I tried. And I was able to avoid all spoilers for Bioshock until the day I would pick it back up again.
I played it in 2010. I played only up to the dentist level and I thought the gameplay was mediocre at best; no matter how much I wanted to explore the world and experience the twist, I just didn't find it fun enough to pull myself through. That was also partly because of my huge shooter fatigue I have that carried on until now and still going (I haven't even finished Syndicate, Singularity, and Black Ops 2). But I swore one day I would pick it back up to get to the famous plot twist. I deliberately avoided reading anything about Bioshock. (Also doing so for Infinite) Well, even meeting Andrew Ryan was enough a spoiler for me, which the scene of course showed up in many gaming's top 10 lists that I have read. I really wanted to experience it myself. I was able to keep that up for 2 years...
And then Brad just casually spout it out loud in this week's bombcast. It sounded really dumb without context, but still, that thought is going to be on my mind when I ever try to play Bioshock again. Even if the thing he was talking about clearly would lead to a spoiler, I really didn't expect he would say it. He did.
I just recently reinstalled Bioshock just so to go through it and play Infinite. Now I don't know how many more years would it take for me to want to pick Bioshock up again...
Before you go "Dude it's a 5 year old game...". Well I'm not blaming Brad, I love the man; it was just fate. IT WAS JUST FATE, BRAD!
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