come on, pinner. it's not that long.
and on the nerdbox, you don't even have achievements to worry about.

(irony alert!)

Have you obtained the "enrage" plasmid, which has the bad guys go and fight each other, while you chuckle up your sleeve and hide? I used that a lot at the seafood place.

I had just started the level at the... the seafood place.

What level are you on?

After my first two nights playing it, I haven't gone back to it. Not faulting the game for my lack of enthusiasm, it's just one of those [i]things[/i].

Some games, you just feel compelled to get back to during every waking moment. I totally understand if Bioshock was that for many (many many) people.

I dunno. Just... I just wasn't [i]taken[/i] with it.

I wrote a review of my experiences playing the game.

http://www.caltrops.com/review0050.php

I'd say there are spoilers there, so don't engage in it until you have completed it if you want a completely pristine, untainted experience.

[quote="pinbacker"]I'm not reading the rest of this thread cuz of all the SPOILERS, but I downloaded Bioshock tonight and played the first hour or so.

Huh.

Well, that [i]is[/i] pretty good, isn't it?[/quote]

Yes, yes, yes.

I'm not reading the rest of this thread cuz of all the SPOILERS, but I downloaded Bioshock tonight and played the first hour or so.

Huh.

Well, that [i]is[/i] pretty good, isn't it?

=(

VADER KILLS PALPATINE

The game continues to be amazing and fills me with real adrenaline at night. Which is probably not good, because I need my sleep.

I think this game kills any chance that I'd enjoy a WWII game, which was already fairly low. No man, no group of men can compare to fighting the (cringe) big daddy (cringe) enemies in the environments that this game displays.

The random assholes walking around throwing pipe bombs in the air are amazing, and they are nobodies. "Spear carriers," as Eric Mayer would say, heh.

It's unbelievably satisfying to throw a corpse at someone and kill them (in the game). You can knock a bad guy out and they will be stunned on the ground and the game will tell you if they have any hit points left and when they don't they get back at and have at it.

And I probably need to put together a spoilers thread. We'll make this the non-spoiler thread.

[quote="hygraed"]So I guess Andrew Ryan is a kinda-sorta anagram of Ayn Rand?[/quote]

Yeah. I guess Irrational Studios figured that nobody would ever follow a woman down to the bottom of the ocean for whatever reason so they made it a dude -- and you know what, there is enough violence against women in everyday life and video games.

Actually, with the "little sisters" being in the game, I guess they assumed that you could get away with extreme violence towards kids but not kids and a woman antagonist.

Either that or someone decided that if you want to have a cramagram of a name that happens to be female you best turn it around and go male.

Probably the latter.

So I guess Andrew Ryan is a kinda-sorta anagram of Ayn Rand?

[quote="Lowtax"]Due to overwhelming sensitivity and nonstop bitching[/quote]
Spoke the guy who signed up for a boxing match and then blogged about his opponent disregarding the "no hitting in the face" rule. He apparently was an unpaid extra in Eww Bowel's latest flick, so I guess all that's left is for his wife to get blitzed by the panzer division.

Then for him to call everyone pussies when I buy a scat porn gif banner up on SA.

I am going to write a full review, but here is the basics (keeping in mind that I don't know all the details and backstory yet, as I am not even close to being finished)

A guy named Andrew Ryan decided to create a city at the bottom of the ocean that built upon the Ayn Rand principles depicted in a lot of her work, notably [i]Atlas Shrugged.[/i] I have heard Randian ideology described as "self-ism."

Your character shows up in this city after a crash of some sort. (This is not because of a spoiler, it's because I don't remember what he was in that crashed.) And all hell has been unleashed in this city at the bottom of the ocean.

Gameplay consists of regular first person shooter things like a shotgun and machine gun, but also power-ups that come from altering your genetic code. You get slots to add new powers, like so much Marid Audran in Circuit's Edge. There is the hacking of systems, bots and droids. It's got a few RPG elements, and the enemies display some new tactics.

It's also amazingly gorgeous to simply look at. It has great art direction.

I didn't hate Doom 3, but Doom 3 is best taken as a haunted house simulator. BioShock is constantly throwing new stuff at you like a haunted house simulator, but it also seems to have a bit of a plot (through ham-fisted audio recordings you pick up) and I know there are some Interesting Decisions to be made later on.

Let me confess that I have not played many first person shooters recently. If you have never played one before and picked up, I don't know, Halo or something you'd be all, "Dude this rocks!" I don't want to be that guy. But I have kept in the loop informationally, and I am pretty sure there is new and interesting stuff going on in BioShock.

I think you'd love it.

what kind of game is this? a guy at work was saying it's a must-grab.

Sure, I could ASK HIM... or read reviews. but I want it straight from my HOMIES MOUTHS

Cool, thanks for the offer. I'll keep that in mind, especially if you start getting further in the game and saying it's all kinds of awesome. I pretty much only wandered around a little, opened a couple doors and fought a couple things, and checked out the cyberspace stuff a little back in the day.

[quote="Roody_Yogurt"]It's disappointing to see that getting SS1 to work on XP is such a chore. I've been hanging on to the game for years meaning to give it another try but that sounds rather annoying.[/quote]

It wasn't too bad. The guy at that link sort of over explained it. I got it going in twenty minutes, I think (but if I had to replicate it, I bet it would be five).

Let me know if you'd like me to whip up a "I don't have my head in my ass" version, as you are fully capable of getting the thing to go.

It's disappointing to see that getting SS1 to work on XP is such a chore. I've been hanging on to the game for years meaning to give it another try but that sounds rather annoying.

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