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August 16, 2007

I got Bioshock a week early. Spoilerish stuff clearly marked.

If you have the means to play it, you must own this game. Seriously. This is, hands down, the best story-based shooter I've ever played. (The genre I'm talking about is I guess like... Half Life 2... and F.E.A.R...) It's amazing. I'd like to talk about it, but I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. I think I'm going to say a few vague comments at the end. So just, you know, don't read those. They'll be clearly marked.

Has ebay always been this overwhelmed by retarded bots? Seriously, who in their right mind is going to trust that "Oh, I sent the money to you, even though you can't see it, just e-mail me here to get it and send me the thing after." This is all written like a lolcat, mind. "Halp, I is needingz it mailed to Nigeeria, plz." I wasn't this overwhelmed with bullshit last time I put something on ebay. Granted, it was something of significantly less value (Read: Many Manga books that cost me 10 dollars a piece). Maybe that's it. Anyway, ebay needs to lock that shit down. It's making me not want to ever sell anything on there again. I don't know how you'd stop these bots, but it needs to happen.

Along with Bioshock, I made another very important purchase today... I bought a Nerf Pokeball. It's like... made out of those like... stress ball squeezy stuffs or something?  People seem skeptical about how much fun I can have with this mere 3 dollar purchase. Throwing this at people while yelling "POKEBALL, GO!" is simply awesome. And then I get to follow it up with something like "Aww, it appeared to be caught!" from the games or whatever. Plus, it actually looks really good. I mean, not that a Pokeball is the most complicated thing in the world to make look good, but... it looks good. I have no regrets. Just don't walk into this room, or I'll probably try to catch you.

Anyway, goodnight, people who don't want Bioshock Spoiled.

---BIOSHOCK SPOILURZ START HERE OMG!---

---NO, SERIOUSLY, DON'T READ THIS. IT'S ONLY SLIGHTLY SPOIL-Y, BUT STILL---

---LAST WARNING. I TOTALLY WARNED YOU. IT'S YOUR FAULT IF YOU READ IT!---

Okay, here we go. Ammo was really seeming no problem, and then EVENTS OCCURRED and my ammo cache disappeared for seemingly no reason. Bug or Feature? I dunno, really, though I could see it as a feature. Less Ammo usually equals more tense-ness.
Death is slightly Prey-esque. Sorta. It makes me happy, as it keeps my frustration low, but I wonder if that's going to bother some people.
U-Invent stations have yet to prove their worth to me.
After a full day of play, I just now got introduced to all the different vending machines and stations. This very well might bode well for the length of the game. Even if it's short, though, I can see me playing through it once more immediately after and making some different choices.
This really makes me want to try System Shock 2. I wonder if the graphics would be so bad as to turn me off...
I never get tired of hacking in this game. You'd think I would, but I don't.
There are odd options having to do with framerate that seem pointless on the 360. This might bode well for both versions being exactly the same, I suppose. Then again, that would be no naming saves on the PC, which would probably annoy people

Posted by poetfox at August 16, 2007 03:13 AM

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