only thing i've pre-ordered is some games from liongames because it was cheaper

i was going to try and stay away from bioshock, but there is just so much positive press about it, I might be trading in a few games to buy it

I swear, I need some more space between all these games.

Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, and now BioShock...~$200 down the tubes

8/13/2007 8:33:33 AM

i know...but trust me it's a don't miss game.

just go get the demo and play through it, and I dare you to say 'nahhhh, i don't want to buy this'

8/13/2007 8:51:40 AM

haha

well since i just got gamefly, that will possibly be a rental i keep for about a month

there is no multiplayer, correct?

if that's the case, then I definitely can just play through 1 or 2 times, rack up all the acheivements I can, then send it back

even though that will probably be the most rented game on gamefly's list for a while

i probably won't get it until feb or march of next year, ha

8/13/2007 9:24:14 AM

right, no multi

and they say speedruns would take like 8-10, goign through for everything around 20, even longer depending on if you try to save/kill all the lil sisters

8/13/2007 9:25:48 AM

yeah, i think this will be about a 3-4 week rental then

8/13/2007 9:33:11 AM

ok I played the demo for a bit, and it appeared to be a lot like Condemned. The darkness basically ate up any visual treats in the game. Why do they have to make a game that doesn't have any lighting in it?

8/13/2007 9:37:38 AM

its called the darkness for a reason lolz

8/13/2007 10:10:07 AM

fix the color correction at the beginning

and i think condemned was a lot darker than the darkness...i would play condemned in a dark room just so i could see what was going on...of course that made it even worse when something would happen

8/13/2007 10:14:50 AM

i hear ya about using gamefly. I usually do, but for games I know will be very cool I like to definitely own them personally. Regardless of MP play, because I know I will go back and want to have them on the shelf. I only buy the top AAA titles and it works out. Rent the others. I think the last game that didnt have some form of multi that I bought though was dead rising....so many games have it.

Esgargs....what type of tv do you have?

If you color correct the darkness/lighting looks absolutely fantastic. But if you don't have an HDTV or run this thing on a 7 inch camping portable tv well.....shit in, shit out.

8/13/2007 10:18:17 AM

demo download...

taking...

forever

8/13/2007 10:45:42 AM

This is the most exciting demo download since Blue Dragon, and I bet this won't suck NEARLY as much.

8/13/2007 10:58:59 AM

i wish i wasn't as work all day, lol

8/13/2007 11:17:29 AM

Quote :

"Esgargs....what type of tv do you have?"

I usually play FPS games on my small 15 inch HDTV in the bedroom, because big screens make me motion sick, especially all this dark crap.

I might try it on the 55 inch HDTV in the living room, though.

8/13/2007 11:47:05 AM

doping thing to do in bioshock:

set em on fire wit the incinerate plastid
then follow em and electrocute em when they go to the water to put the fire out

8/13/2007 7:04:26 PM

blue dragon wasnt so bad spooky. was kinda disappointing, but wasnt terrible. eternal sonata kicks ass though.

8/13/2007 7:17:01 PM

Bioshock = <333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

8/13/2007 7:56:44 PM

fine fuckers ill go endure the download just cuz you all have to praise it so much.

8/13/2007 8:01:55 PM

can't troll everything all the time cyrion. that demo is the heat and youz be feelin it.

8/13/2007 8:04:38 PM

demo isnt dling that slowly

8/13/2007 8:11:16 PM

i ordered my copy of bioshock from liongames for a whopping 45 bux that included shipping

i hope they offer a special for cod4

8/13/2007 8:12:51 PM

mine's been stuck at 5% for a while

8/13/2007 8:34:20 PM

hmmm, mine was at 2%. i checked during commercials and it was already to 50. guess it depends where you are.

[Edited on August 13, 2007 at 8:48 PM. Reason : yep mines done. normal dl times in wisconsin.]

8/13/2007 8:41:29 PM

http://www.funtechtalk.com/boy-arrested-for-writing-ps3-sucks-on-game-cases/

8/13/2007 8:52:02 PM

demo finally downloaded for me (took a total of about 6 hours)

I am a fan. I believe there is a bioshock thread somewhere, and someone was complaining that you have to switch from weapons to plasmids. I actually like it. I don't want a wrench in one hand, and a glowing electro left hand. I think the fact that you have to switch at the correct time adds some skill to it. If you had both, you could just blast and swing the whole time.

I've only gotten about 10 minutes into the demo (i'm taking my time, and it's scary just to listen to these people talk and mumble), but it seems pretty cool.

Still don't think it's a purchase however. I think it will be about a month rental from gamefly whenever my turn to get it comes. Once I play through a shooter, I rarely go back through unless there is multiplayer.

8/14/2007 8:36:22 AM

where are yall at? it took me about 1 hour last night in raleigh.

^ i would be willing to bet that there will be some special unlockables or downloadable content that will strongly encourage more than one playthrough.

[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 8:42 AM. Reason : dtyuj]

8/14/2007 8:39:58 AM

probably

the most obvious will be an acheivement for saving all little girls, another will be killing all little girls

probably like condemned..."no firearms", "all firearms", "kill xxx", "save xxx", etc

basically just different ways to play through the game

What i'll probably do is one thorough playthrough to gain all "collectables" and clear as many as possible, then a run through to clear the other obvious acheivements, and that'll probably do it for me

8/14/2007 8:47:15 AM

yeah thats what i usually do, but i think this game will be like re4 for me - i played through re4 about 15 times. its the most fascinating for me to date.

8/14/2007 8:50:18 AM

http://www.achieve360points.com/game/bioshock/

bioshock achievements so you fucks'll stop guessing

8/14/2007 9:52:02 AM

wow, depending on the secret ones, you really can clear all of them in one run

assuming the hardest difficulity is open at the start of the game

8/14/2007 10:13:45 AM

The demo is incredible.

8/14/2007 10:16:51 AM

Beautiful Katamari demo out

and new GH2 pack with 3 my chemical romance songs

8/14/2007 10:52:36 AM

^That demo is getting copped tonight. I love the Katamari series.

8/14/2007 10:54:33 AM

this made me lol



this is the inside of a play and charge pack, for those that think they're getting a better deal

dunno if im the only one, but I didn't expect it to just be 2 batteries sealed in

8/14/2007 11:17:27 AM

ummm

What else did you expect? A hydrogen fuel cell?

8/14/2007 11:18:21 AM

dunno exactly, like maybe a brick like a cell phone battery

just not 2 cheap ass batteries taped in

8/14/2007 11:21:23 AM

lol dude

cell phone batteries have the same kind of cells inside.

8/14/2007 11:22:03 AM

Yeah, that's why I just have rechargeable batteries.

Why someone would want to put a wire on their wireless controller is beyond me.

8/14/2007 11:24:40 AM

^^ im aware

like i said, expected a solid brick

lol dude

8/14/2007 11:29:59 AM

Quote :

"this is the inside of a play and charge pack, for those that think they're getting a better deal"

i've recharged those packs dozens or hundreds of times so i KNOW i'm getting a better deal than just messin with some Duracells every few days

8/14/2007 12:03:58 PM

The best value:



And have extra batteries charged so you never have to have a cord attached to your cordless controller.

[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 12:57 PM. Reason : [/image]]

8/14/2007 12:56:46 PM

bioshock is great

8/14/2007 1:24:46 PM

Quote :

"And have extra batteries charged so you never have to have a cord attached to your cordless controller."

I don't know about you, but I charge my controller when I am not playing it.

8/14/2007 1:29:30 PM

Nope, too much of a hassle to plug it in when I finish playing and unplug it when I want to play. Plus the play and charge kit adds extra and unnecessary wires to the equation. When I see the light ring on the controller start flashing, I replace the batteries in the controller with the ones in the charger. Takes all of 1 minute.

8/14/2007 1:41:08 PM

How do you say crap like that?

So plugging in your controller is more hassle than walking to the charger, taking out batteries from it, opening your controller, replacing batteries, putting the old ones into the charger?

Some of you are so dense.

8/14/2007 1:42:21 PM

Plugging it in every time? yes, it is more of a hassle than changing the batteries about once every couple of weeks.

Plus the cords, I don't want them around, there are already too many of them.

8/14/2007 1:45:26 PM

i never thought it'd be batteries in there as well

8/14/2007 2:15:17 PM

Quote :

"Plugging it in every time?"

I don't know what you've read/heard, but my battery kit lasts the same number of hours as regular batteries.

8/14/2007 2:16:21 PM

Just traded in Gears of War (meh) and reserved Bioshock.

woot!

8/14/2007 2:45:41 PM

That Bioshock demo is fucking HOT.

Beautiful Katamari was fun for three minutes... I kind of wanna pull out my PS2 copy and play that tonight.

8/14/2007 2:51:25 PM

who doesnt have 4 wireless controllers and 4 charge and play packs? how often do you really need batteries?

8/14/2007 2:52:52 PM