Mass Effect and Bioshock - Should I?
- Thread starter SomethingUnrelated
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Mass effect:
It has a very good story as long as you are in to sci-fi.
I enjoyed gameplay wise since it is a good mix of 3 person shooting/strategy and rpg.
get the pc version because they fixed a good few problems.
Also its only ?15 on steam
Bioshock:
Very good story
Looks good even now
Very Good fps game
don't know how much but it is worth it
Buy both
It has a very good story as long as you are in to sci-fi.
I enjoyed gameplay wise since it is a good mix of 3 person shooting/strategy and rpg.
get the pc version because they fixed a good few problems.
Also its only ?15 on steam
Bioshock:
Very good story
Looks good even now
Very Good fps game
don't know how much but it is worth it
Buy both
Mass Effect has been criticised for it's relatively shallow combat system.
Play BioShock, and you'll be yearning for Mass Effects combat. Maybe I've been spoiled by CoD4, but BioShock's combat felt very shallow. Yes, there's a whole host of plasmids, and you can be creative with them, but I (as of the halfway mark) have not encounterd a single boss that cannot be defeated through a liberal application of either 1)Setting them on fire and shooting them, 2)Zapping them and hitting them or 3)Both. The fact that these are the first two plasmids doesn't really help either.
Atmosphere-wise BioShock is excellent, but Mass Effect has more interesting characters. Although Mass Effect's sidequests SUCK (with the exception of Bring Down The Sky, which was great. I'd much prefer them to screw the few dozen barren cookie-cutter planets and just have 8 or so BDtS level quests)
Play BioShock, and you'll be yearning for Mass Effects combat. Maybe I've been spoiled by CoD4, but BioShock's combat felt very shallow. Yes, there's a whole host of plasmids, and you can be creative with them, but I (as of the halfway mark) have not encounterd a single boss that cannot be defeated through a liberal application of either 1)Setting them on fire and shooting them, 2)Zapping them and hitting them or 3)Both. The fact that these are the first two plasmids doesn't really help either.
Atmosphere-wise BioShock is excellent, but Mass Effect has more interesting characters. Although Mass Effect's sidequests SUCK (with the exception of Bring Down The Sky, which was great. I'd much prefer them to screw the few dozen barren cookie-cutter planets and just have 8 or so BDtS level quests)
BUY NOW! Seriously, Mass Effect is the best RPG I've ever played. It has a great plot and you can see that the writers payed attention even to the smallest details, great and funny characters, gears of war-like combat system that I loved, the best karma system evar (that's right with an a in it!) and awesome replay value.Squid94 said:
BioShock is one of the best RPGs I've ever played so I reccomend it. I had tons of fun with it. Admittedly it's mostly linear and you don't have much RPG to do except harvest girl or save girl but I still loved it. The ending made me scratch my head and say "Wow!", it's that good.
ME is an amazing game, but you need to like dialog and sidemissions to get the most out of the game, one advice; do not pick soldier for the first playthrough, ittl be a bit tough at first but you become a monster later on
I'd recommend both. If you liked Knights of the Old Republic, you will love Mass Effect and if you didn't and are interested in RPGs with quite a lot of dialog, I think you'll enjoy Mass Effect's story.
With Bioshock, it took me a while to really get into the game, but once I did, the story was great and well worth the play. They also don't cost much.
With Bioshock, it took me a while to really get into the game, but once I did, the story was great and well worth the play. They also don't cost much.
OP, I have to recommend both Bioshock and Mass Effect. If it's a choice between the two, Bioshock but that's personal.
Mass Effect is a fantastic game in its own right and Bioware definitely draws upon its experience with KOTOR in creating it; almost to a suspect degree. The universe is definitely interesting and the supporting cast feel like real people. However, I say to a suspect degree because it feels a little too much like Star Wars. Biotics may as well be The Force and Spectres may as well be Jedi. A lot of it feels like KOTOR, moral choices, talking to your teammates, walls of dialogue (all of it very, very well acted and the responses have a great amount of depth), and this isn't necessarily bad. It's a step away from the Star Wars franchise for Bioware which is more than I can say for Lucasarts. Is it worth a play? Considering it's dirt cheap at any local Gamestop, definitely. Combat is fun, frantic, and relies more on strategy and using what's on hand rather than running in with the trigger taped down.
Now for Bioshock...get it. It's a wonderful experience. Bioshock is hauntingly atmospheric. The music ties in wonderfully to the dark and macabre creatures that lurk about each corner. Each enemy you fight wails on about how they're sorry, how they don't mean it; some even quote passages from the Bible in seeking forgiveness. It gives a feeling of utter depravity caused by one falling into the deepest forms of hedonism. Some enemies, on the other hand, revel in the destruction they're causing and will flail at you while telling you so.
This ties in with the story of a Utopian city that falls into despair at its own greedy hands. While a little preachy (CAPITALISM BAD RAWR) the story is wonderfully written and the twist toward the end leaves you with a sense of both satisfaction and anger. The final boss, while being absolutely easy, is actually someone you want to defeat. I would go on but I'm hesitant to give any spoilers.
As far as combat goes all options are open. The game functions on a weapon wheel so you have everything available to you for every situation. It's an absolute blast to lure a group of enemies into traps that you've set and watching them all crumple behind you. The amount of options you have in combat is staggering and you likely won't dry them out in a single play through. A lot of this is undermined though by the fact that the game just is not challenging. Rather than using checkpoints, you're transported to reviving chambers and all your progress is kept. In theory, you could smack a Big Daddy once with a wrench, wait to die, and repeat until it's dead. Despite this, Bioshock is something that simply cannot be passed up.
~Taz
Mass Effect is a fantastic game in its own right and Bioware definitely draws upon its experience with KOTOR in creating it; almost to a suspect degree. The universe is definitely interesting and the supporting cast feel like real people. However, I say to a suspect degree because it feels a little too much like Star Wars. Biotics may as well be The Force and Spectres may as well be Jedi. A lot of it feels like KOTOR, moral choices, talking to your teammates, walls of dialogue (all of it very, very well acted and the responses have a great amount of depth), and this isn't necessarily bad. It's a step away from the Star Wars franchise for Bioware which is more than I can say for Lucasarts. Is it worth a play? Considering it's dirt cheap at any local Gamestop, definitely. Combat is fun, frantic, and relies more on strategy and using what's on hand rather than running in with the trigger taped down.
Now for Bioshock...get it. It's a wonderful experience. Bioshock is hauntingly atmospheric. The music ties in wonderfully to the dark and macabre creatures that lurk about each corner. Each enemy you fight wails on about how they're sorry, how they don't mean it; some even quote passages from the Bible in seeking forgiveness. It gives a feeling of utter depravity caused by one falling into the deepest forms of hedonism. Some enemies, on the other hand, revel in the destruction they're causing and will flail at you while telling you so.
This ties in with the story of a Utopian city that falls into despair at its own greedy hands. While a little preachy (CAPITALISM BAD RAWR) the story is wonderfully written and the twist toward the end leaves you with a sense of both satisfaction and anger. The final boss, while being absolutely easy, is actually someone you want to defeat. I would go on but I'm hesitant to give any spoilers.
As far as combat goes all options are open. The game functions on a weapon wheel so you have everything available to you for every situation. It's an absolute blast to lure a group of enemies into traps that you've set and watching them all crumple behind you. The amount of options you have in combat is staggering and you likely won't dry them out in a single play through. A lot of this is undermined though by the fact that the game just is not challenging. Rather than using checkpoints, you're transported to reviving chambers and all your progress is kept. In theory, you could smack a Big Daddy once with a wrench, wait to die, and repeat until it's dead. Despite this, Bioshock is something that simply cannot be passed up.
~Taz
Get the Bioshock/Oblivion new bundle and Mass Effect used. Three of the best games this generation for the price of one and a half (At my local EB, I got Mass Effect for ten dollars and have had over two-hundred hours on it, and the BioBlivion pack is full-price ($60 Canadian).
Yes you absolutely should! Given Bioshock is in my top 10 games of all time and I really enjoyed Mass Effect (I'm playing it again at the moment) I may be a little bias; but seriously they didn't win all that acclaim for nothing. You could do A LOT worse.