It'll be about two weeks until we'll be able to take a trip down to Rapture and experience the ecology of Bioshock first hand, so in the meantime we'll have to make due with drooling all over this glorious new footage. The developers at Irrational Games take a timeout and explain some of the finer points of their upcoming shooter that has been described as "dope" by our very own James Ransom-Wiley. That kind of mastery over the English language is why we pay him the big bucks.
There is an HD version available as well, should you feel like flexing your bandwidth.
There is an HD version available as well, should you feel like flexing your bandwidth.
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I fear the hype machine might be getting a bit too large though.. I wonder if the game will actually deliver all these interesting nuances that the developers are talking about.
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I also get sort of apprehensive when I hear the "emergent gameplay" buzzword, because they keep mentioning the same three examples of what players can do to improvise, so I'm wondering if they're just trying to keep it a surprise (I hope), and if so, will I be -creative- enough to come up with anything?
It's why I want my lady-friend around when I play this. She's always suggesting I do things in games that I cannot do because of the game's limits, but would be very helpful in whatever situation I am in at the time.
I guess I just have a tendency to only attack people who attack me first.
Unless they jump into my line-of-fire. Dear Goodness, I hope the Little Sisters are intelligent enough to not run in front of The Guy Who's Shooting His Gun. Because I don't want to fight the Stinky Divers With Drills For Hands because of some accident.
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Can't wait for Bioshock it's a definite buy for me.
I hope there's a plasmid that makes them want to drink tea with me and enjoy tasty crumpets, like gentlemen.
Not that I won't be picking up this thing on day one...
That's what I had in mind. I want to be able to walk into Kashmir, for example, and see the Big Daddy whose Little Sister I saved from a Splicer a few hours ago, and have her be all "Look, Mr. Bubbles, it's our friend!" or something like that. That would be so rewarding to me, as a player, for doing "the right thing."
I also really hope it's not, like, ridiculously hard to find ADAM or EVE without killing the Little Sisters, cause I don't want to do any of that, really.
But we shall see.
The game footage looks better than the real video interview of the people! lol!
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(sarcasm, geddit)
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Although I don't think it applies to readers of Joystiq, consumers generally get what consumers want and consumers generally want more of the same but with better graphics.
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Buying! =D
SO glad this is a 360 exclusive. I'm definitely buying this on day 1.
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Its a 360 exclusive.
PC is up against MAC...as in those are computers.
The 360 is going against the Wii and the ps3...as in CONSOLES.
Hence this game is an exclusive when it comes to the console wars.
Damn why do people on this site have to be so nitpicky?
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regardless, this looks like such an awesome game and I really want that "befriending" factor you guys are talking about to make it into the game. Just imagine you walk into a room where two splicers are beating up another one. You roast the two to pieces and suddenly Mr. Poor Defenseless Splicer is grateful and wants to help you. That would be a fucking awesome moment.
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Looks like it will be pretty good.
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