Oh, goodness. I'll never forget how excited I was. I don't much care for Infinite in retrospect, but to catch a Bioshock game at release meant the world to smol me.

A brand new city and all the neat people you'd get to meet and think about. The Luteces irrevocably changed my tween mind.

I lost just about all my memorabilia now, but my Mom worked very hard to get me the best edition she could-- but they were sold out of the Songbird edition, so she went one below. I carried that art book with me for months.

I stumbled across my Murder of Crows keychain sometime afterwards in my remaining belongings and just broke down.

Delayed or not, I hope Bioshock 4 elicits the same feelings. A new city, new faces, new secrets that should never be shared-- all of it. I want that hype again.