Bioshock Infinite

[Professor S]

Well, according to Game Informer, the world of Infinite will be about a harshly nationalistic floating American city that is intended to show world dominance and the people hate immigrants.

I'm glad they avoided any overtly political statements...

Honestly, this disappoints me greatly. Not because I'm American, but because this type of thing has been done to death, and the original game was so artful in its philosophical storytelling. This just seems cheap and uninspired.

[Typhoid]

This just seems cheap and uninspired.

I think you're looking too far into it.

I mean, if you remove the whole "How USA is today" thing from it, it makes for a pretty good horror scenario.

A floating city [that also happens to be a floating warship disguised as a city] broken off from the rest of the world because it's too politically extreme, now the citizens of that city are completely weary of outsiders because of previous campaigns [and you happen to be an outsider in the game] and are at a constant civil war with eachother over power, corruption, and ideology.

And I mean, hell - the idea of the game is still relatively similar. A failed utopia that is not on solid land is now over-run with corruption, super powers, freaks, and giant scary monsters.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I think you're looking too far into it.

I mean, if you remove the whole "How USA is today" thing from it, it makes for a pretty good horror scenario.

I would agree if every inch of the game didn't seem have an American flag plastered on it, and if historically America wasn't even considered a world power at that time. I just think the whole "America as Ogre" theme has been done to death at this point.

I will say that the floating city is very reminiscent of Teddy R's "Great White Fleet", but it remains to be seen how nuanced the story will be. All I can judge right now is what they have revealed, and at this point it feels uninspired, but perhaps they'll expand it a bit.

If Irrational has earned anything, it is the benefit of the doubt.