BioShock's helping hand to Unreal Engine 3's image

and you think BioShock has been in development for... less than 18 months?

It's just about the best game ever.

You really want it.

really really want it :(

i need to get that 360 pronto

Man, if I wasn't a PC gamer, Bioshock would have been the game to push me to get a 360...

I love the way it plays with a keyboard and mouse though.

Yeah, Jeff, it's a great game. It's just a shame that they have to resort to limiting the number of times you can install the game as a DRM method.

(If you hadn't heard/noticed, you can only install Bioshock 5 times. Ever. At least, until they get the Revoke tool out which lets you "undo" the license for a given computer.)

Gears of War and Mass Effect are not first-person shooters.

If you are suggesting that UE3 only works with FPS's, I don't think there's a lot of evidence to support that.

Are you sure there's not something wrong with your console? I've never had any BioShock problems like the ones you just mentioned (unlike, say, Marvel Ultimate Alliance which _was_ probably rushed to market.)

I did have a game where the final textures had trouble loading but I restarted and the problem was fixed. Actually, come to think of it, I've had that problem once or twice with Gears and once with Vegas, so I guess it is an UE3 bug...but a relatively harmless one in the grand scheme of things.

I haven't had it crash once on the 360 and I'm 75% of the way through. In addition, the widescreen mode is the way the game was designed - there is no problem with it. Again, as I'm almost done with the game, besides the fact that it is absolutely amazing, it's as about as polished as I've ever seen a game (playing since the 2600)

Nope, it's not a problem with my hardware. Lots of people have experienced the glitches I mentioned. I've never gotten the random crashing, but I have gotten Big Daddies falling down in their death animation while still alive, letting me shoot them where they lay until they actually die.

And saying that the widescreen view being chopped is the way the game was designed is complete hogwash. In the developer walkthroughs before the game was released, they showed the entire bottom part of the screen. You could see both hands and you could see all the weird things that the plasmids did to you. In the shipped version on widescreen displays, you see the hands all cut off and you don't get to see much of what the plasmids do. If they designed it that way, why would they bother having those bits animated?

Works just fine on my Widescreen Sony HDTV. I can see the health bars at the top, plasmid names at the bottom, and the full gun (including the hand.) It sucks that some people are having these problems, to be sure, but I'm definitely not one of them.

Oh, and that minor glitch I mentioned has shown up one time in one and a half playthroughs, and I haven't heard of any of my friends who got BioShock (which was about 6 or 7 of them) having any of these problems either.

I have yet to experience a single crash or bug while playing Bioshock. The idea that you are upset that the game has compatibility issues with older cards is hilarious. What are you trying to play it on? A 9250 PCI card?

I play it on high on an AMD X2 4200+ with an X1950Pro and 2GB of RAM, but it will also run on my Athlon XP 2400+/X800XT/1GB system decently as well. The X800XT is 4 year old hardware, the Athlon XP is 7 year old hardware. If you are upset because your 5 year old video card won't run a cutting edge game, I'd say that is your fault for not upgrading, not the fault of 2K Games. That is almost equal to being angry that this game won't play on a regular XBOX.

Are you going to blame Epic and Crytek when UT3 and Crysis run horribly on your machine as well?

The FOV issue is also something that I find extremely comical when people complain about it. It doesn't affect gameplay at all. Notice that Bioshock was getting 10/10 scores before people even knew about it. You know what that means? If it wasn't even enough of an issue that was noticed while the game was being reviewed, it's hardly something to piss and moan about. I play Bioshock on a 22" widescreen monitor, it's still a fantastic game, and I really don't think the addition on 1" of FOV to the top/bottom of the screen is really going to make me say "Damn! NOW this game is sweet. It totally sucked before."

Actually, the game works well on my machine. Try not being a condescending asshole for once, you'll find people actually like you more. I was talking about not supporting cards that use older shader versions that should be able to play the game. And just because people are oblivious to a problem doesn't make it a problem. North Koreans don't realize their leader is a psychopath. Doesn't make him not one.

The only "bug" I've seen in Bioshock so far is sometimes the subtitles don't sync up with the dialog at all. It's a shame because this seems such an easy thing to fix. Textures could be a little sharper too but it's not a major complaint.

Hey kids, lets play "spot the bitter PS3 owner!"

THERE'S ONE!

No, I do not own a PS3. I own a 360. And I'm not hating on BioShock. I absolutely loved BioShock. Best game I've played in years. I'm hating on UE3.

It has nothing to do with Bioshock being similar to Too Human. It has everything to do with the two games being built with the game engine. SK's complaints were that Epic was not supplying the proper support and features for the engine that were promised, and they cited that as one of the reasons for Too Humans delay and poor performance at E306. Bioshock works just fine and it was made with the same technology and engine. Therefore it DOES have relevance.

No it does not, because they aren't making games that use the engine in the same way. SK needed features that 2k Boston did not need.

what you said, ya bloody mind reader ;P

Good looks aren't all that should be expected from an engine being marketed to developers as something to make it easier to make games with.

Buggy? BS! My 360 copy looks amazing. I cant even remember this game ever going under 60fps more than once. Fucktards!

I had absolutely no problem with the PC version. No crashes, ran great and looked beautiful the whole way through.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry, did you somehow pull "barely runs" out of "a minority of people have trouble?" Whoops! Your mistake.

Seriously, EVERY game has bugs that prevent some portion of gamers from running it initially. You just don't always hear people whining about it this loudly.

Bl33k use this:

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/downloads.html

Zippidy Doo Da

Or whatever the F*ck ur name is........

You maddam.... are a retard. Did you even read my comment? I said MY COPY!!! MY!!! As well as my friends that have this game. No bugs. Smooth @$$ f*cking frame rate on my 56" 720p Samsung DLP. This game should be enjoyed by everyone so sad teh PS3 will not be getting this and so sad all the pc users who have to either upgrade or just play it in a subpar visual version.

You clearly didn't read anything to do with anything. The complaint was that TooHuman ran like molasses on an xbox360, and that above it has been stated multiple times by Ken Levine that BioShock was migrated to UE 3 year and a half ago.