Heart shaped chest hair. hmmm

I was waiting for another adventure...

But on a serious note I HATE bioshock because there's too much back tracking and the game is really easy...

@RonBurgandy2010
I never took any of these as 100% serious. They're like a real life version of "Video Game Show What I've Done" with more situational comedy: at least to me.

Heh, nice chest grooming. :P

I'm going to agree with your thoughts on the game. I played it on the PC, and the mechanics just... weren't good. PC elitists call it a "poor man's System Shock" that was dumbed down for the console crowd, and they would be right. It tried so hard to be System Shock yet it lacked all the complexity and mechanics that made those two games not only properly done horror fps, but amazing games as well.

I did really love the atmosphere and from what I've heard of the story I'm sure I'd love that too (didn't make it too far before giving up and turning it off), but imo it was wrapped in a sub par first person shooter. :\

OMG that was fucking hilarious! These just keep getting better and better.

People find this funny?

also, @ronburgandy i agree with your "that" guy theory.

I agree with RonBurgandy, Bioshock is an amazing game. Unfortunatly it is also a game that people like to target and dislike for the sole purpose of being "different" (and annoying). And Killzone does suck quite a bit.

@ScottyG: I agree with you. I was so excited to play this after all the incredible hype it received only to discover that it was a simplified version of System Shock 2... hell even one of the story twists is exactly the same. I have the feeling that had more people played System Shock 2, Bioshock would not have been praised so much. It's still a pretty neat game though.

Wow, some of you people are acting like he tore this game a new asshole. He liked it enough to play it twice didn't he? And his complaints were legit, especially the bit about the clunky aiming. Does Storm having a few complaints about Bioshock really affect you people that much? That's pretty sad.

@DaedHead8
He's saying that the game didn't deserve the praise it deserved, that's what I have a problem with.


Also, if you found the game easy, there's a difficulty option. When someone says a game is easy and they are playing on 'easy' or 'medium,' they should just shut up right there.

And the game, when you are fully immersed in it (play it in a dark, quiet room, it's just amazing), this game will scare the shit out of you. The whack jobs and psychopaths that inhabit this world scare the fucking shit out of me, and this game also provided me with some of the most frightening and discomforting moments I have ever experienced.

Also, does this guy even visit the site? He never replies to any of these comments. Is he just making videos and having R3Y dump them here?

Come to think of it, R3Y doesn't do shit here but edit video. I say cut him loose and get someone who gives a shit about games and the culture. Or at least comment some.

I also didn't like BioShock, and I'm not trying to be "that" guy. The game just didn't suit my tastes at all.

I mean, it's clearly a very well made game, but the cliche's it contains, from deformed, ranting maniacs doing "crazy" things (like yelling about babies and stuff) while spooky forties music plays in the background, to the creepy little girls with glowing eyes talking about angels, and especially the Ayn Rand-ness, it all just reminded me of being back in art school... but in a bad way.

I spent four years witnessing people wasting their time making "art" that looked exactly like Bioshock (minus the amazing technical polish, of course), but meant absolutely nothing. Their stuff was almost always devoid of any original ideas, and instead was totally preoccupied by the need to keep up the "dark" and "twisted" image that the artists used to define themselves. It was conforming to a type of anti-conformity that was just as bad as regular conformity (not that conformity is all that bad, but you get my drift).

That experience was sort of scaring, like chewing fifty packs of Juicy Fruit in a day. Even though it's still a great brand of gum, I just can't chew it any more.

For this reason, I also can't appreciate Tool videos like I used to, or go to Hot Topic without sneering at least once.

Ah well, I guess I'm missing out.

@Jonathon: "from deformed, ranting maniacs doing "crazy" things (like yelling about babies and stuff) while spooky forties music plays in the background, to the creepy little girls with glowing eyes talking about angels, and especially the Ayn Rand-ness"

It's a cliche to you because you've dealt with it so much, that doesn't make it a universal cliche like a Cowboy with a 6 shooter or a Viking with a horned helmet. What is cliche about a mother, albeit a crazy one, crying over her dead child? Should people just not go there because mothers always cry over their dead children? What about the musical stylings of The Ink Spots? Should they not be used just because you think they are using it to be "eerie". Or the complete mind fucking of a little girl in to thinking she is harvesting light from the bellies of angels? Yeah, definitely cliche.

Pack my games with your cliches any day, because I haven't seen ANY of that shit in a game before Bioshock. Plus, I'm all for including ANY kind of philosophical thought in to games, Objectivist or not.

So many of the points were ridiculous. Like the light slider being used to "hide enemies". It's used to adjust the brightness on monitors and televisions because individual devices have their own preset contrast and brightness ratios, and the game could look very pale/dark on one T.V if they didn't provide the option.

Also, since when did objectives and exploration become "side tracking"? Like was said, Andrew Ryan is over every hill, making sure everything is as hard for you as possible, and there are almost no objectives that don't add something to the city, atmosphere, story or characters of the games world.

Your video was kind of funny at points but wreaked too much of trying to be funny by pointing out anything that seemed off to you. Also, your abrupt ZP ending does not suit this style of video; it's more like you just decided to end it there cos you ran out of shit to say, rather than being a defining point to end your review on.

Bioshock was over-hyped, definitely. But that doesn't mean it is not an absolutely brilliant game that redefined what shooters could be about when it was released. Some people say it was a dumbed down System Shock 2, and in a way, they are right. But anybody who has played SS2 knows that the game is not perfect either, and is in desperate need of a GUI mechanics overhaul, some more enemies, as well as a few other things.

Kind of a rant but meh. This video just seemed so labored to me.

It'd be nice to be able to play it. Too bad my 360's a piece of shit and won't play games properly.

@RonBurgandy2010

Good lord man, tone it down a notch.

First off, I played the PC version on hard, and if there was an option to turn the vita chambers off you can bet I checked it. As merely an above average FPS gamer I found that still piss easy, and after beating 4 big daddies with just the wrench I called it quits. It was an overly simplified, easied up, dumbed down rehash of a brilliant concept that was done far better years before. It's still solid and I still think it's worth at least giving a try, but I completely agree that it didn't deserve the praise it got (and only did because most of those people likely hadn't played System Shock).

And... the other comment I don't know where to begin. You need to write cblogs and comment a lot to be part of the community? I can think of plenty of staff who don't or barely fufill that criteria. I can't speak for Storm, but I do know R3y busts his butt making video content for the site and I rather enjoy the end results.

@Ron
Also, make sure you try System Shock 2. It's like a better, earlier Bioshock.

I didn't like Bioshock. I loved the atmosphere, the BASICS of the story and the god-damn-brilliant Cohen section, but besides those, it could have been a better book or movie. Please don't mutilate me.

And to the people attacking Storm: He said his opinion, he told some jokes. Don't rip him apart, rip his opinion apart.

I just don't understand why someone would play through a game twice if one of their opening comments was that they disliked the game when it first came out (unless I'm mistaken and misheard what Storm said).

I like to think I've got a good sense of humour but I personally didn't understand the humour on this video. Being a Bioshock fan (and yes I appreciate there are faults) I wouldn't play a game 2 years down the line if I knew I didn't like it when it originally came out. I don't find it funny, it's the equivalent of having a friend watching a film on purpose knowing that he wouldn't like it, just to harp at you about it because you did.

I got a 360 a couple of years into it's life and picked up Bioshock way after it came out (I'm mainly an FPS game fan). I'm a big fan of the steampunk style and I was really impressed with a lot of the ideas but yes some things were clunky. My own main personal gripes are when you backtracked through a section enemies would randomly respawn in that area. Although it did at to the atmosphere that you were never safe. The other being the slightly daft end fight.

Other than that I really enjoyed the game, when it's the first of a series (and has that feeling of hopefully not being the last) I forgive the makers if they get the majority right and a few things wrong. I can't expect the game to cater to everybody's whim - for me it's the gaming equivalent of the Sixth Sense. Without spoiling the game for those that still haven't played it, I felt that the twists (two majors anyway) really affected the game on the second play through from lack of choice (if you understand my meaning).

What I'm trying to say is give an older game a chance, 2 years is a long time in gaming and a lot of things change. I've just got a PS3 and I'm working through Resistance 1 at the moment. I think it would be a mistake to compare it to the current titles out there, as for it's time it was a fantastic game (and still is).

Is it me, or when someone voices their opinion, everyone come out of the woodwork to agree with them. It seems like here no one enjoyed Bioshock except for a select few people. Then who the fuck has been playing this game the whole time?!?! It's like we're all sheep or something.

I played Bioshock. I didn't enjoy it. I kept playing because I kept thinking that I "had" to enjoy the game and that I was missing something everyone else was seeing and eventually I'd figure it out.

I never really did figure it out. The game stopped scaring me after the early parts of Fontaine Fisheries when I realised the enemies who I was so scared of couldn't actually hurt me any more.

My ultimate problem was basically summed up in the review. I loved the story, it's just a pain that I actually had to go through the rigmarole of playing the game to see it. Because at the end of the day all combat fell to was "Shock, hit enemy with wrench. If enemy resists get a new rank of shock!!!"

But then, I'm also the guy that didn't like HL2. So maybe it's just First Person adventures that I dislike. (He says rating MP3 as the best game of the current generation)

Holy shit, guys. I liked Bioshock quite a lot and I thought this video was fun. It's his opinion, not the fucking end of the world.

You're trying too hard. You're not TAVGN and you're not even close to Yahtzee.

If you really want to piss all over Bioshock you should come up with something better. I'm sure it could be done, be hilarious and give us all some insights. Your video, however, failed.

Playing a game for the first time two years after it came out and calling it "overhyped" seems strange. I agree with some of his points, but after replaying this game a couple months ago I realized that it didn't age well. It was great for the year it came out and Im sorry you guys missed out on it. Im expecting the next video to be about how he just saw blade runner for the first time and that the special effects were totally lame.

@DaedHead8 - It's the same reason the XBOTS and Sony fanboys get angry when their respective system gets "slandered" even in the slightest, just way more specific.

Bioshock is a fun game indeed. I can't understand why so many people care what other people think about a single fucking game. In 10 years, this will be another game that faded into the wood-works. Buried under a sea of Bioshock sequels.