Bioshock First Impressions (non-spoiler)

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Here's your thread to talk about the game without spoilers!

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In answer to how long the game is supposed to be, I think I read ~20 hours if you don't rush through. Which for me ought to be closer to ~30 hours with the cautious, explore-everywhere way that I tend to play games like this.

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I don't get why they have a lock on the PC demo.... they really DO hate us.... and as for drivers... the 360 has "old" hardware so i can't see how they'd need to release new drivers to take advantage of their custom shaders etc...

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Yeah this game sux 5/10

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=83

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Mex wrote:
Yeah this game sux 5/10

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=83


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Mex wrote:
Yeah this game sux 5/10

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=83

Blu-Ray FTW!!!!

I hope those guys are actual Sony employees or at the least paid by Sony to run that site.. anything less is beyond pathetic.

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TheGameguru wrote:
Mex wrote:
Yeah this game sux 5/10

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=83

Blu-Ray FTW!!!!

I hope those guys are actual Sony employees or at the least paid by Sony to run that site.. anything less is beyond pathetic.

Wait... that site isn't meant to be ironic?

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I was curious and did a domain registrant search on sonydefenseforce.com, but it yielded only that the domain was registered to something called "Domains By Proxy" in Arizona. Whoever owns the site doesn't want anyone to know who they are.

Oh well.

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Uberstein wrote:
I was curious and did a domain registrant search on sonydefenseforce.com, but it yielded only that the domain was registered to something called "Domains By Proxy" in Arizona. Whoever owns the site doesn't want anyone to know who they are.

Oh well.

Ahh.. Sony's getting smarter! good for them.

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TheGameguru wrote:
Uberstein wrote:
I was curious and did a domain registrant search on sonydefenseforce.com, but it yielded only that the domain was registered to something called "Domains By Proxy" in Arizona. Whoever owns the site doesn't want anyone to know who they are.

Oh well.

Ahh.. Sony's getting smarter! good for them.

That's priceless.

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uhoh... my Amazon "overnight" order isnt scheduled until the 22nd of Aug.

DUPED AGAIN!

I so dread going into Gamestop tonight and being smugly rebuked for not pre-ordering early enough.

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Eh, I use domains by proxy for my personal site so I wouldn't read too much into it. It's less for "now I can say whatever I want and no one can find me" than for "make it slightly tougher for internet stalkers to track my family so my wife's relatively irrational fears don't keep her awake at night".

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Uberstein wrote:
In answer to how long the game is supposed to be, I think I read ~20 hours if you don't rush through. Which for me ought to be closer to ~30 hours with the cautious, explore-everywhere way that I tend to play games like this.

Does this include time for changing your pants? Or pausing the game because you woke up your kids because you screamed? Looking more like a 40 hour game to me.

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This is out tomorrow, right? Officially? Meaning driving to Circuit City for a glance would be a collosal waste of time?

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This is out tomorrow, right? Officially? Meaning driving to Circuit City for a glance would be a collosal waste of time?

Yeah, tomorrow. At least it will be 10 bucks off though.

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Damn...Gamefly has it listed as shipped..........but, really, what's to keep me from going out and buying it tomorrow?? That'd surely get it into my Xbox before Gamefly will.

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Was talking with one of my buddies from the dorms that works in my building. Apparently he got an early edition from TRU and already beat it once to get one ending. Said it was amazing and to NOT READ ANY SPOILERS OR ELSE THIS GAME WILL BE RUINED.

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I was hoping to read how circuit city has the game in stock and on shelves.... dammit!

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Woot! Can't wait. Getting this at CC tomorrow! I hope it runs on my 2 gig, dual core, .....x1600 yes x1600 128mb gpu.

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Mordiceius wrote:
Was talking with one of my buddies from the dorms that works in my building. Apparently he got an early edition from TRU and already beat it once to get one ending. Said it was amazing and to NOT READ ANY SPOILERS OR ELSE THIS GAME WILL BE RUINED.

You see, even this is a spoiler. It tells me to expect some major plot twist and a plot twist is much more effective when you don't expect it damn you!

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Mr.Green wrote:
Mordiceius wrote:
Was talking with one of my buddies from the dorms that works in my building. Apparently he got an early edition from TRU and already beat it once to get one ending. Said it was amazing and to NOT READ ANY SPOILERS OR ELSE THIS GAME WILL BE RUINED.

You see, even this is a spoiler. It tells me to expect some major plot twist and a plot twist is much more effective when you don't expect it damn you!
Thanks for pointing it out, Green. I hadn't thought that far ahead, but now that I know it, I'm not so sure I want to open this box now. I think I'm returning it to TRU this afternoon.

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That's it. I was going to buy this, but I'm worried that the extreme shock of what will be gaming's greatest plot twist will induce a heart attack. I just can't take that risk. I've got a family to support.

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Five things Tom Chick wishes he knew about Bioshock. Spoiler free!

The one thing I wish I knew about Bioshock is when the hell I'm going to be able to play it. I'm not really sure my 360 will get back in time for my two week vacation...

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Bah. It's the spiritual successor of System Shock 2. A sphincter-puckering plot twist is a given

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wordsmythe wrote:
Anyone feel a virus coming on today?

yah i have a feeling i'm going to catch it when I go to the UPS center to pick up that 2 gigs of ram that just arrived from newegg.

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TheGameguru wrote:
I so dread going into Gamestop tonight and being smugly rebuked for not pre-ordering early enough.

I don't mean to be rude here, but why does anyone bother buying games from Gamestop anymore? I thought their shady preorder business practices were pretty well known?

I havn't pre-ordered Bioshock, but I'll be getting a copy tomorrow because I know even though Gamestop would laugh at me and say, "No preorder, no game", Best Buy and Target and Wal-Mart will all have plenty of copies.

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Shrike wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Anyone feel a virus coming on today?

yah i have a feeling i'm going to catch it when I go to the UPS center to pick up that 2 gigs of ram that just arrived from newegg.

I'm taking Wednesday off. Legally.

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Serengeti wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:
I so dread going into Gamestop tonight and being smugly rebuked for not pre-ordering early enough.

I don't mean to be rude here, but why does anyone bother buying games from Gamestop anymore? I thought their shady preorder business practices were pretty well known?

I havn't pre-ordered Bioshock, but I'll be getting a copy tomorrow because I know even though Gamestop would laugh at me and say, "No preorder, no game", Best Buy and Target and Wal-Mart will all have plenty of copies.

Theres a Target near me.. but I would bet $100 they wont have Bioshock until later this week...

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I was jk, i can't take tomorrow off. There's already someone out this week I'm covering for
And he's not even a gamer. I tried to explain to him why he had to put off his wedding but he didn't seem to understand or didn't want to. what a douche!

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Yeah, STEAM for the win. I'll be playing when I arrive home tomorrow at 6PM EST, assuming the STEAM servers haven't all crashed from everyone trying to unlock at once.

I'm hoping at this point in STEAM's evolution it will have a relatively smooth "Triple-A Title" unlock period compared to HL2.

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