It's actually fun to engage enemies in Infinite, unlike Bioshock 1 and 2. Even if 2 improved upon the combat of 1, I still think it was pretty bad.
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Bioshock Infinite |OT| No Gods, Kings, or Irrational Games
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It's actually fun to engage enemies in Infinite, unlike Bioshock 1 and 2. Even if 2 improved upon the combat of 1, I still think it was pretty bad.
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The level design has been really exceptional in this game - feels like whoever or whatever team that was in charge of not only the flow of natural player progression but also keeping interesting areas around while you're in firefights knew what they wanted, and knew what got in the way. There's been so many very small but very SMART tweaks to how games had previously handled these and everything fits very well with regards to moving the player along in the right way, and even making the 'wrong' ways feel like they were worth their time not just from an inventory side (for instance, leaving a stack of ammo down a different corridor so to speak) but also from a story perspective, where there's almost always something interesting to see. Nothing's wasted. It's excellent.
I heard in a review somewhere you can drop the difficulty down in the middle of your game? I'm gonna start on hard if that's true.
GANGSTERKILLER
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I've played the demo of Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, this game plays suprisingly good. 0_o
The co-op mode is fun.
Maybe when it's $5. I even liked the first two, quite a bit. This one reeks of shovelware.
The main characters names are Alpha and Bravo.
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thepotatoman
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I'm about 4 hours into it and still wondering what the big deal is. It seems like any other big budget first person shooter I've ever seen except with some really good looking environments. Take away the art design for the environments and it seems no better or worse than something like Syndicate or Crysis 3.
Maybe I'm just not to the mindblowing part yet.
Maybe I'm just not to the mindblowing part yet.
Great game so far. I really don't want to spoil anything and don't want to comment too much until finishing the whole thing but I'll just say I loved the pace of the first hour or so and how they eased you in. So very few FPS do that these days it was much appreciated and letting you immerse yourself in the world. My OCD has also come into play and everything not nailed down is getting lifted and searched. 
I'll be one of the few who says you should absolutely play Bioshock 2 as it's a damn great game, a better game to actually play than the original IMO. The mysteriousness of Rapture is gone compared to the first game but it's still a damn cool place to be and I enjoyed the story a lot. That and especially the Minervas Den DLC. You however don't need to play them before playing Infinite so you can just pick them up later sometime.
I'll be one of the few who says you should absolutely play Bioshock 2 as it's a damn great game, a better game to actually play than the original IMO. The mysteriousness of Rapture is gone compared to the first game but it's still a damn cool place to be and I enjoyed the story a lot. That and especially the Minervas Den DLC. You however don't need to play them before playing Infinite so you can just pick them up later sometime.
derExperte
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Funny thing is that later a message pops up that 'stealing has consequences' and if you try to loot a register in a shop it prompts you to 'steal'. While everything else seems to be fair game even if the owner stands beside it. Slight dissonance there.
At first I resisted but then shot Duke & Dimwit more or less accidentially in their faces and my good standing with the local police was ruined anyway.
Superimposer
This is getting weirder all the time
It's an original song. I think it's the same one that is being sung in the area immediately after that, it keeps coming up
But nobody outside of the regulars of this thread even understood what that meant.
GANGSTERKILLER
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Yup I'll buy it too at a very low price ( $10 for me :'))
Those names are really stupid indeed.
Have you tried the demo?
Red Blaster
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dishonored hard is normal mode in most games
If you are fine with it then leave it off.
That....doesn't make sense? lol. With the feature ON, the amount of tearing that still occurs is just fine for me. With it off, it's borderline unplayable.
omg, totally thought I heard it too though in Columbia!
Later in the game, after the beach
Can someone help me understand something? It regards the geographical layout of the areas in the game. I'm just trying to understand how they all relate to one another. What/where does Columbia refer to, and what/where does Emporia refer to? I'd wiki it, but don't want to see too much, since I'm still playing and not finished the game yet.
Delete the gym, hit Facebook, re-install Windows.
SammiiDoogles
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Started today, not too far in - loving it so far. Gathering lockpicks is a bit of a nuisance though. I hate the feeling I'm missing something so I'm always scouring for them.
Also the 2 gun limit is frustrating, do I get anything later than allows me to carry more than 2? I'm always in two minds about what I need...
Also the 2 gun limit is frustrating, do I get anything later than allows me to carry more than 2? I'm always in two minds about what I need...
Phenomenal. Better than I dreamed. No game will please all players all the time, so it's incredible to please as many as it would appear we're pleasing now.
BenjaminBirdie
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I don't know, that first choice you make was pretty mindblowing to me, it being in a video game. Crysis 3 doesn't have a lot of
hugely loaded racist imagery and then asks you to whip a baseball at an interracial couple
Superimposer
This is getting weirder all the time
You were on level design right? Which level(s)?
if you dont like bioshock 1+2, dont play/buy another bioshock.
Nope.
There's still tearing with vsync on? I've left it on on the Xbox game and I'm sure there's no tearing.
I could be wrong here but I've always assumed this is an intended effect with Bioshock. The way they've used key frame animations, and the way NPCs stare at you blankly, it is similar to Disneyland mannequins. It's part of the charm, IMO. Other games strive to be realistic by real world standards. Bioshock tries to be realistic within the standard of its own world, which is very dream-like in essence.
framerate aside, you guys did a fantastic job with the game.
i have to admit: i wanted/expected this game to be a huge failure (all the people leaving the team, staged/faked demo a few years ago, release date pushed further and further...) but i was wrong.
best game i played this year so far, and izs in my all time top 10.
Anton668
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um... yeah.. i'll, um... get right on that....
You "wanted" it to be a huge failure?
megabytecr
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I was not pulled into Bioshock and boy did I tried. Will I like this game? How is it different apart from the setting obviously?
MagnetoWned
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Ugh I put Ascension in the mail on Saturday and Gamefly still hasn't received it. Now Infinite is at low stock and I'd imagine it's going to be like that for awhile. Not sure if I should just rent it at a Redbox now .-.
I would go with the Redbox.
Future PhaZe
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There are plenty of devs/game series I wasn't a fan of until the 2nd or third iteration.
Thanks.
CloakedPuppet
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Dang. I'm about to go and pick it up and was hoping to have a definitive comparison between console versions by now. Oh well, I guess PS3 version it is!
Oh, without question. It's very infrequent though, and obviously only happens when more shit's going on.
Thanks. Watching people buy into the forum and media perpetuated narrative was frustrating.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Hey guys, I have an ATI HD 4670 256 mb gpu... Can i at least run this on medium? I really want to buy it at some point.
Domstercool
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Depends. I didn't like the original Bioshock, so I never got to the end of it.
I loved this one though, better gameplay (the feeling of weapons is better than the original game), great companion and amazing location.
when they first showed the heavily staged demo and journalists got all hyped about it: yeah, i kinda wanted it to fail. it was just so obvious that the game would never play or feel like that demo.
That's pretty typical of such controlled demonstrations tho. It's just marketing in the end.
I meant on lol.
I'm assuming by your post you're a developer or someone who worked on the game. Just want to extend a massive grats on pulling this off. I was also in the pessimistic camp, but based on everything I've seen, read and heard so far, looks like you guys pulled it off in spectacular fashion. I tip my hat to you and all your team.
zero margin
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gonna wait for a price drop it sounds like. Unfortunate it launched when I'm fully into HotS.