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[crotch_lobster]

My gamertag is: fantasticplanet

and I don't have Bioshock yet. All I have so far is Oblivion and Gears of War. Lately I've been playing the Call of Duty 4 beta on XboxLive, if you can get a beta token you should check it out, althought I think the only way to get one now is to pre-order the game, so the whole "trying the game before you buy it" is sort of ruined. Although, now that I've played the beta, I'll definitely pre-order it. If you enjoy FPS-style games, it's one of the tightest, most pleasurable FPSes I've ever played on a console.

[theinevitable]

Bioshock is cool. Still scary, but I am getting more used to it.

[melack]

My Xbox Live tag is SlozburyStouvre, a horrific inside joke of a name that I regret choosing. Feel free to add!

I got Bioshock today, finally, and it's pretty sweet. One of the biggest complaints I've heard so far is that the game is too easy, but I'm definitely feeling some challenge on the medium setting. Most of that is because I can't aim the goddamn revolver to save my life, and I swear those turret guns just come out of nowhere.

Edit: And I would also like to not that BioShock is the first game in the history of the medium where I've had to read up on Ayn Rand in order to better understand the message the game is trying to convey. Or did I have to do that with Madden 2003? I forget.

[Doc]

By the end you can get a bit over-powered but frankly I enjoyed it for the story. The ending isn't the best but the atmosphere fuck*ng kills.

[jough]

Yeah, I spent a lot of time hacking stuff to get skills power-ups and open every safe, etc., and by 2/3s through the game you can get pretty powerful, but that didn't really diminish my enjoyment.

Also, you can up the difficulty level on the fly without consequence, so feel free to pop it up a notch (which makes your weapons a little weaker and the enemies a little more plentiful, which I enjoy) when it starts to sag for you.

Loved the game, although it didn't really move me the way Half-Life 2 did (does).  It's good, but it doesn't feel like a revolution (or revelation) to me.

[melack]

By the end you can get a bit over-powered but frankly I enjoyed it for the story. The ending isn't the best but the atmosphere fuck*ng kills.

Did you get the good or bad ending? Because it varies depending on how many little girls you rescue.

[Doc]

Good ending. I was a goddamn paragon of virtue.
Might play through it again to get the bad ending, though I saw it already.

[jough]

I watched the bad ending on YouTube, but I saved all the little sisters.

Someone did an analysis of how much ADAM you get from either saving or reaping the sisters, and it balances out due to the 200 ADAM bonuses you get every third sis' you save.

So there's no advantage or disadvantage either way, except if you reap them you get a little more powerful a little earlier on in the game, and the ending is suckier.

[melack]

If there's one big disappointment I have with the game so far, it's in the little sister storyline being passed off as anything resembling an open-ended moral path. I read on a site recently that the choice you're given between harvesting and rescuing basically amounts to choosing between being Mother Theresa or eating babies. There's absolutely no gray area, which really sucks. The game is a lot more linear than I'd hoped.

[Doc]

Yeah definitely more linear than I hoped too but if you've got to choose between a story and open endedness Im glad they chose the story in this case.

[melack]

Yeah, there's definitely a few trade-offs that have been made with BioShock. In exchange for open-endedness, they've gone with a really amazing story that's pushing the medium in a brand new direction. Also, in terms of difficulty, I'm kinda glad it tends toward easy, because would you rather play a scary-as-shit game that's easy or one that's really damn tough? I don't think my heart could handle all frustration of defeat combined with how often I've been startled when something scary pops up in front of me (or behind me, in the case of the dentist's office. Ho-leeeee shiiiiiit).

[theinevitable]

(or behind me, in the case of the dentist's office. Ho-leeeee shiiiiiit).

so, now I am even more terrified of this game.

[jough]

Yeah, there was one part that freaked me the fuck out.

[theinevitable]

I am a fan of when the light flickers and the guy disappears. in the morgue.

I have not reached that part, though, because I can only stand to play for 20 minutes at a time, and a lot of that time is spent trying to peek around corners.

[melack]

Yeah, I'm the same way. A huge chunk of my time is spent sloooowly peeking around a corner to make sure nobody's there. But there's always somebody there. There's always goddamned something there. It's just a matter of how long it takes to show itself.