Andrew Ryan

You're just doing it here.

In a way that actually doesn't even make sense, right? Like, so in the setup for this, like for the environment, Rapture being sectioned off into sectors that people controlled or they were the big cheese in that particular area made sense based on the way that Andrew Ryan and his libertarian paradise was like...

going for in rapture because it was

like the art district and the engineering like science district and the financial

Like having sections of Columbia be ran by these random – I was just like you're just doing this just for the sake of – Like, it's what you know what to do, but, like, it actually doesn't fit here.

Like, it's just weird.

It's an interesting call-out, too, because, like, the driving factor in Bioshock 1 is this constant push and pull between Andrew Ryan and...

What's his name? Now I'm actually forgetting which is it.

of course.

Versus who I'm going for, Andrew Ryan Bioshock.

Oh, yeah, 100%, Ryan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%.

Would you kindly pick Andrew Ryan for me?

Yeah.

Thank

And then party's over.

Unlike.

Andrew Ryan, who, who did not agree with artists and engineers and scientists, everybody like the fruits of their layer labor being used for other people to profit in humanity.

He got everybody together at bottom of rapture for like freedom of art, freedom of science, freedom of expression to do what you wanted.

Now, when you have no rules, bad things might happen, but that was the idea.

This floating community that has these people that just have powers all of a sudden and everything, and they call them Vigors and this whole thing.

There's no way that that doesn't make it down to the rest of the world, right? And as far as everything happens that happens in this game.

So the idea that they are Vigors, and then Andrew Ryan was like, yeah, I mean... yeah, but like we should call our something different because of whatever.

And like, you know, no one ever met.

I don't know what's going on.

And then you go down into the bathysphere and the little slideshow begins from Andrew Ryan explaining why he's built Rapture.

And it was exactly...

Much like I was saying about Group Fandango, it was one of those moments that completely elevated my sense of what the storytelling potential of games really could be.

And I felt like this game breathed that so clearly.

And it just was exploring these dark potential of humanity.

You know, Andrew Ryan talking about things like, I want to let the scientists be unconstrained by morality and going, well, this is going to go somewhere great.

And I felt like Gary's music just understood that concept.

...

he compared himself, he posted an Andrew Ryan thing from BioShock and I'm like, dude.

It's like they're too stupid to understand.

Oh, good Lord.

... you know, pushing a narrative-

... involved in that, yeah

... and like Andrew Ryan is great, actually.

[laughs]

In a bid to take the thinker away from his colleagues, He used the thinker to frame Porter for high treason, creating a fake audio diary in which Porter claimed to side with Frank Fontaine.

Sending this directly to Andrew Ryan, he offered to take Porter's position in maintaining the thinker.

Convinced of the authenticity, good gracious.

Of the recording, Ryan sent Porter to Persephone and put Wall in charge of Minerva's den.

It is eventually revealed that Sigma is Charles Midland Porter, the creator of the Thinker.

Porter has come to Rapture after his wife Pearl was killed during World War II.

Adopted to Andrew Ryan's ideas, he met Reed Wall, a brilliant engineer, and the two worked together to create the Thinker for certain opportunities in Rapture, like dispatching trains, and phone calls.

Porter and Wall began to disagree on how to use the thinker after creating it.

What can we say, folks? We do it all.

[laughs] Um, I do, I feel like Big Daddy, it's like I, I almost subbed out Big Daddy for Andrew Ryan, who is, like, the mastermind behind BioShock, and, like, the actual villain, at least of the first, uh, game.

But it, Big Daddy just feels more interesting to me, like visually and gameplay-wise.

Like, Andrew Ryan's just a guy.

Like, basically every-

There's, there's a reason Big Daddy's on the box.

Right, exactly.

And Andrew Ryan's not.

Mm-hmm

... made by Andrew Ryan and everything.

The Big Daddies are iconic.

Uh, the Little Sisters, the plasmids-