^Why’d you look for it then?
Or at least watch the final part of an LP. You just don’t let it get spoiled, or that’s what I do anyway.
Just finished the game. What a mindfuck of a great game.
You really need to read an explanation of the ending for everything to set in place.
I had to watch like 5 videos explaining it before I got everything fully down.
I watch the ending once and I think up this possibly
[COLOR=‘Black’]Comstock is Broker from Future to take Anna so he can build the sky city and keep her as his own daughter while stopping the broker from the past to take her away from him.
So Elizabeth have to drown this Broker to stop this Endless cycle so the Comstock wouldn’t exist and take Anna away
Nice invisible text, Fong. We seriously need a spoiler bbcode.
Just hit QUOTE on this message and you’ll see the code.
See? You can’t see this now! I can totally talk behind everyone’s back and no one will notice! THE WORLD IS MINE AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!1111!!
Well damn, that is a nice twist.
So that’s why the game was called Infinite: [color=’#171717’]because of the infinite number of alternate realities, and I think there’s an infinite loop in there as well? And how do Booker and Comstock both exist in all the same realities?
[color=’#171717’]Also, being able to revisit rapture was nice.
[color=’#171717’]That’s what the message at the beginning was referring to - The Luteces brought Booker over from his reality (Robert’s reality) to Comstock’s (Rosalind’s reality) reality in order to try and destroy the Booker/Comstock/Columbia loop.
Right, I pretty much understand it now. The only thing that seems to be really ambiguous (and everyone seems to be theorizing about it right now) is [color=’#171717’]whether or not our Booker died along with the Comstock Booker, or if he somehow just went back to a time right after his daughter was born and everything is alright.
I’m also a bit unclear on if [color=’#171717’]Rapture takes place in the same universe, or it’s a completely different reality. I know that Fink apparently based Songbird and his vigors on big daddies and plasmids, respectively, by spying through tears, and then there’s his brother… The “man, lighthouse, city” archetype that Elizabeth mentioned pretty obviously opens the possibility of more sequels, which is great, but does that archetype recur in a single universe, or once in each, sometimes taking different forms?
Edit: This thread pretty much clears it up for me, and then everyone goes on to tackle my second question in the comments.
As is my understanding, [color=’#171717’]the end result is that only realities where Booker declines the baptism exist, as any where he does lead to the paradox (the Elizabeths drowning him in the end). While player!Booker is separate from Comstock’s reality, the only reason he ends up there is because of Rosalind’s interference between timelines, which alters his own. If Comstock’s timeline doesn’t exist, that interference can’t happen, so technically, while player!Booker didn’t end up getting drowned like Comstock!Booker, his reality was essentially “reset” to before the interference from Rosalind. While Elizabeth’s fate is a bit more open-ended because of her “Time Lord” status, I very much doubt that post-baptism Booker remembers anything of Columbia.
Unless Elizabeth managed to drag him out of the timeline collapsing somehow, I guess? Yeah, I dunno.
Regardless, it’s been a long time since I played a game that had a story this cerebral, which, frankly, is a damn good thing in my book. :3
Goddammit there’s invisible text everywhere and I really fucking want to highlight it but then I’ll spoil the ending and shit
Elizabeth dies.
Columbia exists entirely in the mind of an autistic child.
Comstock is one of the Beach Boys.
Elizabeth is the daughter of Songbird who is a lot of big daddies melted together and sent back in time.
Turns out the whole thing is just a videogame in Max Payne’s head.
There’s obviously going to be singleplayer DLC since they’ve already said that. But I’m just curious, what do you guys think the first one will be about?
^ We can only pray it will clarify the ending a little.
But how about that jump scare? I think it’s pretty great that there was exactly one jump scare in the entire game.
Not gonna lie, even though multiplayer has no place in the Bioshock Infinite universe, I can’t help but think how fun it would be to skyline dual with my friends.
The ending was pretty clear to me. [COLOR=’#191919’]Even though it wasn’t scientifically accurate.