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BIOSHOCK UP THE ASS!
August 21st 2007, 18:41 CEST by Dumdeedum Quoth Wikipedia: BioShock is an action-adventure, survival horror first-person shooter video game by 2K Boston/2K Australia (previously Irrational Games.)[5] So now you know. There's lots of other details, plot and stuff, but mostly we're here because it's one of our "event games", a game everyone buys and then we play it together and compare notes and spoil the plot for each other and so on. There's also a fair chance that either Bob, Gaggle or Hugin will decide they hate it and everyone else will insult them for it. |
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I only got to play for an hour or so last night, but it was a lot of fun. Though I died a lot. On the plus side, dying isn't a big deal. On the downside, I have a hard time hitting the splicers running around like crazy. I keep wanting to run up to them and engage them with my wrench. That's a bad idea if you haven't stunned them first. :) I never did play either demo and I have to agree with Squeaky on the jarringness of that first injection. I wasn't sure what would happen when I tried to use that vending machine, but it wasn't shooting up with crazy stuff in a syringe from this crazy land where everyone is already fucked up... I like it a lot, but it's scary to play at night! :P Much like HL2, I keep getting overly excited when things jump out at me. Oh, and it's way too easy to hit your own guys. Right after reprogramming that droid, I managed to fry him in the next room. On a side note, what difficultly level is everyone playing on? As I said, I'm getting my ass kicked on medium. Probably died three times and I'm somewhere in the Medical Center. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
"I'm not sure it's possible to make a "subtle" jab at Matt's writing ability." - Ergo |
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LPMiller (#86): That's a long way to go to call someone retarded. I usually just stop at retarded. That's just smart time management. Lawyers get paid by the hour. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
"I'm not sure it's possible to make a "subtle" jab at Matt's writing ability." - Ergo |
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Hi, As I won't be in a position to purchase this game for at least a month, I won't be reading this thread until I have finished the game because I don't want to spoil it for myself. That said, I probably will come here to see if my impressions of the game tally with the general consensus of the rest of you. Therefore, I would appreciate it if you nice arseholes could keep this thread reasonably on-topic so that I won't be wading through pages and pages of bullshit when all I want to do is read about how awesome this bit was in Bioshock. Thanks, deadlock |
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Torrents. Hmmmm. |
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I like it a lot, but it's scary to play at night! :P Much like HL2, I keep getting overly excited when things jump out at me. Oh, and it's way too easy to hit your own guys. Right after reprogramming that droid, I managed to fry him in the next room. pfft, I let my droids do all the work while I loot bodies. When I hit the first boss guy, I had two of them and when they finally died, I had looted everything and one garbage can TK'd to the head killed him. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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G-Man, that's pretty much what I said, except you used way too many words to get there. Fail. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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I'm playing on medium. This results in a few deaths, but keeps it interesting. The creepiest thing to me is when you kill a Big Daddy. The little girls start sobbing and begging them to wake up. If there was an option to kill the kid first, I'd do it every time just to avoid feeling like I've killed somebody's dad. And is everyone harvesting? Or are some of you just looting the girls? I'm doing a little of both just to see what happens. |
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As I said, I only played about an hour, so I've had no opportunity to kill a Big Daddy, but I don't want to. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
"I'm not sure it's possible to make a "subtle" jab at Matt's writing ability." - Ergo |
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I'm going to attempt to not attack the Big Daddies at all. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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you can't do that. You will eventually have to fight them. Also, unless you want to only ever have two plasmids, you need to harvest or free the little girls. I free them. You get lower Adam at first, but the lady sends you bonus adam after awhile, so it washes out. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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"I free them. You get lower Adam at first, but the lady sends you bonus adam after awhile, so it washes out." Thanks for that. |
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So I probably screwed myself by harvesting some and freeing others. |
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it still likely ends up being less adam in the end, but by my math I'm only 20 adam lower than I would have been had I been harvesting at this point. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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On a side note, what difficultly level is everyone playing on? As I said, I'm getting my ass kicked on medium. Probably died three times and I'm somewhere in the Medical Center. Medium, and I haven't died once. Never even been in any danger of dying. The closest I got to dying was trying to hack a vending machine and it overloaded on me. And is everyone harvesting? Or are some of you just looting the girls? I'm doing a little of both just to see what happens. I saved the first girl, then killed the second and third. I'm thinking of restarting the game and saving all of them for the 100 point achievement. |
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...watch as I dig through my dustbin classics, pull out Huxley's crack-induced, dime-a-dozen disses... Mescaline. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory—all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall. And for private, far everyday use there have always been chemical intoxicants. All the vegetable sedatives and narcotics, all the euphorics that grow on trees, the hallucinogens that ripen in berries or can be squeezed from roots—all, without exception, have been known and systematically used by human beings from time immemorial. Fabricated like the word absurditive
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What I need to ask you as a strictly rhetorical question - are you actually reacting to a dinglepost? 'We run a pretty tight ship around here.' 'With a pool table?' 'It's a gaming ship.'
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Who are these people? Anyway, I know that linking to more XKCD is not a good behaviour, but tables are so awesome. |
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#102 by anaqer What I need to ask you as a strictly rhetorical question - are you actually reacting to a dinglepost? Are you? (she was born in november, 1965, the day aldous huxley dies...) |
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(died) (hattrick) (sorry) (SO LONELY) |
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She? I'm the one drunk and yet you're the one speaking nonsense - how the fuck do you think that's supposed to work?! 'We run a pretty tight ship around here.' 'With a pool table?' 'It's a gaming ship.'
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You need to listen to more Sheryl Crow. Also, I've heard that playing Supreme Commander drunk is teh awesome. Try to make some replays (of whatever game) for us please. |
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You need to listen to more Sheryl Crow. No, I don't. And I also tend to both suck at, and, in an amazing fit of coincidence, not particularly like RTS games - and as such, Supreme Commander continues to remain unplayed, unpirated, and totally unbotheredwith by me. Thanks for playing though! 'We run a pretty tight ship around here.' 'With a pool table?' 'It's a gaming ship.'
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Anyway, I know that linking to more XKCD is not a good behaviour, but tables are so awesome. Jetskis are better. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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Come on, play SOMETHING FFS. And record it with webcam or fraps or something. Drunk anaqer playing XYZ will be hit on theytube. |
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No way, Chunk. Jetskis are too seasonal. |
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The awesomeness of one jetski season is worth 2 years of table. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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I strongly doubt it, sir! There is no solid evidence of that. Quotes? Statistics? Surveys? Third party research? Get the facts first. |
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I don't need facts. Jesus told me so. He was on a jetski at the time (screw walking). Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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I'm on medium. I've only died against the big daddies. The last one I attacked I was able to kill without dying repeatedly by leading him into a room where I could duck under the flooring and shoot him through the grill. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Blasphemy! "screw walking"? Blasphemy! What else do we need? This means total war, sir! And the numbers are on our side: Results 1 - 10 of about 33,100 from planetcrap.com for table. Results 1 - 10 of about 3,010 from planetcrap.com for jetski. |
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Table always goes for quantity over quality. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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but tables are so awesome That's a flow-chart, you idiot. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
Blog. 203 lbs. 23 to go. |
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I don't have the gigajillions of space to edit a proper video, but here's a demo (and the necessary mod files) of an Accuracy Challenge I just played in Corkscrew Q3A. Only about a mere fifteen percent below average... must. drink. more. 'We run a pretty tight ship around here.' 'With a pool table?' 'It's a gaming ship.'
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That's a flow-chart, you idiot. I was gonna say, I'm as big a table supporter as this stupid war has, but that ain't no fucking table. Jetski is way better than flowchart. FFS. |
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Oh Snap! So tables aren't flowcharts? I'm a stupid Mick. |
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Fuck, I forgot which side of the debate I was on... I guess I must have been fluctuating between table (ie. something to put glasses on) and jetski (stuff that goes not at godspeed, but FUCKING FAST) all the time after all. Quick, somebody tell me where the bitches at! 'We run a pretty tight ship around here.' 'With a pool table?' 'It's a gaming ship.'
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LET IT FUCKING DIE ALREADY JESUS FUCK |
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NEVAR 'We run a pretty tight ship around here.' 'With a pool table?' 'It's a gaming ship.'
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When Huxley died, it was good riddance to bad trash. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can criticize society, religion and politics. He just had more time to think about it. He used only because when the masculine fist of reality punched him in the teeth, he didn't even have the courage to get back up and fight. Standing for something - be it politics, religion, whatever is in pet peeve case - would have required him to turn around and try to swim upstream. But such a feat requires hard work and training, so he copped out and swam right toward the waterfall. What a waste of life. |
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More Bioshock please. |
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Bioshock is a very good game. |
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Is it first person? |
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Sorry about the delay in responding, but I was referring to the position you took in the other thread regarding Steam versus the retailers and the potential illegality/anti-trust implications therein. Well, I'm not sure what you mean because I was -not- the one who started in with the "behind the scenes pressuring" talk. That was Bob and a couple of other people. I even responded in the other thread to something that Bob mentioned regarding a Qt3 post, where I recognized the contractual link between developer and publisher. The arguments offered by others were, in effect, that some dubious collusion is going on behind the scenes of some retailers, who are offering the game for a cheaper price than Steam in some effort to prevent Steam from gaining ground in marketshare where DD is concerned. Or at least that's how I interpreted what Bob and others were saying. Digital distribution is supposed to be cheaper for the consumer, while at the same time making more money for the developer and publisher due to the much touted reasoning of reduced overhead where boxing, CD/DVD production, and lack of retail advertising and inventory charges are concerned. But we're not seeing this to be true right now. If it's a matter of Steam entering into a contract with a publisher to offer a game at a certain price, then that's one thing. But if it's a matter of retailers working in collusion to pressure a publisher into making that contract with Steam in an effort to stymie DD marketshare, then yes, I see that as a problem. |
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I don't recall anyone saying it was SUPPOSED to be cheaper. I recall the more money for the developer thing. But promising cheaper? HAHHAHAHA. Boxing and DVD master is chump change (seriously, I spent an eye opening week contracting at Zomax, who handled the process for a ton of games and software packages), and they have to spend the money on advertising anyway with digital distribution. Hell, more, if they are DD only. The only real advantage to the consumer is they get to stay home. The major advantage for the dev is they don't need no stinking pub. But it's not all hearts and flowers for either side, and I don't think anyone but dreamers thought it would be. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Bioshock IS cool, and I do heart it. But it ain't no 10 out of 10. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Eurogamer disagrees with you. Of course that is possibly the most breathlessly adoring review I've ever read so one does wonder about how accurate it is. You could replace it with a youtube of Kristan Reed masturbating over a copy of Bioshock and then crying for 20 minutes and no nuance would be lost. MP3 Of The Week: The Heavy - Easier.mp3 (?)
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I'm pretty sure Gaggle wrote that review. |
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Bioshock is a good game, and I'm enjoying it very much. But the only thing that really makes it GOTY material is the fact that there isn't much in the way of contenders. |
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...until Halo 3 drops! YHBT. YHL. HAND
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Hullo. Long time lurker here (Andy, Bailey, neuter space bears blah blah) Just stumbled upon this thread on another forum and it reminded me of the dogpile days of yore on PC. I miss the vitality. http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=10469.0 |
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