Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 08:53:35 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:46:14 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Bioshock Remastered

Bioshock is a game that I was hugely disappointed in although part of
that is my own fault as I bought into the hype surrounding it so much
that I even pre-ordered it.

It started off well but to me it became apparent that although the
setting was interesting it really was just another shooter. The much
touted gameplay videos of setting up elaborate traps, well that's fine
but why go to all that effort when you can just shoot them in the face.

Yeah, the pre-release hype was outrageous for this game. There were a
lot of comparisons to "System Shock", and everybody expected a sandbox
as deep as that classic game. But it was such a shallow experience
(despite being set miles underwater) that it couldn't help but be
disappointing.

It didn't help that I played this game shortly after I played "Dark
Messiahs of Might & Magic", which also relied heavily on environmental
traps as its primary gimmick. Certainly "Bioshock" had its own unique
aesthetic, and that helped carry it along (although -as I've never
been a fan of Art Deco- not as far as it otherwise might have in my
case :-). The combat was dull, the boss was awful, the minigames were
annoying and even in 2007 I was getting thoroughly sick of the "tell
the plot only through notes scattered about the level" mechanic that
too many games relied on (and still do, to this day).

"Bioshock" wasn't a bad game in any way. But it wasn't the second
coming that it was promised to be.

The twist in the middle of the game was neat, though.