Arguably one of the most popular faces of the games industry, Epic's Cliffy B, has recently shared his thoughts on the critically acclaimed, much beloved and Destructoid-approved BioShockon his blog (be warned, there is a spoiler toward the end). Like almost everyone who isn't the Sony Defense Force, Cliff speaks very highly of 2K's masterpiece, which he assures us has nothing to do with the fact it uses the Unreal Engine or that he knows some of the people who worked on it.
In all fairness, Cliffy's thoughts are honest with an eye to criticism as much as praise. They're well worth checking out, too, since it's a rather hilarious write up. Hit the jump for some of the highlights, but do make sure you read the whole thing. See how I linked it twice in this article? That's because it is serious business. Please also be aware that Cliffy uses some racy language if you're a darling little wallflower who doesn't know how babies are made.
So when I was finally able to fight the plastic surgeon character (which in the grand scheme of boss battles really just seemed like a regular splicer with 5x the hitpoints) I found myself cringing as he was running around the room all willy nilly and screaming at me that I'm fat and that I'm ugly and that I really shouldn't have pounded down that case of Tasty Kakes. This will be the only boss character in videogame history that will drive teenaged girl gamers to go on the Oral B diet and start with botulism shots to the forehead early.
More importantly, who WANTS to shoot bees? So bullets aren't fun enough, we want to shoot... bees? They're not even killer wasps or spiders. A spider gun would be good because, hey, who wants spiders crawling all over them. (No, you weird people at the exotic animal show do not count and no Morgan Webb neither do you - what's wrong with you people can't you see that spiders are f*cking evil?) Anyways, the spiders could bite your foe and start cocooning them up in a silky web while they scream "OH GOD GET THEM OFF OF ME TWO LEGS GOOD EIGHT LEGS BAD!"
You could go up to a tree and break off a little branch and find fresh piles of dog doo doo to poke the stick in. Then your character would go around like Eddie Murphy in Raw chanting "Doo doo. Gonna put it on youuuu." Even the biggest baddest foe would turn tail and run. You want to know how to beat the Brumak in Gears PC? Find the poo on the stick. But keep in mind that there's a timer on it because the stick poo will dry up and lose its effectiveness requiring repeated pokes back in the piles of sh*t.
There were many a time when I found myself cornered by a Big Daddy and I'd use my amazing mental skillz to suck up and prepare what I thought was a nearby explosive barrel when suddenly I'd launch a fucking MILK CARTON right at his big stinky dive helmet.
"TAKE THIS ROSIE! HOPE YOU'RE LACTOSE INTOLERANT BITCH!"
I wondered why they had bees in that game. They never did anything. I'd rather set fire to a teddy bear and throw it at the big daddy. Speaking of useless powers, what was the point of the body double plasmid(i know its called something else)? I never used that because it was completely useless. I never used that and I feel bad for buying it and wasting my Adam on it.
I actually didn't find the body double that useless. Distracting splicers became key for me throughout several parts of the game. Of course, the Enrage plasmid does a far better job of it, it has to be said.
That's an example of diffrent ways approaching it. Cliffy may have hated bee's, but there could be someone out there that loves bee's. They probably became a bee keeper after Bioshock because they threw them so much. I never really considered it usefull because if you want a distraction in Bioshock, catch them on fire. They'll try to find some water and completely ignore you while you heal up.
Yet, thats the way they made the game. Multiple ways of taking on a situation. I never used enrage either. I just shocked em and wrench-smacked em. Or caught em on fire. Or set cyclone traps. Or froze em and took on the non-frozen enemies. One mans trash is another man's treasure.
The bee plasmid is basically a more powerful, less amusing version of incinerate. It does quicker damage, and it can't be put out by going in water, and it distracts the enemy, though not as much as incinerate.
What the hell is up with the first link to Colin McRae. I found his death quite shocking this morning, especially with the fact 2 kids were killed in the crash as well, this isn't some bad taste joke is it?
With regards the Colin McRae picture, that was for use on another site and I obviously didn't copy the intended link as I wished to. Thanks for letting me know, that's been fixed.
Sounds like somebody's jealous that someone provided something original than the post-apocalyptic futuristic warfare in a first person shooter that Unreal and Gears have provided.
I use that bee plasmid like it's going out of style! I've got insect swarm 3 and the only thing I don't like about it (even though it makes sense) is that it pisses off Big Daddies to no end if you launch it at some splicers and they get near a BD. Launch the bees and wail on the with the wrench, it's hilarious! I also like to use the target one, so to each his own I guess.
Are we sure that's really him in the header image? I've known the image for a while and I'd never heard of its being Cliffy until I started reading Kotaku and Dtoid.
Also, Jim, are you not ever going to post the "Zero Punctuation" BioShock review?
Sharpless: Apparently using videos from the guy who did Zero Punctuation is some kind of no-no. I'm not sure what the deal was, but I was going to run it, there was some problem or other.
Jim, you mean that Dtoid can't do it? Because the video was definitely mentioned on other major gaming sites. I mean, is it some legal matter, or did Ron accidentally urinate on the guy's vegetable garden?
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