Comments on: BioShock Review http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/ Random babblings from a few digitally inclined people Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:11:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Weefz http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3573 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:31:28 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3573 When did "different ways to kill stuff" become "emergent gameplay"? When did “different ways to kill stuff” become “emergent gameplay”?

]]> by: Head881 http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3563 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:59:34 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3563 http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock I said it first. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock

I said it first.

]]> by: Vermouth http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3561 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:51:10 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3561 In Reply to <a href="#comment-3560" rel="nofollow">#12</a>: I really agree with that , the game has a incredible sense of dread. It doesn't have a lot of spring loaded monsters to jump in your face so it's not a traditional horror game (there are a few here and there) but it's like the game just has such an oppressive sense of an ill wind on the air that it becomes sort of a survival horror experience at times. And a followup comment--I finished this game for a second time late last week and I feel maybe even better about having put my name on a 10 for this game. I'll easily be playing this game a 3rd time and probably more than that as I've really enjoyed how deep my bag of tricks can get. In Reply to #12:
I really agree with that , the game has a incredible sense of dread. It doesn’t have a lot of spring loaded monsters to jump in your face so it’s not a traditional horror game (there are a few here and there) but it’s like the game just has such an oppressive sense of an ill wind on the air that it becomes sort of a survival horror experience at times.

And a followup comment–I finished this game for a second time late last week and I feel maybe even better about having put my name on a 10 for this game. I’ll easily be playing this game a 3rd time and probably more than that as I’ve really enjoyed how deep my bag of tricks can get.

]]> by: Spooky http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3560 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:12:50 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3560 I totally agree, Bioshock is joy, I loved it from the moment I laid my eyes on Rapture, it looks wonderful and the story...I have to say for me the story is practically the first thing I look for in a game, something to play for, something to keep me going. Unfortunately I had to stop playing it for a bit, I'm near the ending...but the whole creepy atmosphere is starting to get to me, the screams, the moans all those creepy sounds...they freak me out It's just a game, I know but... I totally agree, Bioshock is joy, I loved it from the moment I laid my eyes on Rapture, it looks wonderful and the story…I have to say for me the story is practically the first thing I look for in a game, something to play for, something to keep me going.

Unfortunately I had to stop playing it for a bit, I’m near the ending…but the whole creepy atmosphere is starting to get to me, the screams, the moans all those creepy sounds…they freak me out

It’s just a game, I know but…

]]> by: Head881 http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3559 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:31:44 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2007/08/bioshock-review/#comment-3559 In Reply to <a href="#comment-3557" rel="nofollow">#10</a>: I'm sure System Shock was the originator of this kind of game design...or close enough to it. I just never had the chance to play it. Maybe you should mail me your copy when you're done ;) Looking back on it, it is amazing how many genres were established in videogames by the mid-1990s. I mean, the "great videogame crash" happened around 1984 (ha!) or 1985 and in less than ten years, if not every genre was already created, the seeds were sown. Amazing. In Reply to #10:

I’m sure System Shock was the originator of this kind of game design…or close enough to it. I just never had the chance to play it. Maybe you should mail me your copy when you’re done ;)

Looking back on it, it is amazing how many genres were established in videogames by the mid-1990s. I mean, the “great videogame crash” happened around 1984 (ha!) or 1985 and in less than ten years, if not every genre was already created, the seeds were sown.

Amazing.

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