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- divinediva, on 04/23/2009, -6/+44Man Bioshock is one of my all time favorite games of all time.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/23/2009, -1/+24It will be Bioshockier
- fluidfoundation, on 04/23/2009, -1/+23Mr. BUBBLES!
- mogebier, on 04/23/2009, -0/+20Nice. Bioshock is the first game in years that I have played all the way through. I usually get bored about 1/2 way through a game and then something new and shiny comes out.
2 looks different enough to be good too. - willstoney, on 04/23/2009, -1/+20all time favorite games of all time?
- Dumbledorito, on 04/23/2009, -1/+14Better replay value? I mean, the narrative was rich and the atmosphere was great, but for all the "choice" you have, there are really only two ending sequences (good, and two flavors of bad) that are achieved by pretty much the same means (one just uses up fewer little girls).
- fluidfoundation, on 04/23/2009, -5/+18bitch bitch bitch.
- Eslamicolt3, on 04/23/2009, -1/+10Was Ryan really a bad guy? I didn't feel like it. I kind of felt like he was a tragic hero, whose ideals didn't work in reality.
- sevenalive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+8I know what you are doing, but ***** YOU ATLAS.
- RoroCo, on 04/23/2009, -0/+8To me, Big Daddies still remain the best "bosses" in a video game to date. There is just something special about them roaming around mostly ignoring you... Until you poke them... Then they pounce with a vengeance.
- RoroCo, on 04/23/2009, -4/+11If you think Bioshock is overrated, you should quit playing video games until they figure out how to filate you virtually. It was a damn good game which received good reviews.
- atticus8, on 04/23/2009, -0/+7angels don't wait for slowpokes, Mr. B
- nochilinopity, on 04/23/2009, -7/+14Would you kindly digg this comment?
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -3/+10Would you kindly shut up?
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -4/+11More DRM?
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ - xispo, on 04/23/2009, -0/+6Now with 100% more all! :)
- mugicha, on 04/23/2009, -0/+6I never ran into one that didn't have a way of being beaten.
- CeruleanRed, on 04/23/2009, -9/+15I'm probably going to be in the minority with this post, but maybe some will hear me out.
Playing Bioshock, I enjoyed myself, but never really felt like I was playing a uniquely 'great' game and here are a couple reasons why. On the PC at least, the people looked plastic. I know, I know, they've been using plasmids, but they didn't look real. Even their clothes looked plastic. Second, aside from being underwater I didn't understand how the game was that innovative. Sure, I like throwing grenades back at people, but that's not new. Worse, most of the bad guys would yell rather mundane taunts and just run toward the screen shooting and swinging. Over and over again. Further, though this is a minor complaint, I never understood why the resistance was so noble. I mean, sure they are smuggling bibles into rapture... but... isn't that the whole point of rapture? To get away from prostelitizing religion? I mean what is the lesson? That even if you travel to the bottom of the sea and build your own society, you are still going to be force fed religion? It just seemed like a bit strange and hypocritical plot. Ryan was a bad guy, no doubt, so the storyline does have some coherency.
Some of the game was well done. The circus of values voice made me chuckle and the water hacking was a fun twist. But all in all, it didn't seem to save a retro environment that was, at least to me, less engrossing than, say, the fallout franchise.
I will probably be buried for not enjoying bioshock as much as some, I'm ok with that. And I'm open to the idea that I might just not be thinking about the game correctly, maybe it's better than I make it out to be.
Maybe someone can explain it to me better. I kind of just stopped playing after a while and wished I had my money back. - NYC10004, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5Let's hope its good. Before I had a chance to play the 1st game i'll admit I wasn't blown away by what I saw. However once I had a chance to play it I ate my words and came to realize how good it was. Let's hope the 2nd game is the same way.
As for replayability, I don't need that in my games. I have too many real things to do to play a game over and over like broken record. I like a game with a begining and an end, so I feel justified in moving on to something else. - danwallace, on 04/23/2009, -1/+6You're getting buried alive, but it's really true. A couple of different endings depending on the meaningless harvest/save little sister crap and a slightly above-average plotline with a twist. Other than that it was pretty generic. Enjoyable, but generic.
- N0DIGGITY, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5can't...stop...from...digging...
- Tyrghast, on 04/23/2009, -2/+6I liked Bioshock but it wasn't the greatest game of all time. We who can remember farther than 5 years reserve that title for Tie Fighter.
- ZimbuTheMonkey, on 04/23/2009, -1/+5Please let it be a true attribute advancement system like System Shock was. Bioshock made it too easy to become uber powerful without any real choices in terms of character development.
In SS2, you couldn't get proficient in any single skill tree without sacrificing in others, that's what made it fun. Oh and it made me pee my pants, so that was cool. - therealjedipunk, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4Someone better call the Internet Redundancy Department of Redundancy
- MorpheousMarty, on 04/23/2009, -1/+5Yeah, continue making unproven IPs to rehash old gameplay. Most games aren't very innovative, using established IP's help a lot. Halo Wars would be a great example. Nothing really new about it, but with a well known IP and the fact it is well made it is very successful. Don't get me wrong, I'd trade 10 Crisis for 1 Portal, but if a game is going to be only a minor variant on what I've seen before, like Final Fantasy, I don't mind having a character I already like or a world I already understand to play in.
Making really original games is hard, and old gameplay can still be fun. I for example still like Megaman, and the series is essentially the same as it ever was. Bioshock has a great art deco city that few games have, I don't mind going back. If I have to choose between Bioshock 2 and something really new, I'll take the new. But if I have to choose between Bioshock 2 and "random guy with super powers and a gun with RPG elements," I'll take Bioshock 2 and use the experience already had to enhance this new one. - inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4Spoiling too much of the story too early. I hope the story is as rich as the first. All the first game had, was the story and setting. The game-play was average; bot/hack/kill/upgrade. Once you complete the game and view all possible endings, the replay value drops along with the interest in the game-play mechanic.
When are they going to make a prequel, so we can see Rapture in it's golden age? - petebot, on 04/23/2009, -4/+7That's like saying Final Fantasy is crappy as survival horror. Bioshock is a first person shooter.
- Thorpe, on 04/23/2009, -7/+10Will it have boobies?
- ghostlywind, on 04/23/2009, -3/+6I can't wait for this game never had so much fun playing a game before, i just loved how sick and twisted Bioshock was.
- kinerry, on 04/23/2009, -3/+6more upgrades doesn't mean better, it means there will be favorites and a whole lotta junk
- Grueslayer, on 04/23/2009, -1/+4I love Bioshock too but wonder how similar all the areas are going to be to the first one (after seeing the video). I'd rather see areas with new content rather than a rehash of the same graphics just in different locations/sizes.
- pcpimpster, on 04/23/2009, -7/+10Bioshock gives me a big daddy in my pants.
- rrc589, on 04/23/2009, -2/+5Yea it's definitely overrated in my book. I love my FPS games but this game just went downhill and became more and more uninteresting and just plain boring after the midway point.
- smokeyjohnson, on 05/05/2009, -0/+2They need to get rid of the damn pipe game. The guns should be funner too. This game was alright. I'm rather picky when it comes to $60 video games.
- FFXIfrohike, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2"I will probably be buried for not enjoying bioshock as much as some, I'm ok with that. "
Then you should be OK with me burying your comment on the account that you nitpick the dumbest "issues" in the game, then turn around and say your favorite elements were the annoying "circus of values" voice and the hacking mini-game, probably the weakest aspects of the game. What on earth were you looking for in this game?
It's like we were playing 2 different titles. Don't get your perspective at all, man. - Halsfield, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2Maybe I'm the only one, but I really don't want to be a big daddy. I enjoyed the first because I felt vulnerable and alone for a lot of the game. At the beginning you walk out of the machine and you're all alone in the dark with evil things that want to kill you. At the end when you were allowed to be a big daddy I felt invincible and really had very little to be scared of.
In the first game big daddy's were something to be feared because of how much they would rape you at the beginning and now you get to be one? That to me seems like playing doom and then getting to be the cyber demon in the next game because someone thought it would be "cool".
I would rather play a father of a child that was stolen in the night, or the reporter/investigator that is mentioned in the "somethinginthesea.com" website that is trying to find the truth.
I will play the hell out of this sequel I'm sure, but I just hope we get to play as a human and the feeling of terror/aloneness is still there. - Gonz037, on 04/23/2009, -1/+3no "Pipes"?
- ScionX, on 04/24/2009, -1/+3Please Please PLEASE do not have no penalty for death. Hell, all that happened was you respawned at the machine and the big daddy still had the same amount of HP left. If you really wanted to you could just kill him with the wrench if you had the patience for it.
Yes I know about the DLC, and by then it was too late.
Being said, I loved Bioshock. - CeruleanRed, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2"Enough of this charade, Gamma 1 is the Emperor's stool pigeon!"
- ElGubrush, on 04/23/2009, -1/+3Well I personally loved Bioshock. It had few really hard moments so I could really dig into the story, look around for records. I had so many different things I could do and I did all of them. Also, and I am the only one who will probably say this, I liked the pipe game.
- Smelltastic, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2A man chooses!
- benburkhart, on 04/23/2009, -1/+3"10 genetic upgrades, explained - and illustrated with video - by the sequel's creative director"
this just didn't happen - 40ozguy, on 04/23/2009, -1/+3Love the first one! Hopefully they don't disappoint me with the second one.
- AmirKamal09, on 05/14/2009, -0/+2The first game was scary. Would you kindly believe that I almost wet my pants several times? The atmosphere, the environment, the sounds... altogether made the game my favorite xbox 360 game. Straight up. Im stoked for the new one, and will absolutely love it i'm sure. Im not so sure of the fact that you're a complete unstoppable beast, and that youo can destory groups of splicers. that's what the first game was all about: you get surrounded and your screwed. We shall see.
Also, I heard a Bioshock movie was coming out. I think if the movie has the same kind of awesome storyline and the way the game just makes you feel while playing it, i think the movie will be straight up orgasmic. Like, orgasmic, if you know what i mean. - N0DIGGITY, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Mass Effect was another good game!
- MOJIRA, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Yes, it's a new genetic weapon. Boobies on your forearm. Deadly.
- Shazbuckle, on 04/24/2009, -0/+2Give us an inventory PLEASE.
I don't want to be able to pick up EVERYTHING I find, it's just stupid.
And the Vita Chamber thing needs to change. Sure they tied it nicely into the story but it made the game waay to easy. - UK31337, on 04/24/2009, -0/+2Amen to that, Sir. I thought precisely the same. It's like a cake when they only iced half of it, and you were shown the iced half in the demo.
- rrc589, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1Yea it sucks because I really wanted to like the game too -- loved the premise.
- jawshoeuh, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1that was a great game.
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