Is there a specific month all of game industry Twitter decided it was cool to no longer like Bioshock Infinite because of one plot point? The game gets such a bad rap for absolutely no reason.
I’ll be that stubborn guy who disagrees with people saying it’s overrated. Its rating in those launch reviews is exactly as high as it should be. It plays great, had great visuals for the time, had an interesting time travel/dimension hopping narrative, surprisingly effective use of licensed/traditional songs. I wholly agree that the plot point people complain about is kinda wack and stupid, but it doesn’t single-handedly drag the whole game into B-tier. That’s crazy; the game is great and it deserves its spot in the top 3.
I especially don’t understand caring that much about mishandling one aspect of the Columbia politics/revolution plot line, especially when the city ends up being the B plot that gets overwritten so many times by all the dimension hopping that it’s nearly irrelevant, and the actual A plot in the last like 33% of the game is almost solely main character and Elizabeth and their relationship. The thing everyone gets mad about is basically a throwaway midgame storyline when the game is still bamboozling you into thinking the game is about the fall of Columbia and the excesses of its ideology like Bioshock 1 was (the game is not about this, the ideology is just standard American exceptionalism/Christian nationalism turned up to 11, almost no audio logs even talk about it because every log is about them experimenting on Elizabeth or dimension hopping or whatever).
@thgamer: if it’s not in your time budget, you’re totally fine to delete Revengeance and stick with the main Bombcast. You’re not usually missing a whole lot, and I’m sure you’re not the only person skipping it. It’s the UPF of podcasts.
As for why it’s in the main Bombcast feed, I’m guessing it’s business reasons. Getting people to opt in to a new feed is hard, but putting it in the main RSS feed means the main Bombcast feed has more ad revenue per week and probably helps some other metrics like more downloads per week (even if many people autodownload it then delete like yourself).
Cool that they’re playing Slice & Dice. Been sinking many hours into it.
I like what that game is doing, but it has the worst case of programmer UI (derogatory) I’ve seen in a long time. The gameplay is sound, it’s fun as hell to play, but I think the main menu/collection/unlock screens are horrid and unintuitive, and even the gameplay UI feels a little unrefined to me (instead of numerical values for how much damage/healing/armour a die does, it uses pips, and I just don’t think the pips are very readable when the damage gets much higher than 3 or 4. No idea why the dev hates numbers).
Never before has a podcast so accurately captured the energy of your 2 weird uncles arguing about something completely unimportant at Thanksgiving dinner.
It’s rather criminal that Professor Layton never got mentioned at all during Best Portable Game of All Time, but other than that it was a fun discussion that I can’t be mad at.
The Super Nintendo Aladdin is also perfectly fine. People get way too bent out of shape over this Genesis vs. SNES Aladdin debate. They’re both pretty good.
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