Why was Suchong's English proficency so much worse in Burial at Sea than in BioShock despite the audio recordings being all recorded around the same time period in-game?From BioShock 1:Plasmids are the Paint:>Tenenbaum… sometimes I pity the little freak. Such a tiny imagination… Content to sit there with her tanks of ADAM, tweaking and optimizing. I need to create… ADAM is a canvas of genetic modification… but Plasmids are the paint.Mind Control Antidote:>Fontaine's become some kind of boogeyman in Rapture, that myth gives him power. But peel back flim-flam and the humbug, he's just another con man. And like all con men, he worries he'll end up on the wrong side of grift. That's why he commissioned Lot 192 -- the antidote to the mental control Plasmid. Fontaine said I better not tell anybody about the antidote, not even Tenenbaum. And Suchong is inclined to listen.From Burial at Sea:Offer of Employment:>When Ryan take over Fontaine Futuristics, scene of terrible violence. Splicers burning each other to bits. Lucky ones not killed, sent to department store prison instead. Suchong think he dead man, too… But then, Ryan comes to Suchong and says, "Suchong want to be buried in filthy store? Or Suchong want to make good salary, work for Ryan?" "How much salary?" ask Suchong. This Ryan find very funny.Observation #17:>Observation #17 regarding unknown phenomena. Phenomena presents as odd shimmer, through which is observed … what? Men in strange hats. Women in large dresses. Buildings that float. Is phenomena window to other space? Other time? What was it Einstein said? "The only reason for time is so not everything happen at once."
September 12, 1958:>On the success of Sullivan's investigations of Rapture's smuggling ring, and following Ryan's orders, Fontaine is ordered arrested and his criminal operation shut down. Fontaine resists, resulting in a major firefight at Fontaine's front business Fontaine Fisheries. A full assault is launched by Ryan Security, and Frank Fontaine fakes his own death in the mayhem that ensued.Shortly following this, "Ryan Takes F Futuristics" is recorded.>Ryan nationalized Fontaine Futuristics -- he owns it now, lock, stock and barrel. For the good of the city, he says. He'll break it up in due time, he says. I've resigned from the Council and lodged me letter of protest, but that's just pissing in the wind. It'll be war, I say… unless somebody stops Ryan, and right fast.This effectively means Ryan is in control. Suchong apparently doesn't know Fontaine is alive (Changing Employers) and certainly was very open to work with Ryan.On October 20, 1958, Suchong records "Observation #33" where he says he got inspiration from Columbia to create drinkable plasmids. Mind you, Fontaine was apparently dead for a month.About 10 days later, Frank Fontaine records "Product Recall":>Suchong, what the hell were you thinking? Drinkable Plasmids? We're burning through ten times the amount of ADAM compared to the injectables. And if you failed to notice, them Sea Slugs ain't exactly growin' on trees. Switch back to the injectables and let the eggheads in marketing worry about selling it to the chumps.This is illogical considering that:1. Fontaine no longer had control over Fontaine Futuristics and thus having no way to know whether drinkable plasmids were wasteful or not. nor it was relevant to his economics.2. Fontaine kills Diane McClintock over the slightest possibility of her finding out he was actually Fontaine (The Longest Con.) Having Atlas leave a message to a current Ryan employee that could have easily sold him out with that audio diary is flat-out preposterous.
>>736466878You're not supposed to notice that. Now go back to shooting splicers.
>>736468216But I hate the two weapon limit so much.
Isn't Burial at Sea an alternate universe version of Bioshock 1?
>>736469454>Elizabeth deliberately chose to live in the more stereotypically racist universeWhat did Ken mean by this?
>>736469454The ending says "No".>Elizabeth finds Suchong as he is killed by a Big Daddy for harming a Little Sister. With him is a coded message that Elizabeth realizes is the ace in the hole—the phrase "would you kindly", a trigger phrase that Suchong implanted in Jack (the protagonist from BioShock), the son of Ryan that Atlas has sent to the surface. Atlas orders his men to make arrangements for Jack to come to Rapture, and then beats Elizabeth to death with a wrench. In her final moments, Elizabeth has a vision of the events that will come to pass: Jack comes to Rapture, kills Ryan and Atlas, and saves Sally and the other Little Sisters.>A post-credits scene shows a shot of Rapture as a crashed plane sinks into the city, signaling Jack's arrival and the events of BioShock.Suchong is seen recording "Protection Bond" in Burial at Sea: Episode 2, btw.
>>736469548NTA. I still can't believe this pair of DLCs wasn't critically panned into oblivion.
>Suchong put peepee in prasmid
>>736466878More importantly, why is Suchong supposed to be Korean when he speaks with an obvious and extremely thick Chinese accent?
You have Turbo Autism
>>736466878Suchong was actually entertaining in Bioshock 1 as the nihilistic scientist-for-hire with no loyalty to anything other than money and resources for his experiments. His character was in itself basically a commentary on free market capitalism.Then in Burial at Sea he's turned into generic Asian bad guy to the point of parody. Maybe his character could have been salvaged if they'd rehired his original voice actor, but the real issue is that he became a vehicle to move the plot forward instead of a piece of the lore that deepened Rapture's setting and backstory.
>>736470725Bioshock infinite was one of those pieces of media that was bizarrely hyped to shit and sucked off endlessly despite having massive flaws. Think of how people love the fallout TV show and praised it to high heavens despite being awful in so many areas.
>>736470725Because misplaced nostalgia for Bioshock 1 is the entire reason the DLC's were made and bought. There's literally no reason to tie the story of Bioshock Infinite in as a prequel to Bioshock 1 other than to go back to Rapture and do Rapture things again.
>>736473905It's still a better story than TLoU. Not a better written story, but a better story nonetheless.
>>736466878Only the first game is canon. Most video games only make sense when you view them this way. Another example is metal gear solid 1 (no, metal gear 1 & 2 dont exist)
>>736473905I agree that Bioshock Infinite is bizarrely hyped, but I also think Bioshock 2 is incredibly over-hated. It obviously wasn't even close to the first game but it's a solid enough game and leagues better than Infinite.
>>736466878>he didn't find the "I, Suchong take the "Make-Me-Less-Asian" plasmid" audio-log
>>736473905People had no standards in the ps3/360 era. Infinite had nice graphics and pretended to have a good story, that was enough for people to like it.
>>736474236Agreed. 1 > 2 > IInf was likely started as another series and then they slapped “bioshock” on it to promote sales
