Bioshock

I wonder why Cohen appears wearing that bunny masks if he hates the ears so much. Seriously, what's up with him and his irrational hatred of ears?

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Cohen's nuts, that's what's wrong.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Figures.

Well, for all his insanity, I am rather glad that killing him is not necessary.

Yes, Fontaine, I mean, Atlas, I am on it. Sheesh, you and Adam Ryan...

edited 22nd Sep '12 2:41:59 PM by dRoy

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I think that's a bigger spoiler then who he really is.

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edited 22nd Sep '12 3:19:46 PM by dRoy

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Thanks for the summary @Tarsen

I'll be honest, I never got the "Bioshock is System Shock 2's Spiritual Successor" schtick. I'm not sure if this idea came from something Bioshock's creators said or if it was due to fan speculation, but it seems grossly inaccurate to me.I can see some of the similarities they shared, but not nearly enough to grant it the title of Spiritual Successor.

I'd even go so far as to say that Portal was more of a Spiritual Successor to System Shock than Bioshock was.

edited 22nd Sep '12 7:57:39 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Pretty sure I read in Gameinformer that it being a spiritual succesor was a dev statement.

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Yeah, it was frequently described by the developers as a spiritual sequel to System Shock 2. The comparisons are fair.

Both incorporate RPG elements into First person shooters with an emphasis on exploring derelict environments that used to be amazing pieces of architecture.

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I now have all three Bio Shock games on Steam (not installed yet), and they should work on my current hardware. However, is it advised to play System Shock and/or System Shock 2 first?

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The first System Shock. SS 2 hasn't really aged well. The first one's like a more sophisticated Ultima Underworld, in a sci-fi setting.

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I disagree. The first System Shock is basically unplayable to me, but System Shock 2 is fantastic.

... So play both.

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I unfortunately couldn't complete the first Bioshock due to issues with my PC, but looking at the wiki, I can't help but wonder why Irrational decided to have "Atlas" as the nice guy who helps you at the beginning who turns out to be the evil Frank Fontaine. I mean, when I first started playing, I had a feeling something was up with Atlas, but had he been just ordinary Frank Fontaine, I would have been a lot less suspicious of him.

Because it's a tradition carried over from System Shock, where your adviser for the first half of the game turns out to be the main villain in disguise.

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Sorry, I guess I didn't phrase it well. What I meant to say was it would made a lot more sense been had Frank Fontaine used his original name when tricking Jack into thinking he was a good guy, and then revealing himself as Atlas, the real Big Bad and the leader of the rebellion against Andrew Ryan, at the end.

edited 6th Sep '14 9:22:40 PM by SantosLHalper

Well, for starters, Fontaine's name is all over Rapture, he's been muscling Ryan Industries out of it's home turf. It's clear from the diaries you get in Neptune's Bounty that Fontain was is just as bad as Ryan, if not worse. And what voice would you sooner trust, a slick New York Man of Questionable Employ, or an Irish Family Man?

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If you want to get accurate about it, the Irish were not well favored at that time.

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The Fifties?

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Well, Rapture is basically stuck in the 40s culturally, or so it always felt to me. Irish weren't very popular for the first half of the 1900s and were well hated as much as the Jews. Though, of course, the Jews were victimized in the Holocaust and that changed quickly while the Irish stigma changed over time.

Little known fact, you know the musical Annie, right? And her orange head of hair? At the time, this was intended to make her appear Irish in a time when Irish persons weren't favored and was a specific design choice to try and do away with the stigma.

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Not entirely sure which thread to use but the rumours of a series Collection have started to get somewhat more tangible. If it's all been remastered properly I don't think I'd mind putting down money on one, to be honest.

Today is Bio Shock 1's 10th anniversary. Now that's a major Anniversary Edition.

edited 21st Aug '17 12:30:05 PM by AnotherGuy

Serious rumblings of the first post-Irrational Bioshock title have appeared, by way of an expose about Mafia III's developer Hangar 13's current not-entirely-ideal status. Destructoid has the tl:dr version, if you want to cut to the chase, though the Kotaku article is well worth a read.

I've just started playing the first game.

The game is more creepy than I expected. I dread when the lights short circuit. This might be the first horror game I enjoy.

Aiming down the sight really sucks. This is the first FPS I've played where firing from the hip is preferable.

This is also the first FPS when I'm constantly low on supplies.

I've killed the plastic surgeon thanks to standing next to a hacked turret.

Where there's life, there's hope.

What you should do is search every nook and cranny and raid every safe that you come across. Leave nothing behind. Before long, you'll have a huge stash of ammo. This is how FPS games should be with their ammo giveouts, not like Infinite where the game hands you to it like a sex offender with candy.

Word of advice: If you aren't playing the remastered version, you may want to be conservative with looting in Neptune's Bounty; you'll encounter a part in the game where all your guns go away, and you won't get your ammo back. After you get your guns back, revisit Neptune's Bounty to keep the lion's share of ammo.

I love the Boose Hound perk. Turns grabbing alcoholic drinks from a "well, what's more valuable, EVE or HP" to "fucking restore both" with the very key benefit of speeding up looting, since you don't have to selectively only grab some items and leave others.

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