Why does everyone love Bioshock?

[LitleWaffle]

I just thought it was Fallout under the sea with some japanese horror thrown in for good measure.

Fallout is obviously a direct copy of DOOM since they're both a FPS.

/sarcasm. I hate that line when talking about games. Game A was a copy of game B so it was average. Just shut up. Every game out there copies other games. No shit.

(That rant wasn't directed at you btw)

Agreed. Just because a game copies an aspect of another game doesn't make it average.

Also, try thinking up your own game/story. Relay it to a friend. Most of the time you will either purposefully or unconsciously include an idea from some other game or entertainment. That is where a lot of creative ideas are inspired.

Games have been tried out in different perspectives numerous of times. Be it first, third, even second perspective, as well as top-down view, 2d graphics, 3d graphics, you name it.

Bioshock is a first person game with guns and a story.
Fallout is a first person game with guns and a story.

Obviously they copied one another? No.

 

[Axolotl]

Fallout is obviously a direct copy of DOOM since they're both a FPS.

Fallout is a first person game with guns and a story.

What?

Anyway people liked Bioshock because it had a great story, good atmosphere, fun gameplay and an inventive setting. It also was fairly compotent at dealing with and exploreing some quite deep philosophical themes which is rare for games.

 

[Tiger Sora]

I've never played it but I always hear people raving about it.
I'm quite neutral on the matter.

 

[OrokuSaki]

Reasons I liked BioShock:
1.) The Story was good.
2.) Gameplay wasn't bad enough to stop me from playing the game.
3.) It presented a slight challenge if you try really hard not to die.
4.) It was entertaining to watch enemies run away in a.) fear of the bees I launched from my magic hand. b.) flaming agony as I snapped my fingers linker Col. Roy Mustang with a shotgun (Which by the way is the greatest improvement you could add to Roy Mustang)

 

[shrimpcel]

I think it was great. The only thing that was boring and repetitive was the hacking mini-game. The rest of the gameplay I found amazing and while Mass Effect and Fallout's respective storylines aren't bad, Bioshock still strikes me as more interesting. Forget about the second one though.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Snip?

Is a man not entitled to the opinion of his brain?

No says the man on Escapist, it belongs to PC elites.

No says the man in Reddit, it belongs it belongs to me.

No says man in 4chan, IT BELONGS TO ANONYMOUS!

I rejected those answers, instead I choose something different, I choose the impossible, I choose to like what I like and don't argue or care about what you do

Tldr; I respect your opinions and don't care if you like what I don't as long as you don't hate on what I like.

 

[Stealthygamer]

It had great gameplay, a really good story and really fun weapons and plasmids

 

[StarsintheBlood]

I reaaally love the story of Bioshock, but the gameplay does seem a little bit dry. If they made a novelization, I'd be totally on board.
I also take issue with Bioshock 2- they should have gone with the original storyline. Bioshock 2 had too many plot holes and the fluffier aspects like the daddy-Eleanor relationship felt a bit out of place from the tragedy of the first installment (the novelty of being a Big Daddy was cool, but it took away from the desperation and scariness of being in Rapture). The Big Sister actually had character in the original story as well.

So yes, while I adore the Bioshock story like you would not believe, there were a lot of miss-steps that detracted from it.

 

[CityofTreez]

Fallout is obviously a direct copy of DOOM since they're both a FPS.

Fallout is a first person game with guns and a story.

What?

Anyway people liked Bioshock because it had a great story, good atmosphere, fun gameplay and an inventive setting. It also was fairly compotent at dealing with and exploreing some quite deep philosophical themes which is rare for games.

Sarcasm...