• passepartout@feddit.org
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    23 hours ago

    BioShock 1: GOAT

    BioShock 2: also good

    BioShock infinite: great visuals and gameplay, story was meh

    We can extrapolate this further to:

    BioShock 4: literally don’t care.

    What I care about though is Judas, the new game by former BioShock lead developer Ken Levine.

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      I agree 1 was GOAT. They nailed weaving the story line in a way that made a railroaded story feel natural. 2 might as well have been a rails shooter, part of the story was literally on a railroad. If that was satire by devs and writers being coerced then bravo, otherwise it was weak. Infinite bright back a lot of what made 1 awesome, mesmerizing even, but the extreme patriotism thing got old real quick. The dimensional jumping storyline was on the cusp of greatness, but would have needed a few more DLC style side adventures to better tell it from other POVs.

      4 is too late and implies more that they have no idea what else to do so back to this well and hope it’s not still dry.

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      1 was advertised as a spiritual successor of System Shock 2, but it only got the atmosphere right. It was just another shooter which disappointed me. 2 was the same more or less. 3 had a fascinating story, but it was still just a shooter. Maybe 4th time will become what I crave for, another immersive sim!

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      I’ll play Infinite for the first time this year (maybe… it keeps getting pushed back in my backlog) and I am so curious about it. Some people say it’s one of the best games of all time and some that it’s overrated and meh.

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        Some people say it’s one of the best games of all time and some that it’s overrated and meh.

        Hah, it’s in between.

        It had a lot of nostalgia glasses haters, a lot of “GOTY!” industry marketing, and a few launch performance issues IIRC. But it’s a good game.

        Won’t get more specific than that, other than just play it!

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        I played it earlier this year after having played the first 2 only (and that was 10-15 years ago). Infinite is a good game, graphics hold up beautifully. I wouldn’t say it’s one of the greatest of all time but it was a very good game regardless.

        Probably there was a hype cycle at the time of its release that I wasn’t aware of, as that’s the only way I see it as being regarded as meh.

        Honestly it’s just more Bioshock, but set in the clouds rather than underwater, I liked the change of style.

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          I love infinite but my problem with the game is that Booker (the main character/you) is really annoying IMO. I just want him to shut up and be a silent main character rather than some COD protagonist knockoff

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        All three games are master pieces in my opinion. 3 is just different from the previous two, so people dont like that. I say play them all and appreciate them for what they are.

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        BioShock infinite was ok experince on linux, I have completed it twice. (The native binary runs via its own internal transalation scheme, so I suggest running via dxvk/proton instead for more speed.) I would say however that it’ll be a lot more hollow and straight forward “pipe run” than its predecessors. I own bioshock 2, but it’s dead, obsololete M$hit only version that i havent played since it eated my save files three times.

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          Same experience for me with infinite, forcing proton results in a better performance than using the native Linux build.