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

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The real reason for no "black" people. *spoilers*
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Melee Master89
Posted 8/16/2007 12:30:15 PM
message detail multimaniacal | Posted 8/16/2007 12:05:42 PM | message detail
theres a diary where the crazy surgeon talks about how you could change anything, your race, your sex, etc.
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Proud Gallade/Marrowak/Starmie fan.
FuriousTiger-I like it when people argue because I can add more vocabulary to my slippery grasp of English.

dukebd699
Posted 8/16/2007 12:34:42 PM
message detail So what you're saying is black people would rather be white?

Selphbommr
Posted 8/16/2007 12:36:36 PM
message detail black people cant swim thats why. white ppl float, black ppl sink.

j/k dont shoot me
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GT: SelphBommr
dont bother

VampSlayer246
Posted 8/16/2007 12:39:26 PM
message detail They used the white man plasmid.

BompBompYeah
Posted 8/16/2007 12:40:49 PM
message detail I'm sure Chocolate Rain is involved somehow.
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Rad To The Max.
GT - ClapYerHandz

SR338metroid
Posted 8/16/2007 12:42:01 PM
message detail choklit rane rox i love that video
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Yippie-Kye-Yay gamefaqer!!

VampSlayer246
Posted 8/16/2007 12:42:56 PM
message detail hahahahahaha
**steps away from computer to breathe**
hahahahahaha

ColoradoKindBud
Posted 8/16/2007 12:43:20 PM
message detail There was absolutely no reason to create this thread.

And yet it goes on for five pages.

marmotwolof, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link

marmotwolof, I'm pretty sure the game doesn't actually endorse Objectivism and Atlas Shruggery. The proponent of it in the game is the villain, isn't he?

antexit, Friday, 17 August 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I know! There are already dudes going on about Rand oblivious to that.

marmotwolof, Friday, 17 August 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Dudes, I am here to tell you that this game is freaking incredible. Except I was playing it with my gf last night and she got so freaked out by it I had to turn it off.

antexit, Saturday, 18 August 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Something to do with the horrible doomed mutant souls walking around talking about how lonely they are, and god how they just want to meet someone and end their terrible loneliness, and then they attack you and how have to brain them with a wrench. Or the mothers looking desperately for their babies, who have become little flesh-collecting demons.

antexit, Saturday, 18 August 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm off to buy an Elite before my copy gets here this week.

marmotwolof, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link

^...and I did. I'll be playing Gears and shit until BioShock gets here.

marmotwolof, Sunday, 19 August 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link

you forget to add "-ting" in there

s1ocki, Sunday, 19 August 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link

I'll try to take care of that before I play.

marmotwolof, Sunday, 19 August 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link

how do people have this before release date?

cutty, Monday, 20 August 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Toys R Us broke street date.

marmotwolof, Monday, 20 August 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link

i called them today and they said that was not the case

cutty, Monday, 20 August 2007 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, they stopped selling it a little while after everyone found out.

marmotwolof, Monday, 20 August 2007 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4491

PC demo hits tomorrow

kingfish, Monday, 20 August 2007 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link

check that. PC demo has already leaked.

kingfish, Monday, 20 August 2007 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link

steam is taunting me. "Pre-load complete; unreleased." anyone else had a total bitch of a time getting ss2 to run well on xp? i used to be able to do it but the internet says something about dual core processors pissing it off.

adam, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link

aaaaaand i got it running, but my display is all screwy. I guess have i have to d/l the latest hooja-doojas from ATI.

kingfish, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link

yay, am preloading now. But boo, am away this weekend. Arse!

JimD, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

oh boy, my vid card won't run this. excellent.

kingfish, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link

this will probably be fixed by the time most of you see it, but check what happens when you visit the gamedev's website:

http://www.irrationalgames.com/

509 Error

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.irrationalgames.com Port 80

kingfish, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I'm about halfway through now. This game gets hella difficult around the midway point. The stealth stuff drives me bananas. And there's a little too many retrieval-style missions. But this game is fascinating and super fun and crazy imaginative and is the best-looking and best-sounding game I've ever seen.

First time through I'm going without killing the Little Sisters. The way they cry over the Big Daddies after you take one out was just too much. Anyone doing it the other way? Does that make it way way easier? How does it affect the story?

antexit, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link

SPOILERS bruv

ledge, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=83#comments

what happens when nakedly sony worshipping fanboys decide to review a 360 game.

kingfish, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Those aren't spoilers!

antexit, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Omg Bioshock in 'cropping fullscreen to widescreen instead of vice-versa' SHOCKAH

Will M., Tuesday, 21 August 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link

this game is nutz

haven't run into any big daddy's yet. anyone know where the gene bank is in the first level? i need flame back

cutty, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link

i was preloading but i had to shut down, so i paused it befoer closing steam and turning off. Now the "preload" button doesn't bring up the preload window any more and I... I don't know what to do...

ledge, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link

this is sitting on my hdd right now. persona 3 is in my ps2. i have tomorrow and thursday off. it has been a crappy summer for gaming but this week is shaping up pretty well.

adam, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link

My 360 started chewing on discs yesterday, just as Bioshock is released. Off it goes to Microsoft for repairs. Bad timing :/

Matt D, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

system shock 2 (underwater art deco libertarian-shooting remix)

adam, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link

The hacking mini-game is annoying (and I'm crap at it, so far). And there's too much fucking stuff to pick up and look for - but you have to keep looking 'cause it seems like you often can only pick up one bullet at a time. Other than that I'm liking the game fine so far (about two hours in, I guess), but I've yet to have my socks knocked off...

Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, it's good but underwhelming so far... I guess that's understandable with all the superlatives knocking about

czn, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link

all it really takes to blow the gaming world hivemind is to make a first person shooter not set in ww2 or in the future pitted against an alien race in a struggle for survival etc etc. the game is getting better as i go on--the attack in the dentist's office was pretty nice.

adam, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

need to play this. need new computer. need job. argh

kingfish, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i am up to neptune's bounty yay

cutty, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Must stop reading thread. I know "THERE'S A DENTIST'S OFFICE?!?!" is hardly a spoiler but y'know, things gotta be fresh.

ledge, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link

This game is so fun. How can we have a thread about a game and not have even little spoilers? Some compromise must be reached, come on.

(SPOILER ALERT)

Ice level? Awesome!

antexit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Why is this not on PS2 ;_;

kv_nol, Thursday, 23 August 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link

are you kidding?

cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link

we're in the next generation pal. pick a side and run with it.

cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link

SPOILERS AHEAD

OK this is seriously great now...

need to sit with it a little while and let it get deep...

but standouts for me at the moment:

i. meeting your first little sister
ii. when you pick up the shotgun and all the lights go out and lots of splics come running after you
iii. another bit when you're looking for the telekinesis/doctor in the dentist and you walk round this corner and music starts... and you walk round the corner so slowly even though there's NOTHING THERE!

the music is so awesome throughout, as well... it as if THE CARETAKER made a videogame!!!

czn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link

in other news I just downloaded the DS game where you touch up witches...

czn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link

pick a side and run with it.

HA! I chose Sonicrosoftendo. Just need to find that Wii...

marmotwolof, Thursday, 23 August 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link

http://i17.tinypic.com/663d4bc.jpg

czn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link

hahaha

webber, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link

well that was quick

marmotwolof, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link

My copy just came. Busted Big Daddy figure, but I'll get a free printed copy of the pdf art book if I return it. It's all good, time to check this shit out.

marmotwolof, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link

I got a loaner 360 from a friend while mine is in the shop, so, playing.

Bioshock is the first game that lets me combine the power of fire & bees into flaming bees.
This is totally worth the price of admission on its own, especially when the application of said flaming bees makes the enemies scream "Fire AND Bees? That's just not FAIR!"

Matt D, Friday, 24 August 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link

How do you do that? Set the bees on fire when they're in midair?

So who's killing the Little Sisters and who's not?

antexit, Friday, 24 August 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link

I havn't tried that yet - the splicer just happened to be covered in bees, and I added fire, for hilarity. The bees do have the unfortunate habit of attacking anything and everything nearby, so be careful around Big Daddies.

I have been saving the little sisters myself. The ADAM reward is substantially less in the short term but there have been some interesting unique rewards to make up for it.

Matt D, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link

I made it about 3/4 of the way through on the second play before just giving up. I was playing on Hard and the fight against the Handyman was so impossible it just became extremely un-fun.

'Storyline' in this was fun to think about for about the first 2 hours of my second playthrough, but the more I thought about it, the less appealing it was, and the more icky it felt. Plus in all the interviews w Levine I could read, he never had a good answer for why the racist stuff other than "This is how the world was in 1912". Yet you never read about all the floating cities and robot presidents in history books. So this guy, who SOLD HIS OWN DAUGHTER, turns evil because he is later baptized? It wasn't the massacre in Wounded Knee and it wasn't SELLING HIS OWN DAUGHTER, it was being baptized. Right.

I guess this stuff is probably touched upon in the DLC but count me out.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

i completely agree. what if it had been an open-world, undirected myst-style thing where you just wander around and put clues together and then maybe break into the tower with some sierraesque inventory puzzle and maybe occasionally you shoot some dudes? right? "not being call of duty" isn't enough.

i just started playing this because it is free on xbox gold and this so expresses my disappointment about an hour or so in. such a beautiful world, wish i could stop being shot at by dudes so i could enjoy it.

That's ironic because there is no story at all this game is telling. The plot is a kind of an aimless bait-and-switch of a bunch of topical high concepts smooshed together through clever but sloppy writing and used to disguise a dull shooter as something which could have been so much deeper. It's the dumbest "thinking person's game" ever.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link

The idea that without the shooting this could have been something amazing is utterly absurd but I am sure it sold a lot to people that think Call of Duty is for idiots.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link

well it's boring the piss out of me, and if there's no story there then i don't know if i can be bothered to play much further.

There's story there, it's just not nearly as good as people were dreaming it was going to be.

a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Sunday, 22 March 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

Hmmmmm

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 22 July 2016 05:46 (seven years ago) link

always wanted to play the original but never got to it.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 July 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link

I tried once and the ancient graphics put an end to that shit real quick

calstars, Friday, 22 July 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link

played SS2 somewhat recently (like within the last decade) and it totally holds up and is still an excellent game.

Mordy, Friday, 22 July 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link


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