinite number of similar sequences, he decides to allow Elizabeth kill him during his baptism so that he can save his daughter so that he will never live in the first place, thus also ending the life of his daughter who would have never been born, the very daughter that he was trying to save.

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If you are still wondering if the game was a prequel, a spin-off, or any other variation that relates to the original Bioshock, the answer is that Bioshock Infinite takes place in a multiverse, this fact should be clear to everyone as well knowing that Elizabeth takes us to the universe that the city of Rapture is in at the end of the game.

All I have to say is, there’s a reason why they call it Bioshock Infinite.

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Thanks for posting this i didnt think there were many Bioshock fans. This game to me is GOTY this game tugged on my heartstrings the whole time from seeing Elizabeth on. I started to make connections early in the game. I take it you subscribe to the theory that Booker is stuck in an Infinite loop?

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> I take it you subscribe to the theory that Booker is stuck in an Infinite loop?

Good question. I wanted to think of it as that but Booker already had found the source to stop the loop, killing him, the prophet (him as well), and his daughter Elizabeth. The infinite loop would have to come to an end at that point for Booker.

I would also like to add that this is an outstanding game and DESERVES GOTY, I would replay the campaign again.

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This really makes me want to finish the game (as though the amazing gameplay, story, and environment weren’t motivation enough!). It almost sounds like this game was heavily influenced by Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series.

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> > I take it you subscribe to the theory that Booker is stuck in an Infinite loop?
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> Good question. I wanted to think of it as that but Booker already had found the source to stop the loop, killing him, the prophet (him as well), and his daughter Elizabeth. The infinite loop would have to come to an end at that point for Booker.
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> I would also like to add that this is an outstanding game and DESERVES GOTY, I would replay the campaign again.

I actually feel as if the infinite loop was destroyed when…

Booker was finally killed before being Comstock. Think about it, if there was no Comstock the Lutece twins wouldn’t have been asking Booker for his daughter. So that scene after the credits could’ve been hinting that Booker is finally in a world where he keeps her.But yes, an incredibly strong candidate for GOTY 2013. I just hope that the game isn’t outshined by these pretty new games coming out for Next Gen consoles.

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Oh, so that’s happened. I was getting confused. I’m glad someone decided to take the time and explain it in a more easier manner.

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Let’s keep discussion to one topic, please :slight_smile:

https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst197649_Anyone-played-Bioshock-Infinite-yet.aspx

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> Let’s keep discussion to one topic, please :slight_smile:
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> https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst197649_Anyone-played-Bioshock-Infinite-yet.aspx

Nah, and back to your thread you go!

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Just one thing: Booker dies in part to save Elizabeth/Annabelle and absolve himself, because that baptism took place before he gave her away to Robert Lutece.

It’s also possible that, in the end (the scene after the credits shows that it’s possible that Anna is alive, in the scene in Booker’s office), Elizabeth only drowned any version of Booker that would accept the baptism, making it so that Comstock would never exist, but Booker Dewitt’s life would continue in other realities. The fact that Comstock then never existed also means that Columbia was never created in the first place. In that sense, Booker absolved himself of both what he had done in Columbia and what he would have done as Comstock.

Also, I don’t think Robert is Rosalind’s twin from another reality, but that he is actually her, born as a male. This is alluded to in the audio diary where Rosalind mentions seeing someone who is simultaneously herself and not herself, and in the quote from one of their books, where it is simply quoting “R. Lutece” without saying which of the two it is. Also keep in mind that they always mention “two sides of the same coin”, and finish each other’s sentences.

In another connection to early audio diaries, one of Comstock’s first diaries you discover is a recording of him musing over baptism: “One man enters the waters of baptism, another man leaves, born again. But who is that man who lies submerged? Perhaps he is both sinner and saint, until he is revealed unto the eyes of man.” This parallels the “Schrodinger’s Cat” experiment and the game’s ending.

Does anybody have anything else to add?

Edit: Playing through the end again, it’s Robert Lutece who wrote the quote from the game’s beginning, because as Booker is given his assignment and repeats to himself “bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt”, Rosalind says “He’s creating memories, your theory is holding up”.

In addition to that, this puts the ending of the first two games in a whole new light. The (contradictory) variable endings of Bioshock 1 and 2 represent the possibilities of new worlds formed from crucial “juncture points” like whether or not Jack helps the Little Sisters escape from Rapture, or who Eleanor Lamb decides to become.