Bioshock Infinite ENDING EXPLAINED! (Complete Analysis)
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- Hey guys, here's my complete explanation and interpretation of the ending to one of the greatest games of our generation... Bioshock Infinite! Enjoy!
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You forgot THE most important thing to understanding the ending: The post-credit cutscene. The one where Booker wakes up in his office, to find that Anna is in her crib in the other room. You had everything else right about the story, but this one is the missing piece. This means that after Booker is drowned in the universe where he would have accepted the baptism, all the multiverses where Comstock exists is ereased (The variable is removed). HOWEVER, since comstock is now removed from the equation, Anna is never sold to Luttece/Comstock, because Comstock doesent exist anymore to "claim" her. This means that Elizabeth will never exist because comstock was never there to bring her to Columbia. Anna however, does exist and will continue to do so since there is now noone to bring her to Columbia. The post-credit scene is what wraps up the story. The scene takes places in another main multiverse before the actual events of the game (where comstock now wont ever exist because booker let himself be drowned in "our" multiverse) and where, because of that, Anna is now present along with booker and no Comstock/columbia/anything to disturb this excact universe because its now gone. "Our Booker" broke the circle where he ALWAYS either chooses the Baptism or walks away, by choosing to die instead. He (and Elizabeth) gave their lives to rid all the other multiverses of Comstock.
And that my friends, was Bioshock Infinite.
Thanks for explaining that :)
YES! thank you
Damn, right true, fuck me. I just finished the game. hit me hard fam
yep. pretty well explained. and you have definitely not enough likes for this :)
This makes sense to me, seems extremely important and was never mentioned in either of the ending explanation videos that I saw. I guess the game does have a kind of happy ending then.
you dont beat the game..the game beats you
+hilary olson It doesn't beat you.. it fucking screws up your mind.
alijahshad02 so true..i still dont get the ending..lol i was like..wait..what..
+hilary olson it really does.
true
true that
Finished the game a few minutes ago. When I realized I was shipping Dewitt with his own daughter I had to sit and contemplate
big F my dude
ngl same but meh i didnt know so wtv LMAO
Same didn’t realize the age difference
booker looks way to young too to be roaming with a daughter.. so it is obvious we would think so
Iszz mohamed BAHAHAHA
The ending of this game was an absolute acid trip
Mind fucks man they get you every time
Yep same m8 i dont even know what the fuck just happened
@@terminator8361 I litterly just finished it rn and my brain fucking hurts
@Dr NikTofen have you played burial at sea?
Dude when he said I'm both I started geting flashback vibes
Finished the game 5 minutes ago, sat down and looked for an explanation
Sam Bailor I'm at that point right now
Same here just finished it
Same here, I finished half an hour ago and sat on my desk with blank face and kinda sad that the game is over
Just finished still watching the credits
just finished the game and I am here!
There should be a DLC where you play as the pinky finger.
Norwegian Chill hahah
He’s getting his own spin off game called “pinky finger on the road” where you play as the traveling pinky finger trying to find a new hand to call home
I’d prefer one of her other fingers
LMFAOOO
woahhh
Who else had goosebumps when they saw "Rapture"
me, i was totally surprised
Where do you see Rapture!?
play the game and reach the ending, you'll see what the both of us mean
Krozbot OMFGGGGG I REMEMBER!
Yooooo did you notice when songbird completely sinked down and died, behind him there was another underwater water hall & Big Daddy & Bridgette from Bioshock two were there!
She’s crying over Big Daddy his in the floor.
had me spazing out. "Oh **** I'm screwed"
23:30 What?! Then that means every time you died without Elizabeth reviving you, that Booker actually dies. When you wake up in his office and open the door back to the game, Booker relives the whole adventure in a new universe up until the point where the previous Booker dies.
That is probably why Booker has landed heads that many times.
My brain is dead.
Wow. Just wow.
That is Amazing, and mind blowing
but Actually makes perfect sense. You died, Period, but then you go through Another "reality" where you didn't die at That point.
Remember all the "Heads" marks in the Luttece chalkboard? Are they different iterations from Booker DeWitt that arrived at Columbia?
@@joseherrera5167 I actually think they are from the other Bookers since you know they can travel whenever they want to where they want so it makes sense
Well I never got to experience that because I never died to enemies. Dang that sucks
I felt so physically sick by how emotionally broken I felt when I finished, I got way to connected to Elizabeth
Ikr , i feel u
That's a little sad...
Did you play the second episode of burial at the sea?
+Xaris Z yeah, recently, I was less sad and more confused, but I loved playing as Elizabeth
I sat down out at my balcony for 15 mins sobbing that the last Elizabeth died,i finished the dlc today
Man, I can't believe we got to play as a big daddy for two games in a row
Haven't you guys figured out that in Bioshock 2 and infinite the main character(you) dies....I havnt seen Bioshock one ending but it would funny if u died in all the bioshocks
+HZDN wow infinite was my first bioshock. I was gonna go back and play the first two. a fucking spoiler alert would be nice. jk
+Waddletothemax You shouldn't of watched this video...it says ending explained. Explained means that people may not agree or give other ideas like I did. Im sorry if i ruined it but you have to expect other games in the Bioshock franchise endings revealed in the comments too
na I was only joking I had bioshock infinate spoiled and I still loved the ending.
+HZDN bruh, i know this the INFINITE ending explained, but tha gives you no reason to spoil the Bioshock 2 ending. I was planning to play 1 and 2 >:(
You must have missed it, but the Luteces state that Elizabeth has her powers because part of her is in another timeline and the universe likes to correct itself.
if it likes to correct itself, surely there would be no way for her to open tears to a universe where she has her pinky, because the missing finger becomes a constant.
So if she was to reunite with her missing finger would she lose her powers?
yellow_X no, i think its the notion of her exisiting in the universe shes currently in... that gave her those power.. so she could return to her original universe... however this happens to her in multiple universes, and shes all linked together so i think that just amplifies her power XD
Coopetition ohhh so it DOES have something to do with the pinky finger where when her pinky was cut off she came in contact with the tear and she gained that power, I get it now
@@yellow_x522 That's what happened in the DLC - she regained her pinky & lost her abilities.
Easy explanation to the ending because some of the comments made it a bit more complicated:
Comstock is Dewitt. Dewitt becomes Comstock when he accepts the baptism. Columbia only exists because of Comstock.
Anna is Elizabeth. Anna only becomes Elizabeth when Comstock takes her from Dewitt.
Dewitt comes up with a solution to stop the cycle of Dewitt & Anna -> Comstock & Elizabeth -> Dewitt & Anna.. etc. He says they should "smother Comstock in his crib"
Of course, Comstock is Dewitt, but only after he is baptized. So (the) Elizabeth(s) literally kills Dewitt before he has the chance to become Comstock. Therefore Comstock does not exist, therefore Anna can not become Elizabeth.
And such, the cycle is broken.
In the post-credits scene, Dewitt wakes up with Anna in the other room. Lettece doesn't come for the debt, because Comstock doesn't exist to hire him. And thus, Dewitt can now live a happy and normal life with Anna.
Columbia is destroyed. The cycle is destroyed. Comstock is gone. Lettece is forgotten. The world is normal.
Aidan Hunt thanks sir. But was Ana born before or after wounded knee? If she was born before, then when booker dies @ the baptism then Ana would just live with her mom. IF Booker is baptized and dies Before Ana is born then Ana would have never been born. So if booker stayed booker and ana was born after wounded knee then Comstock would come get Ana and maker her Elizabeth. Booker HAS to die in order for Ana to be safe. Just as long as she was born BEFORE wounded knee. whew😫😭the devs deserve a raise lol
@@sl_hc anna was born way before the baptism and wounded knee
@@sl_hc i had fully understand about this plot and ending, but the event of Anna's kidnapping still bothers me.. im not sure which one comes first; Comstock steal Anna from Booker and make him depressed, OR Booker depressed after losing his child and become evil Comstock. I still cant figure the answer yet, so my theory.. the kidnapping event is a bootsrap paradox which explains event/thing that its origin is unknown.
@@sl_hc @Chetan Tyagi Wounded Knee happened in 1890. In the final credit when booker goes to see anna in the crib the date on his desk is 1893. Anna is definitely under 3 years old here, meaning after Wounded Knee, after the baptism. This still fits because the only booker that exists now is the booker that never went to get baptised at all since both of those bookers died. Instead, the booker we see is the booker that went home to his child instead of going to baptism.
But doesn't he have Anna after the baptism? Otherwise why would Comstock steal her? And if she comes after the baptism how does she exist if she kills him? If he survives to conceive Anna then so does Comstock. When Elizabeth kills Booker, she kills herself as well, that's why it's an infinite loop
Actually, there IS an explanation as to why Elizabeth have all this powers: Her finger. As a baby, we know that the portal closed when she was half-way through it, and her finger was cut in half. One part of her body was left behind, in another universe, and they are connected (read about the quantum entanglement theory to understand why), and by being connected through differente worlds, she could open gaps between them, and know everything about every one of them, technically, she was omniscient, but, when she was a child, the siphon was created, and her powers were heavily restricted, so she could barely open a few tears, and she wasn't omniscient anymore (but since she was only a child, she couldn't remember that), and when Songbird destroyes the siphon, all of her powers come back, and she becomes omniscient again. That's why she says that there's always a man, there's always a lighthouse, and there's always a city. :D
Thank you that helped so much.
+vampire62210 You're welcome ^^
Rosalind Lutece says it succinctly: "It would seem the universe doesn't like its peas mixed with its porridge." Elizabeth's body technically being in two universes is what gave her her powers.
darkecofreak23 That's what I said :l
I know, and I wasn't trying to take away from that, just reinforcing it with that line from the game. :)
Bioshock: Headache Edition
LMAO agreed!!!
Mindfuck Edition
more like weird/dull edition
Multiverse, no thank you. We are unnecessarily complicating things and trying to hide in the obscurity.
I know
3:28
the strangest suicide in gaming history
Bruh lmao
Epstein?
suicide in different perspective bruh haha
Well its not murder if you killed your other self from a different timeline.
This reminds me of a good age old question: "If Naruto has sex with his shadow clones, is it masturbation?"
I've finished this literally just a minute ago.
Its already 2020!!!!
same here just a month later.. haha nyway the game story is mind bogling.. wish we hd a scene were anna nd brooker are living normaly as grown ups.. u know just fr the final touch
Yeah I finished it a day or so ago what makes the story even sadder is that all Elizabeth wanted to do was just go to Paris...
Moda Takhe just played it for the first time I have a lot of emotions
@@modatakhe943 post credit scene has that
Me too man... was amazing...
Wow I just finished and it just fucked me up.
Same here man!
same here but few days later.
maybe in an alternate universe it could have been on the exact same day.
okay... enough with this already, right?
anyway i read something about comstock being infertile or something... but how is it possible booker could make kids and comstock couldn`t... this is really bugging me. the only reason I could think of is that booker lost his fertility when he accepted the baptism but dont understand why actually...
+Laurens Burssens From him going between universes he lost it
okay, yeah i guess. not that my mind can handle such an explanation. lol
Booker Wanted to kill Comstock the day he was born, Booker is Comstock himself so they went to the day he was being baptized as Father Comstock and Elizabeth killed that version of Booker
This means Booker didnt die, but Comstock did and anything related to him after the day he was baptized.
So in the end it was like Elizabeth, Columbia and Comstock never existed
This implies Elizabeth dies with Booker since she never got to live in columbia
It was like nothing happened after Booker dies drowned, he wont remember anything and he'll be back to the day the Lutece were supposed to take Anna away, but they wont since they're related to Columbia and Columbia doesnt exist in this universe anymore.
i also like how booker can survive 100000 shots
but he dies from drowning wtf
nicky pass it’s just his “shield”
@@ceaselessdischarge1026 lol
We all remember Rolland from borderlands. Gets shot 10 mil times by enemies. Gets shot once by Handsome Jack and dies instantly.
yes he died but don't worry he'll respawn again
@@Church-kr1iv Maybe Jack had a gun that ignores shields? lol idk
Anyone else feel deeply sad when Songbird dies? Ive finished it twice now and both times Im just very sad. Its just a bot but he conveys so much feeling and emotion with his movements and in his eyes and sound. Even the way he turns his head when he sees Elizabeth. His death just saddens me. Can feel the fright and confusion. The animators did a marvelous job with him. Sigh.
Songbird isn't a bot. Song bird is mutated person
Yes. I literally have went at length about why I feel so bad for Songbird and I see Songbird as the only healthy parental figure in Elizabeth's life and I didn't like her having no reaction to killing Songbird besides comforting it. I wish we could have heard her sniffle and saw something that she showed a bit of sadness. I understand why Elizabeth doesn't like Songbird I truly do but based on Elizabeth's character I don't see her mindless killing it
I hate that mf, I only liked him when he helped me to take down the enemy airships
@@RockabyeColt if you take the plot more metaphorically, songbird is the instinct of self-preservation. Elizabeth forces it to "let it go", because by that point she already made up her mind to kill herself along with DeWitt and a realities that he creates by choosing to become Comstock. The scene is about accepting your own death, that's why there're a calmness and a determination as well as an agony of letting go of the desire to not die. Beautifully written and beatifully animated and voiced.
Hell no, fuck that thing.
"A man chooses, a slaves obeys"
And both choosed to die, changing everything.
chose
I found an explanation for Elizabeth's powers:
On Monument Island you find a Voxophone recorded by Rosalind Lutece titled 'The source of her power'. "What makes the girl different?" she muses. "I suspect is has less to do with what she is, and rather more what she is not. A small part of her remains from where she came. It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge."
This 'small part' is Anna DeWitt's pinky finger, which is severed when she's pulled through the collapsing tear from Booker's reality to Comstock's. By being physically present in two places at once, Elizabeth is able to travel between, and open doors to, other universes. At first the full extent of her powers are stifled by the Siphon (more on that later), but when it's destroyed at the end of the game she finds herself able to open infinite doors to infinite universes.
*clap clap clap*
Actually, the lutece twins ( who are not really twins but the same person from different dimensions ). Created a machine that could initially not open tears from scratch, but it could open them. They experimented on Elizabeth or Anna when she was really small and that's why she has the powers.
batabatonica nooooooo KleptooN had it correct. The Lutece "twins" both were doing the same experiment but in two different universes and created a machine (like you said) that they Could see into and eventually Robert entered the universe Rosalind inhabited through the first tear they created together. The reason Elizabeth can open tears on her own, without the aid of a machine is because, as the Voxophone stated, a piece of Elizabeth/Anna is still left in her original universe. So because she technically co-exist in two universes, her tear ability comes from the universe hoping that she will find her way back to her correct universe and Stay There. The reason the Lutece twins don't have the same power is because they are two separate versions of the same person (ultimately different people) inhabiting the same universe where as Elizabeth/Anna is one version of one person inhabiting two universes.
Meef Rad But why did the Lutece twins help Comstock/Dewitt when they knew that he would eventually betray them. Wouldn't it have been simpler if the never intervened with his life he would not have gotten the child and realized their true powers and none of this would have began. They would even have been angry because if they left him alone he would never betray them. Right?
Hulky Smashy Without Comstock existing, Rosalind Lutece never discovers the "Lutece field" which is the ability to suspend the atom indefinitely in space (how the city floats). But before that, during her experiments with the atom, she discovers these shimmers, or tears, that we see Elizabeth able to see naturally. Through which she was able to communicate with an alternate version of herself; her male counterpart Robert. It wasn't until she met Comstock that she was able to get the proper funding to build a machine that could physically open that "shimmer," or tear, and allow one to physically pass through into another universe that is different, yet the same, as the one currently inhabited based on the laws of constants and variables. Through this machine she was able to pull Robert into her universe and introduced him as her twin Brother. But like Rosalind said in a Voxophone recording, the machine was only able to show glimpses into neighboring worlds based on the probability of the viewer's constants and variables. That's why the Prophet knew that DeWitt would come for Elizabeth one day and why he knew of the events that happened to Elizabeth & DeWitt while in Columbia (as shown by the gold engravings in the room directly before DeWitt & Liz finally meet the Prophet. Anyway, The Lutece "twins" were able to see all of the events of about to happen to them and subsequently allowed themselves to die because they ultimately had learned a way to beat the rules of constants and variables and live outside of time/space indefinitely. But they understand that there was a probability of it happening no matter what. Even if they choose not to discover the Lutece field, there is still a reality in which they DID, and that is THEIR constant for meeting Comstock and ultimately dying at his hands. They, just like Elizabeth, want to undo what they have done in EVERY world possible which means affecting the outcome of the times that Booker does go to Columbia, as illustrated in the game by Booker flipping the coin and getting Heads over 100 times.
Long story short, if the Lutece twins don't get involved with Comstock, they can never meet each other or discover the technology to make Columbia float. If there is no Columbia, then Comstock needs no "seed" to sit on any throne. Aka he doesn't need to steal a child from himself. But because Comstock spent so much time hanging around the machine with Rosalind looking into what he believed to be the absolute certain future (and who knows, maybe he even tried jumping worlds a few times) his genetic traits "dissipated" (Rosalind's words, not mine [see Voxophone recordings]) leaving him sterile (or probably just lowering his sperm count to an unhealthy level for a man of his age). So he convinces the Lutece twins to find him a world where he isn't Comstock and actually has a child. And here is where the events of the game are set into motion because the Lutece twins choose Booker DeWitt with baby Anna. In the game you see it's Comstock who's is physically carrying Anna from Booker's world back to the world with BOTH Lutece twins and the machine fully operational (supposedly in Columbia). Who knows how many times they did that and failed before finally stealing Anna without killing her (like in Burial at Sea Ep.1). So that could be another reason that Comstock is sterile; from physically entering different worlds. But it's the Lutece twins' decision to help Comstock acquire a baby of his own blood (technically) and by doing so they seal their own fate to die by Comstock's hands because they now know too much dangerous information about him.
Hope this helps!
my dog chases his tail so I understood the game.
And someone finally did it, explained this mind fuckery in a line.
Tail Chasing Infinite
LMAO
kernel w 😂😂
You missed one important part.
The Luteces' motivations were much less, or the very least not just, about revenge against Comstock for killing them. If you listen to their Voxophones, it's expressed Robert felt bad for what he did. Rosalind didn't see much of a point in dwelling on it... "What's done is done. Whats done... will be done." But Robert wanted to make things right. So, he told Rosalind, either she helps him or he will part from her forever. Never wanting to be away from him again, she agreed to help.
(Voxophone: An Ultimatum)
"My brother has presented me with an ultimatum: if we do not send the girl back from where we brought her, he and I must part. Where he sees an empty page, I see King Lear. But he is my brother, so I shall play my part, knowing is shall all end in tears."
(Voxophone: what's done is done)
"Our contraption shows us the girl is the flame that shall ignite the world. My brother says we must undo what we have done. But time is more an ocean than a river. Why try to bring in a tide that will only again go out?"
In other words you basically need a PhD to fully understand this ending
In psychology and quantum physics lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Remember boys and girls, don't be a dimwit ;)
@@Nemosaur Instead, be a "Dewitt"
Kinda yeah
Once I saw the ending, I just sat at my desk for 15 minutes with a blank face. For the first time in my life I could say that I had no emotion, no thought, no feeling. My mind was penetrated on too many levels.
+PokeGuy Dude, MGS did this to me for the first time, it was amazing. Infinite fucked my mind hard, but I already got used to it thanks to previous experience, so I just got a lot of questions and a feeling of being brain fucked. This game's ending is confusive as hell, yet AMAZING!
+PokeGuy when i ended the game i was in shock. i was thinking about the ending even when i was in the bed and i couldnt sleep...
+PokeGuy thats me right now bud. i love it
tato raibuli bio"shock"
This is too real
"it is finished" is a reference to Jesus' last words before dying on the cross
@Mythrok There's also 20+ more hours to the game that were never added.
@@vividly94 wow really how do you know that?
If were 20 plus hours added the game would have black ops 3 or gta 5 size
Isaiah Bekkers it’s all part of Yahweh’s plan, all part of his will!
Well i guess it makes sense because from that very moment the world started all over again and sins of the past were forgotten like some huge planetary baptism or the world could have not done that and continue as the world it was
Seems like after the choice to be Comstock or Booker was made, comstock went on to find the Luteces, Booker went on to have a baby, and after Comstock wanted a baby of his own, he traveled to Booker's universe to buy his baby. After that, Booker had to deal with his regret for 20 years while Comstock lived on to raise Elizabeth. After Comstock betrays the Luteces, they give Booker a chance to get Anna back, as a way to get back at Comstock.
Half right actually rose letuce is recruited by com stock through which she finds an alternate of herself except that person is Robert letuce Robert letuce finds dewit buys the baby and comes over to rose living with her so comstock found one letuce not 2
There's a couple things you weren't quite right on. The Lutece's didn't wipe Brookers mind, or do anything to make him think there was a debt. Bookers mind did that it's self. It was creating memories and a backstory itself in order to cope with changing universes. There was no debt past the one 20 years ago, but his mind used those memories to create these new ones. Also, he wasn't blackmailed or otherwise tricked into selling Anna, although he tried to take it back after the fact, he agreed to it willingly in exchange for Comstock to pay off all his debts. The Lutece's aren't using machines to do what they do, at least not anymore. They were murdered while using the machine, which caused them to not die, but also theyre not really alive, like Lady Comstock. Now they're sort of like ghosts that can drift through Universes.
As for Anna's powers, the reasoning isn't super well explained but, she can control tears because she exists within multiple universes at one time (Since her finger is in one, while she's in another). Existing in multiple universes means shes linked to multiple universes, and she uses that link to pull and push things through the veil. But I mean.. Its just a game, and it just doesn't make that much sense.
Lee Allen That’s really interesting what you said about the finger!
Also from one of the recordings we find out that Lutence sister doesn't want all this(them reuniting Anna and Booker ) but brother insisted and said that they won't be together if she doesn't help him,that is probably because he feels bad about helping Comstock take Bookers daughter away.
Yeah. Essentially by Comstock using the leuteces machine to kill then back fired because it essentially made them exists at every point in time and space at the same time unable to die
Having a constant in the story is absolutely genius. The screenplay writers knew that without a constant, the multiverse theory would spiral out of control. Relying on an unfinished scientific/philosophical theory as a driving point for the story is pretty risky and could end up ruining the immersion defeating the purpose of the story. By forming the multiverse theory from the baptism makes the entire thing so much easier to understand. It's simply a beautiful story about a father who's willing to do anything to get his daughter back :)
No not really. There are concepts like this in comics all the time and people accept them and just enjoy them without nitpicking everything.
@@xavierfranco5800 yes, ppl accept things blindly most of the times, but it's unquestionable how, here, they decided to use the constants so it wouldn't make plot holes
D. Pedro II I found your comment and it is exactly how I see this game. It’s not a bad game, in fact I actually am very entertained. This does not excuse the poor storytelling with placing shortcuts into the plot. If a piece of media utilizes a scientific theory or law then it’s lazy to place your own spin onto it. For me it’s basically textbook plagiarism, bear with me, in that something is taken and adjusted to the will of the person and placed as its original name except with a different author. For example, if the theory of gravity is taken and adapted to be that a Godly being is actually placing a force on the world and is stamped as gravity. Maybe I’m a little too harsh on it but it just seems lazy in my opinion. I prefer a simpler story with less suspension of disbelief.
@@AzianBoy7 I completely understand your point, and it makes sense, I also saw the other comment you wrote, and it makes sense. It's sad in a way, to see they do that, but still, like you said, we were entertained
Yet I had people around the games release SHITTING on it cause they couldnt understand the ending. Infinites ending is much much MUCH deeper both scientifically and philosphically than even the original Bioshocks.
Think people are just too simple minded these days and want simple, straight forward, handed to you on a silver plater, endings. Now Metaphysical or philosophical debate or anything just everything in a neat easy to diggest bow.
Is that why its called bioshock "infinite"? Because it goes on forever?
It would go on, but the circle is broken when he dies
Guilherme Rodrigues Not actually, the post-credits scene proves that.
Actually it only happens about 150 times, as Robert Lucete keeps coming back to get Booker whenever he fails (you can see how many times they tried on the board that Robert is wearing at the coin toss). The first time he succeeds is when you (the player) manages to beat the game. So when you do that, you not only save Anna/Elizabeth from a cruel future in which she becomes a heartless warmongering tyrant, but you also release the Lucetes from their burden of having taken part in the inter-dimentional kidnapping. Robert Lucete, being a man of high standards and morals cannot rest in his quantum ghost state until he fixes that sin he made long ago and this is why he tries over and over, every time Booker dies or fails, to bring him back. In a way, the Lucetes are your save-game system both figuratively and literally.
Imagine being the Lucetes and having a karma dept of setting in motion millions of realities where your actions lead to a catastrophic war. No one could live with that dept. They knew that Booker would be the only one that would have the drive to rescue his own daughter and possibly succeed.
Aluben Nova isn’t the post credits scene showing Dewitt with Anna? Wouldn’t that mean since he dies Comstock never exists, so Dewitt never loses Anna?
Unknown_Individual Yeah, I believe that’s what the scene means. I don’t really know what was in my head when I was writing this
DO NOT WATCH UNLESS YOU'VE BEATEN THE GAME
But I didn't beat the game... the game beat me.
lul
In this universe
I don't even have the game or played it.
Wow deep lol
23:25 "Comstock, I've come to bargain"
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣 letuce is dr strange from another multiverse
Right then, I'm off to play Pac-Man.
this is the funniest comment ive seen
P.A.C
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Spoiler Alert Pac-Man is Booker.
The Only Way to Win, is Not To Play.... (Do Not allow your PacMan to get Trapped in the Maze with the Ghosts !)
Elizabeth's powers are from the fact that part of her (her finger) remains in another universe, causing her to be in two universes at once.
***** she became a specimen because they discovered her powers
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Then why doesn't everyone that crossed into another universe have the same powers since the human body sweats, breathes, leaves hair, excrements and just about everything.
Does that somehow not count as a part of you being in another universe?
The deeper you look into Infinite's plot details the more it looks like terrible rushed B-movie garbage.
Lunar Breeze the finger was still a living (but dying) body part so she existed living in two dimensions at once
Mind = blown
If I could play Bioshock: Infinite for the first time again, I 101% would do that.
Probably there's a version of you that right now just have opened the game for the first time. Isn't that cool
But also a version where she/he will never play it
@@Cocoponya Damn that’s sad
Man yeah this is the one true awnser to that what if question.
The ending broke my heart and blew my mind in equal measures. Absolutely fantastic
This ending is really sad. Not because of Booker's death or the fact all Elizabeth's dissapear or because they never get to go to Paris, but because with all the mindfuck going on, I bet Booker wasn't even aware why the hell he was getting killed. I know I wasn't at the moment.
In the universe that we played, he totally understood why he had to drown himself (smother himself in the crib).
No, he realizes at the end that he is both these people. "No.. I'm both"
Your really here? lol
The Lyosacks bruh what the fuck what you doing here
I'm in shock D;
When comstock took Elizabeth through the tear her finger got cut off, so she physically exist in two parallell univereses. Thats why she have the ability to open and close tears.
That's the only theory I could come up with too. God I love sci-fi! :)
But we all shed skin and hair and countless particles of our bodies all the time where ever we are. Therefore any person who has crossed a tear will inevitably "physically exist" in both universes.
By that theory, if Comstock had one little hair fall off his head while in Dewitt's world, he would be able to open tears too? If yes, then what's the difference between a hair and something else like Comstock's shoe? If you're thinking of the individual atoms that make up Elizabeth, the theory falls through. The atoms have no "assignment" to her just as a hair would to Comstock.
TERDLINGS Hair is dead cells. A finger have living.
That makes so much sense
The ending honestly gave me feels. This could've been a movie.
a series, with multiple seasons
nah, I'm glad its a 10 hours game
That scene with Anna and where we find out how her finger was cut off. Whew, it always gives me chills.
I just finished the game. I was just in shock
+Gina Ehlenburg Bioshock*
Don't you mean "BIOshock"
+Michelle Herron lol
No you where in BIOshock lol (crappy joke )
+Taj Van Tassel Ha
Finally decided to beat this on 1999 mode in the Bioshock Collection. Years later & I still fucking love this game. As much as I would like so much to have another Bioshock game, If 2k decides to continue the series, i do not think it's physically possible to top this one. However, the BEST part of this game's ending is in the credits, when it's revealed that possibly, in a single reality. there is a Booker who didn't trade Anna, & thus raised her as his own. I don't usually get attached to characters, but man, this gets me every time...
i actually didn think of that!! that after credits scene just got so much meaning to me now thanks to you! haha :')!
Np. glad to help.
actually, the end credits scene is a result of the ending. anna is always separated from booker, because it is a constant in every universe, just like how every time booker flipped the coin, it landed on heads, a constant in a sea of variables. but now that comstock is dead and can no longer take anna (because drowning booker killed comstock, so comstock would never be "born"), booker, with no debts to pay to comstock, rasied anna as his own.
yep
wow, ur explanation somehow make me understand it all. thank u
not gunna lie, all this hit me at "I'm both" and when the credits hit I was in awe in such manner I started to tear up..no game has hit me with such powerful epiphanies that I was left crying as it's majesty
this game and the last of us 1 are some of the only games i can think of that had me legit tears
I just beat the game...
I really wish there was another ending where your both together, like a more hearty ending.
He is.. The booker in the game we play dies. This happens in the baptism part. Meaning that kills comstock. That means all versions of comstock doesnt exist anymore. But booker still does (post credit scene) With his daughter Anna. In a different universe...
@@karam4762 Thanks man. I needed that.
There's a scene after the ending credits. Did you see it?
@@missghzst9438 just TH-cam post credit scene
It's confirmed on the Bioshock: Infinite wiki that Elizabeth has the ability to create tears because she lived in two different universes when her pinky was severed. The baby in one universe, and the finger in another. Because she was in two universes at the same time, this allowed her to travel between them, and create tears with other universes.
James holly shat I agree
I envy the other universes where Irrational Games is still together and has continued the BioShock series.
Yeah, it's too bad. The Bioshock series was a masterpiece. :(
I know this is a 7yr old comment, but 2k games confirmed that bioshock 4 is in development :)
@@Qqzzaaau123 where?
@@SuperLari1234 They confirmed the game and plus netflix is making a bioshock movie
Songbirds death had me fucked up, you can clearly tell he’s in pain and when is eye cracked from the pressure😭😭
I'm playing the game in 2019.... I'm about 5 years late but HEY! I enjoyed it
🤨
RK 900 never to late
Elizabeth has her powers because due to her pinky getting severed going through the portal with Comstock, she violates a fundamental property of the universe, you can't be in two places at once. The lady Lutesse even leaves a voxophone note about it, "Apparently the universe doesn't like having peas in its porridge".
As for the ending, it's not really an infinite loop, if you sit through the credits, you are rewarded with a scene where Booker is back in his office back before he ever decided to sell Anna/Elizabeth, all the gambling stubs being conspicuously absent, having apparently woken up from a bad dream, and you navigate him over to Anna's crib, where the game cuts to black as he peers inside. This is reference to the Schroedinger's cat thought experiment that ties into parallel universe/multiverse theory, and leaves the ultimate fate of the baby and Booker up to the viewer.
Likewise, the grown Elizabeth's fate is also left up to the viewer, as she didn't go to the final baptism/drowning with Booker (although wearing the same dress, the one that does is missing the little pendant on the choker of the dress with either the cage or the bird, something that doesn't escape Booker's notice, as he is audibly puzzled. It's possible she either vanished or is still wandering the multiverse.
The Lutesses are likewise entangled with the fabric of the multiverse like Elizabeth is, that's how they keep appearing and disappearing, they're like Time Lords and TARDISes all rolled into one from their exposure to the tears, they can go to any universe, any place, any time, that they want. As they are really one person, that's why they tend to finish each other's sentences and act in sync, they're two sides of the same coin. It's also they who killed the guy Comstock sent to the lighthouse.
It's a brilliant game, and it really requires you to think and use your own judgement in order to get all the loose ends tied up.
It's happening, it has happened, it will happen.
lutece
The story and most of the plots are easy to understand, all you have to remember is:
1. Throw logic out the window.
2. Time AND space are a factor in the story.
3. Booker is both the protagonist and the antagonist.
4. Elizabeth is Booker's biological daughter but in a way also Comstock's.
5. Everything works out in the end due to changing 1 crucial event in Booker's timeline (which cause a paradox forcing all universes to be altered).
6. Elizabeth can do what she does because she's the impossible girl (Dr Who reference), she exists in 2 dimensions AT THE SAME TIME.
7. Booker gave up Anna/Elizabeth because he thought it would be better for her (ask yourself why does a parent give up they're own child for adoption?) and he would be forgiven of all his sins. Obviously he regretted it moments later after the deed and chased Latece and Comstock to that tear where Anna was taken away.
Kryptic Studios Corp pls answer this; somebody called elizabeth as anna, at the battleship bay(im not sure about the place). why?
So, since Elizabeth's pinky was cut off, leaving her in two separate universes at once, what happens when the severed pinky, which should have died after a while, decayed? Turned into nothing? Would she lose her powers then?
+Nick Brown I think the game uses the "nothing gets lost everything is transformed" rule there, because when you die, you will decay but you won't disappear because worms will probably feed off of you or something else...
+Kryptic Studios Corp (5) is just flat out wrong.
Nothing worked out in the end, because there is an infinite amount of other universes in which that event is not crucial, and thus changed nothing.
Pseudo Lain
Actually based on the story when all the different Elizabeth's appeared and Booker drowned then all the of them disappeared this clearly stated that every universe had been changed by altering this one event. Funny thing about time is that if you could go back and change things their are some things that can't be changed or else PARADOX.
Finished the game while in quarantine lol
Same. Just finsihed it
Same
Same
Same. the entire trilogy , actually
Sane
who is playing this in 2019?! :P
I finished it again 4 days ago, still fucking incredible.
Well.. I played it today. The whole day, I am nearly finished. I didn't watch the video here but I saved it up just in case, I have my own theories to make before I watch it tho.
Just started it yesterday and finished it today for the first time. Honestly it was only ok gameplay wise. I did really enjoy the music and it looks good by 2019 standards. A bit too linear for my taste but I like games such as Skyrimjob and RDR. As for the story it was pretty easy to understand, I don't know why so many people are having an issue grasping the concept of multiple universes and timelines. Overall a fun title but I think Bioshock 1 is probably still the best.
@@soullessjeremy1758 yea I don't get it either. I thought like it was going to be a mind fuck but it wasn't. I think everyone is just searching for an answer when it comes to dewitt and the original Elizabeth that u were with. That's the only thing that comes to my mind.
I just finished the game. Mind fck btw
So that means
Universe 1: Commstock
Universe 2: Booker
So Booker got to the babtism after wounded knee were both universes getting created, universe 1 were he accepted the babtism and universe 2 were he declined it. Both universes were playing at the same time. But one day Commstock from universe 1 got to universe 2 because of the women version of letuce and stole Bookers child and got back to universe 2 with Anna (Elizabeth). One day the Letuce twins opened a tear from universe 2 to universe 1 to give Booker the chance that he can get his "grown up" daughter Anna (Elizabeth) back to his universe 2. After Booker killed Commstock on his airship he got a nosebleed because he killed himself (the Commstock version of him) like he got a nosebleed were he was the dead hero of the Vox. After all of this Booker had the plan to kill Commstock before he was allive, not knowing he was Commstock so Elizabeth showed him that he has to kill himself to make everything normal again. And because he killed himself by getting drowned the whole future changed so the Elizabeth's that were "born" after the babtism disapeared. I hope i this is right, if not then please correct me :)
does that mean elizabeth will seize to exist? or did the event of him getting baptised came after she was born
A bowl of Rice that's a good question. I want to know it too :D
he got killed as he was about to take the baptism again, which elimenates any future of Commstock, and thereby also any future in which Commstock comes to take the girl from Booker. Now im not sure if anna was conceiver before or after the baptism, but I believe it was before. therefore meaning a universe will exist in which Booker will have Anna, and not live 20years of regret because he gave her away to his alternate self, but instead possibly life happily ever after, the two of em. He wiped away his dept (His guilt of giving her away)
Correct me if I'm wrong, cause this ending also left me quite fuzzy :p
As I understand it beeing drown at the baptism means that both Commstock and Booker die,since they are the same person at this time. This means Anna would grow up without a father.
fallenangel97 it is one of the side effects of going through tears made my the luteces
DeWitt is baptised - Turns into Comstock - Builds Columbia (Floating city) - Needs an heir to hes throne from hes own blood - Cannot have a child - Goes into a dimension where Comstock was never created, he wasn't baptised, so he did have a child (Anna) - Comstock somehow made DeWitt go into debt and the debt can be paid off with he's child - Now Comstock has an heir and DeWitt is left full of regret as Comstock is back into hes own dimension, where he was baptised and built Columbia.
After 20 years, the Leuteces feel they did wrong, and they go BACK to the dimension where Comstock was never born and stole Booker's child, teleport Booker into the dimension of which he actually was baptised to get Anna (Which is all grown up and now is called Elizabeth) back to him.
The Booker DeWitt world is quite simple, he was never baptised after Wounded Knee, he never built Columbia, never became a prohphet, lives on to have a child and quite a straight forward life. - but the problem is that he will ALWAYS meet Comstock because that universe of Booker deciding to be baptised always exists, which leaves us with the constant of Comstock making Booker have a debt because he needs a child heir of hes own blood but cannot have a child - steals hes "own" child just from Booker's universe where he was never baptised, so the same constant storyline has to exist. Booker will always have debt, Comstock will always need a child, so inevitably Booker will always find himself after 20 years alone meeting the Leuteces with the chance to go to Columbia to redeem himself and get Anna back, and Comstock will always have to face Booker in he's journy. Booker's journy to another dimension for Anna is inevitable just because the Leuteces will ALWAYS come to Booker to revenge on Comstock.
Hopefully this will shed some light for anyone who wants a deeper, in writing explanation.
The Ending Literally Gave Me Shivers!!!!
The reason Elizabeth could open tears was because she lost her pinky, Roseline even says so, “The universe doesn’t like its peas mixed with its porridge”, Elizabeth is in a quantum superposition because she exists in two separate universes at once because the pinky was left behind.
Man I've watched this video twice, played the game twice, and I'm still sitting here scratching my head. Ugh multiple universes just hurts my head.
Nathan McKitrick that's why I dislike this game
Because you're too stupid to understand multiple universes?
most people dont even understand why this game is called infinite
Axy lol I literally haven't even thought about that
Infinite universes in which there always is a city and a bunch of people is pretty easy to understand and a smooth way to end the bioshock franchise
Movies, tv shows and most games have never really hit me that hard. This Game, and the witcher 3 sad ending had me so emotional
Try The last of us too if you have a playstation.
bloodborne is even more confusing
john 866 i don't believe there is any game more confusing than bioshock infinite
Sandman The Witcher 3 is my nr1 game and Bioshock Infinite my 2nd favorite. Glad to see somebody that prefers the same games as I do ! :) Both really amazing games
Red dead?
Imagine the last thing you see is your 3 daughters from other alternate universes drowning you.
This game was such a gem.
I remember watching my fav youtuber as a kid play it a bit, i only got to see a few clips and for some reason never played it or even looked up more clips/info.
Thus, years years later when i am all grown up i decided to buy it and play it.
Such a beautifully crafted game, it has been a long time since i played such a masterpiece.
The amount of effort gone into it is superb.
''Bioshock Infinite'' More like ''Bioshock (INCEPTION EDITION)''
Bioshock infinite, more like Bioshock infinite loop of parallell universes
I'm having that same wtf reaction when first saw the ending to inception this is crazy😂
Bioception
If this ending blows your mind then wait until you see the burial at see endings
My head is hurting. What the hell. Who wrote this game someone on crack?
So Commstock is Booker, Ana is Elizabeth and...
Letuce is letuce?
yes
Yes
Except one reality is a female letuce the other is a male letuce
The male lettuce was made for Booker’s universe the female lettuce was made for Comstock’s universe. That’s why the male lettuce was the one that made Booker do all the jobs and the female Lettuce was the one that helped the island float.
Sony Yes and tomato is tomato..so together lettuce and tomato is..salad 👀😂 it’s spelt “Lutece” Lou-teece
I've finally managed to complete the game in 2021 and now i'm contemplating life...
Yeah I just beat the game definitely waited too long 😂
Got the whole trilogy on sale on steam. This one was by far the best of the 3 imo. One of the best games I've ever played.
Nah bioshock 2 was the best... i never played infinite because it wasnt underwater and i finally played it because i bought it with the trilogy and wanted to try it and it was actually amazing but i still like the underwater bioshocks more... i loved playing burial at sea 1 and 2 that made me happy that i got to play in rapture again
Agree, 2 was fucking kickass especially the DLC.
I liked Infinite the most because it actually had characters that developed and interacted with each other. The other protagonists Jack and Subject Delta never spoke (it made sense for a Big Daddy but Jack spoke once and then never again) and as such all the interactions were one-sided, mainly the antagonist insulting the protagonist as he doesn't care and progresses either way.
Booker actually shared his thoughts and emotions. And unlike Elenor I could feel the bond that grew between Booker and Elisabeth. Speaking of, Elisabeth was done excellently, as she actually supports you throughout the gameplay instead of being a mere nuisance. I especially liked the DLC and how tgey tied Rapture and Columbia together.
The story is too complex and full of plotholes IMO but atleast it has a story worthy of caring about.
If Booker dies
Then Elizabeth could never have been born.
So there would be no one who could kill him.
So he is alive
So it repeats.
There is no ending.
Thats why the game is called: "bioshock infinite"
+benjamin allenson Not necessarily. IF Elizabeth/Anna was born before the Wounded Knee, then she would live just fine after killing Booker. That is something as a player that we don't know
+benjamin allenson
My brain is infinite, but my life are not. I can live on into someone's memory, but my life would not. Would I please kindly? Or would we please do it for kindness?
+benjamin allenson No, because since Elizabeth is a girl that is raised in columbia. If columbia is destroyed by killing the brooker that chose to be baptized ( comstock), then Elizabeth cant exist. thats why the multiple versions of her die. Also, why booker dies, it doesn't mean that OTHER versions of him where he does not accept baptism die. So since only one part of him is dead ( the one that chose baptism) then the one that chooses to not accept the baptism is alive. That booker is still alive, along with his daughter Anna that hasn't been taken from him ( b/c comstock is dead). The booker also does not have the debt, because there is no need for the luteces to retrieve the girl. The reason why there is a repeat, is because before, the constant was that booker would always try to get the girl, but failed. However thats broken b/c columbia doesn't exist.
+benjamin allenson Will the circle be unbroken?
+benjamin allenson This is actually confirmed in the post-credit scene. (Am I the only one who watched the entire credits?)
This is why there can't be an actual bioshock 3
Bioshock Infinite 3 or Bioshock 3?
Kate Ronquillo bioshock 3 dumbass
he meant that Bioshock Inifinite has barely any connection to bioshock 1 & 2 to even be called Bioshock 3
Rare Pepe is too rare to understand that this video was about Infinite and there are others who rarely add the Infinite with Bioshock in Bioshock Infinite videos. But of course that's my fault.
there is a reason it has "infinite" in the name
Finished the game a day ago and it still hits hard. Even in 2021 the game looks wonderful, the soundtrack, everything about it. What a wonderful experience.
When I saw the baby's eyes and the colour of her hair I instantly knew its Eli. I sat in the room with the baby in my hands for about 5 minutes just diving into myself and thinking about everything.
When I fought for the baby and the portal cut off her finger I was 100% sure. The ending was really emotional for me and I still feel somewhat empty now that it's been a day.
i just finished the game , thought the ending was a bad ending , look on youtube , looked at the comments
*realized i got a happy ending*
Comstock is not older than Booker. They are the same age... hence the baptism for both happened at the same time for the same person. If you listened to the voxophones, Rosalind Lutece says that the cancer in Comstock (which is killing him and also rendered him sterile) is somehow advancing his aging process. This is why Slate recognizes Booker, but not Comstock... Slate comments on how Booker was at Wounded Knee, and not Comstock, when in reality it was the other way around. Slate just doesn't recognize Comstock with his advanced aging and new name. Comstock *was* the "hero" of Wounded Knee he claimed to be, but nobody believed/recognized him with his new name and appearance.
Also, Booker's journey isn't about paying off his "debts." The game opens up with a quote from Robert Lutece's "book" about how the mind will create memories when confused. When Elizabeth is explaining Booker's past, and how he turns into Comstock, you see Robert open a tear to bring Booker into Comstock's universe. When Booker enters this tear he collapses and there's some quick banter between the Lutece "siblings" which ends with Rosalind commenting on how it's amazing that Booker is still alive, although confused, and Robert stating that it was expected because _he_ did it. Essentially, when Robert crossed into Comstock's universe to be with Rosalind, he went crazy too (much like the characters/soldiers that died in the game and "transferred" universes). Having two conscious minds in one body is confusing and disorientating, causing inconsistencies in memory... causing the person to create memories out of this confusion. This is where Booker creates his mission. He knows it has something to do with "give us the girl and wipe away the debt" but he's forgotten about Anna since she never existed in the Comstock universe. This discontinuity causes confusion within his mind, so he makes up a mission given the details he has. It also explains why he doesn't remember what happened to Elizabeth's pinky, even though Comstock remembers.
Also, the Lutece "siblings" get their power from "existing" in multiple universes at the same time. The voxophones explain how Comstock got Fink to sabotage the "siblings'" machine to murder them. But, in reality, it only scattered their bodies throughout space and time. This existence in multiple universes gives them the ability to traverse into the realm outside of space and time... the area with all of the lighthouses. Similarly, Anna undergoes the same thing when she leaves her pinky in one universe, and travels into a different one. This "existence" in multiple universes gives her the ability to travel outside of space and time like the Lutece "siblings."
And, finally, I don't think Booker is stuck in an infinite loop. I think the coin flips represent other versions of Booker, from other dimensions, that have failed. As Old Elizabeth states, "Booker" has tried several times to save her and he always fails... and the note in the lighthouse that says not to "disappoint us" makes me think that other versions of Booker have tried to save Elizabeth, but have failed and become disappointments to the Lutece "twins." That is where the tally marks for the coin flip come from... constants and variables. The coin constantly lands on heads, but the variable is "Booker" (different ones from different universes) and his choices that either lead him to victory or failure.
Another purpose to the coin flip is to illustrate an important detail about Booker and perspective. When you find out that Chen Li has been killed and the Lutece "siblings" show up, they go through this banter about "what do you see." Rosalind says she sees tails while Robert says he sees heads. They then explain that it's all a matter of perspective, and that they're really looking at the same coin. At that moment you think they're talking about Li being dead in one universe and alive in another, but it goes deeper than that: they're talking about Booker and Comstock. From one side of the coin (universe) he's Comstock, but from the other side he's Booker. This is important because it explains why Booker must die at the end.
You can't have tails without heads... If you get rid of tails, you have to get rid of the whole coin since heads and tails are one-in-the same. And, since the choice of either accepting or rejecting the baptism creates two dimensions (one with Booker, and one with Comstock), Elizabeth has to kill Booker before he makes that choice. Sort of like a tree: You can take the time to cut off each branch, one at a time (which would take forever since there are "millions and millions" of universes with Comstock), or you can cut the tree down at the trunk... before it starts branching (before these choices are made). This is why, when Booker says, "I am both" she drowns him. At that moment he is the trunk, and the only way to kill all Comstock variants at the same time is by killing Booker before he makes the choice to either create Comstock or not. This means that Comstock's universe never existed, and Comstock never existed.
Sadly, since Booker and Comstock are different sides of the same coin, Booker must also die... which takes me to the scene after the credits, and another theory...
*This is the start of my theory. Previous is what I have from the game, but after this line, everything is based on how I interpreted the ending.*
A lot of people argue about the small clip after the credits: Is Anna in there or not; did Booker sell her or not? This is what everyone seems to be arguing about, but I pose this: *it doesn't matter*. That's not the point of that scene... The developers created this scene to show you that *Booker is still alive*! This means that there is the potential for Comstock to still be alive too. But how can this be?
My hypothesis is that, before going to the river for the baptism, Booker made a choice (and subsequently created two universes): to go to the river or not. We're only interested in the one where he went to the river because that created Comstock. But what about the Booker that _didn't_ decide to go to the river? The drowning wouldn't have affected him, right?
But there's still a problem. By not going to the river to be baptized, Booker still has to live with his guilt from Wounded Knee (constants) and he could use that guilt to turn into another form of Comstock, just in a different way (variables).
Now, I'm going to pause there and talk about the gameplay... when Elizabeth takes you to Rapture to kill Songbird, she turns around and talks about the bathysphere. She says it's another type of "door" and you both get in, Booker pulls the lever, and you go to the surface... but wait. In the first Boishock we learn that the bathyspheres are locked to Andrew Ryan's DNA, and nobody can use them except for him and Jack (who is Ryan's son/clone). So why can Booker use them?
I pose that this alternate version of Booker (that decided *not* to go to the river) caved in to his guilt. But, instead of becoming religious to atone for his sins, he threw out religion. This gave the power-hungry "Commstock" the ability to get past his "sins" and focus on feeding his maniacal and controlling personality, and Andrew Ryan is born with the ideals that morality comes from within and that man shouldn't listen to the church (or government). He goes on to create a utopia (much like Columbia - constants) under the water (variables) and he calls it Rapture. He also creates people/things that are similar to Columbia:
-Big Daddy units who are men bonded into suits to augment their abilities, like Songbird was. Also they protect the Little Sisters the same way Songbird protected Elizabeth.
-Dr Tannenbaum who creates and experiments on the Little Sisters the same way Dr Lutece "created" and experimented on Elizabeth.
-Little Sisters who wear blue dresses, have blue eyes, and black hair... just like his lost Elizabeth.
Again, this version of "Comstock" wouldn't have died when Elizabeth(s) drowned Booker at the river since his origin never even goes to that river. It would explain why Booker is in Rapture an the eve of its downfall (DLC), and why the Booker we're familiar with (in the Infinite universe) could use the bathysphere to get to the surface. It also explains the ties with this game and the other two games (other than the light houses and the brief scene in Rapture), and why Andrew Ryan hated the church and government so much.
I haven't played this game in forever, and i forgot how confusing trying to figure it all out was. This explanation, however, really helps. Its simple and to the point while at the same time explaining it in a way that is easy to fallow.
^^^ Couldn't agree more
But what similarities do you think the Handyman has in Rapture's universe?
actually they are different ages. You can realize this because if he got baptized he would live on and become comstock. But if not booker aka. 20 years later, goes to Columbia through a tear.
RallyCar08 I can't think of anything direct at the moment. Maybe a Big Sister? Bonded to a suit to augment their abilities, agile and can scale walls/ceilings, fast and devastating... And the light no their chest changes colors like the Big Daddy/Songbird/Big Sisters. That's kind of stretching it, but that's the best I can come up with other than saying they're simply a new character for a new game...
man this game mind fucked me harder than my childhood
Man, how many years has it been? This ending just broke me and it still messes me up. A true high tier example of a good finale.
The luteces didn’t gain tear travelling from being super smart, when Comstock tried to kill them, he failed, and ended up scattering them throughout time and space. There was a voxophone about it somewhere in rosalinds house I think
the coin thing is easily explained: every single time the lutece have tried to bring Booker to Columbia to finish with Comstock, he goes in there and throws the coin. And it's always heads: that's a constant. That explains also that every time you die, you actually die and the Lutece brings one Booker from another universe
Thanks!
I don't think so, basically because at the end... Booker dies XD
OH SHIT that means the game is on "permanent death" mode, it just never occurs to you that you're "different" each time you "restart from checkpoint".
Richard Worae no idea of who the mother is, but it is explained throughout the game, that Elizabeth has the power to open tears, because a part of her is in another dimension - the pinky.
*****
But still, the pinky loss was required for her to open tears. That is the main reason.
I think Elizabeth has powers because part of her pinky is in universe A, and the rest of her is in universe B.
That's one way to think about it. It's the explanation I personally like best. Another is that having lived in 2 different universes, she's become attuned to multiple universes and has special qualities that others don't have simply by existing in more than one for a long amount of time.
I think your on to something
Lettuce said herself the universe does not like her peas mixed with carrots
@@mariocardenas239 lutece* not lettuce
The universe doesn't like its peas mixed with its porridge aka longer she was in the wrong time line the stronger her powers from what i could make out on the black boards :P
I beat this game for the firs time 5 minutes before watching this video. Cleared most all my unanswered questions up. Great editing and dialogue, keep it up.
Thank you for your time for explaning everything so clearly, and with a superb narration.
I think I remember, near the start, Elizabeth saying she gained her tare powers through reading books (because she had so much free time). By this you can assume these books were given to her by the Luteces (due to them being the only two who know how to do it). So I guess you could say it is most likely that the Luteces "trained" her, as you said.
By books I mean physics books explaining this stuff.
***** Actually she mentioned that she grew to understand her powers through physics books, not that she gained them through the books
Thats cool
Kipp Viktor Bit more complicated than that. Rapture and Columbia are more intricately tied that we once thought. Burial At Sea episode 2 made this very clear. You should check it out.
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ts all about the constants and variables/
Okay i'm going to write my understanding of the video and the ending of the game on the whole below. I'm not attempting to replace the video i just need to write it down so i understand it myself. Put it in my own words you know? Anyway here we go.
Imagine one universe. Booker DeWitt exists as a soldier and fights against the boxer revolution in the battle of wounded knee. Directly after the battle he comes to the baptism area (where Elizabeth/Anna kills you in the end) and chooses between being baptised or not baptised. At this point the universe splits into two main sub-universes: One where booker refuses to be baptised and stays as Booker DeWitt and one where he accepts the baptism and becomes Zachary Comstock. I'll go over each timeline and how they tie together.
*Comstock*
As Zachary Comstock you go and build Columbia with the help of the Lutece twins (the people who give you random choices throughout the game and row you to the lighthouse). Being very adept and well versed in the ideas of quantum mechanics the twins can do two things. First they make columbia a flying city instead of a non-flying city. This is said at some point in the story. Secondly they design a machine that opens tears. After a time Comstock begins to want a daughter and requests the Lutece twins' help. They open a tear into Booker DeWitt's world (the one where he refused the baptism) and take his daughter Anna. They steal her through a tear that is shown near the end of the game and Anna's finger is chopped in half as Comstock takes her through the closing tear. Booker lives with the regret of selling his daughter, then not being able to take her back when he backs out of the deal, for 20 years (reference is the scene where Anna's finger gets cut off. He yells "Hey the deal is off" showing that he sold his daughter but doesn't want to any more). Meanwhile Comstock becomes angry at the Luteces and they have a falling out. They leave Comstock's world and everyone believes them dead but they actually enter booker's world. They come to him and ask him to "find the girl and wipe away the debt". This is to convince him to go and save his daughter who they believe needs to be saved from Comstock as their interests are no longer aligned with his. So onto Booker's line. Keep all that info in your head while you read this bit.
*Booker*
So we're back at the baptism only booker refuses the baptism. He remains booker dewitt and goes home. However Comstock still exists in his own universe and he comes to take booker's daughter with the Lutece's help (as previously shown). He is then prompted by Robert Lutece to come save his daughter who he had previously sold to Robert Lutece so Comstock could have her. So he goes and steals Anna. So you go through the Bishock Infinite story playing Booker's line. You eventually get to Comstock and kill him, believing it to be done. However Anna/Elizabeth then leads Booker through his memories so as to stop Comstock from ever being created because she can see the cause of it all behind the millions of doors. They eventually loop back to the beginning of the split in the universes, at the baptism. The story is explained throughout this time with the little scenes but unless you know all this it is quite hard to follow. Anyway they get to the baptism and Anna/Elizabeth explains in a different universe he accepted the baptism (That universe being the one they are currently in) . Upon hearing this the priest guy who is baptising you says "what name do you choose for yourself". One of the Anna/Elizabeths say "he is Zachary Comstock". The other says "No, he's Booker Dewitt". At this point Booker realises the truth and admits it to himself by saying "No, I'm both". The Annas/Elizabeths then proceed to drown you instead of baptising you and the universe where Comstock exists is never created. Booker is then returned home and finds Anna in her crib or at leas this is alluded to by the baby noises and Booker saying "Anna is that you?". Roll credits
A very intricate and complex game, with an incredible story that was both filled with action and laced with emotion. My favourite game that I've played to date, primarily because of it's fantastic story. Thanks for the explanation, and helping me wrap my head around the whole thing, uploader. Great video, 100% earned my like and favourite. Sorry for the other viewers who potentially felt compelled to read this and it took them the better half of an hour to do so.
Fox Thank you.
Skoljor well done. i agreed with most of what you wrote, but not this line 'Booker is then returned home and finds Anna in her crib or at leas this is alluded to by the baby noises and Booker saying "Anna is that you?".' my interpretation is that our booker drowned in 1912 and thats it for him. the booker after credits lives in 1893 as shown by the calender on the table in front of him, i think this booker is like a third booker in a third dimension, and i would like to think anna is in the crib and he would live happily after with her in this dimension. thats just my own idea and wishful thinking i guess haha:)
oliver swithin I took it as he reset his own timeline back to the point before comstock, therefore before anna was stolen. So in dying he literally gets a second chance at life. But what you said sounds equally plausible. Also i now realise that you do in fact see anna in the crib, it isn't just indicated by her noises
My only issue is that the Boxer Rebellion and Wounded Knee are two separate events. Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion in China, while Wounded Knee was a massacre against the Native Americans/Indians present at Wounded Knee in the United States. They are unrelated. Other than that, great summary!
BOxer rebellion was the reason Columbia left USA
I always felt that elizabeth has her powers because she physically exists in 2 different realities. With her being in Comstocks world and her finger in Booker's.
I remember finishing this game in 2013, one of the best games I’ve ever plaued
ROFL and some people say video games make us nonintellectuals. Here all of us are after playing a game debating the multiverse and trans-dimensional physics. anyways I want to play this again and fix my horrible mistake of not playing the first bioshock :D
Kevin k You should play the first Bioshock. It's a wonderful game.
would you kindly listen to Miles?
+Strawfingers Nano Lmfao just finished Bioshock 1 LMFAOOOO
+World Ruler have you played 2?
I just finished Bioshock 1 about 40 minutes ago, after getting it on steam on sunday or monday. I got it because I played Infinite back in February, and absolutelyy got a massive boner over that game, and fell in love with Elizabeth
Not only is Booker drowned in the river, but Comstock is drowned in a shallow pool of water.
yep. pretty much
What goes around comes around.
+HarryIsTheGamingGeek not just a shallow pool of water, he drowns in a font, which is used in baptism. Both Booker and Comstock where killed through baptism.
Elliot Groocock I didn't see that before. Good observation.
Badumtess
Going back in time after playing again this master piece, and after all these years, Bioshock infinite still my favourite game ever ❤️
I have just completed this game for the first time seven years after it was released and wow, what an amazing story.
I think that Elizabeth/Anna is able to open tears between Universes because she exists in two separate Universes that are on different continuity branches. The fact that she lost her finger in one Universe and lived her life in a different one transformed her into a physical bridge between Universes. I think a clue could even be found in the way that she open reality tears, she spreads her hands with her fingers outspread.
Oh, the A.D. on his hand means Anna DeWitt? I thought it meant like After Death (due to the very religous perspective of Bioshock Infinite)
I actually never picked up on the A.D on his hand. There is a part in the beginning when Booker lifts up his hand and says "what the hell?" when it matches the hand on a poster board. The way the game weaves in all these things and gives what you as a player think as trivial, huge meaning..it's just incredible. Easily one of the best games I've ever played.
Same here. Bioshock for me, is the hands-down best story game I have ever played
AD in common speak (i.e BC and AD) doesn't actually mean "after death". It's Latin, "Anno Domini" which means "in the year of our Lord."
Lawrie Swinfen-Styles actually AD means after denomination.
And if you watch through the credits AD is no longer written on his hand.
Just finished this game, and It was easily the best game I have ever played.
Play Bioshock 2 or 1 those outrank infinite by far for me.
Finished it half an hour ago, Jesus I feel like the game just played me.
Easily the most jaw dropping ending to a game I have ever experienced.
So Comstock prepared for the arrival of the False Shepard, which was Booker....which was also himself in another universe, because he knew that his alternate self would eventually come to reclaim Anna at some point. And that's what "A.D." meant...Anna Dewitt.
In the game Roslind says "A small part of her remains from where she came. It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge" from a voxaphone, which indicates that the pinky being in one universe and her being in another caused her to gain the powers. Basically, she is co-existing in two universes.
Just finished this game for the fourth time today, still incredible. Had to watch some of these videos again though just to re-wrap my head around the plot!
It's possible to erase memories in traumatic experiences.
so sad they no longer make games with stories that epic and mighty anymore. I fell in teats at the moment booker was grabbing the baby from comstock. too bad games now are all about graphic, micro transactions and paid dlc
I know, and the funny thing is that these truly excellent games actually sell as many copies if not more than those Triple A, EA flashy money hogs. I mean Skyrim sold estimated 22.7 million copies. No online play, totally optional DLC. I remember going to university the day after and I was running into people who had went to the midnight release and were tired but happy because they played it all night. You just don't get that with a lot of the kinds of games you're talking about. I completely agree.
is this the equivelant of "i'm 14 and i lissten to queen, why dont they make music liek dat nemore?"
+Mert Su. More like "I'm 27 I've been gaming since 1994 and I miss the time when they were putting enough effort in the story and gameplay instead of focusing on multiplayer and microtransactions". Have a nice day
Mensh i dont know what ur talkin about. plenty of amazing games come out with story or gameplay, much better things that late 90s, so u sayin that, looks more like an attention move and not a proper analysis
It sounds like a saying from the early 00's. This game came out in 2014, so it's pretty much now.
Have you heard of Life Is Strange? Amazing game with a beautiful fucked up story. Since shadows of the collossus I didn't feel that way. But to sum it up, I think there a still many great games out there, you just have to look. It's like movies or music, most of the mainstream is crap but in general these kind of media is still awesome!
elizabeth has the powers because one part of her (her pinky) exist in one universe and the other part of her exist in another universe
oh my fucking god :O damn you. Now you're making me think of everything over again.
thank you max I just watched this to see if I connected all the dots and was about to comment on the not knowing how Elizabeth obtained her powers I would also add that it is the voxophone from Lutece stating 'It would seem the universe(s) does not like its peas mixed with its porridge' to reemphasize your explanation.
ps Bioshock Infinite in my top 5, along side the original :)
michael burgum I mean, thats like saying, how did the little sisters in 1 and 2 have powers. Because to get Plasmids, you take it from a little sister or be nice and they give it to you. Tenebaum was the scientist who designed them. BTW, they were also taken from their homes to be brought Rapture.
So Luctese is just another Tenebaum in another universe.
michael burgum Wow... I've listened to that audio, 2 times, but I haven't figured out what It meant, thanks.
*****
comstock and dewitt being the same person is stupid as a plot device too. but it does show that she is the portal to the two of them.
Just finished Bioshock: Infinite on the Nintendo Switch...... Wow what a game, what an experience and story. I loved every minute of it, when I've let it sink in I'll be playing through again!! Coincidentally I'm watching a sci-fi show on Netflix at the moment called 'Dark' and both Infinite and Dark are quite relatable in their mechanics, multiverses, quantum entanglement and bootstrap theories. Mind bending and brilliant!!
I held off so long to play infinite. I finally just recently had time to play it. Probably one of the best games I have played in a while as I binged it in 2 days where it usually takes me weeks to finish games. I am a sucker for multiverse stuff so that ending took me for a ride.
Every time Booker dies in battle he comes back to life. But he re appears a few seconds before he died. I reckon Elizabeth jumps to an alternative universe each time he dies until she finds one where he survives the entire story.
The universes are the same.let's say there are two parallel universes and you die at that universe.then you go to this door where you respawn and your enemies are still there. Meaning in those other universe is the present and you are dead literally in that former universe you died.its still the same meaning the enemies have no idea why are they there?!..and you show up to just kill them and they have no idea.you will always die in that universe and your present self will always be on the next universe and yet you still know.
I feel like in Bioshock 1, Jack's plane crashes because Columbia shoots it down...
For the original Bioshock (2007), it's Fontaine (Atlas) who sabotages the plane. But in Burial at Sea (2013, Spoilers!!!) it's Elizabeth who sabotages it (through Fontaine's demands).
Jameron You had like 10 years to play Bioshock and I warned you about BAS.....so deal with it yo!
I only started playing this year -_-
Jameron You shouldn't be on a spoiler thread if you care this much. I mean't no malice but I assumed you were a Bioshock fan (thus finished all games). I've not spoiled the 3 main twists for you.
I already beat Bioshock Infinite & 2, I haven't finished BO 1 though D:
This game achieved the Steins;Gate
what a fantastic game it was back then. that wholesome feeling you had when exploring columbia with elizabeth was just as you said some quality time, amazing feelings. the end is as mind blowing as it is heartbreaking and heartwarming. fucking enormous story, a masterpiece.