11 Biggest Video Game Plot Holes You Can’t Explain

5. Bioshock - How Did Jack Survive On Land Without Any Parents?

So we know following the end of Bioshock that your playable character of Jack was a mind-controlled infant pre-programmed to return to Rapture at the right age, bringing with him the package that arrived on his doorstep at just the right age.

However, although it's established that he was given growth hormones at age two, the images and memories he has of his parents are implanted - so just how did he survive by himself after being marooned essentially as an infant?

Growth hormones are one thing, but did Andrew Ryan manage to encode all the necessary experiences usually imparted from the first 20-odd years of life into Jack too? Just what was he doing in the years between arriving on the surface and being summoned?

Sure you'll still have been reeling from the big expository-overload near the close of the game (or the terrible Fontaine boss fight) to pick up on this too much, but it seems like a plot point born from convenience rather than specificity.

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