Bioshock 2

[Nyokou]

Am I the only one excited about this game? My friend has been a big fan since it came out in 2007 and she finally convinced me to play it this past summer. It was seriously one of the best games I've ever played... And I easily get scared so that made it even more awesome. I love getting scared. Anyway, the original release for the sequel was supposed to be this fall but it's been pushed into the next year (I think they're working out some kinks with the multiplayer aspect of the game) around January 31st if I'm not mistaken, but then again we really don't know for sure.

I loved the first and I'm just super excited about the second. I hope it's just as good or even better. I am super psyched about playing as a Big Daddy and maybe even getting into an epic and unbeatable battle with a Big Sister. I'm also super interested in how the multiplayer is going to work for this game.

I'm definitely pre-ordering.

[NFD]

I'm not excited in the least.

[Kibblre]

Can't wait.

[phe0nixblade]

god damn it NFD you're so retarded I swear to god
Anyways on topic:
I wanna play it a lot as well. I liked the first one a lot, and when I read the articles on it and watched the videos, it looked amazing. It's definitely one of the games I'll be playing next year.

[Nyokou]

Originally Posted by NFD

I'm not excited in the least.

Wait, you have time to play and judge video games? I thought you wasted your time trolling FFR, fapping to furporn and ****ing dogs.

[NFD]

Originally Posted by Nyokou

Wait, you have time to play and judge video games? I thought you wasted your time trolling FFR, fapping to furporn and ****ing dogs.

lmfao, how do I troll. And no, I just play better games like Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, and the like.

[Grandiagod]

Hurf durf my subjective opinion is better than yours hurf durf

[Nyokou]

I don't take opinions seriously without reason. So yeah, you are trolling my thread. And so is Grandia but that's a typical assholeish move by him.

[Brycexx]

i liked the first one alot. so im looking forward to the second one

[JKPolk]

first one sucked because it was sucky
this one will have multiplayer and thus suck even more because they're tacking onto a dead story and adding superfluous gameplay elements

[Emo_Saur_]

"I'm not excited in the least."
+1
Nyo, get your tree huggin, Lady Gaga, Obama lovin' ass out of here.

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by NFD

lmfao, how do I troll. And no, I just play better games like Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, and the like.

This is called trolling.

[Grandiagod]

Naruto Fox Demon

[Nyokou]

Originally Posted by Emo_Saur_

"I'm not excited in the least."
+1
Nyo, get your tree huggin, Lady Gaga, Obama lovin' ass out of here.

No thanks. I belong here more than you do.

[ShAiOnEi]

Nyokou likes to hop on the bandwagon alot considering now she's trying to save the whales while listening to lady gaga playing bioshock, making fun of a celebrity's death while always striving for world peace.

[NFD]

Originally Posted by Grandiagod

Naruto Fox Demon

Nobody that uses that username is a troll. Jeez, Ilse. Way to pick me out. That's racist.

[MrRubix]

I'm stoked.

[SethSquall]

Bioshock was appalling. So I'm not really looking forward to Bioshock 2. I'll pick it up pre owned like I did Bioshock but I'm not forking out £40 odd for it.

[MalReynolds]

Bioshock wasn't appaling, per se...

But. Huge but.

I hated it. I liked the environment, loved the story, but I'd never seen a game drop the ball so entirely in the game play department. They had a great atmosphere, clever writing (even if the plot was literally a shakedown of System Shock 2), which was wasted on horrible, ineffective gunplay, too many elements in the game (little sister farming, photography), and the stuff that should have been optional (PICTURE TAKING) was forced to the fore-front because that's how you levelled your attacks up. Plus, not being able to die took out a large chunk of the challenge. At worst, you'd be temporarily disoriented before running back out and killing everyone with your wrench. Again. Useless plasmids cluttered up the controller, hacking was a joke (and do I really want to play the hacking mini-game 1,000 times in one playthrough just to get more affordable items).

The reason so many people kept calling it Game of the Year wasn't because of the gameplay, but because of the environment and story. I just couldn't stand playing it because it was so frustratedly broken and somewhat retarded (literally, it was a step back from better FPS's, not retarded as in mentally deficient). I read the plot synoposis and script online and loved it. Loved every damn page of it. I spent hours looking up the reel transcripts because the characters were fantastic. But when I played the game, I felt this hugely underwhelming sense of, "This is it? 5 enemy types, reskinned? Wonky controls? Why don't my guns kill people? Oh, it doesn't matter if I die? Why should I keep playing, then?"

Now, if you ratchet up the difficulty to whatever the hardest is, and turn Vita-Chambers off, you know what happens?

The game becomes impossible. Not because the enemies are smarter, or because there are more of them, but because they simply do more damage and take more to kill. Do you know what a huge cop out that is? The game had production values through the goddamned roof, and they couldn't even toss in a few more enemies in the choke points to make things harder? Hell, even take away the HUD would make such a hugely fundamental difference. Reduce the amount of guns I can carry or Plasmids I can take with me. Make it so that the only way I know which Plasmid I'm using is to look at my hands. Make the guns worth something instead of something I have to cycle through to get to my wrench.

I mean, hell, hard mode should be hard, but this one was hard for the wrong reasons.

...

If Bioshock 2 has a story that in any way can hold a candle to Bioshock 1, I'll be impressed, will probably enjoy the story, and hate the game because it's just such a blatant misuse of a cool environment and premise.

God, I wish the story of Bioshock had been given better gameplay.

[Grandiagod]

I agree with the hacking mini game, enemy types and photography, but on the PC the controls were pretty much exactly the same as any other FPS. In fact the plasmid/weapon elements were integrated better into the control scheme that I would have imagined.

Plus the entire horror story feel of it was great. "Ohshi I just walked into a room and the lights turned off, ho**** what was that shadow"