Anyone else looking forward to Bioshock Infinite?

Started by Teo Torriatte, March 24, 2013, 11:52:36 AM

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Teo Torriatte

I just preordered it today... and I'm going to a midnight release tomorrow night.

That skyhook looks pretty cool to mess around with... kind of reminds me of my favorite level in Metroid Prime 3, the one where you go around on those sky rails.

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Aleph

Yep, pretty much horrified at the use of a sky hook as a melee weapon. This, of course, is Bioshock, and a skyhook is a step down from a mining drill of course :) Loving it so far (only played a little due to time and other games I want to finish first) but I'm loving how Comstock is as complex an entity as Andrew Ryan, full of god-complex and high, rather slanted ideals.

I'm looking forward to getting deeper in to the game.

Sasquatch421

I'm having fun with it and of course love using the skyhook as a weapon. Now I'm running around with Elizabeth and I'm kind of surprised how much she looks like Belle from Beauty and the Beast with her long hair.

CmdrRenegade

I finished the game yesterday.  Fun combat but the game wasn't as 'smart' as the first two with its storyline.  I enjoyed watching how an Ayn Randian capitalist and Leninist socialistic society had their inherent flaws brought out into the light.  This storyline had neither of those.  It's still worth playing but I missed that.
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Morrowclaw

The first one blew my mind so after beating it, I set out to buy the second one. It was my birthday shortly after beating the first Bioshock so I got a bunch of games and never even started Bioshock two....I should get on that.
Partly for the hell of it
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Mostly for the story

Chris Brady

Bioshock 2 was not done by the same studio as the original, nor Infinity.
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Aleph

Having just finished the game earlier this afternoon (no spoilers), I'm going to disagree with CmdrRenegade. I thought the storyline was brilliant. Though I'm amused at my own comment at the start of this thread.

Galactic Druid

I really enjoyed the game and it's story for what it was. I never go into a game expecting a tale that will trump a movie or novel, so I'm usually not disappointed. This game was just plain fun, no matter how you slice it. I was worried that it was going to be a giant 16 hour escort mission before I started playing, but honestly, Elizabeth is a joy to have around, and I really like where the story took me. I'd gladly recommend it to anyone who plays games just for fun as I do.
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Jude

Quote from: CmdrRenegade on March 31, 2013, 08:11:53 PM
I finished the game yesterday.  Fun combat but the game wasn't as 'smart' as the first two with its storyline.  I enjoyed watching how an Ayn Randian capitalist and Leninist socialistic society had their inherent flaws brought out into the light.  This storyline had neither of those.  It's still worth playing but I missed that.
The political/social points are there, just not quite as "in your face" as Bioshock. They take a backstory to the personal and grand story being told.

As far as how I felt about the game: the combat was not that great in my opinion, but everything else was great. I think the art design (all the unique assets from area to area in the beginning for instance) was probably the best part.

Galactic Druid

The combat was my favorite part. I had a lot of fun running around like a complete psycho with my shotgun. There aren't many shooters these days that let you get away with that, so I enjoy the ones that do. I think the epilogue for the original Mass Effect was the last time I had so much fun.
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Jude

Have you played Rage? I enjoyed the shooting in that more.

Galactic Druid

I actually own Rage, but never played it. I spent a week trying to get it to work right with my video card (a Geforce 560ti, it's certainly no slouch), only to get completely frustrated and give up on the game before they ever patched it.
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CmdrRenegade

Quote from: Aleph on April 14, 2013, 07:24:06 AM
Having just finished the game earlier this afternoon (no spoilers), I'm going to disagree with CmdrRenegade. I thought the storyline was brilliant. Though I'm amused at my own comment at the start of this thread.

I didn't say it was bad, but I guess I liked the dissection of political philosophy a little more. 
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Jude

Quote from: ThatRPGuy on April 14, 2013, 11:01:00 PM
I actually own Rage, but never played it. I spent a week trying to get it to work right with my video card (a Geforce 560ti, it's certainly no slouch), only to get completely frustrated and give up on the game before they ever patched it.
Hmm, I played it about 6 months ago with a GTX 460 768MB, so yours is way better than mine.

Sacredless

I'm quite in love with Elizabeth. First time to be affected so by a parasocial relation. It was pretty early too; at some point, she got mad for Comstock planning to make her the ruler of Columbia and said, "Well, I want a puppy, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get one." I just sat there for a few moments and than said to myself, "Come Comstock and come Founders. Come all of Columbia. I'll take you all if it gets my Liz her puppy!"

Aleph

Quote from: CmdrRenegade on April 15, 2013, 12:23:21 AM
I didn't say it was bad, but I guess I liked the dissection of political philosophy a little more.

Ah, fair call. Yeah the bigger themes did seem to get the broader brushstrokes in this one, that's true. I guess I'm with Jude in that I liked how the focus shifted to Booker/Elizabeth's story in this one.

Sabby

I haven't finished it. I'm just not enjoying it like I did the first two. It's too formulaic. Too predictable.

Like, there's nothing wrong with the mechanics. It's about as fleshed out and polished as the other two games. The problem is the basic shooting wasn't the focus in Bioshock 1, it was a single part to a controlled chaos. You could forgive the shooting not being fantastic, because the shooting wasn't the one and only thing happening, there were times the games various systems could come together to surprise you. Something random would happen. I've replayed BS1 and BS2 about a dozen times between them and I still get surprised because of just how much is happening.

Here, you don't get that. All you have is the shooting. You have no other elements for it to blend with, no chaos, no unpredictability, nothing to help the basic gameplay along it's way, just enter room, shoot guys, leave room. Next room, Handyman appears, kill, leave. Rinse and repeat. It's Call of Steampunk.

Chris Brady

Actually, Sabby, that's a common complaint from those who aren't enamoured, or were invested in Bioshock Infinite.
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Inkidu

I liked it, I think the difference between my first look and actually playing it is disappointing. There's a lot that I feel should be their but isn't, it's a surprisingly polished game for being delayed... what... two or three times. Still, I can't help feeling a little disappointed.

The only thing I don't like is 1999 Mode. Yeah... I've never played any shooter from 1999 that had such brutal mechanics. Also if you're going to include a hardcore or iron-man mode then you should leave open the various difficulties to be selected not set it on the hardest or second hardest. Hardcore modes should add a different way to play not just brutal to be brutal. Seriously, you can often die early on just because you have no money.
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