Quote from duxAre you serious dude? xD
lol
edit: does he smell good
Man you two can be real dicks sometimes. What's wrong with him asking that as a question?
Chill out guys, you should know me by now, I wasn't being a dick, or not trying to be one anyway.
Anyway, peace. 
Quote from PogoPHaha!
I always thought it would make more sense if she threw you a little sack full of coins or something, rather than one coin. Took me a while to realise she was handing me more than 1 dollar!
Ahah, yeah me too.
Just finished the game, took me around 30+ hours. 
I'm glad I decided to play 1999 mode on my first play through, it made the game really challenging and I died just enough times.
This was a really special game, what a mind blowing and rare experience! Grabbing my favorite kind of game, (fps rpg) and wrap it around a really good story. I loved how rich and alive the world feels, you really feel you're in this city with its own twisted culture and beliefs, and I loved how you were there before everything went to shit, so you actually got to see the beauty and majesty of Columbia. I mean, the city breads believability, electronics all have a brand, and so does food, clothing, alcohol, tabaco, etc. I love how themed everything is, everything makes sense and its not only there to fill up the environment. From FINKs crates to Prophets propaganda props.
Another thing Irrational Games nailed once again, was what I like to call environment storytelling, the way dead bodies were placed and the destroyed stuff around them, if you take a second to absolve the room you're in, you can really picture what happened in there with you're mind. I like to all this the "half eaten donut moment" from the movie Aliens, you don't always need to tell a story, just present pieces of it, like puzzle pieces, and people will put it together in their minds, and IG artists and designers always excelled at this, it is so inspiring for me.
It really felt that the artists made the art of the game to support both the gameplay AND the story, and not only to make a pretty game, and for those who work on the games industry, you know how challenging that is!
Gameplay wise, I gotta say the combat is loads of fun! Weapons feel really good, and I found myself using a wide range of weapons through the game, but ultimately I used the Sniper/RPG combination the most. Enemies and AI are smart and challenging enough, Melee and shotguns guys strike at you while rifle and other dudes take cover and whatnot. Overall I found the combat really rewarding and fun, this is a shooter after all so I'm glad they made it compelling to just shoot at bad guys.
I gotta say though, the Vigors in the game are really poor. I found the Plasmids in Bioshock a lot better somehow and I found myself using pretty much all of them, whereas in Bioshock Infinite I pretty much only used a couple, and rarely. 
Bioshock gave you a lot of temptation to use the plasmids, well placed oil puddles, water puddles, Telekinisis to get unreachable stuff and other things. Maybe the levels in that game were smaller and easier to design/play with plasmids, but still...
Another thing, the game never really forces you to use the Vigors, I remember in Bioshock they made you use the Electro Bolt to open certain doors, Fire to ignite certain areas and open frozen doors, etc, etc. On Infinite Vigors are exclusively used for combat, maybe they did that to simplify the game, make it more mainstream, along with the idea of removing hacking and lock picking.
Also, I kept waiting for that big moment when you had to fight the all mighty and feared Songbird, but that moment never happened, in fact, its curious how this game doesn't have many bosses, I can only think of one, Lady Comstocks ghost. You have those mini-boss guys with the crows and the handymans, but still, bit of a wasted opportunity there for a badass boss scene when Songbird kidnaps Liz and take her to Comstock.
And speaking of Comstock, anyone else think his death was extremely anti-climatic? You slap his head and drown in a water puddle? Again, wasted boss potential there, I was expecting the final fight with the Prophet to be one of a kind.
Still in the subject of bosses, wtf was that last boss scene? If I can call it that? They just trown enemies and Motorized Patriots at you, and that's it!! No epic climax boss scene... In Bioshocks last boss scene, they make you fight Atlas, this big ass mutated motherfucker, and the game makes you use all the Plasmids you've got to be able to beat all the stages of the boss, which is awesome cos it makes you use everything you learned during the game, where's in Infinite you just get normal enemies being trown at you... Again, wasted opportunity for a epic climax!
Bioshock was one of the best and the most memorable games of the last decade for me, Infinite builds on top of that legacy and makes it better in many many many ways, unfortunately it was also a bit streamlined in many ways.
With that being said, this was one motherfucking awesome game that will live in my memory for many years, if not ever! I might have sounded overly negative or critic, but it was only because I care about it so much and was able to see the tiny flaws of it. I can't praise this game enought though! I'll be playing it a second time soon for sure, and I can't wait for the dlcs, curious to see what they'll come up with.
Oh... And the end cutscene, with the plot twist and all, you being a younger version of Comstock, walking on Rapture for a few seconds and ultimately dying by Elizabeth's hands?! Wow... Just, wow.
Quote from PogoPDoes Ken have much of a presence in the office, Vivi? Just curious what he's like out of the public eye
Are you serious dude? xD
Quote from PhilipKI'll get killed here now probably, but... As someone who really didn't like the first Bioshock, I tried to play through it several times but always just made it a couple of hours in before I was completely bored with it. I enjoyed looking at the environments but that's about it.
Would there be any point for me to look into this game? I kinda want to for the art again, but I definitely don't wanna pay full price if I'll dislike playing it as much as the first one
There's always the option to wait a while and pick it up when it's cheap, but I'm even doing that less and less with games if I'm just interested in looking at the art and don't enjoy a min of playing it, just don't cut it anymore I guess... Same with movies.
With that said, it does look fantastic
I think they "fixed" that in Bioshock Infinite, there's always something to look forward to in the game, level after level the plot really gathers your interest. And of course, you'll really learn to love Elizabeth. It's one of a kind game, wait for the price to go down if you dont wanna pay full price, but definitely don't skip it.
Quote from PogoPWho is Teddy?
Is he the guy who made dDo, nDo etc? I think Pontus lived with him for a while.
Yes!
I met him yesterday, he dropped by to see the blizzcoreans! Such an honor to meet the guy!
For the first time ever I decided to give tonnermapper a go and try bracketed photography, mostly thanks to Chris Kay who kinda convinced me this is actually a really good way to do great photos if you dont overdo it. (Which is shamefully what people tend to do)
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The Village - Mirador Pool by HelderP, on Flickr
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He's too cool for you sheep
Wow, this is all over the internet!
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Thanks man, It's good fun!
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PhilipK, Sentura, Minos, Marcio (friend of ours, ex cryteker), Thurnip, 2d-chris, Ivo (RnD at Crytek) and me
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) OT i know, but seriously guys, Doom3 was a gem. It might be a rough around the edges gem, but a gem nonetheless.
Rage was a great game, it just had a rushed and rough launch and some bad design decisions, this one in particular is a highly underrated game in my opinion, mostly because of both those reasons, which really is a gigantic shame.
People are just too picky nowadays, and extremely spoiled.
