Bioshock...the first one

[RoJoHen]

I bought Bioshock a while ago because it was on sale for super cheap and because I had heard good things. I'm playing it on PS3, and I'm just not sure how I feel about it yet. The controls are so awkward! The game itself isn't particularly difficult, but I keep getting killed because the controls are very counterintuitive. I ended up having to switch the game to Easy just so I could stop getting killed every few minutes by random bad guys that I can't even get in my line of site. I mean, why is R2 my main attack button? That is so odd.

 

[Yoda]

Well, "R2" on an Xbox controller is the default shoot button. The problem with the PS3 controller is they made the world's stupidest trigger buttons, with the convex curve going on making it useless as well... a trigger. I actually bought these 5 dollar plastic add ons that convert them into normal shaped triggers, and they're great, but for most FPS games they're not configured to take advantage anyway.

As I recall the controls weren't so bad on Xbox for Bioshock with regard to aiming and all that so I'm not sure why you're having troubles there. Games like Mass Effect, or Fallout, which have a kind of clumsy FPS wannabe feel have been known to frustrate me, but Bioshock feels more like an FPS with some RPG trappings.

Also, the game is piss easy because you die and respawn with basically no real penalty. You could pretty much beat the game by running out of the vita-chambers, scoring one hit, promptly dying, and repeating ad nauseam.

 

[JonathonWally]

but Bioshock feels more like an FPS with some RPG trappings.

Would you kindly tell me when "purchasing upgrades" became "RPG trappings"?

 

[RoJoHen]

Also, the game is piss easy because you die and respawn with basically no real penalty. You could pretty much beat the game by running out of the vita-chambers, scoring one hit, promptly dying, and repeating ad nauseam.

True enough, but I would prefer not to have to do that.

 

[JonathonWally]

Also, the game is piss easy because you die and respawn with basically no real penalty. You could pretty much beat the game by running out of the vita-chambers, scoring one hit, promptly dying, and repeating ad nauseam.

True enough, but I would prefer not to have to do that.

The wrench is still the best weapon in the game. I did an entire wrench playthrough one time.

 

[RoJoHen]

I believe it. Although I have really started to enjoy setting people on fire.

 

[JonathonWally]

Just wait, wrench action improves when you get certain plasmids.

 

[RoJoHen]

I think my biggest problem with the controls is that I played way too much Arkham Asylum, so my fingers are used to the controls of that game. Why can't I just be Batman?

 

[Yoda]

but Bioshock feels more like an FPS with some RPG trappings.

Would you kindly tell me when "purchasing upgrades" became "RPG trappings"?

The recon camera, the loot collection, the weapon customization such as it is, the stupid little sister karma system, the hacking.

Those are more RPG than FPS.

I think my biggest problem with the controls is that I played way too much Arkham Asylum, so my fingers are used to the controls of that game. Why can't I just be Batman?

Switching control schemes is always annoying. I've played enough video games in my time to where something like Batman wouldn't interfere with my current FPS. But I did have some issues going from Batman to God of War Collection recently. The third person action fights are similar enough to where all of a sudden I'm trying to make Kratos throw a batarang

 

[JonathonWally]

Why can't I just be Batman?

I ask myself this every day.

 

[Ayelbourne]

Would you kindly tell me when "purchasing upgrades" became "RPG trappings"?

I've started playing the game about a week ago on the PC. Controls are very simplicistic and easy to master. I didn't even have to change the defaults.

 

[Rii]

The PS3 controller is terrible; one area in which Microsoft shits all over Sony. Maybe next generation - now that Sony isn't running this shit anymore - they'll be willing to change the design which debuted sometime back in the age of sail.

 

[archeryguy1701]

I bought and played through it recently myself. I wasn't that big of a fan of it. The story was pretty interesting, but the gameplay and action just got really repeditive for me. I found myself playing to the end, not because I was enjoying playing it, but because I wanted to see the ending. I doubt I'll replay it in the near future.

 

[Servo]

^ Yeah, I kind of agree. The game got pretty repetetive, and I think i started to lose interest towards the end. I completed it for the sake of completing it. I thought the second one felt like a better game, although it did feel like a bit of a retread of the first, with a few minor changes.

 

[Deckerd]

It stands out as a really original setting and world that you're dropped into. Then it spoils it by being predictable. I was so disappointed when I discovered that after all the gorgeous scene setting I still had to run around shooting people and collecting things. I still think this would make a really original film crossover, with a good CGI budget and some decent storywriting. Rapture is such an original idea, I'd love to see it in a movie.

 

[Rii]

It stands out as a really original setting and world that you're dropped into.

Yeah, I'm not sure anyone had conceived of an underwater city that looks like a city... underwater, before. Possibly because it's ridiculous.

It is awful purty, though.



Current wallpaper.

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Fun game until the twist, at least on PC, then it became kinda boring.

 

[Wynterhawk]

^ Yeah, I kind of agree. The game got pretty repetetive, and I think i started to lose interest towards the end. I completed it for the sake of completing it. I thought the second one felt like a better game, although it did feel like a bit of a retread of the first, with a few minor changes.

I thoroughly enjoy playing the second one myself. I haven't finished it yet, but for atmosphere and game play, it's pretty decent. Makes me wonder if there will be a third. Maybe you'll play as a little/big sister.

 

[Deckerd]

About little sisters.

Damn I don't know how to do spoilers

Now you'll never know what I was going to say

 

[Servo]

^ Yeah, I kind of agree. The game got pretty repetetive, and I think i started to lose interest towards the end. I completed it for the sake of completing it. I thought the second one felt like a better game, although it did feel like a bit of a retread of the first, with a few minor changes.

I thoroughly enjoy playing the second one myself. I haven't finished it yet, but for atmosphere and game play, it's pretty decent. Makes me wonder if there will be a third. Maybe you'll play as a little/big sister.

I'd say I enjoyed the second one a lot more than the first one. It just felt like a better game all-round.

I think both were pretty popular, and sold pretty well, so I'd be surprised if they don't do a third.