BioShock just went from "This is all a bit implausible, but fair enough" to "Holy shit this is nonsense".
Having player Bioshock and Bioshock 2, I can't say that I'm getting my hopes up. They were mediocre at best.
BioShock is far from a "landmark" game. It just got so much attention because it tried being a story-driven modern FPS instead of a plain shooter - and it did that mostly by just having you look around for old recordings. The gameplay remained a plain and generic shooter. Like I said, generic shooter in a pretty wrapper. It just stood out because none of the other games tried to focus on the atmosphere or story.
I still feel a need to defend Bioshock here, though. I think the whole Objectivism schtick in the first game was excellent. I think that felt fresh, in the way it was all presented. The way it was defended from the outlook of characters, rather than having an omnipresent observer's judging view as a red thread throughout the game, which many games that do include storytelling aspects of politics and philosophy do.
Could've been done better, but it takes a certain mindset to even get into the mood properly, for which I do salute the developers. On the other hand, they shoehorned dualistic "morality" into the whole thing. So while I'm not by far a fan of Bioshock, it does have some nice aspects to it (apart from visuals, which I carelol for).
Kev Levine even said in retrospect everything after the golf club scene sucks.
If the game had ended then and there, with a swing of the golfclub, I can say that I would likely have lauded Bioshock as a creative masterpiece.
I don't care if people would've raged. It would've been absolutely awesome, underlining the entire story.
I'm beginning to wonder if anyone on these forums even likes video games. First no one likes Bioware games, now people slam one of gaming's landmark games.
I don't see how it's a landmark game, unless you were born in the late 90's.
