Poll: Bioshock Infinite or Skyrim?

[viranimus]

First off... you wont get an unbiased opinion here. People love TES from what ive seen and invariably are going to favor it. (which means my post may get construed as flame bait. Not my intent)


I would say Bioshock. I found Morrowind boring, I found Oblivion tedious and easy, Fallout 3 was just as repetitive and mundane as Oblivion. So I really do not trust bethesda on their own to make Skyrim anything but the pinnacle of what they have been doing for the last decade. Basically more of the same things, just improved.

Bioshock Infinite however seems to be taking that franchise into a different direction (And no I do not mean by it being in the sky) Plus, honestly I found the story in BS1 as well as BS2 to be more substantive than anything in morrowind, Oblivion, and fallout combined.

I think the better story will be from BSI. However it is hard to ignore the simple fact that you will invariably get more hours of content from Skyrim. So the way I am seeing it, the good narrative points of the game will be stretched even thinner.

 

[darkfire613]

Bioshock Infinite. Its release date is farther away, and I've been following it a lot more closely than Skyrim. Also, I love the setting of Infinte much more than Skyrim. Of course, I will be getting both games, but if given the choice, I'd take Infinite now.

 

[archvile93]

If I have to choose I guess I'd go with Skyrim Since I hated its predecesor less, but it uses GFWL so I personally will probably get neither.

 

[InfectedStar]

I've played though the Bioshock series and enjoyed it imensely while as oblivion, ummmmmm not so much.

Edit: Oops forgot to answer the question, Bioshock Infinite.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Calumon: What if I can't play either? Do I get the money, cos I am kinda hungry!

Do you have any idea how annoying this is? Just pointing it out.


Back to the topic: Well if you are having doubts that means you think both games will be amazing. In that case you should get Skyrim. It will provide hundreds of hours of gameplay. You probably won't even think of other games while you play Skyrim. And if you play on PC, with mods you won't need another game in years so you'll be set when Bioshock: Infinite prices drop a few bucks.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I'm going with BI on this one. No offense to the massive fanbase, but I've never enjoyed a TES game. Bioshock just had this wonderful, fairly unique world and feel to it, and I'm interested in seeing how that translates to an entirely different setting.

You took the words out of my mouth.

Tl'dr,BI for me.

 

[SpaceBat]

I agree with him that BioShock 2's endings were better. Whilst both have the pants-on-head retarded system of having you kill one Little Sister and making you completely evil even though you saved 300, at least the second makes this an interpretation of your actions by another character (at least poorly).

In BioShock, if I killed a couple of Little Sisters, I came back to the surface and took over the fucking world.

In BioShock 2, the daughter interprets how you've behaved and acts in a way that she thinks you would agree with. Granted, its still handled according to a bizarre balance-sheet, but it makes more sense.

You might have misread both our comments. Neither of us said that it was better or worse than the first game. The person I quoted said Bioshock 2 had a cool ending, I said that it has an incredibly bad ending, that's it.

But if I have to choose which ending was the superior one, I'd agree with you and say that Bioshock 2's ending is superior. One of my personal flaws with it (there's much more than the one I'm about to mention), aside from the retarded formula both the games have, is that they let Sofia's fate up to Eleanor's flawed interpretations of your actions. Normally I wouldn't mind this, because this is actually the most realistic situation, but the game intentionally turns Sofia into a horrible character and does its best to make you despise her(Incredibly flawed and ridiculous philosophy, insane and brings pain upon others, deceitful, condescending and talks very often), but then takes away your control over her fate and just shoves it into an ending chosen by the ridiculously flawed formula we just criticized.

I personally wouldn't have killed Sofia either way, just for the sake of Eleanor, because she mentions that she never wanted harm to come to her mother. But just the fact that this specific part is completely out of my control makes me believe that the developers are just trying to fuck with me the best they can.

If Sofia Lamb wasn't such a crappy character, if the ending wasn't so incredibly vague and if the formula wasn't so ridiculously bad, I would have actually somewhat liked the ending. It would have put me in a grey area and created a personal dilemma by making me choose between pursuing my own desires (Kill Sofia for all she's done) or being the proper role model and not turning Eleanor into some kind of messed up, unforgiving judge, jury and executioner (I have always saved all of the little sisters in both Bioshock games, so the two "good" endings would be the only possible endings for me). It would be basically asking you how far you'd go to pursue your selfish goals.

But right now, all the devs did was annoy us at every given opportunity, then just slap us in the face and get away with it.

 

[masher]

It'll take me quite a while to "beat" Skyrim. What am I going to do when I finally do? I'll play through again. And again and again and again.

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

Skyrim, I didn't even have to think about this one, not just because I'm a huge elder scrolls fan, but because with Bethesda RPGs you sort of have a vague idea of what you're going to get. I have no idea what to expect for Infinite.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Besides Skyrim lasting longer and probably having way more replay value, I think that Bioshock Infinate's price will go down rather quickly, just like Bioshock 2's price. I'd get Skyrim if I had to choose from these two (I'm pretending that I want Bioshock Infinite to answer this question).

Another option is to wait until they're both down to half of their price--or less--and buy both.

 

[kyoodle]

Skyrim, hands down. Bioshock 2 was too much of a disappointment, so I have little hope for Bioshock Infinite.

Ahem. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108421-Irrational-BioShock-in-the-Sky-Would-Be-F-king-Boring] Besides, Bioshock 2 was made by 2K, not Irrational.

It's funny that they say Bioshock in the sky would be boring..and then they describe Infinite as Bioshock with the risk of falling

 

[RedDeadFred]

Skyrim.
Why?
Because it's made by God Howard.
Easiest question of the day.

 

[The_Echo]

I'm a fairly low-budget gamer. Most of the time I'll wait a few years for a game to drop a few bucks, rather than pay full price for it. But there are two upcoming games that even I'm willing to stand in line for on release day: Bioshock Infinite and Skyrim.

A little question for my fellow Escapists: If you could have either game RIGHT NOW, which would it be?

You could have both. BioShock Infinite isn't set to release until sometime in Q2 2012. Just saying.

I think I'm a little more partial to BioShock, but it's really about me wanting to know how it all ties in. I'm pretty excited for Skyrim too, though.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

If Oblivion and Bioshock 2(or even Bioshock 1) are anything to judge by, you'll get literally hundreds more hours of fun out of Skyrim. If I had to make the choice it would Skyrim for me, hands down.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I'd go with Skyrim. It should have more play time and replay value...

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Bioshock Infinite. Skyrim just looks like your standard sword and sorcery RPG but now with the prettiest graphics.

Bioshock Infinite looks and appears to play new and exciting.

 

[captaincabbage]

Meh, I never got into Bioshock. I never played all the way through the first one (I got about helf way and got bored) so I don't think I'll give much of a toss for this one either.

Skyrim all the way baby.

 

[Zakarath]

Eh... the first Bioshock was alright, and the series has gone downhill from there. And The Elder Scrolls have consistently been awesome and it looks like Skyrim won't be changing that. Skyrim, hands down.

Plus, Bioshock doesn't have dragons. No contest.

 

[Lerasai]

Skyrim. I'd love to have both games, but if I could only pick one I'd pick the one I could get more play-time out of. Plus, open-world games are like crack to me.

 

[MrMrAwesom]

After bioshock 2 I think I'd chose kane & lynch 2 over infinite.
May be a bad way to look at it but Bioshock 2 was so lame to me (DON'T ask why) I didn't think there'd ever be a sequel & that I'd never buy it either.
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Go ahead & flame me for liking COD better than Bioshock 2