Summary: We take a stroll through Rapture and see what Andrew Ryan has built.<br> <br> Developer: Irrational Games | Publisher: 2K Games | Release Date: August 21, 2007<br> <br> Mike, Jacob and Moe share stories about the great year 2007 was for games, how they came to Bioshock, and whether the twist holds up in the current day and age.<br> <br> Join our Discord server! Go to LeftBehindGame.Club and scroll down to the Discord section of the homepage! If you love the show, please consider a review on iTunes. It helps a lot.<br> <br> Players: Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom), Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)<br> <br> Website: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub<br> <br> Show Notes (spoilers):<br> <br> * 2:00 What did we know about Bioshock coming into this?<br> * 4:30 Bioshock was like going to Disney world<br> * 5:10 2007 was a great year for games<br> * 7:25 Expectations were high and it broke Mike's heart playing it again<br> * 8:15 Do the game mechanics age well?<br> * 8:40 "The Citizen Kane of Games" and Roger Ebert<br> * 10:10 How did we play it? PC, console, original and remaster<br> * 11:58 What is Bioshock and how does it start?<br> * 13:15 Morality system and consequences (or lack thereof)<br> * 13:50 Who is Andrew Ryan?<br> * 15:30 Splicers and Atlas<br> * 16:30 What does the game look like? Answer: dark and creepy<br> * 19:10 Rapture feels like a character<br> * 20:00 This game still looks good, and looked great back in the day<br> * 20:45 What are Plasmids?<br> * 22:00 What is Adam and Eve and where did it come from? Sea slugs and superhumans<br> * 23:15 "Little Sisters are Demons"<br> * 24:00 Big Daddies are like momma bears and just as tough<br> * 26:00 How did you take down Big Daddies?<br> * 28:00 Incinerate and Shock<br> * 28:50 Plasmids and the wrench<br> * 30:15 Jacob feels the gameplay is dated<br> * 32:30 KOTOR is the best game ever made and Mike's co-hosts are trollish dickheads :)<br> * 33:30 The AI is really good<br> * 34:20 What are your favourite parts of the game?<br> * 38:30 Jacob and Mike geek out over <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AffpO05p4V8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fort Frolic and Sander Cohen</a><br> * 41:30 What did you do with the Little Sisters? Jacob McCourt is a bad man<br> * 45:00 Tennenbaum and the different endings<br> * 48:30 Bioshock and the illusion of choice<br> * 51:00 Frustrated with a second playthrough<br> * 52:00 The bad PS3 port made Mike happy<br> * 53:20 Jacob felt it drags on and doesn't end well<br> * 54:00 What we felt about the ending<br> * 55:00 Randian Objectivism and the politics of the game<br> * 59:00 Simple impressions on the sequels, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite<br> * 1:01:00 LBGC connection to Bioshock 2<br> * 1:03:00 What's next for Ken Levine?<br> * 1:04:30 Sharing our final thoughts and takeaways<br> * 1:05:20 Mike almost got a regrettable Bioshock tattoo<br>
