Bioshock Infinite - 'The Ending' Discussion Thread (Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers!)

just finished it there

don't really like the ending. surely the lutece's could have just gone and smothered dewitt themselves rather than putting us through the rigmarole of playing the game.

*shrug*

it was worth 36 euro anyway, don't feel short changed.. just disappointed. I'd hoped to love it.

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15 hours... ntb

A question to those who have finished it. I'm on

Comstock's airship at the moment, several stories up.

Am I near the end of the game? I feel like I am at any rate. An hour left? More or less?

The bit where you

see old, tortured, defeated Elizabeth in the furure tear was absolutely heartbreaking. Hearing her resist her torture waiting for DeWitt to show up was so sad......especially as we knew he would never come.

I feared that that would be the end of her and there was no going back so I was relieved when she handed you the code for the bird and then sent you back to rescure her former self.

Yes, it was a cliche sci-fi trope in a way but they executed it brilliantly in my eyes.

Kirby wrote: »

A question to those who have finished it. I'm on
Comstock's airship at the moment, several stories up.
Am I near the end of the game? I feel like I am at any rate. An hour left? More or less?

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yeah you're very close to the end. under an hour i'd say

The combat is annoying, but everything else is brilliant. The ending is basically

Looper, (I imagine Levine was annoyed when that movie came out)

but for me the thing that really sets it apart is the environments and the detail from the

fall into the artificial beach (I assumed I had fallen off Columbia) to the music from the 1980s when Columbia destroys New York that is playing in the background everywhere

Not unsurprisingly people have started to pick apart the ending. I think that is just inevitable with any story that involves

time travel and multiple universes and paradoxes

Needless to say HUGE SPOILERS in the following link
http://www.oxm.co.uk/51623/features/why-bioshock-infinites-ending-doesnt-work/?page=1

While a lot of their points are valid, the ending does have plot hole issues, it is some what missing the point a bit.

Burning Eclipse

Setting this up, because plenty of people are now finished the game, and the ending is generating discussion in the regular thread. Enough to warrant a thread of it's own imo.

I have not finished the game and will not be back here until I do.

Propane Nightmare

Why create an thread about a certain games ending when you haven't even finished the game yourself yet?

Mr E

Because they make the main thread difficult to read? People want to post as they are playing it, and there are already a few posts like:

Just finished it there,

blah blah blah....

.

Some people don't want the ending spoiled on them (particularly since this one allegedly so good). Since the ending posts seem to be spoilered in the main thread, I'll move those posts here now.

someone that occured to me as I was starting up a 1999 mode playthrough

how the hell did slate not realise that dewitt was comstock?

he fought with dewitt, he recognised dewitt in the game.. but because dewitt gets baptised, grows a beard and changes his name.. slate doesn't recognise him anymore?

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also.. walking into the city for the first time and walking over the bridge reminds me of charlie brookers pleasant neighbourhood simulator from gameswipe...

Venom

Finished it last night and felt very unsatisfied with the ending. Then again Bioshock 2 had a pretty crap ending as well so I was expecting something similar with this game

pablomakaveli

I felt the ending was a bit too messy and full of holes.

For example Elizabeth killing Booker creates a time paradox. If he dies at the baptism then she never exists to drown him there.

Also given we've seen that there are multiple universes whats the point of killing him when he may still exist in many other universes. How does killling him in the one universe put a stop to what happens i the other ones?

They should have really went for a more simplified ending but they over reached and we have a weaker ending for it.

KilOit

Why is there spoiler tags on all the posts in a spoiler thread??
I'm on a phone and its a pain to read them!

Lone Stone

just finished it there, was a good game well worth the money. The ending, well i actually just said to myself at the reveal thats was f**ing retarded and made zero sense, it was one of those cop out moments of story telling thats usually a big no no, its akin to ending a book with "and it was all a dream".

But regardless i felt the last hour or two of the game was my most enjoyable, but the end just made it all pointless nonsense.

Apparently the ending took 4 months to work out, so I'm guessing the plot holes are not as plot holey as they seem at first.

Though having said that Lost had 5 years and the writers still messed that one up.

Lord TSC

Finished it and loved it.

I've always been a sucker for "Alternate Dimensions and Timelines" stories, so it was right up my street. Linking the lighthouses, the whole Lutece duo plot, the trip to rapture, just loved it all. And it's an ending which actually seems to have generated quite a bit of discussion which is always great.

Now, a second run through for all the audio logs!

Well, im not sure what to make of the ending. It might require some more thought before I weigh in properly.

But one thing struck me quite strongly. Elizabeth sees all and knows all through the tears at the end. she is willfully leading you to your death......

Man, thats cold

. I suppose you could say he had it coming but still.....it left me a little unfulfilled.

Lord TSC

On top of that, she's doing it knowing that in the process, "Elizabeth" ceases to exist; no Comstock, no her, since her upbringing would completely change

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

On top of that, she's doing it knowing that in the process, "Elizabeth" ceases to exist; no Comstock, no her, since her upbringing would completely change

Yeah that is what the post credits scene appears to be all about. The Comstock version of booker....the one who rejected the baptism.....is drowned. And it appears to me Comstock is drowned in all universes because all the Elizabeth's do it to you.

So the Booker who accepted the baptism wakes up, goes into the nursery and there is his child.....because no Comstock exists to take her from him.

there was a scene after the credits?

whoops

It's short. Black and white, booker is back in his room. There is the jingle of the baby chime, he turns and enters the room with the crib and says "Anna?". Fade to black.

It implies that with Comstock booker drowned and dead, DeWitt booker keeps the child.