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Not yet - after Aliens: Colonial Marines, I am super, super hesitant about even pre-ordering games, let alone paying for the DLC Of Christmas Future. I felt really, really burned by that.
Not yet - after Aliens: Colonial Marines, I am super, super hesitant about even pre-ordering games, let alone paying for the DLC Of Christmas Future. I felt really, really burned by that.
Okay, I wasn't sure... The "season pass" idea is still something I'm not entirely sold on, I know it's gaining prominence with the non-Call of Duty games with things like the Borderlands 2 Season Pass, Bioshock's season pass, etc... I'm not paying full price since all the money I've put down on it were all games I've beaten, so I'm grabbing the season pass and the guide since I had budgeted out the 60 bucks for the game. My only concern is if the game releases more than 4 pieces of DLC for the game...
And while I didn't get burned by Aliens: Colonial Marines, I'm normally really hesitant about pre-ordering games because it used to be some company's policy years ago that if you didn't come in by x day they'd sell your copy and you'd have to wait until the next shipment came in. I honestly think I was being sold a load of bull to ensure I was there on release day (or it may have been a Harry Potter book, it's honestly been about a decade). But I traded in a whole bunch of stuff, got Black Ops 2, a new headset, and had like 7 bucks left and without any decent game to pick up, I put it down on Bioshock Infinite.
Though I do remember the crap I went through to get my copy of Twilight Princess. "Hey it'll be released by Christmas." okay, that's like 2 months out. "Um we're pushing it back to June." Ugh... I guess that's okay... "Um... we're pushing it back to December, and the Wii version will be coming out beforehand." Um... wtf?!
Interesting articles on preordering while we're on the topic
I heard that the lady on the front cover is a lot more prominent in the game than the cover would indicate?
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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Whenever you finish it, please give a review. I liked Bioshock 1, skipped Bioshock 2 because of its apparent multiplayer focus. But Infinite seems to be focusing on single player once more so I'm rather interested.
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I haven't even met Elizabeth yet, FWIW. I'm only about... I dunno, 2 hours in? Maybe less. But I play very slowly and like to look at everything.
@ALF - OMG, you never played the first Bioshock? It's seriously one of the greatest games of all time. You should definitely do so, you can probably get it for like $5.
Bioshock 2 was kinda ehhhh though. I started it and did not finish it.
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Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
I can't view that video Melissa, work blocked and all that.
I know that there is some level of team work between Booker and Elizabeth, and I think you can control some of her actions, but I don't think she's fully playable. Granted I've yet to get my hands on the game, so I can't comment on it more.
Also. You can unlock super hard 1999 mode on the game by using the Konami Code... in case anyone want's a challenge.
Ouze - About a month or so ago, I bought the Bioshock Ultimate Rapture Edition which is Bioshock 1 and 2 and all of their DLC... It was 30 bucks... Well worth it imo.
I just haven't played more than like 6 hours (I just had the battle in that fishery place).
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Ouze wrote: It's seriously one of the greatest games of all time.
I suppose it was, wasn't it? Certainly amongst first person shooters it was one of the best.
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So does Infinite stack up? I got Tomb Raider, My brother got Infinite, and we are going to swap somewhere down the line.
Also, if you guys didn't like Bioshock 2, you should download Minerva's Den for it. Sure the plasmids are kinda out of place in that (fun to use, though), but that 3-4 hours of gameplay felt like a true bioshock sequal.
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Dunno yet - I'm waiting until I beat it to say for sure; but I'm certainly enjoying it.
No spoilers:
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You might want to remap your keys to swap zoom to the right mouse button, and vigors to the scroll wheel. I kept accidentally using a vigor.
I grabbed some blank, 1 frame bik files, because the intro logos were so numerous they annoyed me. You can find my renamed blank movies here, and they must be extracted to G:\Games\BioShock Infinite\XGame\Movies (obviously, correct that to wherever you installed it to). This will remove the AMD/ESRB/Irrational/2K etc logos at the beginning.
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Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
Luckily my birthday is coming up in less then a month, I'm definitely going to ask for this game.
Slarg232 wrote: Also, if you guys didn't like Bioshock 2, you should download Minerva's Den for it. Sure the plasmids are kinda out of place in that (fun to use, though), but that 3-4 hours of gameplay felt like a true bioshock sequal.
Minerva's Den was awesome. It had a killer Bioshock 1 style twist right at the end.
I was waiting for this one for quite a long time too.
Loved System Shock and Bioshock.
Still, all the reviews seem too good to be true. Most of them don't even say anything specific about the game, just random sales crap. Is the game really so good? Reviews make it best thing since multicellular organisms.
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Just picked it up... been doing some reading while on breaks and what not... seems I don't need to have played any of the others to understand what's going on with this one... Popping it in shortly..
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You probably don't need to have played the others. To my knowledge, it's not a direct sequel like, say, the Mass Effect series.
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Alfndrate wrote: Are you talking about Elizabeth? She's a main character.
Well, from being 3 hours or so in, it appears the main character is actually appaling racism.
But to answer your subsequent question, no - you do not need to play the prior games to play this one, there is no link that I am aware of between their stories. The gameplay mechanics are very similar, though, so if you wind up hating this, you may profitably skip going back to Bioshock as well.
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lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
Alfndrate wrote: Are you talking about Elizabeth? She's a main character.
Well, from being 3 hours or so in, it appears the main character is actually appaling racism.
But to answer your subsequent question, no - you do not need to play the prior games to play this one, there is no link that I am aware of between their stories. The gameplay mechanics are very similar, though, so if you wind up hating this, you may profitably skip going back to Bioshock as well.
Booker is racist? Is that what I got out of your post? I know Columbia is really racist based on the first real bit of action...
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Just got to Monument Island and I think this game has tremendous potential. It was hard to turn the console off. I am pretty shocked by some of the violence and racism.
Alfndrate, so far it seems like Booker can be racist if you play him that way.
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Manchu wrote: Just got to Monument Island and I think this game has tremendous potential. It was hard to turn the console off. I am pretty shocked by some of the violence and racism.
Alfndrate, so far it seems like Booker can be racist if you play him that way.
I thought so... I meant the whole raffle "ticket" 77 thing made it apparent that there were some choices in his levels of racism. I tried to beam the announcer... It just seemed that with Columbia being as overtly racist as it is, Booker doesn't seem that racist, granted I'm what an hour into the game? not even? It did seem weird when they drew my ticket, and the guy was like, "Now isn't that the prettiest white girl you ever did see?" I was like, "I've only seen white people... wtf?"
Also, I like the RPG elements to the game. I "got" the guidebook for free (stupid Gamestop deal that actually seemed like a deal ), and was flipping through the first few sections. There are "class" setups that they have in the game based on the gear you're wearing, and it made me wish that I could explore Columbia more like an RPG world than an FPS world. Though based on a chest I found in this guy's home, I'm assuming there is some sort of back tracking and exploration. Though it seems that unlike Ouze and Manchu, I had no problem shutting the game off after I left the Blue Ribbon Restaurant... I just felt extremely bored last night (not just by the game, I honestly found it hard to pull myself into anything last night).
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