Jason Moyer on 25/4/2013 at 16:06
Quote Posted by froghawk
Also, I must have missed a voxophone regarding the finger.
I don't remember there being a voxophone about the finger. There was an unskippable conversation with Elizabeth about it, another unskippable conversation with someone I can't remember (edit: just checked, it was Comstock durrr) that's basically "Booker, why don't you tell Elizabeth about her finger", and then of course an unskippable cutscene where you see what happened to it.
gunsmoke on 25/4/2013 at 16:09
combo breakin' :p
froghawk on 25/4/2013 at 17:27
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
I don't remember there being a voxophone about the finger. There was an unskippable conversation with Elizabeth about it, another unskippable conversation with someone I can't remember (edit: just checked, it was Comstock durrr) that's basically "Booker, why don't you tell Elizabeth about her finger", and then of course an unskippable cutscene where you see what happened to it.
Yes, but there isn't anything that explicitly states that losing a finger was the source of her powers that I can recall. That seems to be a bit of an extrapolation.
Mr.Duck on 26/4/2013 at 04:28
And it is -done-!
That was fun. :)
Wooooooo!
On to Far Cry 3 and Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine!
Dia on 28/4/2013 at 22:31
Frustrating. Half the time I can't even see the bad guys off in the distance who're shooting at me, then other times I'm deluged with bad guys rushing me. I'm on the 'Protect Airship's Core' battle now and having the damndest time; hell! At first I didn't even know what the hell the 'Core' was. I had to resort to a strategy guide because I thought the objective was just to destroy all the zeppelins (and that damned bird wasn't on the ball most of the time) and kept getting the 'Failed' message, for cryin' out loud! At times this game seems ludicrously easy, and then suddenly you're in the thick of things and it seems almost ludicrously impossible. Nice graphics, though I'd have loved to be able to explore more of the buildings.
Is it just me, or do all the NPCs bear a strong resemblance to each other?
Dia on 6/5/2013 at 22:02
Finished. Okay, well that was about clear as mud. Infinite was an interesting game which I'm definitely glad I played, but I still prefer the first two. I really did hope the ending would have been something completely different though. It almost seemed the devs wanted to deliberately make it more complicated than it needed to be. In essence, I just went through all of that to discover that DeWitt is Comstock, who sold his baby daughter Anna to the Lutrec's and .... what? He's been living in some sort of alternate reality these past 20 years as a man named DeWitt and wherein he tries to save his daughter from himself and in the end some of the Elizabeths from different realities (timelines?) drown him to make sure the whole thing didn't happen in the first place? Didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but then again, I could've missed something.
I'm undecisive right now as to whether I should go back and replay Infinite or just move on to another game. Maybe I'll just go have dinner instead.
EvaUnit02 on 7/5/2013 at 00:18
Dia:-
When the Elizabeth's drown Booker, they're destroying every possible reality where he gets baptised and "reborn" as the Comstock persona. This leaves only realities where the Booker persona exists, hence the epilogue after the credits.
It's a pretty downbeat ending, because without any Comstock's existing, there's no potential for character growth and "redemption" for any version of the Booker persona. The Multiverse is stuck with a drunkard, gambling addict who would still potentially sell off his own offspring to pay off his debts. I can't imagine any child having a good upbringing with a deadbeat guardian such as that. Comstock was a bigoted zealot, but at least he seemed to provide Anna/Elizabeth a relatively good life, imprisonment and indoctrination aside.
Actually even when you've a got "redeemed" Booker, he's still an ugly human being. He's a blood thirsty mass-killer, who would literally chainsaws people's heads off without batting an eyelid. Hence Slate in the Hall of Heroes (despite his insane state of mind) commenting that Booker's still the same man that he knew from Wounded Knee.
Dia on 7/5/2013 at 00:34
Gotcha. Thanks Eva. I got the part about Booker, just felt that the devs could've simplified the ending. I really like happy endings and imo there was none in Infinite. The game was still enjoyable, though.
june gloom on 7/5/2013 at 00:36
I kind of wish they hadn't dropped the crazy social stuff halfway through the game. That being said, I was able to follow the whole multiple-universe thing, but that's because it's a fairly common topic in sci-fi media.
