One month from today: BioShock Infinite
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Is that really such a bad post? Do you not see the droopy eye on her face?
valentine71
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Scythian Empire
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Personally, I congratulate Andrew for hyping up this game within the thread, posting pictures, concept arts, countdowns etc. He's doing more to hype this game than most in this thread... Which I thought was the threads purpose in the first place?
So Andrew, I take it you'll be making the OT?
No Cystm and B33 does, but Andrew helped them out.
valentine71
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Posting 600 times single-handedly in a thread which has a total of 4000 posts is more like spamming or doing PR work instead of hyping it up. Anyway sorry for the interrupt. That was all i wanted to say.
Would that be possible?
ViewtifulJC
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Can't go three pages on this bitch without sarcastic "wow I guess you guys don't like FUN" defense/image micros
Dragon1893
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Rapture is one of the most fascinating settings ever designed for a videogame but Columbia definitely has potential to be just as good.
I also like good characters in my games since good characters can carry a game for me even if the plot itself is lackluster (resonance of fate for example). On the other hand if I don't like the characters I have a hard time enjoying the plot even if it's decent.
I love what I've seen/heard from Booker and specially Liz so that's one thing that this has over the first game. Let's just hope the villain is as memorable as Andrew Ryan.
And we totally need at least one awesome songbird fight, not having that would be a letdown of epic proportions. The skylines need to be integrated into a cool fight with that thing, if they didn't include this it's the biggest missed opportunity ever.
I usually try to not create expectations for specific scenarios like this since I can't expect the developer to have the same ideas as me but sometimes certain things are just begging to happen.
I also like good characters in my games since good characters can carry a game for me even if the plot itself is lackluster (resonance of fate for example). On the other hand if I don't like the characters I have a hard time enjoying the plot even if it's decent.
I love what I've seen/heard from Booker and specially Liz so that's one thing that this has over the first game. Let's just hope the villain is as memorable as Andrew Ryan.
And we totally need at least one awesome songbird fight, not having that would be a letdown of epic proportions. The skylines need to be integrated into a cool fight with that thing, if they didn't include this it's the biggest missed opportunity ever.
I usually try to not create expectations for specific scenarios like this since I can't expect the developer to have the same ideas as me but sometimes certain things are just begging to happen.
A Songbird boss battle with 'Beast of America' playing in the background would be amazing.
LOL, chill, I was poking fun at the guy ripping on Andrew for his enthusiasm.
Disagreed, that song would ruin the scene.
You guys realise that if you get it from Steam and download all the bonuses it comes close to 70 GB...I mean this is getting a little ridiculous hehe,they have to find some way of compressing those files,making it half the download size or something,some kind of zipped thing and then let you unzip or unpack or whatever without actually using all that bandwith...jesus.
ArisenDragon
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Edit: It feels like he rushed through this game...
Nice if he finished the review maybe they will release it sooner than next week.
eh, I guess an instrumental version could work. I'm not a big fan of the vocals.
How do you mean? Infinite by itself is 35 GB, right? You don't -have- to download it with XCOM (assuming we get XCOM). Just save that download for another time when you'll actually play it.
Valentine Andrew, the schizo puppet master of Columbia, trapped between two personalities: the fun-loving enthusiasm side, and the side that criticizes himself for it, lol.
How do you mean? Infinite by itself is 35 GB, right? You don't -have- to download it with XCOM (assuming we get XCOM). Just save that download for another time when you'll actually play it.
Yeah I am counting XCom and the first Bioshock...of course you are right most people will just download Infinite but still,its a lot but you can wait for the next month if you have a bandwith cap...but even then 35 is a lot,somekind of compress and unpack offline or something would be cool...
It writes itself!
Yeah, 35 is a lot, I have 1,000 GB on this computer split into partitions (I think that's what it's called when you divide up the HDD), and I had to shift a number of Steam games onto another partition to free up space in the one I actively use for games I'm playing.
Howd you guys figure out the DLC already? Damn you're good.
ArisenDragon
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Gaf detectives.
It just occurred to me, does this game have some sort of equivalent of the audio logs from BioShock 1 and 2, or do you get the lore from Elizabeth and the other NPCs you encounter? The latter would make sense, since we're exploring Columbia while it's still alive, so to speak.
Yes.
Deputy Dangle
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Levine has said on twitter that there are audio logs so I would assume he means something ala BioShock 1/2.
Yeah, Phonograph and some visual thing is in the game.
Well, I guess that somewhat explains the game's massive file size! That's a lot of audio!
So the game is 6-7 hours confirmed?
Bioshock 1 and 2 both had 120 or so audio diaries.
Yes, no doubt about it. I kinda regret buying it at full price now :/
Good.
Remachinate
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I doubt that you'll actually fight Comstock--he's a spiritual leader, his power comes from the clout he has among his people. I can't see Levine making the same mistake twice and having Comstock overload himself on
I actually liked having a culminating boss battle at the end of BioShock, but not many people share that opinion.
Or Liz...
Or Lady Comstock...
It pretty obvious that the whole prophet thing comes from him using Elizabeth to look into the future and take things from the future. I doubt he will be somebody you fight.
Remachinate
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How can you regret having a game like XCOM 6 months earlier?
Or a time-traveling Andrew Ryan brain-in-a-jar robot...
captainnapalm
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Looking at some of the marketing, trailers and box art and such, I wonder, are 2K doing the right thing by trying to appeal to the hardcore shooter market?
The trailers seem to hype the action and disregard the higher brow themes or the central relationship between the two main characters. The box art is just a big image of the gun wielding protagonist, sans Elizabeth. I mean, I've seen so many better images in this thread that would have been so much cooler to use as box art. The one of Elizabeth falling and Booker trying to catch her springs to mind immediately.
Aren't there enough older and more sophisticated gamers around these days that a game's marketing campaign can look to appeal to them? Or would that just kill the game's sales and are they pretty much forced to go 'Look kids, you can shoot stuff a lot!'?
The trailers seem to hype the action and disregard the higher brow themes or the central relationship between the two main characters. The box art is just a big image of the gun wielding protagonist, sans Elizabeth. I mean, I've seen so many better images in this thread that would have been so much cooler to use as box art. The one of Elizabeth falling and Booker trying to catch her springs to mind immediately.
Aren't there enough older and more sophisticated gamers around these days that a game's marketing campaign can look to appeal to them? Or would that just kill the game's sales and are they pretty much forced to go 'Look kids, you can shoot stuff a lot!'?
I played it for about 2 hours and then got bored, i don't know but it never clicked for me.
Levine talk about this at his BAFTA speech.
Gully State
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Edit: It feels like he rushed through this game...
So it sounds like the review will drop Friday @ the earliest,