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Trivia: Booker DeWitt was named after the physicist Bryce DeWitt
Booker got his last name from the Bryce DeWitt who worked on the many worlds theory in quantum mechanics. See wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_DeWitt

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 * While many third-parties have made the connection between Bryce and Booker and the many-world theory, we would need someone from Irrational Games like Ken Levine to assure this was an intentional reference. --M ASEM (t) 03:50, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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Requested move 15 November 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: not moved, with the suggestion for to follow through on Ferret's comment. JudgeRM  (talk to me)  04:07, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

– Series has more than 3 video game articles now per WP:NCVG, set this page to be the secondary article. Neverrainy (talk) 03:07, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * BioShock → BioShock (video game)
 * BioShock (series) → BioShock
 * This is a technical request brought to full RM (permalink). — Andy W. ( talk ) 04:56, 15 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose move While we would normally put the non-disambig name for the series, in the case of the first BioShock game, it is likely more well-known in of itself rather than the series, and thus should take precedence. --M ASEM (t) 05:17, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose. WP:NCVGDAB No. 6's exception says (my emphasis in bold): "If a video game series has a naming conflict solely with the first game in the series, the series page should reside at the primary name if the series possesses a minimum of 3 video game articles as well as at least one other unrelated video game or related media item. Otherwise, the first game in the series should occupy the primary name, and the series article should be disambiguated with "... (series)". soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 09:18, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per Masem and Soertermans. Additionally, it might be time for someone to ask Neverrainy to stop unilaterally moving all the series pages with technical moves instead of proper move discussions. -- ferret (talk) 14:26, 15 November 2016 (UTC)


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HW requirements
I'm wondering, is there any particular reason why minimum HW requirements (for the PC version at least) are not listed? Actually pretty much for no game on wiki at all, as far as I noticed. That's one of the *most basic* facts I would expect a site called "encyclopedia" to carry about a video game, so is there anything behind it? Hard to imagine nobody ever got that idea… Behemot (talk) 06:54, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

WP:URFA/2020 notes and comments
As part of the Unreviewed featured articles sweeps, older promoted featured articles are being rechecked against current criteria and standards. I had some thoughts on this article: Pinging Masem, Ferret, Al83tito and Pale Autumn as major/recent contributors for input and thoughts. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 16:14, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * There's a lot of overlap between this article and BioShock (series), and I think as such a lot more could be summarized here versus given in a full list (arguably most of the related media, which could get folded into Legacy.)
 * Speaking of "Legacy", it's a pretty short section considering the game is still considered one of the greatest FPS of all time, and there's more sources that could be integrated that have come out since release.
 * I think the PC Technical issues and DRM section seems disproportionately large compared to the over-all article and could be summarized better; I don't think File:Bioshock widescreen.jpg likewise has a strong fair use rationale.
 * Some accreted "blow by blow" sections in the article, especially the ports bit.
 * There's some other organizational stuff I find weird, like sticking the bit about Jewish themes in at the end of development (when it really feels like it belongs in a themes section, which doesn't exist), stuff like limited editions, rereleases of the game not being included in the actual releases section, etc.
 * Prose could definitely use a touchup throughout.

Is BioShock an immersive sim?
It's been frequently called as a successor to System Shock, which makes sense considering that a chunk of its developers had previously worked on the series (System Shock 2 especially), but is it actually an Immersive sim? Razzamatazz Buckshank (talk) 02:59, 3 July 2023 (UTC)