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Like the time when Elisabeth kills the Vox populi leader. This is part of the storytelling to make you understand that Elisabeth is a woman of action and that she will take action if she sees something she believes is wrong. This is DIRECTLY drawing the picture of the same person that kills YOU in the final scene, and actually very much makes that scene beleiveable.

vast impact "traveling" between dimensions have, so you as the player again understands the major impacts your action, the twins actions and Elisabeths action all have on each dimension.

Yes, the player isn't your standard silent protagonist, and Elizabeth plays a large part, but all other interactions between the major persona in the game are exceedingly limited. A few speeches by the twins, a sermon or two, and that's about it. You don't get very deep into any of their heads and they are all such paragons of their own cliche that it's contrived.

Likewise with the world as a whole, for all your flying in the sky, there isn't that much of an immersion in that. Quite a bit of the gameplay takes place inside, or in significantly tighter quarters than you'd expect, and the parts that are outside don't really give the feeling of 'mid-air' even the skylines are more rail-road than I'd like.

That's nothing next to the utter contrivance of the plot itself. They had loads of wonderful pieces that they could have expanded upon, but they ultimately ended with a hashed psudo-science-fiction theme that was poorly conceived and utterly disappointing, not to mention ultimately morose and circular. All I really felt towards the end was that choice was an illusion, or at the very least ultimately futile. They could have kept with the socio/religious-political/racial tension that they built up earlier and that could have made a very interesting plot, but in the end, neither side was functional. Granted, there was evidence pretty early on that Fitzroy was just another sociopath.

In the end, there were some pretty massive plot-holes, and it left me largely unfulfilled. The ending itself was depressing, confusing, and contrived.

I mean, elizabeth turned into dictator, for some odd reason recollects her decades old feelings and uses her last powers to get in touch with booker and save herself in the past.
She said earlier that they were using some devices in the tower to drain power from her, so after she was free to reign she could open or create tears and escape if she remembered her old self. The fact that she didn't until she became an old hag is just bad writing.
That's straight up made from thin air.
Same thing with booker and the baptism, ops I'm a new man now, guess I'll turn into Hitler cause why not, that would be fun and not unnatural at all.

I agree that the changes are daft, but its not meant to be 'physics' that changes them, its meant to be the result of different events in their lives, however far-fetched that may be the idea was simply that their time lines diverge at a particular point, in one Booker leads one life and in another he leads a totally different life, its not hard to see how that would end up with a completely different person at the end, maybe not to the extremes the game suggests, but that's fiction for you, the games story is hardly a masterpiece or original.

There it is explained that it's the quantum experiments that slowly alter their personalities and even their physiques, that's why comstock became sterile and had to steal a child from an alternative self, which happened to be booker.

Wait, so you don't think that all born-again Christians go from hardened veteran-murderers into racist, daughter-snatching, tyrannical cliched religious dictators?

You don't hold to a viewpoint that cannot even be described as 1-dimensional it is so shallow?

To me everything that was discussed in the game was so disgustingly shallow. It's expected of video games, but come on don't talk about this game like the story was even close to decent. A toddler could wade in the depth of this game.

How come Booker doesn't recognize Comstock as the man who took his baby away?

because comstock's age was accelerated by exposure to lutece's machines, and because comstock grew a beard and went white