Your Favorite moment from a Bioshock game

[Taurus Vis]

After finishing Infinite several times, I felt the need to go back through and play the whole series again. There are moments in these games unmatched by any other game in the genre, and I am wondering what moment made you just giddy when you played these games for the first time.


For me, Sander Cohen was a fascinating and demented character. After you place the third picture on his masterpiece he has an "ouburst" and sends a horde of splicers to attack you. All while playing Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" and casting a spotlight on you. Not only is this my favorite moment from Bioshock, it is my favorite moment in any video game. It was beautiful, yet disgusting. Elegant, yet brutal. It is what made the series go from great, to perfect.

 

[Falthron]

Probably going to be said many times,but

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A man chooses, a slave obeys

 

[Taurus Vis]

I still love that line. Andrew Ryan is a fantastic antagonist. I loved every moment of Bioshock.

 

[itsthesheppy]

Probably going to be said many times,but

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A man chooses, a slave obeys

That whole sequence was amazing. A masterpiece.

"Would you kindly?"

Infinite didn't really have a "moment" like that, though the overall story was a hell of an adventure, and Elizabeth was a terrific companion character.

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However, standing on the deck with old Elizabeth and watching Columbia rain rockets down on New York was a very poignant scene. That whole sequence, learning about the torture and all that horrible stuff, was very gut-wrenching.

 

[Falthron]

Indeed, I thought that the experience of Infinite was very well crafted. I think that even if you thought that the story of Infinite was lackluster, which I don't, you can agree that the entire way you pull yourself through the story and the delivery of the story itself is what made Bioshock: Infinite a great game.

 

[Zhukov]

Bioshock: Oh come on. There's really only one choice. You all know it.

Bioshock 2: When lamb floods the red light district. "This, Subject Delta, this mad, panicked rush through the dark. This is what we are."

Infinite:

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I'd have to go with the level where you see what will happen if you fail. I think that's the best hell-scape I've ever seen in a game.

 

[DustyDrB]

I'm a sucker for folk music. This video doesn't actually show it, but that's the moment that sticks with me the most.

 

[daveman247]

Bioshock: Fighting a big daddy for the first time is pretty terrifying. Or that part with the shadow materialising behind you, you know you have to turn around but you don't want to.

Bioshock 2: Seeing how a little sister see's the world. - Explaining why they are so happy all the time. The "good" ending is also kinda sad.

Bioshock infinite: Not sure yet, gonna have to replay it soonish to see what i missed

EDIT: I have it! The "raffle" at the beginning. You know somethings a bit off but it isn't until then that it is fully realised. "Isn't she the finest white-girl in columbia?"

Also the choices: Throw the ball at the people so not to draw attention to yourself, or stick up for your beliefs?

 

[Groxnax]

I have two favorite moments in Bioshock 1.

The first one was when you see that Big Daddy kill the Splicer that was trying to get the Little Sister.

The second one was the one where you find out that you were brainwashed with the "Would You Kindly" codeword.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

After the moment when you open the tears to help Chen Lin, and you return to find the Vox Populi supporter sitting at the stocks, singing some really great song.

I've been trying to find the song on YouTube, but I can't arse myself to hunt through forty different OST videos.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

BioShock: The opening, where you first go down into Rapture itself. Chills and thrills all the way!

BioShock 2: Again, the opening where you first get "shut down" by Lamb. I don't know why, but it always stuck with me (probably not my own will, though)

BioShock Infinite: Haven't played, but going through the carnival was pretty nifty

Oddly enough, all my favorite scenes are from the beginning... How odd

 

[CityofTreez]

Bioshock: You know what it is.

Bioshock 2: The "good" ending when you're floating up from the city onto land knowing that that's the last time you'll be there in the city.

Bioshock Infinite: After getting resurrected at Comstock house and seeing what would happen if you don't get Liz back. It goes from "my debt" to "oh shit, this could go very bad for everyone". Also, the tornado tear made my jaw drop.

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

After the moment when you open the tears to help Chen Lin, and you return to find the Vox Populi supporter sitting at the stocks, singing some really great song.

I've been trying to find the song on YouTube, but I can't arse myself to hunt through forty different OST videos.

Are you referring to this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhB-K2IoCc

It's a cover of Fortunate son by creedence clearwater revival.

As for the topic. I have to say the obvious one in Bioshock 1 with Andrew Ryan.

There's also the very beginning in Infinite. When you first arrive in Columbia, both the ascent and the cozy church you arrive in. If church also served as a bathhouse I would be a lot more into it.

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

I've just took this screenshot an hour ago, laughed a lot.

Spoiler: not spoilery

 

[King of Asgaard]

The big twist from the original, and the entire scene leading up to it.
I still haven't seen a twist so well built up and executed.

 

[Tropicaz]

In infinite, I just had a moment today in the ShantyTown were you play the guitar and Elizabeth sings. AFAIK it's an entirely optional bit, but I just thought it was really nice.
On a slightly darker note, I possessed a person and when it wore off the person just walked up to me, said 'I've seen whats coming.' and shot themself in the head. It was creepy as hell.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I REALLY liked the opening sections of the first Bioshock, the first proper level through Medical is one of my favourite levels in gaming. I always end up dropping the game when I hit the Fisheries and the, let's be honest ANNOYING Research Camera kills it for me every time. Thank god they dropped it entirely for Infinite.

I love Steinman as a character though. I like his boss fight intro

"They always turn out WRONG! This one, too THIN! This one, too FAT! This one, TOO SYMMETRICAL!!!!"

His audio log where he starts working on a patient's nose just because it looked funny was one of my favourites

"Scalpel."

"Uh Doctor, she's not in for that"

"Scalpel!"

 

[Zenron]

Well the obvious one would be the scene with Andrew Ryan in the original, as well as some of the things with the plastic surgeon, Steinman. I always loved his audio log entries:

"When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes, over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old Spaniard did with a brush?"

As for Infinite, I really liked the: "What are you going to do?" to Booker and the entirety of the ending sequence.

 

[Jeyal]

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If you wait at the point when you hand off the baby in the ending sequence, Elizabeth sneers something to the effect of 'We aren't going anywhere until you hand off that baby" and the realization that it's "Would You Kindly?" with a different execution dumbfounded me.

If anything is more "Bioshock" than 'player non-choice' being a game mechanic in and of itself I would like to know.

 

[ZeoAssassin]

I'm a sucker for folk music. This video doesn't actually show it, but that's the moment that sticks with me the most.

The fact that its the Booker/Liz voice actors singing and playing the guitar makes that moment all the more genuine and awesome.

My moment was early in BSI:

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The bit with the raffle and the revelation of "the prize" was pretty damn well done in terms of revealing the true ugliness and oh shit moment of the city.