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  8. Posted

    Humble Bundle 11 is the deal you cannot refuse. I've got some extras to give away since I already bought the games.

     

    The Swapper

    Dust: An Elysian Tail

    Antichamber

    Monaco: What's yours is mine

    Fez

    Starseed Pilgrim

     

    If you want any of these, leave your name here and I'll send it to you. Only got one code for each. I'll check back in a day or two and if there's more than one person who wants a game I'll randomly distribute the game through the power of dice.

  9. Posted

    Tom Bissel ladies and gentlemen. Why does anyone else bother to write anything about video games ever?

     

    It will surely strike the non-gamer as unlikely that any game in which you stomp off the faces of fungal zombies could be described as "subtle," but you can, and it is, and there we all sit, thumbs firmly inserted into butts, on our different sides of the divide.

  10. Posted

    I haven't read anything in this thread post-release on account of the fact that I don't want to be spoilt, but I've played to the part where I was just pushed off an airship, and god damn it, I wish there was less combat in this game. Every time I come to a new place, I'm both amazed by the beautiful stuff everywhere, and saddened by the fact that it always has to be this fucking combat arena, and it's never any fun. The enemies have too much health, and I have too little ammo.

     

    Brace yourself. Pace yourself.

  11. Posted

    My fear with all these things is that the lesson taken will not be "we should totally do these themes properly next time" but instead will be "let's just do mechanics and not do themes". I would be sad if people gave up on trying to make games be about something specific rather than just "you're a dude in the wilderness and you can do these things, go" all the time.

     

    It does not excuse dropping the ball on themes, but it tempers my criticism somewhat.

     

    It would also be sad if all video games could do would be name dropping historical events while asking you to kill a thousand mans and looting their bodies for cakes and 3 dollars (while being hailed as the greatest achievement of the medium).

  12. Posted

    I used to like radio lab more. It seems to have become more forced the longer they've done it. The first minute of "are you sure?" just makes me want quit listening. They're trying hard with the editing and all I can think of is how hard they're trying. Not to mention the banter between the hosts is infuriating, on a recent episode Kraulwhich(?) could not stop giggling like a five year old. Horrible.

  13. Posted

    After exploding enough heads, Booker is taken to an alternate reality where the underclass of Columbia has risen up in rebellion. "These revolutionaries are as bad as their racist oppressors," says the deadliest serial killer in the history of human civilization, "because they are violent." Fortunately, the entire setting is erased from existence and nothing of consequence ever happens. Metacritic rating 95 (94 on Xbox).

     

    http://bphennessy.com/bioshock.html

     

    http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3733057.htm

  15. Posted

    The whole you're a ghost-zombie thing is basically an outgrowth of the would you kindly bit in bio 1 right? Bookers vocabulary of "put bullet in mans" is rationalized by the fact that he is quantum mechanically confused about his death? He is insane because he needs to be for the mechanics to work? Am I making sense?

     

    And yes, the Bio 1 bit at the end totally feels like it's throwing the fans of the first game a bone more than anything else.

  18. Posted

    Fin. (dont click that spoiler if you care about finding out yourself)

     

    Just kidding, here's the lighthouse from Bioshock. Multiverses & Time Travel! *Ken Levine takes off like a rocket*

     

    I kinda liked it.

     

    edit: Though it does tread a ground that I'm not fond of right now. The "look at what you did, isn't that kinda fucked up?" plot/point that seems to have been a evolution out of the original Bioshock narrative.

  19. Posted

    Late(?) game story stuff, confusion.

     

    What the shit is going on?

    Booker is dead/in a quantum mechanically confused state (and bleeding out of his nose)

    Brother Lutece was found in a grave, his sisters grave was empty

    Not far from the siblings grave there is a white suited Liberty Statue headed corpse

     

    Who does booker owe money? Related question, who can give orders to the lutece twins? Surely someone/an entity with INTERDIMENSIONAL travel dont take no guff from anyone.

    Why is booker/lutece special cases?

    What's the deal with the black and white closet/room? Is this lutece for whatever reason preventing booker from dying (you know except for keeping the game going)?

     

  20. Posted

    The second time I used the melee kill (by accident) Booker had already sprung Elizabeth, and as I watched my avatar of death drive a mini outboard motor into the neck and throat of this poor NPC I heard a sickened woman sputter "oh my god". Quit to desktop.

  21. Posted

    Story stuff

     

    Game has jumped the shark. I am now in a columbia where there are living dead people which bleed from their orifices because Elizabeth opened up a tear and we went through it. People who were killed in universe A remember being dead in universe B. Actually I'm sort of thinking Irrational Games is intentionally fucking with me. The G-man and woman is just to much to take.

  22. Posted

    re: handyman

    In one audio log (dont get me started on these) it's revealed that a man who got cancer from working in the tower got turned into a handyman because "I suppose a handyman is better than a dead one"

  23. Posted

    This sure is a video game. Very slight spoilers about some situations you're presented in Infinite:
     

    GAME: Loot all of this money/weapon/food being offered. First thing you can do in columbia: loot money left as offerings to a/the church.
     
    A little later:
     
    GAME: Don't you steal from this ice cream vendor or there will be trouble. That new gun on the wall sure looks nice but don't try taking it because that's naughty. Anything else that's not bolted down is fair game though.