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BioShock Remastered
15 hours playtime
33 of 65 achievements
That. Was. Awesome.
I’ve been meaning to play this for the longest time, but I got distracted by so many nice games since I got a computer capable of running newer games. I love the atmosphere and the gameplay, although the remastered version hanged a few times on me, and once I even had to restart the game to get it to work.
I had the non-remastered version but I put it off for some time coz I wasn’t used to playing first-person shooters, and I get easily scared by enemies. (TF2 helped cure of that though) It was only recently that I got the time to return to it, and the invisibility ability helped too.
I was a bit bummed with the limited choices I had after playing “choice matters” type of games. Like, can I choose not to kill them? A man chooses, a slave obeys, after all. Then again, I think this was released in the years before “choice matters” games became more popular.
Definitely a must-play. I just wish they made the remastered version better.
This is this month’s theme, I think: trilogy games? Looking forward to Bioshock 2 and Infinity, but I’m probably not gonna finish either one this month.
Bioshock is a good solid game, but if you played System Shock 2 it’s pretty much a beat-for-beat take on the same thing. I guess Ken Levine is perfectly entitled to it considering he had a major role in creation of the former, but there was definitely a rough divide between two audiences, one of which essentially saw Bioshock as “hey, my FPS’ can be more than just military shooters!” and older crowd that already played through the game in its previous incarnation.
Didn’t get to play System Shock 2 so I can’t say.
BioShock was one of the first games to have ‘choice matters!’ be a big-ish deal in the gameplay - I’m not surprised the rather ‘murder these little girls horribly’ or ‘free them from their adam-addicted state’ dichotomy didn’t age well.
That said, I do have very VERY fond memories of playing this game as a freshman in high school. I’m glad you enjoyed yourself, too!
Thanks! It was really fun. And even though the lack of choices was frustrating, it was still a relief after playing Dishonored that I can just go on a rampage every time.