SuicideNinja

I saved the first one, and harvested the second to see the difference. I realized that if I wanted to get somewhere with plasmid upgrades, that I needed to harvest. I'll play through again to save them all.

I figured them "not showing" the harvesting was good enough...it doesn't show the action, and it doesn't show the dead girl. They really are reaching on this one.

My favorite part is that the game fails the "leg test" yet it doesn't matter because it's such an interesting game. (Leg test = look down...this is FP...do you see yourself? Nope! You don't exist.)

Bioshock fails the leg test: looking down reveals that your character doesn't exist. Just like Prey and Doom 3!

"id like to see hddvd in seeing as how it is better for consumers (ala ethernet required, pricing, etc) "

There are many factors not being considered here. But for the most part, it's sad that the product that is better for consumers seems to not be selling as well (hardware standards, software standards, pricing, etc). Blu-ray is better for companies (no more DVD licensing, no need to follow standards, getting away with poor quality codecs, etc.), and unfortunately, it looks like many are taking the bait.

My PS3 Blu-ray player isn't selling me on the format. I would buy HD-DVD since I've seen better pictures produced from the players, but this format war is keeping me from bothering with either side.

"They bragged the same about how Resistance needed like 22 GB. Yet the game looks no different than any FPS on a DVD-9 disc I've played."

Amen. They blabbered on about how amazing Resistance would be due to the size, and it ended up not really being anything special at all.

I wasn't impressed by gameplay from the demo; Ninja Gaiden Sigma plays much better, as does God of War.

Uncompressed audio is over-rated. Many people use MP3's daily and don't complain about the compression one bit.

Even my FPS-impaired room mate is putting the lovin' on Bioshock demo. This is one game were the "no legs" syndrome can slide. :)

Yeah, they shouldn't have bothered with the core to begin with. I'm sure we won't see this multiple packaging in the future, at least during launch. Consumers prove time and time again that they'll go all the way price-wise at launch. There's no need to cater to the minute amount of individuals that will take the no frills option early on.

Even later, manufacturing costs drop, making the original high-cost item low-cost, leaving room for a "better" pacakaging option.

Blame E-bay.

I think Target and BJ's are jumping the gun. The market for either format just isn't there yet, whether owners of HDTV's care about the formats or not. I have a few HDTV's and a PS3, but Blu-ray just isn't that provocative. Upscaled DVD is doing just fine.

I don't understand how the assumption that the non-standards-having Blu-ray is the "better" format anyway. HD-DVD has supported the full feature set from day one and have standard requirements on hardware and software. Blu-ray players feature support is all over the place. I think gamers are blinded by the claimed storage capacity of Blu-ray when it's the lesser product for movies in this meaningless "middle-of-the-road" format war.

Consumers need more of a convenience upgrade than HD-DVD or Blu-ray is offering. Smaller size for one. We'll end up having a losing winner, or consumers will be forced into a product they didn't want in the first place.

"I can't stand DLPs (had one)"

It's interesting how opinions differ on TV's. Between room mates and family, I've experienced a 23" Toshiba LCD, 26" Magnavox LCD, 27" Westinghouse LCD, 51" Magnavox RearProj, 60" Sony RearProj, 46" Sony Bravia LCD, 57" Mitsu DLP, 50" Mitsu RearProj, 40+" Samsung, 32" Samsung CRT...all HDTV's.

The Mitsu DLP has the best color and picture of them all in my opinion. Even when not using "1080p" LOL

"MS can never make a product that never crashes. They should learn about quality from apple and sony."

Fatima, are you kidding? iPods are junk (batteries, hard drives) and Mac OS was junk until OSX (aka: went UNIX). PS2 DRE's resulted in a large class-action lawsuit since it took them 13 revisions of the console to fix the problem. The only company that has taken care of its customers the entire time is Nintendo. And their hardware isn't problem-free either.

Quantity has become much more important than quality, as extra quantity drives down price leaving consumers thinking they are getting a better deal. Can't complain about it really; it should be expected by now.