Bioshock -- the "sequel in spirit" to System Shock 2

http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1457/BioShock/p1

concept art.

the game is now rated M in the US. (surprisingly)

and look out for goatse:

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/coverartcontestwinners.html

(check for the wedding ring)

Mmmm. The game looks so tasty.

Bump since the demo is out. Anyone play it? If you pre-order this from Gamestop you get a soundtrack CD, a DVD and a figurine for $10 extra.

No, because I'm waiting for the game and don't need anything sullying the experience. But did anyone see that fucking incredible video they debuted on Spike TV? With the Bobby Darin song?

yeah, I'm skipping the demo too - but definitely planning on picking up the game. Is it out next week, or the week after?

8/21

And Toys R Us is apparently selling it now. Which means it'll be up on the torrent sites possibly today.

The demo is the greatest game of 2007. I haven't played the full game yet, but the demo alone, by itself, greatest game of 2007.

Aaaaaand it leaked.

Took 'em long enough.

They deliberately crippled the game so you can't play the PC version before Aug 21st. Online software activation that actually d/ls the exe to your system. Apparently, Toys R Us broke the street date.

I know a guy who's getting the 360 version right now.

does he just never put his xbox on live, or do they have new chips that allow you to grab games AND play online now?

or do you mean he's getting it as in buying it at a TRU?

Hmm, I generally hate first-person shooters but this thing looks so cool.

available for preloading on steam.

The former, Will. It's actually a firmware flash. Works great. Or so he says.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/scores/

haha yeah I was just going to mention how this is scoring.

I'ma be pissed if i have to sit thru a lot of somebody repping for libertarians and/or Objectivism in this, e.g. the gamedevs feeling the need to stick in a Heinlein-like author's avatar to lecture the audience.

While this is sometimes cool(see Kynes, Pardot), usually it suuuuuucks.

I just looked at it a little so far (at least my friend did) but it looks like it's the kind of game you only have to listen to what you want. You can just walk away, not read documents, etc.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/813/813214p1.html

The target in BioShock, Andrew Ryan, is anything but a prototypical villain. He's a man of bottomless ambition who built a city under the sea, obsessed with the idea of what makes a man, what differentiates a man from a slave. He's the Randian hero, a man who holds his own creative vision above all else, and he's Rodion Raskolnikov's exceptional person, someone who can be excused for committing crimes to achieve a noble goal, or at least with noble intentions--and he knows it. His vision, Rapture, is clearly a colossal failure. The driving force behind the game is your quest to discover why this man's alluring vision of an artistic utopia failed so completely and why you've stumbled upon it. Even though Ryan spits out what seems to resemble totalitarian propaganda, you can't help but sympathize with him. He has alluring ideas, speaks them with conviction, and comes off as a sympathetic visionary despite his severe eccentricities.

Ah fucking great, we mix the most socially inadequate of internet nerds, games journos, with product of the most socially inadequate of political philosophies.

"seems to resemble"?

Also, i'm a sucker for well-done-enough narrative that i try get as much from the game as i can(provided it's not page after page of plaintext)

here's what M@tt's mag sez:
http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/41497688-5BCB-4C0A-B952-A1B1440E2139.htm

The massively good reviews this thing is getting means that the backlash should come withing 9 days of the PC version being released.

Fun game that also "arty" in getting inflated metacritic score SHOCKA

So cna I buy an Xbox 360 now without worrying that it will break? Or is that ring thing still a serious issue?

Still. I'm buying one anyway, though. I pre-ordered this shit.

I played this last night and it was pretty damned cool..

Hell, I can wait. I started playing Xwing: Alliance again and finally got into Fable. I got enough to occupy me for the next 96 hours.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002605.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

you want to play this game. you want to read atlus shrugged. oneofusoneofus.

No, the best thing about this is guys on gaming boards who I always thought were pricks suddenly talking about how much they love Ayn Rand and me feeling vindicated.

Gee, between this coming out and Madden 08 hitting this week, you have the two major segments of 360 owners being sated for a while.

awaiting lolz: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=931329

The real reason for no "black" people. *spoilers*
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Melee Master89
Posted 8/16/2007 12:30:15 PM
message detail multimaniacal | Posted 8/16/2007 12:05:42 PM | message detail
theres a diary where the crazy surgeon talks about how you could change anything, your race, your sex, etc.
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dukebd699
Posted 8/16/2007 12:34:42 PM
message detail So what you're saying is black people would rather be white?

Selphbommr
Posted 8/16/2007 12:36:36 PM
message detail black people cant swim thats why. white ppl float, black ppl sink.

j/k dont shoot me
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dont bother

VampSlayer246
Posted 8/16/2007 12:39:26 PM
message detail They used the white man plasmid.

BompBompYeah
Posted 8/16/2007 12:40:49 PM
message detail I'm sure Chocolate Rain is involved somehow.
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SR338metroid
Posted 8/16/2007 12:42:01 PM
message detail choklit rane rox i love that video
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VampSlayer246
Posted 8/16/2007 12:42:56 PM
message detail hahahahahaha
**steps away from computer to breathe**
hahahahahaha

ColoradoKindBud
Posted 8/16/2007 12:43:20 PM
message detail There was absolutely no reason to create this thread.

And yet it goes on for five pages.

marmotwolof, I'm pretty sure the game doesn't actually endorse Objectivism and Atlas Shruggery. The proponent of it in the game is the villain, isn't he?

Yeah, I know! There are already dudes going on about Rand oblivious to that.

Dudes, I am here to tell you that this game is freaking incredible. Except I was playing it with my gf last night and she got so freaked out by it I had to turn it off.

Something to do with the horrible doomed mutant souls walking around talking about how lonely they are, and god how they just want to meet someone and end their terrible loneliness, and then they attack you and how have to brain them with a wrench. Or the mothers looking desperately for their babies, who have become little flesh-collecting demons.

I'm off to buy an Elite before my copy gets here this week.

^...and I did. I'll be playing Gears and shit until BioShock gets here.

you forget to add "-ting" in there

I'll try to take care of that before I play.

how do people have this before release date?

Toys R Us broke street date.

Finished this over the weekend - it was certainly an impressively lavish experience but it's not actually much of a game, is it? In terms of what you actually get to do, it's a really basic shooter with very little variety in the enemies and weapons which never feel terribly powerful. By the end I was grimly slogging through the fights just to see where the story was going. I'm glad I played it and I guess I can admire the ambition behind it but ultimately I don't think the story actually says anything of any substance.

ok this is longer than the game: http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=3006

System Shock 2 now on Steam for like seven bucks

remember that it is my will that guided you here. it is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants: the only beauty in that meat you call a body. if you value that meat, you will do as i tell you.

thought that rogers piece was importantly otm every thousand words or so, which is about par.

i would have said it was in the five to six thousand word range. i just copy-pasted it into word to count, out of curiosity, and it is a long way from being in the five to six thousand word range.

thing is a short novella. could very well be an ebook.

like the dude who wrote 50K words about Spec Ops: The Line

Chapter Five: Let’s talk about ludonarrative interference.

:(

i like the idea that you got through the preceding ten thousand words without difficulty and then on reaching the words 'ludonarrative interference' something in your brain went oh hell no

well maybe i was more rapidly scrolling thru sort of reveling in the actionbutton dot netness of the whole thing and "ludonarrative interference" and all its attendant undergrad neologism ridiculousness flipped that oh hell no switch. like i can take the chatty blog vomit but once someone starts going all ian bogost it's oh hell no.

his total deployment of it is a complaint about the fact that he's using the term, though, and then a thing he's talked about ... at length ... elsewhere

i don't think i've ever read bogost. i wonder if i'd like him.

DangerFrost 11 minutes ago
I saw the trailer for the new bioshock DLC
I JIZZED IN MY PANTS]
i saw Elizabeth smoking
I JIZZED IN MY PANTS

PENDANTturnips 52 minutes ago
eww Elizabeth smokes? well thats gonna make her a 5/10 now

ProxyStarkillaYTA 4 minutes ago
Yeah, you're right, I'd never stick my dick in her now.

Matt Hatt 47 minutes ago
Agreed, smoking is such a turn off for me too. Kissing an ashtray is never fun.

Even gamers have standards

standards about not having sex with real people

i guess i shouldn't be surprised that that character is some kind of basement-dweller sex object since that's p much as designed, right

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/hot-dang-real-bioshock-elizabeth-is-hoooootttttttttt.453058661/

http://oi43.tinypic.com/f0xk6v.jpg

the internet

Meanwhile, this looks interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgvZay10jE

The Part 2 promo image is good, too

A fairly candid interview with Ken Levine where he talks about Logan's Run, how that led to Rapture, B:I, and DLC philosophy

http://www.nerdist.com/2013/07/nerdist-podcast-ken-levine/

been playing burial at sea on 1999 mode - pretty brutal but it sure slows the game down which i like.

there are small corridors and closets that elizabeth blocks you in, which even if she eventually moves can cause you to be killed/spotted.

rapture is still way cooler\weirder then blimp-town. narration still too explainy.

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLP8l2nnnn4s&start1=71&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1ng0yS_Jl5I&start2=70&authorName=

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLP8l2nnnn4s&start1=30&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DM7FIvfx5J10&start2=0&authorName=HappyHappyHappyHappy

just finished b:i - my what a terrible game that is

yeah i rarely just straight quit on a game but this was total garbage and i couldn't justify wasting my time with it. and i went in with such optimism!

the first bioshock's a pos and it looks like a masterpiece next to B:I

i don't know what is worse about b:i, the narrative or the mechanics. it's gotta be the mechanics just bc that's the fundamental need of a game - to be fun to play - but the story is dumber than inception.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/01/21/whitaker_wright_s_underwater_ballroom_in_surrey_england.html

This game was great fun, and easily the most beautiful-looking game I have seen so far. Also I really liked the combat, and am kind of confused by everyone who says it sucked. Aside from just pointing the trigger and shooting, you usually had multiple hiding spots, tearable gun turrets, all the vigors, etc. so many different ways to approach most combat situations.

Then again I've been off fps for a while, what are the games with wonderful combat that you would recommend over B:I?

High point of the game for me was zipping around a looping skyline while trying to take down a single huge dirigible halfway through the game.

no fpses matter after unreal tournament 2004 iirc

paranautical activity is awesome - brand new roguelike fps

infinity was the worst

The false shepherd is either a mulatto dwarf or a Frenchman with a missing left eye, no more than four foot and nine inches

They say this over the intercom when the shit hits the fan and all the authorities are looking for you, and it always stuck out to me. Is it a literary reference or something?

The first encounter with the crow man feels playing through a 100% accurate re-creation of a nightmare. Probably my favorite part of the game.

It does kind of suck when they show you an alternate reality 1983 but you never get to go there.

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/news/ken-levine-closes-irrational-sets-create-brave-new-narrative-games/

whoa, was bioshock infinite a huge failure or something? i just assumed it had sold well.

The massive delays couldn't have helped.

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dz3RHenh8vJ8&start1=245&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3De8-sMJZTYf0&start2=0&authorName=snoopsagan

I made it about 3/4 of the way through on the second play before just giving up. I was playing on Hard and the fight against the Handyman was so impossible it just became extremely un-fun.

'Storyline' in this was fun to think about for about the first 2 hours of my second playthrough, but the more I thought about it, the less appealing it was, and the more icky it felt. Plus in all the interviews w Levine I could read, he never had a good answer for why the racist stuff other than "This is how the world was in 1912". Yet you never read about all the floating cities and robot presidents in history books. So this guy, who SOLD HIS OWN DAUGHTER, turns evil because he is later baptized? It wasn't the massacre in Wounded Knee and it wasn't SELLING HIS OWN DAUGHTER, it was being baptized. Right.

I guess this stuff is probably touched upon in the DLC but count me out.

i completely agree. what if it had been an open-world, undirected myst-style thing where you just wander around and put clues together and then maybe break into the tower with some sierraesque inventory puzzle and maybe occasionally you shoot some dudes? right? "not being call of duty" isn't enough.

i just started playing this because it is free on xbox gold and this so expresses my disappointment about an hour or so in. such a beautiful world, wish i could stop being shot at by dudes so i could enjoy it.

That's ironic because there is no story at all this game is telling. The plot is a kind of an aimless bait-and-switch of a bunch of topical high concepts smooshed together through clever but sloppy writing and used to disguise a dull shooter as something which could have been so much deeper. It's the dumbest "thinking person's game" ever.

The idea that without the shooting this could have been something amazing is utterly absurd but I am sure it sold a lot to people that think Call of Duty is for idiots.

well it's boring the piss out of me, and if there's no story there then i don't know if i can be bothered to play much further.

There's story there, it's just not nearly as good as people were dreaming it was going to be.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/07/20/system-shock-by-nightdive-studios-is-coming-to-ps4/

Hmmmmm

always wanted to play the original but never got to it.

I tried once and the ancient graphics put an end to that shit real quick

played SS2 somewhat recently (like within the last decade) and it totally holds up and is still an excellent game.