BioShock™ | Or, A Perfect Paradise Where Nothing Bad Ever Happens

[@lorenzopreda4361]

Im starting to think that Verac is just one of the voices in my head that can take control and has started a youtube channel on his own.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Him and Black Yoshi both appeared at the same time, and I love both.

[@MithrilRoshi]

Verac is our intrusive thoughts

[@rayvenkman2087]

“I am the Shadow, the true self!”

[@Overlord367]

He’s definitely up there with the voice that makes me want to murder.or the one that makes me want a cookie.or that one that gives me hope.

[@maxherman3884]

Like Sethszeencth?

[@rin77823]

Any game is immediately better if you are allowed to create a bee based build

[@asturias0267]

Play Don't Starve Together with the Wuzzy character mod.

[@redtheyiffer]

Watch dogs legion has a character who can summon (robot) bees and the game still isn't that great

[@marcinkrz3140]

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 gave a spell that allowed you to cover entier battlefield with beehives

[@FifingFossil]

Did someone need DR. BEE!?🐝🐝

[@nightsong81]

Terraria has you covered (in bees), my friend.

[@jonathonrichert866]

i was half expecting another "Verac Veracsplains to the woman that lives with him about the game." but getting her to play it so you can put it in the video is just as wholesome and enjoyable.

[@Bigbabki]

You notice by the ends that Verac was living in a low income environment as he had to walk to gamestop to obtain videogame. Me ,as a frenchman simply had to gro trough the cloud of smoke du to smoking as well as the wine press to the local merchant selling cereal boxes and video game magazine . this is how cool kid got video game

[@aarpftsz]

Me, a slav: had to "scavenge" through his uncle's drawer looking for a CD that has "FlatOut" written on it with a sharpie

[@AC-hj9tv]

​@@aarpftszand through a couple of riots/protests. C'est notre vie lol

[@davidlee1770]

​@@aarpftsz real life stalker experience

[@someshambler5536]

Bioshock infinite < Bioshock < bioshock 2

[@kingthe13]

​@@aarpftszloved that game also crashandburn

[@MsBarbarette]

I would watch my father play this game when I was in middle school. We both got so into the story that my dad would set up many save files so he could show me cutscenes and audio tapes I might have missed because I had a set bedtime and he would want to keep playing the game while I was asleep. He would replay the save files (maybe replay them on hard difficulty) for me to catch up with the story. I remember him being so excited to show me the plot twist. I know it kept him up late playing but he was so happy to replay it again the next day for my reaction. When it came what to do with the Little sisters, my dad went the evil route to see what would happen and deleted that save file since he only had daughters irl and felt harvesting the little sisters was a deadly sin so I only saw the true good ending.

[@Ooffoop]

Verac really embraced his true self for that intro.

[@bernardo.bridon]

His volition and composure broke down

[@Ooffoop]

@@bernardo.bridon *fingerguns* :D

[@genuinesaucy]

I just noticed, all three original Shock games use the Medical wing as their first level. It's an especially major fuck you in the original System Shock, because the Medical deck is Shodan's cyborg factory, and is fucking FULL of her lobotomized footsoldiers, not to mention it's where all the crew members who got infected by her mutagen virus were sent when they started showing symptoms, so it's chock full of goddamn mutants too, and at that point in the game you have a lead pipe, a dart gun, and a taser. I think most people don't get into System Shock 1 because, even after you get used to the control scheme, the game has no chill with the opening level and immediately brings the hammer down. Only the worthy may pass.

[@Yominication]

Honestly sys shock 1 was the most fun "shock" game of all

[@daevious_]

@@Yominication Its ending section shits itself the least when compared to Shock 2, Bio 1, and Infinite.

[@Blue_Sonnet]

4:59 If anyone was wondering (probably not, but still...), Rapture is underwater because Ryan was convinced that humanity would be wiped out by nukes. Also Oceangate would have done really well down there...

[@LutraLovegood]

Would have been a lot easier to just go underground.

[@arthenosthefirst8176]

he was? I just rmemeber him settling in Rapture because that was the only place he was allowed to build his shit

[@TonyRedgrave]

The Toronto bit had me dying.

[@miroslavzima8856]

You forgot to mention that we had to do rocket jumps downhill and uphill. Lovely review, as usual!

[@UnknownOps]

I saw Fauna play this game, it was seeing Mommy Nature walk through a failed utopian society all before she would collapse it since it now falls under her domain.

[@TheOracleofClocks]

I remember playing a wrench only run, which was the style at the ti-- Anyway, another great and funny video. Thanks Verac, and thanks Verac's roomba for the B-roll LUL

[@92814323]

wrench and plasmid run was always a good time.

[@jdgunny]

Normally I skip over the KZbin recommended because it's some creator that has put 0 effort into things. I'm incredibly glad I clicked this video.

[@Maggot-Milk]

"I'll be the virgil to your dante" this line was the mark of a true writer

[@redcrown5154]

We await the Monster Girl Quest review :)

[@Magnisethered]

How did it take so long for me to find this channel. You're fantastic and I am now eternally subscribed.

[@Bachenaugen]

14:28 How Verac met his future free labor for life.

[@absolutelyyousless7605]

It isn’t *free...* He still has to buy it food.

[@Eckskalibur]

In a utopia who’s gonna scrub the toilets? That question answers whether you’re actually a utopia, or more likely a dystopia.

[@p_serdiuk]

A modern day Bioshock review without a Titanic joke, that probably took restraint

[@RemitheDreamfox]

that intro does a fantastic job of basically explaining the entire premise xD

[@arthurquiliao2675]

I really agree with your stance on this. Even when you get audiotapes from victims of Rapture, after putting into perspective the grit of adam production and how pretty much everyone lapped plasmids up while knowing damn well that that orphanage wasn't charity, you get really cynical with everyone that isn't a Little Sister.

[@respectable-username]

Facts

[@diamondmetal3062]

Yeah like, the audio logs pretty much show that at least 90% of Rapture was heartless dicks swayed by Ryan’s promise of individual power.

[@farkasabel]

Congratulation. You discovered the very base why every system going to fail no matter how many times tried. Because people dont care about things what doesnt effect them in a negative way (or presumed negative way).

[@tommynson440]

Now you gave me the idea of Bioshock but there was this dinosaur obsessed scalie, now there is also dinosaur splicers, thank you for having the image burned into my mind.

[@ramaron]

Can't wait for you to review Bioshock 3, a thing that is absolutely gonna happen :))

[@renatoafonsomaiacarneiro950]

Ah...a classic of video game history and you didn't spoiled the fun, very good Verac!

[@jonbaxter2254]

Man, everytime I think I love Verac more, he releases a video on one of my favs of all time. Thank you, you weird hero femboy cat-thing, you!

[@MrStrides]

The Ougi joke was really good, I appreciate that.

[@DigiThorn]

We appreciate the efforts of the Floor Gremlin

[@tomisabum]

I actually really liked the second Bioshock all the more, due to the story and body horror biology science getting amped up. Pity the third and final entry into this series fell flat so badly, I swear, that games story is more about how a video game studio had ITS baby stolen and how none of THEIR choices mattered.

[@Gyros9988]

At first I was also turned down by Bioshock Infinite since it was so jolly, gleamy and cheerful. I wanted more dark deep sea madness. It took me some years and a genuine interest in the whole Bioshock Storyline Rabbit hole, to sink myself into all 3 games and it was a great experience. Especially with the DLCs in Infinte tying all parts together. I recommend you to let it sit like good wine and try it all out in one rush some years later

[@juanespin5527]

​@@Gyros9988i still hate it, and i play the game in 3 different platforms

[@dialecticcoma]

@@Gyros9988 yeah nah it's vinegar

[@jonbaxter2254]

I adore Bioshock 2 and am glad more people are coming to the light over a decade since its release

[@travisbewley7084]

I thought BS1 handled it's critiques of Objectivisim better then 2 handles collectivisim, but 2 had a lot better gameplay. I can't really finish replays of BS3, I always get to the part where they make you fight against the abolutionists and I just can't with it.

[@HellsingOVA25]

Verac out here with nothing but back to back bangers

[@aleidius192]

The masculine urge to do drugs and drown.

[@RileyWood-p2u]

Verac i would just like the say thank you, you give me hours and hours of content to watch comfortably over and over again when i'm tired, havin' a bad day, whatever. even when i'm just doomscrolling and can't find anything to really catch my attention there you are. screaming your schizophrenic illusions frantically into your mic for us all to hear. thank you for how much effort you put in and i truly hope you continue to grow and enjoy this line of work. you'll have our support till the end. ♥

[@dannmcdan2185]

Bioshock has one of the best videogame plot reveals at the end. Its great because its a twist that is a suprise to both the player character Jack and also the player who is playing the game. Truly ahead of its time

[@Blue_Sonnet]

Annoyingly they aren't time very well, so anyone who's playing for the first time get the twist spoiled a good 30secs before the antagonist gets to that part 😐 It's such a pity because of the wonderful way those particular lines are read!

[@bluecoin3771]

Also, it means that essentially, we’ve been playing as a 9 year old with advanced aging disease who has spent the last 20 hours of gameplay smoking, drinking, traveling through strip clubs, and shooting guns at drug addicts and giant lumbering hulks. You basically play as a child soldier from Kony’s army.

[@Amber_Valentine]

​@@bluecoin3771truly a game for kids

[@klaykid117]

It's weird that people say that the twist is at the ending like they've Blocked the actual gameplay at the end because the twist is about 3/4 through the game after that you're helping the orphanage lady put you into a big daddy suit so you can stab Fontaine with some needles

[@LutraLovegood]

Half of the surprise doesn't work because of the structure of the game. What was your other choice, stop playing? When talking agency I much prefer the story of the Legacy of Kain games. You don't have a choice in how things play out either, but damn if the writing isn't stellar.

[@lucasthehumanity8240]

I always liked how bioshock can also be interepted as a game about player agency

[@cjwrites]

Your plane crashes into the ocean from above. As opposed to crashing into the ocean from below. Subtle difference.

[@MB-dn1fx]

“Hey Jack can you test this golf club out for me?”

[@morganrosenfeld5917]

The Houdini Splicers really want you to think they're teleporting around, but don't believe their lies. The nerds are just turning invisible and sneaking around.

[@Blue_Sonnet]

Especially since it's easier to program an existing NPC to just go invisible instead of teleporting convincingly😅

[@penguixyt3246]

Babe wake up, new Verac video

[@rosteroster]

That pajama sam pic activated flashbacks. How are you so precise with these hits to my psyche.

[@tonybippitykaye]

This is the kind of content I love: shitpost level humor with actual analysis.

[@JayDayKay]

5:01 as a Toronto dwelling goblin myself, that would certainly have a positive effect on the housing market

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

How do you sum up Bioshock's plot in one sentence? "A bunch of rich people who don't want to pay taxes or obey laws create their own country, and it goes about as well as expected."

[@Marcara081]

'Socialism is for losers and rots society from within.'

[@BIacklce]

In real life they just took over New Hampshire

[@Bluecho4]

"This is what would _actually_ happen if John Galt built his Libertarian utopia. Complete with Sci Fi bullshit!"

[@mushyroom9569]

That’s every country that has ever existed.

[@mushyroom9569]

The only difference with Rapture is that it’s underwater.

[@tpay_6887]

Well i mean... Adam kindly asked us to help. How anyone can say no to this?

[@Drudge_Lord]

Welcome to rapture, a dreamers utopia! (As long as you have a case of thalassaphobia!)

[@lucaballarati9694]

I love seeing you cover single player games

[@sovietunion7643]

5:00 the idea of airdropping kill dozers in like they are killstreak reward drops from a call of duty game is the best idea i have ever heard.

[@adamniehaus5835]

The ed edd n eddy sumo sound effect when the big daddy chucked the splicer through the window made me laugh hard af. God thank you 🤣

[@bearlogg7974]

Replace Adam with Fentanyl & you get L.A

[@SollowP]

Best part? We're actually getting a System Shock 3 game now. Which is sort of weird, since Bioshock Infinite came out with acclaimed praise and a sold like hotcakes (even though it was hot dog water in quality)

[@LutraLovegood]

What? Infinite looked amazing, and everybody loved Elizabeth.

[@youngthinker1]

I remember Bioshock as being interesting, but overly memed at that time. Pretty much all of the contemporary games included a reference to the twist and Andrew's favorite saying. Like how System Shock 2 was somewhat spoiled by everyone memeing it to death.

[@dmitrimonro]

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but that hacking minigame was originally released for the Amiga as “The Assembly Line” in 1989, and was repackaged and distributed by LucasArts in 91 as “Pipe Dream”. Used to be one of the only games I could play on my stepdad’s Mac when I was a kid. It holds up pretty well for a 35 year old design

[@adummy9664]

I have a semi love/hate relationship with this game since I love the setting and the amount of different options you get, but the shooter gameplay is about as soggy as its environment compared to some more polished games of the genre and some of the story moments feel really stupid in hindsight when you think about them. 10/10 I hope everyone plays this game at least once, because there's nothing like unleashing a swarm of bees on your enemies like they just stepped into a mid-summer outdoor barbecue and the family insists that they eat outdoors.

[@caffeineaddictedklutz]

I decided to play on the hardest difficulty for my first (and only) playthrough. Soggy is a very polite way of describing the combat. Shame, everything surrounding it was captivating.

[@albestri43]

I was waiting for a new video from you :) I’ve watched most of them already

[@Stop4MotionMakr]

"CANADA IS RIGHT THERE!" cracked me up SOOOOOOOOOO hard 🤣

[@DevilSlayr]

Im so glad i found this channel, your videos are hilarious. I think only Therussianbadger could make me laugh this much during a video.

[@stigmata_rex]

Therussianbadger maybe 5+ years ago, before he sold out to EA and became an absolute shill.

[@DevilSlayr]

@@stigmata_rex ??? How? He barely even plays EA games and when he does its only for 1 video and then he moves on to another game.

[@Alexander59059]

It isn’t a drug problem, it’s a drug solution. And in this case the solution is BEES! (Also I’d totally watch you and the floor goblin play Stardew)

[@nicholasogburn7746]

A man chooses. A verac obeys.

[@Esitaro3670]

"Now, this might strike some viewers as harsh, but i believe everyone involved in this story should die" Based answer

[@bluecoin3771]

Ugh, I hated Capri Sun growing up. Was pissed off whenever it was in my lunch. I always had headaches after drinking it. Then I learned years later that the pouches had fungal and lint infections. No wonder I felt sick, that drink sucked!

[@nines7357]

All the armored games I played as a kid made me addicted to silly pipe minigame. Oh and bioshock was cool too I guess.

[@BrianHopson]

3:40 She would be great at finding secret rooms.

[@gothigaka]

That is actually my specialty

[@Barnabonk]

That dexter and the ed edd and eddy one is goated.

[@EndermTheSwordsman]

"My beautiful roomba wife" Why the fuck does that also sound like my wife when she plays any kind of 3D game lmao

[@NieRAddict]

you can’t just casually drop a Pajama Sam reference and not say anything about it. I thought that was a fever dream I completely forgot it existed

[@maley335]

Blessed with great quality content and HIS VOICE (DAMN I LOVE IT) Thanks Verac.

[@Ni0bium6ton]

5:08 The Toronto bit is kinda fuckin true. You’d have activists of all varieties on your side just to change what’s goin down

[@Ni0bium6ton]

It’d be chaos actually

[@angrybrony]

oh boy, my favorite type of youtuber really funny reviewer that has made a video like 3 months ago about my hyperfix. also bioshock 2 better fight me.

[@PhysicalToast]

This is weird timing because I just finished Bioshock 10 days ago Edit: also, thanks for not spoiling anything for the people who haven’t played it even though this game came out when I was a little baby

[@darkmega97]

You see Verac, Rapture was going perfectly well until they started letting "them" in the city

[@Twisted_Logic]

Fun fact: the first mobile game I ever downloaded was basically a carbon copy of the BioShock hacking minigame because I wanted to play it more

[@MrClone985]

good recomendation as always love ya verac and give a big hug to the madam

[@matildatheoboldt2261]

Where it went wrong was due to Ryan not having watched Spielbergs acclaimed cinematic adaption of Michael Critons Jurassic Park and had Goldblum give his glorious wisdom of "you got so caught up in if you could but did not consider if you should". No excuse for it either cause according to Infinite; suchong and fitz were dicking around with timelines so there is no reason for them not to have dropped by 1993 and enjoyed the cinema masterpiece of Jurassic Park. Fools, the whole lot of em

[@SeraphinSatan]

Comment for the algorithm gods \○/

[@victorreteikerutgersson3644]

5:00 just saw count dankulas video on the killdozer so I get this reference now

[@strapped_badger2789]

Rewatching Verac vids to idly pass the time till he drops the next blessing upon us

[@shadow_fg]

Bioshock infinite is not a bioshock game and nothing you can say will convince me otherwise

[@corpsefoot758]

I still find it weird how awkwardly they tried to re-introduce Plasmids in that game lol I guess people simp so hard for Elizabeth it starts to ruin their critical-thinking skills 🤷‍♂️

[@thedukeofdoom6323]

That dexter game just unlocked a core memory

[@Akira_Apostle_of_Ina]

Another banger game choice Berac On the note of banger games, if you're still looking for something for your streams, Homeworld Remastered is currently free to keep on Epic. All your space genocide dreams come true for the price of $0!

[@ASeasonInSidewinder]

Clicked subscribe at "I never finished 1984!!!" 😂

[@Milk-vf6zz]

5:01 Bold claim to make, because Canada is well known for its proficiency in war crimes, and for its ferocity when hockey and maple syrup are threatened.

[@jarate8076]

8:09 hold up what the hell is going on in that news message?

[@Spongedude94]

Dr. Steinman is terrifying

[@TheTechnicalMiracle]

Hey, hey, the libertarian Utopia was completely fine and sustainable until they added literal magic (plasmids) into the populace. So to be 'that guy': "UGHHH, IT WASN'T TRUUUUUUUUE LIBERTARIANISM, TRUE LIBERTARIANISM HASN'T BEEN TRIEEEEEEED" "UHHHH, ACKTUAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY".

[@torrasque0151]

Ayn Rand hated being called libertarian and had shit fights with Rothbard.

[@Noperare]

​@@torrasque0151Ayn Rand won't shut up about the importance of the men being moral. Andrew actively rejecting morality, forcing atheism and having centralized power over everything in Rapture makes him more of a commie than an objectivist.

[@p_serdiuk]

It wasn't fine, the underclass suffered.

[@octia2817]

Holy shit that's a cool channel. Please do Noita at some point as well. You'll love it.

[@92814323]

One thing to say, Would you Kindly upvote this video. thank you very much.

[@LutraLovegood]

What other option is there?

[@absolutelyyousless7605]

8:57 It is like a prism of Verac... How many Verac before implosion?

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

You forgot the most important part of Ayn Rand's books, the homoerotic relationship between the manly main characters, she was like the proto yaoi obsessed woman

[@SugarWolf211]

time for the second game review next verac!!!

[@cattysplat]

Bioshock was a pretty big deal when it came out. It really kickstarted the whole "games are art" thing with games journalists. Certainly pushed more storytelling into gaming when before story was pretty much a backdrop to gameplay.

[@torrasque0151]

A detrimental trend overall.

[@calebbakker]

It just sucks that after u beat all the games and all dlc there’s nothing to play anymore but these games are so great

[@thebreadbringer]

First time I've seen somebody with an anime profile picture worth listening to.

[@LutraLovegood]

Because you either touch too much grass or not enough

[@thebreadbringer]

@@LutraLovegood Schrödinger's weeb.

[@Rhox3rhox3]

Man i just wanna live where Verac grew up

[@tyrroo]

re: that review: if BioShock was the first game to make you feel something, then you haven't played many good games

[@magmafoxx7747]

Very good video verac as always, now would you kindly do a video of the XCOM2 Shenanigans that happened on stream

[@Verac_VG]

I'm tempted. It's a lot of footage to sift through!

[@jaghatai_bulut]

So much deat.. so much suffering.. and for what.. empty promises of snussies. Violence was all there is. Violenge and yelling.

[@nepnep8382]

It was a BLOODy good time. o7

[@jaghatai_bulut]

@@nepnep8382 o7 nepnep. Remember the fallen. F

[@nepnep8382]

@@jaghatai_bulut F o7

[@dinobro4273]

Bioshock 2 + Minerva's Den review when? The amount of Ken "Pretentious Fckface" Levine's face in this video gave me aneurism.

[@notloopers1110]

always love a good wet ol' verac vid, i cant wait for the xcom vid! Keep up the good work!

[@arnoldgila9212]

One madmen went loose... Whats the worst that can happen

[@Gobeman]

Just found your channel today. Must say. You have earned another sub cause your content and the quality is 'Just Right' for me!

[@dukenussbaum3305]

8:53 oh I get it

[@tridentgreen3346]

I too wish to become a lamiatarian.

[@ClingyParasite]

If you like weaponized bee's i recommend checking out Oddworld Stranger's Wrath, pretty good game, and living bug are your ammo

[@Verac_VG]

I enjoyed Stranger's Wrath. I wouldn't describe it as a good game, but I enjoyed it.