A (Bat)Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys!

Even with a concept as imaginative and wonderful as that found in the Bioshock games, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the goddamn Batman thought of it first:





As The Geekosystem helpfully put it while comparing Bioshock to the plot of the the "Deep Freeze" episode of the pitch-perfect 90s Batman animated series:


To recap:


Underwater city
Art Deco architecture
Villain with Randian motivations
Brainwashed citizenry
Automaton guards; extreme violence against said guards
Promised technological salvation that goes wrong


As much as I love Bioshock
(More than is strictly healthy, just for the record)
I will always feel like there's something missing from now on.

A certain Batman-shaped something.

A much more in-depth summary of the similarities can be found over at The GeekoSystem

Hakan't Believe It.

While discussing the slightly odd new characters for Street Fighter 4,
I pointed out that Capcom had simply returned to their tried and true SF2 method of simply going with almost racist stereotypes (or if that fails, just rip off the nearest SNK design *cough*C. Viper/Iori*cough*)

This method even applied to many of the returning characters chosen for Super Street Fighter IV.
(Tea drinking english gentlemen, Native Amricans with feathers in their hair, Japanese high school ninja/karate girls and so on)
But when I heard rumours of the final new character to be revealed, I dismissed many of them without a second thought.

"A comedy mustachioed Arabian character who's obsessed with oil? Surely you jest, sir!"



Oh, Capcom.


There will be some non-street fighter updates coming soon, I Promise.
Especially once I've played more FFXIII and Bioshock 2.