Don't forget all the zooming around on sky hooks like some kind of space pirate, diving down on an unsuspecting mook, beating him down with your buzz saw, throwing fire and crows all over the place then making a swift exit on the sky rails...hazabaza1 said:
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I'll second the recommendation for Bioshock 2. I actually preferred its story for a number of reasons. Most notably, for a game that spent much of its time criticising objectivism, the original Bioshock spent a helluva lot of time in the upper class areas (possibly to emphasise "look how far they've fallen"). The second, on the other hand, puts the focus squarely on the overwhelming majority of people that have to fail for objectivism's few triumphs to succeed. Sofia Lamb is a considerably better villain than Fontaine, although she unfortunately lacks Ryan's charisma (really the only place I feel the second fails in comparison to the first). So yeah, I heartily recommend it.WWmelb said:
I clearly admitted i didn't really play first person shooters. Don't need what appears to be unnecessary snark thanks. What i was hoping as i asked a few times, was for someone to point me in the direction of where to look in other FPS's that makes them unique and "good" shooters.MHR said:
Nice take, and i like it, and will run with it as it makes me happy to tie the story up a little tighter, thanks you.Miss G. said:
Yes this certainly helped my enjoyment of the combat and i used the sky-rails a lot, just because they were a blast, not necessarily because i needed to. They were a fun option which i took delight in using at every opportunity i got.SkarKrow said:
Well I thought that might be why you had liked it more than other fps's. FPS games are some of my favourites and I like a whole variety, from military shooters to crazy old school run n gun stuff.WWmelb said:
then I bothered to learn some more interesting ones, after friends tried to get me into COD I played KIllzone 2 and had a blast because it was far more challenging, with more interesting settings and a more interesting world.
Well, i can't say i've played a Resistance game, and i must admit that since the days of quake, i've played little except of the CoD type games, so if it's different in a rather large way, i may have to check it out.SkarKrow said:
No problem. I just feel sad when the historical parallels Levine based them (and the setting of the whole game) on gets overlooked or thought of as a "because Bioshock" hand wave; especially by prominent reviewers like Yatzee and The Spoony One who do just that. If anything, BI is the kind of game that makes it's time-period setting something you should look up to get even more of a grasp on the story and why certain things are the way they are e.g looking up what Pinkertons did or how non-black minorities were treated at the time etc. You'll be amazed by what you can dig up and that's what I think interests a history buff like Levine in this part of his work, setting his stories in interesting times.WWmelb said:
I'm an australian, but was already pretty well familiar with all of the other historical references (or main ones) in the game. but the worlds fair thing kinda flew over my head, would not have even known WHAT to look up for that one in the first place, so it's appreciated.Miss G. said:
No problem, I should point out that Resistance and Killzone are PlayStation exclusives, for clarity, otherwise it's all multiplatform.WWmelb said:
Yeah, Bahamian here. I knew what to look for only because of the American (we don't have much of our own channels like I see other countries have) programming we had in The Bahamas. Now that I live in the US I have the History channel. Historical documentaries of events in other countries and cultures are always something I either enjoy or at least gain a new appreciation for how things have changed for the better or alternatively how much history tends to repeat itself and our nature as humans to not learn our lesson.WWmelb said:
The thing about BioShock: Infinite is that it is incredibly watered down compared to the past games in the series. In the first two games you had different ammo types, which were either better to use against certain enemies (ex. armor piercing ammo against Big Daddies vs. Anti-Personnel ammo against splicers) or had strategic advantages (ex. Trap Bolts on your crossbow allowed you to set up defensive positions). You had the ability to research enemies for combat bonuses and upgrades, and if you researched the security systems you could bypass the hacking mini-game. There was also the element of hacking the security to turn it to your side and set up areas where you could take an advantage over your enemies. The vigors were also incredibly basic compared to the first two games in what you could do. Whereas BioShock had Enrage, Hypnotize Big Daddy, and Security Bullseye all centered around turning the environment against your opponent, Infinite only had Possession, which was not only near useless given the amount of Salts it used up but was also very limited in its usefulness compared to what the three plasmids in the earlier games could be used for (that's just one example).WWmelb said: