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In a stupid Russian accent: "On Destructoid Dot Com, Internet looks at YOU!" So, yeah, stop staring at me. I'm just a gamer guy with a bit of typing diarrhea, which caused my short comments on news items to get out of hand.. so I decided I should start a blog to give them the space they needed. But anyway, this is my Dtoid profile, let's get started.

I obtained an original NES when I was five years old and still have it, along with all the Nintendo consoles since, all of which can be hooked up and played within a moment's notice. Oh, and I still have the old Zapper. Whoopee.

I am not a Nintendo fanboy (not completely, anyway) since I did own a Playstation for a while, and now have an Xbox 360 after having the original Xbox for the last year of it's run, and find myself all over it's achievements like a madman. I'm up to 33000 or so as of this writing in July '07. Check my Gamercard if you're from the future to see where I am now!

Favourite games include, but are not limited to: Zelda, Metroid and Mario anything (BEE SUIT). Resident Evil since I got hooked on the GC remake, Halo (don't kill me!), Grim Fandango, pretty much all the N64 Rare made games including Conker's Bad Fur Day, the C&C series, Monkey Island series, YDKJ series (don't know what that is, do you?), Eternal Darkness, Killer7, GTA series, the Myst series, the Worms games before they went to 3D and even though I can't hit the orange note half the time.. Guitar Hero.

Those games were listed in the order I thought of them, I'm not going to re-arrange them in my preferance order. Who knows which I like the most?!

Oh, and for crap I own.. I'm big into soundtracks, so whenever I can, I get the soundtrack to a game. And I mean, the actualy disc, not just downloading it. That's pretty hard where I live, so.. yeah. Hardcore, I guess. Woo.
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BioShock is about the story, the moral choices, the collapse of a once truly utopian society.

It's about the implementation and combination of varied disparate violent elements used for the action, to allow the player to defend themselves through a myriad of unique ways. The combat as customizable as the weapons and self modifications used to wage these battles.

It's about all the little things, the details in the world, it's visual representation and the degradation of that which was once fantasical and pristine.

It's about its darkness and mood of isolation, desperation for escape and survival, and perhaps the yearning to help those not yet completely gone, beyond the players ability to aid them.



It's about Why and How did it all go so very wrong?



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But is it fun? I haven't played it and probably won't (don't own a 360 at the moment), but in my opinion, none of those things matter if it isn't entertaining.
It's also not out yet, and I doubt any serious gamer would draw too many conclusions from its (admittedly stunning) demo.
I went and read a couple other blogs on the subject, and obviously my "is it fun?" comment was out of line, haha. And the general consensus is?! FUN!
"a once truly utopian society"

Amethystine, I think the point is that it was never a true utopia, otherwise it would have succeeded. It was a refuge from politics and religion built by an egomaniac and a madman.
I disagree. It's difficult not to draw conclusions from the demo -- namely those which concern its art direction, its presentation, the sound and graphics, the combat. Sure, it's just one big sample. But should the title in full remain as consistently brilliant as this 25 minute demo was -- which, beyond any doubt, I hail as some of the finest 25 minutes I've ever spent with a game -- what Levine's team has created might end up being just short of perfection.

It's that fucking good.
Wtf is Bioshock?
Am I the only one who thinks this blog is pointless?

No offense but who ever said negative things about this game?
I'll actually defend this blog.

I thought the demo was good but there were some frustrating things about the gameplay. I could see people finishing the demo and going..."That was supposed to change my life and rearrange my face? Meh." But to those people I would say the same thing - it's about the story.
Maybe those people are the same people who are like "ZOMG HALO iz revolutionary even though it is just another overrated generic shooter."
Haha you just got friended
It's also about playing "Pipe" to hack stuff xD
@coonskin05

I take it you never had to read Atlas Shrugged in high school, then? I think the game's most interesting aspect is that is actually was a utopia that somehow succumbed to the weakness of its inhabitants, and finding out what that weakness was probably encompasses a great deal of the game.

Since when does wanting freedom make you a madman?
Hmm, this is now my most popular blog post, comments wise. I wasn't trolling for controversy, though.

Anyway, I just got the vibe that a fair amount of people had been dissing the demo and BioShock in it's entirety by extension. Not the majority, but enough for me to want to say something. If this responce was unwarranted, just take it as me trying to say why BioShock is so cool, without it being a responce to anything.

Oh, and thanks Linde!
bashing the shit out of stuff was fun :D
lol...its an immature game but kicks butt at all the stories of other games; i think kingdom hearts has the best story honestly at the end when i beat it i cried!

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