Comments on: Ending BioShock

By: MagoRibia

MagoRibia — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:48:53 +0000

Hello, I'm new here and want to say hello, all what I love to do is playing games so decide to share what I know better I have several favorite games and now I'm playing this game http://www.playcrg.c... ...Tanks.html
please share your games too :)
:)

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:08:50 +0000

The problem with that is that, in this (excellent) proposed ending, having a drill is plot-essential.

By: Neurovore

Neurovore — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:45:48 +0000

Hello, I stumbled upon this Bioshock ending re-write by accident today.

I just have one final suggestion, though. When you are collecting the big daddy suit components, it would be a nice touch if you could pick either the Bouncer parts if you wanted to be a Bouncer big daddy or the Rosie suit parts if you wanted to be a Rosie big daddy. The different suit types would have their own advantages/disadvantages, such as the Bouncer trademark instant-kill drill and rapid charge. The Rosie suit would give you the powerful rivet gun and more damage resistance as the Rosies in Bioshock have more hitpoints than the Bouncer big daddies.

Perhaps as bonus or secret, you could find the "elite" versions of the Rosie and Bouncer big daddy suits hidden in the area which would grant you even more damage resistance and make your attacks more powerful.

By: Post 500, by Tom Francis

Post 500, by Tom Francis — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:02:39 +0000

[...] Ending BioShock Imagine this post spluttered loudly and indecipherably by a drunk, and you know what I’m like [...]

By: The_Ruccus

The_Ruccus — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:44:06 +0000

I bought the game on Steam a while back, I think it was less than $9.99 US. Like most, I assume, I absolutely LOVED 90-99% until the end. Had I paid full retail I would probably be planning litigation and or violence right now. Your idea for the ending seems much better! Don't listen to the doubters, man!

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:44:50 +0000

Alright, fixed now. Workaround was to create an invisible dummy navigation panel for the plugin to scrape its links from, and a real navigation panel without the labels that tell the plugin to hide it when infinite scroll is working. So everyone should see the manual links now, and if the plugin works, they'll also automatically load the next page. There's no notification that it's doing that, but at this point I'm having a hard time caring.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:05:45 +0000

The problem is that the plugin thinks it's working for you. If it can't initialise, it shows the Older Posts link as usual. I can customise what it says while it thinks it's loading, but I just had a play around with that, and it can't include any links or PHP. That means there's no way to have it show you an 'Older posts' link while it loads, which would have solved the problem since I'm pretty sure it thinks it's loading. It's kinda weird, the plugin seems otherwise well-made. It warns you can't use single-quotes in these variables, but in fact you can't even use double ones. And PHP just breaks the whole thing. So all I've done is changed it to show "Loading older posts..." while it is, so anyone who didn't realise it was doing that will at least know what's *supposed* to happen. If it was getting stuck before, though, it'll probably still get stuck. Maybe I can put older posts links in the sidebar or something.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 21 May 2011 14:42:03 +0000

Just tried to fix it to show the older posts link while the JavaScript works, and now it's completely broken the Infinite Scroll plugin. Yay!

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sat, 21 May 2011 13:27:21 +0000

There's supposed to be one of those Javascript scroll-down-autoload things on the front page. If it doesn't work for you you can either disable Javascript here via the NoScript extension, which brings the link back, or manually use URLs of the form http://www.pentadact... ....php/page/n

By: Arthur pendragon_y2k

Arthur pendragon_y2k — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:24:38 +0000

Wow, amazing stuff. Only spotted this from your review of stats and 1top ten list on the five thousandth (sic) post. As you mentioned, great comments too. P.S. in only finding this now --- i know you'd had website breakages in the past - is this why in recent months the 'older posts' link has gone, and i can only read the 4-5 most recent ones? If i forget to keep up with your fine work for a month or two and you've been particularly busy i miss stuff.

By: Ramunas Jakimavicius

Ramunas Jakimavicius — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:08:24 +0000

That was a stellar ending sequence, and I really liked the creativity behind Fontaine's punishment and the splendor of the idea of watching Rapture flood. You also bring up a really good point regarding that radio and the command phrase.

Thanks for sharing!

By: Andrew**

Andrew** — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:44:03 +0000

although on that note, liked the rest of it alot

By: Andrw

Andrw — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:43:39 +0000

weren't the vita chambers linked directly to Ryan's (and through birth, yours) genetic code, thus woudln't it not work for Fontaine ever? all you did was give Fontaine a key, not make him your brother

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:53:35 +0000

In a world where spam is left by robots and meaningful comments by humans, I think we've found our first cyborg.

(Cheers, btw)

By: BestMountainBikes

BestMountainBikes — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:07:47 +0000

an awesome way to end it. this articles help me to end the game nicely.. thanks a lot

By: Jason L

Jason L — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:36:14 +0000

Just FYI he has written (part of) a book

By: Momo the Cow

Momo the Cow — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:17:48 +0000

Fucking golden, mate. Your article gave me the closure and satisfaction that the original utterly failed to deliver on (following it's considerable promise). If you don't end up writing games, try writing movies. I'll be first in line.

By: tomeoftom

tomeoftom — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:41:20 +0000

Oh, MAN. That is just so, so, SO perfect. Totally amazing work. Just. AHHH. Christ. YES.

Fucking brilliant.

By: RPS Think Tank: Let’s End This | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

RPS Think Tank: Let’s End This | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:59:07 +0000

[...] of us actually chose BioShock, probably because we were far too intimidated by Tom Francis’s excellent re-imagining of the game post-your encounter with Andrew [...]

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:56:32 +0000

I'm so very late to the party, but here goes : thank you for your alternate ending, it's pretty fantastic. I still have some questions I'd like your thoughts on : why would Fontaine want to leave Rapture in the first place? He fought so hard to get control of it. I get that the flooding you imagine woulld make rapture basically worthless, but I don't see very much value in Rapture anyway in the original game so I don't get Fontaine's motive (why would you want to get control of such a hollow place?). Either he has control and eternal life through the VitaChambers, or he just want to escape and he should have escaped instead of sending you out as a baby in the capsule (maybe the whole plot is about breaking out of Rapture, I don't recall everything). Also, don't you think Fontaine, with complete control over Rapture, could use the public announcement system with the same effect as the radio? Therefore, you could get rid of the radio, and it wouldn't change much.