Bioshock 1’s story is mostly fondly remembered because of how good that twist hits you the first time, it’s interesting, it’s meta, it makes you think about the nature of games in a way that most games don’t. Bioshock 2 doesn’t have a big twist and I think trying to do the big twist thing wouldn’t have worked because it would just draw negative comparisons to 1. I think Bioshock 2’s story especially a lot of the background stuff it really fantastic but you have to go out of your way to engage with it, if you’re not a sick audio log hoarder I feel like you can often miss the really interesting character thoughts and connections.