Poll: Bioshock and Half Life 2: If you had to choose.

[Cpt Corallis]

I voted Half Life 2, purely because I began to replay it a few days ago and started really taking an interest in all of the tiny details that valve have put in. Really makes the game immersive as you begin to care about things.

Cpt Corallis

 

[space_oddity]

Bioshock, Half Life 2 stuck me as another over the shoulder dime a dozen fps with a physics engine thrown in oh hooray. That and Bioshock was pretty much a watered down system shock 2 so if anything it had fond nostalgia backing it up in my eyes.

Couldnt agree more man.
Halflife is good, damn good, but massively overrated.
Bioshock had one of the most engaging storyline since, well, for me KOTOR.

My biggest problem with Bioshock is that they spend the 1st half of the game building up to the meeting with Ryan that after it, the game just feels pointless and dull. I think that the developers even called it a mistake to have more game after that part.

This is the only qualm i had with Bioshock, i felt Ryan was 10 times the villain Fontain was.
After Ryan is dead the game stumbles, motivationally, a little bit.

 

[space_oddity]

Double post, pardon me.

Penut Butter Toast.

 

[Bobbovski]

HL 2, but I would pick the original HL over HL 2.

 

[Split Moon]

Both are brilliant games but for sheer atmosphere i'm going with bioshock.

 

[Grayl]

Half-Life 2, definitely.

At least on that, you can't run around killing things with one weapon all the way through the game, as I did on Bioshock.

Plus, it doesn't pretend to be a game that is isn't (Bioshock is not a RPG, at all).

 

[Dogstile]

Bioshock cant even give story exposition through characters in a consistant manner, you have to listen to boring audiotapes.

sorry, do you want to talk to all the splicers that are trying to kill you instead?

go right ahead

 

[lewiswhitling]

I have to say i thought everything that HL2 tries to do, it does flawlessly(ish). You don't need a completely over the top setting to make a game ooze atmosphere, and you shouldn't need completely over the top weaponry and super powers to make you feel that the game play is interesting. And you shouldn't need to make a character intriguing by simply being unusual/insane or gruesome.

I liked the wasp plasmid, i thought it had a really gritty/almost scientific kind of feel to it.. i can almost imagine such a biological weapon as being possible.. but not the ability to shoot ice and fire and levitate things, that pretty much blew the whole thing into a fairy book for me.

And i like the characters in Bioshock.. but again, only by virtue of them all being very odd.

Half life has to be my choice, and by a country mile.

 

[Xaositect]

sorry, do you want to talk to all the splicers that are trying to kill you instead?

go right ahead

Yeah, good point well made, the game is almost devoid of life other than that which youre supposed to kill. How can people claim it has a good story if most of it is spent killing lunatic splicers?

 

[Zombie Badger]

I'd say Bioshock. Half Life is an excellent game, and started me PC gaming seriously, but Bioshock has a far better story, and there are so many more ways to kill people (I being one of the people who used different tactics throughout the game, play with vita-chambers off and never used the 'one-two punch' after the tutorial). Bioshock is also one of the most atmospheric games I have ever seen, about as atmospheric as Shadow of Chernobyl (That game gave me an adrenaline rush from a cutscene once).

 

[Nannernade]

Bioshock, I liked the weird twists and turns in the plot, I got surprised easily during it I was like what I'm part of Bioshock? No way. =O

 

[veloper]

You could buy the orange box or Bioshock for the same money, so half-life2 + E1 + E2 it is.