Chokin' the Chocobo!
So that's what Greg is doing over there when he's so quiet.
I wish I would have read this thread before we did the this week's episode (already in the can), because I would have talked about Bioshock some more. I'm trying to steer away from being so heavy on the 360/PS3 discussion lately.
My Bioshock thoughts: excellent art design, great story, but only decent gameplay. I mean, it's solid, don't get me wrong, but it gets old after a while. You only fight a small range of enemies, and you don't even need to use more than half of the Plasmids that you get. It reminds me of Twilight Princess in that regard, how you gain the advanced sword skills near the end and have no reason to use them whatsoever.
I'm also on the fence about the audio journals. I can't put my finger on it, but they somehow feel like a cop-out, like a quick and dirty way to tell the backstory of Rapture. Like instead of cutscenes they just give you these audio journals to tell the story.
I like Bioshock, but I don't LOVE Bioshock. I place it in the "good not great" category, which seems like heresy based on the amount of hype it received at release.