Does BioShock Infinite Take Place BEFORE The First Two Games?

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Store Page View Stats: Global Achievements BioShock Infinite > General Discussions > Topic Details BlueGrunt View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 3:41pm Does BioShock Infinite take place BEFORE the first two games? Does BioShock Infinite take place BEFORE the first two games? < > Showing 1-15 of 27 comments sonicjihad View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 3:42pm Infinite takes place in 1912. The other two take place in the 60s. #1 Δ𝔪𝔢†𝔥ϒ𝔰† View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 4:33pm Yes, although story wise... well... it is sort of unclear. But the answer is yes. #2 Moldavia View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 5:25pm Its actually very clear if you listen to what she is saying at the end of the game so you get an understanding how Columbia connects to Raptue. Story wise these 2 games are not connected whatsoever. The are 2 completely separate stories. Andrew Ryan began building Rapture from 1946-1952. Bioshock 1 takes place in 1960 whereas Bioshock 2 takes place in 1968 where you wake up as a Big Daddy to the aftermath of the first game. #3 Tobbe View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 5:33pm you know guysi just figured this out it may be a chance that lamb from the 2game is elisabeth A.K.A Eleanor's mother #4 Moldavia View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 5:41pm The mother of Elizabeth died at child birth and far as I know there is nothing written as who she was. #5 Napoleon View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 6:17pm No. It takes place in a parallel universe of the first two games. #6 Nerevars Goat Univeron View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 6:21pm

Originally posted by Napoleon Bonaparte:No. It takes place in a parallel universe of the first two games.

Techinically, yes. However, cronologically, Infinite takes place before the others, because as far as I know the universes use the same time scale. #7 Napoleon View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 6:30pm

Originally posted by Ciaphas Cain:

Originally posted by Napoleon Bonaparte:No. It takes place in a parallel universe of the first two games.

Techinically, yes. However, cronologically, Infinite takes place before the others, because as far as I know the universes use the same time scale.

But can we really say Infinite takes place "before" the others if the events in Infinite never actually took place in the universe of the others? #8 BlueGrunt View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 8:58pm So are we talking about parallel universes here? Also, is this the last BioShock game? #9 Nerevars Goat Univeron View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 9:08pm

Originally posted by BlueGrunt:So are we talking about parallel universes here? Also, is this the last BioShock game?

Originally posted by BlueGrunt:So are we talking about parallel universes here? Also, is this the last BioShock game?

Yes and Yes.Ken Levine, I love you man, but why? Honest to god, I just want to know why. I get you didnt want to contine, maybe you wherent happy with how the company was going, thats your buisness. I respect that. But closing the studio, I just dont get that man. Ignoring the artistic value, from a simple standpoint based on the econimy, it still doesnt make sense. You didn have to stay, but that didnt mean every one else had to go. #10 Nerevars Goat Univeron View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 9:11pm

Originally posted by Napoleon Bonaparte:

Originally posted by Ciaphas Cain:Techinically, yes. However, cronologically, Infinite takes place before the others, because as far as I know the universes use the same time scale.

But can we really say Infinite takes place "before" the others if the events in Infinite never actually took place in the universe of the others?

Can we say of two trains on different, but parralel, tracks that one is further than the other? #11 Δ𝔪𝔢†𝔥ϒ𝔰† View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 10:14pm

Originally posted by Ciaphas Cain:Ken Levine, I love you man, but why? Honest to god, I just want to know why. I get you didnt want to contine, maybe you wherent happy with how the company was going, thats your buisness. I respect that. But closing the studio, I just dont get that man. Ignoring the artistic value, from a simple standpoint based on the econimy, it still doesnt make sense. You didn have to stay, but that didnt mean every one else had to go.

The Bioshock rights were given to 2K. It is entirely possible new BioShock games will be coming in the future. 2K would have some serious issues going on if they didn't make at least one more game, it's too profitable a series to just drop altogether, they would just need a writer to be equally as talented as Levine. #12 Anelace View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 10:40pm Given the ending, it's really hard to say. For the time that the game's storyline is linear (up to the point where Booker and Elizabeth start jumping through tears and doing shenanigans), it seems to take place prior to the first games. However, after that whole multiverse weirdness begins to occur, who knows. Some people have mentioned that the scenery during their brief visit to Rapture indicates that they arrive during the events of the first game, though I haven't really checked into that. Also, I don't know about BaS. Haven't played it.

Originally posted by Napoleon Bonaparte:No. It takes place in a parallel universe of the first two games.

But, as Elizabeth implies, Rapture exists in all or most universes in which Columbia exists, therefore it is not a stretch to conclude that the events of the first two games occured in at least some of them. Last edited by Anelace; 22 Mar, 2014 @ 10:41pm #13 Jason View Profile View Posts 22 Mar, 2014 @ 11:28pm

Originally posted by Napoleon Bonaparte:No. It takes place in a parallel universe of the first two games.

this #14 Moldavia View Profile View Posts 23 Mar, 2014 @ 6:02am The thing with the lighthouses they can bend time and space so when they are jumping around they are not just entering different parallels but times as well. This is why you see a 1912 Columbia, 1980 current world, and then rapture which is in the 60's. So while she did enter Rapture it only means she found the lighthouse that goes there not that the story has anything to do with Bioshock 1/2. The whole twist at the end of Infinite is what makes the game story absolutely phenominal. When they think tanked ideas for the DLC's Rapture was tossed in as an idea but originally tossed out right away too. The problem was they kept coming back to Rapture so that is how it ended up being the DLC. Now I do not know when they think tanked it but I am assuming it was before they finished the ending of Infinite because of how she enters Rapture in the ending sequence.Either way to keep the idea simple you could theoretically say that it takes place before Bioshock 1/2. Due to time jumping it could have taken place after, hundreds of years before or technically at the exact same time. Since we do not really know I think that adds to the whole ending thoughts of the game making just that much better in my opinion. #15 < > Showing 1-15 of 27 comments Per page: 1530 50 BioShock Infinite > General Discussions > Topic Details Date Posted: 22 Mar, 2014 @ 3:41pmPosts: 27 Discussions Rules and Guidelines

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