I don't know? Why does the majority of the populace attack you with guns when superpowers are literally sold in vending machines on every street corner? How are the underclass people barred from owning guns when those are also literally sold in vending machines on every street corner? Why doesn't Elizabeth achieve omnipotence at the beginning when the Siphon (aka, the very building that limits her powers) gets destroyed moments after you save her? Why doesn't she just open up a tear to some terrestrial location on Earth and escape Columbia that way?
The writing is a fucking mess on every front. Bad plot, bad backstory, bad lore, bad characterization, bad world-building. Oh, but it has a cute girl who flutters her eyelashes at you and is sad and it says something about racism, so 10/10 from every journalist!
Same reason why this racially insular and xenophobic city-state keeps on importing people from what it derisively calls the Sodom below. Because...actually, I don't know why they do it. But Columbia just seems to let any vagrant who rides a rocket and takes a baptism into the city, no questions asked. Now that I think about it, Columbia actually has more lenient border control (as in no border control) than lefties accuse America of having, even though Columbia is supposed to be a reflection of how they see America.
And yet despite this, Comstock and the people still fear some outside Apostate is going to come into the city and steal their precious lamb. If the stupid prophet just kept foreigners out, then he wouldn't have ever needed to worry about that! God, this game is almost a decade old, and I'm still discovering dumb shit about it.
Why didn't Frodo use Gandalf's eagles to reach Mt.Doom faster?
In all seriousness, Plot has never been a strongsuit in any of the Bioshock games. It took me like 5 minutes to realize Ryan was the villain from the first game without seeing any prior footage or walkthroughs of the game at all.
I don't know? Why does the majority of the populace attack you with guns when superpowers are literally sold in vending machines on every street corner? How are the underclass people barred from owning guns when those are also literally sold in vending machines on every street corner? Why doesn't Elizabeth achieve omnipotence at the beginning when the Siphon (aka, the very building that limits her powers) gets destroyed moments after you save her? Why doesn't she just open up a tear to some terrestrial location on Earth and escape Columbia that way?
The writing is a fucking mess on every front. Bad plot, bad backstory, bad lore, bad characterization, bad world-building. Oh, but it has a cute girl who flutters her eyelashes at you and is sad and it says something about racism, so 10/10 from every journalist!
why is there a chinese gunsmith?
Same reason why this racially insular and xenophobic city-state keeps on importing people from what it derisively calls the Sodom below. Because...actually, I don't know why they do it. But Columbia just seems to let any vagrant who rides a rocket and takes a baptism into the city, no questions asked. Now that I think about it, Columbia actually has more lenient border control (as in no border control) than lefties accuse America of having, even though Columbia is supposed to be a reflection of how they see America.
And yet despite this, Comstock and the people still fear some outside Apostate is going to come into the city and steal their precious lamb. If the stupid prophet just kept foreigners out, then he wouldn't have ever needed to worry about that! God, this game is almost a decade old, and I'm still discovering dumb shit about it.
Why didn't Frodo use Gandalf's eagles to reach Mt.Doom faster?
In all seriousness, Plot has never been a strongsuit in any of the Bioshock games. It took me like 5 minutes to realize Ryan was the villain from the first game without seeing any prior footage or walkthroughs of the game at all.