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{My first favorite Video Games} {Edits made by me :)}

BioShock Infinite — motionresque [x]

BIOSHOCK INFINITE (2013)

BIOSHOCK INFINITE: BURIAL AT SEA (2013) dev. Irrational Games

doodling sketching

i was playing a lot of half life lately so when i opened my bioshock infinite save i had a bad case of cognitive dissonance so i had to draw it lmao

i've been doodling a lot lately cuz im stuck on one cool digital art ive been trying to finish for like two weeks :((

sketchbook sketching 2

rapture's best and brightest + two honorary members

Eleanor looks so weird here idk what happened xd

canon

burial at sea 2 lore

i finished burial at sea 2 like 30 minutes ago and damn.

the only good stuff from those dlcs was Ryans fursona, moderately cool stealth mechanic and mr Karl Hanover (+Booker and Elizabeth voice actors were great too!)

(the first burial brought nothing good it was just boring)

though i pissed my pants every time i saw anything referencing the first game (cuz apparently the second game does not exist or something idk)

im so tired of bioshock infinite i want to come back to my real Rapture not this fake cardboard cutout

i heard you liked the colorful Delta so here's a Bouncer and Songbird to the collection

Day 2: Jewel/Water/Contrast

here is the challange

here is the same prompt and palette by my bestie @sabolek5x4

And then, the Rapture dream was over.

this time the color palette was randomized :))))

this was a journey to draw for sure

this game is extremly fanartable for some reason??? (please don't ask me about the background i cannot explain it either, Im not a good backgrounder)

To infinity and beyond!

hellooooo im back and here is Booker and Elizabeth

also as i am pretty much obsessed with Bioshock at the moment and too poor to buy merch so i decided to make a tshirt myself, since i put my grabby hands on some fabric paints hehe

its not much yet, but im working on it and have some ambitious ideas, just need some free time!

okay this is really cool, does Bioshock Infinite with its multiverses and lighthouses fit into this idea, and if so, how?

I interpret the first two Bioshock games as a cosmic horror story that the protagonists are just glancing off the outer edges of. Slugs don't do that to your genetic code, for one thing, and genetic code has very little bearing on pyrokinesis or teleportation or the ability to grow swarms of bees inside yourself. It's also mighty convenient that Ryan happened to have picked the one spot in the ocean that happens to have The Slugs That Can't Do That- it's obviously part of the mythmaking of Ryan Amusements that they put such a fine point on where he abruptly stopped the boat and declared that he was going to put down the foundations of Rapture, and there's a dash of narrative anthropic principle on top of that, but it's still very convenient. And In terms of aesthetic and narrative outcome Rapture from 1960 onward is certainly checking all the boxes; madness, mutation, moisture. Impossibly grandiose societies brought down by hubris, science run amok, "look upon my works ye mighty", horrible familial truths, the whole shebang. And of course you have that brilliant light below Persephone.

The story doesn't necessarily parse as cosmic horror immediately because it fronts the impression that there's a grounded explanation for every insane thing that happens. You're supposed to just take it as part of the premise that they can build something like Rapture with human technology in 1945. You mostly hear about plasmids from professionals doing practical research and development with them, so you get the impression that there's a well-understood body of science here that just happens to be outside of your personal understanding. But for every Professor Armitage who understands the whole shape of the Dunwich Horror, there are a hundred Massholes who just saw a barn explode for no reason and now have to cope with the very real invisible something laying waste to the countryside regardless of the full truth of the matter. And from within the exploding barn of Rapture it doesn't matter to Jack or Delta whether the foundations were laid down atop Rl'yeh or whether ADAM is actually the extracted blood of a Great Old One or whatever the fuck. Maybe there's someone down there who understands the deep lore and went mad from the revelation in the genre typical way. But nothing about the situation requires you that you dig that deep to develop a working understanding of what's going on. Rapture's downfall is totally legible as a mundane death spiral of bad leadership, shoddy ideology, economic pressures and bog-standard human greed. Impossible weapons swung in careless arcs by human hands.