Rapture Alternates

* See also Rapture_on_The_Moon
* See also Rapture_MODing_Ideas
* See also Alternate Alternates 
=="The Possibilities Are Endless"==
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Consider with the MMORPGs game Tools, how much of the original games could be redone or have additional chapters ADDED :
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NOT Splicing and Keeping "Your Humanity" and Having Impact (Solo Game Redo Idea) :
Like (two paths) having some significant alternate weapon advancement 'ramp', versus the ADAM Plasmids (plus weapon ?) ability advancement.
Unfortunately, that can require too much additional development to have enough of either -- Being a problem ( as would plot difference interactions with the parallel paths ). (( Well the MMORPG Tools and Resources could be shortcutting alot, so you can focus more on This. ))
SO "Choice" of that sort was never present ( and eliminating a variation switch with potential to encourage replay of the game ). The lame 'eating Little Sisters' versus 'not eating LS' optional 'Choice' path was virtually meaningless in the game. So to start lets fix that ??
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Bootleggers, Gangsters and Scofflaws ... :
Ryan would have been against Prohibition ( the Constitution Amendment which made producing and selling Alcoholic beverages illegal in the USA ).
Imagine a scenario where ADAM was 'Prohibited', and THEN you might have had the possibility of a replay of the things that happened during the Prohibition era ( but again Ryan wouldn't have that, OR after ADAM was proven to be poison would have had grounds and public support to make the producers liable, and THAT would drive out the ADAM business and limit usage ).
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Details Not To Be Overlooked :
A creepy Chalkboard seen in Fontaine Futuristics might be a planned 'improved' ADAM production method utilizing vats of human blood fed into restrained Little Sisters, and some 'milking' pump mechanism to retrieve the ADAM. Dairy themed decorations being suggested ...
Some verbage about mass deliveries of corpses ( for draining ) could be there also. As well as some Excited large printing of "4 X the AVERAGE LS Production !!" ( underlined ) could be there. Corpse hung up and draining for a horror aspect. Maybe : Meatgrinding corpses to 'recover' all the ADAM ( within the leeching vats ) ... Something which Sofia Lamb might have had being done ( in her Project : "Thanks For The Memories" ).
Another might cover 'using electrodes' ( and other methods ) to 'stress' the embedded Sea Slug into producing more venom ( the substance from which ADAM chemicals are extracted ).
We would learn alot more about such things in the MMORPG.
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EXAMPLE - THE NEXT Game Plot (BS3) : 
You could have Eleanor give a nice narrative of what her life was ( to who ? >--> Delta again as a sidekick - If she could remake him once, then the second time is even easier ?? ) :
* What a B%$&h her mother was ( her early childhood years in Golden Age Rapture ) ...
* What it is like to be turned into a Little Sister
* How Eleanor was painfully recycled OUT of being a Little Sister ( how, but changed by it, etc ... )
* Eleanor 'being under the thumb' (again) of that b$&*h mother of hers ( growing up and now the target of Sofia's "Utopian" delusion ), and the tyranny there in Sofia Lamb's corner of Rapture
* Being locked up by her mother (Delta must rescue)
* Her long Effort to escape, and finally everything done to bring Delta back (that process ...)
* Describing the hope as Delta made his way to rescue her ( trying to assist him - exact mimickings of those communication 'exchanges' )
* And the ending of BS2 ( Strangling her mother OR ... )
* Going TO The Surface and finding how f#$&*d-up that place is
* Returning to Rapture ???
* And 'Ending' in (Ryan's Return ?) ... Marrying the Deprogrammed (fixed) Jack ... Who knows...
( Maybe most of these are PLAYABLE vignettes to fill in - lots of links back to the previous storylines )
Some proper antagonist is needed to have a main story ( 'Gil' Alexanders insanity is going to Destroy all )
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How much different BS1/BS2 would have been if Ryan had said : "Would You Kindly .. Go crush Fontaine's Skull with this, AND Would You Kindly now Ignore anyone else who says 'Would You Kindly' ... "
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PLAYER CREATED DLC WHAT-IF SCENARIOS !!!!
A Big Search Effort in the Vicinity of Rapture : Dozens of ships, including Warships (( Skip the ignorant stupidity of a US Ballistic Missile Sub being there )) ... A good thorough search being done ...
AND That big Lighthouse is THERE - Sticking out like a sore thumb ...
Wouldn't it be funny if the sociopath Fontaine had finally got control of Rapture ( Ryan dead and Jack dead, no 'Silver Surfer' Spliced Fontaine "PLAN D" needed ...) just as a whole bunch of US Marines come down in Bathyspheres from the Lighthouse ? RAPTURE IS DISCOVERED !!! We saw Jack plow thru Splicers, so US Marines would have no problem disposing of them all. AT worst Rapture is simply depth charged - nuclear depth charges.
Such things could be created within the MMORPGs system.
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A VERY Short Game :
Scene where Jack pulls out the gun in the airplane, but because the conditioning made him crazy, Jack uses it to shoot himself in the head ...
Fontaine's over complicated plot fails, Ryan Eliminates Atlas, Rapture is saved and the city goes on. 
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And Lambeekin Die'sees :
Heh, Turnabout !!! :
THAT It would be Sofia that Eleanor might have been reconstituted from 10 years-old rotted corpse tissue instead of Johnny Topside (or whoever). Being held in thrall by Evil Jack 'Daddy' ( from the bad ending of BS1 ) , and Eleanor looking for 'Mommy' to rescue her ... ( THERE THAT is a Proper 'Twist' ). Jack would have fried Sofia on the spot if she tried to pull her little power hungry psychological escapades on him. ( Actually, that IS a pretty good 'alternate universe' plot with sufficient inventive Twisty-ness ). 
Problem is that 'Jack' is mentally a child, so hearing the Audio Diaries/Radio messages between Jack and young Eleanor might be rather odd " NOOOO, You Poopy Head !!!" "That's What You Are, But What Am I ??" "THOSE ARE MY TOYS, NOT YOURS !!!" "You touched Fontaine's Skull ... I'm Tellin " etc...
Tiny Hints of that 'Twilight Zone' episode with the 6 year old child with god powers ...
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THE 'Oliver' TWIST : May I have some more Choice Please Sir ???? :
At any time YOU (the Player) had the 'CHOICE' to say NO to Atlas - to his mind control and his getting YOU to commit crimes for him ???
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Give Jack a Choice ( But Fate Still Goes Forward ) :
Jack is 'led by the nose' around Rapture by Atlas - Player is FORCED by game writers to KILL THE 'EVIL RYAN' - all for a rather lame mid-game plot 'Twist'.
 
Unfortunately, there is No (better) possibility offered in the original game for an 'Internal Conflict in Jack' -- IF the Player figures out he's being 'used' ( It might detract from the simpleton's slaughter-fest shooter game I guess - After all, sophisticated/superior games like that ARE Fairly hard to write. )
See the evidence that Atlas isn't quite as he appears, leave open the clues, and let the Player try to evade their Fate.
The "ATLAS IS FONTAINE !!!" moment can still be there. With a Ryan still bent on 'showing' HE is a Man, NOT a Slave ...
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Noir - "Obituary For A Rotten Fish" ( NON-Faux-Everything Noir version of Burial At Sea DLC ) 
Story of a Murder-Drowning which leads to exposure of 'Underworld' involvement in Smuggling
A 'morality play' even in the gray areas of Society ( brings awareness and new vigilance of the public to such things ).
Drunk Bum P.I. detective tries to be Too Smart and gets a watery grave for his troubles, but the caper is brought to the attention of City Authorities.
The obligatory Femme Fatale character is really only a plot diversion, in the end she 'takes the rap'.
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Eyes Wide Open Plot :
If you weren't so disoriented and (game) ignorant when you normally start playing BioShock, you might quickly start seeing what a charade it all was. Wouldn't that be a more interesting Psychodrama -- Where YOU don't trust Atlas almost from the start. It WOULD be a bit different, IF in the background right-from-the-first you heard the song "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" playing ... .
Have a proper Lighthouse scene when Jack arrives : First, there are all the bodies of the plane passengers floating about ( you know, the ones YOU murdered by Hijacking the plane ). Perhaps some cries for help out in the distance which eventually stop as those injured people in the water drown.
When Jack get to the Lighthouse, he sees the remains of some Earlier Citizens who managed to take the Bathysphere up to the Lighthouse got out and then ??? The nearest land is 300+ miles away across a freezing ocean. The supply boats don't come any more. The short ranged Bathyspheres only go back and forth between the Lighthouse and the Welcome Center dock ( and aren't really submarines anyway ). The people who thought to escape are stuck. The Bathyspheres suddenly resubmerge, called back by the system to Welcome Center for more people who are still trampling each other, thinking they are escaping. Anyone not quick enough/unlucky falls in the freezing water. Jack, when he arrives, is met inside the Lighthouse by pathetic piles of skeletons/bones, some obviously well gnawed. There is evidence of some attempts to light fires ( using wads of paper Ryan dollars ) and to build shelter. Piles of useless luggage is left forlorn and abandoned or as ashes ( good Looting fun there ... ). There are signs of past struggles, apparently of new 'escapees' rising to The Surface and being seized by the starving people already there and being dismembered. An Audio Diary contains screams and someone yelling "Damn You Atlas!!" and "Nooooooooo!!!!". 
Isn't it a good thing that after that Ryan locked down that Bathyspheres ?
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FONTAINE THE LIAR :
Atlas starts saying how bad Rapture has gotten ( people going violently crazy, etc ... ), but it might not have been quite as bad as he makes it. HE has to vilify Ryan, and we KNOW later he is a liar, so now we might question how much any of it was true ( and look for the truth elsewhere ). We likely went through unstable areas, or else we would have run either into Ryan's organized security, or some of Rapture's still normal people, who would have exposed Atlas/Fontaine's lie almost immediately ( as well as be extremely dangerous for him ).
A REDO Of the First Bioshock game where you have alternate paths and clues and NOT the one sided manipulation of the writers. REAL multiple endings ...
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Atlas : "Now You've Met Andrew Ryan..." :
Try to re-envision it as bit like : Some punk who just shot up part of a small town being cornered and facing the no-nonsense Sheriff, who is asking "Why did a shit like you come to my town ?". Ryan could have killed Jack (you) at virtually any point in the game, but didn't, which might be a clue that he already knew who/what YOU were, and was 'playing' the conman Atlas with his OWN pawn ( a far better 'Twist' for the story THAT would have been ).
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The Idea of Individualism Could Work In a City State ( Which Rapture Was ) Within Its Limited Scope :
The game's writers unfortunately often tried to portray Rapture bigger than it was ( which certainly was also done for Columbia, the flying Police State cultist village ).
Revisiting ( redoing/revising/massively-correcting/rationalizing ) Columbia in the MMORPG Redo can set straight alot of things. Cutesy bright portrayal 'hiding a darkness' is ignorance of how such a society is in the Real World where the oppression impacts the 'oppressors' as much as the 'oppressed'. 
Rapture too will be 'improved' from its original Solo Game's form and presentation. The game(s) showed so little of Rapture and its Society ( both in extent and detail ), because of the gamemaking limitations ( it WAS created starting in 2003 after all ). Flashbacks to 'the Golden Age' would be a big part of the MMORPG.
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Doom in Rapture : 
IDEA - Redo that Iconic game 'Doom' (the original) in a Rapture setting ( same primitive '3D' graphics - playable on most smart phones ... )
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Lots of DLC (included in the MMORPG) : 
Big Sisters start coming through Tears to steal children from Columbia.
Was THIS the NEXT DLC they had planned ??? ( Who cares. WE can have it !!! )
INVASION COLUMBIA !!! Play as a Big Sister or as a Handyman ???? Lots of Police and Civilian Collateral Target.
Perhaps Multiplayer Played in the Columbia Cityscape that lying Trailer showed ...
WATCH OUT FOR SONGBIRD !!
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Show What Really Happened in Those 'Orphanages' :
Expose some real crimes against humanity (Rapture's citizens) which Fontaine Perpetrated.
MMORPG Details Not To Be Overlooked :
A creepy chalkboard seen in Fontaine Futuristics might be a planned 'improved' ADAM production method utilizing vats of human blood fed into restrained bloated Little Sisters and some 'milking' mechanism to retrieve the ADAM.
Some verbiage about mass deliveries of corpses (for draining) could be there also. As well as some Excited large sign printed (underlined) with "4 X The AVERAGE Production !!" being seen there ( A nice huge chart with various escalating abuse of the 'symbionts' and their effects/yield ... "2 X PAIN == 3 X ADAM" ).
Another might cover using electrodes (and other methods) to 'Stress' the embedded Sea Slugs into producing more venom ( the substance from which ADAM chemicals are extracted ). Affects on the Symbiont Child might be minimized by continuous sedation or even lobotomization Ken Levines fave phobia, or having a large part of their brain removed.
What other fiendish things could Fontaine have tried ( and used if they actually worked ) ???
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Andrew Ryan Death Scene :
Inspired by a 'Infinite BS Most Violent Death Vid' :
Ryan with Jack : "You take the club and bend your knees like this and swing through your body. Now let me position my Head on the Tee down here, and lets see if you can do this right, Son ..."
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Sander Cohen, King of Rapture : ( Flashbacks don't actually have to be real ... )
It turns out that Sander Cohen was the real mastermind behind Fontaine's and Ryan's (and even Lamb's) demise ( playing them off each other ). You try to kill him, but like Dracula, he keeps coming back. Pretty soon all of Rapture is filled with his 'Plaster-pieces' and all the Ryan Statues are now wearing bunny ears. Gil Alexander ( "the Not so Great" ) is recruited to create giant rabbit Splicers to be 'proper' subjects in this new 'Cohen Kingdom without Doubters' under the Sea. TVs all suddenly show nothing but repeats of 'The Black Dream' which within it had encoded Cohen's plans for World Domination. Rumors of his 'Viking Funeral' were much exaggerated.
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Splicers in LA (Noir With A Twist) :
Use Rockstar's already existing game Assets ( "LA Noire" 2011, "GTA: San Andreas" 2005 ), and fancy them up. The LA Noire period is the late 1940s, and just needs a slight push into the early 50s and the ADAM-Era.
Keep the "Bio" from BioShock, but NOW WITH HIGH SPEED CHASES !!! No SWAT nor touchy-feelie Police here to handle the menace - the Cops are ready to use their guns when facing Fireball spewing Freaks.
Somehow a group of Splicers get out of Rapture and go on a "Road Trip". It almost writes itself.
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A Disneyland Sized Rapture :
A Smaller Disneyland-ish sized city of Rapture (160 acres) 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile - Phase 1 - the Welcome Center section of the City was roughly this size, ( and NO, it was NOT built ontop of 'The Sinker' ).
More caricature than real -- would explain all those huge appearing buildings ( and being able to see 
Lights/Illuminations through the water - because things WERE ALOT closer together )
Human walking speed is about 3 mph -- you could walk across Mini-Rapture of that size (2500 feet) in ~10 minutes. 
An Average city block is about 300 feet, so Mini-Rapture would ONLY be about 9 blocks by 9 blocks in size.
Why have a train system (AE) when the entire city width is little more than just 1 stop of the New York City subway system ( a circular perimeter path like the train at Disneyland might be useful - even if THAT one is pretty useless as transportation ).
Even a Trolley system is barely warranted ... Maybe a 'People-Mover', or a moving sidewalk system ?? Bathyspheres might as well fly thru water tubes connecting buildings - No need for complex/expensive Airlocks ( might as well have been a Pneumatic driven system ).
With 40+ story buildings ( seen thru the 'artistic' BioShock window views ), they would be about in height 1/5th the width of the 'city'.
Did Walt Disney's spies give him a glimpse at Rapture, which convinced him to build his own fantasy world only a few years after Rapture (~1954) ???? Trains, submarine rides, Ghosts, its own money, Trolleys, brightly colored fluids, futuristic decorations, weird mutant things wandering the streets, Capitalism and making money the sole goal, Ruled over by one man ... Makes you think.
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Rapture would be a real '3D' maze if the city actually was ^^^ this shape (unfortunately, the walkthroughs don't reflect this).
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Some Theory ( expressed by some Splicers - one faction in particular ) that Rapture is actually underground, and the 'ocean' thing is being faked (RYAN NEVER LANDED ON THE OCEAN FLOOR!!!) -- conspiracy theories ( faked outside views thru windows ... ). 
You wander about only to discover you are in Sofia Lamb's Delusional UTOPIAN Matrix ( and you have been acting her stooge, beating 'Unbelievers to death to forward her agenda. After her attempt to seize control of all of Rapture had been thwarted by the several large Factions, she vengefully turned to wholesale murdering inhabitants in Rapture. )
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I should do one of my Maps of this Mini-Rapture -- Need a map all crushed together - well within a square mile.
((( unfortunately because of the sizes of the various ACTUAL levels, they soon would exceed the surface area and I would have to start stacking them (creatively) to get them to all fit. )))
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Rewarding 'Save' as much as 'Harvest' ( Dis-em-stupidifying writer sellout to the typical Player mentality )
It would have denied the Player access to the Plasmid/Tonics - which were a fundamental part of the Player actions. ( A way around that is needed ... )
Just thought of : Once you started Harvesting them you now had a Rep as a 'Lil Sis Killer', and the Daddies would attack you on sight (bad for you), and even Splicers would say nasty things about you. Tenenbaum could then really tell you off ( Yes, she was semi-autistic, but this might have been enuf for her to make YOU an exception ). 
Could you alternately 'play thru' with virtually no ADAM involvement ???? ( Would have to have perks - like 'Double Wielding' of Guns !!! )
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The Manson Family Role Playing Game :
GREAT potential to make an interesting "The Rapture Family" roleplaying campaign in the MMORPG.
* Learn what that whole thing was REALLY about. Things that Levine & Co couldn't show (but would be obvious to the unfortunate people who fell under the sway of Lamb's murderous regime).
* Sofia Lamb's followers who murdered 'unbelievers' ( In the MMORPG, we'll expand on the bloody goodness that we saw only hints of in Infinite BS, and what other shenanigans Lamb used to coerce obedience ). You wonder what all those devices in the Sanitarium were for ? Well they were added AFTER Sofia took over the place.
* Many of Lamb's followers had to be thugs to enforce her decrees, now that's your path to success !!!
* Move up the ranks by selling out (informing on) your fellow 'Family' ( talk them into sacrificing themselves "For The Good Of The Family" to earn PRIZES !!! ) Quotas Quotas Quotas ... and Lambs Five Month Plans.
* Forced labor to actually feed her followers -- productivity was not likely high when their brains are addled not just by ADAM but by Lamb's Collectivist Circlejerk 'Philosophy' ( our day's North Korean population might look prosperous and well fed by comparison ). 
* Famous historic event/scenes where the 'Lambites'/Lambistas were defeated and thrown back by the coalition of Rapture Factions (alot of people in Rapture never fell for Lamb's Deluded Rantings). Witness the full story of Lamb's thwarted ambitions.
* Witness Lamb's many failed (and horrendous) "Utopian" experiments - her delusional projects and their human cost.
* That final scene where Delta gets his hands around Sofia Lamb's neck ( it will always be questioned whether she was already dead when Delta lobotomized her with his drill ... ).
* Babblers in the Persephone Asylum ranting about multiverses and giant pigeons ( crazed uniformed Splicers, Ghosts and Sofia's missing finger ) -- There's a reason why Sofia Lamb no longer went near all those violent ones who were STILL securely locked up.
* Gil Alexander's Full tragic Story ( A True Believer Betrayed )
* YOU can Rule as one of Lamb's local Commissars ( like Grace did at that minor dumping site at Paupers Drop ). Meet your Quotas and avoid being Utopian-ized ...
* Learn Why Tenenbaum cooperated with "Zeus" to send Delta to eliminate Sofia Lamb (a deal she couldn't refuse).
* Sinclair's Journey, Death and Rebirth
* In another Multiverse, Sofia's name was Charlie, and was another murderous manipulator.
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Stupid Absurd Alternate Raptures ( Greater Artist's License ) :
Wild West themed, Roman themed, Medieval themed, The full 'Westworld' treatment ...
1893 SteamPunk ( But please don't try to explain the 'Sy-ance' - and don't be so limited when it is Fantasy anyway - ALLOW creativity and imagination without the need to preach about some simplistic/cliche view of History ).
Turns out it was all a Dream (*cliche warning*), and so "AR" wasn't Shot ? So many far less absurd details can be employed telling such a story.
Nazi run Rapture "Entrückung", Cat run Rapture, Clown Rapture, EVIL Clown Rapture, Running-Backward Time Rapture, RAP-ture ...
Imagination can go wild .... 
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Another Little 'Plot Twist' :
Rosalind Lutece playing with her new 'Tear' thingee (device/whatever), and she attaches to Rapture ( that seemed to happen alot for some reason - Probably because of the dimensional eddy caused by Dr. Suchong saying that the Vita-Chamber hype about 'Quantum Entanglement' (and whatnot) was a bunch of "BULLSHIT !!" ). 
SUDDENLY a hook-wielding Splicer comes through and eviscerates Rosalind ( this IS long before Columbia was built or Rosalind becoming one of those convenient Dimensional 'gods' ). Thus 'the nightmare is ended' ( all the painful Infinite/BaS stuff never takes place ), and just for fun --- the crazy female Splicer just so happens to be ...... Sally's mother ( she's an 'orphan' ... remember ).
Perp Poster seen in the Universal Transdimensional Accord Enforcement Police station : mugshot of Rosalind Lutece, charged with "Criminal Meddling" and "Damaging of Timelines" - with "Deceased/Obliterated" written across it.
Now Rapture can get back to ITS story without contamination from that later lame game ...
Sooooo many dimensions, soooo fatal to the stupid !!!
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Then The Splicer wakes up and swears off drinking fermented Barnacle juice ...
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A MORE REALISTIC Story :
It might have been interesting to hear Fontaine start issuing decrees - as Atlas) once he 'had control' of Rapture in BS1. But then maybe there still were alot of people around who didn't like him ( who knew he was their enemy ), and Rapture wasn't quite as automatically controlled ( Rapture's/Ryan's supporters still did alot of work running things including mechanisms like operating the Pheromone Control system ).
Perhaps with Ryan not being dead, and the whole 'Genetic Key' being largely fake/useless to Fontaine, there were alot of frustrating things that Fontaine did NOT really have control over at that point.
Fontaine (revealed in the mid-game 'Twist') says he was planning to leave Rapture and take the ADAM technology with him to The Surface, and possibly he would still be keeping his head down while trying to arrange that. It all can be spelled out in the MMORPG Canon-Cleaned Story with the Players finding clues to many of the things (stories/history/explanations) that we never REALLY heard about, or only for which we got vague hints and faulty opinions about.
Of course. if Ryan HAD faked his own death ( which would have been far more logical and Epic storywise with THE BIG REVEAL at games end), Fontaine may have eventually discovered that he really controlled very little, and was only being 'set up' (resulting in his turning in desperation to his Plan C -- of Splicing himself up ).
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IOOP :
Someone somewhere suggested that the IOOP (International Order Of Pawns from SitS) might be the basis for the plotline of BS3. I could see them in the MMORPG making some possible appearances, showing up in Rapture and most frequently drowning, being killed by Splicers, wandering around lost, taking one good look and then leaving as fast as they possibly can. A few 'Pawn Cards' might be found laying in places, with no sign of whoever brought them along.
For that proposed BS3 plot, Lutwidge is supposed to 'rebuild Rapture' (heh) and then the Pawns fight amongst themselves as Factions, and you are one of them, with more Tenenbaum for help, and 'Moral Choices' and doing stuff for the other Pawns to get them to side with you, and alot of other stuff derivative from BS1.
I'll stick with the MMORPG for BS3, as being an expansion rather than a revisitation.
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Fakery - That's The Ticket !! :
BioShecky : A creepy Pseudo-Hebrew temple in a Flying Communard Hell - Hey Kenny, if you wanted "Authentic Diversity" for your dystopia, that woulda made a sufficiently strange place for you to contrive, no ? (( Different from the crop of Politically Correct games these days, no ? )) Pharisees and Gulags - Yeah that would have been much more 'relevant'. What better target for criticism than the self-proclaimed "Chosen People", no ? You claim not to know much about religion, but that didn't stop you from heaping YOUR Bullshit up in that game upon YOUR own strange idea of Faux-Christianity, did it ? But it was PC PC == 'Political Correctness' - the hypocritical revision of the past and current society to suit leftist ideological goals-safe ($$$) to go after American Christianity with your strawmen and fakery and ignorance, no ?
But But But, it really wasn't real cuz you didn't mention Jesus Christ once in the story ? That's right Kenny, Chistianity IS actually about Jesus, but your faulty faux facade of so many cliche forms of things typically associated with Christianity to 'make believe' -- That cannot be dismissed. 
The truth is Ken : Your crap has little to do with real Religion or History in America, and actually more with YOUR worship of Mammon ( Your $cam to make believe your game was 'socially relevant', selling out all honesty just to make a buck ).
Andrew Ryan points his finger and Says : "Parasites will be Parasites", AND Then to the rest of us : "Make A Better Game".
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Historic Tidbit : "Savants" :
Early BioShock game story had the Player's main opponent being 'Brains in Jars' called "Savants" which apparently didn't pan out (obviously) - Supposedly not offering much in the way of gameplay. (( Wasn't there a 1960s Star Trek episode like that ? ))
That was back when 'System Shock' was the game's model. 
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Odd Fan-made Variations ( Creations of Amusing Alternates ) :
* 'My Little (pony) Rapture' (copyright ... ooops)
* Rapture as occupied by Anthropoidal Cats
* If Sander Cohen had created Rapture ... ( why do the Bathyspheres have bunny ears ? )
* 'Vampire Rapture' (Vampire Columbia might've made more sense)
* '1900 Rapture' ( 1912 Rapture built in the hull of the sunk Titanic ????? Ick, Steampunk... Nemo cliches )
* 'Nazi Rapture' ( Zombies too ?? Nazi Zombies are the Best !!! )
* 'Clown Rapture' ist Verboten.
* 'D & D' - the Duke and Dimwit Roleplaying Game
* If they want Tentacles, then THEY are going to have to do the Asset animation work themselves ...
* Yes, if they really have to, they can wear that dress of Elizabeth's, and Sofia can come and smother THEM ( there will be an "Emote" for it ) ...
Even if only small representative sections were created, it is something many Players would be interested in seeing/visiting (once) - a "Museum of Ironic, Strange and Bizarre Things". Variable Game Mechanics are fully possible in my proposed modular MMORPG system.
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Pressure Effects (One Of The Original Concept For Rapture - Attempting to Redo SystemShock) :
Pressure Inside was to close to the outside Water Pressure - The buildings then DON'T have to be built so massively strong ( no longer built like Nazi WW2 'Fortress Europa' Bunkers ). Unfortunately the pressure in different parts would vary significantly ( A Depth different of 30 feet results in ONE Whole Atmosphere of Pressure ). SO verticality of the inhabited spaces would be a problem. They had some interesting atmospheric effects planned, until they learned the limitations of the Third-Party Game Engine they planned to use.
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IF Ambient Pressure was used, Transitioning between inside and outside (in the water) would likewise be simplified ( instead of needing airlocks with very strong vault-like doors ). Windows likewise wouldn't have to be 2 feet thick. The same problem though existed if you move up or down (depth) in the water - the varying pressure ( 1 atmosphere difference for about each 30 feet ) would have significant effect.
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If Rapture had had such high pressure areas ( like they considered originally ), then the denser air would make the Flybot alot easier to actually work. As it is in normal air, they have to be quite lightweight to do anything like what they are shown to do. Limited duration because of weight of fuel.
Air under high pressure also reacts chemically different - flames can get alot more oxidizer, so burn almost explosively.
Of course, whoever visited Rapture would have to adapt or wear cumbersome pressure suits ( the original plan was for far greater mutation of the inhabitants (more alien), which was probably quashed because of the game animation difficulties of people who are only half anthropomorphic ( Tentacles are HARD to animate well ).
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Back to the Shire :
A "Brilliant Plan" by Sofia Lamb ... ( Hmm, a 'Rap' quality 'rhyme' that ) to turn all of humanity into Hobbits to alleviate the problem of World's Resource Shortages, and to reduce the average IQ to 83 to make them all the more malleable to her Rule ( She DID start more and more looking and talking like SarumanEvil Dude From "Lord of the Rings" ... )
Asset Template tuning parameters for NPC Body/Figure Attributes would make the Mode Settings for this 'Dream' fairly easy. An 'All-Pony' version would be far harder.
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Weird Place In/Near Rapture - 'Leviathan Awaits' :
( Idea is from a Movie by that name. )
A section of buildings pressurized to ambient sea pressure (~20 Atm) open to the ocean ( possibly expanded into shipwreck hulls ... why not ? )
Weird (real) effects at that high pressure - sound travels oddly thru the thicker air, water-vapor condenses much easier, visible vapors. It is almost an alien environment ( different enough to surprise the player who enters it ).
An Oxygen environment is much more explosive at that pressure ( don't try smoking cigarettes - we are still trying to figure out how Jack/Delta in Daddy suits were able to smoke ... ).
Inhabitants would do alot of fishing, but the water is still frickin cold. ( I recall a bucket in AE Depot with a fishing rod, but that really only works there if you fished in the airlock chambers - but lights do attract fish at that depth ... )
Plants to generate the needed oxygen ( water electrolysis for emergencies ). Lights - could have mostly bioluminescence because electrics don't like the dampness. Still tapped into the utility power systems (Heat is good). Clothing woven out of seaweed - could be done.
You cannot visit except in a diving hardsuit ( eventually there are ones you can access ). Nitrogen Narcosis and Oxygen Toxicity can quickly be fatal.
Big Daddies can get to this place, but don't seem able to fix it ( to pressure seal and restore it to normal pressure ).
'Gill' people ?? Not needed. People there might not even be Splicers ( actually got away from Rapture's mayhem ... )
Big Daddy type genetic Tonics/Plasmids might have been needed for inhabitants to exist at this pressure.
Why visit them ?? Some contrived trade mission for something they have/can get which isn't easy for us "low-pressure-dwellers" ...
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More/Better Game Ending Stuff :
I find it highly illogical : Why should Ryan, when he was winning the Civil War/Rebellion over Atlas ( had turned most Splicers against Atlas or pacified them ) and had a chance to rebuild Rapture, suddenly give up ?? It is contrary to everything we've seen or heard about Ryan. ( No, burning a forest down is NOT equivalent to committing Suicide ).
What good does it do to 'show' someone who is a mind-controlled slave ( To make some philosophical point ) ??? ( Ryan apparently had worked out about that WYK compulsion ). Just grab Jack, deprogram him, THEN show him what a 'Man' is.
They also ruined what could have been the BEST/SUPERIOR 'Twist' of the BS1 game - Ryan faking his own death (as Fontaine did), turning Atlas's Pawn loose to go after Atlas, and then telling Atlas before he was killed how he figured it all out long before -- that he let Jack get thru to him all along, and HAD 'played' (fooled) Fontaine the whole time. Ryan lets Jack 'kill him', but there ARE those Vita-Chambers, OR in Jack's psychotic state let Jack THINK he killed Ryan ( a nice animatronic dummy - like the ones in Ryan Amusements ) and then hand over a FAKE control key ... Jack then bird-dogging Atlas for Ryan, who then sends swarms of Splicers/Flybots to finish the criminal PARASITE off ...
Jack could still have gone to The Surface, and had that little 'moral choice' consequences stuff -- Keep the soppy 'Good Jack' ending, the world-threatening 'Evil Jack' ending ( OR better ones with 'good' Jack staying to help rebuild Rapture -- Ryan's plan to get rid of ADAM (Raptures curse), or leave Rapture to make his way in the World -- like a 'Man' deciding for himself ('Evil' ending ?) )
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Suggested Humorous Alternate BS2 Endings :
* Eleanor kills Sofia Lamb, who is Ryan in Drag, and 'he' is reconstituted down in Rapture ( his special homing beacon/amplifier for the special Resurrection Vita-Chamber function - He's been working on for 7+ years ). 'The Rapture Family' was a ploy to get all the Parasite types to 'off' themselves down in that seedy Southern section of Rapture, while the good citizens are all up in the Northern part rebuilding his Utopia.
* Delta is actually Eleanor's mother ?? "Eleanor I AM YOUR MOTHER !! NO REALLY ..."
* BS2 Inconclusive Ending X : Player never progresses no matter how Eleanor whines or Sofia lambastes him. He becomes the King of Dionysus_Park/Paupers Drop/Olympus Heights/or other ... and never has anything to do with those people who got him killed in the first place. Remember, all Alphas don't necessarily die when they 'lost' their Little Sisters, and are you not insane enough already after slaughtering so many Splicers ( or just being a Zombie to begin with ) ?? This is Similar to a possible ending for BS1, where Jack slacks off and just decides to run Fort Frolic himself, after off'ing Sander Cohen, and never goes on to kill Ryan (who can then go on to rid the city of Fontaine, and then take care of Sofia Lamb as well).
* As The Little Sister in Outer Persephone, you (possessed by Delta) shove a pointy stick into the back of Sofia Lamb's head, as she sits at her desk contemplating how to murder all the "Unbelievers" in The Surface World ( when she gets there ). Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead..., and the grateful remaining people elect Delta their King. And everyone lives happily ever after ( Eleanor gets to 'Go to Paris' ... )
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One of 'Those' Ideas :
Previously mentioned : Being able to play in Rapture in the 'Golden Era', and also having some interesting "Noire" type adventures in that setting ( New Rapture isn't quite to that point yet, and Constables are more concerned with keeping vermin invasions from 'the Ruins' under control ).
Constable DeWitt, ex-Army, ex-Pinkerton, works for Andrew Ryan's City Order Enforcement Unit, keeping down the low-life elements and criminals of the City. 
He gets a toothache and after accidentally taking some tainted Dental Tonic has a strange fever dream about a Floating City ( floating on water ) where all kinds of disturbing idiocy happens, with lots of pseudo-science babble and some pretty Girl keeps setting off fireworks and handing him stuff, and there is some preposterous overhead crane that doesn't seem to go anywhere. A large mechanical pigeon menaces him and he wakes up. Good thing he is in sane Rapture where everything is normal and plain and portends a great future.
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Rapture Noir ( Previously Mentioned as a Feature in the Game ) :
"There's a million stories in Rapture City. this is just one of them."
Rock Flanagan P.I.
Ad for Research Camera "Keep up! Buy one today!" ( amazing piece of technology, made cheap enough to sell as a consumer item ).
Another 'Detective' is on the trail of a homicidal maniac cutting a swath through Rapture. The mass killings and destruction follows this fiend as he moves from place to place. Of course it is Jack you are trailing and finally catch up with. Why you fail has more to do with a bad Fish Taco than your skill as a detective ...
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PVP Side-Games (MP - Independent - It Won't Interact With Main Game) :
New Rapture TOO Peaceful For You ?? Wanna just shoot something ? Well, we can take care of that :
We would have the required 'MMO'( Massively MultiPlayer Online ) technology ( isolated Server Bubbles, modular scenery/Objects, Tools ) ...
Alot of games with MP lately have ridiculous artificial 'skill'/tech advancement gimmicks which have little to do with actual Player skill. They often have a weird unrealistic speedup of physical movements to feed many (Dumbed-Down) Player's crack-monkey conditioned mentality ( and BTW exaggerating internet latency/lag issues). Why ? Its GOOD ($$$) for Companies who sell cheap rubbish for the least-common-denominator, and don't see any need to simulating anything that approaches reality or even offers real challenges for Players.
This MMORPG would make use of the same primary game mechanics ( and players experience level from the main game ), and because the Players have real human opponents ( tricky, clever, unpredictable ) they will be challenged much further than by any AI.
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Name Dropping Will BE Rampant :
HMS Hood ( the famous WW2 ship/sinking ) went down not too far from where Rapture is located. The wreck is near a depth of 2 miles ( 10 times deeper than Rapture ).
Another coincidence - The German Battleship Bismark a few days later, when it was sunk ( much further to the East ), slid down the side of an ancient underwater volcano and came to rest 15000 feet down.
Map ( small insert lower middle ) http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1079/dialametro.png DEFUNCT <<<<
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"RATure" - an All Rodent Version of BioShock :
Idea based on a typo seen in a posting in the forums. Why couldn't some Player create a few scenes/sequences mimicking the original Bioshock with sufficiently mutated NPCs and CHEESE in place of ADAM ??? Choreographed scenes with some Player interactions. "A RAT CHOOSES BUT A MOUSE OBEYS!!!" Someone needs to stop peeling random mushrooms off the walls and eating them. 
'Pony Rapture' is a bit too problematic, with all the trademark/copyright issues ...
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Columbia Infinite';s "Cameo" for Rapture :
You are 'tooling around' in your lil' Sub prospecting and you come upon a weird sunken 'City' that once looked like it was supposed to float in the Sky ( now at the bottom of the sea mere miles from one of Raptures outlying communities ). And on finding it, the Rapture City authorities dig up the information of it having been built by some madman way back at the turn of the century, who never actually 'got it to fly' ( for obvious reasons ), and it barely even floated on the Ocean's surface. It had drifted around in the Atlantic for years having declared itself to be a 'Sovereign State' and became home to a crazy bunch of rich people ( and their sycophants ) who ALL used way too many hallucinogenic drugs. Eventually it sank in a Storm in the North Atlantic near the Denmark Straight taking all its inhabitants to Davy Jones Locker.
A place Sander Cohen would probably have loved to be King of ...
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Alternate Realities (What Might Have Been) With MP? :
As Jack, part of the way thru the BS1 game, you were spliced-up/equipped enough to take on the multitudes of Splicers. You could have made yourself the Boss in those places and never been goaded on to Kill Ryan ( after you smashed the radio after getting sick of hearing Atlas's whiny manipulative voice ). You could have made a very nice living there in that corner of Rapture while Ryan finally cornered and eliminated Atlas/Fontaine, and then started to rebuild his City.
The proposed MMORPG game mechanism could support running World reality 'bubbles' like that scenario. Alot of the game processing runs in your Client anyway ( possibly including NPC AI, etc... ), but now improved with more details and interactive objects, and no longer those one dimensional (kill kill kill) NPCs to deal with. The largely static 'Levels' could be 'baked' to limit Server processing a great deal.
Come to think of it, with the MMORPG having all the Assets recycled from BS1/BS2/Minerva's Den, you could using the same method, replay all the way thru those SOLO games in an ***Enhanced*** experience -- as a side activity Super-Flashback. Because such could be produced early/initially for the MMORPGs game startup, it would serve as something to keep Players going while alot of other expansion content is still being produced/perfected by the Players Asset Creation Community. ( ..... Thinking about it, : it could be used as part of the Beta testing of the Player Produced Assets and basic game mechanics. )
Hmm, Cooperative Play ?? Small group (local) campaign 'Server'...
The Achievement of making yourself the 'Boss' in each of the Solo levels (Jack). Watch out, the Splicers are trickier than they were in those Solo games ...
A Campaign of Delta 'conquering' each of the levels before you reach Sofia Lamb ( and giving her 'The Drill' ), and then after wiping out/subjugating most of her minions, simply taking over ( "Hey Eleanor - Now we can do things properly here", "Here's a Sub, have fun on The Surface" ... ). Campaign would have you have various 'control' goals' and sub-missions to consolidate your infrastructure and resources for your 'takeover' -- with some simple strategy game ( RTS ) elements which have you moving symbolic units on the Rapture map to counter/surround/eliminate Lambs forces/territory - and YOU ( the walking tank ) show up for the 'hard' situation. 
Hmm, sounds like a Mod variant THEY might actually be able to do ( WELL short of this MMORPG Project ).
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What if Rapture was Run by Nazis ? :
It would be exactly the same ... NO.
I'm sure, some (ignorant) people would see the way Ryan ran Rapture as being like a little Hitler (the knee-jerk label version anyway)... EXCEPT -- WE ONLY see it ( and a biased view most of the time, at that ) during a wartime when strong measures HAD to be made (by Ryan) to keep the Citizens/City safe/alive -- Consider the "war measures" FDR/Churchill had to make to win WW2 ...
Anyway, an Alternate : 'Splicer-Nightmare-Vision' version of Rapture -- just for fun ( and creativity to keep the players interested ). I mean if Call of Duty (CoD) could have Nazi Zombies, why can't we have "Die Unterwasser-Reich" ( The Underwater Reich ) ???
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Someones Hypothesis - Jack Ain't Jack ! :
Jack isn't actually Ryan's son, or the child Fontaine and Suchong grew and programmed ... He's just an escaped mental patient who does things people tell him to.
While 'Jack' DID obey Fontaine's and Ryan's orders when he was given the 'WYK' phrase, he also obeys Dr. Langford to get the Lazarus Vector components, Sander Cohen to murder people to get their pictures, Peach Wilkins to risk his life to take research photos of Spider Splicers, and Tenenbaum to turn himself into a Big Daddy simply to get through one door, when he could have tried using dynamite instead... All without one of them using the code phrase.
Its quite possible that the 'real' Jack tried hijacking the plane only to have a demented mass murderer eat him, and wear his clothes. Then 'Crazy Jack' went into Rapture and pretty much filled the same role as the 'real' Jack would have. Fontaine failed because his supposed puppet wasn't really a puppet ... just some crazy guy who kills people as soon as look at them, unless they ask him to fetch stuff. 'Crazy Jack' is probably a drug addict since he has no qualms about sticking countless needles into his arms.
The reason the Bathyspheres let Jack move around is because the so-called 'sensors' that excluded anyone except Ryan from using them were made by the lowest bidder, did not work too well and were easily Hacked, and really just let anyone move around ... Atlas could move around to help you, and Sander Cohen could mess with them as well.
The heart troubles from the 'Code Yellow' phrase was just the natural result of all that Splicing and eating cheap food off of burned corpses, catching up with Doppelganger Jack ( Tenenbaum's attempt to remove programming from his brain - that was never there in the first place - might have been a factor as well ).
And Ryan wasn't actually controlling Crazy Jack during the cutscene ... Crazy Jack was just playing around until Ryan asked him to beat his head in.
He (Jack) seems able to use the Vita-Chambers because he's just imagining them, because he IS utterly insane. That's why nobody else mentions or uses them.
He saves the Little Sisters, not because of any sudden attack of conscience, but because he's a psychopath who wants more playthings when he returns to The Surface.
Such fun ideas are endless in this game genre.
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Someones Hypothesis - Jack Isn't "Hacking" the Cameras/Bots, but Instead is Fixing Them :
The Security Scanners/Flybots/Turrets are designed to recognize Ryan's DNA (like the Vita-Chambers). When things went all chaotic, Ryan set them all to "Kill Everyone but Me", to keep rogue Splicers from roaming freely through Protected areas. But the Splicers frequently managed to reverse them to "Kill Nobody but Me (Ryan)", which is why they attack Jack and nobody else. Jack is simply restoring them to their intended program settings.
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Someones Hypothesis - Jack is Hallucinating Both BS1 Endings :
He really got killed when Fontaine became More Plasmid than Man. Jack was actually lying on the ground, imagining that he was 'Saving' the Little Sisters, or 'Taking over the World', while he slowly died.
The World doesn't end ( Something in the Sea, years later ) and alot of Little Sisters are never saved ( Lots of Big Sisters ). Fontaine ? He either imploded from sooooo much ADAM, or Ryan used Jack as a bird-dog, and had his Security exterminate Atlas/Fontaine ( blocking off and flooding that whole building would be sufficient ).
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Someone's Hypothesis of a Creepy Jack Ending :
The alternative to the "Creepy Jack Ending" - 'Bad Ending' Jack, having slaughtered all the remaining Little Sisters, needs to replenish his ADAM, and has started snatching little girls from The Surface ( the SitS events ). The red glow under the sea is a crazed Jack preparing his invasion of The Surface World.
Stranger is : Jack's dressing as a Large Purple Dinosaur, or wearing the skin-face of kindly Dr Langford while carrying out the kidnappings. Strangest : Oh Noooooos - Jack IS MERGED into am alternate Sofia Lamb !!!!!!!
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All Paths Lead To Ryan :
In BS1, perhaps the case is : We don't go through too many places which are under Ryan's secure control ( thus there exist other 'more-normal' places in Rapture, where things have been done to keep the citizens alive and secure ). Atlas/Fontaine wants to get Jack to Ryan intact, and running him through any competent opposition/security might not work out too well ( not just some flawed 'genetic' filtered security ). 
So our character is led along a path through the terrorist-disrupted/ruined/little-populated areas -- Places which semi-deranged Splicers still largely inhabit ( The Sane ones headed in the opposite direction from that Maniac (you) who is shooting/killing everything in sight ).
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Someones (Someone Else's) Hypothesis - Sander Cohen has Prosthetic Legs :
Cohen lost his legs before coming to Rapture. After receiving prosthetics, his movement remained very limited for a long time. He says he admired Finnegan's "carriage" not simply because he found him attractive, but because he envied Finnegan's agility and freedom of movement. After coming to Rapture, Cohen became paranoid that people were mocking him for his handicap, and this contributed to his insanity. He ultimately became a Houdini Splicer so he could get around faster. By the time BioShock takes place, he's gotten used to his prosthetics and can walk well enough, but his mobility once was so limited that if he ever tried to jump, he'd just fall flat on his face -- Hence his poem that "When I hop, I never get off the ground." Fitzpatrick openly made fun of Cohen for the loss of his legs, so, after going completely insane, Cohen plastered Fitzpatrick's legs to the piano bench as poetic justice.
(( Heh. ))
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El Dorado ( Tolkeinland ? ... in Ryan Amusements ) :
Oops, Copyright issues with that theme ...
Maybe keeping with the Mythological theme - a "Valhalla" theme instead
Though it might be Hard to beatAs hard as Beating-in the Skull of a Stone Bone Splicer . a Mezo-American theme with (pseudo) gold plating everywhere.
"Eldorado" was a goal that was never found.
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Creepy Scene (Delusions) 
Jack swinging the golfclub but not at Ryan's head - at Fontaine/Atlas (story fixes can put him in reach - easy-peasy).
Fontaine in a swivel chair tied/gagged - his head painted like a golf ball. I suppose the whole deflated shiney 'Atlas' god statue look - But remember that 'Pheromone' Thing ? Woulda worked SUPER GOOD on 'SuperSplicer' Atlas, no ? "Sit down and shutup Fontaine", and then Ryan's people arrive bringing Jack with them. And then the 'Lesson' is given to Jack.
The Really Epic 'Twist' was (in the MMORPG) Ryan from the start letting Fontaine think he was Playing his Con, all the while aiming Jack at Atlas to track Fontaine down.
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FISH-PEOPLE RAPTURE ??? :
IF ADAM had been discovered BEFORE Rapture (built) then everyone could have had an implant making the water/air pressure irrelevant then the people could walk about out in the ocean very easy (just scuba) and have much more open elements
Some creepy story about someone bit by a 'frog' and developing gills ?
Pressure resistance would entail the human body quickly removing gases in blood and body tissue on decompression to stop 'Bends' effect (Bendsbarotrauma (decompression sickness)) - bubbles forming in you body that fatally (and painfully) blocks the circulatory system.
NOTE - Same problem with TENTACLE animation is still there (Hard to do right , and pathetic looking when done badly).
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Rapture 1920s Style :
Actually, I think this image flavor (more Art Nouveau) is from "Metropolis" (1920s sci-fi movie). That Era predated Art Deco (which is defined as starting largely in 1925). 
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If Eleanor was truly to be Sofia's NEXT Utopian, then she might have ended up something like Gilbert_Alexander, or WORSE.
Sofia Lamb figured that "the body is a kind of slavery", and so for this next Utopian THAT imposition might be eliminated.
Success of course (in any parallel universe) was dubious, and Eleanor simply became like The Great OZ In Wizaed of Oz - the huge fake image used to make the man 'behind the curtain' seem more awesome. Actually, Infinitye BS has something similar to that. - a artificial spectacle run by someone "behind the curtain" (Sofia).
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A Whole Added Side-Game : Rapture In Space
A "Alternates" Player Developed Project.
Making use of all the primary game's developed game system and many Assets
A parallel universe alternate Rapture (with dif name as the Rapture/underwater connection doesnt make sense)
It does not have to be a huge game/story - the size of Minervas Den would be fine.
1950s Nostalgia, Cold Warhttps://www.conservapedia.com/Cold_War, and the Space Race for the politics and Philosophy aspects.
Retro 'V2' type spacecraft appearance
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==RIDDLE ME THIS RAPTUREMAN ... !!!!==
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