They should have just made backtracking available through vita chambers. They made up a bunch of shit in this game so I don't see why they couldn't add teleportation to the vita chambers and make some backstory up. Problem solved.

I have no idea if system shock 2 is any good because when I tried to play it I had to do all this character customization shit and walk through a bunch of doors that would tell me A YEAR HAS PASSED and after like 5 of those I got to play but I realised I didn't want the character I'd made but I also didn't want to go through that process again. So it got uninstalled

Linearity is the new open world. Just look at Mass Effect 2 and Bioshock 2. We're advancing backwards in gaming!

Linearity is the new open world. Just look at Mass Effect 2 and Bioshock 2. We're advancing backwards in gaming!

At least Mass Effect offered you a ton of options where to go. Sure, when you got there all of them were more or less one path through, but there were so many to choose from!!!

Played this a bit more. Been finding this a little bit easier than when I started which is kind of good. You really have to use the plasmids more effectively this time round. Also, I don't find the game THAT Linear, there's plenty of exploration around places and you can do things your own way, it's just that you have to use the same entrance and exit each time. I have no idea where the idea of linearity being bad came from, because I really don't think it's as bad as a lot of people say it is.

gotta install my hd radeon 5750 in my pc first before i play it dont wanna play on this 9800gt

I'll buy your 9800.

... are you stupid? i can play Bioshock with my 8800ultra at max with res of 1650X1080 and no slowdown. meh whatever.
Any way i noticed that, i thought that playing as a big daddy would mean you had a differant play style (tougher but more opponents) instead it was like a hand gun would take out super fast. It doesn't make sense your supposed to be covered in freaking metal, your one of those big daddies, those great stonking behemoths that can very quickly destroy you, yet a handgun is all it takes to kill you quickly? Even for early game that's just ridicules.

from what I've been reading it feels like this game was made to just milk the franchise, they should have set the story with characters that came AFTER Bioshock that way it wouldn't matter if they did or didn't exist in the first one because it's set with characters that don't come into it till this point.
the other thing that didn't make much sense, unless they were re-programmed by the bad guys, why would other big daddies attack you and shove you away like your a splicer or something? i mean sure when you attack the big daddies for the sisters then yeah they should but they should at least recognise you as a fellow big daddie.

still with all that, I'm still finding the game fun and enjoyable (though it may be because i want to play differant challenges in the same universe).

p.s. did you know if you let your little sister gather Adam at the same time as another, they greet each other.

I started playing it and it seems like an alright game.

Anyone know why there's no anti-aliasing in the PC version? It seems like that should be part of any modern game engine.

for some reason HDR is incompatible with AA except by forcing it through the nvidia control panel and that only works on a few game engines. ati can't do it or something.

for some reason HDR is incompatible with AA except by forcing it through the nvidia control panel and that only works on a few game engines. ati can't do it or something.

weird, you'd think some sort of advance would have been made to remedy this since this was a problem like four years ago with Oblivion.

bioshock 2 is running on the same old engine as bioshock though.

yeah but it's not out of the question to make improvements over a three year dev cycle!

it's primarily for the xbox though. pc is totally secondary and i wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't made it for PC if it wasn't on unreal

also yeah it's an engine issue and it might be very complicated thereby the devs didn't care too much about it.

I don't get it, what's the HUGE deal with open-world games. Linear is perfectly fine with me if it's fun. I could never play a game like Oblivion where there's a billion less-than-engaging sidequests everywhere, so much so that you feel like you're just doing random stuff in the game. I remember in Dragon Age and Mass Effect (which were fairly streamlined so I appreciated this a bit), all the sidequests were pretty much the same to the point where I didn't even read the reason for me to go somewhere - I just went, killed stuff, and it said I completed the quest... do this a thousand times and it gets lame.

I'm looking forward to the extremely polished but apparently linear FFXIII (though I hear it opens up a bit midway).

Back to Bioshock, I never finished the first one... playing it right now actually, it's pretty good. Kinda dragging on a bit, they keep saying RYAN IS JUST OVER THE CORNER, and bam, another dungeon before I meet him. Saw the second one though, looks great albeit a bit too familiar.