"No Gods or Kings" revisited

Fyacin · 05-04-2009, 07:58 PM

I don't remember them explaining vita chambers?
The end of that game freaked me out so bad I basically ran through it. I am not good with that kind of stuff LoL.

manasecret · 05-05-2009, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Fyacin

I don't remember them explaining vita chambers?

Well, it depends on how much of an explanation you want. They explained how and why they were built in at least one or two diaries. They don't, however, explain how exactly they work, but I don't expect that for a science-fiction device.

For the explanation of how and why they were built, there is one diary by Dr. Suchong that you get very soon before you kill Andrew Ryan. Suchong explains that Andrew Ryan commissioned them somehow, through Suchong maybe but that's not clear because it sounds like even he didn't believe they could work. But he also explained that Ryan set them up to only work on Ryan's DNA. This explains the video game conceit of why the protagonist can come back alive at will but no enemies can, in this case, through the VitaChamber and because you're Ryan's son.

Something I didn't think about until now -- why can't Ryan come back to life then? Or does he?? Hmm....

Professor S · 05-05-2009, 10:56 AM

Hmmm.... checking IMDB Armin Shimmerman (brilliant voice of Andrew Ryan) isn't slated to be working on Bioshock 2, but then again B2 isn't on imdb at all. So take it for what it's worth.

Typhoid · 05-05-2009, 04:24 PM

I love Bioshock a lot. To me, it was one of the first games where I didn't really feel I was playing a game, more like watching a movie unfold. Except that this game is much better than a movie.

To be honest, I still haven't beaten the game (while I've heard all about it) because I left it at my friends so he could play it on the 360.

Anyways, it's subtle things about this game that make it amazing. While the game feels vastly wide open (in the sense of clear corridors) the fact that you're under the ocean and seemingly trapped from all escape hits you. The lighting, graphics, and especially the diaries are what make this game the most epic thing I've played - or seen be played in the past few years.

Although Dead Space is a pretty close 2nd.