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BioShock demo up on XBL!

  • KungFuSquirrel
  • August 13, 2007 at 3:50 AM
  • ReNo
    • August 22, 2007 at 12:34 PM
    • #81

    Yeah, companies really need to get widescreen sorted out. Sure, most games work fine, but I've played a few that don't now. Bioshock seems to be getting a lot of flak for it, but I finally got around to finishing Condemned last night and I felt that had a really small FOV when running in widescreen, and I had a shot on King Kong not so long ago and that seemed to suffer from the same problem. Maybe I'm imagining it, but they both felt extremely constricting.

  • Defrag
    • August 22, 2007 at 5:50 PM
    • #82

    I don't really get it either, ReNo. It's not like it's rocket surgery to get it right. Maybe when it's wrong it's just the case that a programmer just kinda hacked it in and thought it looked fine without thinking too much about it, but actually ballsed-up the calculations?

  • KungFuSquirrel
    • August 22, 2007 at 6:59 PM
    • #83

    Official comment now seems to be that they actually expanded widescreen vertically to fill 4:3, rather than the other way around. The FOV is narrow either way you look at it, as many non-twitch shooters tend to be. Even HL2 pulled the FOV in from the usual 90.

    I usually get pretty uppity about FOVs being too small (Halo 2 drove me insane), but playing 720p on the 360 feels fine to me. Tricky thing is, in games where we're rendering real-time on the fly, we actually can just add more to the screen in addition to cropping things out, so I think people are going to freak out either way. Don't think it's as huge an issue as it's being built up to be though.

    Also, this game is damn good. Like, first playthrough of Half-Life good. Holy shit.

  • dux
    • August 22, 2007 at 7:31 PM
    • #84
    Quote from KungFuSquirrel

    Also, this game is damn good. Like, first playthrough of Half-Life good. Holy shit.

    Now that's a claim

  • Izuno
    • August 22, 2007 at 8:11 PM
    • #85

    played it today on 360. So far I like it but haven't played enough of it yet. I would actually like to try the PC version...

  • Mazy
    • August 22, 2007 at 9:01 PM
    • #86

    Yeah Izuno, I saw that (DAMN YOU!).

    Tried the PC demo on my work machine, ran a perfect 60fps with all details on and in the max res. Didn't even have to update my gfx drivers (it does have some fairly hefty specs tho...dual something ) . Does look slightly crisper than the 360 version, but dammit I wanna lie down while playing!

  • WD
    • August 23, 2007 at 12:01 AM
    • #87

    Haha I tried to run bioshock demo with my x850 which doesnt support 3.0 shaders, I was amazed that I didnt get any errors when I ran it. Though when I got to in game I only saw black with lots of blue cubes in my screen and only sprites was correcly drawn

    I'll definitely gonna buy this game when I update my pc

  • KoKo5oVaR
    • August 23, 2007 at 8:32 AM
    • #88

    Cool game yeah yeah... still. I'm afraid the warez version will be more convenient to use than the legal one, at least on PC .. I'm not sure that all this totally stupid activation system will have the effect they wanted it to have at the first place.

    Basically, when you buy the game, you got the right to 2 activations. And to get one back, you have to uninstall the game properly. What if your pc crashes because of a virus or if you've forget to uninstall bioshock before formatting your computer ?

    => Things like this happens :

    [Blocked Image: http://www.nofrag.com/images/00311b.jpg]

  • dux
    • August 23, 2007 at 8:40 AM
    • #89

    Yeah people are really raging big time at 2k on the forums about it.

  • Rick_D
    • August 23, 2007 at 9:14 AM
    • #90

    hmm, that looks fail..

  • Thrik
    • August 23, 2007 at 10:34 AM
    • #91
    Quote from Mazy

    Does look slightly crisper than the 360 version, but dammit I wanna lie down while playing!

    http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_ ... 3&cl=gb,en

  • Mazy
    • August 23, 2007 at 10:37 AM
    • #92

    Hah yeah, I'd definitely have to try it out before I'd even consider getting one

  • Thrik
    • August 23, 2007 at 11:09 AM
    • #93

    Let us know if you ever do. I wouldn't mind being a bit more relaxed when playing PC games, but don't really want to risk a wad of cash on it when it could not be that good.

  • dux
    • August 23, 2007 at 12:02 PM
    • #94

    Installing

    See you guys in a few days haha.

  • dux
    • August 23, 2007 at 12:33 PM
    • #95

    http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6177330.html

    Wow, 2k are shit at their job.

  • Mazy
    • August 23, 2007 at 12:50 PM
    • #96

    [Blocked Image: http://www.gearcritech.com/images/update051205_xbox360.jpg]

    Nuff said

  • KoKo5oVaR
    • August 23, 2007 at 12:52 PM
    • #97

    I feel it so wrong to buy a console to play fps, it's just .. out of my ethic !!

  • dux
    • August 23, 2007 at 12:52 PM
    • #98

    And to that I say

    [Blocked Image: http://www.wordsoup.com/blog/kid-middle-finger.jpg]

    And what koko said.

  • ctswin
    • August 23, 2007 at 12:58 PM
    • #99

    My problem with that Mazy is this...

    [Blocked Image: http://custardsclutter.com/update051205_xbox360.jpg]

  • -HP-
    • August 23, 2007 at 1:03 PM
    • #100

    BioShock PC - You Only Install Twice

    http://kotaku.com/gaming/more-bioshock- ... 292222.php

    zomg

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