@oi_blimey said:
I think that the connections between Infinite and Bioshock 1 works purely on a thematic level. The characters and storyline/events of Bioshock 1 exist purely in a single comprehensive dimension, while the events that happened in Infinite required characters from different dimensions to interact with each other. There isn't a direct analogue of the Booker and Comstock relationship in Bioshock 1 where Jack is really just the son/clone of Andrew Ryan. From another perspective, the Jack analogue in Infinite would have to be a descendant or clone of Comstock that either did not appear in the game, or if we take this more literally that would make Elizabeth into the Jack analogue.
I'm going to quote myself here:
The plot of BioShock Infinite is a direct combination of elements from BioShock 1 & 2: a man with false memories (Jack/Booker) who is also a father (Delta/Booker) arrives at a lighthouse (Jack/Booker) from which he is transported to a strange city (Rapture/Columbia). The city is ruled by a visionary persona (Ryan-Lamb/Comstock) to whom he has a connection (son/alternate self). The persona believes in a radical doctrine (Objectivism-absolute collectivism/Exceptionalism) and later betrays his principles. Plus, the persona kills his lover after she makes a move against him (Ryan's mistress selling his child to Fontaine/Lady Comstock threatening to make a stir about Elizabeth's true parentage). In the city, he has to save a girl, who is also his daughter (The Little Sisters-Eleanor/Elizabeth). She is held captive by her crazed parent (Lamb/Comstock) so he can transform her into a greater being (Old Elizabeth/The Utopian). Oh, and there is a guardian hindering the man on his way (Big Daddy/Songbird). He also meets a revolutionary figure (Atlas/Daisy) by whom he is betrayed. Those are all constants, with the only absolutes being that in a given universe there's a story beginning with a man arriving at a lighthouse, from which he goes to a city, where he saves a girl and meets a guardian figure.
So yeah, while the connections between Infinite and 1 are on a thematic level, they are not PURELY on that level.
Yup I agree with you, "purely" might have been a bit absolute. But just jokingly, I think Levine disavows the existence of Bioshock 2. Only half jokinlgy though, I really think he said it somewhere.
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