Bioshock Remastered - Andrew Ryan's Introductory Speech

[@rimfire8217]

Is it possible to have Nostalgia for a game you've only played this Year? YES says the man in Rapture.

[@totalgamer1819]

Back in 07', this blew my mind. The soundtrack, the storytelling, the visuals were groundbreaking! Then you switch over to COD and listen to dubstep..... Good times.

[@rimfire8217]

@@totalgamer1819 I was 3 in those times.

[@muhammadzakaria3947]

actually last year I knew that a series game called bioshock existed.. and now after playing the 3 parts .. I fell in love with with bioshock

[@jaydenwilson9522]

I was 14... saw the game for sale in the city, fell in love with the box art, bought it... played 2 hours but had to go to my grandmas for the weekend (she didnt have an xbox).... it was a very long weekend. I challenge you to a wrench only run!!! so much fun on the hardest difficulty @@rimfire8217

[@nipungrover7058]

I played BioShock infinite in 2016 and was amazed by it. Only heard better things about BioShock 1-2. Then finally remastered versions came out and it didn't grab my attention for a while, until 2021, I played both the games like crazy and both of them are just so amazing that it buries BioShock infinite quite literally.

[@yourhappy5343]

"No gods, no kings, only man" goes so hard

[@randomdragon8245]

It's no coincidence that the Independent ending for New Vegas is called No Gods, No Masters. You can also beat Mr. House to death with a golf club to complete the challenge "A Slave Obeys".

[@Jaguarsclaw]

@@randomdragon8245is this for fallout new Vegas?

[@randomdragon8245]

@@Jaguarsclaw I did say New Vegas so yes

[@bvdatech1]

ya ya brudda

[@ExtraVictory]

​@@randomdragon8245independent ending is always worse than NCR or Mr house being in charge

[@Bascinet-billy]

"I chose something different, I chose the impossible. I chose rapture!" *-Andrew Ryan*

[@comicbookreviewer4856]

Just replace Andrew Ryan with beast wars Megatron and you got something close to what he would say

[@Wojtek_Ch]

"NO" says the men in KZbin. "It belongs to th-" [30 seconds of an uskippable ad]

[@bobandmrmecaleb5873]

No, says the man on KZbin. It belongs to the monetization revenue.

[@joaovitorjuliatti287]

What's best about this game: how it doesn't simply demonize Ryan. You arrive in rapture, he is well over the edge, but all of it is a result both of his fallibility as a human (paranoia, pride and of course greed) and external factors, namely Atlas, an incarnation of everything he hated about the surface. In the end, Ryan became the villain because at first he ignored the obvious problems brewing under the surface (pun intended) and, once they were obvious, as a way to solve them, he convinced himself that his ideals were consistent with a technocatic dictatorship and that abusing basic human rights was a price worth paying to "save his city". Easily the geatest villain in video game history, imo.

[@PeterKennedy-b1h]

Not your opinion in fact

[@totalgamer1819]

Back in 07', this blew my mind. The soundtrack, the storytelling, the visuals were groundbreaking! Then you switch over to COD and listen to dubstep..... Good times.

[@alilweeb7684]

I played last year and it still blew my mind

[@andreizhdanovich2939]

Infinity is good

[@spinaltap111]

I just started and it blew my mind

[@jonaspete]

The downward spiral

[@AJ5]

Nostalgia hurts sometime. Idk why, maybe ageing just sucks

[@rafaelgutierrez2682]

The opening to this game is so perfect for a number of reasons. You get an uplifting speech, shilling this city as a utopia of art and culture, of capitalistic progress. Bright neon signs plastered over tall buildings, advertising fine cigars, wine, and plasmids. There are even a few big daddies visible, giving you the sense that the city is still populated. But then you arrive, and that pretense falls apart completely. A man gets gutted, the entrance is lined with abandoned briefcases and protest signs, the metal artwork is rusting and the pipes are buckling, and every resident is warped and hostile. It gives you a sense of comfort and rips that comfort away, all while making you wonder just what happened to this city.

[@annoying_HK_guy]

True, Do not judge a city by it'surface........

[@SagaciousFrank]

It was definitely not a coincidence that they cast Armin Shimerman who played Quark of Ferenghi in DS9, a race who prized business and profit above all else, to voice Andrew Ryan. I recognised his voice after being a fan of DS9 when I was young. Great casting, not only does it tie in with both characters in terms of their profiles, but the voice acting and delivery by Shimerman is top draw, along with practically all the voice acting in this game.

[@theace8502]

Imagine him vs Mr House. Odo vs Quark lol

[@Detson404]

I just learned this today. It’s amazing, he’s such a vocal chameleon.

[@prideofasia99]

"No" says the man from Qo'Nos, it belongs to the strong. "No" says the man from Bajor, it belongs to the prophets. "No" says the man from the Federation, it belongs to everyone.

[@annoying_HK_guy]

​@@theace8502 I think House would half admired, half pity to Ryan

[@stevepalpatine2828]

Why because he's Jewish? Lmfao

[@The2Twoswan]

most profound introduction to a game ever

[@HugoStiglitz88]

How is this not recognized as one of the greatest voice acting performances of all time? Voice actors didn't get the recognition they deserved back then and that's a shame.

[@WeeklyComedian]

It is often recognized as one of the greatest performances in video games

[@skywolfx76]

I just like how even though everyone's either dead of a splicer, the big daddies are still working on trying to keep rapture from flooding and dealing with splicers and intruders. And if course protecting the little sisters

[@pettifoggingpharisee]

A man creates. A man builds. A parasite takes and demands "where's my share".

[@smimoma5930]

Thanks for describing workers and shareholders

[@adolftrump4051]

Well, a man doesn’t create or build anything on his own. Men do. If you self appropriates everything what you only contribuated to create, you are the one beeing a parasite

[@TheReaper569]

@@smimoma5930 you failed quotes

[@smimoma5930]

@@TheReaper569 In case you haven't noticed, Andrew Ryan is not the good guy, and he created nothing but suffering

[@TheReaper569]

@@smimoma5930 i don't think you understand the deeper motives present here

[@GavinusMaximusMaster]

They've done objectivism, religion, and patriotism/religion. I really wish there was another Bioshock game about communism/collectivism.

[@rancorhercules3623]

The second Bioshock is like that.

[@NIHIL_EGO]

That's literally Bioshock 2.

[@GavinusMaximusMaster]

@@NIHIL_EGO Check my reply

[@pedrojuan8050]

Also the Vox Populi in Bioshock infinite. Unfortunately, it's story was too weak and felt like an afterthought.

[@CombineWatermelon]

Won't happen, the writers are commies as evidenced by their seething hatred of nationalism.

[@Khalith]

I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to a 6ft big tiddy tomboy gf? “No” says the man on Twitter, “she is clearly a transgender.” “No” says the man on Reddit, “it is a statistical improbability.” “No” says the man on 4chan, “flat is justice.” I rejected those answers, instead I chose something different, I chose to find 6ft big tiddy tomboy gf.

[@NIHIL_EGO]

I rejected those answers, and instead, I chose something different. I chose to _become_ the 6ft big tiddy tomboy gf.

[@ashinigamirises]

Flat is justice

[@DeadpoolX9]

This is the most beautiful thing I have read all year

[@prideaccomplishment3578]

Some one cooked here 🔥🔥✍

[@RyukoKiryuin510]

@@NIHIL_EGOguess twitter was right 😂

[@alyxg2764]

The philosophy of objectivism presented in this game is very well done i love it so much. I love that the games were built around a real philosophy (objectivism or American exceptionalism) and then had real science on top of it (gene splicing or quantum mechanics)

[@jhonklan3794]

American exceptionalism is not at all the same as objectivism. They are conflicting in many ways.

[@alyxg2764]

@@jhonklan3794 Bioshock 1-2 didn’t really have exceptionalism but it was very present in infinite

[@DanielPlaceholder]

It isn't presented very well, I think. An objectivist is not inherently a bastard. Mind you Andew Ryan did betray his original Ideals, but if a truly libertarian 'paradise' cannot stop people like him from emergeing, and people like him still emerge in authoritarian governments, maybe there is no way to stop people like him. Or maybe we are looking for a solution in the wrong place?

[@alyxg2764]

@@DanielPlaceholder that’s fair. I think he’s presented well as a dude that didn’t entirely understand what he wanted or what he was pushing for and had to essentially sell out his philosophy

[@fluidthought42]

​@@DanielPlaceholder One must remember that Ryan was Rapture's sole landlord. He had the cards set in his favor from the start.

[@ddjsoyenby]

i love this cause on the surface it makes perfect sense, but when you see ryans views put into practice you see how some of the things he brushed aside might be neccesary in some ways.

[@fangornthewise]

Nah, it's just the writer/developer pushing his views. There's no value in "practice" in a fictional world whose outcomes can be arbitrarily chosen to fit the desired narrative.

[@115Harvester]

@@fangornthewise I'm sorry but this is an absurd take. Fictional writing has been a key form of social commentary for literally thousands of years.

[@FishAnvil]

@FunSize nah don't apologize. When a writer creates a story, they have complete and total control over every single action, development, and event that takes place in said story. If he were truly just pushing his political views, the player would show up in Rapture, and everything would be working perfectly fine. There'd be no splicers, no little sisters, no flooding, no malfunctions of any kind.

[@FishAnvil]

@@fangornthewise if the "desired narrative" is that Rapture is perfect, why is it falling apart?

[@fangornthewise]

​@@FishAnvil Lol. Are you really this dense or just pretending? Has it occurred to you that maybe displaying what he dislikes/disagrees with in a negative light and doomed to fail *is* the "desired narrative"?

[@theone-tg4ey]

Where the artist and the scientists wont be held back

[@rajendrabiswas]

very important and amazing character ...it takes me back in different era

[@theone-tg4ey]

Andrew Ryan was my favorite

[@cladiosanchez6865]

Playing through this master piece again, but with my wife who has never played it, she is loving everything about it so far, and this speech made her set her phone down, and get into this world.

[@GoosyOff]

Peak music, peak atmosphere, peak visuals, peak story.

[@TurboBass]

Now, more than ever, this is true.

[@Rb26z]

This idea totally worked perfectly for Rapture. Let's implement it irl.

[@ItsDaHoots]

@@Rb26z my dude it failed because of both outside influence and because ryan decided to turn on his values His values were working But he became government and immediately everything went to shit

[@fangornthewise]

@@Rb26z Yea, surely the outcomes of a fictional world which can be arbitrarily decided by leftist dev have a lot to teach us about the real world.

[@GavinusMaximusMaster]

@@ItsDaHoots Did you play the game?

[@GavinusMaximusMaster]

@@fangornthewise You don't even need to go full anarcho capitalism to know its a bad idea. Just go to pre-labor movement america. Read The Jungle and learn about mining company stores.

[@ratking1608]

It's impressive to me that one game can have both the best opening two hours and the worst closing two hours of any game ever

[@QueSeraSeraaaa]

His hypocrisy aside, Ryan had a legit good idea about making Rapture. It just that he managed it in a strict way, forbidding more things than allowing them.

[@comicbookreviewer4856]

Moral of Andrew ryan Downfall Don't force your views and ideals onto people without realizing the flaws of a bad mindset also Law and order needs to happen to keep things in control otherwise you can end up making things a lot worse

[@hidan407]

With fontaine and Lamb making things even worse, I feel like Rapture would have worked out eventually.

[@QueSeraSeraaaa]

@@hidan407 Agreed, those two other set Rapture in a such chaos..

[@hidan407]

@@QueSeraSeraaaa Would you ever want to live in rapture yourself? I feel like it would be a very interesting life.

[@QueSeraSeraaaa]

@@hidan407 Well.. yes and no, Yes because it's a city for artists, No because the lack of sun would be unhealty after a long time..

[@tomtheutdsupporter]

The best speech in gaming full stop

[@NoBadsign]

The hate you hear in his voice when he talks about "The Man in Moscow" is especially poignant when you remember that Andrew Ryan's uncle and cousin were murdered while trying to flee Communist Russia.

[@chaosinc.382]

I still get mega goosebumps when he says 'Rapture" with such passion and the windows open to reveal the beauty of Rapture.

[@mariojorgiocasas6562]

This game has probably created more objectivists than what one would think on a first glance.

[@theone-tg4ey]

I just want freedom and liberty

[@user-ke8rq9zl3s]

Legendary

[@gargamellenoir8460]

I just learned that his voice is Amin Shimerman (Quark/Principal Snyder). It's crazy, I just can't recognize him. What an actor!

[@aaroncarroll2417]

Trying to see similarities in this and Atomic Heart. But AH doesn't have this badass speech

[@jakoblent4694]

@@theallsight7076 a alternative past with highly advanced tech where the corruption of a ideology causes the entire world in chaos espacially after 1 thing was discoverd (Super ai in AH and the ADAM in Bioshock) both has similair game play styles where you get a special power with your weapon

[@archetype4566]

AH sucks

[@JuanPerez002]

History of videogames right here. How a story should be told.

[@janeduardodesouzadickmann3639]

There a lot of people who dont get it the "to the poor" line lol. U have to understand that your income never come back 100% to you when u work, and thats is the point lol

[@UKSKIDS]

It hits hard as an adult. 🥲

[@Dredaslime1]

One of the best games ever made✔️. They don't make games like this anymore 😞

[@pix.L.404]

I've always liked how Ryan has some clear inspirations in Walt Disney

[@aranerem5569]

This game is great

[@woodwyrm]

Man I'd love to hear this speech in a Star Trek context lel

[@seamon9732]

Quark approves...

[@shredx7169]

Weirdly enough, this was Senator Armstrong's vision. An anarchist social Darwinism

[@XGamingExploring]

Well now rapture belongs to the splicers and big daddy’s and andrew Ryan’s dream came to an end

[@BardicheOverhead]

But that wasn't because of his ideology, that was because of all the drugs lol

[@SimpIeton1]

@@BardicheOverhead The drugs are legal due to his ideology.

[@franklinbadge1215]

@@BardicheOverhead it was 100% because if his ideology. The concept of Rapture is inherently classist and was doomed from the get-go

[@alexgremlin3680]

@@franklinbadge1215 No shit, that's one of the main points of the plot. Because of Ryan’s "Great Chain", the Utopia he believed in would always be a fiction.

[@r0man767]

@@franklinbadge1215 there will always be a distinction between people no matter what whether economically or genetically we live in a limited physical world where nothing lasts forever and even when we do find a massive and near "infinite" energy source the impact of an incrementally growing population will drain it fairly quickly, The search for the classless society is a fruitless fantasy.

[@theone-tg4ey]

I just want to be left alone and allowed to be myself and be allowed to speak freely without fear of torture

[@blazingsummit]

Best depiction of what anarchism goes through basically, peacetime, small infighting, groups form, opposing sides fight, just.. anarchy, hell

[@DinoJake]

I still can't get over how Andrew Ryan was played by Armin Simmerman. He sounds NOTHING like Quark. Man has RANGE.

[@redtexan7053]

"No, says Andrew Ryan, here's a fraction of the value you actually produced the rest belongs to me. Because of investment, for some reason."

[@theone-tg4ey]

BASED

[@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy]

Lmao did you play the game? Did you remember how this whole thing shook out?

[@mainhalo117]

Immeasurably based

[@mainhalo117]

⁠@@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuythe empire fell because of corruption due to all the power being centralized. Libertarians whole thing is pretty simple and sums up to “you earn it, you keep it” which is exactly what Andrew is saying.

[@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy]

@@mainhalo117 lmao, the entire game is an INCREDIBLY thinly veiled critique of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The point is that all of the corruption IS CAUSED BY libertarianism. The surgeons weren’t limited by morality and legal constraints, so now everyone is fucked up monsters. Everything is hell because everything is privately owned. Billionaires and their corruption CAUSED rapture to be like that. Like holy fuck, you REALLY didn’t understand the entire message of the game, huh?

[@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy]

The power was centralized because Andrew Ryan had the most money. That’s how libertarianism plays out. The game is telling you pretty directly that libertarianism leads to the person willing to kill and ruin the most people for cash controlling the means of production. It’s not a coincidence that the game tells you how great rapture’s libertarianism is WHILE showing you how fucked rapture is.

[@Nikolai1939]

And thus the most based character in videogame history was born

[@nickzagoon8134]

Libertarians when their mom makes them do chores. (Again)

[@andresdeleon5160]

No It belongs to the rich.

[@liamlinson7563]

no it berongs to everyone

[@mattwalton2882]

@@liamlinson7563 are you from Moscow?

[@th5160]

It always goes to the rich, one way or another

[@SimpIeton1]

@@th5160 Economies of scale. They are a logical inevitability that transcend economic policy or philosophy. Economies of scale can only be buffered by wealth tax, or reset by bloodshed.

[@TheGreenTaco999]

@@th5160 and when it goes to the poor and they become rich you proclaim that the money went to them because they're rich

[@alexbramley6346]

it's Quark....

[@suse9784]

NO says the man in Rapture. It belongs to ME.

[@HandsomeLad69]

Bro is right

[@2muchmoney694]

Andrew Ryan is Stan the caddy from Seinfeld

[@theone-tg4ey]

Just wanted to be free

[@bruhmomentchi]

eu amo esse jogo, um dos melhores já feitos

[@maksymilianziele28]

"I am Andrew Ryan." "Who?" "The richest guy in the America?" "Among those who need more money?" "PARASITE!!!" **shutting Rapture off for a newcomer in a middle of the sea**

[@revieman1]

No says the man is silicone valley ut belongs to the rich

[@theone-tg4ey]

❤ my preference

[@Zorn446]

Actually the man in Washington says it belongs to the rich.🤡

[@mainhalo117]

Funny because the “rich” (top 10% of earners) fund around 70% of all taxes all while reaping exactly zero of the things they’re funding because it goes to the unproductive losers and leeches at the bottom of the income ladder.

[@crobinson2624]

Is a man who does a fair days work not entitled to a fair days pay?

[@lordgoro]

NO says the PARASITE!!!

[@MDE_never_dies]

Quaaaaaaark!

[@grantgollan]

Whatever it's OK

[@WAMIV]

I wish Bioshock 2 was as good as this game 😭

[@joshuawadsworth6417]

So basically Andrew Ryan hated every other empire, so he built his own. Not gonna lie I would do the same if I had the power to do so with how the world is right now.

[@jonathanwells223]

based

[@annoying_HK_guy]

And then Lamb came in and change Rapture into communist society, an order Ryan hated the most

[@lostlordlakitu4661]

I wish the man in Washington would want to give it to the poor

[@theone-tg4ey]

Das rite!

[@theodoricstevenson3905]

It's 2023... aren't we entitled to the sweat off our brow and not in the pockets of the powerful? When will we wake up and choose our own destiny...? A slave obeys... choose the impossible.... choooseeee...... rapture

[@elk3407]

Bruh. Bioshock is about why you shouldn't chose rapture

[@kennethcastelino3033]

No, it belongs to the Ferengi.

[@grantgollan]

Ontario

[@fangornthewise]

Based.

[@winampvisualizer]

😭

[@jimmy03827]

Based off what?

[@johnmartinez7440]

​@@jimmy03827Some dickhead rich guy

[@asher8754]

Andrew Ryan while flawed was ultimately right

[@johnmartinez7440]

In what way?

[@fluidthought42]

Naw. Dude set up the game so that he was the biggest winner, but couldn't hack it once he faced the threat of organized workers. Even in IRL objectivist philosophy there is no counter to organized labor and strikes, not without a violation of the barest whiff of a social contract that is a non-aggression pact.

[@AmericanBrit9834]

Sorry but no

[@Fenris__]

Why do workers need to organise and demand by force in the first place? What if we make the market conditions so good they can just go elsewhere, better?@@fluidthought42

[@wellingtonrodrigues7654]

Ryan is ancap ?

[@dodonixx953]

The whole game is a criticism of ancap and objectivist ideology.

[@joshuawadsworth6417]

Yes, what would happen if an ancap had actually built his own empire. Anarchists, in general, are basically tyrants that evnvy other successful tyrants. Whether that would be the government, the church, or the commune.

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

BioShock is meant to show how bad objectivism is and why anarcho-capitalism won't work. The capitalist becomes the authoritarian. The game shits on Ayn Rand HARD. Even the name "Andrew Ryan" is a direct reference to her. It's painfully obvious.

[@TheMC1102]

This does sound like a nice philosophy, until you realize how much of a hypocrite Andrew Ryan is.

[@DarthDimmadome]

What makes a man?

[@vektor_z7208]

Whats is a woman?

[@NIHIL_EGO]

I'm batman.

[@CombineWatermelon]

God.

[@helrem]

A miserable pile of secrets!

[@The_PaleRider]

His pepe

[@alanabyss9246]

He’s got a point

[@contempris2383]

Ayn Rand disliked this

[@theone-tg4ey]

Disregard the cringe Comstocks

[@theone-tg4ey]

Understand men?

[@johnhein2539]

One reason why Rapture is under the Atlantic Ocean is because Ryan knew even if it wasn't the city would have been flooded by salty liberal tears.

[@fluidthought42]

My guy, Ryan is quite literally the classical liberal

[@AmericanBrit9834]

Congrats. You fail political theory

[@ericcartman2995]

conservatives and a complete lack of media literacy, name a better duo

[@Fenris__]

the so-called "liberals" have nothing to do with classical liberalism, so his comment is correct@@fluidthought42

[@getshwifty3101]

"I am Common Man. And I'm here to ask the public a question: Is a Man not entitled to the money he earns? 'No...' says the Man in Washington, '...It belongs to me and my friends!' 'No...' says the Man in China, '...It belongs to me and my family!' 'No...' says the Jewish Man, '...It belongs to my entire race!' I REJECTED those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the righteous. I chose..... REBELLION. A cause where the poor don't have to fear the rich. The worker isn't bound by petty pay. Where the Public isn't constrained by corrupt governments. And with your help, it can be your rebellion too."

[@TheReaper569]

cringe

[@jwynand9964]

Someone clearly didn't pay attention to the source material...

[@AmericanBrit9834]

You fail political theory. You aced antisemitism though!

[@Phexyn]

Elon in a nutshell …

[@paulopaquistao6699]

I choose mars

[@georgesmith9727]

Not a bad idea for bioshock 4 space city

[@DerpASherpa117]

Elon is not the savior you think he is. No billionaire is on "our side". As the old saying goes: "it's a big club and we ain't in it."

[@qvindicator]

“No,” says the man in Washington, “it belongs to the migrants” “No,” says the man in Kiev, “it belongs to Zelenskyy” “No,” says the man in Israel, “it belongs to me!”

[@sneedsfeed757]

liberals tried to make mockery of him instead he came out swinging. Truly based guy

[@NIHIL_EGO]

Isn't he a liberal, like the _apex_ liberal.

[@DerpASherpa117]

​@@NIHIL_EGOI always find it funny that people think libertarianism ISN'T a liberal or leftist ideology at its core. It enshrines the individual as the smallest functional unit of civilization, whereas conservatism posits that the family is the smallest. This is ultimately the core difference between the two ideologies.

[@NIHIL_EGO]

@@DerpASherpa117 Whether something is leftist or rightist depends entirely on the societal context it exists imo. For example, classical liberalism may have been leftist circa 1800, but I would argue it's at best centrist in today's world.

[@sneedsfeed757]

@@NIHIL_EGO are you really r3tarded ?

[@fluidthought42]

​@@DerpASherpa117 Aha but how small is a family? That answer can vary from culture to culture, and there's many "family-centric" cultures that have strong leftist movements.