re: #4 jamesfirecat

So what you’re saying is that ironically/sadly the more a society has been screwed over the less likely an internal tearing of it down will yield positive results.

Eh…I’m not sure it’s proportional, but generally yes. And I’d narrow the field from “internal tearing down” to “internal tearing down via popular uprising”—stuff like juntas and coups are a different matter. Popular revolutions are like self-surgery. Amateur self-surgery.

See this is the kind of thing that it would have been worth addressing in the game (showing why the Vox revolution might be in effect doomed from the start on the issue of creating a better life from those who are rebelling) as opposed to the American revolution, because if you look at it from that sad perspective it adds some appropriate historical flair but also ties all but perfectly into the ending for reasons I will not discuss unless you want to hear me do them/don’t mind spoilers.

It sounds weird, but I don’t mind spoilers ‘cause I probably never be able to play Bioshock. Games with a FPS format make me violently motion sick. It’s been that way since the days of Doom. I actually tried Portal recently—super game aside from the dizziness and nausea—and it’s still an issue.