Sitemap :
Picture Commentary Continued :
Click on Pictures to see their full-sized version.
See Also Land_of_Pictures 1 || Land_of_Pictures_2 || Land_of_Pictures_3 || Land_of_Pictures_4 || Land_of_Pictures_5 || Land_of_Pictures_6 || Land_of_Pictures_7 || Land_of_Pictures_8 || Land_of_Pictures_9 || Land_of_Pictures_10 || Land_of_Pictures_11 || Land_of_Pictures_12 || Land_of_Pictures_13 || Land_of_Pictures_14 || Land_of_Pictures_15 || Land_of_Pictures_16 || Land_of_Pictures_17 || Land_of_Pictures_18 || Land_of_Pictures_19 || Land_of_Pictures_20 || Land_of_Pictures_21 || Land_of_Pictures_22 || Land_of_Pictures_23 || Land_of_Pictures_24
Art_Deco || Real_Trolleys_and_Subs_and_Trains
--- --- --- --- ---
Still More Amusing Pictures
Fluorescent Lights (or might they be Bio-Fluorescence ?)
Simple gyroscope to direct a WW2 torpedo. Bathyspheres would have had a more complicated unit than this to help with whatever automatic controls ( you'd have at least One to trim the sub to keep it nice and level, even if the passengers move around within them ).
SO when was this newspaper issue from ?
Bribery and corruption in 'corporate dealings' ? I think those are kinda the least problems when there are numerous dead bodies left laying in the streets ( note the Little Sister with her 'ADAM retrieval device' ).
Drinking water plant shuts down ... soon what else ? You'd think the Citizens of Rapture would be all for Ryan to crush these anarchists/terrorists (and the rebels empowering them) to restore public Order and Safety -- BUT (for some reason) we never really hear that about the 'civil war'.
HELL NO, ATLAS MUST GO -- STRING UP THE CRIMINALS DESTROYING OUR CITY !!!!
A Splicer's face ... Shouldn't Rapture's Newspapers already have had LOTs of stories and articles about the horrendous ADAM side effects ( and those well before the Kashmir Incident/'civil war' started ). But Sorry, it is not part of the game's plotline - It all suddenly sprang forth, and of course 'It is all Ryan's fault' .
I restarted playing Bioshock 1 again to look at the terrain and revise my maps. In Welcome Center you see this. Seriously, did they have to make it that large ? What kind of Feebs do they think Players are ? It is already glowey, and had everything but a giant sign pointing at it. So it is a tutorial element for when the game is still 'new' to the Players ? (along with the crouch command you rarely ever needed again) ??
At least it didn't STAY large like some of the ridiculous looking guns in Infinite BS.
Ole Abes Comin' for Comstock (as Prophesied), and He has an Axe.
"Abe is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
Fink and what huge army of scientists, engineers, technicians, skilled workers would be needed to turn stuff like this (the 'high tech' of their time) into all the multitude of things seen in Columbia ? Materials and tools and skills which don't exist -- all created from a brief view of something, and then simple made with just a wave of the hand.
Almost as much Fantasy as Columbia somehow having ANYTHING to do with historic America or Religion.
Metro Sign seen in Welcome Center (No Trains in evidence at this 'station'.) The signs Line style implies limited point to point routes (look at a typical Airline type diagram to compare.) Why do it that way at all ? The system was supposed to be an improvement over the AE Trains (which DO have very fixed routes).
More proof (?) that the Bathyspheres followed fixed paths (instead of just going to a selected place directly like a submarine could - the game mechanism with the paths BACK to the previous levels can be discounted). A Cable-drive system would be more practical and be safe/reliable for a day-to-day transit system.
Scheduled runs - the schedule boards with arrival and departure times (waiting for sufficient customers (?), you'd think they would depart immediately on getting whatever passenger count was enough to fill them.) One hopes the schedule times we see WERE NOT representative of actual schedules, or I would question how really useful the system was to run so few Trolleys so far apart with such a low capacity (~8 passengers).
As I've said elsewhere : The Bathyspheres ARE NOT the equivalent of Automobiles ( No way they could be as versatile as Autos are in our Surface World ).
Artist's rendition of Rapture used by Ryan to 'sell' Rapture to various investors ( his fortune alone wouldn't be enough to build a city... ). Ryan had to convince numerous 'rich' people to invest in Rapture, so had various artists create visions to give them an idea of what it would look like.
An impossible view since even bright sunlight vanishes completely through less than 600 feet of water. Likewise, the Manhattan style cityscape with the ridiculous number of clustered tall building was not to be (as well as NOT being that deep down to have that perspective).
A common recording device used to verbally record messages for subsequent transcription by secretarial staff onto paper. A foil cylinder (like Edison's first recorder) was used as a media. Devices like this were used well into the 40's and in Rapture until technical developments could supersede them.
Concept detail - with understanding of function rather than 'artistic' form (BioShock is Sci-Fi). Note how you get in from the top as you do in any real submersible. Note also the ballast tanks near the top, which when filled keep the craft stable at the waters surface. The BioShock design Bathysphere HAS to be physically lifted out of the water to allow access to its front-loading door (impractical as it requires complicated dock facilities everywhere it is used). The scene at the 'bad' ending of BioShock with Splicers surfacing and emerging to attack the Navy submarine simply wouldn't work.
Comstock's Travelling Prophet Show - this real Columbia wasn't quite so impressive... -OR- after Rosalind Lutece had an uncontrolled 'Particle' go through her forehead, giving her a Trans-Orbital Lobotomy, the whole project hit the skids. So the whole game could be a fever dream Booker had after imbibing too much patent toothache medicine, or Comstock drinking his own quack nostrums (which have alot of opiates in them).
I've added lots of utility systems to my maps. You have to be able to get to them to service and maintain it all, so there would be multitudes of floor plates, hatches, manhole covers, removable wall sections, as well as access passages and spaces behind the walls/floors/ceilings.
A 50s styled Computer 'mod'. Some Talented hobbyist's "Dieselpunk" crafting.
Art Deco 'mod' for computer (sorry McClendon's couldn't fit). Some of these hobbyists are quite talented.
More robust (using metal and without the glass). These were used even after transistors were in production (because they were cheaper at that time). Even today there are proposals to use nano-vacuum 'tubes' (on IC chips) which make use of the 'Edison Effect'.
An Analog (mechanical) warship gun fire control computer (contemporary of Rapture's era). SO were the early 'automatic' Bathyspheres supposed to have this inside them ??? Not likely.
I have played around with gathering up all the various explosive props on a level, and seen how effective they are to 'clear' some of those scripted ambushes ( This one is before Ryan's Security Door into Rapture Central Control just after you set off the Core Overload ). A whole large room going off in a chain reaction (them placed with spacings to have them detonate each other in a wave).
Large locomotive from the 1940s. Very complicated mechanisms built to maximize efficiency. Within a few years, they all were replaced with diesels which required far less maintenance and had higher mechanical efficiency in their diesel engines.
This is what I envision many of Raptures 'tall' building to be like. Fewer windows, masses of concrete ( built more like a German WW2 Atlantic Wall Bunker ).
The MMORPG can continue to have various 'Hacking' mini-games, but of increased complexity as well as for different reasons and affecting more mechanisms.
A simple addon to the existing Hacking mechanism could be getting extra stuff for 'wiring' in more of the 'circuitry'. To have more 'to playing it' than just basic solving of the puzzle ...
Note how little of the Submarine is above the water when it "surfaces". For every bit above the surface there MUST be air-filled ballast tank volume below. That is why the game's Bathysphere's hatch doesn't work when the Bathysphere actually is "floating" - There just CANNOT be sufficient ballast tank volume still below the waterline to lift it as much as they have shown in the game. The 'bad' end of BS1 (attacking the sub) would simply have drowned all the Splicers if they opened those hatches.
Another early consumer product Plasmid, which might eventually have turned into a 'hack' type Plasmid.
One of the big (Real World) Mainframe Company's transistor circuitry. Replaceable modules many times smaller than the earlier 'Tube' systems. There appears to be only 4 Transistors, but that's the equivalent of 4 typical Vacuum Tubes. Less space and less power required.
--- --- --- --- ---
.
.
End of : *** Land of Pictures 3 ***
.
.
.
.
.
...... Sitemap ............ Page_Index ......
.
.
.
Quote_Disclaimer
.
Now for an Advertisement from Ryan Industries ...
,
| Spoiler Warning !
This WIKI contains plot details about the BioShock games. |
.
.
.
Fantasy ? ? ? I Andrew Ryan Reject This !!!
Is not the Player due a proper Sci-Fi game paid for by the $60 Sweat of their Brow ??? The Game Companies say " NOOOOOOOOO ! The players will eat whatever rubbish we set before them !! "
"SO I left the Parasites and created "BioShock: Rapture Reborn" , a MMORPG place where the Player will FEEL they are in a real 'World Under the Sea', and the Players IMAGINATION will Pull The Great Chain !!! ..... "
.
.
.
.
WARNING - This Website is *** NOT SAFE FOR WORK ***
.
BEWARE "NSFF" - 'NOT SAFE FOR FANBOIS'
*** Warning - Fanboi Head Explosion Zone ***
Contrary Opinions are Being Offered HERE !!!!
|||||||||||||| Sitemap |||||||||||||| Index |||||||||||||| Humor ||||||||||||||
WHY DO I BOTHER ?
Because I WANT computer games to be better than what we typically get from the Game Industry, and perhaps by pointing out ClapTrap like BioShock Infinite, strong criticisms being voiced might serve to SHAME the makers of such substandard games, and MIGHT cause them to DO BETTER in Future.
-
I wont hold my breath that this will happen though.
Note - This Wiki is for people who have the ability to NOT lose attention for content posted in MORE than 144 Characters of TEXT
Drink *CalciO* And Achieve Greatness !!!
WARNING - YES, This whole Wiki is a 'Thought Experiment', and YOU are the Test Subjects !!!!!
( So are YOU Alive or Dead as per this whole Concept ??? )
.
.
*WARNING* - This MMORPG contains blood and gore, intense violence, mild sexual themes, strong language and use of alcohol and tobacco.
.
.
*WARNING* - Fanbois May Find The Content of This Wiki Confusing and Distressingly Contradictory to Their Narrow Miniscule Mindsets. Some Head Explosions May Result
.
.
*** Fanboi Spoilage Alert *** :
The contents of this Wiki may Collapse the Fanboi's vision of the BioShock games from being "The most greatest awesomeness thing evah !!", into just one of the many average games ... ( Your reason for existing may decline severely and/or your entire viewpoint of the universe may be utterly crushed. )
You have been warned.
.
.
MANY Images on the Rapture Reborn Wiki are taken from the BioShock video game series or from websites created and owned by 2K Games, the Copyright of which is held by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. All Trademarks and Registered Trademarks present in those images are proprietary to Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiaries. The use of such Images to illustrate articles concerning the subject of the images in question is believed to qualify as fair use under United States Copyright Law, as such display does not significantly impede the right of the copyright holder to sell the Copyrighted material and is not being used to generate profit in this context.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Final Disclaimer : I am aware that various Fanbois think any kind of negative or different comments about BioShock makes me a "Poo Poo Head" ( in their minds ), and they feel fully justified in their 'Being So Offended' by my contrary ideas, and for their fervent wish to Silence anyone talking/thinking expressing such things ...
But I don't give a Rodents Rectum about such small-mindedness and slavish infantile infatuation with a game ( or its writers ), Nor for those who merely complain-whine out of their own Attention Whoring mental issues.
"GLORY TO THOSE WHO THINK FOR THEMSELVES" - Democritus
.
.