[Aptorian]

So, I picked up a dirt cheap copy of Bioshock and I've been playing it since last night.

This game is crazy. I usually play shooters in hard mode and this game is kicking my ass. Even on normal mode the splicers are tearing me a new one. You have to try and sneak up on them or incapacitate them with the lightning plasmid. I can hardly imagine how hard this is going to get when more hardcore enemies start showing up.

Anyway, the game certainly oozes cool atmosphere. The whole setting and the background slowly unraveling is thrilling.

Anyone else played it and looking forward to the sequel comming up?

http://somethinginthesea.com/

[Aptorian]

Holy Crap, the game just scared the bejezus out of me.

I was rummaging around in a room, I'd found a cupperboard filled with ammo, meds and a new engineer plasmid and was happily examining it lost in my own thoughts, I turn around and there's a doctor splicer right up in my face just standing there. Somehow it creeped up on me, through all the water, past the camera I hacked and just stood there starring at me.

I made a girlish shriek and pummeled him in the face with my wrench and he went down like a sack of potatoes.

That was creepy.

[Morgoth]

I always wanted to play this game

[Eddie Dean]

I rented had a free rental and tried out Bioshock. I didn't get very far in it before I had to return it, but it seemed like a really put together game. I'm not really big into shooters, so I wasn't really absorbed with it. I did think, however, that Fallout 3 really ripped off the whole "50's" theme from Bioshock.

[Aptorian]

Morgoth, on Mar 21 2009, 02:09 PM, said:

I always wanted to play this game

It's like 8 pounds for an online download now. I found it in a shop for 50 danish kroner. I was extatic.

Also I fought my first Big Daddy an hour ago. My god those thing are vicious. All my armor piercing rounds. 5 shots of electro shots and a couple of clips of the tommy gun before it finally decided to lie down.

[Yellow]

Yeah, it was a really good game. It got fairly repetitive towards the end, but it had a great atmosphere.

[Stalker]

Played it, it was really easy for me but I am a console shooter god heh. I really enjoyed the way it was done, from the atmosphere, music, perks, weapons, and story. It was one of those games where I wasn't sure if it would be good, but instead it ruled.

Not so sure about 2 since it is a different developer.

[Illuyankas]

It does look awesome, and I have it, but have failed miserably to be bothered to play it.

Also, I had the ending spoiled for me by A WEBSITE so I gave in to curiosity and watched a speedrun of the game. The guy beat the whole thing in an hour and four minutes. Oh, and 20 seconds. It was pretty impressive.

[bubba]

I have it for my PS3, and it's next on the play list.

[Mentalist]

what are the PC specs required?

Mentalist, as always chained down by his super crap videocard...

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I just got this recently and love it. It's not getting the atention it deserves though, I've only played through the first level . Fable 2 s sucking up all my gaming time, but once I'm done with that BIoshock is next up, followed by mass effect. After that i think I'll get the elder scrolls multipack.

[Illuyankas]

Oh, yeah, they ran a competition for fans to design an art deco title for the special edition box set and one of the finalists (not the winner, maybe second place) literally did an art deco version of goatse. Down to the ring on the same finger.

[Aptorian]

Okay. I have a question.

I finally, by cheating and using vita chamber over and over again, got one of those machine gun big daddies down, but that bitch of a little sister crawled into some hole. How the hell do I get her out? (I tried pumping a couple of shotgun rounds into the hole but that didn't work)

[Yellow]

I don't know, tbh. I can't remember them doing anything other than crying over the daddy's dead body.

[Sixty]

I bought Bioshock the day before it came out (preorder ) and aside from the launch hitches with DRM, it was a great game.

It can get pretty tough if you turn off the vita-chambers too...at least until halfway through, when you can take pictures of enough illusion/magician spiders or whatever and get that one gene tonic to become invisible whenever you stand still.

Then the entire game's a joke.

Definitely one of my favorite fun-wise though.

@Apt: You have to kill the Big Daddy then walk up to the little sister before she runs away...although if you did it right, she should be cringing and crying over the corpse, not running away. Did you already see the cutscene where it gives you the first choice to harvest/rescue?

[Aptorian]

Yes, yes, I chose to rescue them. I can never stop myself playing the good guy for some reason, in real life I'd cut that Adam right the fuck out of those small monsters!

I found out that the Big Daddies and Rosies summon the Little Sisters by banging on the holes of the hiding places/sleeping tubes, so I just waited untill a new Big Daddy appeared and it summoned the Little Sister.

I have to say, the Little Sisters and Big Daddies are one of the coolest, creepiest and most touching story ideas I have ever read about or seen. The way they interact in the game, the cute but scary playfull manner of the little sister and the slow protective manner of the Big Daddy.

I actually feel guilty when the big daddy wanders from hole to hole, calling with that baso vibration, banging to wake up the little sister and she doesn't show up because I took her. The little sisters are all the big daddies have. Poor things. On the other hand I'm nearly crying with joy when the little sister is freed and you take away her poison.

I love this game.

And the Spider Splicers really creep me out.

[Sparkimus]

Aptorian, on Mar 21 2009, 08:22 AM, said:

Holy Crap, the game just scared the bejezus out of me.

I was rummaging around in a room, I'd found a cupperboard filled with ammo, meds and a new engineer plasmid and was happily examining it lost in my own thoughts, I turn around and there's a doctor splicer right up in my face just standing there. Somehow it creeped up on me, through all the water, past the camera I hacked and just stood there starring at me.

I made a girlish shriek and pummeled him in the face with my wrench and he went down like a sack of potatoes.

That was creepy.

Hee hee, I did the same damn thing....but there was a few of us in the room and we all did it. Real boost to the manhood that was.

[cerveza_fiesta]

dhoop17, on Mar 21 2009, 10:45 AM, said:

I rented had a free rental and tried out Bioshock. I didn't get very far in it before I had to return it, but it seemed like a really put together game. I'm not really big into shooters, so I wasn't really absorbed with it. I did think, however, that Fallout 3 really ripped off the whole "50's" theme from Bioshock.

Fallout had the 50's theme since the first game release back in 1997

http://en.wikipedia....(computer_game)

So its probably fair to say bioshock ripped off the 50's theme from fallout.


@Apt

You convinced me to play this game. I figured it was just another high-end shooter along the lines of FEAR or whatever. But it seems like this one probably has a lot more depth. I'll be trying it out for sure.

[Sixty]

I actually thought the plot was legitimately engaging, which was a huge bonus.

Better than HL2 for best single-player FPS imo, but others will disagree.

[Aptorian]

The story is amazing, you're an outsider who becomes trapped in a retro-futuristic city and you're sort of experiencing the effect of capitalism and idealism allowed to run rampant in a world without morals. As you travel through this dying city you slowly get the story of how it all happened through tape recorders found all over the city.

I don't think I'm more than half way through the city and the game yet.

I'll say though that the fear and trepidation I was feeling at first has subsides but sort of been replaced with awe and excitment as the character grows and becomes more powerfull. The camera function and some of the defensive plasmids have made me pretty fucking strong. Still, I suspect some bad ass splicers to shop up sooner or later.