Levine: BioShock Infinite's Ending Is Like Nothing Gamers Have Ever Seen

I haven't been a huge fan of the BioShock series because I could never really get into the gameplay. It sounds like this is definitely worth checking out, though.

Andrew Ryan is the Songbird!

I wouldn't promise amazing things regarding a games ending. Lately that has been a touchy subject for some people.

A plot that gets more interesting as it goes along....no ****

Bioshock's twist was near the ending, but the actual final boss sucked. I hope Levine is remembering that.

I guess I should warn that this is a very mild spoiler to the stupid plot of Assasin's Creed.

But this is exactly my biggest gripe with AC3. At one point Desmond is in the van reflecting on how he feels bad about killing 1 person, and in the following sequence he indiscriminately murders at least 50 Abstergo employees and one poor guy who's tweaking out due to PTSD.

I think his little thought process was actually supposed to justify all the murdering, but it really didn't feel right to me and took me out of the story.

I think games have recently been trying too hard to be movies with overly dramatic and sad endings (See: Mass Effect 3 and AC III). Games are at their heart empowerment fantasies (excluding heavily narrative games like Walking Dead) and by making a "sad" ending, it pretty much strips the player of their empowerment fantasy, and that's why these endings fall flat. I do have to give shout-outs to the endings of RDR and Spec-Ops, because even though those endings are "sad" in their way, they make way, WAY more sense, and are ultimately more rewarding, than a happy ending would be. Those games build to a satisfying conclusion. But just chucking in a throwaway story item of SUDDENLY YOU NEED TO SACRIFICE YOURSELF FOR EVERYTHING DESPITE THIS NEVER BEING ALLUDED TO EVER BEFORE is weak, unsatisfying for the player, and frankly, crappy writing. So I hope the ending to this game actually makes sense in the context of the game, and is not just dramatic for the sake of it.

What's the over/under on him not delivering on this and instead rehashing something that was done in RPGs or adventure games more than a decade prior?

Coming from Mr. Levine I can believe this. When he says something like that people listen and watch, but he also better be right or he will get a lot of flack for it.

They do know that they should think about releasing this game at some point instead of constantly talking about every aspect of it... right ?