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BioShock 2 (and Fights in Tight Spaces!)

Hardcore Gaming 101 · December 16, 2025

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Hello, and welcome back to the Top 47,858 Games of All Time Podcast. To start off episode 802, we will be discussing Bioshock 2, the odd one out in this series. Bioshock 2 was nominated by myself. ...

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... Hello and welcome to HardcoreGaming101.net's Top 47,858 Games of All Time Podcast, where we objectively, definitively, and scientifically rank the games you nominate. I'm the show's main host and producer, Rabo and Orzorzi. By now, me and the HG101 gang have already ranked well over 500 games. Check them out. There's a list. Bit.ly/47KGames. Hello, and welcome back to the Top 47,858 Games of All Time Podcast. To start off episode 802, we will be discussing Bioshock 2, the odd one out in this series. Bioshock 2 was nominated by myself. It was developed by 2K Marin and published by 2K Games for PC on February 9th, 2010 worldwide. My name is Kate, and who is with me to talk about Bioshock 2? I'm Fosse Jaman. ...

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So that was like eight years ago or something like, it's not as far as the Battle of Hastings, but it's like it is now Kate's turn to lift her part of the chain. So that first episode on the first Bioshock, that was before I joined the show, so I wasn't on it. ...

00:11:58 - 00:14:11

... But essentially, she has this cult known as the family. And yeah, it doesn't really feel that different from the first Bioshock in terms of its setting or what you're doing. ...

00:15:52 - 00:21:04

... Okay, well, I guess I-- I also don't know, I'm really sorry. I want to say that that's part of what sets Bioshock apart is like it's taking a real life thing, one of which is deeply affecting all of our society at the moment. ...

00:26:51 - 00:30:57

... Yeah, I think they did a decent job with the setup. Like I'm not as enthusiastic about Bioshock 2 as I probably could have been, but I will say that I did generally enjoy this more than the first Bioshock, at least. ...

00:36:12 - 00:37:39

... So I would make a game about that. Maybe that would be an interesting way to integrate into the Bioshock universe in some way, I think, as far as like my feelings on Bioshock 2. ...

00:46:13 - 00:50:01

... And it's just here in the game being shown to you a very, I was very surprised that got through. I think there was probably like an intentional commentary, like considering the rest of Bioshock in general. ...

00:52:02 - 00:53:34

and ending of the progressions that sort of frame what you're doing, like you're playing one of several people in the, I guess like the civil war that kind of predates the original Bioshock. Like, it did feel like they wanted to have like a bunch of ideas as to how, I guess to make it more ambitious, I think there were ideas that I think like the rules would change over time, which I think they walked back 'cause no one really understood how that was supposed to work. ...

00:56:17 - 00:59:04

... I've been thinking about that. Easiest place to start, that is number 524, the original Bioshock. Maybe kind of high nowadays, but that is, like, for another time. ...

01:01:36 - 01:07:09

I agree with all of you for everything, but just looking at 1130 to 1150 and seeing like-- I like the game Octopus, but I feel like I'd rather play-- Maybe I'll end up spending more time playing Octopus in my life than I will have spent playing Bioshock 2, but like that in McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure. ...

00:09:50 - 00:10:42

... Okay, maybe that's not the right term. I don't know what I was thinking, but anyways, the first Bioshock, it was an attempt at being a spiritual successor to System Shock, notably a consoleized take on System Shock in that it strips away a lot of the nitty gritty details of the System Shock for a console focused audience. ...

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