I can't get into the new BioShock. It's not really its fault - it's mechanically great, very pretty, and overall the very definition of a good game. No, my problem with the thing lies with its premise.
For those couple cavemen who missed it, BioShock Infinite is about magical racist Christians (*wink wink nudge*) in the sky. They're led by an amalgam of Mohammed and Joseph Smith, and the game spares few expenses to keep shoving this in your face as you play. "See? Those idyllic-looking folks that look like a church emptied itself over the courtroom are RACIIIIST!!!" "Here, have some vaguely Christian-by-way-of-King-James fluff!" "Baptism/drowning, folks!"
It's for all the world like someone at Irrational took that
And that's not even mentioning the paranoid patriophobic wing of their Sky Museum.
So I can't get immersed at all. Maybe if Irrational had made clear that this is not Christianity, but rather a horribly twisted cult, it could have worked. But as it is, my suspension of disbelief fell from the skies even before I reached them ingame, with those self-important needleworks on the walls of the lighthouse.
From then on, I cannot take anything seriously. It's all just a set-'em-up knock-'em-down animatronic display with an Aesop I actively oppose, and I can't get more out of it than as a playground for explosions and casual looting.
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All that to ask, are there any titles that did this for you? Broke immersion before you really started by way of a ridiculous or offensive premise or story? And how (or how long) did you keep on going after?