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

the first one was entertaining and involving enough but was not exactly fashion forward as a shooter. if this one is about the same that's worth it to me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jchIi-vR_js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jchIi-vR_js

I will probably rather enjoy this. I love the art design, and my first job was as a dude in a historical American village set between 1865-1914.

The RPS review had this great turn-of-phrase:

story-based games which revolve around targeting reticules

That review: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/25/bioshock-infinite-pc-review/

god why does adam sessler fucking talk like that

getting repeatedly stuffed in lockers does things to a man

Being forced to cope working with Olivia Munn

this looks comically awful in every way
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, March 25, 2013 1:32 PM

disney + steampunk

I'm getting some Sky Captain: The Game vibes from the commercials for this thing

looks dope + free xcom from steam. mostly worried about annoying companion AI girl b/c that shit never works

girl from ico, pour one out

ken levine has a copy of devil in the white city, access to google, a thing for toddler-women with dewy eyes and huge tits who are based off his ex-girlfriend, and now he even has an AAA game about skyracists to show for it.

http://i.imgur.com/B4dmKRN.jpg

did ken levine beat you and bill magill up or something

okay lol

Who the hell was Levine's ex, then?

“I’ve had the experience of knowing a girl once, dating her once actually, who had been with somebody who had abused her before. All the clichés you hear about are true. She would say that this guy had pushed her down the stairs when she was pregnant, that he had made her kneel in glass… all these unspeakably horrible things. Then she would make excuses for him, all the time. I knew the entire time that we were dating that she would go back to him. I could just see it. It was this tragic thing happening in real-time. And she did go back to him.”

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/13/bioshock-infinites-elizabeth-shaped-by-ken-levines-experiences/

so gross

never gave a shit about his pretentious thoughts on the first gamed, not sure why i would care now.

but go on digging through the back catalog of pcgamer to make fun of us nerds. ;)

lol what are you talking about you psycho. im making fun of ken levine, not you. i cant think of any other ilx subboard where it's consistently seen as a personal insult to not like something... unless things are a lot more heated in the Mark McGrath Cruise thread than I remembered

he said ;) calm down

shhit.... my bad.

http://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/bioshock-infinite-review/1900-568/

every Gerstmann is giving it top marks

even, rather.

Dammit, I started this board, why do my mod powers not allow me to edit my own text

opening is pretty impressive. i'm not even going to try to slog through while half asleep though.

Lowest score on Metacritic so far is an 80.

― polyphonic, Monday, March 25, 2013 2:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as if this means anything smh

i gotta go to bed but the first 90 mins at least are pretty good. is def a fps but the killin dudes is more fun than bioshock 1.

thats encouraging. i quit bioshock after like 90 minutes because of how boring the combat was

Is it just me or do Levine & company really, REALLY like Against the Day?

http://m.voices.yahoo.com/ken-levine-pulls-plug-bioshock-film-12056035.html

Also, imdb lists him as the voice of the Circus of Value clown, which I did not know.

This is pretty great so far. Combat is super fun, especially with the skyhooks.

looks maybe less AtD than a sci-fi Ragtime?

yeah i hit the first big skyhook combat sequence last night, super fun.

Maybe not so much AtD but plenty of Tom Swift

downloaded the 60 minute trial last night on PS3 but haven't turned it on yet

if you can't aim for shit there's no point in getting this game, right

think of it as bettering yourself through grueling training

As someone else said, "Bioshock Infinite is a game about a guy with an eating disorder."

i always try to play on hard mode then remember i am slow and old

If you're playing on PC, the mouse sensitivity tweak here is extremely helpful:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/27/bioshock-infinite-tweaks/

It seems to makes it much less twitchy; I think it's adjusting it so you can move the mouse in smaller increments for smoother aiming.

more hacking: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/BioShock_Infinite

hmmmmm. did the 60 minute trial, not sure what i think. the combat feels wrong a little bit. also dan, i take back what i said, the aiming in this (on console at least) is kind of a nightmare. the baseball throwing scene is kind of shocking, but not i think in a good way. world is interesting but awfully busy, chatty cathy main character seems like a problem, and the kinetescopes are super lame when compared to similar things ive seen in older games (both fallouts fuck even singularity).

hoping the story background falls back some as you get further into the game.

here's a quicklook, not really spoilery:

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-bioshock-infinite/2300-7184/

So I started out trying to put down some more detailed thoughts on the game so far but really all you need to know is ROLLYCOASTERS WHEEEEEE.

man i really liked this game but i feel like i murdered a whole lot of dudes. seems like there's a better way to tell that story without the slaughter? or i'm just fucking old.

i guess that's the critical refrain of 2013 so far--"why can't we tell this story/make this game/etc without wholesale slaughter?" a la tomb raider, even far cry.

i like that in ni no kuni they make a point of telling you that you're only knocking the monsters out, and they get up later and don't attack humans anymore. which is nice unless humans are these monsters' only food source and now they all starve to death :(

i played the first hour of this last night, it's pretty but i'm still hoping the fun gameplay will kick in soon. it's hard after playing lots of Far Cry, i keep trying to aim with the left trigger and accidentally using powers.

i got to the first robot guy who shoots flames at you and used 'possession' on him. he kept shooting flames at me, so i shot at him and the game popped up a message saying "don't shoot your allies!". then he killed me.

so it's an allegory for life

ugh some polygon asshole is biting my complaint http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/2/4174344/opinion-why-my-wife-wont-play-bioshock-infinite