Author Topic: Bioshock (Read 67905 times)

wandering · « **Reply #25 on:** September 28, 2006, 12:24:38 PM »

Not sure if anyone's interested, but there's a short trailer up at ign ("Scary Stuff"). I think it communicates what they're trying to do better than the demo level I linked to earlier. The game may not be "revolutionary" in terms of gameplay, but I'm personally still really excited about the twisted world they're creating.

Smoke39 · « **Reply #26 on:** September 28, 2006, 01:07:41 PM »

That was disturbing. I wonder if they'll really be able to make that drill as gross in-game. Like, I assume you can't block it with your hand and watch it drill through your hand like that.

wandering · « **Reply #27 on:** September 28, 2006, 02:38:59 PM »

Yeah, it's not gameplay. I mean, you could have stuff like that (RE4 did), but I'm pretty sure Bioshock is one of those invisble body type fpses.

Smoke39 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 28, 2006, 02:41:36 PM »

Aw, full body awareness in FPSs is cool.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #29 on:** September 28, 2006, 02:47:02 PM »

Every time I see more of this game I get less interested. It just seems really boring to play. That's bad, because I WANT to like it

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #30 on:** September 28, 2006, 03:37:47 PM »

Any video that isn't gameplay can't be used to showcase the direction a game is trying to take... =\

More gameplay, less FMV with intended violence to little girls...

SixthAngel · « **Reply #31 on:** September 28, 2006, 07:29:30 PM »

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Any video that isn't gameplay can't be used to showcase the direction a game is trying to take... =\

More gameplay, less FMV with intended violence to little girls...

I was also a bit confused about why they chose to have the player try to beat the hell out of little girl with a wrench when no reason is given. They even offered that as a selling point to the game (the decisions are yours part). I was rooting for the big daddy to kill him the whole time.

Smoke39 · « **Reply #32 on:** September 28, 2006, 07:53:38 PM »

I think the girls harvest adam. I think the trailer was trying to set up the theme of inhumanity present in the game. One of the big points of the game is it poses the question of how much of your humanity you're willing to sacrifice to gain adam to agument your abilities.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #33 on:** September 28, 2006, 08:10:35 PM »

I don't think the character portrayed in that trailer was the main character, but rather just one of the crazy survivors (Considering you aren't able to pull the girls out of the vents)...But who knows?

Ceric · « **Reply #34 on:** September 29, 2006, 12:30:48 PM »

When I first heard of the game I thought it was interesting. The more I know about it more I'm just morbidly curious. I won't buy it unfortunately. The concept is to hard for me to accept. These are smart people here. There is no way they all turn into crazies. It is the weak thread to me that breaks the world.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #35 on:** September 29, 2006, 12:39:48 PM »

All smart people are insane, didn't you know that?

Smoke39 · « **Reply #36 on:** September 29, 2006, 12:53:44 PM »

"...where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality..."
They're smart, but they're playin' with fire. Something bad happens, and everything spirals outa control and goes downhill.

wandering · « **Reply #37 on:** August 03, 2007, 12:30:56 PM »

So PC Gamer UK gave this game 95%, and had this to say:

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These are the big challenges developers have been struggling to master for decades; narrative, emergence, a sense of place. If another game did just one of these as well as Bioshock, it would immediately qualify as a classic. When a game comes along that does all three, we can only be baffled and thankful. I spend my career, and my gaming life, waiting for a moment when a game just astonishes me, when I can't believe what I'm seeing, what I'm doing. Bioshock has five.

August 21 can't come soon enough.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #38 on:** August 03, 2007, 12:36:32 PM »

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Originally posted by: wandering
So PC Gamer UK gave this game 95%, and had this to say:

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These are the big challenges developers have been struggling to master for decades; narrative, emergence, a sense of place. If another game did just one of these as well as Bioshock, it would immediately qualify as a classic. When a game comes along that does all three, we can only be baffled and thankful. I spend my career, and my gaming life, waiting for a moment when a game just astonishes me, when I can't believe what I'm seeing, what I'm doing. Bioshock has five.

Nice, I expect the game to be amazing. I just hope it isn't overlooked.

tiamat1990 · « **Reply #39 on:** August 03, 2007, 11:55:04 PM »

Ok I really had no idea what the hell this game was about. I head everyone having an orgasm about it but I ignored the hype. Well I just stumbled upon a video in YouTube and HOLY ****!!!!!

Sir_Stabbalot · « **Reply #40 on:** August 04, 2007, 04:46:00 AM »

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Ok I really had no idea what the hell this game was about. I head everyone having an orgasm about it but I ignored the hype. Well I just stumbled upon a video in YouTube and HOLY ****!!!!!

Your character survives a crash landing in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and manages to swim to a lighthouse that is oddly sticking out in the middle of the sea. Inside is a small one-man bathysphere that takes you to Rapture. Rapture is a city made by an ex-Soviet citizen who created a super-capitolist city on the ocean flor encased in a huge glass dome. The city is spawling and filled with 50s-era sttyled buildings, but when you arrive it's in ruins. One of the focal points of the game is a substance called "Adam". It's a mutagen made from a sea slug that secretes pure stem cells. The question is this: How much of your humanity will you give up for power?

Gameplay terms, it's a sci-fi horror FPS with many ways to achieve an objective.

Kairon · « **Reply #41 on:** August 04, 2007, 10:14:31 AM »

Bah. Ayn Rand doesn't write about power. She writes about INTEGRITY.

But I've heard this game is good... I just don't want to hear it compared to Ayn Rand.

tiamat1990 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 04, 2007, 08:31:02 PM »

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Originally posted by: tiamat1990
Ok I really had no idea what the hell this game was about. I head everyone having an orgasm about it but I ignored the hype. Well I just stumbled upon a video in YouTube and HOLY ****!!!!!

Your character survives a crash landing in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and manages to swim to a lighthouse that is oddly sticking out in the middle of the sea. Inside is a small one-man bathysphere that takes you to Rapture. Rapture is a city made by an ex-Soviet citizen who created a super-capitolist city on the ocean flor encased in a huge glass dome. The city is spawling and filled with 50s-era sttyled buildings, but when you arrive it's in ruins. One of the focal points of the game is a substance called "Adam". It's a mutagen made from a sea slug that secretes pure stem cells. The question is this: How much of your humanity will you give up for power?

Gameplay terms, it's a sci-fi horror FPS with many ways to achieve an objective.

Yeah I saw his 15min video and the developer was just playing the same level over and over again. While that is cool (VERY cool infact)...the longetivity of this game worries me. It's like, they're spending so much time on ONE level. I don't know. I still won't be able to get it anyway, computer is crap and I don't have a 360 (and man do I want one...).

TrueNerd · « **Reply #43 on:** August 15, 2007, 01:55:18 PM »

This game is, uh, getting good reviews. Might be time to pick up a 360.

Sir_Stabbalot · « **Reply #44 on:** August 15, 2007, 02:50:51 PM »

I played the demo on a friend's 360. This game has it all, environment, storyline, gameplay.

Even though my computer is only slightly over the minimum specs and I do not yet own a 360, I'm so tempted to get the Bioshock LE just for the Big Daddy figurine.

EDIT: Ha, my explanation is quoted in the OP.

bustin98 · « **Reply #45 on:** August 15, 2007, 02:54:43 PM »

I was so tempted to pick it up last night at Toys R Us, but had to pass. The demo was really good. I did wish I could aim with the Wiimote. Its not that this is a ground breaking game, but it does what it does very well.

JonLeung · « **Reply #46 on:** August 15, 2007, 03:48:59 PM »

Following the "every good Xbox game is on the PC" trend, I'll be picking this up for the PC when I find time away from Pokémon...

TrueNerd · « **Reply #47 on:** August 16, 2007, 10:04:01 AM »

Yep, pretty good reviews.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #48 on:** August 16, 2007, 10:13:20 AM »

Me and my brosef played some demo the other night, it's pretty kewl.

Seems a lot like Doom 3 though

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #49 on:** August 16, 2007, 10:16:39 AM »

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Me and my brosef played some demo the other night, it's pretty kewl.

Seems a lot like Doom 3 though

The game is nothing like Doom 3 besides the first person view. It trashes Doom 3 in about every possible way, whether it be art style, story, gameplay, and atmosphere.

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