They're not "harsher." They just try to use the whole scale. If bioshock got a 9, I can't wait to see what they give Halo3

8/20/2007 9:48:02 PM

a 9 is a slap in the face for this game, and yes i don't like it. at all.

8/20/2007 9:49:00 PM

^^ well yeah, though ive read some significantly harsher reviews from them in the past.

^ how much of the game have you played to assert that? i think a 9 is quite good and his points seemed relevant to the bits i played in the demo.

8/20/2007 9:57:50 PM

the average score on gamerankings was like 9.7 or something, and he gives it a 9. the demo suggest to me at least 9.5, i think his points are moot and stupid.

thank god they are using a .5 scale now, it could have got an 8.8 from jeff, and thats scary to think.

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 10:01 PM. Reason : sdfg]

8/20/2007 10:00:17 PM

So just played through the PC demo and I was pleasantly surprised by my PC's performance.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 @2.6GHZ
2GB RAM
7800GTX 256MB

It runs at 1920x1200 with all the detail settings set to high with nary a hitch. It's not liquid smooth by any stretch, but it's not sluggish either. The biggest thing that effected performance was turning on "Reverb". If you don't have a dedicated EAX sound card, don't bother with it, it's not worth the performance hit. Turn on a little texture filtering instead, it really helps.

8/20/2007 10:02:02 PM

^^ your post smells highly of troll, but based on your other video game opinions, i dont believe this to be true.

8/20/2007 10:06:07 PM

so what are you saying, that i have given bad opinions on games in the past?

8/20/2007 10:07:51 PM

nope. just saying that if you are into something it appears most fanatical to the rest of us. the constant cod, controller vs keyboard arguments being #1. the refusal of anything lower than a 95 for this game being number 2.

8/20/2007 10:17:17 PM

hey what can i say

8/20/2007 10:24:04 PM

Quote :

"Order stuff?"

i have the samsung ms28 so i had to buy a sata interface card that had a via chipset since my mobo is nforce and i also needed to get a dvd burner

8/20/2007 10:51:16 PM

Is seedless trolling or just retarded?

8/20/2007 10:57:58 PM

thats what i was saying. i wanted him to be, but i just dont believe it.

8/20/2007 11:00:06 PM

Gamespot Halo 1 score: 9.7

Gamespot credibility: 0

8/20/2007 11:04:56 PM

Just played the PC demo, ran surprisingly well on my computer as well, I thought it was pretty amazing.... preloading on steam now

8/20/2007 11:14:31 PM

Gonna be awesome, pretty psyched. Only semi-letdown is no skills like System Shock, but I guess the plasmids make up for it.

8/20/2007 11:20:03 PM

The demo was righteously awesome.

I got it for the 360 because I didn't know how well my PC would run it at high settings(It was a kick ass PC a year and a half ago, still pretty good but not top of the line), but it runs very well.

I ordered it from Toys r us to take advantage of their madden special, and if the time it has taken them to get Madden to me is any indication, I won't have it before next week.

8/21/2007 12:45:47 AM

^Thanks for the tip

Quote :

"Place in Line 125 /125 Estimated Wait 47 minutes"

8/21/2007 2:16:42 AM

RELEASE DAY BITCHES.

Just got my call from gamestop....picking it up on my lunch break. So, I suppose i'll just have to stare at the big daddy figurine all day at work tempting me.

oh, and damn...look at this guy? One of the many, many attempts to pull this costume off out there. But he actually does a respectable job.

8/21/2007 7:40:51 AM

ABOVE ALL DO NO HARM

lol.

8/21/2007 10:55:09 AM

There's growing list of revered games underrated by Gamespot

Metal Gear Solid 1 and 3, Soul Calibur 2, Zelda: Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess off the top of my head.

That having being said, saying "they lost a subscriber" is retarded unless you were actually using their pay service, which is really retarded.

8/21/2007 11:23:47 AM

Anyone else have any reports as to how well it runs on the PC? I don't see how I overlooked this game up until I saw a random article on IGN about it over the weekend, now I've been reading up on it.

8/21/2007 11:25:50 AM

nope its not retarded

i was a subscriber more as less as giving a 'donation' , which i know that they don't need it, on the the premise of a job well done. this is not a job well done.

8/21/2007 11:26:21 AM

The demo ran fine on my computer.

3600AMD dual core
2gb ram
8600gt

8/21/2007 11:31:01 AM

not trying to hijack the thread, but you were "donating" to a major corporate website, that didn't need your money? ok....

(btw, I'm aware this is somewhat ironic for me to say given that I'm a premie )

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 11:34 AM. Reason : .]

8/21/2007 11:33:39 AM

there is nothing wrong with donating, it happens all the time.

8/21/2007 11:36:23 AM

Widescreen problems

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/21/bioshock-widescreen-issue-causing-complaints/

8/21/2007 11:43:19 AM

yeah, ok, whatever. Back to the game.

I might pick up a 360 to play this (and XBLA)

8/21/2007 11:43:37 AM

Quote :

"was a subscriber more as less as giving a 'donation' , which i know that they don't need it"

THEY DONT NEED IT. Dude, Gamespot makes mad loot hand over fist. I've been to their offices many times. It's an awesome, huge spacious setup....with a game room that would make you crap yourself. Pinball machines, arcade machines, big ass TV with all consoles, the works.

8/21/2007 12:12:04 PM

^^^How silly is that. Apparently 2K forgot it was 2007, not 1997.

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 12:14 PM. Reason : :]

8/21/2007 12:14:16 PM

hopefully they'll put out a patch over live and on PC soon. It doesn't break the game by any means, shit - i wouldnt have even noticed it, but i admit, would be nice to have it fixed.

8/21/2007 12:17:23 PM

I dunno, apparently the "excuse" is that the game was developed with a widescreen FOV in mind, and you just see more than you should in 4:3. Of course, that makes no sense at all. If that were truly the case, they would just chop off the sides for the 4:3 version. IMO, lazy developers.

8/21/2007 12:50:56 PM

Don't see why it's a big deal, does owning a widescreen mean you are always entitled to a larger picture?

8/21/2007 12:59:03 PM

^in general, at least in movies, they're shot in a widescreen format and then the "pan and scan" 4:3 "normal tv" ratio basically takes a piece of the widescreen...so basically yes widescreen should show more than 4:3

8/21/2007 1:12:05 PM

Unless something is developed with 4:3 in mind, in which case they would cut out the top and bottom to fit to a 16:10 screen.

It's not the end of the world.

8/21/2007 1:18:42 PM

i'm not complaining, but in general stuff is made for a wider format...has been for sometime now...even tv shows 10 years ago before most people had any type of letterbox screens

8/21/2007 1:22:17 PM

So always always always have shock and incinerate on you if you want to see every nook and cranny of the levels.

8/21/2007 4:12:07 PM

i don't think i'll be able to play this game at night

i'd be too scared, seriously

8/21/2007 4:16:17 PM

^I *LOVE* those types of games. Lights off, sound up. Doom 3, FEAR, Resident Evil... better than any horror movies.

8/21/2007 4:18:52 PM

The Silent Hill games blow Resident Evil, etc out of the water if you're just talking about "scare" factor, imo

8/21/2007 4:25:36 PM

i would not say blow it out of the water, but it probably a little scarier. silent hill- the room was scary as fuck tho.

8/21/2007 4:33:37 PM

i never even saw the movie if thats what you're talking about, but even the Playstation 1 games were on some turn off teh lights, turn up the sound and get chills

I think some of it was the "music" which often consisted of what sounded like screams of horror combined with banging a wrench on a boiler, mixed with radio static and the howls of demons

8/21/2007 4:36:17 PM

killed me some big daddies

8/21/2007 4:56:28 PM

I wish i hadn't rescued the first two girls, I need me some more ADAM.

Now I want to get the 100 point achievement for rescuing all the Little Sisters.

8/21/2007 5:24:02 PM

i played the demo and thought it was pretty great. just worried about the repetitive factor. i am really tempted to go buy it right now though cause i've been craving a story type game.

8/21/2007 5:31:20 PM

Haha sweet, the tip of the drill bit on my big daddy figure is snapped off in the box. Free art book, woooooo!

8/21/2007 6:05:47 PM

that sucks man. my big daddy is in good condition.

but i left my fucking wallet in ebgames. At least the guy called me, how much you wanna bet im missing like all my money.

8/21/2007 6:49:27 PM

Sorry? I was hoping it'd be broken, lol.

http://www.2kgames.com/bioshock/busted

Sucks about your wallet though.

8/21/2007 7:46:06 PM

Picked up the PC version after work

but I'm too exhausted to play tonight

8/21/2007 7:54:20 PM

picked up the Xbox360 version today...can't wait to start playing it

8/21/2007 8:14:01 PM

anyone else unlock the frame rate? its cool, yeah theres some vsync stuff going on but i dont mind, definitely nice to get another extra 10-15 fps.....

8/21/2007 8:23:55 PM