Zero Punctuation: BioShock
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bioshock is crap easy that makes it a compleate boring faliure yust killing the bloody doctor is fun and he are allways runing away like a big pussy!
so killing people in a game is supposed to be mind boggling difficult why cant it just be stress free fun with explosives. I mean if you want to play an rpg go pc if you want a shooter don't expect anything if its on the consoles to be really full of choices difficult enough to break your brain steam I'm just saying.
For starters, I suck at games naturally; so this game is at the perfect level for me and I couldn't love it more. I'm not whining about that, but the lack of inventory control is annoying and uncomfortable. 
Great review, Yahtzee, but then again when is it not
Great review, Yahtzee, but then again when is it not
I do agree with the statement that the game is meant for people who are easily amused by games like Halo 2/3 online. I saw a friend play Bioshock and I wasn't impressed at all just by looking at it even though he thought it was amazing. It's pretty much the exact same opinion I have for TF2.
Finest game I've played on this console generation. I hope the sequel is as good. Shame about the ending though.
Now that the sequel is out and we are necroing back this thread I think the review couldn't be more dead on.
I played through the first level on the PC and realized that I really didn't want to play the rest. The graphics were spectacular, the story was decent but the gameplay was entirely shallow.
And everyone said how great the story was. Well compared to Doom yeah it was an OK story. But it seems like modern gamers are mistaking "good story" for "has a story". See back in the olden days games didn't rely on graphics as their main asset. So games competed based on writing and gameplay.
The whole point of an inventory system with carrying limits is so that the player has to make choices and these choices impact gameplay. Same with a skill/purchasing system where you can't be good at everything. Without that decision making the gameplay isn't any different than Doom with fetch quests.
The hacking game was beyond insipid. Even Bionic Commando Re-Armed did hacking better. And scripted events are fine but you can't sustain a game with those unless it is strictly an adventure type game.
And I heard BS2 was even worse in this regard...it was a straight shooter with no pretense to rpg elements. Oh well.
I played through the first level on the PC and realized that I really didn't want to play the rest. The graphics were spectacular, the story was decent but the gameplay was entirely shallow.
And everyone said how great the story was. Well compared to Doom yeah it was an OK story. But it seems like modern gamers are mistaking "good story" for "has a story". See back in the olden days games didn't rely on graphics as their main asset. So games competed based on writing and gameplay.
The whole point of an inventory system with carrying limits is so that the player has to make choices and these choices impact gameplay. Same with a skill/purchasing system where you can't be good at everything. Without that decision making the gameplay isn't any different than Doom with fetch quests.
The hacking game was beyond insipid. Even Bionic Commando Re-Armed did hacking better. And scripted events are fine but you can't sustain a game with those unless it is strictly an adventure type game.
And I heard BS2 was even worse in this regard...it was a straight shooter with no pretense to rpg elements. Oh well.
Was I the only one who found hacking really fucking hard? Is it different on PS3 than XBOX 360?
Perhaps because MGS3 on Europian Extreme without guns is fucking evil, and because completing it like this would make you one gifted mother fucker. May I ask; did you?fonzythedog said:
