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

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

how do people have this before release date?

Toys R Us broke street date.

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

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

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

PC demo hits tomorrow

check that. PC demo has already leaked.

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.

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.

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

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

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/

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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?

SPOILERS bruv

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

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

Those aren't spoilers!

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

i am up to neptune's bounty yay

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

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!

Why is this not on PS2 ;_;

are you kidding?

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

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!!!

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

pick a side and run with it.

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

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

hahaha

well that was quick

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.

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!"

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?

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.

I'm rescuing them myself. Figure I'll harvest them when I replay on hard mode, the extra Adam will come in handy then.

I'm doing the same. I'm on the last level now, (SPOILER ALERT) which is cool (END SPOILER) and I think I must be missing something in this game. How are you supposed to get the "all weapons upgraded" achievement when there are only like five upgrade stations in the game and after you use them once they're fuxored? Did I just breeze right past a bunch of upgrade stations or something?

yeah -- i think there's like 12 total

anyone following this whole ordeal surrounding the copy protection on the pc version?

http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07345/sig_bioshock.jpg

2k seems to be backtracking pretty quickly though (5 activations now available), so i doubt it will be much of a problem in the long term. the soundtrack is now available for download, as well (as opposed to the pathetic 3 track cd of moby remixes that comes with the special edition):

http://downloads.2kgames.com/bioshock/BioShock_Score.zip

Cor, this game is good. Last night, whilst playing it I thought, "fuck, this game is boring. I feel like I've been playing it for hours". Turned it off and went to bed only to find it was 5:30am. I'd been playing it all night!

Of course, when I woke up I whacked the xbox back on and played another couple of hours. Now I'm late for work!

Oooh, I can hit the baddies now before they hit me! This isn't so hard after all :)

It'll hurt to lose all my upgrades and stuff when I finish this. Fortunately I'm pretty sure I'm miles off that, as I've spent way too much time walking about breaking things.

Funny how it turns out telekinesis is the best plasmid in the game. I didn't figure out how to use it offensively until about three-quarters through the game. Games where you can throw flaming dead cats at people = fun.

In conclusion - I do feel like this game was over-rated, but I do feel like it's a very solid game. I know when I'm playing a GREAT game I feel like playing it again as soon as I finish. I did not feel like that as I was beating Bioshock. Once was enough. It's a bit of a drag that the game has no replayablility / no multiplayer. It would have been great fun, say, if after beating the game solo, you could play a powered-up co-op campaign in the same world, just for laughs, or whatever. Anyhow - something more would have been nice. I also felt like, for me, there were just too much picking stuff up, too many hacking mini-games (when I got the achievement for beating fifty of those I felt sick), and too many hunt and fetch type parts to the game - one of those would have been enough - but three or four collecting missions - a bit blah. The story is also a bit sparse. But overall, it was failry addictive, and certainly a visually appealing world to stomp around in for five days.

Surely there's at least one replay in Bioshock-- isn't it a totally different game whether you harvest or free the Little Sisters? I'm sure the last level at least is completely different.

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

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

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