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100 Things We've Learned From Bioshock

posted 16 years ago by The_Welshman
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Okay, first off, I'm not bashing the game. It's my favourite game of all time and truly one of the best ever made. I just thought it would be fun to post some of the funny things that Bioshock offers.

#1. Not only does Jack not die from drinking three bottles of Absynth, he only gets drunk for a few seconds.

#2. Huge brutes in gigantic three ton diving gear can move faster than a cheetah.

#3. A plane crashing into a pressurised tunnel six miles below the surface of tha Atlantic ocean would not depressurise the tunnel.

Okay, your turn.

"There Are No Innocents. Only Heroes and Criminals." - Andrew Ryan

[–] eerrr 16 years ago

#4. Atlas is a name

#5. Little girls can talk to giant metal people

#6. Jack just happens to hit the right vain in his hand whenever injecting adam.

[–] The_Welshman 16 years ago

Come on guys!

#7. Hacking a hack-proof futuristic machine consists of flowing electric liquid from one end of a square to another.

#8. In the world of Rapture, Vitamin B (sunlight nutrients) do not exist.

#9. You can smoke a whole pack of cigarettes in one puff.

Add some more!

"There Are No Innocents. Only Heroes and Criminals." - Andrew Ryan

[–] bigt2006 16 years ago

#10. Roar loud enough and you can blur the vision of everyone in your imediate vicinity.

#11. Jesus loves me, this I know because the bible tells me so.

#12. All kinds of useful items and nutritious food and drink can be found by rumaging through bins.

More please.

[–] The_Welshman 16 years ago

Haha!

#13. Even though there a free Weapon Uprade machines around the city, the Splicers choose not to use them for reasons unknown.

#14. There WAS sophisticated machinery in the 1940's. So much so, that building a fully operational utopian city six miles below the surface of the ocean was possible.

#15. Even though hardly anyone knows about the city of Rapture, the construction workers who built the city don't matter.

"Nobody Knows Nobody" - Running Scared

[–] southparknscrubs 16 years ago

#16 Little demented girls can see angels

#17 You can't break Glass in Atlantis, no matter what you use against it

#18 Never mess with a pimp called Big Daddy and the prostitute, Little Sister

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken
O.A.M.O.T.S.S.B.F

[–] HennerBoBenner 16 years ago

#19 All your genes are belong to us

#20 If you try to save a little girl from a slug, she whines and complains into a tantrum that will save you from a RPG turret you didn't see

#21 Electrobolt 2 is totally worth the ADAM

#22 If you hit pause you can sing along to the background music, I sang along to "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" while trying to get my eyes to re-moisten (forgot to blink for a couple of hours)

[–] The_Welshman 16 years ago

#23. Wrenches are the new crowbars.

"Nobody Knows Nobody" - Running Scared

[–] littlerudi08043 16 years ago

#24 the developers watched City of lost Children and read atlas shrugged before coming up with the idea for this game.

#25 don't disturb the splicers while they're dancing

[–] wythedavis 16 years ago

#26 you can make heat seeking rpgs with just some kerosene distilled water and brass tubes

[–] littlerudi08043 16 years ago

#27 there is no heaven or hell, when you die you just end up in the restoration chamber

#28 (spoiler) a little politeness gets people to do anything (would you kindly?)

#29 andrew ryan has been practicing his golf game for the past twenty years

#30 people in rapture didn't keep any pets

[–] The_Welshman 16 years ago

people in rapture didn't keep any pets

Didn't you see any of the dead cats lying about the place?

"Nobody Knows Nobody" - Running Scared

[–] wythedavis 16 years ago

#31 even though your thousands of feet undre water and theres leaks everwhere dont worry about it itll get absorbed into that nice checkered tile

[–] loicdesdvina 16 years ago

#32: Magma doesn't flow until someone just happens to move a pipe to an inappropriate spot.

#33: When you're 6 miles beneath the Atlantic ocean, only SOME windows will appear to be wavey and "water like".

#34: Dogs do not well as pets in an underwater city that could possibly spring leaks 24/7, but cats make the PERFECT pet for said place.

#35: Don't worry about GPS systems anymore, just pause your life and look at the map!

#36: Water+electricity= no longer an issue.

#37: Hitting someone with a wrench will freeze them in place, allowing you enough time to shatter them into a million pieces.

#38: When you're six miles under the ocean, light is just as abundant as on the surface.

#39: Heroine addicts rejoice! Needle holes in your skin are a thing of the past!

#40: Weapon upgrade stations are conveniently placed in peoples' apartments in the living rooms.

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"Light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire!"

[–] The_Welshman 16 years ago

#41. In Rapture, you can buy heat-seeking missiles from a vending machine. WTF?

"Nobody Knows Nobody" - Running Scared

[–] loicdesdvina 16 years ago

#42: Drinking small vials of liquid will automatically make you a better engineer, doctor, athlete, or psychic.

#43: People that walk around with meat hooks in their hands have the ability to make the hooks glow. (I never understood this)

#44: Apparently, a tilting, toppling building won't mess up your golf game.

#45: You can carry around an EMP bomb that's bigger than you in your pocket.

#46: (along the same lines) You can wield 8 weapons and 3 types of ammunition for each weapon without slowing down.

#47: The developers of BIOSHOCK get $100 every time someone comes up with another thing they learned from their game.

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"Light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire!"

[–] The_Welshman 16 years ago

#48. Frank Fontaine talks....really....slow.

"Nobody Knows Nobody" - Running Scared

[–] loicdesdvina 16 years ago

#49: Regardless of how brutal or sweet you treat little girls, in the end they will eventually give their lives to save yours.

#50: All cats bloat up to three times their normal size when they die.

#51: Even when you put on a half ton diving suit and all required equipment, you can still run, jump, crawl etc. as if you never put it on.

#52: People who name themselves after Titan gods may or may not eventually resemble their name.

#53: When you hit someone that's been covered with plaster, even after it's dried, they will still bleed as if they were alive.

#54: Whenever you see water, even if it's easily accessible, you cannot jump into it because it's shielded with an invisible force field.

#55: Someone was dumb enough to design and build an entire utopian society 6 miles under the middle of the Atlantic ocean that can easily be controlled with a single key. EVERY aspect of society.

#56: If you're ever under the ocean in a giant metal and glass structure, you can fire as many bullets (even into a pane of glass separating you from the water) and never fear of leaking.

#57: Leaks occur for many reasons, but not gunfire.

#58: When you talk to someone over the radio or listen to a recorded message, you automatically know what they look like.

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"Light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire!"

[–] author_scholar_gentleman 16 years ago

#59 The splicers have used so many plasmids that it's rotted their minds yet most of them have no powers, while you're as sane as you were at the start despite using them to gain a vast array of abilities

#60 The machine of rapture automatically work for the splicers and need to be hacked to work for you, except the most useful vita chambers that will work for you without you going near and offer no protection to the splicers or other characters. (since adding have found the explanation, which makes sense but is weak).

#61 A man chooses, a slave obeys.

#62 All none splicers/little sisters die within seconds of appearing on screen.

#63 Atlas's Irish brogue makes it a lot more difficult to realise how many times he says "Would you kindly ...?"

#64 The human heart takes a long time to stop but will restart instantly

#65 Atlas wants you to kill the little sisters and seems annoyed when you don't but never kindly asks you to do so.

#66 (May have just missed an upgrade) The dial showing how much money you can pick up has 4 digits despite the fact you can never have more than $500

#67 A genius scientist when being hassled by a little girl will ignore the advice he has only just given and throw his life away

[–] littlerudi08043 16 years ago

#68 despite all of his powers and being juiced to the max on tonics fontaine can easily be killed by stabbing him with needles

#69 you will happily kill the pilot and crash a plane into the ocean if you are asked nicely

#70 you never have to worry about the hornets living under your skin

#71 nobody ever came to the conclusion that they should just escape from rapture

[–] kaos_katt9 15 years ago

#72. Pure white mannequins can disappear when you look away one second, and then come and kill you from behind the next second.

#73. Any mutated person in an underwater utopia is physically able to crawl around on the ceiling.

#74. By throwing a green-liquid filled water balloon at a metal diver-looking behemoth you can automatically have it attack everyone but you.

#75. Crazy psychopathic photographers are really tough to kill.

"Leaks. Lunatics. Rebellion. And now bleedin' ghosts. Ain't life in Rapture grand?"

[–] StuffedMannequin 15 years ago

#76. Ol' Peachy is about as straight as a dog's hind leg.

#77. People getting shot trying to dodge bullets with telekenisis is not a problem with the plasmid.

#78. You can upgrade your pistol to the point where it carries 26 bullets at a time and is massive, but can carry it around pointing it in front of you without your arm getting tired.

"We wont be needing your BANANA STICKERS."

[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

#79 system shock 2 was better

#80 you need to take continous photographs of something in order to study it.

[–] griffmailz 15 years ago

#81 A trip to the vita chamber makes a Big Daddy forget you just tried to murder them.

#82 You can make grenades out of a rubber hose, a battery, and distilled water.

#83 It's not abnormal to find money, candy and, machine gun ammunition in a trash can.

[–] author_scholar_gentleman 15 years ago

# 84 Questioning the evil bidding of Sander Cohen was never an option.

# 85 They should have gone whole hog with the idea of 3 endings to the game, two of them are virtually identical.

# 86 Your weapons can penetrate the thick armour of a big daddy but you needn't worry about the glass corridors keeping the ocean out.

#87 People were always going to say systemshock 2 was better, at least this game made money though.

#88 Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me, my lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships that go sailin

[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

#89 the splicers apparently stopped pooping once they gained their new found powers, the toilets in rapture are sparkling clean.

#90 System shock was still better and appears on numerous top ten lists

[–] eldiabloloco 15 years ago

kaos_katt, on #72 if you want to see a live action version on this check out the Doctor Who episode titled "Blink" it is about aliens called weeping angels that turn to stone when anyone looks at them, but if you so much as blink, or look away they will sneek up and kill you.

"A little madness now and then is relished by the wisest men."

[–] neilbus-1 15 years ago

#91 Fontaine is dead. Bad for Fontaine, good for Suchong.

#92 Artists can be very sensitive about their masterpieces.

#93 Electric gel can be fired from a metal device without shocking the hell out of whoever's holding it.

#94 Napalm and liquid nitrogen can be fired through the same tube without any noticeable wear-and-tear.

#95 In Rapture, heroin addicts are impossible to identify.

#96 Bobby Darin was every bit as popular underwater.

(SPOILER WARNING) #97 Changing your name and accent are all you need to fake your death (note that Fontaine never said anything about his appearance when he explained how he became Atlas. At least I don't think he did; maybe I missed it).

#98 People are in fact stupid enough to send gigantic boots to libraries.

#99 Rapture dwellers are terrified of scuba divers.

Someone else can take #100; I doubt I can think of something sufficiently amazing.

[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

#100 bioshock 2 will probably suck

[–] sofox 15 years ago

#101 If you decide to go on a bender with alcohol, you will become extremely drunk, your vision will blur, and suddenly you will think now is exactly the right time to jam a great big needle into your wrist to replenish your EVE.

#102 Abuse of plasmids, both in terms of over dependence and using them for violence, is part of what cause the downfall of Rapture. This moral somehow seems to completely escape the protagonist.

#103 Rapture is built directly under a common flightpath.

#104 If you want to watch the movies used in the game, download the RAD Video Tools program and open the bioshock\Content\BinkMovies folder.

#105 The above method will let you see a trailer movie that isn't shown in the actual game.

#106 Taking photographs of enemies will allow you to spontaneously generate plasmids.

#107 Your character is able to keep track of his current GPS coordinates while in a plane in 1960.

#108 Sudden uprisings can really ruin New Years.

#109 Fake Irish songs play in the apartments of fake Irish people.

[–] 15 years ago

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[–] soren7550 15 years ago

#110 BioShock contains much better music in it than most other games out there.

#111 Big Daddy stink: it's apparently worse than your momma and a wet dog, but Little Sisters sure do love it!

#112 Sander Cohen can't stand those f^cking rabbit ears.

Let's go to 300!

"Greetings! This is not God, but his close friend, Officer Boscorelli. Please pull over."- Bosco

[–] gans_fans 15 years ago

113. People in Rapture only drink alcohol, and eat only potatoes chips and candy bar.
114. When you build a city, be sure to place machines selling ammunition. Weapon and ammunition are so useful in a place were peace and justice are supposed to be important.
115. Your character don't get tired of sticking a syringe in the same place.
116. Fortunatly, HIV wasn't discovered in 1960.
117. When you build an underwater city to escape the vile outside world, be sure to give it an overtly paranoid security system.
118. Breaking a window in Rapture will set a bunch of killer robots on you.

[–] author_scholar_gentleman 15 years ago

119. You should not have come

120. The Camouflage tonic may be the best in the game, though it ruins many of the set pieces.

121. Given that everyday people don't need Eve it's a wonder we aren't prescribed hard liquor by the doctor.

122. Despite a remorseless, continued killing spree on her beloved little sisters, Tenenbaum still thinks you're better than Atlas.

[–] xcopelandx 15 years ago

123. No matter what window you look out of, you always get a good view of Fleet Hall and Fort Frolic.

[–] 15 years ago

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[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

125. at least Rapture has a good medical plan? right?

126. apparently all the fat little sisters got stuck in the tube system and died.

[–] kellybean0124 15 years ago

#127 Suchong had something against puppies

#128 The english teacher-esque splicers were always the creepiest

#129 Threats of being wrapped in a sheet should not be taken seriously

"It should be rock, dynamite with a cuttable wick, scissors"

[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

they don't put out any DLC when they really *beep* should!

[–] mercurylilac 15 years ago

#130 The ghosts in Rapture are angry.

#131 Picasso should have been a plastic surgeon.

#132 You can pay a safe to open for you if hacking is not an option.

#133 Vending machines are seriously underrated in the modern world.

#134 Your sweat belongs to everyone (according to the man in Moscow).

#135 You are neither KGB wolf nor CIA jackal.

#136 People like to put their diaries on tape recorders and leave them in random places.

#137 The best reason to get Incinerate is that you can light other people's cigarettes for them. Women will think you're debonair!

#138 Ocean water is as cold as a witch's t*t, so don't forget to heat your pipes.

#139 Little Sisters feel the need to incessantly chatter to you if you happen to be dressed as a Big Daddy.

#140 Living under the ocean makes you crazy.

#141 Andrew Ryan is not a guinea socialite.

(I realize this sounds critical, but I still freakin' love this game.)

Mars is laughing at us.

[–] MisterMister 15 years ago

142. If you wanna find Steinman, follow the blood
143. Vending machines can sense when your wallet is empty
144. Sander Cohen likes posers

[–] LeonardDurden 15 years ago

145. steel crossbow bolts are more deadly than grenades.
146. they thought they could hide from the light down there, they were wrong...
147. little sisters don't like the look of you.
148. mourning mothers can mistake pistols for their babies.
149. dr steinman wasn't very pleasant.

[–] southparknscrubs 15 years ago

150. If you hear a little girl say "Angel" in a fu|cked up voice, RUN!
151. Chuck Norris was the true founder of Rapture, but he soon got bored of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPcuwZlJShE
RYAN STARTED THE FIRE

[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

152. black people were not allowed in Rapture.
153. there has never been an incident in all of rapture's history where debris collided into Rapture's infrastructure until your plane crashed

[–] NorthstarX 15 years ago

154. There's semen...on everything!

155. You can hack security bots so that they protect you, but you can never program them to get out of your way!

156. There are no ordinary people in Rapture. Everyone is a spliced up psychopath except for the woman who loves trees.

157. Rapture possesses an unusual amount of "people" named Mr. Bubbles.

158. Peach hated Fontaine, but was best buds with that Atlas guy.

159. Fontaine crazy son of a bitch, but Ryan cheap son of a bitch.

[–] Outlawlz_Wrath 15 years ago

160. All your faces are melted!

161. Sander Cohen is a psychotic man, however, he is very artistic. And isn't a complete douche bag to you until after he sends his moths to kill you...so in a way he's a gentleman.

162. Jasmine Jolene is Ryan's favorite girl, till she sold Jack and Ryan killed her.

163. According to Dr. Steinman, Jack is ugly, UGLY! UGLY! UGLY!

Quis custodiet
ipsos custodes?
CotCP

[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

164. the first paparazzi lived in Rapture and covered the Fontaine - Tenenbaum affair
165. Rapture had a TV station but there was never anything good on.
166. Andrew Ryan never thought that impaling people on his wall would get him in trouble.
167. Fontaine sounded more believeable when he was Atlas than when he talked in his normal faux-Brooklyn accent
168. Andrew Ryan won't let you take over his city, but he will let you smash him in the face with a golf club.
169. I have no idea how they were able to construct a functional technologically advanced metropolis 50 miles below sea level without error or hindurance. I do know however that it couldn't be built anywhere else.
170. I don't know how you can put vending machines that dispense ammunition and heatseeking missiles and not expect to have problems.

[–] soren7550 15 years ago

171) Atlas is watching.
172) Suchong shouldn't have hit that little girl.
173) Shave your pencil 'stach and grow a little hair on top of the ol' noggin and wham-o! No one will know it's you!

"Greetings! This is not God, but his close friend, Officer Boscorelli. Please pull over."- Bosco

[–] carson15 15 years ago

174) It's possible to be stepped on by a Big Daddy

[–] j-sunderland 15 years ago

175. If you build a giant "top secret Utopia" at the bottom of the Ocean to keep out the masses, make sure that the surface-entrance is a giant tower, that can't be overlooked by ships and airplanes

176. You thought "Chainsaws on Mars" were odd? What about Grenade-Launchers in a glass-faced underwater-city???

[–] thcartoonguy 15 years ago

177. To kill a person with a golf club it requires 4 hits to the skull

178. If you just stand still you will never be seen

179. Once the slug is out of the girl you put them in your pocket?

[–] Freestate 15 years ago

180. Electric Gel works curiously well on non-electrical enemies.

[–] HockeyFan91 15 years ago

181 - Big Daddy's arent renowned for their oratory skills and arent very good conversationalists.

181 - Hacking machines gets HARDER the more you do it.

183 - All Ammo vending machines spew endless spanish babble when you walk by.

184 - Be prepared to be welcomed to the circus of values.

185 - The toilets still work.

186 - Reloading sucks when your fighting someone in Rapture.

187 - Andrew Ryan REALLY likes golf, makes sense when you build a city under the atlantic ocean, where im sure he got to work on his game a LOT.

188 - If your a kid chosen to hold an ADAM slug, your have to meet a very specific description and wear the same clothes.

FCT

If your gonna hire Machete to kill the bad guys just make sure the bad guy ISN'T YOU!

[–] ladyrenegade215 15 years ago

189. You will never encounter a new enemy after the electric splicers

190. Pretty graphics does not make up for massive plot holes

191. Apparently, the only reason Fontaine was pissed was because he lacked genitals. Give the man a penis and a pair of balls and I'm sure he'd forget all about Rapture

192. Security cameras sound like robotic ferrets when they spot you

193. Alcohol poisoning in nonexistent

194. Vita-Chambers make a game waaayyyy too easy

"Even samurai have Teddybears, and even the bears get drunk."

[–] littlerudi08043 15 years ago

195. If you kill just one little sister then you are the worst person in the whole world.

196. Who the hell names their child Peach Wilkins?

197. Bioshock took a few pointers from Fallout, and at worst completly ripped them off.

[–] soren7550 15 years ago

198.) Despite the fact that Rapture is located in the northern hemisphere, the water goes down the toilets clockwise just as they do in the southern hemisphere.

199.) You'll make the Little Sister very upset if you steal her candy bar.

200.) Your wallet can only hold 500 Ryan Bucks even though there's four slots for numbers. (maybe Ryan Bucks are just too awesome for your wallet that is can only handle the awesomeness of 500 instead of say, 1000 Ryan Bucks.)

"Greetings! This is not God, but his close friend, Officer Boscorelli. Please pull over."- Bosco

[–] 15 years ago

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[–] morokea 14 years ago

214. Splicers will just lay around and play dead for who knows how long, just waiting for you to come along.

215. It is totally okay to eat a cake off a bloody corpse that you found in a dark corner.

216. You never have to pee, despite all the alcohol and toilets around.

217. There are no minorities in Rapture, no little boys, and no pets except for cats.

218. Fontaine is really good with accents and Ryan is no master of deduction.

219. If a game heavily insists someone is dead, they're probably not.

220. You are obscenely gullible.

221. Not ONE normal (non-plot), un-spliced citizen of Rapture exists.

222. A simple wrench can serve you forever.

223. Blood stays wet and fresh on the ground for a really long time.

224. You cannot carry a single dollar more than 500, but you can carry an enormous amount of weapons.

225. No citizen carried very much money on them.

[–] todilo 14 years ago

226. If there is a gramophone placed on an electric buck, do not pick up that buck.

227. Alcohol is good for your health.

228. Almost every male citizen wonders why father has forsaken them.

[–] ashlinry 14 years ago

152. black people were not allowed in Rapture.

lol, I was going through the list reading these to my brother and he said I should add that!

I am free in all the ways that you are not

[–] MasterAlex89 14 years ago

229. Whatever feelings you got about right and wrong up on the surface don't mean much in Rapture.

230. Despite a chaotic civil war taking place in an underwater city where there is little means of supply for over a year, there's still plenty of crap laying around. Hell, you can even find money laying in plain sight which was never picked up for some reason.

231. Corpses in Rapture are just left as is (Suchong, Jasmine Jolene, etc.) and apparently decompose much slower.

232. When you see propaganda posters and hear announcements constantly played which defame your only ally, suspect nothing is wrong.

233. ADAM is better than cocaine or heroin.

234. Apparently, girls who are too symmetrical are repulsive.

[–] zubidoo 14 years ago

235. It is possible to fund, build and populate a ridiculously large and technologically advanced underwater metropolis without any world government knowing about it.

236. If somebody is talking to you on the radio they will know exactly where you are and what you are doing or have done at all times - even if you never say a word to them!

237. If you're in a fight and aren't as strong as your opponent then just take a whole bunch of pictures of them!

238. Adam is the cure for atheism!

[–] 14 years ago

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[–] mormannbrandon01 13 years ago

177. Splicers that will attack on sight will occasionally stand directly behind you and wiat for you to turn around just to freak you out

178. Taking pictures of enemies will make you do more damage to them

179. certain select organs can be eaten to obtain health, but only after you take pictures of corpses

[–] erichorstman 12 years ago

179. You only die in the good ending

180. When faced with a upcoming war, everybody takes sides and Nobody decides to leave

"It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything."
Up Next: Pulp Fiction

[–] Starriknyghts 13 years ago

Vitamin D is your "sunlight nutrient" Vitamin B is a complex.

[–] 13 years ago

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[–] DevilYouKnow 8 years ago

239. Chocolates is better than grapes.

http://werewolvesbeatingadeadhorse.blogspot.com/