Bioshock

Because it's so easy? Besides, the splicers are controlled by pheromones.

Of course, how someone would then use Rapture to conquer the world... that's iffy.

Ryan wanted Rapture because it was his, and he became so possessive of his property that he lost his ideals. Fontaine wanted Rapture because he mantained quite a good business while in power, and even had smuggling operations with the surface.

The reason that Sophia Lamb wanted to take over Rapture is because she's flipping insane and wants to combine the minds of every single one of the populace other than her into her daughter's body.

They Wasted A Pefectly Good Plot.

Ryan VS Sophia VS Fontaine.

Ryan wants everything for him, Fontaine wants money, Sophia wants everything for her daughter. It works well.

It wasn't really "wants everything for her daughter." More "wants to create the ultimate in group think and subject her daughter to it." The result wouldn't have been pretty.

Also, it's too bad that Ryan and Fontaine were both dead in Bioshock 2. Although the Ryan animatronics almost made up for it.

I liked how Ryan Amusements and Dionysus Park formed a neat pair. They're both attempts by their creators to spread their message of objectivism/collectivism. Ryan Amusements is very "masculine" with it's emphasis on engineering and design, and has a very linear level design. Dionysus Park has a more non-linear level, and is filled with art and organic material. They're also the first and last levels on your journey to Fontaine's Futuristics — which barely features the man.

I've become a fairly big fan of Bioshock in the past couple of weeks, once my roommate picked up a copy, I started playing it myself and fell in love with the gameplay, atmosphere, and story.

Call me simple, but I suppose I'm in love with the idea of what happens with ideals are taken too far, which seems to be the motif for the entire Bioshock franchise.

That, and Rapture is beautifully terrifying (at least to me; if I walk into an area and hear a Splicer chanting something over and over again, I'm with a Shotgun at the ready literally saying to myself, "Where are you?" as I look around the area. My friends and roommates most likely think I'm crazy.).

why do i never feel like i have enough ammo?

i cant bear to use my shotgun anymore ;_;

uh, except to slaughter a little sisters big daddy

patricide, thats my hobby~

Hack vending machines.

...yep.

i knew it was coming ._.

fucking statue splicers. and they didnt even have the decency to melt when i set them on fire before they started moving. blagh.

Yeah, and you'll have realised by now that they're infinitely respawning, and silent. Have fuuuun!

This is the part with Sander Cohen right?

yes

Okay, after you complete his masterpiece don't kill him. IIRC fighting him later on is the only way to access a weapon upgrade.

edited 29th Apr '12 7:38:35 PM by Spirit

Spoooooiler.

Also, Sander Cohen's kinda silly. The rabbit speech is pure narm.

edited 29th Apr '12 7:52:11 PM by Nicknacks

I wish I was spoiled about that the first time I played. Just don't want Tarsen to suffer like I did.

It was a wooden door even!

edited 29th Apr '12 7:52:57 PM by Spirit

Is it even that big a deal, missing that upgrade?

Not really. Just hey, gun upgrade.

edited 29th Apr '12 7:55:24 PM by Spirit

Well, then, it's not really, you know, suffering.

It is when I wasted 10-20 minutes running around in circles trying to get in that room. Only to find out that I screwed myself early on.

Classic Guide Dang It! moment in other words.

I don't have a problem with Guide Dang It, really. Sometimes you just screw up. Sometimes you don't.

I mean, it's not like Cohen was attacking you, or anything. So not attacking him isn't exactly counter-intuitive.

I know, I just wanted the bastard dead, and thought that was my only chance for it.

huh.

he didnt try to kill me.

that was...surprisingly decent of the guy.

still shot him in the head tho. wanted the stuff inside the chest, ya know?

edit: the minigames are easily the worst part of bioshock. it cant be that hard to make a minigame that isnt impossible half the time, cant it? i mean at least 3 ive just suffered through were impossible right from the start! and more than once ive seen the goal surrounded by alarm tiles! and if this happens youve got not choice but to put up with either an explosion/electrocution or a fucking alarm going on and being slaughtered by sec bots for the next minute.

edited 30th Apr '12 8:10:12 AM by Tarsen

I think there's a plasmid that makes hacking easier. Or at least possible in the later levels.

i know. im using it.

Edit: im starting to lose my patience. olympus heights is just a massive pain and theres a fucking camera every fucking corner so theres always that annoying fucking alarm and those nigh omniscient sec bots riddingly me full of holes and those fucking lighting splicers take forever to kill and then that fucking side effect bullshit started and then more alarms and then more bots and turrets and annoying enemies and i finally got control over my plasmids back but i cant fucking tell whats going on anymore

so many fucking mobs of enemies and bullets everywhere and goddamn they take forever to kill, ive keep getting caught on the scenery andmy eyes are in so much fucking pain right now. and i still have a 2 big daddies to kill augh.

;_;

edited 1st May '12 1:52:34 AM by Tarsen