Bioshock

[Internet Kraken]

The chemical thrower is an interesting weapon though. Electric gel is incredibly useful, yet it also has liquid nitroglycerin, which is worthless.

Liquid Nitrogen is the freezing stuff. Liquid nitroglycerin would have been MUCH more fun (its explosive... and unstable)

I thought that I was mixing those two up.

But point is as long as you have winter blast, liquid nitrogen is useless. Even if you don't have winter blast it's still pretty bad. In my experience, winter blast is mainly used to quickly freeze turrets and bots for easy hacking. With liquid nitrogen you can't do that as it lacks the range of winter blast.

 

[Gamer137]

Good atmosphere, story execution, and story background, but bland gameplay and actual story events that occur. Basicly, it is good for a playthough or two to "get into" the enviornment, but does not have replayability. If you put the same plot and same gameplay in another game, and just changed the enviornment, that game would be crap.

 

[Chaosut]

Good atmosphere, story execution, and story background, but bland gameplay and actual story events that occur. Basicly, it is good for a playthough or two to "get into" the enviornment, but does not have replayability. If you put the same plot and same gameplay in another game, and just changed the enviornment, that game would be crap.

This was how i felt. The atmosphere and immersion were particularly the highlights of the, but the shooting and linearity made it fairly bland after a while.

 

[JC175]

The hardest part was fighting Big Daddies, but even they got easy once I discovered that electric gel destroys them. They can't even fight back. Once you hit them with the gel, you win.

True, but it does look frigging awesome.

Almost everything in that game looks awesome.

The chemical thrower is an interesting weapon though. Electric gel is incredibly useful, yet it also has liquid nitroglycerin, which is worthless.

I know what you mean about the electric gel, in my opinion it was much too overpowered though. About the only gripe I had with the game, though.

 

[6PrinceofDarkness6]

Bioshock was a truly excellent game with a deep and compelling story, great gameplay, and interesting characters. It's only notable flaw to me was the redundancy of the turret hacking system, but otherwise it was a near-perfect.

Exactly this.

Also, OP: Yahtzee liked the game.
If there's any fault with the game, apart from the hacking, is that it may be a bit too easy, being able to come back to life and all that. Also, some people disliked the storyline because the philosophy went over their heads (but honestly, they were mostly the kind of people who heard the word 'capitalism' thrown around in the game but didn't know what it meant)

Also: while Steampunk is good, the best part about the art direction has to do with Art Déco style of the place.

 

[ToAsTy McBuTTeR]

It could have been a bit more original but overall it was still a fun game. I look forward to the multiplayer in the second one.

am i the only one who doesnt care at all about multiplayer? if it has good multiplayer then yay but if its a bad game how does multiplayer make it better? yay i can play a bad game with my friends...


tangent aside bioshock is pretty refreshing... i had heard it wasnt entirely original but hell it was fun.

 

[Alex_P]

So, What was your opinion?

I put it down after about two hours.

The gameplay was just, well, boring. I hate shooters that rely heavily on attrition to create challenging situations.
The art design was good but I got sick of the environments quickly. Too much green water.
I don't think the game gives you enough, moment to moment, to keep your interest. As I was exploring, the world just felt too lonely and empty.

Spoiler: And this little plot tidbit just feels weird to me.

The bad guy, instantly recognizable as such by his Italian-American accent, fools everyone into thinking he's a good guy by adopting an Irish-American accent.

-- Alex

 

[PirateKing]

I really like it and it's really creepy and interesting. I thought the shooting could be a little bit tighter. I found myself using the shotgun a lot. I guess that does balance the game, considering that you can shoot lightning out of your hands.
I was disappointed that you can't use the teleportation plasmid. Great story too. I won't say anymore.

 

[bue519]

It could have been a bit more original but overall it was still a fun game. I look forward to the multiplayer in the second one.

am i the only one who doesnt care at all about multiplayer? if it has good multiplayer then yay but if its a bad game how does multiplayer make it better? yay i can play a bad game with my friends...


tangent aside bioshock is pretty refreshing... i had heard it wasnt entirely original but hell it was fun.

All I want is to get some more life out of my game other than the single player. Which can really only be done a certain amount of times before it starts to get stale.

 

[Sparrow]

...I only hear good things from official reviewers (apart from yatzee of course)...

Not an official reviewer.

Not sure what an official reviewer consists of, but whatever it is Yahtzee is most definately not it.

Some constituencies I can think of...
Regularly produces reviews of games? Check.
Paid by a gaming establishment to do so as a job? Check.
Contacted by a game developer in regards to his review? Check. (Peter Molyneaux, Fable 2.)

I don't quite know what criteria you're looking for that he doesn't satisfy. His reviews are not meant to be taken at face value, unlike most of the other reviewers (which you might be considering as a criterion.) They do inform about the flaws and upsides of a game however, which reviews are meant to do. He abandons a professional air, certainly. The reviews are not easily analyzed numerically. His opinions generally need to be inferred but they're still valid. I'd hardly consider any of those as invalidating him as an "official" reviewer.

Facts? He has none.

He's just funny, nothing else.

 

[tarquin biscuitbarrel]

The only thing I really disliked about the game was that the only actual choice I got to make was wether or not to molest small children. Not much of a choice...

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