This is from my gamespot blog, but I figured I'd post it to clear up some statements in my "What the hell was his name" blog.

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I can only imagine the backlash if I actually had people reading my blog. The seas would rise, the sun would explode and humanity as we know it, would end. Yet here I am writing what could be one of the first (or few) posts in a manner which would not be pleasing to 2k Boston. Yeah, right.

I have found myself in a rut, torn between story and game play in the fantastic world of Rapture. It literally tears me to pieces every time I load the game knowing that I'm going to have to deal with some of the most annoying features in a game ever, just to learn more and experience the story to it's full effect.

That's right, I cannot f--king stand the game play of Bioshock. Granted, at first it may come off just like any shooter but with the option of adding some extra cool things to make you stronger. However, I find it quite annoying and redundant. Being the kind of player who likes to power through shooters and learn as much about the story as possible (as quickly as possible), it bothers the living **** out of me that I need to make decision about what plasmids to use. In this case, what plasmids I need to use in a level before I even know a god damn thing about the level.

Why not just goto a gene bank and change them out?

Because that's f--king annoying. I don't want to run and find a gene bank every ten minutes just because I've come across a new encounter.

Harvest Little Sisters and buy some more plasmid slots!

No! FU! The little sisters and the big daddies can suck it. I'll talk more about them later.

What it comes down to is, my character feels heavily under powered because of this gene bank nonsense. I don't know which plasmids will be best and the splicers I'm facing seem to take no damage from the ones I choose, ever. So I kinda get screwed in the fact that I need to run to a gene bank or die and start from where I left off, which is equally annoying.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have died, because I've run out of ammo for my awesome guns (which seem to do little-to-no damage to most splicers) and my plasmids suck and do equally crappy damage. Why is this? I don't f'ing know. Could someone tell me why this is? Probably. Do I want to hear it? No. I'm at the point of frustration with this game where as amazing as the story sounds, the gameplay enrages me to no end and I don't even want to play it anymore.

Maybe it's my hectic way of playing the game, but the other awesome thing that I love is the vital chambers... Or whatever the f--k they are called. You know, the stupid things that respawn you when you die, yeah, they're great. They respawn you close to where you died with the enemies still at whatever amount of health you left them at. Amazing. Up until you run out of money, first aid, and eve injectors and you're left with half health and little to no eve to kill the remaining splicers.

Yeah, that's amazing, good job. Probably a feature you should have put on your box so everyone knows how awesome it is.

Big Daddies. I hate you. You make me hate this game so god damn much. Everytime I come across one, I die a little on the inside. I hate having to fight them in order to get atom to spend on upgrading. They are such a pain in my nuts to kill. It seems like no matter what I do (even with the grenade launcher), I die atleast five to seven times trying to defeat one. Then I defeat one and the little demon is nowhere to be found. WHERE THE LIVING SH-T DID SHE GO? So I waste all my money, all my first aid kits, and all my injectors trying to kill a Big Daddy for maybe fifty bucks and a first aid kit. Awesome.

Now what hurts me the most, even though I hate this game with every inch of my body, is the fact that I love the story. From the first seconds I played the game and I saw the banner that read "No Gods. No Kings. Only Man." I knew I was going to love this game. I love stories based around utopia's created by mad men and things go horribly wrong. It's been a long time coming but I just started reading Orwell's 1984 and cannot put it down. Now, I want to know the story, I want to learn more, I want to hear more. But I just cannot bring myself to play this god damn game anymore. So here I am, ranting and raving and no one to agree with me.

I'm sorry people, but the gameplay in Bioshock is just too rediculous for me to give a crap about the game anymore. I'll be looking online to listen to the audio tapes (which I think are highly entertaining and very well done.) and trying to find the ending.

Just writing that last bit made me remember something more, and if you know me, I write in whats known as "stream of conscience" so, if you're new here, you'll notice I'm all over the place and that's fine. By the way, yes. I know stream of conscience is short for "someone who isn't good at writing but tries to anyway."

The audio tapes make me angry. Placed in the most random god damn spots, it bothers me like you wouldn't believe. I end up searching every inch of every level trying to find these things. What if I didn't stumble upon the audio tape in the under passage through the broken gate? I could have EASILY skipped that part and ran right past it, but I didn't. Why? By accident. I fell into the grate and was like "oh, it's a passage." God knows how many audio tapes I've missed, which is another big reason for me not caring anymore. It's possible I've missed an important part of the story because the devs thought it would be totally awesome to stick an audio tape up the ass of a splicer that I forgot to hit "search again" on.

I don't care if you think the gameplay is awesome and you enjoy it alot.

I don't care if you think I'm not good at shooters. Let's play something multiplayer on the PC and we'll put that theory to the test.

I don't care if you think I'm impatient, because you're right. I am.

I do care if you have a solution to my character being terrible and everything being impossible to kill. Keep in mind, I play on hard, because I'm a real gamer.