The fact that instead of just using footage from the game, you go out of your way to actually re-create the scenes and give it a cinematic angle is a level of detail that I really appreciate and that always keeps me coming back to this channel
I do often wonder how Rapture would’ve turned out had they had access to Vigor and Salts instead of the Plasmids. While they still did cause hallucinations and some cosmetic changes to one’s arm, it was a drastic difference from the insanity and disfiguring alterations of Plasmids.
At least in writing I don’t think things would have turned out differently, the series criticises the idea of free market capitalism as inherently flawed, it would have just been another drug or something else that would have brought down the order of the Rapture.
In Burial At Sea 2 its explained that Plasmids, Big daddies, Vigors and Songbirds were made by Fink and Suchong. They comunicated via the portals. 1 single Vigor costed 10 times more Adam to make compared to a Plasmid. Thats why very few people use Vigors in Columbia but everyone used Plasmids in Rapture. Plasmids in Rapture were "more affordable". Also, most people in Columbia didnt really like Vigors, probably due to their religious mindset. The obvious flaw with the Lore is that when you visit Fink's Building, you see a ton of Vigors being made, wich is counter intuitive when you look up the reason why Lil sisters and daddies were made in the first place. They were made because there wasnt enough adam and they needed to harvest it from the dead bodies. Unless Fink got his own Adam from other universes and not from Ryan/Suchong/Rapture.
Repeated use of adem accelerated the uses changes like a adict where as the vigor and salts did not require adem to aquire the abilities but it would have the same affect as adem where the population becomes soo addicted it would have the same effect as rapture its a never ending cycle
The amount of highly convoluted and incredibly complex material put into such simple and understandable form is truly astonishing. I think, this is the only video that actually succeded to give me more information than simply reading wiki did. Incredible effort, my brother in Christ, you did good.
I don’t care if I’ve seen all three of these videos almost 100 times, this completed timeline was very enjoyable. Sorry that part 2 and 3 got low views, you worked so hard on them.
are all the other parts just this one but split? all of them together create this full version, right? i wont miss anything if i dont watch them, will i?
The way that the Rapture theme blends into Lighter than Air at 6:20 while explaining how Fink co-opted Suchong's discoveries in his own universe is absolutely sublime
As someone who suffers pretty severe motion sickness & migraines with first person games, I’ve lamented never being able to play the Bioshock games. This video, in addition to being extremely well put together, finally allowed me to experience the games and their lore in a way that reading wiki articles & watching Let’s Plays never could. Thanks for all your work on this. Really glad the algorithm sent me here.
Holy crap this is so much deeper than I ever realized. I knew certain things were connected by design, such as big daddies and songbird, but them being connected through storyline is something I have missed for years.
Haven't been able to fully experience/play these games due to motion sickness, so this story breakdown, showing all the connections and details, is simply amazing! Thank you :)
@@justanotheryoutubechannel I get motion sickness with all first-person games, Bioshock was the first one I played and where I had to realise that. Though it was still doable in small portions. Bioshock Infinite though, with everything around you floating up and down, was too much even in small portions. But maybe there are other factors that make it worse, only ever tried one other first-person game and there I didn't last for more than 5min :D
I think people underestimate the importance of reality transition in "BioShock: Infinite" and the saga as a whole. Why ? You see, throught out the game, Elizabeth explains she's not sure she's bringing them to already existing realities, but rather creating universes that attend to her needs and wishes. Something that might back up her theory is Comstock's voxophone, in which he questions himself what happens to the sinner he left behind after the baptism, since water's purpose isn't to destroy, but to wash away. If we take this voxophone in a literal sense, that means that when Comstock was baptized, a paralel world was created in order to house Booker DeWitt in it (this might also explain why his death erased only Comstocks, because while Booker was washed away to new realities, Comstock was drowned). If this is true, that means Elizabeth is the embodiment of everything "BioShock" represents. How when you're unhappy with the world, you create a new place that fits your vision. The importance of a father figure in a child's life. And the child's growth throught exposure to the world's corruption. I think "BioShock: Infinite" is far deeper than most people realize. But to try and truly grasp that depth, like Elizabeth, you must decipher the codes and lockpick the forbidden areas to gain true understanding of how the game truly works. I have faith and love for this game, even if I agree Rapture is better, and you can't turn my love into hatred. There's always an idea. There's always a flawed world. There's always a womb of water. There's always an individual who wants to find his time to create, and his time to destroy. And everything starts with a lightouse (or a sea of them).
@@ruaidhri8064 thanks. Hey, if you don't mind, I've got one question for you. Who do you think that it was who visited Comstock ? And what do you think it was her agenda ?Remember, Comstock is still Booker, simply amplified to his worst. And considering Booker's comments regarding Rapture and Columbia, it's pretty obvious Comstock could never have thought of creating Columbia alone. Someone had to give him the idea. And if we take into consideration that Rapture and Columbia are twin realities and the theories saying that Eleanor is Elizabeth reincarnated (in another time, and another place), that means whoever visited Comstock, had an agenda for Anna, and the cities were her baptism to prepare her for said agenda.
Infinite was the only game I ever played in the series, and it holds a soft spot in my heart because I sympathized with Elizabeth. It's hard to please an abusive parent, and its ever harder to escape their brainwashing. What you said about father figures was spot on. Old Elizabeth is a direct parallel to that potential of righteous evil in Booker, physically realized in Comstock.
@@JabamiLain I interpreted that as more religious propaganda. Religion is often a front for people to abuse power. The Christian Bible of today has a large amount text full of bloody and gruesome acts of conflict. Often commanded by the big G himself. So it wouldn't be hard to create a bloody society that pretends to be heaven, but really it's just hell in the sky.
Constants and variables just changing in each distinct "dimension" Bio 1 is my favorite game of all time but when it comes to the story and its mind blowing layers of detail....infinite has a better story than bio 1. It just takes work and time to fully understand this admittedly quite convoluted, but ingenius story and all the layers to it. I regard Ken Levine as one of the greatest story tellers of the 21th century.....in my opinion with these games he proved that he is able to hold his own amongst legends like Orwell, Huxley, and Philip K Dick
i've been a huge fan of bioshock since its start, though i could never fully understand its timeline. this video has helped me with exactly that. the realisation that everything is so neatly, yet discreetly intertwined has left me amazed. thank you Skyrionn, the algorithm has blessed me with this content
I played the three games, got hooked to the aesthetics and the complexity of the story, never got to understand it in such detail. Truely thankful to see it with your recreated perspective. If I could I would write thank you a million times. What is your favorite part of the story? I love whatever is linked with the Lutèce, showing up in the most unexpected places. They could be fixing themselves a toast in your kitchen and you would never know :)
This is a very comprehensive and easy to understand summary of the rather complex story across the universes of BioShock. While I played all games and searched every nook and cranny for lore, I wasn't able to piece them together in such a neat way you did. Hats off to you and thank you for this video!
I get chills every time I hear the slow, piano keys of “Welcome to Columbia” That intro to Bioshock: Infinite was breathtaking and the best intro of all time.
The BioShock Series, an absolute Masterpiece. Every single game is just insanely good and often brought me to tears. The characters, the stories and the music.
Who do you think that it was who visited Comstock ? And what do you think it was her agenda ?Remember, Comstock is still Booker, simply amplified to his worst. And considering Booker's comments regarding Rapture and Columbia, it's pretty obvious Comstock could never have thought of creating Columbia alone. Someone had to give him the idea. And if we take into consideration that Rapture and Columbia are twin realities and the theories saying that Eleanor is Elizabeth reincarnated (in another time, and another place), that means whoever visited Comstock, had an agenda for Anna, and the cities were her baptism to prepare her for said agenda.
Well, we know Booker has the vision of the part where Old Elizabeth destroys New York way before he actually gets there, so maybe from the endless Lighthouse Sea, those memories bleed across each other. So if Comstock saw Old Elizabeth in a Dream bled from the "future", then he would work to achieve the "dream" he saw.
I'm replaying the entire remastered bioshock trilogy since they were free on the Epic store. This video recommendation couldn't have been more timely. If there was a franchise for a movie trilogy this would be it. You've written a great script.. Kudos.
The fate of Sofia Lamb is determined by what you do with Holloway, Poole, and Alexander. Kill them all and Eleanor actually kills her own mother, believing her to be too dangerous to be left alive.
You can still kill Stanley and Eleanor will spare her mother. You can also still kill Alexander, as well - depending on which you kill switches certain dialogue - thus creating 9 different combinations of endings possible for Bioshock 2.
@@ZaZi-Zeta01 The nature in which Sofia Lamb lives or dies depends on how Delta treats the Little Sisters as well as those three characters. A "Rescue" ending requires Delta to kill all three if he wants to go against the grain and have Eleanor kill Sofia Lamb, otherwise she'll spare her (even if only one of the three were spared). A "Harvest" ending requires Delta to spare all three if he wants Eleanor to spare Sofia Lamb, otherwise she'll kill her.
This is one instance where I would've actually preferred to get the "bad" ending lol, I just hated Sofia so much. But I spared Grace, so Sofia got to live
@@Howitchewstofeel5gum It's not quite bad if you still save the little sisters. You just need to kill Grace to kill Sofia if you want what I would consider the best ending.
@@RainingMetal Yes that's what I mean and why I put bad in quotes. It's weird to me that the developers present Sofia getting to live as a good thing that results out of you sparing at least one person (which Grace arguably deserves the most) when the game doesn't really present anything redeemable about Sofia's character.
I always thought there should be a third. Bioshock Exhumed. A 1970s government agent investigating an illegal radio station in Arizona. A water tower on the bluff above a ghost town. A staircase leading down.
@@leilaniaileenlove I imagine that the primary visual themes would be a blend of Myan, Incan, and steampunk. Back in the day Spanish Explorers discovered the caves and found an abandoned underground city. Half in the rock and half out. Not as it had been buried but been suddenly stuck there. More recent notes and mechanism imply work by Americans back around the civil war and later in the 1920’s. Each time some disastrous event lead to the “facility” being abandoned suddenly. A noisy technology that causes objects and people to pass through solid matter as if in a slightly off set dimension. Often visible but moving through stone and other solid objects as if ghosts. There would be a touch of lovecratian unseen horror as you have moving plants that thrive on an unseen light and pests that phase through rocks. There would be many similarities to a limited resource mechanism as found in underwater living such as limited supplies of air and food.
I've been a huge bioshock fan since the first one and my god, this video is perfection when explaining the lore. Lord only knows how a television show would be about the franchise
I've played the game so many times and prided myself on gathering as much lore on it as I could.. But this? this was more than I ever could've surmised from it. It felt like a thrilling movie! ive subscribed and will be watching more of your quality content
Does anyone remember the multiplayer in bioshock 2 and the comments your character say's if you pick up a little sister saying things like " your worth your weight in gold", I miss those games, it's a pretty that they didn't expand on those game modes
Just one of those stories regardless if it’s a movie, book, tv show or game that I envy anyone who gets to experience this masterpiece for the first time. Incredible music and the characters feel so real. It’s haunting.
That was one of the best explanations of the storyline I've heard yet. I really enjoyed listening to the way you did so with pieces of the assets from the game. It was if I was playing the game without actually playing it if that makes sense. I look forward to seeing what else you come up with. Definitely a 10/10 in my book. Great job.
I’m so glad I found this channel. I don’t know if you look at requests, but I recently played The Forgotten City and have been obsessed with it. If you haven’t played it yet, I highly recommend that you do. Based on the games you discuss I think you’d like it.
Welcome aboard! I'm glad you found the channel too! I did play the game but stopped playing due to too many bugs. I struggled tbh but enjoyed some of what I played.
came from playing bioshock infinite again and realizing i didnt really understand what was going on. this was so much more than i had ever hoped thank you so much for making this it's incredible and your hard work is very much acknowledged
Just redownloaded this series and accidentally sped run the game to the first little sister in 30 minutes. I still remember every little detail and where each enemy will be. Still love it!
As someone who isn’t a gamer except for a few titles here and there, my entire experience with Bioshock has been watching my roommate play it a few times. I appreciate this video and am currently on my second watch-through because it’s a fascinating story even without the gameplay and I appreciate that you aren’t interjecting unnecessary opinions and standard overrated UA-cam hype. So thank you. Maybe someday I’ll actually play the game since it seems like it would keep me busy for a year.
The fact that this video does not have millions of views a crime. I’ve always struggled to coherently piece together all three games story’s and this is a godsend.
This is the video of someone really in touch with the lore explaining it down in basic non-Bioshock player detail for those that don't know, like me I love it and now I get it
This was astounding. Ive played and beaten them all so many times, but i forget certain plot points amidst the shooting and drug abuse. I appreciate your work.
I just recently finished Bioshock and i thought that it would be so Great if you made lore videos about it and now i see this xD what a pleasant suprise
I always felt the part where there's is always a man was suppose to be interpreted as booker and Jack. There is always be a "hero" to the story where the "girl" gets saved
Bioshock is my all time favorite game trilogy and I always discover something new or little hints of storytelling I missed. I saw this video on my home page on my UA-cam account so I had to watch and you did amazing story telling that beats the others explaining it.
I'm so glad I found your channel (the algorithm was kind enough to suggest the Half life lore video) - I've been binging it ever since. Super grateful for this amazing content and I hope your channel keeps growing as it absolutely deserves many more subscribers. Cheers!
I played these games as a kid when they released (which was an interesting choice on my dads part for letting a 12 y/o at the time play this series lol). I remembered very little of the nuances of the plot; however it sparked my love of detail oriented stories. I remember being fascinated above all else with the world building both in terms of landscape and plot, even if every story detail didn’t fully sync up in my brain. This video gave a recap that was not only thorough, but was clearly created by someone who loves the source material and world built within this universe. The original cinematics you created were an amazing touch as well! Thank you sincerely for bringing this to life! ❤
I found this video because I'm replaying the whole series again except starting with Infinite. This is an amazing video! I've never seen another game or game series with a story as detailed as the Bioshock series. The writers pretty much wrote a sci-fi epic and they made it into a game to be played out. I will never forget that first reveal of "Would you kindly"
Absolutely fantastic video. It feels like the puzzle is now complete, everything put together and all pieces in the place where they're supposed to be. It all makes sense to me now, where there were initially some questions left after my first playthroughs of the games. One thing I've noticed as well is that while watching this brilliant summary, you could have never guessed that all of these games were first person shooter video games at their core. That's how rich and strong the story is that it can completely stand on its own despite being a video game that also needs to have fun gameplay mechanics. Really fascinating stuff.
Thanks for watching! I know right. I think this is why Bioshock holds such a special place in my heart - the story was incredible and aided the gameplay.
👏 That was Impossible! Both The Rise & Fall of Rapture & Columbia with Bioshock Timeline series Past, Present and Future! That was totally amazing love your video! I chose the Impossible!
I played all three games years ago just recently beat 1 and decided to watch a lore video, this is 100% gonna make the next two games that much more enjoyable
it was never my kinda game, but I really appreciate the hundreds of hours of work you put into this splicing it all together in one long form video...Thank you good Sir, and keep up the good work.
Thank you for helping me understand my childhood. I've never seen this channel before and the fact that the title said "Bioshock Timeline" made me click on it. I've always been so confused on the timeline, despite playing the others. Thanks again! This deserves a subscription!
Not only fantastically explained but with the music and the animations it's a great listen and watch. Also filled me in with bits of lore i'd no idea about 👍
EXCELLENT video!! WELL DONE!! 👏👏 ALL BioShock games are classics! The storyline to all those games are like no other! They’ll always be my all time favorite games! Maybe one day they’ll turn it into a TV series/ movie! Let’s hope!! 👍🤡👍
Wow this was an amazing retelling of the bio shock lore, I didn’t even know a lot of this even after watching other documentaries about the lore and playing the games a few times.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed the episode. I'm posting my first dedicated lore video next week. I'm thinking of going into more depth of the universe.
OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO IVE FOUND TO EXPLAIN THE CONFUSING TIMELINE! With every other video I've watched, there's always been a messy transition between explaining the games and they all put infinite last, but because you explained it so clearly and also put infinite first as it would be in the timeline, I can now happily say I understand the plot more clearly and can actually explain cool story points to my boyfriend who I'm trying to convince to play the games.
Great job ! Well done for condensing all of the Bioshock's story and timeline in a little more than one hour video ! This mustn't have been easy but it sure is fulfilling to watch
So many questions have been answered after watching this. I got goosebumbs during my AHA! moments connecting the dots as to how and why things happened. What a great video that also shows the quality and complexity of those old but gold single player games that we dont get anymore. I applaud you king.
I am finally getting around to replaying the original Bioshock game remasters, and intended to replay all of Infinite too. Great video, wonderfully produced.
I get the story of Columbia, but it is just so full of sloppiness and contradictions. Taking old booker back to the moment where young booker was drowned wouldn't do anything, they would need to go back to young booker, and if there are infinite realities, there are innumerable realities where he becomes Comstock later, or where someone else does. It's a story that suffocates under the weight of its own contrivances.
Every time travel story has this flaw. It always ends up in a mess. But It's like playing god of war and complaining that gods are not real. It's just something that needs to be taken at face value for the type of story.
Suspension of disbelief... Look at the first Bioshock and the mind-boggling logistics of building a city full of skyscrapers at the bottom of the sea, in the 1950s no less AND while keeping all of it top-secret lol. Or think about how the Plasmids are actually supposed to work, letting you throw fire balls and do telekinesis through turning cells into stemcells and then altering them?? Ummm what? It all falls apart if you think about it too much, and this happens with many works of fiction, if not most. What matters most IMO is the emotional impact of any story and the Bioshock games, including Infinite, definitely succeeded there for me.
So happy to get closure on this franchise. Played the games as a kid but didn't understand much, got the most out of infinite story wise but was so confused on how it mixed with the first two. You laid out a seemless narrative here with beautiful visual aids
I gotta say, I always thought the third Bioshock felt like a shoehorned retcon to the first two games. The first two really feel like they can stand completely separate from the third. After watching this extremely comprehensive and timeline accurate summation of the entire story, it sort of confirms my original thoughts. The third game is a total outlier and only really connects to the first two games through it's own story telling. It only seems overly complicated to obscure the fact that it wasn't all planned out from the beginning. Just my two cents, but a very well done recap at any rate.
Ok...but what about the lovecraftian slugs that are like the tiniest part in the story but are almost the main reason all of this was done and was it's end. Where did these crawlers of the sea with powers beyond come from, that's the one question I asked about the first game and it's still never talked about how random slugs were found on this exact area with powers beyond.
Thanks for this man, I played the Bioshock series when I was younger and never understood the story. Thanks again I’ll recommend this video to my brother since he pretty much never understood the story with me lol
I have done The same thing, I can only sleep with videos or movies. And a Lot of times i have dream about The things of The videos. 😅 And it's awesome! 😍
Is it sad that while I love the bioshock series, I really dont care for the lore of infinite 😅 Like I hate how it retconned so much from the other 2 that its all weird.
@@khalilrahme5227 Main thing was how thr civil war started. Originally it was them coming from the poot houses. This time it was elizabeth who helped Atlas return and if it wasnt for her, civil war would have never happened in thus version of rapture
it was really nice to revisit this amazing story. Eventho i can not descide if i want more out of this universe, or let it rest in order to not corrupt it.
The fact that instead of just using footage from the game, you go out of your way to actually re-create the scenes and give it a cinematic angle is a level of detail that I really appreciate and that always keeps me coming back to this channel
I feel like a mix of both would make the video feel a bit smoother. But agreed for the most part.
Yee it seems like that’s gonna take awhile for one man, and it definitely was worth it dude
Couldn't agree more the videos are always brilliantly put together
I don't know man, most of the photoshops kinda suck
@@filthyferret3492 Thats like an hour and a half of fotage my guy
I do often wonder how Rapture would’ve turned out had they had access to Vigor and Salts instead of the Plasmids. While they still did cause hallucinations and some cosmetic changes to one’s arm, it was a drastic difference from the insanity and disfiguring alterations of Plasmids.
At least in writing I don’t think things would have turned out differently, the series criticises the idea of free market capitalism as inherently flawed, it would have just been another drug or something else that would have brought down the order of the Rapture.
In Burial At Sea 2 its explained that Plasmids, Big daddies, Vigors and Songbirds were made by Fink and Suchong. They comunicated via the portals. 1 single Vigor costed 10 times more Adam to make compared to a Plasmid. Thats why very few people use Vigors in Columbia but everyone used Plasmids in Rapture. Plasmids in Rapture were "more affordable". Also, most people in Columbia didnt really like Vigors, probably due to their religious mindset. The obvious flaw with the Lore is that when you visit Fink's Building, you see a ton of Vigors being made, wich is counter intuitive when you look up the reason why Lil sisters and daddies were made in the first place. They were made because there wasnt enough adam and they needed to harvest it from the dead bodies. Unless Fink got his own Adam from other universes and not from Ryan/Suchong/Rapture.
Remember that Slate also overdosed on Shock Jockey vigor bottles and it didn't do his health any good.
Repeated use of adem accelerated the uses changes like a adict where as the vigor and salts did not require adem to aquire the abilities but it would have the same affect as adem where the population becomes soo addicted it would have the same effect as rapture its a never ending cycle
Could be the extreme pressure differential could affect what Adam/Vigor does to people
The amount of highly convoluted and incredibly complex material put into such simple and understandable form is truly astonishing. I think, this is the only video that actually succeded to give me more information than simply reading wiki did. Incredible effort, my brother in Christ, you did good.
Thank you. That's too kind! It was tough but when I got my head around it, it was a great story to tell!
I will never forget the punch of the infinite ending. Unraveling that story and all the little touches was incredible.
Only game that's ever given me actual goosebumps
Theres themes and elements in infinite that lived experiences unlock greater understandings and appreciations for the game.
I don’t care if I’ve seen all three of these videos almost 100 times, this completed timeline was very enjoyable. Sorry that part 2 and 3 got low views, you worked so hard on them.
Didn't know there was a part 2 and 3, only just found this one, I'll be listening and liking them 👍
are all the other parts just this one but split? all of them together create this full version, right? i wont miss anything if i dont watch them, will i?
The way that the Rapture theme blends into Lighter than Air at 6:20 while explaining how Fink co-opted Suchong's discoveries in his own universe is absolutely sublime
Out of all timeline videos on bioshock, this one is the most enjoyable I’ve found
I’m glad I was recommended this video, keep up the terrific work!
Thank you! The algorithm hasn't been too kind to it, but I'm glad you like it!
As someone who suffers pretty severe motion sickness & migraines with first person games, I’ve lamented never being able to play the Bioshock games. This video, in addition to being extremely well put together, finally allowed me to experience the games and their lore in a way that reading wiki articles & watching Let’s Plays never could. Thanks for all your work on this. Really glad the algorithm sent me here.
Holy crap this is so much deeper than I ever realized. I knew certain things were connected by design, such as big daddies and songbird, but them being connected through storyline is something I have missed for years.
Everything is connected. It's what I loved about the Bioshock series. Nearly everything has meaning.
@@Skyrionn that makes it more amazing to me now too. Excellent writing. I knew my yearly revisit of the series was done for some reason.
If you didn't play BAS dlc for Infinite, then you wouldn't have known Rapture and Columbia were connected.
You just made me appreciate bioshock infinite so much more and I played this game years ago. This video was amazing, great work and thank you!
Haven't been able to fully experience/play these games due to motion sickness, so this story breakdown, showing all the connections and details, is simply amazing! Thank you :)
I'm glad I could help in some way!
Me too!!!
I’ve got the same problem, I really don’t know why Bioshock gives me such intense motion sickness.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel I get motion sickness with all first-person games, Bioshock was the first one I played and where I had to realise that. Though it was still doable in small portions. Bioshock Infinite though, with everything around you floating up and down, was too much even in small portions.
But maybe there are other factors that make it worse, only ever tried one other first-person game and there I didn't last for more than 5min :D
The original Bioshock has a rather small fov the remastered however was playable with a wider fov
I think people underestimate the importance of reality transition in "BioShock: Infinite" and the saga as a whole. Why ? You see, throught out the game, Elizabeth explains she's not sure she's bringing them to already existing realities, but rather creating universes that attend to her needs and wishes. Something that might back up her theory is Comstock's voxophone, in which he questions himself what happens to the sinner he left behind after the baptism, since water's purpose isn't to destroy, but to wash away. If we take this voxophone in a literal sense, that means that when Comstock was baptized, a paralel world was created in order to house Booker DeWitt in it (this might also explain why his death erased only Comstocks, because while Booker was washed away to new realities, Comstock was drowned). If this is true, that means Elizabeth is the embodiment of everything "BioShock" represents. How when you're unhappy with the world, you create a new place that fits your vision. The importance of a father figure in a child's life. And the child's growth throught exposure to the world's corruption. I think "BioShock: Infinite" is far deeper than most people realize. But to try and truly grasp that depth, like Elizabeth, you must decipher the codes and lockpick the forbidden areas to gain true understanding of how the game truly works. I have faith and love for this game, even if I agree Rapture is better, and you can't turn my love into hatred.
There's always an idea. There's always a flawed world. There's always a womb of water. There's always an individual who wants to find his time to create, and his time to destroy. And everything starts with a lightouse (or a sea of them).
Great comment :)
@@ruaidhri8064 thanks.
Hey, if you don't mind, I've got one question for you. Who do you think that it was who visited Comstock ? And what do you think it was her agenda ?Remember, Comstock is still Booker, simply amplified to his worst. And considering Booker's comments regarding Rapture and Columbia, it's pretty obvious Comstock could never have thought of creating Columbia alone. Someone had to give him the idea. And if we take into consideration that Rapture and Columbia are twin realities and the theories saying that Eleanor is Elizabeth reincarnated (in another time, and another place), that means whoever visited Comstock, had an agenda for Anna, and the cities were her baptism to prepare her for said agenda.
Infinite was the only game I ever played in the series, and it holds a soft spot in my heart because I sympathized with Elizabeth. It's hard to please an abusive parent, and its ever harder to escape their brainwashing. What you said about father figures was spot on. Old Elizabeth is a direct parallel to that potential of righteous evil in Booker, physically realized in Comstock.
@@JabamiLain I interpreted that as more religious propaganda. Religion is often a front for people to abuse power. The Christian Bible of today has a large amount text full of bloody and gruesome acts of conflict. Often commanded by the big G himself. So it wouldn't be hard to create a bloody society that pretends to be heaven, but really it's just hell in the sky.
Constants and variables just changing in each distinct "dimension"
Bio 1 is my favorite game of all time but when it comes to the story and its mind blowing layers of detail....infinite has a better story than bio 1. It just takes work and time to fully understand this admittedly quite convoluted, but ingenius story and all the layers to it.
I regard Ken Levine as one of the greatest story tellers of the 21th century.....in my opinion with these games he proved that he is able to hold his own amongst legends like Orwell, Huxley, and Philip K Dick
This is a masterwork in editing and writing. Sharing it everywhere I can. You did an outstanding job, this is my third time watching it.
Wow, thank you! Thanks for the support - I really do appreciate it!
Agreed. Really good cadence and storytelling style made it great as well.
i've been a huge fan of bioshock since its start, though i could never fully understand its timeline. this video has helped me with exactly that. the realisation that everything is so neatly, yet discreetly intertwined has left me amazed. thank you Skyrionn, the algorithm has blessed me with this content
I played the three games, got hooked to the aesthetics and the complexity of the story, never got to understand it in such detail. Truely thankful to see it with your recreated perspective. If I could I would write thank you a million times. What is your favorite part of the story? I love whatever is linked with the Lutèce, showing up in the most unexpected places. They could be fixing themselves a toast in your kitchen and you would never know :)
The entirety of Bioshock 2 is my favorite!
This is a very comprehensive and easy to understand summary of the rather complex story across the universes of BioShock. While I played all games and searched every nook and cranny for lore, I wasn't able to piece them together in such a neat way you did.
Hats off to you and thank you for this video!
I get chills every time I hear the slow, piano keys of “Welcome to Columbia” That intro to Bioshock: Infinite was breathtaking and the best intro of all time.
Ken Levine is truly one of the most brilliant storytellers of our time
He truly is. The new studio have a lot to live up to.
Is Levine going to continue system Shock?
@@KaosNova2 no
@@KaosNova2 I believe he's a creative director for the upcoming bioshock game.
He’s overrated, terrible leader and arrogant with inflated ego. But he’s a good storyteller
I'm sure everyone can remember their first time playing bioshock
*one of the greatest game intros ever*
So true. So true.
An incredible intro
The BioShock Series, an absolute Masterpiece. Every single game is just insanely good and often brought me to tears. The characters, the stories and the music.
Who do you think that it was who visited Comstock ? And what do you think it was her agenda ?Remember, Comstock is still Booker, simply amplified to his worst. And considering Booker's comments regarding Rapture and Columbia, it's pretty obvious Comstock could never have thought of creating Columbia alone. Someone had to give him the idea. And if we take into consideration that Rapture and Columbia are twin realities and the theories saying that Eleanor is Elizabeth reincarnated (in another time, and another place), that means whoever visited Comstock, had an agenda for Anna, and the cities were her baptism to prepare her for said agenda.
Well, we know Booker has the vision of the part where Old Elizabeth destroys New York way before he actually gets there, so maybe from the endless Lighthouse Sea, those memories bleed across each other. So if Comstock saw Old Elizabeth in a Dream bled from the "future", then he would work to achieve the "dream" he saw.
This is an amazingly comprehensive video and has really kept my low attention span held, thank you good sir for this amazingly informative video
Thanks so much! I'm glad you got something from this and the runtime wasn't off putting!
I'm replaying the entire remastered bioshock trilogy since they were free on the Epic store. This video recommendation couldn't have been more timely. If there was a franchise for a movie trilogy this would be it. You've written a great script.. Kudos.
Mad respect to the time, effort and passion invested here. You really did cranked one out for the team, here, my guy.
It took a while but was absolutely worth it! Thanks for watching it :D
i've been waiting 10 years for someone like you to tell the storyline properly chronically, thank you so much for this
The fate of Sofia Lamb is determined by what you do with Holloway, Poole, and Alexander. Kill them all and Eleanor actually kills her own mother, believing her to be too dangerous to be left alive.
You can still kill Stanley and Eleanor will spare her mother. You can also still kill Alexander, as well - depending on which you kill switches certain dialogue - thus creating 9 different combinations of endings possible for Bioshock 2.
@@ZaZi-Zeta01 The nature in which Sofia Lamb lives or dies depends on how Delta treats the Little Sisters as well as those three characters. A "Rescue" ending requires Delta to kill all three if he wants to go against the grain and have Eleanor kill Sofia Lamb, otherwise she'll spare her (even if only one of the three were spared). A "Harvest" ending requires Delta to spare all three if he wants Eleanor to spare Sofia Lamb, otherwise she'll kill her.
This is one instance where I would've actually preferred to get the "bad" ending lol, I just hated Sofia so much. But I spared Grace, so Sofia got to live
@@Howitchewstofeel5gum It's not quite bad if you still save the little sisters. You just need to kill Grace to kill Sofia if you want what I would consider the best ending.
@@RainingMetal Yes that's what I mean and why I put bad in quotes. It's weird to me that the developers present Sofia getting to live as a good thing that results out of you sparing at least one person (which Grace arguably deserves the most) when the game doesn't really present anything redeemable about Sofia's character.
I always thought there should be a third. Bioshock Exhumed. A 1970s government agent investigating an illegal radio station in Arizona. A water tower on the bluff above a ghost town. A staircase leading down.
That's cool af, you should write a detailed summary and post it, maybe it'll actually get picked up, you never know
@@annaschneider225agreed, this guy is deffo onto something. And if he doesn’t expand, i might go ahead and give a try.
Lol DMN thats awesome - seems like you're already working on it - can't wait to play! Seriously sounds really cool and canon
@@leilaniaileenlove I imagine that the primary visual themes would be a blend of Myan, Incan, and steampunk. Back in the day Spanish Explorers discovered the caves and found an abandoned underground city. Half in the rock and half out. Not as it had been buried but been suddenly stuck there. More recent notes and mechanism imply work by Americans back around the civil war and later in the 1920’s. Each time some disastrous event lead to the “facility” being abandoned suddenly. A noisy technology that causes objects and people to pass through solid matter as if in a slightly off set dimension. Often visible but moving through stone and other solid objects as if ghosts. There would be a touch of lovecratian unseen horror as you have moving plants that thrive on an unseen light and pests that phase through rocks. There would be many similarities to a limited resource mechanism as found in underwater living such as limited supplies of air and food.
I've been a huge bioshock fan since the first one and my god, this video is perfection when explaining the lore. Lord only knows how a television show would be about the franchise
I've played the game so many times and prided myself on gathering as much lore on it as I could.. But this? this was more than I ever could've surmised from it. It felt like a thrilling movie! ive subscribed and will be watching more of your quality content
Does anyone remember the multiplayer in bioshock 2 and the comments your character say's if you pick up a little sister saying things like " your worth your weight in gold", I miss those games, it's a pretty that they didn't expand on those game modes
Just one of those stories regardless if it’s a movie, book, tv show or game that I envy anyone who gets to experience this masterpiece for the first time. Incredible music and the characters feel so real. It’s haunting.
Finally someone made a bioshock timeline that is both comprehensive not a 12 hours long series
That was one of the best explanations of the storyline I've heard yet. I really enjoyed listening to the way you did so with pieces of the assets from the game. It was if I was playing the game without actually playing it if that makes sense. I look forward to seeing what else you come up with. Definitely a 10/10 in my book. Great job.
I’m so glad I found this channel. I don’t know if you look at requests, but I recently played The Forgotten City and have been obsessed with it. If you haven’t played it yet, I highly recommend that you do. Based on the games you discuss I think you’d like it.
Welcome aboard! I'm glad you found the channel too! I did play the game but stopped playing due to too many bugs. I struggled tbh but enjoyed some of what I played.
@@Skyrionn understood. Now I’m off to watch hours of your content!
@@Mr_Case_Time Enjoy dude. I'll appreciate every second of it!
Great job discussing the whole series. The games story is great and quite a tragedy, not just another good guy vs bad guy fps story. 😊
came from playing bioshock infinite again and realizing i didnt really understand what was going on. this was so much more than i had ever hoped thank you so much for making this it's incredible and your hard work is very much acknowledged
Just redownloaded this series and accidentally sped run the game to the first little sister in 30 minutes. I still remember every little detail and where each enemy will be. Still love it!
As someone who isn’t a gamer except for a few titles here and there, my entire experience with Bioshock has been watching my roommate play it a few times. I appreciate this video and am currently on my second watch-through because it’s a fascinating story even without the gameplay and I appreciate that you aren’t interjecting unnecessary opinions and standard overrated UA-cam hype. So thank you. Maybe someday I’ll actually play the game since it seems like it would keep me busy for a year.
The visuals and your great storytelling left me “enraptured” the whole way through even though I’ve already played all the games. Bravo!
I see what you did there :P I appreciate the comment and thanks for watching the whole thing!
wow, really good video. I’ve played through all the series and dlc and still missed what seems like 90% of the story. Really good work here.
The fact that this video does not have millions of views a crime. I’ve always struggled to coherently piece together all three games story’s and this is a godsend.
This is the video of someone really in touch with the lore explaining it down in basic non-Bioshock player detail for those that don't know, like me
I love it and now I get it
Man, this just reminds me of how unsatisfying the endings of infinite and it’s DLC were compared to 1 and even 2
This was astounding. Ive played and beaten them all so many times, but i forget certain plot points amidst the shooting and drug abuse. I appreciate your work.
This was very well made and brought back all the memories of playing it. Love it.
Time to replay it!
I just recently finished Bioshock and i thought that it would be so Great if you made lore videos about it and now i see this xD what a pleasant suprise
Came at the perfect time then!
I always felt the part where there's is always a man was suppose to be interpreted as booker and Jack. There is always be a "hero" to the story where the "girl" gets saved
Bioshock is my all time favorite game trilogy and I always discover something new or little hints of storytelling I missed. I saw this video on my home page on my UA-cam account so I had to watch and you did amazing story telling that beats the others explaining it.
I'm glad you clicked on it. Thank you :) If you have any suggestions for future timelines, lemme know!
I'm so glad I found your channel (the algorithm was kind enough to suggest the Half life lore video) - I've been binging it ever since. Super grateful for this amazing content and I hope your channel keeps growing as it absolutely deserves many more subscribers.
Cheers!
Wow thank you! There's so much to come too!
I played these games as a kid when they released (which was an interesting choice on my dads part for letting a 12 y/o at the time play this series lol). I remembered very little of the nuances of the plot; however it sparked my love of detail oriented stories. I remember being fascinated above all else with the world building both in terms of landscape and plot, even if every story detail didn’t fully sync up in my brain.
This video gave a recap that was not only thorough, but was clearly created by someone who loves the source material and world built within this universe. The original cinematics you created were an amazing touch as well!
Thank you sincerely for bringing this to life! ❤
So far all the videos I've seen of yours have been super-high quality! Def deserves more views!
That's so kind! I really appreciate it ♥
I found this video because I'm replaying the whole series again except starting with Infinite. This is an amazing video! I've never seen another game or game series with a story as detailed as the Bioshock series. The writers pretty much wrote a sci-fi epic and they made it into a game to be played out. I will never forget that first reveal of "Would you kindly"
I really appreciate the editing to provide definitive visuals to go along with the Lore.
It took a while but was so worth it!
This is amazing. You really put things in perspective. Great job on this!
Glad you enjoyed it! There should be more Bioshock content to come soon!
Absolutely fantastic video. It feels like the puzzle is now complete, everything put together and all pieces in the place where they're supposed to be. It all makes sense to me now, where there were initially some questions left after my first playthroughs of the games.
One thing I've noticed as well is that while watching this brilliant summary, you could have never guessed that all of these games were first person shooter video games at their core. That's how rich and strong the story is that it can completely stand on its own despite being a video game that also needs to have fun gameplay mechanics. Really fascinating stuff.
Thanks for watching!
I know right. I think this is why Bioshock holds such a special place in my heart - the story was incredible and aided the gameplay.
This is the best lore video for any video game !
Thank you!
👏 That was Impossible! Both The Rise & Fall of Rapture & Columbia with Bioshock Timeline series Past, Present and Future! That was totally amazing love your video! I chose the Impossible!
I played all three games years ago just recently beat 1 and decided to watch a lore video, this is 100% gonna make the next two games that much more enjoyable
I FINALLY understand the multiverse timeline of this amazing franchise. Thank you!
it was never my kinda game, but I really appreciate the hundreds of hours of work you put into this splicing it all together in one long form video...Thank you good Sir, and keep up the good work.
Try again !
this is the most comprehensive videos I've ever seen about the games! Thank you!
It took so long to put together but came out right. Thanks for watching! ☺
Thank you for helping me understand my childhood. I've never seen this channel before and the fact that the title said "Bioshock Timeline" made me click on it. I've always been so confused on the timeline, despite playing the others. Thanks again! This deserves a subscription!
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching the video! If you have any suggestions for timelines, I'm happy to hear them!
Fantastic video! This must have taken a lot of work, time and patience :D
Not only fantastically explained but with the music and the animations it's a great listen and watch. Also filled me in with bits of lore i'd no idea about 👍
EXCELLENT video!! WELL DONE!! 👏👏 ALL BioShock games are classics! The storyline to all those games are like no other! They’ll always be my all time favorite games! Maybe one day they’ll turn it into a TV series/ movie! Let’s hope!! 👍🤡👍
I would LOVE a TV show based on this! We need to make it happen. Thanks for watching this. I really appreciate it.
Wow this was an amazing retelling of the bio shock lore, I didn’t even know a lot of this even after watching other documentaries about the lore and playing the games a few times.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed the episode. I'm posting my first dedicated lore video next week. I'm thinking of going into more depth of the universe.
OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO IVE FOUND TO EXPLAIN THE CONFUSING TIMELINE! With every other video I've watched, there's always been a messy transition between explaining the games and they all put infinite last, but because you explained it so clearly and also put infinite first as it would be in the timeline, I can now happily say I understand the plot more clearly and can actually explain cool story points to my boyfriend who I'm trying to convince to play the games.
Great job ! Well done for condensing all of the Bioshock's story and timeline in a little more than one hour video ! This mustn't have been easy but it sure is fulfilling to watch
So many questions have been answered after watching this. I got goosebumbs during my AHA! moments connecting the dots as to how and why things happened. What a great video that also shows the quality and complexity of those old but gold single player games that we dont get anymore. I applaud you king.
I am finally getting around to replaying the original Bioshock game remasters, and intended to replay all of Infinite too. Great video, wonderfully produced.
Thanks very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Enjoy your playthrough!
I just realized...Columbias population must have REALLY good lungs because when your that high up, your practically breathing nothing
This was above and beyond anything I could have expected or hoped for. Very well made. And concise for a storyline that is anything but concise.
This is a fantastic video. I'm currently reading Rapture and your video was really reminiscent of that.
Wonderful! It's a great read.
This was a great video that recaps nearly all the events of the entire series. I can't stress enough how much I love Bioshock.
I get the story of Columbia, but it is just so full of sloppiness and contradictions. Taking old booker back to the moment where young booker was drowned wouldn't do anything, they would need to go back to young booker, and if there are infinite realities, there are innumerable realities where he becomes Comstock later, or where someone else does. It's a story that suffocates under the weight of its own contrivances.
Every time travel story has this flaw. It always ends up in a mess. But It's like playing god of war and complaining that gods are not real.
It's just something that needs to be taken at face value for the type of story.
It would also stand to reason that there are versions of Comstock that are good men.
Suspension of disbelief... Look at the first Bioshock and the mind-boggling logistics of building a city full of skyscrapers at the bottom of the sea, in the 1950s no less AND while keeping all of it top-secret lol. Or think about how the Plasmids are actually supposed to work, letting you throw fire balls and do telekinesis through turning cells into stemcells and then altering them?? Ummm what? It all falls apart if you think about it too much, and this happens with many works of fiction, if not most. What matters most IMO is the emotional impact of any story and the Bioshock games, including Infinite, definitely succeeded there for me.
One of the best if not the best video game breakdown i have ever seen
The Dewitt of rapture did nothing wrong, he was just unlucky. And is sad that he was killed in such a cold blood
I’ve been watching a lot of Bioshock related videos lately but wow kudos on the editing and making it so informative!
This was so fucking well done! Best and clearest explanation on Bioshock I have came across. Subscribed!
It's exactly what I was going for. I appreciate you watching and commenting!
So happy to get closure on this franchise. Played the games as a kid but didn't understand much, got the most out of infinite story wise but was so confused on how it mixed with the first two. You laid out a seemless narrative here with beautiful visual aids
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching the video!
Watching this instead of doing homework. Strangely just as educational feeling.
Lovely video! I can't believe UA-cam took so long to recommend it to me
Luckily it finally did. Thanks for clicking on!
Amazing video, enjoyed every second of it.
Awh thanks so much!
This video is incredible. Such detail and breathtaking editing. Needs more attention for this beautiful game series
Wow! This is awesome!!! BioShock one of My favourite games! Besides Half-Life and Dishonored!
A Lot of work in your videos! Thanks!
The amount of times i am rewinding and rewatching every bit of information is making my head hurt... Sooooooo complocated
This was such an amazing video, thank you so much for your work and dedication!
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it!
I gotta say, I always thought the third Bioshock felt like a shoehorned retcon to the first two games. The first two really feel like they can stand completely separate from the third. After watching this extremely comprehensive and timeline accurate summation of the entire story, it sort of confirms my original thoughts. The third game is a total outlier and only really connects to the first two games through it's own story telling. It only seems overly complicated to obscure the fact that it wasn't all planned out from the beginning.
Just my two cents, but a very well done recap at any rate.
Ok...but what about the lovecraftian slugs that are like the tiniest part in the story but are almost the main reason all of this was done and was it's end. Where did these crawlers of the sea with powers beyond come from, that's the one question I asked about the first game and it's still never talked about how random slugs were found on this exact area with powers beyond.
Incredibly well made! Such great detail and footage, really inspired me to play through the series again :)
Nice Job man!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it
Thanks for this man, I played the Bioshock series when I was younger and never understood the story. Thanks again I’ll recommend this video to my brother since he pretty much never understood the story with me lol
Beautifully done!
Thank you very much!
Can’t believe this guy doesn’t have million plus subs from this video alone great work my man 😊
I used the three parts of this video to fall asleep so this is just what I needed!
Brilliant. I'm glad I can help in some way!
I have done The same thing, I can only sleep with videos or movies.
And a Lot of times i have dream about The things of The videos. 😅 And it's awesome! 😍
46:05 I thought I found a flaw, until I realized this is insanely clever. SHE'S ALIVE AND DEAD SIMULTANEOUSLY! It's Schrodinger's Cat!
Is it sad that while I love the bioshock series, I really dont care for the lore of infinite 😅
Like I hate how it retconned so much from the other 2 that its all weird.
What did it retcon?
@@khalilrahme5227 Main thing was how thr civil war started. Originally it was them coming from the poot houses. This time it was elizabeth who helped Atlas return and if it wasnt for her, civil war would have never happened in thus version of rapture
it was really nice to revisit this amazing story. Eventho i can not descide if i want more out of this universe, or let it rest in order to not corrupt it.
It's one of those things I guess. It'd be great if it was done correctly.
This was EPIC! Thank you for creating this!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
I just bought all of these games(DLC included) for Christmas, and I'm gonna try to finally play through them all over the new year.