New Bioshock: Infinite - Page 18

Booker and Comstock are the same person, however, each developed through a different path of choices.

Booker is born by not going through the baptism.

Comstock is born though accepting the baptism.

Comstock's wife found a way to travel through universes (worlds).

While researching how to travel through worlds, Comstock became sterile.

Booker has no money and her child (Anna) is Elizabeth.

Comstock travels to Booker's world.

Comstock agrees to pay all of Booker's debts in exchange of Anna and Booker agrees.

Booker later repents and tries to get Anna back.

Comstock goes through a tear with Anna while Booker struggled to get Anna from Comstock and Anna's finger is caught between Booker's world and Comstock's world when Comstock orders the tear to be closed down; Anna's finger is cut remaining with Booker while Anna goes into Comstock's world.

Booker "remembers everything"

Booker sets on to kill Comstock.

Booker tries to kill Comstock by never allowing him to be birth.

Booker discovers he is Comstock.

Elizabeth shows him that all other worlds are produced as a result of a single one of his life events; his baptism after knee deep.

Elizabeth shows him that regardless of whether he goes through with the Baptism or not, the Comstocks in the other worlds will still occur.

Elizabeth makes sure that Comstock/Booker drowns in the baptism as this is the only way to prevent Comstock from being born in all/any/every world.

anyone know if the cage vs dove choice makes a difference? Everyone I know has picked cage so far...

There are some references to the cage towards the end, I'm wondering if the dove ended up any different

I picked the bird, but I'm not sure it makes a difference. The cage references you're referring to was just the Songbird notes for Elizabeth to control him. Then you blow up the Sipher. Does that sounds any different? I know the ending isn't effected by any of the choices you make, so if there are differences they would be minor.

It was definitely a fantastic ending. My only quarrel with it is it felt sort of too predictable. Early on I had toyed with the idea that Booker was Comstock from a different tear(mainly because of the random red tear that you get in Fink's place that's playing a real song from our time) but I dismissed it because it felt too predictable. I definitely didn't think of the complexity that the ending actually ended up with but I was still sort of disappointed that I thought of the ending with no real clues or context, just a random fan-service in the game.

That being said, I still think the way it wove together and the exact way it ended was great. It really was a beautiful game.

I watched JP play and he picked bird but towards later parts of the game, I noticed the pendant was a cage (intentional? oversight?) At least, I'm fairly positive of what I saw. I was going to confirm but don't have access to the vods. What difference does the decision make? I can't say.

As far as the twist ending, I actually guess it correctly about midway through (it's almost blatantly obvious), but I still enjoyed the ride.

I picked the bird and it stayed that way for the whole game.

No, JP picked the cage.

In some worlds, Booker was baptised into Comstock, who then created Columbia. The prophecy he was given states that Columbia will last as long as his bloodline stays on the throne. However, Comstock became infertile for some reason (exposure to some machinery somewhere, IIRC), so he asked the Lutele siblings to stepover into an alternate universe where Booker was never baptised into Comstock to ask for Booker's daughter in return for clearing Booker's gambling debts. Booker accepts. During the handover into Comstock's world, Booker changes his mind and grabs at Anna, resulting in the missing fingertip, but she passes into Comstock's world anyway. She is then locked into the tower where Comstock keeps a watchful eye on her. All her special talents regarding crossing over worlds is theorised by the Lutele siblings to be due to part of her body (her fingertip) being stuck in her original world.

To destroy any evidence that Elizabeth is not Comstock's true daughter, he has his wife and the Lutele siblings killed. The Lutele siblings do not completely die, but are instead scattered across time and space due to their exposure during their work.

Years later, the Lutele siblings offer Booker the chance to cross worlds to meet Anna/Elizabeth again. When crossing over into Comstock's world, his mind gets addled in the process. He forgets about his past (the daughter) and mixes his new objective with his earlier bargain of getting the girl to clear his debts.

At the end of the game, the tower is destroyed and all the restrictions on Elizabeth's power are lifted. She is finally able to peer into ALL the alternate worlds, crossing them at will. She then realises that Booker = Comstock, and although Comstock is dead in this world, the events are still proceeding as normal in many other alternate universes. She tells Booker that Comstock is still alive, asking if Booker is completely committed to ending the chain by killing Comstock at his 'birth'. Booker still has not realised that Comstock is just himself reborn, and commits to it. He walks into the scene of Wounded Knee, where he had just previously refused baptism (and forgiveness for his past sins). He finally realises the truth, at which point several other Elizabeths appear, showing just how many of them have suffered due to his transition into Comstock. They smother him in the water and he dies without resisting; the chain is broken and the other Elizabeths disappear.

- What happened at the lighthouse at the beginning? Who set up the sign/dead guy inside?
- Exactly how does killing Booker pre-baptism in just one world kill ALL the Comstocks in all the worlds?