I recently bought Bioshock (something I've been meaning to do for a long time) and one thing really amazed me; the difficulty settings. I first played on medium thinking easy would be too easy and hard being near impossible and soon in found myself dying every few enemies. I switched to easy to see how it went and i found enemies to be no challenge at all, especially the Big Daddies. I switched to Medium and again it was near impossible. Is it just me being bad at the game or do others find this as well?
Bioshock, Way Too Hard?
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Sure you die an awful lot, but you respawn pretty quickly so there's not really a huge amount you really lose by dying - the enemies even have the same health you left them with.
Perhaps you were not being resourceful enough? Try fully researching everything with the camera, that helps quite a bit. Anywho, you have the vita chambers if things get ridiculous.
Not for me. I played on Normal (or medium, whatever the second difficulty was), and found the game appropriately tense, but I don't think I died until like 3/4ths of the way through the game. Maybe it's just your play style?
Then again I am awesome incarnate (I keed I keed).
Then again I am awesome incarnate (I keed I keed).
Yeah, I didn't have any trouble playing on medium. Although that could probably be due to the fact that I sit back and spend 10 minutes trying to kill everything from a safe distance before entering a room. An extremely effective, if not boring strategey.
I honestly found Bioshock to be fairly easy, even on hard. With or without the vita chambers. Of course, this is on the PC (not sure what you're playing it on).. and a good 16 years of playing FPS's under my belt.
When I played it on the console, it was harder than diamonds.
When I finally got it on PC, it was a breeze. There was even a difficulty mod, which nerfed the wrench (which it deserved) among other things.
But this is coming from a player who played nightmare runs on doom 2 and liked playing 1v1 versus Xan in UT99. Sure, I never did well, but Bioshock was gumdrop frosting compared to THAT kind of difficulty.
When I finally got it on PC, it was a breeze. There was even a difficulty mod, which nerfed the wrench (which it deserved) among other things.
But this is coming from a player who played nightmare runs on doom 2 and liked playing 1v1 versus Xan in UT99. Sure, I never did well, but Bioshock was gumdrop frosting compared to THAT kind of difficulty.
Really, I think it was fairly easy. The limited health system means nothing when dying doesn't cost you a thing.
Also, I played it almost exactly like a run and gun shooter. I rarely used plasmids - there didn't seem to be a need when I could just shoot things with any of the guns lying around.
Also, I played it almost exactly like a run and gun shooter. I rarely used plasmids - there didn't seem to be a need when I could just shoot things with any of the guns lying around.
May try going on medium and using plasmids more. And another thing, Does anyone really use Plasmids? I try to but find they are really weak. I end up using 8 bars of EVE to kill a single enemy.
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I hadn't played an FPS since perfect dark for the 64 and didn't have any problems getting through Bioshock on Medium. Finished it in one sitting ugh, 15 hours later.
What are you talking about? Everything in Bioshock was just trivial, except for the early few Big Daddies. I'm not just really good at videogames, you were just tripping over health, ammo, and money. GEtting the achievement for never dying(by disabling Vita-Chambers) was just no problem at all.
And when you get revived every 5 feet for no cost at all you can just use your wrench for the whole game, like I did on easy(but I only died once because clipping made me kill myself to get out).
And when you get revived every 5 feet for no cost at all you can just use your wrench for the whole game, like I did on easy(but I only died once because clipping made me kill myself to get out).