Bioshock ****ed me off early on because the only motivation for everything being done seemed to be “because it’s there”.

(Bioshock spoilers, blacked out to protect anyone who still cares)

Your plane crashes in the ocean, so naturally you swim to a nearby lighthouse. This seemed sensible. You then enter, climb inside a bathysphere and plunge yourself down into the murky depths to find an underwater city. This did not.

You then proceed to go on a rescue quest for some other guy’s family because he asked you nicely, along the way not questioning the zombie-like “splicers”, and not even pausing to consider your options before shooting yourself full of freakish chemicals that conveniently give you super-powers. Seriously, I didn’t even realise what it was, just stepped near the syringe and the next thing I knew it was in the character’s arm. All because it was there to be done

Apparently it is later explained by some bull involving hypnotically implanted suggestions and control words… read the wiki article it explains better than I can. but the whole thing just seemed like a giant railroading.