Monday
Sep032007
Bioshock (SPOILER)
DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT A SPOILER
This weekend I took advantage of my days off by both going to Salina for random things, including a SNES controller, and hit the couch hard for some Bioshock play.
Restarting the first few levels was quite alright and took me about half the time it did before, and the advantages to saving them all is really quite nice. If you save the first three they give you a big-daddy hypnotizer, similar to the enrage plasmid, making him your big bad bodyguard for a period of time, or until he dies, whichever comes first. The addition of various tonics and 200 extra adam (roughly 2/3 what you would have gotten had you harvested the little sisters) are 2ks way of saying "thank you" and I'm glad they made the righteous path easier than it could have been.
Speaking of paths, I've just "defeated" Andrew Ryan, quite possibly the most contrived and convoluted method of assassination imaginable. It turns out your memories of friends and family are false, in fact you're a genetically engineered youngin' who Fontaine got ahold of, mentally conditioned to do whatever he desires, provided he says "If you please..." and sent on a plane highjacking to crash at the entrance of Rapture. The cost of the plane ticket alone makes this such an absurd process I can't believe Ken Levine seriously thought it was a good idea. I haven't said it wasn't a good game, 'cause it is. But now I want to put a shotgun to Fontaines head for wasting all that money! Oh and for that bark like a dog issue I have now.
This weekend I took advantage of my days off by both going to Salina for random things, including a SNES controller, and hit the couch hard for some Bioshock play.
Restarting the first few levels was quite alright and took me about half the time it did before, and the advantages to saving them all is really quite nice. If you save the first three they give you a big-daddy hypnotizer, similar to the enrage plasmid, making him your big bad bodyguard for a period of time, or until he dies, whichever comes first. The addition of various tonics and 200 extra adam (roughly 2/3 what you would have gotten had you harvested the little sisters) are 2ks way of saying "thank you" and I'm glad they made the righteous path easier than it could have been.
Speaking of paths, I've just "defeated" Andrew Ryan, quite possibly the most contrived and convoluted method of assassination imaginable. It turns out your memories of friends and family are false, in fact you're a genetically engineered youngin' who Fontaine got ahold of, mentally conditioned to do whatever he desires, provided he says "If you please..." and sent on a plane highjacking to crash at the entrance of Rapture. The cost of the plane ticket alone makes this such an absurd process I can't believe Ken Levine seriously thought it was a good idea. I haven't said it wasn't a good game, 'cause it is. But now I want to put a shotgun to Fontaines head for wasting all that money! Oh and for that bark like a dog issue I have now.
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Chris
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