You might have heard that the BioShock 2 ending is up on YouTube. No, I'm not going to link to it. That's a dick thing to do, and is almost as bad as putting it up in the first place. I did, however, point it out to 2K. Of course, they already knew about it, and as you'd expect, were not impressed in the slightest.
"We know that we can only control that so much."
"It's been [up] a couple of times, said 2K Marin's Creative Director Jordan Thomas. We've already had our legal guys take it down a few times. It's inevitable. In a couple of days, it won't matter anymore anyway."
I said that I intended to "play the sh*t out of it" to prevent spoilage, and was told that this would be "a smart move."
"We just have to trust that people have individual disciplines," said Thomas. "If they're going to look at the ending of a game they haven't played yet, we can't do much to stop them."
Not to worry too much if you did accidentally see it, though:
"People have no context at all for what's going on, really, so it really won't make much sense."
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3:00 PM on 02.08.2010
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THANKS. NO I MUST RESTRAIN MYSELF FROM USING YOUTUBE FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
Well I can confirm that yes, it makes absolutely no goddamn sense at all. And I'd strongly advise you to stay the hell away from the internet - according to a certain *chan, the leaked version just hit the internet. So full spoilers WILL start pouring out soon.
Subject Delta is Frank Sinatra and he ends up singing a duet with Dr. Lamb (Ella Fitzgerald).
It could happen.
Sometimes I feel like I have just go by an arbitrary number score because reading the review the explains how they arrived at said score comes at your own risk.
END?
But hey, to each his own. I've known people that have read the last chapter of a book before they started reading it.
Hell, if you want to ruin the game before you start playing it, then go nuts.
this is just an advance warning to watch out for the usual pricks spoiling the game as if it was funny.
i probably shouldn't have even checked the comments here, as i lost all faith in destructoid users after seeing so many spouting "ATLAS IS FONTAINE!! HAR HAR DURR" after the original released.
Watching spoilers is only stupid if you knew what you knew you were watching spoilers, didn't want to know, and watched it anyway.
If someone posts the ending to Bioshock 2 online and clearly labels it as the ending to Bioshock 2, then I don't see anything wrong with that. There may be legal reasons why people aren't allowed to post the ending online. I'm not really sure how all that works. But as far as the character of the person posting the ending online goes, I don't see anything wrong with it and I wouldn't call them a dick for doing it.
If you didn't want spoilers and you clicked on a video that was clearly labeled "Bioshock 2 ending", then you're an idiot and I have no sympathy for you.
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