BioShock Has Arrived

[Bond]

Yeah, I got beat pretty bad by my first Big Daddy. Eventually killed him though.

I've encountered my second one in a rather large room and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to deal with him yet.

[Angrist]

Argh, hearing you talk about it makes me want to play this game. Seems... epic.

[Bond]

I <3 BioShock.

[Typhoid]

I feel like I should be stuffed in a mental institution, because this game doesn't look remotely fun, or enjoyable to me.

It just looks like the same first person stuff, that's been hyped way too much.
Just like most other first person games.

Thanks lot, HL2.

[Bond]

To be extremely objective, the game has been over hyped some, but it is still an excellent game. It's nothing earth shattering, but the environments are stunning, the story is excellent and the combat is solid.

[KillerGremlin]

the sound cut out on the demo for me, but the game ran flawlessly with medium graphics at 1440x900 <3

so now i wait to see how big my next paycheck is...otherwise i torrent

[Yoda9864]

Originally Posted by Bond

It's nothing earth shattering, but the environments are stunning, the story is excellent and the combat is solid.

How often do you get all those things nowadays though?

[Vampyr]

VAMPY WANT

[Dyne]

Fuck Bioshock is awesome. I couldn't get enough of it tonight. I wish I had a whole day to just play it.

But I'm stuck playing Turok. I guess it's alright.

[DarkMaster]

You played 20 hours already?

[thatmariolover]

I've got it maxed out on my new PC. I'm really enjoying it so far, very entertaining. But I'm at work, so really can't sit typing for long enough to give impressions.

[Fox 6]

3 way big daddy fight........................... amazing

[Jason1]

Well Ive been doing a bit of research on the PC version, and theres a big bunch of people seriously pissed off that you need a Pixel Shader 3.0 capable graphics card to play this game. According the the polls that valve runs through steam, over 40% of gamers have a card that is not 3.0 capable, and thats a lot of people. Sounds like a lot of the ATI's produced over a year ago dont have it (mine included), apparently ATI decided to stick with the 2.0. This is despite the fact that many of these cards are actually more powerful than cards that can play the game, only because they support 3.0. This has to make you wonder, especially with the whole "Nvidia: The way its meant to be played" nonsense, if Nvidia had something to do with this. There is hope though, some guy got it working with a patch he made in about an hour...some textures missing, ect, but its apparently playable. Anyways, hopefully 2K games gets off their lazy asses and just releases a patch that fixes the problem.

On a side note, I did play the demo on my laptop, which has an Nvidia, and it was fun, but it didnt run too well...very beautiful though.

[gekko]

Ya, so BioShock... boring! Yep, I said it.

After multiple attempts to progress through BioShock, I realized something, this game is not fun to play. It bores me to death. Graphics are great, give my props to the artists. The musical score is annoying and quite possibly the worst music I've ever heard, but it fits the game well. But playing the game? I'll pass.

See, BioShock's slow story has yet to become apparent, and believe it or not, has yet to capture my attention. Some people call it art, I call it poor storytelling. This game reminds me of the Final Fantasy series, everyone says "Oh, well you need to get at least 10 hours in and you'll understand everything. The story is great." Well let me tell you something in return, I'm not about to give 8 or so hours of my life to find out if I indeed like a game. If it can't hook me from the beginning, it's not getting my money.

BioShock seems to be stuck trying to figure out whether it's a first-person shooter, or an adventure game. I spend more time running around searching than I do fighting, but unlike great adventure games like Banjo-Kazooie, I'm not having fun doing in. I do enjoy beating people down with my wrench, it reminds me of Condemned, only that game was enjoyable. But aside from that, there is nothing above average about the combat system. The action isn't enough to keep me entertained by any means. Besides, I rarely die from fighting the enemies. It's those stupid bots that come out and make the game more annoying than it already is.

Between the bots and the turrets, I never want to play this game again. I'm sick of hacking things, it's way overused, and I still don't have any idea why I'm running around Repture acting like an idiot, so I decided to solve that problem, and stop running around Rapture.

[Angrist]

We found a witch! May we burn her?