Jimquisition: Jimquisition Awards 2013 - BioShock Infinite

[Thanatos2k]

There's a point where controls can make it too easy. I find no challenge in playing a shooter on a PC.

Then why aren't you out there winning tournaments, oh grandmaster of first person shooters? Or you could just be lying. I'll go with the latter.

You find no challenge playing a shooter on PC? Put your money where your mouth is. Let's see some footage of you dominating matches online. I don't even care which game.

Leaning is awesome, I constantly lean on Warfighter and I consistently win gunfights because of it. The best player in the game said he hated playing against me the most because I'm always leaning and sliding. And, by the way, I don't really use the lean to lean around walls, I lean in the open to adjust my aim and to dodge enemy shots. With leaning I don't get the added recoil that actual moving and shooting causes, and I use the highest recoil gun in the game. What if I want to lean the max leaning distance right away? I can do that on a controller but not a keyboard.

No one on PC does crap like that, because that's what crouching is for.

Ohh these control arguments always confuse me, I just do fine no matter what I have to use.

Please just stop it. You're factually wrong. Given the same amount of time to use each one, you will be a better player on a keyboard and mouse. You are not "different." You are not "just as good with either one." This is demonstrable scientific facts here. Controllers are inferior control methods for first person shooters. The developers know this as well, which is why they code in crutches to help people using them.

 

[Strazdas]

I listened to the intro on your youtube channel and on here and noticed just how much different the audio compression used is. If i woulnt know i would say those were actually two different tracks. Sadly, youtube just sounds better here

 

[fractal_butterfly]

I really liked Bioshock Infinite in all regards mentioned in the video. But I really hated the ending. It had so much potential, but this

Spoiler

stuff can really backfire, if not handled correctly. This was the case here.

 

[00slash00]

I liked the story and didn't mind the combat nearly a much as other people seemed to. My only issue was with Elizabeth. With the exception of cutscenes, she seemed to have no purpose other than a mobile item dispenser. I forgot she was even there half the time. I didn't enjoy The Last of Us but Ellie at least felt like an important part of the game. Elizabeth kinda felt like she was just...there.

 

[Do4600]

Other than that, the typical "bullet sponge" complaint about most of the enemies beyond the standard dime-a-dozen soldiers. I'm not asking for CoD-style "one to three shots will kill any enemy" style combat, but good lord...you shouldn't have to unload 5 clips of ammo into some guy to bring him down.

That and the last level ruined whatever was good about the game for me.

Instead of having a difficulty slider they should have just had a "enemy life slider".

I can't believe nobody realized the game was more or less broken on hard difficulty before they released it.

 

[Schlorgan]

I can understand not liking a game, I can understand being incredibly disappointed in it.

I have a friend. We both played Infinite around the same time and loved it, both of us felt that it was excellent. I played it twice. I played part one of Burial at Sea and loved it. My friend played Burial at Sea, and something in that flipped a switch in him and he came out of it hating it, hating Infinite and hating anything to do with Ken Levine. The kind of hatred that whenever I bring the game up he cringes and says "that's a terrible game" and can't believe that I like anything about it. The kind of hatred I can't understand is the aggressive hatred that I have not seen since the Star Wars prequels. The attitude of "this is the worst thing ever to happen to mankind," or "Ken Levine is the worst human being on the planet." Almost like the end of Soylent Green, people going "Bioshock Infinite is terrible, stop liking it!" I cannot for the life of me understand this level of hatred towards anything or anyone. What brings that about?

 

[drivetheory]

Fantastic electronica intro music. Thanks for exposing me to this track