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And in the Future, You'll Be Diving Back Into Rapture in 'Burial At Sea'

Or is that the past. Or is that an alternate past. Or is that an alternate future past. Or--*hurk*! Ow! I think I just killed my brain.

Jul. 30 2013

Posted by: Alex

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BioShock Infinite

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@believer258:

No, I meant in Infinite; not the DLC. You bend time and space to show us Shithole Rapture, Elizabeth? Come on.

Note to self: maybe watch FMA one of these days.

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@landon said:

@missacre said:

@counterclockwork87 said:

@sooty said:

This looks cool, but I can't take anymore of BioShock's sub-par FPS gameplay.

Can someone explain this sentiment to me? I've played nearly every modern FPS (Modern Warfare, Battlefield, Halo, Counter-Strike: GO, etc) and Bioshock infinite's shooting is just as fun, if not more so because of the vigors.

Now, if you're talking Bioshock 1, yes I agree. Infinite is leaps and bounds better mechanically though.

The shooting in Infinite is boring, it looks like it was added at the last minute. Sure, the vigors might make it a bit more tolerable, but the whole thing just feels like it was tacked-on. All the weapons feel the same, and there's no real sense of danger, seeing as how Elizabeth pulls ammo, health and salts out of her vagina every 5 seconds. Honestly, I liked Bioshock 1's combat better. Freezing the splicers, then smashing them to pieces with the wrench was always a good time.

You should play Bioshock again if you think you think you still like the combat. It's really awkward. It feels like a first person game that was modded to have guns.

I did, actually. I played through the first two about a month or so ago. I still liked their combat better than Infinite's.

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@missacre said:

@landon said:

@missacre said:

@counterclockwork87 said:

@sooty said:

This looks cool, but I can't take anymore of BioShock's sub-par FPS gameplay.

Can someone explain this sentiment to me? I've played nearly every modern FPS (Modern Warfare, Battlefield, Halo, Counter-Strike: GO, etc) and Bioshock infinite's shooting is just as fun, if not more so because of the vigors.

Now, if you're talking Bioshock 1, yes I agree. Infinite is leaps and bounds better mechanically though.

The shooting in Infinite is boring, it looks like it was added at the last minute. Sure, the vigors might make it a bit more tolerable, but the whole thing just feels like it was tacked-on. All the weapons feel the same, and there's no real sense of danger, seeing as how Elizabeth pulls ammo, health and salts out of her vagina every 5 seconds. Honestly, I liked Bioshock 1's combat better. Freezing the splicers, then smashing them to pieces with the wrench was always a good time.

You should play Bioshock again if you think you think you still like the combat. It's really awkward. It feels like a first person game that was modded to have guns.

I did, actually. I played through the first two about a month or so ago. I still liked their combat better than Infinite's.

Maybe you just prefer bad FPS controls then.

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@laserguy:
Because Rapture is amazing. I'm sure they'll go back to Columbia for something but people responded well to the the way they dropped it into Infinite.

In other news I'm not excited for more mediocre combat but this looks like it might actually have a noir story tied into it and I'm a sucker for that. Less electric crowstorms and more femme fatales please.

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@laserguy:
Because Rapture is amazing. I'm sure they'll go back to Columbia for something but people responded well to the the way they dropped it into Infinite.

In other news I'm not excited for more mediocre combat but this looks like it might actually have a noir story tied into it and I'm a sucker for that. Less electric crowstorms and more femme fatales please.

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See, this is much better than combat arenas

you think this won't have any combat?

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@believer258:

No, I meant in Infinite; not the DLC. You bend time and space to show us Shithole Rapture, Elizabeth? Come on.

Note to self: maybe watch FMA one of these days.

Oh... sorry. I thought that moment in the game was pretty well-played. I figured there would be a reference to Bioshock 1 but I didn't think we'd actually go there.

And yes, you should. All of it. And then watch Brotherhood.

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@believer258:

No, I meant in Infinite; not the DLC. You bend time and space to show us Shithole Rapture, Elizabeth? Come on.

Note to self: maybe watch FMA one of these days.

Oh... sorry. I thought that moment in the game was pretty well-played. I figured there would be a reference to Bioshock 1 but I didn't think we'd actually go there.

And yes, you should. All of it. And then watch Brotherhood.

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@missacre said:

@counterclockwork87 said:

@sooty said:

This looks cool, but I can't take anymore of BioShock's sub-par FPS gameplay.

Can someone explain this sentiment to me? I've played nearly every modern FPS (Modern Warfare, Battlefield, Halo, Counter-Strike: GO, etc) and Bioshock infinite's shooting is just as fun, if not more so because of the vigors.

Now, if you're talking Bioshock 1, yes I agree. Infinite is leaps and bounds better mechanically though.

The shooting in Infinite is boring, it looks like it was added at the last minute. Sure, the vigors might make it a bit more tolerable, but the whole thing just feels like it was tacked-on. All the weapons feel the same, and there's no real sense of danger, seeing as how Elizabeth pulls ammo, health and salts out of her vagina every 5 seconds. Honestly, I liked Bioshock 1's combat better. Freezing the splicers, then smashing them to pieces with the wrench was always a good time.

i didn't find the combat in infinite boring. but each to his own i guess and all that

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I really just love Bioshock.

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@arath said:

@counterclockwork87 said:

@sooty said:

This looks cool, but I can't take anymore of BioShock's sub-par FPS gameplay.

Can someone explain this sentiment to me? I've played nearly every modern FPS (Modern Warfare, Battlefield, Halo, Counter-Strike: GO, etc) and Bioshock infinite's shooting is just as fun, if not more so because of the vigors.

Now, if you're talking Bioshock 1, yes I agree. Infinite is leaps and bounds better mechanically though.

People sometimes like to look for the flaws rather than just accept the game on it's own merits. I agree and think that Infinite played really well, with just enough wrinkles to make it its own.

What does that mean? The flaws of the game are part of its merits, and the gameplay was just more of the same generic shooter + super powers we've been seeing for years, with an okay story slapped on top of it.

What I'm trying to say is the Bioshock Infinite was mechanically sound. The game did what it set out to do very well. Yes, maybe the gameplay was not original, but why is that a fault or flaw. You don't have to be original to be good. In fact you can be unoriginal and be excellent. I think Bioshock Infinite was. I think if you disagree it's because you wanted Infinite to be something that it never intended to be and I think that's an unfair criticism to levy at the game.

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@ghostiet said:

I ain't sure if anyone pointed this out...

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It's my favorite thing about this trailer and announcement.

Not sure it needed to be pointed out- are there people who didn't play Bioshock?

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The stories Irrational Games/Ken tells just turn me off. The stories are just not well thought out in my opinion. Irrational Games makes these seemingly huge worlds and they try to show internal logic, but none of it passed any sort of scrutiny beyond the surface.

Hey, people like them and that great people like all sorts of stuff I don't.

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@ghostiet said:

I ain't sure if anyone pointed this out...

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It's my favorite thing about this trailer and announcement.

Not sure it needed to be pointed out- are there people who didn't play Bioshock?

Get your snarky ass back on the GBCP, motherfucker.

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@counterclockwork87: He's probably talking about all the Bioshocks. i have to say I'm with him. The combat has always been sub-par in Bioshock, and I don't feel that Infinite is a great dead better than 1 and 2.

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@counterclockwork87: He's probably talking about all the Bioshocks. i have to say I'm with him. The combat has always been sub-par in Bioshock, and I don't feel that Infinite is a great dead better than 1 and 2.

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@shaanyboi: Compared to that other DLC, this looks way better. That's all I meant, I didn't mind the combat in this game.

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@landon said:

@missacre said:

@landon said:

@missacre said:

@counterclockwork87 said:

@sooty said:

This looks cool, but I can't take anymore of BioShock's sub-par FPS gameplay.

Can someone explain this sentiment to me? I've played nearly every modern FPS (Modern Warfare, Battlefield, Halo, Counter-Strike: GO, etc) and Bioshock infinite's shooting is just as fun, if not more so because of the vigors.

Now, if you're talking Bioshock 1, yes I agree. Infinite is leaps and bounds better mechanically though.

The shooting in Infinite is boring, it looks like it was added at the last minute. Sure, the vigors might make it a bit more tolerable, but the whole thing just feels like it was tacked-on. All the weapons feel the same, and there's no real sense of danger, seeing as how Elizabeth pulls ammo, health and salts out of her vagina every 5 seconds. Honestly, I liked Bioshock 1's combat better. Freezing the splicers, then smashing them to pieces with the wrench was always a good time.

You should play Bioshock again if you think you think you still like the combat. It's really awkward. It feels like a first person game that was modded to have guns.

I did, actually. I played through the first two about a month or so ago. I still liked their combat better than Infinite's.

Maybe you just prefer bad FPS controls then.

Yes, I know what you're trying to get at here with that thinly-veiled insult, but Infinite's controls were horrible. I like games with a good story and actual good gameplay, not a story written by a 5 year old and a game trying so hard to be CoD. Maybe you just prefer flavor of the month games than a quality gaming experience.

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Wow looks fantastic!

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Edited By landon

@missacre said:

@landon said:

@missacre said:

@landon said:

@missacre said:

@counterclockwork87 said:

@sooty said:

This looks cool, but I can't take anymore of BioShock's sub-par FPS gameplay.

Can someone explain this sentiment to me? I've played nearly every modern FPS (Modern Warfare, Battlefield, Halo, Counter-Strike: GO, etc) and Bioshock infinite's shooting is just as fun, if not more so because of the vigors.

Now, if you're talking Bioshock 1, yes I agree. Infinite is leaps and bounds better mechanically though.

The shooting in Infinite is boring, it looks like it was added at the last minute. Sure, the vigors might make it a bit more tolerable, but the whole thing just feels like it was tacked-on. All the weapons feel the same, and there's no real sense of danger, seeing as how Elizabeth pulls ammo, health and salts out of her vagina every 5 seconds. Honestly, I liked Bioshock 1's combat better. Freezing the splicers, then smashing them to pieces with the wrench was always a good time.

You should play Bioshock again if you think you think you still like the combat. It's really awkward. It feels like a first person game that was modded to have guns.

I did, actually. I played through the first two about a month or so ago. I still liked their combat better than Infinite's.

Maybe you just prefer bad FPS controls then.

Yes, I know what you're trying to get at here with that thinly-veiled insult, but Infinite's controls were horrible. I like games with a good story and actual good gameplay, not a story written by a 5 year old and a game trying so hard to be CoD. Maybe you just prefer flavor of the month games than a quality gaming experience.

Oh please, Infinite's controls weren't horrible. I know you don't like the game, but lets not blow everything out of proportion just so you can think it's worse than it actually is.

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Looks promising!