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Spoiler Warning page<\/a> to see the full index.<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\nIt may be apparent from the way I kept complaining about just about everything while I played, but I didn’t enjoy this season quite so much as Fallout 3. Hell, I was getting frustrated with Bioshock just from watching last episode while I was editing it together. I think the problem was (aside from terrible gameplay balance, boring enemies, and useless weapons) that there just weren’t enough opportunities to utterly break the game in Bioshock – compared to Fallout 3, where I could just walk around<\/i> and ruin the game designers’ master vision. If they even had one. This is “you have to close all 495 Oblivion Gates that popped up while you were dicking around with the Dark Brotherhood to complete the main story”-Bethesda we’re talking about here.<\/p>\n
Even so, I have to admit, I did smile every time I managed to freeze a splicer mid-air.<\/p>\n
But that’s all water under the bridge now. In retrospect, this season did provide (in my mind, at least) a fairly compelling counterpoint to Bioshock’s overwhelming praise in the larger gaming community. Was it a good game? Sure, I think I can at least give it that. At least it had some fairly surprising twists – there are a lot of games with gameplay that’s just as bad (or worse) that have no redeeming factors whatsoever. But was it a great game? It seemed like the whole momentum of the game’s story relied on those few twists – or really just the one – and after that truly great moment, not only does the whole game spiral sharply downwards in an irrevocable stall, but I never felt any desire to play it again until we decided to do it for this season.<\/p>\n
And yet to play devil’s advocate to my own devil’s advocacy, it is worth noting that the unanimous praise was largely aimed at the console version. I’m not sure if the gameplay was significantly better on the 360 or not – I probably wouldn’t be able to tell, playing shooters with thumbsticks is a skill which endlessly baffles me. But I think I can conclusively say that the PC version of Bioshock, at the very least, fails to live up to its hype. By far.<\/p>\n
As an extra note, I had a montage sequence all lined up for the credits of this episode, but when I tried to encode the four minute long segment, Windows Movie Maker immediately attempted ritual suicide and told me it would take four hours<\/i> to encode the damn thing. In an unrelated bit of news, I am now accepting donations to purchase Adobe Premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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