Bioshock Infinite's Daisy Fitzroy is perhaps one of the most interesting characters in the entire series. This is why I find her compelling as a character.
Twinfinite: “War may never change, but the prices of rare games do!”
"And lastly, famous Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling helped to create the action-RPG’s setting. What’s really fascinating, though, is that the game was partially financed by taxpayers from Rhode Island (which allegedly lost the state millions of dollars). Yikes!"
1. Now infamous Schilling
2. No allegedly, it did. And they couldn't pay it back.
3. What really lost the money wasn't the SP release but the MMO they were working on. This was supposed to be an introduction into the MMO world.
I hate counting limited editions for these lists. I mean, they're made to be rare and expensive. It's far more interesting to hear about the NCAAs (even if most people know that one already) and the El Chavos than some massive hit that came with a $200 statue at retail.
Me too. Here's the best I can do:
El Chavo Kart $90.14
NCAA Football 14 $87.72
Spiderman: Edge of Time $75.94
Spiderman Web of Shadows $75.09
Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions $67.76
Wow, El Chavo Kart is not at all what I expected by the name. 100% looks like a Sackboy Kart game.
It's so odd that so many Spider-Man games are seemingly given lower print runs, even if they're not the best games.
Most Xbox games don’t hold as much value compared to other systems. Kameo, Blue Dragon, Last Remnant , and a handful or 2 of other games that I kept.
One of the biggest TV and movie tropes in the last decade has been the multiverse, the idea of exploring multiple dimensions to uncover alternate versions of existing ideas. From both a business and creative perspective, it makes sense why established franchises are shaking things up in this way.
However, there aren't many video games latching on to this trend, as rendering multiple worlds in real-time is a difficult feat and the medium is relatively young in comparison to its contemporaries, making crossover opportunities more difficult. Still, there are a few great titles that manage enough to overcome these challenges, and here are some of the best examples.
While I love someone mentioning Planescape, not really multiverse. Planes and dimensions, yes. But, they are typically their own locations and are very rarely tied to another 'verse' let alone another plane. The only things that are directly tied are the ethereal and material planes. Otherwise, they are dimensions created of their own design and goals by the creator/owner and not comprised of 'their own version of another dimension'.
See what a side-by-side comparison of Clockwork Revolution vs Bioshock Infinite looks like.
"Fitzroy in the ‘”all-out war” reality is a revolutionary terrorist rather than a freedom fighter."
What's the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? In real life the line between combating tyranny and committing outright villainy can get pretty blurry.
The word "terrorist" doesn't have a single, universally-accepted definition. The most commonly accepted definition is "a person who uses violence to achieve a political end," but that label is enormously problematic; by that definition, even people who engage in a war against an oppressive government could be accurately described as terrorists. Some people try to qualify it by stating that terrorism is unsanctioned violence to achieve a political end, but then you start getting into questions of "Sanctioned by whom?" and then you're back at square one. Many terrorist groups are "sanctioned" by governments in any case, yet their violence remains unacceptable to their victims.
It's also not unknown for governments to condemn some kinds of terrorism but still fund or even train other kinds of terrorists whose political views more closely match their own, thus adding an air of hypocrisy to some state accusations of "terrorism" and deepening this controversy even further. Not to mention taking actions that they would call "terrorism" if done by non-state actors.
While "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" are both relatively modern terms, the basic argument of whether unofficial or unlicensed combatants have the same legal protections as officially sanctioned soldiers has actually been around for a long time.
Though she did try to kill Booker because his being alive didn't fit her narrative, Daisy Fitzroy wasn't a total monster when she died. We discover in Burial at Sea that she sacrificed her life for a greater cause, to motivate Elizabeth to kill Comstock.
Burial at Sea: Episode Two reveals that not only was it an act, she initially refused to go through with killing Bartson Fink, refusing to hold Fink's son accountable for his father's actions. She only agreed after the Luteces tell her that she'd be killed before she could go through with it and that her sacrifice would strengthen Elizabeth's resolve to take down Comstock once and for all.
Burial at Sea also reveals through audio diaries that she had reservations about a starting a violent revolution (even though she felt her hand had been somewhat forced) because she knew innocents may be harmed and that her "soldiers" would go too far. In the end she was more like Emma Goldman than Pol Pot, but the loose coordination of her organization and later her death would keep her from keeping a handle on the Vox armies' more disgusting actions.
On a side note, when Daisy is putting on the act by attempting to execute a child implied to be Fink's young son, she states that simply cutting down the Founders isn't enough, you need to "pull them up by the roots" before they can sprout again. This is meant to show how far she's crossed the line of no return, but in the ending Elizabeth and Booker end up using the exact same logic to put an end to the entire cycle by killing Booker before he can become Comstock.