Bioshock Reviews Thread

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:36 am

INSANEdrive wrote:
Tural wrote:INSANEdrive, tone down the arrogance. Stop causing problems. Nobody cares about the reviews. If they don't like the game, let them not like it. You have nothing to prove. You're not changing any minds. Saying someone's opinion is "bull" is completely ridiculous. If you continue to be so stubborn and talking down to people about their opinions, this topic will be locked. I'm sick of you acting like this over this game. It's just a game. Some people won't like it. You have absolutely no right at all to be telling them they are wrong for not liking it. I don't care about your response to this, so go right ahead and make some rebuttal, your comments matter none to me.
Arrogance?...Problems?

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Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:47 am

ExileLord wrote:And nobody cares about reviews? That's a pretty broad statement.

I admit it was poorly worded. My meaning was that the people who are talking about how they dislike the game don't care that Insane was shoving the reviews in their faces as some type of proof that their opinions are wrong.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:52 am

It's not the score in the review that matters, it's the text. Game producers can pay review sites/companies for those scores. Those words come from the mouth of an ex-reviewer.

Reading the reviews doesn't make me believe that this game deserves the scores it is getting. They talk about crap they could put in a preview (describing the intro to the story, basic game mechanics) then they somehow pull a perfect score out of their ass. I just don't get it.

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:59 am

GametagAeonFlux wrote:It's not the score in the review that matters, it's the text. Game producers can pay review sites/companies for those scores. Those words come from the mouth of an ex-reviewer.

Reading the reviews doesn't make me believe that this game deserves the scores it is getting. They talk about crap they could put in a preview (describing the intro to the story, basic game mechanics) then they somehow pull a perfect score out of their ass. I just don't get it.

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patchesreusch · Post by **patchesreusch** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:25 am

GametagAeonFlux wrote: God forbid he has one. It's got a bland storyline with

exactly also it had quite a few cutscenes and you couldn't skip through them which got annoying also agree with what tural said about gameplay and collision stuff

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:40 pm

Breaking news: BioShock's multiplayer pwns Halo's! Reviewer's validity goes through the roof!

Seriously. He was claiming BioShock's multiplayer was better, because it had no multiplayer. He says this allows them to focus more on the single player. Well no shit. Of course if you have no multiplayer at all, you can devote more time and resources to the single player. Let's play the "Ignore all logic and reasoning" game:

hay guyz
bioshok pwnt h3 cuz dey didnt waste disk spaec on teh suky mp
pwntpwntpwnt

God, I hate when people compare two games that are ridiculously not similar. Just go make out with your BioShock disc and stop filling the internet with absurd "reviews" and "fair comparisons."

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:27 am

Played the game around a friends...definitely over-hyped. Wayy over-hyped in-fact.

The storyline=terrible. Fact.

Why exactly, after your plane crashes, would you even consider pulling the lever in that bathysphere? It very obviously went down.. and wouldn't you be wanting to wait for the rescue helicopter..?
Ok, so maybe you are just way too curious. So off you go down into rapture now, and oh dear the place is totally ****ed. So I guess the first thing to do then, without question, is to inject yourself with the plasmid ****, not knowing what the hell it's going to do.
Maybe..ehhh..your totally ****ing stupid? Must be, that's the only personality that fits. Alright cool, so the main character is also a twat. Nice.
So then we're told that everyone here in rapture have sadly become totally ****ed up because they injected themselves with too much plasmid stuff. Riiiight...wait, didn't we just do that? Oh ****. Now what? Hmm, that's weird, why haven't I turned into a 'splicer' yet? Hmm maybe I haven't injected myself enough? Ah yeah that's probably the reason. I should come back to this question then once I've completed the game, as I definitely would have injected myself a ****load without thinking about it much by then >_>
Moving on, why, in a city where scientists are meant to live in harmony with each other, is there a such a wealth of guns? I mean ****ing hell, they're everywhere! The vending machines even sell ammo.
..maybe they thought their experiments might **** up a bit? So they came prepared.
Maybe, but then why the need for vending machines? It's not as if just anyone is just going to waltz into rapture.. and in-fact, if an experiment were to go wrong, and you had no money on you to pay for ammo...
By the way, why do the vita-chambers only revive you?..

There's something else as well. If you wait in a room that's filling up with water... and wait...and wait... and wait..it never fills up!

Same goes for corridors that seem to cracking under the strain of holding all that water out, they never ever ever do actually finally cave in.

Apart from that, the enemies are totally boring, and it all feels so Doom3 like (complete one section, move on to the next, complete that section, move on to the next. All the while everything looking the same) that it just becomes a pain to complete. Zero fun factor

The actual only thing I would congratulate the BioShock team on, is the beautiful graphics. Because they are really outstanding. To bad the rest of the game sucks. (even worse in comparison..)

-Prey

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:35 am

Prey wrote: The storyline=terrible. Fact.
Why exactly, after your plane crashes, would you even consider pulling the lever in that bathysphere? It very obviously went down.. and wouldn't you be wanting to wait for the rescue helicopter..?

Ok, so maybe you are just way too curious. So off you go down into rapture now, and oh dear the place is totally ****ed. So I guess the first thing to do then, without question, is to inject yourself with the plasmid ****, not knowing what the hell it's going to do.

Maybe..ehhh..your totally ****ing stupid? Must be, that's the only personality that fits. Alright cool, so the main character is also a twat. Nice.

So then we're told that everyone here in rapture have sadly become totally ****ed up because they injected themselves with too much plasmid stuff. Riiiight...wait, didn't we just do that? Oh ****. Now what? Hmm, that's weird, why haven't I turned into a 'splicer' yet? Hmm maybe I haven't injected myself enough? Ah yeah that's probably the reason. I should come back to this question then once I've completed the game, as I definitely would have injected myself a ****load without thinking about it much by then >_>

Moving on, why, in a city where scientists are meant to live in harmony with each other, is there a such a wealth of guns? I mean ****ing hell, they're everywhere! The vending machines even sell ammo.

..maybe they thought their experiments might **** up a bit? So they came prepared.

Maybe, but then why the need for vending machines? It's not as if just anyone is just going to waltz into rapture.. and in-fact, if an experiment were to go wrong, and you had no money on you to pay for ammo...

By the way, why do the vita-chambers only revive you?..
There's something else as well. If you wait in a room that's filling up with water... and wait...and wait... and wait..it never fills up!
Same goes for corridors that seem to cracking under the strain of holding all that water out, they never ever ever do actually finally cave in.

My thoughts are the same.

galvination · Post by **galvination** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:34 am

The begining of the game may make no sense, but if you actually played it through you'd know why he went down (not going to give away spoilers) I loved the game personally. The powers were cool and the fighting against big daddies weren't half bad. The storyline makes sense in the end. But well the multiple endings were a dissapointment.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:52 pm

Yeah, there's a reason for the seemingly stupid things the character does, or so I've been told. Having the story explained to me fully clarified some of those things, but I'm still not too thrilled about it.

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:51 pm

Here, I just read up on gamesrader where they spoil everything

Heh I now think the storyline is even worse

..a slave? No not really, it's just there was exactly only one way through the whole game..

galvination wrote:The powers were cool

IDK, some I think had potential but they just ruined'em. Telekinesis for example was just rubbish because of all the screen-distorting when you used it

..and damn what is with all these powers having you have to hold your hand in all these different spastic positions..

It just looks naff >_>

Sgt.Peppers · Post by **Sgt.Peppers** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:54 pm

I'm going to have to agree with Tural about the whole comparing games shit. It's really stupid.

And woah I just hit refresh and Prey had a 3 chevron emblem.

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:08 pm

Sgt.Peppers wrote:I'm going to have to agree with Tural about the whole comparing games ****. It's really stupid.

And woah I just hit refresh and Prey had a 3 chevron emblem.

Interesting

ninja modder · Post by **ninja modder** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:26 pm

Prey wrote: The storyline=terrible. Fact.
Why exactly, after your plane crashes, would you even consider pulling the lever in that bathysphere? It very obviously went down.. and wouldn't you be wanting to wait for the rescue helicopter..?

Ok, so maybe you are just way too curious. So off you go down into rapture now, and oh dear the place is totally ****ed. So I guess the first thing to do then, without question, is to inject yourself with the plasmid ****, not knowing what the hell it's going to do.

Maybe..ehhh..your totally ****ing stupid? Must be, that's the only personality that fits. Alright cool, so the main character is also a twat. Nice.

So then we're told that everyone here in rapture have sadly become totally ****ed up because they injected themselves with too much plasmid stuff. Riiiight...wait, didn't we just do that? Oh ****. Now what? Hmm, that's weird, why haven't I turned into a 'splicer' yet? Hmm maybe I haven't injected myself enough? Ah yeah that's probably the reason. I should come back to this question then once I've completed the game, as I definitely would have injected myself a ****load without thinking about it much by then >_>

Moving on, why, in a city where scientists are meant to live in harmony with each other, is there a such a wealth of guns? I mean ****ing hell, they're everywhere! The vending machines even sell ammo.

..maybe they thought their experiments might **** up a bit? So they came prepared.

Maybe, but then why the need for vending machines? It's not as if just anyone is just going to waltz into rapture.. and in-fact, if an experiment were to go wrong, and you had no money on you to pay for ammo...

By the way, why do the vita-chambers only revive you?..
There's something else as well. If you wait in a room that's filling up with water... and wait...and wait... and wait..it never fills up!
Same goes for corridors that seem to cracking under the strain of holding all that water out, they never ever ever do actually finally cave in.

maybe you should play the WHOLE game before judging...some of those things are revealed why through out the game......

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:31 pm

Prey wrote:Here, I just read up on gamesrader where they spoil everything

I really could not play the whole game from start to finish. I would die of boredom, plus the lack of any free roaming whatsoever just sucks..and they actually managed to turn that bit into part of the story...

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:04 am

There's plenty of free roaming... This is one of the best games I've played in a long time and am currently on my second playthrough. And Prey, I've only seen you nitpick at little details and not gameplay elements. Why does it matter if they sell ammo at vending machines? God forbid you have to think how to spend your money. And the city is in ruins so you actually have something to do. Without half the things on that list, the game would lose a lot of its glamor...

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:48 am

Prey wrote:Played the game around a friends...definitely over-hyped. Wayy over-hyped in-fact.

The storyline=terrible. Fact. Or Is it?
Why exactly, after your plane crashes, would you even consider pulling the lever in that bathysphere? It very obviously went down.. and wouldn't you be wanting to wait for the rescue helicopter..? That is part of the Story...were you paying attention?

Ok, so maybe you are just way too curious. So off you go down into rapture now, and oh dear the place is totally ****ed. So I guess the first thing to do then, without question, is to inject yourself with the plasmid ****, not knowing what the hell it's going to do. >_>

Maybe..ehhh..your totally ****ing stupid? Must be, that's the only personality that fits. Alright cool, so the main character is also a twat. Nice.

So then we're told that everyone here in rapture have sadly become totally ****ed up because they injected themselves with too much plasmid stuff. Riiiight...wait, didn't we just do that? Oh ****. Now what? Hmm, that's weird, why haven't I turned into a 'splicer' yet? NO you obvously havent payed any attention to the storyHmm maybe I haven't injected myself enough? Ah yeah that's probably the reason. I should come back to this question then once I've completed the game, as I definitely would have injected myself a ****load without thinking about it much by then >_>

Moving on, why, in a city where scientists are meant to live in harmony with each other, is there a such a wealth of guns? I mean ****ing hell, they're everywhere! The vending machines even sell ammo.

..maybe they thought their experiments might **** up a bit? So they came prepared.

Maybe, but then why the need for vending machines? It's not as if just anyone is just going to waltz into rapture.. and in-fact, if an experiment were to go wrong, and you had no money on you to pay for ammo...

By the way, why do the vita-chambers only revive you?..
With out too much of a spoiler ( from the story mind you) DNA.
There's something else as well. If you wait in a room that's filling up with water... and wait...and wait... and wait..it never fills up!
Same goes for corridors that seem to cracking under the strain of holding all that water out, they never ever ever do actually finally cave in.

Apart from that, the enemies are totally boring, and it all feels so Doom3 like (complete one section, move on to the next, complete that section, move on to the next. All the while everything looking the same) that it just becomes a pain to complete. Zero fun factor

The actual only thing I would congratulate the BioShock team on, is the beautiful graphics. Because they are really outstanding. To bad the rest of the game sucks. (even worse in comparison..)

-Prey

After playing the game twice... ( and 1000 Gamerpoints later)... I know a lot of things about Bioshock, if I wanted to nitpick at the games sort comings, it easily could be done, but they are so small that it really doesn't do any damage to the Heart of the game, the true joy of the game.

The city of rapture is alive... when I have time I will say more.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:12 am

I agree with INSANE, I really liked the game. Can't play cause my Xbox broke though. ;_; The final boss I got was pretty awesome, though I dunno if your choices with little sisters changes it or not. :\

avenged blood · Post by **avenged blood** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:59 am

In my opinion, I thought the game was fun. I think fun is something that counts way more then graphics/storyline. I love the fact you have the powers, and the visual effects are stunning

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JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:15 pm

Wow >_> but then again, this really isn't surprising. Every gamer has his own genres of games that he likes. I won't say more about bioshock until I play it but really I wonder if what the GameSpot review said at the end wasn't way more than true???