@@vash3055 putting a pick up above the eye is painful but not so painful to stop people reational thoughts. But that this is just vile, I read up on that stuff a few weeks ago and I suggest not to....
This really bothered me and not for the reason most people would think. Bioshock Infinite creator Ken Levine while being interviewed said that he had seen some Elizabeth porn (rule 34, etc), and for people to stop doing that because Elizabeth felt like a daughter to him. Ok, fair point. However, he has no problem with her being violently tortured by an almost-lobotomy. This is a terrible message, but it’s a very American (our Puritan history) one. Elizabeth being shown nude (air having consensual sex) is bad, but her being tortured is acceptable. I almost threw up when I played through this, and have never revisited it, even though Bioshock Infinite is my favorite game of all time. Elizabeth deserved better (Paris!)
@@Hackspear214 Yeah I heard about that, and I had to laugh. It's like "Ken, buddy, that ain't how the internet works". To your point however I disagree. I don't think it's about being acceptable. It's supposed to be horrible, but horrible things happen, especially at the hands of the bad guys. This reminds me of a few years back people had a big problem with the X-Men Apocalypse poster showing Mystique being lifted in the air by her throat by Apocalypse, and people were saying it condoned abuse of women or some such. The same people wouldn't bat an eye at say Professor X in the same position. Mystique is a heroine of the movie, if she's protected from having bad things happen to her, it puts a big asterisk behind everything she accomplishes. Suppose Luke and Leia's roles had been switched in star wars. Would Leia having her hand cut off "promote violence against women"? If we're going to put women is prominent positions either as villains or heroes in games/comics/books/movies/tv shows, then you can't teflon coat them in plot armor so that they magically avoid anything horrible happening to them. If horrible things happen to male characters but female characters in similar situations always avoid them, it just comes across as pandering.
The scene in the elevator where Elizabeth tells Booker that he was her only friend is an amazing example of how emotions can be shown non verbally. She first reads what’s coming up and her face just freezes and shoulders slump down. Then she hears Elizabeth speak and a frown forms on her face and her eyes get sullen. The ‘ohhhh’ she says at this point is so heartfelt.
I love how this DLC brings it full circle. I have this almost yearly tradition of replaying this trilogy. Somewhere along the way however I started playing the story in chronological order. Side note... I love how Andrew Ryan is voiced by Quark from DS9. Armin Shimerman is awesome!
Elizabeth creates the union between the Big Daddys and the Little sisters. Elizabeth is the one who bequeaths Rapture to Atlas. Elizabeth gives the word of activation of control over Jack after seeing that he will be the one to kill him and save the Little Sisters. Elizabeth is Bioshock, and her death hurts so much... PS: I loved your reaction, enjoying every drop of lore, reading everything... Sadly nowadays it's rare to see a reaction of this level of interest and attention. Out of 10.
One of the little sisters who helped the Big Daddy was named Masha. OMG! That's THE Masha, I think! The one whose mother left a recorder for, telling her to come find her in her room at the Fighting McDonagh's Tavern all the way back in BioShock 1! (in the Fontaine Fisheries level)
The ending gave me goosebumps all over again! Really enjoyed your bioshock series, since you enjoyed the stealth aspect I really recommend the dishonored series and Alien: isolation. The second is scary but worth it
47:33 that voxaphone drives gamers insane. That overactive FOMO means they "must pick it up before moving on" but that office doesn't unlock until after picking up the lock of hair.
Burial at Sea Ep. 2 easily has one of the best endings to any video game, ever. TRULY ties the bow on the Rapture/BioShock saga. Elizabeth DID break the circle. She made sure that Rapture, Columbia... that all of it didn't end in complete pain and misery. She did good :')
No, she didn't. Not really. I mean, the circle has already been broken for the Rapture in Bioshock and Bioshock 2. As I see it, devs made Elizabeth a mere small cog in the sub-story that had no need to exist at all. And to build that story, they made Elizabeth make morally questionable things, turned her into a broken person, tortured her and killed her. Can't call it a nice job.
This ending gets me teary eyed every dang time even to this day. There is such an emotional connection you get for Elizabeth playing through the whole story that with the last scene its just such a gut punch moment you know has to happen to a character you want to see so much more of..
To quote the Oracle from the Matrix: "You've already made the choice. You're here to find out why you made it." Elizabeth knew what she was getting into, and accepted the fact that even if she were to have the doors closed on her and forget everything, a leap of faith into the path she set for herself would make her feel all is right in the end. That sense of comfort came in the form of Booker, until she let it dawn that it really was all her own choices being made.
The Circle is broken. I take comfort that since Elizabeth is all Elizabeths at once she is also still the Anna left with Booker in the revised, singlar timeline.
Amazing self-control. I don’t know how you weren’t bawling when Elizabeth passed the previous Booker and Elizabeth in the elevator and Elizabeth tells the imaginary Booker that she misses him.
Cynthetic, the boy that Flitzroy has kidnapped along with Fink is Fink's son. I've enjoyed very much your episode 1, and of course this one too. Along with Mass Effect and other games, Bioshock is truly a masterpiece.
There's a dark but unconfirmed theory that the wrench Atlas kills Liz with at the end is the same one you pick up as jack later on. Shame you skipped the credit's, if you waited to the end you get a bonus scene of the plane crashing down into rapture.
Yeah, but that end credit scene takes place nearly a year later. Remember Burial at Sea takes place during New Year’s Eve 1958. You skip ahead 2 weeks later during episode 2 of the DLC, but that’s all.
this is nothing, at the start of bishcok 1 where you run through the underwater bridges you can see a little sister next to someone dead, i think the dead person could be Elizabeth
Easily the best bioshock trilogy playthrough on youtube... you actually understood the story and listened to the audio logs and took them in. Cheers for the lets play
Genuinely refreshing to see a good playthrough/reaction to a good video game and DLC. Can't express how disappointing it is seeing other mainstream RUclipsrs over reacting or completely missing or not trying to even understand the storyline and how everything ties together. It's great knowing each episode you release is actually something that I can look forward to. So Thank you
Telling to myself while watching the ending: I'm a grown man... I'm not crying over this AGAIN... (Sees Cynth tearing up...) Okay, let's cry together. 😭😭😭 This is the reason why I haven't played Burial at Sea for the second time. I played I, II, and Infinite multiple times... but Burial at Sea is only once. I wanted to play it again just by seeing your gameplay, but seeing the ending again reminded me why I can't. I was also emotionally invested in helping Elizabeth and seeing the ending breaks me so bad. 😭😭😭
Loved the videos and thank you for the series. First play along I've watched. Great stuff favourite games. I'd add 2 things: - Elizabeth only punishes Comstock's, the one left, was already a dictator when stealing and beheading that Anna. It was the last one, that escaped. - "our" Elizabeth gets to live the life she always should have, as Anna, in the crib, in post credit infinite. That's how we the player, gets experience "what matters more, your part in the play, or the play itself ". We don't get to see it. But it happens P.s if you have a sec look up removed infinite content. There's a desert, artic, and space lighthouse. The game was originally going to be so much bigger, or at least hint at even more cities.
That's not how it was right?! My impression was that only the bookers that would choose baptism would be killed leaving all the other bookers to live happily with the Ana's, it's not just the one booker and Elizabeth, as our eli was outside of time.
The end made me cry again. The ends that you hate because of your tears are the ones you love the most and will never forget. Can't Wait for the next Bioshock game
I can see all the doors....in one of those doors...I see HIM! What a fantastic playthrough, Cyn! Excellent job! The whole story comes in full circle! Will the circle be unbroken? It was broken first by Jack and then, by Delta. The next Bioshock awaits and let's see where it takes us. Just as Eleanor said, in our story, Rapture was just the beginning :)
This has been the BEST BioShock playthrough I have seen yet, I love how well you analyzed and predicted everything!! I cannot recommend the Dishonored series high enough for you, I _very_ strongly feel it is up your alley!!! 💜
This ending combined with the bioshock version of "you belong to me" left a bitter sweet feeling in me that has never left since the day I completed the game.
This was a fantastic playthrough. Watching you discover Rapture and Columbia was a real joy. Seeing you discover all the twists and tragedies for the first time gave me a new appreciation for them. Can't wait to see what new worlds you decide to explore next.
I loved these videos. All three of these games are fantastic. Some of my favourites. I loved your playthrough of it as well. When I first played it, I didn't like the ending to Burial at Sea, but I've warmed up to it since. It all comes down to what Ryan says "A man chooses. A slave obeys." Elizabeth chose to go there and save Sally, even though she knew what it meant. She made her choice.
I just finnished Burial at sea for the first time a few days before you started Bioshock Infinite, I needed someone else to play it through because it was so hard to me see what happens at the end, but it was a pleasure to see you playing it. Thankyou very much, sincerely
A great playthrough! Bioshock is amazing. Definitely one of my favorites. Really enjoyed your reactions throughout this whole series. Can't wait to see what you play next
Also if you stick with credits (not sure if you did or not), you can see Elizabeth's voice actress singing You Belong With Me behind the scenes video. It was soo nice! And there's a post credit scene where the tail of the plane sinks at the bottom of the ocean :)
I have just finished the game 2day ago came to check your reaction and to understand the ending ..... I couldn't get the story out of my mind. It makes me really sad that we lost Elizabeth there .... Damn, I haven't played a fps game with this type of story Amazing
There is a part many miss. At the lobotomy scene a song named the great pretender is playing while Atlas is speaking it's the irony that Atlas is the great pretender. Another thing in that scene is Atlas loses his Irish accent and begins to speak as Fontaine when Elizabeth angers him. He says " You're a regular hero ain't ya cant risk rippin the only part of ya worth a damn well there is more than one way to fry an egg" also there is post credit scene that showed the bathysphere coming down and the tail of the plane crashing into Rapture.
ive enjoyred watching your game plays of bioshock -its legit my favorite franchise / lore ever. youre so smart! ive played this game a couple times and I didnt catch on to alot of the scientific exchanges and political stuff as quickly as you did 😅
That was a great and very entertaining journey! Thank you so much for playing the series and sharing your thoughts about it. It was very interesting to see you looking for the all the smallest details and sharing your opinions about the game’s plot, characters and lore. Also now that the Bioshock is finished, I highly recommend playing another great series - Portal and Portal 2. That is if you haven’t played that already. It’s mostly known for it’s remarkable gameplay mechanics but it also has an awesome story and is full of outstanding humour. Bioshock and Portal are my favourite games of all time, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Portal someday too!
Just have to say, I loved your whole playthrough of the bioshock series, especially infinite, you always made the right connections and I have to say the ending really got me, i mean Elizabeth was never able to live a normal childhood, have friends or family and was never able to go to Paris to find her peace, that ending lingered in my head for a whole week after finishing the game.
'Ah Bullshit...Makes sense but i hate it...' That is almost exactly how i felt when i played this through back when. Not what we wanted for Lizzy, but its the path we are on. Loved your insight on the Bioshock journey. Look forward to others.
If you listen closely, you can gear Atlas's accent slip when Lizzie calls his bluff during the lobotomy. He was so angry that his mask dropped and the real Fontaine started peeking through.
I thought that it was cool that Burial took place and leads to Bioshock 1 since it’s a sequel to the story of Columbia, which is roughly 1910s and then Rapture, which is around the 50s. It matches chronologically
Never cried for a video game before ..... But this double ending masterpiece (main story and DLC) caused me immense emotions ... Elizabeth and Booker are two wonderful characters that I will miss so much ...
Not ashamed to say I squealed a bit when this popped up, been eagerly awaiting this grand finale. I know you, Cyn, are now eagerly awaiting the next game like all the rest of us. Yay! Wonder what's next for the almighty, all powerful Cynthetic? 😁
I just watched all your playthroughs of the BioShock trilogy. They were so good! I really love how much you care about the story and lore and how you take your time going through rather than rushing. They were great, thank you. You’ve definitely earned a new subscriber! Also I love your personality and attitude, watching you is relaxing and calm❤️ Never stop being you
Just commenting here to say you are my best ever favorite let's players at the moment. I just found out about you 2 weeks ago and I can't stop binge watching your videos. Started with your ME1 videos and binged your whole trilogy, then found out you doing Bioshock as well as binged this one too. Your commentary is amazing the way you theorize on plot points and notice the key details. These are prevalent in both your ME and Bioshock playthroughs. It makes me wish you eventually play more of my favorite story driven games like Portal/Half Life series or the Batman Arkham series as these are games I hold close to my heart like Bioshock and Mass Effect. Regardless, thank you for a great 2 weeks. Binged the hell out of your videos from eating to working out to just lying in bed. Cheers and good luck to the future of your channel! Hope you grow more.
What an ending. 🙁 Cyn, thank you (again) for the best Bioshock playthrough EVER. Such an incredible game, and I was glad we got to share your journey. Someone needs to give Ken Levine a billion dollars and a film crew. Next level genius writing.
I’ve been watching your dark souls 1 play through and have just watched through your play through of both parts of this dlc. Fantastic work. You’re noticeably very intelligent, and your commentary and reactions to the story have been very engaging to watch. Keep it up.
Hey! Super late to this playthrough, but I stumbled upon your channel recently and just wanted to say I've really enjoyed this playthrough, as well as your Mass Effect playthrough. I really like the way you can put the pieces together so well during a first experience of a story, whether it's early voxophones linking to later conversations in this series, or with ME how smaller side stories/mission interweave throughout the series. Considering you like games that make you think about (philosophical) things, I'd recommend having a look at SOMA if you haven't played it before already. It's 10ish hours and it's a story that stayed with me over the years because I've found some concepts in it very intriguing. :)
Greetings from russia, that game was a bright thing in my miserable past, still is. What a story and what a playthrough, very very well done, thank you for bringing back the memories and gl hf next
When the credits started Rolling I stand up and I give it an aplausse to this masterpiece piece of saga I played Bioshock the Collection 3 years ago and this was the best finale ever
Thourghly enjoyed your play through the entire BioShock franchise. My favourite FPS series of games. In all of the games it has always about the narrative which drew me into BioShock, so well written. Also the combat is just sooo satisfying, mixing up gun play , abilities and using the environment to your advantage. Infinite was the first game I played just days after its release, and enjoyed it so much I played again and again. Then promptly went out, bought and played the other two. Because of your playthroughs I'm seriously thinking of playing them again and all the Dlc, take a trip down nostalgia road if you will. When the new BioShock gets released, would you kindly play the game and upload it for our enjoyment. I for one can't wait for it to get released.
After playing as Booker for the majority part of the game, which looks more like action oriented that "encourage" me to go all out and fight with vigors and gun, playing as Elizabeth is such a different experience. Because playing as Elizabeth seems like more emphasize on stealth, kinda of reminds me of the Dishonored series and older Assassin's Creed games
It really does suck to see Elizabeth go from that innocent, care free girl in Battleship Bay to someone so consumed by revenge. But that said, it does work as a full circle story, and while tragic, Elizabeth's sacrifice ultimately did a lot of good.
Elizabeth died happy though. She knew that Jack would screw over Atlas and save Sally and all the other Little Sisters, and even though she die, she won in the end. Sally got to live a happy life, thanks to Jack.
Been loving your videos. I haven't finished, so maybe you talk about this, but the scene with Daisy blew me away. I assume the Lutece's are omniscient like Elizabeth, so they give the pep talk to Daisy, but they also know future Elizabeth is in the duct. They're talking to Daisy, but also Elizabeth (and the player); you have a part to play, but you're not the hero here.
there is a theory that Songbird was a Booker that failed at first but by the look of it in BAS ep2 it might have been a dog since they were being tested who knows.
The ending was VERY bittersweet but I think it was fitting and Ken Levine honestly did a solid job at tying everything together. As sad as it is to see this Elizibeth die, she died at least knowing that she saved Sally and the little sisters in the long run and that Ryan and Fontaine would get their comeuppance and Raptures atrocities would come to an end because of her sacrifice. You can tell by the smile on her face at the end. She knew she made the right choice and that her death wasn't for nothing. Not to mention that there is STILL a timeline where Anna and Booker are finally together. I find all of that pretty comforting.
I’ve been playing the Bioshock series for a couple of years and it always makes me happy when others fall in love with it, you were amazing with the play through! You have made my mind race with all your theory’s throughout and you answered even some of my questions lol. Also funny thing, universal has rights for making a Bioshock movie and we’re going to make it a pg13 lmao but yeah idea was scrapped and 2k games is still in process of the fourth game!
Your explanation of the Luteces seems valid because as you may remember they will tell you that they won't go away until you go first after the coin toss. Every time you interact with them and then walk away and then look back they're gone. If you like this kind of stuff you may watch the German Netflix Series "Dark" in the original language when you don't wanna play games. It has also has some of this game concepts in it without spoiling it for you. Not very action packed but more emotional, personal dramas but will make your brain fry.
Loved your playthru. I will always remember my first time playing thru the entire series (a bit more spread out than yours lol) fondly and whether or not it lives up to our expectations I can't wait for Bioshock 4.
Hi Cyn, loved your play-through of the BioShock series and DLC. Ken Levine is a brilliant writer and I love the way the Burial at Sea DLC filled in so much of the history and lore that we were so familiar with. My biggest concern for a fourth installment of BioShock is that Ken Levine is not a part of it and, I believe, the writing is what made it such a unique series. I have my fingers crossed though and look forward to watching you play BioShock 4; you did a great job.
It makes sense, and it packs an emotional punch, and I do like how it all ties together. But I hate that Elizabeth died. Elizabeth was the heart of Bioshock Infinite, and I loved her. I hated to see her go out like that, bashed in the head by Atlas and dying, broken and bleeding at the bottom of the cold dark sea. It's brutal, and she deserved a better end, regardless of how well it worked. It still feels wrong on an emotional level. Even knowing that Jack ends up dealing out justice and redemption.
I've been looking for a playthrough of my favorite series and you did them all! Me and my gf watched this whole series from episode 1 of Bioshock 1. Now we're playing thru it again taking turns. Even the dlc. Thanks so much it was fun to see your reactions to the series. Can't wait for the bioshoxk movie and hopefully one day a Bioshock 4. +1 sub & thanks for helping us fall in love with Bioshock again. Looking forward to watching more of your gaming. Also, my gf says she loves you lol XD. Keep it up!
I'm glad I found this playthrough of the DLC. (Not self-promoting) I just finished the main story in my own playthrough of Infinite and didn't have the DLC afterwards, and with how stressful Infinite's story is with all those christofascists being way too similar to those in our world today, I wasn't gonna go back to Infinite again anytime soon even if I got the DLC. So finding a Let's play online was the clear choice for me. Yours was very entertaining and you have really positive energy. As for the ending, it was amazing as it was but as far as I'm concerned, infinite possibilities means infinite endings. I'm not an expert on string theory or science in general lol, but in my headcanon there's a timeline where Elizabeth never killed this world's Comstock because she believed it was even more punishing to make him remember and let him live with the guilt the rest of his days, but saves the girl. Gets her out of Rapture that way. That there's also a timeline where Elizabeth was successful in her interference towards Comstock's kidnapping attempt. I choose to believe those happy endings exist, we're just not privy to them.
Well done again for a fascinating playthrough. There are rumours that the next game is set in a dystopian city in Antarctica with links to Rapture. Sounds good to me!
Remember, they were telling us how Elizabeth didn't know why she set herself on this mission, why Sally was so important to her. I don't think she had no choice (maybe this final version of her didn't). I think her omniscient self (who died in the beginning of ep2) knew all that was going to take place, and why Sally was so important to introducing Jack. She set her future self on a pathway to taking down Rapture.
I've always told myself that quantum Elizabeth wanted to separate herself back into individual people in individual universes because she was sick of feeling the pain of every Elizabeth at once and just wanted to be mortal again like her dead father. This Elizabeth chose to sacrifice herself for a noble cause, like her father did. Maybe another saved Rapture from "Evil Jack" in the world where he harvested all the Little Sisters. Maybe another went to Paris and met Booker and Anna.
@@Wyraxx yes that was the last elizabeth. but on the bright side, booker and anna are still living happily as in those universes booker never become comstock and hence there's never been a columbia
If you like storybased games i can recommend the indiegame "To the moon". Its a bit slow but the emotional rollercoaster is a rough ride for sure. I never played this DLC and was surprised how good it was!
Elizabeth never got to save Sally. But Jack did. Jack saved Sally, and raised her as one of the rescued Little Sisters. And Elizabeth set all of it in motion. All of it.
It hurts. It makes sense. And I take solace in the fact that there is still a reality out there where Booker raised Anna and they had a happy, normal life together. I also have a lot of sympathy for the Luteces because they are eternally stuck as quantum beings who are trying to fix the mistakes they made in an never ending loop. PS - The Last of Us is one of the few games with characters that I loved as much as I did those in the Bioshock series.
Whilst they are stuck atm, I think the voxphone about Robert being unhappy, is the signal that they too in the future. Will return to the universe they died in, to be mortal.
The ending of Burial at Sea inspired a lot of Bioshock veterans to go back and replay the first Bioshock, just so they could beat Fontaine to death. With a wrench.
This game is beautiful. Wrapping yourself up in the physics of it all will just make you miss the story. It’s sci-fi fantasy fun told in such a good way. Fun fact I got a Infinite tattoo on my right thigh and thought I fucked up the left to right chronological order if I ever got a OG Bioshock tattoo on my left only for it to work out when burial at sea came out 😂
when I was playing, the experience in min 1:28 made me sick, I'm not soft about violence and gory scenes, but I was so invested and so inmersed (full dark room and headphones), that I felt every second of it in my eyes, really terrible feeling, really impressive narrative.
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Cynthetic, If you like stealth games, you'll love the Dishonored series.
I felt that lobotomy. My eyes legitimately watered when he stuck the pick in.
Crazy how despite the pain, she was able to say the right thing to stop the completion of the lobotomies.
The needle in the eye mini game in Dead Space 2 is a lot worse lol
@@vash3055 putting a pick up above the eye is painful but not so painful to stop people reational thoughts. But that this is just vile, I read up on that stuff a few weeks ago and I suggest not to....
This really bothered me and not for the reason most people would think. Bioshock Infinite creator Ken Levine while being interviewed said that he had seen some Elizabeth porn (rule 34, etc), and for people to stop doing that because Elizabeth felt like a daughter to him. Ok, fair point. However, he has no problem with her being violently tortured by an almost-lobotomy. This is a terrible message, but it’s a very American (our Puritan history) one. Elizabeth being shown nude (air having consensual sex) is bad, but her being tortured is acceptable. I almost threw up when I played through this, and have never revisited it, even though Bioshock Infinite is my favorite game of all time. Elizabeth deserved better (Paris!)
@@Hackspear214 Yeah I heard about that, and I had to laugh. It's like "Ken, buddy, that ain't how the internet works".
To your point however I disagree. I don't think it's about being acceptable. It's supposed to be horrible, but horrible things happen, especially at the hands of the bad guys. This reminds me of a few years back people had a big problem with the X-Men Apocalypse poster showing Mystique being lifted in the air by her throat by Apocalypse, and people were saying it condoned abuse of women or some such.
The same people wouldn't bat an eye at say Professor X in the same position. Mystique is a heroine of the movie, if she's protected from having bad things happen to her, it puts a big asterisk behind everything she accomplishes. Suppose Luke and Leia's roles had been switched in star wars. Would Leia having her hand cut off "promote violence against women"?
If we're going to put women is prominent positions either as villains or heroes in games/comics/books/movies/tv shows, then you can't teflon coat them in plot armor so that they magically avoid anything horrible happening to them. If horrible things happen to male characters but female characters in similar situations always avoid them, it just comes across as pandering.
The scene in the elevator where Elizabeth tells Booker that he was her only friend is an amazing example of how emotions can be shown non verbally. She first reads what’s coming up and her face just freezes and shoulders slump down. Then she hears Elizabeth speak and a frown forms on her face and her eyes get sullen. The ‘ohhhh’ she says at this point is so heartfelt.
Elizabeth's death is one of the saddest and most meaningful in video gaming history ❤
lmao
In all game history, its hard to say.
But, the most meaningful in Bioshock, sure as hell.
Idk, handsome jack, or the protagonist from bioshock 2 would be the saddest for me in my opinion.
I love how this DLC brings it full circle. I have this almost yearly tradition of replaying this trilogy. Somewhere along the way however I started playing the story in chronological order.
Side note... I love how Andrew Ryan is voiced by Quark from DS9. Armin Shimerman is awesome!
Elizabeth creates the union between the Big Daddys and the Little sisters. Elizabeth is the one who bequeaths Rapture to Atlas. Elizabeth gives the word of activation of control over Jack after seeing that he will be the one to kill him and save the Little Sisters.
Elizabeth is Bioshock, and her death hurts so much...
PS: I loved your reaction, enjoying every drop of lore, reading everything... Sadly nowadays it's rare to see a reaction of this level of interest and attention. Out of 10.
One of the little sisters who helped the Big Daddy was named Masha. OMG! That's THE Masha, I think! The one whose mother left a recorder for, telling her to come find her in her room at the Fighting McDonagh's Tavern all the way back in BioShock 1! (in the Fontaine Fisheries level)
I notice that too, I love that the devs didn't forget about masha since her mom didn't know where to find her. :/ Its really sad.
Wtf
I didn’t even notice that wow
Yes its her. Masha Lutz. They actually tell her story in the book of Rapture. She was the best friend of Sophie McDonagh, daughter of Bill McDonagh
The ending gave me goosebumps all over again! Really enjoyed your bioshock series, since you enjoyed the stealth aspect I really recommend the dishonored series and Alien: isolation. The second is scary but worth it
Dishonoured has such a beautiful style, and some of the best mechanics in a stealth game I've ever experienced
Dishonored is my favourite stealth game and I would love to see a Cynthetic playthrough!
What a journey! So happy that it happened but sad that it's ending. Looking forward to see more from you!
47:33 that voxaphone drives gamers insane. That overactive FOMO means they "must pick it up before moving on" but that office doesn't unlock until after picking up the lock of hair.
Burial at Sea Ep. 2 easily has one of the best endings to any video game, ever. TRULY ties the bow on the Rapture/BioShock saga. Elizabeth DID break the circle. She made sure that Rapture, Columbia... that all of it didn't end in complete pain and misery. She did good :')
No, she didn't. Not really. I mean, the circle has already been broken for the Rapture in Bioshock and Bioshock 2.
As I see it, devs made Elizabeth a mere small cog in the sub-story that had no need to exist at all. And to build that story, they made Elizabeth make morally questionable things, turned her into a broken person, tortured her and killed her.
Can't call it a nice job.
No she didn't because there is absolutely universes where Jack harvests the little sisters, so effectively she did nothing.
This ending gets me teary eyed every dang time even to this day. There is such an emotional connection you get for Elizabeth playing through the whole story that with the last scene its just such a gut punch moment you know has to happen to a character you want to see so much more of..
To quote the Oracle from the Matrix:
"You've already made the choice. You're here to find out why you made it."
Elizabeth knew what she was getting into, and accepted the fact that even if she were to have the doors closed on her and forget everything, a leap of faith into the path she set for herself would make her feel all is right in the end.
That sense of comfort came in the form of Booker, until she let it dawn that it really was all her own choices being made.
The Circle is broken.
I take comfort that since Elizabeth is all Elizabeths at once she is also still the Anna left with Booker in the revised, singlar timeline.
Amazing self-control. I don’t know how you weren’t bawling when Elizabeth passed the previous Booker and Elizabeth in the elevator and Elizabeth tells the imaginary Booker that she misses him.
Cynthetic, the boy that Flitzroy has kidnapped along with Fink is Fink's son. I've enjoyed very much your episode 1, and of course this one too. Along with Mass Effect and other games, Bioshock is truly a masterpiece.
Whoa didn't know that! Makes the Daisy reveal hit more dayum
Mass effect is overrated. Its not definitely worth playing.
Every year or two it’s tradition to play through the entire series. Such a good game
There's a dark but unconfirmed theory that the wrench Atlas kills Liz with at the end is the same one you pick up as jack later on.
Shame you skipped the credit's, if you waited to the end you get a bonus scene of the plane crashing down into rapture.
Yeah, but that end credit scene takes place nearly a year later. Remember Burial at Sea takes place during New Year’s Eve 1958. You skip ahead 2 weeks later during episode 2 of the DLC, but that’s all.
I had that exact same thought the moment his henchman handed him that wrench 😳
this is nothing, at the start of bishcok 1 where you run through the underwater bridges you can see a little sister next to someone dead, i think the dead person could be Elizabeth
@@JustCauseFan when Bioshock 1 was made nobody at Irrational Games was thinking about Bioshock Infinite and Elizabeth
@@GNMbg exacgly xd people just conspiring everything lmao
Easily the best bioshock trilogy playthrough on youtube... you actually understood the story and listened to the audio logs and took them in.
Cheers for the lets play
Genuinely refreshing to see a good playthrough/reaction to a good video game and DLC. Can't express how disappointing it is seeing other mainstream RUclipsrs over reacting or completely missing or not trying to even understand the storyline and how everything ties together.
It's great knowing each episode you release is actually something that I can look forward to. So Thank you
Telling to myself while watching the ending: I'm a grown man... I'm not crying over this AGAIN... (Sees Cynth tearing up...) Okay, let's cry together. 😭😭😭
This is the reason why I haven't played Burial at Sea for the second time. I played I, II, and Infinite multiple times... but Burial at Sea is only once. I wanted to play it again just by seeing your gameplay, but seeing the ending again reminded me why I can't. I was also emotionally invested in helping Elizabeth and seeing the ending breaks me so bad. 😭😭😭
Loved the videos and thank you for the series. First play along I've watched. Great stuff favourite games. I'd add 2 things:
- Elizabeth only punishes Comstock's, the one left, was already a dictator when stealing and beheading that Anna. It was the last one, that escaped.
- "our" Elizabeth gets to live the life she always should have, as Anna, in the crib, in post credit infinite. That's how we the player, gets experience "what matters more, your part in the play, or the play itself ". We don't get to see it. But it happens
P.s if you have a sec look up removed infinite content. There's a desert, artic, and space lighthouse. The game was originally going to be so much bigger, or at least hint at even more cities.
That's not how it was right?! My impression was that only the bookers that would choose baptism would be killed leaving all the other bookers to live happily with the Ana's, it's not just the one booker and Elizabeth, as our eli was outside of time.
The end made me cry again. The ends that you hate because of your tears are the ones you love the most and will never forget. Can't Wait for the next Bioshock game
I can see all the doors....in one of those doors...I see HIM! What a fantastic playthrough, Cyn! Excellent job! The whole story comes in full circle! Will the circle be unbroken? It was broken first by Jack and then, by Delta. The next Bioshock awaits and let's see where it takes us. Just as Eleanor said, in our story, Rapture was just the beginning :)
Eliza's Laugh gets me Everytime
I’m gonna miss Ken Lavine working on these games
This has been the BEST BioShock playthrough I have seen yet, I love how well you analyzed and predicted everything!!
I cannot recommend the Dishonored series high enough for you, I _very_ strongly feel it is up your alley!!! 💜
This ending combined with the bioshock version of "you belong to me" left a bitter sweet feeling in me that has never left since the day I completed the game.
This was a fantastic playthrough. Watching you discover Rapture and Columbia was a real joy. Seeing you discover all the twists and tragedies for the first time gave me a new appreciation for them. Can't wait to see what new worlds you decide to explore next.
I loved these videos. All three of these games are fantastic. Some of my favourites. I loved your playthrough of it as well. When I first played it, I didn't like the ending to Burial at Sea, but I've warmed up to it since. It all comes down to what Ryan says "A man chooses. A slave obeys." Elizabeth chose to go there and save Sally, even though she knew what it meant. She made her choice.
Thank you so much for such a wonderful playthrough series - it has been superb!
I just finnished Burial at sea for the first time a few days before you started Bioshock Infinite, I needed someone else to play it through because it was so hard to me see what happens at the end, but it was a pleasure to see you playing it. Thankyou very much, sincerely
A great playthrough! Bioshock is amazing. Definitely one of my favorites. Really enjoyed your reactions throughout this whole series. Can't wait to see what you play next
Also if you stick with credits (not sure if you did or not), you can see Elizabeth's voice actress singing You Belong With Me behind the scenes video. It was soo nice! And there's a post credit scene where the tail of the plane sinks at the bottom of the ocean :)
I have just finished the game 2day ago came to check your reaction and to understand the ending ..... I couldn't get the story out of my mind. It makes me really sad that we lost Elizabeth there .... Damn, I haven't played a fps game with this type of story Amazing
There is a part many miss. At the lobotomy scene a song named the great pretender is playing while Atlas is speaking it's the irony that Atlas is the great pretender. Another thing in that scene is Atlas loses his Irish accent and begins to speak as Fontaine when Elizabeth angers him. He says " You're a regular hero ain't ya cant risk rippin the only part of ya worth a damn well there is more than one way to fry an egg" also there is post credit scene that showed the bathysphere coming down and the tail of the plane crashing into Rapture.
I have enjoyed! Your theorizing as you go along is a delight - particularly as you are so often PRECISELY on point. Can't wait for B4!
ive enjoyred watching your game plays of bioshock -its legit my favorite franchise / lore ever. youre so smart! ive played this game a couple times and I didnt catch on to alot of the scientific exchanges and political stuff as quickly as you did 😅
I appreciated your commentary on the storyline, you helped piece a lot of it together for me. You had a great grasp on everything Bioshock! kudos
It is bittersweet and, yeah, mostly painful, but it is so brilliantly done and fitting. Such a great game all together. One for the books.
That was a great and very entertaining journey! Thank you so much for playing the series and sharing your thoughts about it. It was very interesting to see you looking for the all the smallest details and sharing your opinions about the game’s plot, characters and lore. Also now that the Bioshock is finished, I highly recommend playing another great series - Portal and Portal 2. That is if you haven’t played that already. It’s mostly known for it’s remarkable gameplay mechanics but it also has an awesome story and is full of outstanding humour. Bioshock and Portal are my favourite games of all time, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Portal someday too!
Just have to say, I loved your whole playthrough of the bioshock series, especially infinite, you always made the right connections and I have to say the ending really got me, i mean Elizabeth was never able to live a normal childhood, have friends or family and was never able to go to Paris to find her peace, that ending lingered in my head for a whole week after finishing the game.
I hope the Lutece twins make cameos in future games. I don't need them to be important to the plot, I just love every second they're on screen.
'Ah Bullshit...Makes sense but i hate it...' That is almost exactly how i felt when i played this through back when. Not what we wanted for Lizzy, but its the path we are on. Loved your insight on the Bioshock journey. Look forward to others.
What a ride this game was. Almost everything fits perfectly. And the circle is closed.
So sad it has ended. Absolutely loved your playthroughs! ☺ I hope you'll also play Bioshock 4 once it comes out!
If you listen closely, you can gear Atlas's accent slip when Lizzie calls his bluff during the lobotomy. He was so angry that his mask dropped and the real Fontaine started peeking through.
Elizabeth wants to give them a chance to learn, to find love, to live the life, that she never had. She became martyr like her father.
What's crazy to think about is that when you play bioshock one, we walk through the area where Elizabeth lays dead.
I thought that it was cool that Burial took place and leads to Bioshock 1 since it’s a sequel to the story of Columbia, which is roughly 1910s and then Rapture, which is around the 50s. It matches chronologically
Never cried for a video game before ..... But this double ending masterpiece (main story and DLC) caused me immense emotions ... Elizabeth and Booker are two wonderful characters that I will miss so much ...
Not ashamed to say I squealed a bit when this popped up, been eagerly awaiting this grand finale. I know you, Cyn, are now eagerly awaiting the next game like all the rest of us. Yay! Wonder what's next for the almighty, all powerful Cynthetic? 😁
I just watched all your playthroughs of the BioShock trilogy. They were so good! I really love how much you care about the story and lore and how you take your time going through rather than rushing. They were great, thank you. You’ve definitely earned a new subscriber!
Also I love your personality and attitude, watching you is relaxing and calm❤️ Never stop being you
Just commenting here to say you are my best ever favorite let's players at the moment. I just found out about you 2 weeks ago and I can't stop binge watching your videos. Started with your ME1 videos and binged your whole trilogy, then found out you doing Bioshock as well as binged this one too. Your commentary is amazing the way you theorize on plot points and notice the key details. These are prevalent in both your ME and Bioshock playthroughs.
It makes me wish you eventually play more of my favorite story driven games like Portal/Half Life series or the Batman Arkham series as these are games I hold close to my heart like Bioshock and Mass Effect.
Regardless, thank you for a great 2 weeks. Binged the hell out of your videos from eating to working out to just lying in bed.
Cheers and good luck to the future of your channel! Hope you grow more.
really sweet coincidence that the next video on my recommended just happens to be the 1st episode of the bioshock 1 playthrough :)
What an ending. 🙁
Cyn, thank you (again) for the best Bioshock playthrough EVER. Such an incredible game, and I was glad we got to share your journey. Someone needs to give Ken Levine a billion dollars and a film crew. Next level genius writing.
I’ve been watching your dark souls 1 play through and have just watched through your play through of both parts of this dlc. Fantastic work. You’re noticeably very intelligent, and your commentary and reactions to the story have been very engaging to watch. Keep it up.
Hey! Super late to this playthrough, but I stumbled upon your channel recently and just wanted to say I've really enjoyed this playthrough, as well as your Mass Effect playthrough. I really like the way you can put the pieces together so well during a first experience of a story, whether it's early voxophones linking to later conversations in this series, or with ME how smaller side stories/mission interweave throughout the series.
Considering you like games that make you think about (philosophical) things, I'd recommend having a look at SOMA if you haven't played it before already. It's 10ish hours and it's a story that stayed with me over the years because I've found some concepts in it very intriguing. :)
Greetings from russia, that game was a bright thing in my miserable past, still is. What a story and what a playthrough, very very well done, thank you for bringing back the memories and gl hf next
these games never fail to make me feel something.
When the credits started Rolling I stand up and I give it an aplausse to this masterpiece piece of saga
I played Bioshock the Collection 3 years ago and this was the best finale ever
Thourghly enjoyed your play through the entire BioShock franchise. My favourite FPS series of games. In all of the games it has always about the narrative which drew me into BioShock, so well written. Also the combat is just sooo satisfying, mixing up gun play , abilities and using the environment to your advantage. Infinite was the first game I played just days after its release, and enjoyed it so much I played again and again. Then promptly went out, bought and played the other two. Because of your playthroughs I'm seriously thinking of playing them again and all the Dlc, take a trip down nostalgia road if you will. When the new BioShock gets released, would you kindly play the game and upload it for our enjoyment. I for one can't wait for it to get released.
After playing as Booker for the majority part of the game, which looks more like action oriented that "encourage" me to go all out and fight with vigors and gun, playing as Elizabeth is such a different experience. Because playing as Elizabeth seems like more emphasize on stealth, kinda of reminds me of the Dishonored series and older Assassin's Creed games
This girl It's brilliant, love her insight for the entire experience... The BioShock series will always be beloved masterpieces!
It really does suck to see Elizabeth go from that innocent, care free girl in Battleship Bay to someone so consumed by revenge. But that said, it does work as a full circle story, and while tragic, Elizabeth's sacrifice ultimately did a lot of good.
yes, i think thats the saddest part of infinite and burial at sea
"I'd like to say that Elizabeth and Sally escaped Rapture and lived happily ever after, I'd like to say that, but Rapture is no fairytale world..."
Elizabeth died happy though. She knew that Jack would screw over Atlas and save Sally and all the other Little Sisters, and even though she die, she won in the end.
Sally got to live a happy life, thanks to Jack.
Been loving your videos. I haven't finished, so maybe you talk about this, but the scene with Daisy blew me away. I assume the Lutece's are omniscient like Elizabeth, so they give the pep talk to Daisy, but they also know future Elizabeth is in the duct. They're talking to Daisy, but also Elizabeth (and the player); you have a part to play, but you're not the hero here.
there is a theory that Songbird was a Booker that failed at first but by the look of it in BAS ep2 it might have been a dog since they were being tested who knows.
Great Video as always! I really enjoyed your Playthrough. Looking forward to see more from you!
The ending was VERY bittersweet but I think it was fitting and Ken Levine honestly did a solid job at tying everything together. As sad as it is to see this Elizibeth die, she died at least knowing that she saved Sally and the little sisters in the long run and that Ryan and Fontaine would get their comeuppance and Raptures atrocities would come to an end because of her sacrifice. You can tell by the smile on her face at the end. She knew she made the right choice and that her death wasn't for nothing. Not to mention that there is STILL a timeline where Anna and Booker are finally together. I find all of that pretty comforting.
I’ve been playing the Bioshock series for a couple of years and it always makes me happy when others fall in love with it, you were amazing with the play through! You have made my mind race with all your theory’s throughout and you answered even some of my questions lol.
Also funny thing, universal has rights for making a Bioshock movie and we’re going to make it a pg13 lmao but yeah idea was scrapped and 2k games is still in process of the fourth game!
Now nerflix picked it up
Your explanation of the Luteces seems valid because as you may remember they will tell you that they won't go away until you go first after the coin toss. Every time you interact with them and then walk away and then look back they're gone.
If you like this kind of stuff you may watch the German Netflix Series "Dark" in the original language when you don't wanna play games. It has also has some of this game concepts in it without spoiling it for you. Not very action packed but more emotional, personal dramas but will make your brain fry.
Thoroughly enjoyed your playthrough. You've got a new follower in me.
Loved your playthru. I will always remember my first time playing thru the entire series (a bit more spread out than yours lol) fondly and whether or not it lives up to our expectations I can't wait for Bioshock 4.
I almost teared up watching your reaction, the ending is really bittersweet 💔
Thanks you. I really enjoy watching how you play this awesome game.
Loving watching this on my spare monitor while working.
Hi Cyn, loved your play-through of the BioShock series and DLC. Ken Levine is a brilliant writer and I love the way the Burial at Sea DLC filled in so much of the history and lore that we were so familiar with. My biggest concern for a fourth installment of BioShock is that Ken Levine is not a part of it and, I believe, the writing is what made it such a unique series. I have my fingers crossed though and look forward to watching you play BioShock 4; you did a great job.
Thanks to the winter storm, I'm currently stuck at home and am planning to watch your stream tomorrow evening!
It makes sense, and it packs an emotional punch, and I do like how it all ties together. But I hate that Elizabeth died. Elizabeth was the heart of Bioshock Infinite, and I loved her. I hated to see her go out like that, bashed in the head by Atlas and dying, broken and bleeding at the bottom of the cold dark sea. It's brutal, and she deserved a better end, regardless of how well it worked. It still feels wrong on an emotional level. Even knowing that Jack ends up dealing out justice and redemption.
At least we know... out there... in millions of somewheres, Anna and Booker are together,and happy.
"Will the circle be unbroken..."
No... You do manage to break it in the end, Elizabeth.
You're great. Loved smart commentary, very pleasant to watch.
I've been looking for a playthrough of my favorite series and you did them all! Me and my gf watched this whole series from episode 1 of Bioshock 1. Now we're playing thru it again taking turns. Even the dlc. Thanks so much it was fun to see your reactions to the series. Can't wait for the bioshoxk movie and hopefully one day a Bioshock 4. +1 sub & thanks for helping us fall in love with Bioshock again. Looking forward to watching more of your gaming. Also, my gf says she loves you lol XD. Keep it up!
I played all of the bioshock and loved them but I never played the DLC till years after I beat Infinite. When I finally played i was blown away.
I'm glad I found this playthrough of the DLC. (Not self-promoting) I just finished the main story in my own playthrough of Infinite and didn't have the DLC afterwards, and with how stressful Infinite's story is with all those christofascists being way too similar to those in our world today, I wasn't gonna go back to Infinite again anytime soon even if I got the DLC. So finding a Let's play online was the clear choice for me. Yours was very entertaining and you have really positive energy.
As for the ending, it was amazing as it was but as far as I'm concerned, infinite possibilities means infinite endings. I'm not an expert on string theory or science in general lol, but in my headcanon there's a timeline where Elizabeth never killed this world's Comstock because she believed it was even more punishing to make him remember and let him live with the guilt the rest of his days, but saves the girl. Gets her out of Rapture that way. That there's also a timeline where Elizabeth was successful in her interference towards Comstock's kidnapping attempt. I choose to believe those happy endings exist, we're just not privy to them.
Well done again for a fascinating playthrough. There are rumours that the next game is set in a dystopian city in Antarctica with links to Rapture. Sounds good to me!
Remember, they were telling us how Elizabeth didn't know why she set herself on this mission, why Sally was so important to her. I don't think she had no choice (maybe this final version of her didn't). I think her omniscient self (who died in the beginning of ep2) knew all that was going to take place, and why Sally was so important to introducing Jack. She set her future self on a pathway to taking down Rapture.
I've always told myself that quantum Elizabeth wanted to separate herself back into individual people in individual universes because she was sick of feeling the pain of every Elizabeth at once and just wanted to be mortal again like her dead father. This Elizabeth chose to sacrifice herself for a noble cause, like her father did. Maybe another saved Rapture from "Evil Jack" in the world where he harvested all the Little Sisters. Maybe another went to Paris and met Booker and Anna.
according to what i saw - that was LAST Elizabeth (who didn't disappear after Comstock was drowned) and LAST Comstock who was hiding in Rapture
@@Wyraxx yes that was the last elizabeth. but on the bright side, booker and anna are still living happily as in those universes booker never become comstock and hence there's never been a columbia
Fucking brilliant DLC probably my most favourite of all time
I only just realized the little sister who helps the big daddy is Masha from Bioshock 1. Thats heartBreaking to actually see her
I has been a really nice trip with you through all these games!
If you like storybased games i can recommend the indiegame "To the moon". Its a bit slow but the emotional rollercoaster is a rough ride for sure.
I never played this DLC and was surprised how good it was!
Did any1 else notice that they stated and ended episode 2 with playing la vie en rose
TY for this amazing journey, this one made me very sad.
Elizabeth never got to save Sally. But Jack did. Jack saved Sally, and raised her as one of the rescued Little Sisters. And Elizabeth set all of it in motion. All of it.
Love this game 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 awesome gameplay
It hurts. It makes sense. And I take solace in the fact that there is still a reality out there where Booker raised Anna and they had a happy, normal life together.
I also have a lot of sympathy for the Luteces because they are eternally stuck as quantum beings who are trying to fix the mistakes they made in an never ending loop.
PS - The Last of Us is one of the few games with characters that I loved as much as I did those in the Bioshock series.
Whilst they are stuck atm, I think the voxphone about Robert being unhappy, is the signal that they too in the future. Will return to the universe they died in, to be mortal.
The ending of Burial at Sea inspired a lot of Bioshock veterans to go back and replay the first Bioshock, just so they could beat Fontaine to death. With a wrench.
This game is beautiful. Wrapping yourself up in the physics of it all will just make you miss the story. It’s sci-fi fantasy fun told in such a good way.
Fun fact I got a Infinite tattoo on my right thigh and thought I fucked up the left to right chronological order if I ever got a OG Bioshock tattoo on my left only for it to work out when burial at sea came out 😂
when I was playing, the experience in min 1:28 made me sick, I'm not soft about violence and gory scenes, but I was so invested and so inmersed (full dark room and headphones), that I felt every second of it in my eyes, really terrible feeling, really impressive narrative.
Yep i cried, for the third time playing and seeing this!!