Opening that door and fully stepping into Columbia, greeter by the Comstock statue and the floating islands, is one of the most beautiful moments in all of gaming in my opinion, and this song truly makes that moment.
This music sound so happy and uplifting, but those background off tones make it lowkey unusually horrifying. Almost like something is not quite as it seems.
Travis Leonard that’s basically Columbia, at first glance it might seem like a utopia but as you go progressing you notice the racism and fink the vox populi etc
Its a beautiful uplifting song played out of an old autonomous piano that's not been tuned or cleaned for years. The occasional spider pulling unused strings.
Fun fact, this piece was inspired by an old jazz melody called “Cherokee”. As you find out later in the story, Dewitt fought at the battle of wounded knee, and during this battle, it can be inferred by the player that Booker took the lives of many Native Americans. This monumental moment in Dewitt’s life along with several other events of equal magnitude, still plague his thoughts till the present day, leading him to resort to excessive drinking in order to cope with his past decisions. Holding that thought in mind, it’s not a coincidence that Gary Schyman choose that piece as his inspiration for the opening exploration theme of Columbia. It symbolizes Comstock’s nature as ruler of Columbia to exploit the labor of any group or race that he deemed unfit for citizenship in Columbia, whilst egregiously appropriating their cultures creations for the benefit of himself and his own “purified” city in the sky. Later on the player discovers Comstock’s intentions to enact a similar but far more violent process of “purification” to “the sodom below”.
If you remove all the chaos from this song, it reminds me of that song that plays in Lord of the Rings when Sam is trying to remind Frodo of the good in the world.
@@totaljanishead Venus has a dense Carbon Dioxide atmosphere, making Oxygen (the air we breathe) or Oxygen-Nitrogen mix a floating gas. Hence no explosive Hydrogen or expensive Helium needed, and the large balloon will be a habitable area instead of going to waste. While the surface is a hot and acidic environment, the altitude where Oxygen floats is Earth-like. Also unlike Mars, Venus has Earth's gravity, meaning no loss of bone strength.
I honestly can't understand why anyone would dislike infinite in particular, apart from differences in setting... I still remember the weird clunkyness of first bioshock gameplay
@@aster1sk294 I think if they didn't scrap the weapon wheel infinite would be the best bioshock, but each bioshock offers something different so i guess some people are gonna pick the other over the other.
Opening that door and fully stepping into Columbia, greeter by the Comstock statue and the floating islands, is one of the most beautiful moments in all of gaming in my opinion, and this song truly makes that moment.
i 100% agree with you !
swap beautiful out for terrifying or dreadful and then i'd agree with you
Its a like a music for Rapture before it turns into distopia
gee i wonder why lmao
This music sound so happy and uplifting, but those background off tones make it lowkey unusually horrifying.
Almost like something is not quite as it seems.
Travis Leonard that’s basically Columbia, at first glance it might seem like a utopia but as you go progressing you notice the racism and fink the vox populi etc
Also, it's the bon voyage from the lighthouse to the Jaws violins that permeated underwater Rapture.
If you're interested, here's a version without the dissonant background tones: ruclips.net/video/nvZmlkHxPTw/видео.html
a dream :)
Its a beautiful uplifting song played out of an old autonomous piano that's not been tuned or cleaned for years. The occasional spider pulling unused strings.
Peaceful song about a beautiful city that has a terrible chaos in it... How beautifully ironic...
I wish I could tell Elizabeth that I’m sorry that I never got to bring her to Paris
Fun fact, this piece was inspired by an old jazz melody called “Cherokee”. As you find out later in the story, Dewitt fought at the battle of wounded knee, and during this battle, it can be inferred by the player that Booker took the lives of many Native Americans. This monumental moment in Dewitt’s life along with several other events of equal magnitude, still plague his thoughts till the present day, leading him to resort to excessive drinking in order to cope with his past decisions. Holding that thought in mind, it’s not a coincidence that Gary Schyman choose that piece as his inspiration for the opening exploration theme of Columbia. It symbolizes Comstock’s nature as ruler of Columbia to exploit the labor of any group or race that he deemed unfit for citizenship in Columbia, whilst egregiously appropriating their cultures creations for the benefit of himself and his own “purified” city in the sky. Later on the player discovers Comstock’s intentions to enact a similar but far more violent process of “purification” to “the sodom below”.
can't find anything similar.
@@rekostarr7149 the bioshock song is a slowed down version of that one in my ears.
I wish I could just take Elizabeth's hand and tour Columbia for a day with her while listening to this music.
SIMP SIMP SIMP
@@TotallyNotSpiderman
LOOOOL
Bruh shes under 18 right?
If so that's no good
@@hsiwvsbbdjdvdh6716 she's 19 at the beginning of the game
lol This makes me want to explore Columbia all over again.
If you remove all the chaos from this song, it reminds me of that song that plays in Lord of the Rings when Sam is trying to remind Frodo of the good in the world.
This makes me want to walk around that area over and over just to listen to this
4 years and no dislikes if that doesn't tell you eny thing i don't know what dose
Two people dislike it
@@JP_Crimson dang vox!😤
Still
No dislikes for the four years
I love bioshock
I don't think a more beautiful piece of music has ever been written for a video game. Nice work extending this one.
Ken levine is such talented game maker
Beautiful
its happy and sad at the same time
this is god's work,
Read that in Arnold’s voice
wished i can deleted the memory of playing bs and bsi lol, even for fps game it offers so much more
A time when great games were still being played,we need an other Bioshock for the good of gaming,Amen
That's gonna be us on Venus one day.
Venus HAVOC mission NASA.
care to elaborate?
@@totaljanishead Venus has a dense Carbon Dioxide atmosphere, making Oxygen (the air we breathe) or Oxygen-Nitrogen mix a floating gas. Hence no explosive Hydrogen or expensive Helium needed, and the large balloon will be a habitable area instead of going to waste. While the surface is a hot and acidic environment, the altitude where Oxygen floats is Earth-like. Also unlike Mars, Venus has Earth's gravity, meaning no loss of bone strength.
you got me dreaming right now. That minus the rampant racism, religious fanaticism, and distorted patriotism.
Fink, Daisy, Comstock and Vox Populi disliked this.
Basically just Charles Ives’ Housatonic at Stockbridge from Three Places in New England. Love it.
^ this
it's over .you were right,i'll miss you forever...
although infinite is my least favorite bioshock, still one of the most beautiful games i think ive played
Personally, its my favorite, but I can understand why you prefer the other games
I honestly can't understand why anyone would dislike infinite in particular, apart from differences in setting... I still remember the weird clunkyness of first bioshock gameplay
@@aster1sk294 I think if they didn't scrap the weapon wheel infinite would be the best bioshock, but each bioshock offers something different so i guess some people are gonna pick the other over the other.
@@jcie3424 i completely understand that the two weapons you are limited to in infinite is really annoying
Honestly speaking, I would bring Elizabeth to Paris just to hear this along with her
Es muy triste
The highwind theme in remake sure is different than I'd expect
For some reason I hear “amazing grace”
Likewise here, I suppose it'd be appropriate to a degree, in account with the time and setting
I want the unspoiled version of this music.
Fundamental
Man, i really wish i can just bring elizabeth to paris and take care of her. :
:')