Posts Tagged ‘Bioshock’
There seems to be near unanimous consensus that Bioshock 1 and 2 are comments on the fiction and theories of Ayn Rand – and especially those in her colossal treatise thinly disguised as the novel Atlas Shrugged. It’s partially true: Bioshock is a counterargument to Rand, but only within the boundaries established by Atlas Shrugged. It might be a critique, but it’s not a very good one.
Alright, you’ve just killed exactly thirteen purple gremlins and harvested their nose rings for the Elder of the halfling raft village to use on the nozzles of their inflatable dingies, when the Elder informs you that to complete their nocturnal aquatic mating ritual they require ten live BLUE gremlins chained to a long stick. You [...]
