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nonsensical ending

posted 12 years ago by getup2k
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The big problem I have is how Booker 'takes over' his previous self at the baptism, where he is drowned. This is ridiculous, too much of a stretch, and as far as know totally unexplained. Booker didn't take over Comstock when going into his universe, even though they are the same person. So why did this happen? As far as I can see, the same Booker that we played as, the one that never went ahead with the baptism in the first place of course, eventually gets killed at the end at the 'baptism'. And of course this isn't the Booker they want to kill to rid of Comstock.

I suppose I should just accept 'it's what happens' when you go through the lighthouse doors, but come on... if things aren't explained properly then this is just nonsense!

[–] dark_frances 11 years ago

I think that, in that moment, he had actually reached the point in his own timeline where he had to make the choice. He didn't take over himself, he actually got to the moment of choice. Except this version of Booker knew the consequences of the Baptism, so he chose to get rid of Comstock for good.

Then if Comstock never existed, first - the timelines never got split at that point (hence the other Annas vanish), and second - his own Anna never got sold, so he never went to Columbia to save her and also never got to the point where he had to decide whether to get baptised or not. He reset his own timeline for the better.

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[–] jesse859 10 years ago

Much of this game looks like nonsense to me. Just more paranoid anti capitalist propaganda. It's fitting that one of the companies behind it is called "Irrational Games".

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