#there should be a specific concise term for when prequels spend all their narrative efforts to show you the origins of any important elemen | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ixcaliber · 2 months ago

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trying to finish as much as i can off playstation plus before letting my subscription end and one of those things was the bioshock infinite burial at sea dlc and oh my fucking god what an absolutely atrotrious experience. incredibly somehow worse than bioshock infinite (a game i hold no affection for) and may be one of the worst video game experiences i've ever had.

#we happy few remains the single worst game i've ever played #it has quite a lead on anything else #but damn this was so much worse than i was expecting #from a gameplay perspective i hated every second of it #the worst stealth mechanics i've ever experienced in a video game #games that have no stealth mechanics and expect you do stealth do better at stealth than this does #pretty much impossible to walk more than a few steps without every enemy in the level instantly knowing exactly where you are #because you stood on the wrong kind of floor #miserable #and of course elizabeth has to be weak and much less capable of combat than any other bioshock protagonist because she's a woman obviously #from a narrative perspective it was just #there should be a specific concise term for when prequels spend all their narrative efforts to show you the origins of any important elemen #lets call it 'story by way of recognizable nouns' or 'prequel origin porn' or someone else is probably better at naming things than i am #anyway that's the narrative in burial at sea #its vapid its obvious its a foregone conclusion it fucking sucks #and like look i don't love elizabeth bioshock infinite but she deserves better than anything that happens in this dlc

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