The Librarian
Banned
That fight on the
is great. First time in a huge fight with Elizabeth, too. She works great. Love it when she throws me health and whatnot.
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Bioshock Infinite |OT| No Gods, Kings, or Irrational Games
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A little passed half way.
IronBubbles
Banned
Game is awesome. I'm playing on normal which is pretty easy (only died once in the beginning) but it allows me to play very relaxed and use whatever vigor/gun I like to experiment with.
Can anyone tell me how far I am?
Can anyone tell me how far I am?
I just killed/released Lady Comstock.
Canis lupus
Member
Just
Probably the longest part in a shooter where no shooting was going on and I liked it.
rescued Elizabeth from her tower and the following sections are
Probably the longest part in a shooter where no shooting was going on and I liked it.
The One Who Knocks
Member
You are basically at the final act of the game. You probably have between two to five hours left depending on how slowly/quickly you play through the game.
Gave the last battle six tries, taking it back to RedBox. Always run out of ship energy and it literally makes me sick, the frame rate on 360 makes has me really queasy. I had a glitch getting there where I ended up there before the scripting said I was supposed to. Ended up skyrailing around for 20 minutes before loading my checkpoint.
The parts where you aren't shooting are sublime. Columbia gave me a feeling that no other game world has, it was a privilege to explore. The shooting was mostly fun, but it just felt in the way.
The parts where you aren't shooting are sublime. Columbia gave me a feeling that no other game world has, it was a privilege to explore. The shooting was mostly fun, but it just felt in the way.
But the French Revolution, with all its bad, was still progress. It did ended monarchy and it did paved the way to democracy eventually.
Revolution is a bloody busisness, it is a civil war with all the horror that it brings with it. It's always a question of how much do you condemn or forgive the revengist sentiment; to me, living like they were, some cruelty is to be expected, even nihilism rather than progress is to be expected, revolutions like that are only partly based on philosophy, they are mostly a boiling point.
And then what I felt was that given that Vox's anger was understandable, even justified, and that's not how the game wanted us to feel, it pushed the point by having the characters say it out loud how both sides are the same, or by having Daisy
going all "har har har" and "I'll murder little children"
MiamiWesker
Member
I have played this for about 5 hours now and I am not blown away but it is great. If I am to compare it to the original Bioshock I think the battles and atmosphere in the first was better at least to this point. So far most of the gun battles in Infinite have been against large crowds of enemies in large open spaces. I don't feel the powers are as effective since they are more crowd control based where in the first it was more for one on one battles. The first game had better pacing, new enemies would appear regularly plus you had the Big Daddy's in the mix as well. It had the prep for battle moments where you could set traps and think of strategies. So far in Infinite enemies simply pop out and start a big gun fight where I find myself hiding behind cover and slowly popping out to shoot them almost CoD style because my vigor power runs out so fast. I can see the potential for epic battles when more powers, guns and skylines are involved but for now it doesnt feel as interesting as the first.
The pacing is off as well as there are some huge gaps in the action. I understand the need to get to know Elizabeth but come on give us a bit of action mixed in. I really dislike the decision to do the whole only two guns at time thing. I love the weapon wheel as it allows you to use what you want for each battle, it is the difference between you controlling a battle and you reacting to one. I also don't like the removal of stored health and magic healing items. It makes me feel like a scavenger, in the middle of a fight scavenging is not an option. Of course now you have a shield making it even more like Halo...I am starting to see why I am not as engaged as the first. Anyway I have yet to have a battle where I am using skylines, Elizabeth, and a bunch of powers so I am sure it gets much better.
The game is beautiful I must say and I do really enjoy the new setting. The story seems interesting, the themes are very strong. Elizabeth has been extremely impressive so far, she reminds me of a Disney princess who is wowed at the world. So full of innocence and child like wonder except instead of being in a Disney movie she is stuck in racist filled hellhole with a prince who brutally murders hundreds of people. The game comes alive when the two are talking back and forth making it much more interesting than the silent protagonist crap of the first game. I like the optional exploration, its crude and basic but at least it allows for something other than just moving forward.
I have played the game using the move and it works well enough. My biggest issue is the button layout which is horrendous, I don't know what moron decided on layout but fire him cause you aren't allowed to change it. I don't think its adding anything to the experience where many of the wii games were made with wiimote in mind so they make better use of it, I may go to a controller.
Its great so far but I think it wont be as great as the original was.
The pacing is off as well as there are some huge gaps in the action. I understand the need to get to know Elizabeth but come on give us a bit of action mixed in. I really dislike the decision to do the whole only two guns at time thing. I love the weapon wheel as it allows you to use what you want for each battle, it is the difference between you controlling a battle and you reacting to one. I also don't like the removal of stored health and magic healing items. It makes me feel like a scavenger, in the middle of a fight scavenging is not an option. Of course now you have a shield making it even more like Halo...I am starting to see why I am not as engaged as the first. Anyway I have yet to have a battle where I am using skylines, Elizabeth, and a bunch of powers so I am sure it gets much better.
The game is beautiful I must say and I do really enjoy the new setting. The story seems interesting, the themes are very strong. Elizabeth has been extremely impressive so far, she reminds me of a Disney princess who is wowed at the world. So full of innocence and child like wonder except instead of being in a Disney movie she is stuck in racist filled hellhole with a prince who brutally murders hundreds of people. The game comes alive when the two are talking back and forth making it much more interesting than the silent protagonist crap of the first game. I like the optional exploration, its crude and basic but at least it allows for something other than just moving forward.
I have played the game using the move and it works well enough. My biggest issue is the button layout which is horrendous, I don't know what moron decided on layout but fire him cause you aren't allowed to change it. I don't think its adding anything to the experience where many of the wii games were made with wiimote in mind so they make better use of it, I may go to a controller.
Its great so far but I think it wont be as great as the original was.
Indeed, one of the first things that popped up in my head when I finished. Surprised more people haven't mentioned it yet actually.
Doesn't make the execution of the ending less awesome though of course.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
I enjoyed the game. Top game after Bioshock 1 this gen
One thing I liked more about BS1 is the vigor. In this one, I only used 1 90% of the time (possession), this game felt more like a shooter.
In BS1 the vigors were so much fun. Used it most of the time
One thing I liked more about BS1 is the vigor. In this one, I only used 1 90% of the time (possession), this game felt more like a shooter.
In BS1 the vigors were so much fun. Used it most of the time
Oh crap, did I screw up my spoiler tags? Sorry guys, hope nobody saw anything. And thanks Evilore!
Anyway, finished the game. I'm kind of confused, gonna head to the spoiler thread. But I'm pretty sure I liked what I saw, a lot.
Wow, that's interesting. I relied on my vigors (crow, bronco, electric shock to name a few) all the time, probably equally as much as guns.
2 gun limit on the PC as well
just finished, good game. is it true you have all your guns on the pc version? its seriously fuckn lame havin 2 guns on you the whole time in the 360 version. great to amazing visuals, good character arc, really fun shootouts. lifeless npcs take me out of the experience and on hard having only 2 guns is frustrating, terrible framerate on a couple sections (360) im also sick of scavenging in games. gotta hit dat button to get dat pellet! id rate it a 8.5.
The Librarian
Banned
Just had that first fight in the
I fought through the combat once, then I noticed the skyhooks. I started the game back to the previous checkpoint and became a lot more aggressive with the skyhooks. I died several times but that's only because I have low health I think.
This game is a lot more fun when you're able to fly around the combat spaces.
Hall of Heroes. It's that town-looking area.
This game is a lot more fun when you're able to fly around the combat spaces.
Motivation behind significant social upheaval is almost always justified, but as you say those upheavals also loose the active volcanoes that lie simmering beneath all societies. And when these erupt those personalities that seize the reigns are frequently Robespierres, Stalins. But I wouldn't take everything DeWitt says as an attempt to push a point or an attitude on the audience.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I maxed shields out first and then salts. Worked quite well, with maxed out salts and possession, you can make most battles a cakewalk.
Slowly doing my health now.
Salts and shields.
No, you only get two guns at a time on PC. Not sure how that's really a problem.
Just got past the
Hall of Whores
Yeah, I'd like to know as well. Salts seems pretty useful off the bat because you can spam possession and whatnot.
The two guns things was never an issue at all for me. I know why people are put off by it, I think they just associate it with that awful thing in shooters of placing needed weapons just before specific encounters, as it sign posts the game in a really transparent manner, but there's none of that at all.
Yeah, having more guns would probably break the balance and remove the urgency to get more guns/ammo by searching or from Elizabeth in battle, which can be fun.
Funny to read the varying opinions on difficulty levels. Hard has been pretty challenging so far, been dying all over the place. Granted I'm not very good at shooters but despite biting the dust a few times per encounter its still been a lot of fun.
Ironically where my experience seems to differ is that Handymn haven't been all that difficult - thanks to a bit of gear I found that boosts damage on them by 50%.
Ironically where my experience seems to differ is that Handymn haven't been all that difficult - thanks to a bit of gear I found that boosts damage on them by 50%.
As far as I'm concerned, he put himself on the same level as North with this game.
Nolan has some range. I'm not too familiar with this guy's work but everything I've heard him in sounds relatively the same.
MuddyDonut
Member
What are the boss encounters again?
Is it just the heavy hitters or what?
Keyser Soze
Member
Found an easy way to beat the Graveyard boss (
) on Hard if you need it.
Hide in the tomb with he four medkits (not the tunnel) Wait for her to appear outside and fucking launch everything at her. If your aim is right, you can get a whole chuck of health in just one clip of the
. I did not even have to use Salts, but threw a few sock Jockey out there too.
Also, if you are stuck for money and items don't forget that before you turn right to enter the Graveyard - the place where the ground looks to be completely fallen and impassable - is actually passable. Just continue straight foward there to find a new area. You can probably collect around $700 in that area alone/ There is also a Patriot and Fireman in this area along with about 5 Lockpick Doors.
Onward!
Lady Comstock
PUDDLE GUN.
Hide in the tomb with he four medkits (not the tunnel) Wait for her to appear outside and fucking launch everything at her. If your aim is right, you can get a whole chuck of health in just one clip of the
Puddle Gun
Also, if you are stuck for money and items don't forget that before you turn right to enter the Graveyard - the place where the ground looks to be completely fallen and impassable - is actually passable. Just continue straight foward there to find a new area. You can probably collect around $700 in that area alone/ There is also a Patriot and Fireman in this area along with about 5 Lockpick Doors.
Onward!
Damn.. The game would make such a good movie with my some shutter island esque filmography
ThaiGrocer
Member
What is this referring to? I think it must be something obvious.
MuddyDonut
Member
For that encounter I spammed Murder of Crows for the
and just
. My salts were maxed by that point and I was aware of the medkit tear, so I didn't have to worry too much. The most trouble I had in the game were from the handymen types.
grunts
shoot banged the Lady until she left
Vire
Member
That's kinda true I guess, Joel from The Last of Us sounds fairly similar to Booker.
I'm not familiar with his extensive anime resumé, but I agree about his range in gaming. Not very wide.
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ViewtifulJC
Banned
Troy is in Wonderful 101 and he sounds...completely different from Booker. He's got some voices
he was serviceable, just sounded the like the average tough guy voice, nothin particulary special.