#129: BioShock 2

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Whether in television, movies, books, or games, it's always hard to follow-up a smash-hit with a worthy sequel. But publisher 2K endeavored to do just that when it launched BioShock 2 in 2010, doing so -- mind you -- without the series' creative visionary Ken Levine, whose team was off working on what would become 2013's BioShock Infinite. The result was divisive at the time, though most people liked returning to Rapture and getting more of that wonderfully-realized world. But over time, it appears the game has become even more appreciated and adored, and for good reason: It's pretty damn good, even in the shadow of the vaunted BioShock. So let's take a trip back under the Atlantic Ocean, Subject Delta. There are more Little Sisters to protect, this time in a collectivist (instead of libertarian) nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback is brought to you by, well, you.
0:02.5	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to Collins Last Stand.com.
0:06.3	Greetings and salutations, Welcome back to Knockback. My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my brother
0:17.4	Dagan. Big daddy Moriarty, Dagen. Thank you for joining me today. Maybe I should have called you
0:22.0	Project Delta instead. Thank you for joining me today. Maybe I should have called you a project delta instead
0:25.4	How is a I'm sorry good please no not at all not at all man go maybe I was gonna say maybe Johnny topside
0:32.4	Johnny topside.
0:32.8	Johnny Topside, indeed.
0:34.6	How is life?
0:36.1	How's it going?
0:37.1	Everything's good, man.
0:38.7	Everything's good.
0:39.7	You know what, it's so funny, I was going to say, I knew you were going to start with a big daddy thing.
0:44.0	And I was going to say what's up, tin daddy?
0:48.0	Tin daddy being, they don't say that enough in the game.
0:52.0	I feel like, well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. We'll get there. But everything's good. You know what I was just thinking I was going to talk to you about I was going to open the show with something very specific and then something just popped in my mind that happened this week at the last minute and I wanted to bounce this off you and see what you thought of it.
1:07.5	I don't think we've ever discussed this specific phenomenon before so I want to hit you up with this real quick.
1:14.0	So it was Tuesday, we're recording this on Thursday evening.
1:17.8	This was a couple of days ago, so it was Tuesday, every morning at work,
1:21.8	everybody knows out there by now I'm an animator, that're working at work. Everybody knows out there by now, I'm an animator.
1:23.8	That's my day job.
1:25.0	Every morning, we're working remotely, obviously, a la COVID.
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