8 Times You Failed To Be The Hero In Video Games

Bioshock Infinite, whilst being rip-roaring fun in its rewarding, swashbuckling action, also has a plotline in which protagonists Booker and Elizabeth make so many bad decisions you'll find yourself screaming "just grab some parachutes and jump off this awful sky city, for god's sake!"

There are so many seemingly sensible acts which in hindsight make everything markedly worse that it's easy to lose track of them all. When Booker first arrives in the city of Columbia, the logical opposite of Rapture in that it's in the sky, everything seems fine. Apart from the fact that it's, you know, a massively horribly racist paradise for total bastards. It turns out he's the man who has been prophesied to spell disaster for the place, and he plunges it into disaster within minutes of being there.

He then agrees to help arm an underground civilian resistance in exchange for safe passage out - noble in itself - but then when it turns out that the gunsmith they need to recruit is dead, Booker and Elizabeth resort to hopping between alternate realities (she can do that by the way). This just brings about more chaos, as the uprising becomes increasingly violent and it turns out that the big evil bad guy is an alternate version of Booker who was baptised and created Columbia as a religious zealot. Elizabeth turns out to be Booker's daughter and he sold her to the evil alternate version of himself to pay off a gambling debt. It's complicated.

The solution to all of this? Booker and Elizabeth travel back to the time of the baptism and Elizabeth drowns Booker, thus ensuring that none of the events of the game even happened. Oof.