I got Bioshock off of Steam and played it through once on Hard mode.

On the whole I have to say it's a quality game. It's perhaps slightly lacking in the role playing department but has a complex and excellent-for-a-videogame storyline. Plus you have all the fun resource scrounging and hacking and therefore both strategy and tactics.

I didn't know that it was basically a sequel to System Shock 2. There is a lot of obvious similarity in design, like with designing commodities, vending machines, and resource scarcity. Also with the horror theme.

I actually like System Shock 2 more, though. I preferred how in System Shock 2 you could carry as much ammunition as your inventory allowed and ammunition itself was an inventory item. In Bioshock there's just a magical minimum and maximum number of each type of ammunition you could carry. This frustrated my big strategy in System Shock 2, which was to hack 1 vending machine in one part of the spaceship, make it a home base, and run through the whole game using only the wrench, so that at the very end of the game I could liquidate a game full of resources into an enormous supply of assault rifle ammo so that I could completely Doom the endgame.

In Bioshock I found myself effectively wasting certain resources by accidentally creating more specialty ammo than I could carry. The fact they even limited your cash to $500 meant to be fully efficent you basically needed to periodically waste money so you could continue to accumulate it.

One thing I didn't like was how at the end of the game all the enemies had so many hitpoints that lot of your firearms became comically ineffective. You needed to get all kinds of damage upgrades just to keep pace with blatant hitpoint inflation. I thought that was kind of lame and inexplicable in terms of immersion or storyline.

On the whole I think I might have preferred the game more if all firearms did more damage to flesh, balanced by less damage against machines. That way there could be more tactical gameplay instead of random goons towards the end of the game absorbing 30 rounds of ammo from the tommy gun and not dying.

I recently bought it for my xbox, and you'll laugh at me, I am sure, but I had no idea it was so god damn scary!

I thought it might be a little creepy, but I started playing and screw that crap man. Its sitting on my shelf right now mocking me

Glad to hear you got your moneys worth out of it though.

I am personally glad to hear this. I was one of the testers for this game at 2K and you can believe that I jumped a couple of times when things happened and I was immersed in it with my sound canceling headphones on. Or when one of my co-workers would tap me on the shoulder while I was playing with said head phones on.

Try out Fallout3, if you haven't allready.
If you want over the top, go for the GOTY Version with all 5 DLC's in it.

Yes, one of the strongest point of the System Shock series was of course the atmosphere. Even System Shock 1 was pretty creepy with the death animations and such.

Yeah, I was a bit creeped out while playing the game, it has some great atmosphere.

I love the world it is set in, but the horror tone was more than I like

I've tried going at it a few times, and it just feels like work.

Now fallout 3, Oblivion, And the fables have all been on my playlist here lately. Good times. Going thru all the DLC stuff in fallout right at the moment.

I'm actually gonna replay fallout1, 2 and *shudders* even Tactics in the next 2 weeks . .
The Quality of the DLC's in F³ varies. Operation Anchorage and Mothership Zeta are basically dungeon crawls, while Broken Steel will break even a Heart of Steel, Point Lookout will have you in a part of the World much darker than usual and The Pitt is a damn industrial nightmare. Of which you can, it seems, become king . . but i am not sure about that . .

Hey, I made a kickass super dooper Vintage Weapons mod for Fallout 2. It makes the combat more realistic and dynamic. Do you want it? Of course I'm biased but I felt like all RPGs with guns should be more like my mod, with the guns actually killing people.


Personally, I found Fallout 3 to be ridiculously easy.

"Why doesn't someone just take a .45, BAM, settle it?"

~J

*shrugs*
i don't see what your problem is. almost every second shot i take at something is a crit hit ^^
most of the time, half of whatever i am shooting up ends up somewhere else than the other half too *grins*
but sure, why not, if it does not outfit every single weapon with one very specific ammo type, i'll try.

Here you go: http://rapidshare.com/files/325475978/vint...d.v1.1.zip.html

The weapons and ammo types are directly analagous to the original game. So, it doesn't do what you say you don't want.

cannot download, not a premium rapid shit account.

Oh FFS, it's because they are having too much bandwith usage right now.

Will you PM me your email address so I can send it to you?