How close am I to finishing the game?

[dukdo]

I've just entered Comstock house and have to look for Elizabeth.
Roughly how much longer do I have to play for?
It took me about 6-7 hours to get to this point.

[Nobrod]

You're pretty close to the end. Why do you ask? You're not enjoying the game?

[PissWater>BloodWater]

keep going dont ask us anythign your doing fine :D

[dukdo]

Originally posted by Dexter:

You're pretty close to the end. Why do you ask? You're not enjoying the game?

I'm liking alot, but I'm just wondering whether I should try and finish it today.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Finish it today. It's close enough for a full day's worth of gaming.

[dukdo]

Thanks everyone! ended up finishing it, although I was a little disapointed with the ending.

[Solarmech]

Did wait until after the credits were done? sm

[PissWater>BloodWater]

There is something special in the credits you should check that out before realizing what the ending truly is

[zazo093]

Originally posted by Sir Dodo Duck | Trading:

Thanks everyone! ended up finishing it, although I was a little disapointed with the ending.

who isn´t, the ending made no damn sense at all ,unless you understand the idea of multi universes and the multiverse theory.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by zazo093:

Originally posted by Sir Dodo Duck | Trading:

Thanks everyone! ended up finishing it, although I was a little disapointed with the ending.

who isn´t, the ending made no damn sense at all ,unless you understand the idea of multi universes and the multiverse theory.

In other words, you're saying the ending DOES make sense if you understand the basics of what they're talking about.

[PissWater>BloodWater]

it does make sense but also with how the story was set up in the first place it doesnt for most people hell even those whom dont even pay attention too the story that much

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Originally posted by zazo093:

Originally posted by Sir Dodo Duck | Trading:

Thanks everyone! ended up finishing it, although I was a little disapointed with the ending.

who isn´t, the ending made no damn sense at all ,unless you understand the idea of multi universes and the multiverse theory.

Multiverse is almost common knowledge. And it's been a staple of sci-fi for decades.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

Originally posted by zazo093:

who isn´t, the ending made no damn sense at all ,unless you understand the idea of multi universes and the multiverse theory.

Multiverse is almost common knowledge. And it's been a staple of sci-fi for decades.

Exactly. People need to watch more Sliders.

[oneNess]

Originally posted by Sir Dodo Duck | Trading:

Thanks everyone! ended up finishing it, although I was a little disapointed with the ending.

So do I. But I still love this game. I can't figure out that why Elizabeth have to kill Booker since Comestock has died. Just to save other girls?How about you？

[thetargos]

My main gripes are:

• The Booker the Lutece "brothers" take to Columbia is the 123rd iteration, as to what end, we only know "get the girl and pay the debt". At some point in the game Booker comments that he gave into gambling, and probably his broker got into contact with "powerful" people (Luteces, liaisons of Comstock in HIS universe? He'll probably the Luteces WERE his brokers). The thing is that they bring Booker, my suspicion is to get Elizabeth off the siphon and be able to open tears freely (alas, supposedly the siphon allows Columbia to stay afloat).
  
• Due to the tear device and probably radiation, Constock is rendered sterile and/ develops an unspecified kind of cancer which has already metastasized at the point you reach him in his vessel. So he steals Elizabeth from Booker in one of the Universes where he did not take the baptism, apparently from 123rd Booker. Alas the memory seems forced, as he bleeds when he "remembers", however all the universe hopping done from the Chen universe (let's call it Universe0, seems at least seven hops), render every character a different one from the starting point, except for the Leuteces, who seem to hop from Universe to Universe constantly. As far as I can tell, mind you I have not collected all the voxophones, Elizabeth (Anna) is born after Booker rejects the baptism...
  
• Elizabeth wants to prevent Comstock from ever existing, which yields the scene where Elizabeth kills Booker, and in doing so kills herself as well (as manifested when the fading Elizabeths start to disappear). Seems to leave BAS disconnected with the rest of the story, alas, to get to the lighthouse sea, you DO get to Rapture, which means BAS has to happen in that brief moment (and even may seem as a Universe loop before getting to the lighthouse sea).
  
• I never got to find out why the Leuteces bring Booker in the first place, fight Comstock with himself, hence bring him before he becomes Comstock, but after the events that made him turn to religion? What's Elizabeth in the puzzle, she IS Booker's daughter (not Comstock's as he's rendered sterile), WHY is she able to simply open tears? (channel dark energy?)... Who is Anna's mother? Booker's A.D. stands for Anna DeWitt when she's stolen?

I feel dumb, and that's only my second play through of the game.

[Solarmech]

1) In Booker's reality Robert Lutece bought Booker's maker from the gamblers Booker owed money too. So that's why he was acting as Comstock's agent in Booker's reality. The Syphon does NOT hold up Columbia. The first sections of Columbia where built before Anna was kidnaped and use a different (if related) technology. Getting Elizabeth off the Syphon was just a one thing that needed to be done in order to fullfill the final goal of eliminating all Comstocks.

2)There actually is a type of readiation that causes the effetcs that Comstock suffers from. Also there are many many Bookers and amny many Comstock. The Comstock that is in the game is just one possible version of him. After Comstock took Anna/Elizabeth realities kept on spliting so there are million upon millions of Bookers/Comstocks out there all based of the a single Booker and a single Comstock. Booker gets nose blleds at certain times because he has two set of contradicting memories and it overloads his mind.

3)Burial at Sea is not disconnected. I'm not going to spoil anything though.

4)Lutece wants Comstock to never exist since Cosmtock sets up a situation were Columbia destroyes humanity in its world and then will move on top other realities to do the same thing. (This is stated in a message you hear in Comstock House.) Robert has some problems with that. They bring Booker to Columbia because they they can't stop all the Comstock's from accepting the Baptism. The Baptism takes place in millions of different realities (Cosmtock is actually from a different "base" reality than Booker is. In Booker's reality Lutece is a male, in Comstock's reality, female.). So long as a single Comstock exists he startes growing in numbers and can't be stopped. The only way to stop Comstock is that he never exists and only Elizabeth and her power to merge realities/limited omnicience can do it.

Elizabeth is Booker's daughter Anna. No doubt about it. The sourve of Elizabeth's powers seems to be that her finger was cut off by the portal style Tear when Comstock was kidnaping her. And reality does not seem to like "it's peas being mixed with its porige" as Lutece said. We really don't know the mechanics of it all. But the general gist is Elizabeth was in two realities at once and exposed to all sorts of unknown energies and it all changed her. Anna's mother is Annabell DeWitt. She died in childbirth having Anna. (Another reason Booker cracks.) Anna DeWitt is the alternate of Lady Annabell Comstock. sm