BioShock Infinite Resurrection

[Badhron]

One thing that I feel was not adequately explained was how Booker is resurrected.

In the first BioShock games this was done through the Vita-Chamber. When you first start, it seems odd that only the player can use the Vita-Chamber, but this is explained as the story progresses.

Similarly in BioShock 2, it seems as if the player should not be able to use the chambers based on what we know of them from the first game, however this is explained by the end.

When it comes to Infinite, there are three types of resurrection. The first is when Elizabeth is there to resurrect Booker, and this is the most easily explainable one. It also makes sense why the player loses money, as it probably goes towards whatever medical supplies Elizabeth uses.
I also assume Elizabeth can move Booker across the battlefield through the use of tears.

The second is when Booker is by himself and is resurrected through the office door scene. As far as I know, there is no real explanation as to what is really happening here, or why this causes the player to lose money.

The third case is when the player falls off of Columbia and is immediately placed back where he fell from without resurrection. I find this the most irritating, as it is perfectly logical that there is some sort of mechanism in place to prevent people from falling, but no explanation is ever made as to why this only affect Booker, and doesn't affect anyone else in Columbia.

When I first encountered these, I figured that by the end of the game they would be explained as in the previous installments. Unless there is something very revealling in the few voxophones that I missed, it seems that this is not the case.

[lorderrr]

Well, the door ressurection is not actually a ressurection.By the game story thats basicaly another Booker that like the previous one goes to Columbia to rescue Elizabeth, but does something different at that point so he doesn't die there.So, its like the Booker that goes to the end of the game and gets drowned actually never died through his journey (there are references to this in the game, like the coin toss that always lands on heads, the Luteces said Booker never rows in the boat, etc...)
The other one when you fall i think its the same one as above, they just cut the "door sequence" so it could be quicker to get back into action and less annoying when you screw up a jump.

[ACJCLIGHTNING]

Yeah, you remember the luteces when they asked you to flip a coin. each coin was 1 booker that attempted to go before you and obviously failed.

The multiverse theory that the game is based around basically says that for every reality that you fail in, another reality is created where you sucede. So when you open the door, your basically going through everything you did in the game again, then getting to that same point you were at.

To be fair though, if you have questions about this, I expect that theres atleast a few things in the ending that your confused about. I recomend reading a ending explained type article.

[Badhron]

I'm fine with the ending, the issue is that nothing is explicitly said about the resurrection so I am left guessing about it. Also, if it is supposed to be jumping to another reality the door scene doesn't seem to portray it right.

With the door it portrays events as: 1. Booker fights, 2. Booker dies, 3. Booker steps through door, 4. Booker is alive again and rejoins fight. The way this happens, there is only one Booker.

For jumping to an alternate reality events would procede as: 1. Booker1 and Booker2 fight, 2. Booker1 dies and Booker2 lives. In this case the two Bookers are distinct, the dead one doesn't get transfered to the reality of the surviving one.

If resurrection was meant to be switching to an alternate reality I would expect to be respawned a little ways back into the fight, similar to what happens when falling of an edge (alternate reality is actually a good explanation for falling: Booker1 falls and dies, so we are taken back to the point where Booker2 decided not to jump). What the player would see is Booker1 fighting and dying, and then be taken back to the point of divergence between Booker1 and Booker2.

[SkacikPL]

I don't think that new resurrection mechanic is 100% thought through.
Original one, based on vita-chamber-ish small buildings called "resurrecto" is still in final game files, thus the concept made it very far in game development.

The final way of things must've been changed and tacked-on quite late during development and possibly their explaination for any loopholes in the concept is "quantum physics".

[Ivlichnov]

I think that the structure of the game produces multiple versions of Booker and Elizabeth.

Booker enters a room and shoots the bad guy on the left, meanwhile an alternate branching version of that same Booker enters the room and chooses to shoot the bad guy on the right.

Similarly Elizabeth enters a room and leans against the wall on the left, while a branching alternate version of that Elizabeth, enters the same room and inspects an item of interest on the right.

It's the same with the choices, like the bird or the cage. Then some of the wearable items that you pick up are in a random order through the game.

All of these are Constants and Variables. So every player ends up with a different version of Booker, travelling with an alternate version of Elizabeth. And you see other versions of Booker and Elizabeth in the Sea of Doors near the end.

So I think that every time a version of Booker dies, the story picks up with a different version of Booker who did things slightly differently.

And Elizabeth did say that most Universes are "as dull as ditch water."

[NoxiousPond6697]

Originally posted by Ivlichnov:

And Elizabeth did say that most Universes are "as dull as ditch water."

dude its dish water, like you know when the suds are gone.

shes just saying the suds of life are not there.