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@MikeLee
It is Sacramento, CA! Yay, my hometown!

@ToastyBiggins I'm sorry, you lost me at "Metal Gear Solid" and "good boss fight."

(Haha just kidding, it's just that I've just never liked the MGS controls. Pretty much all boss encounters turn into me running around in circles, fighting with the camera to actually get a good view of the other person shooting at me, until I eventually die. But the pulling-the-trigger part was exceptionally well done.)

@Piko I actually agree with your point. One of the major idear of Bioshock was that you (the player) are just blindly following the orders of some complete stranger, a commentary on a typical video game trope. As soon as you take control away from the player and have a cinematic scene (i.e. NOT YOU) kill Ryan, this message is completely lost.

Do you remember in FFVII (*****SPOILERS*****, obviously) right before Sephiroth kills Aeris/Aerith? When you have control over Cloud, and every action you make leads him to get closer to Aeris, pull out a sword, and almost kill her yourself? That left a much stronger resonance with me than the following cinematic scene when Sepiroth deals the actual blow, because it was almost me who killed her. It felt like it was beyond my control WHILE I was still controlling the character. That is how I would have like the encounter with Ryan to have played out in Bioshock.

Start a death metal mariachi. Complete with wailing trumpets and facemelting accordion solos.

neato!

I haven't read all the comments so sorry if this has been said or if the functionality exists, but...

Suggestion:

A link below the article to the the "add your comments" section would be much appreciated.

The dinosaur from Braid. He's adowable!

Best Buy. They actually have copies of new games on release date, unlike some stores which order copies depending on number of reservations.