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[camwyn]

I got Bioshock Infinite the other day. Started playing last night; I just got to Battleship Bay.

Congratulations, 2k Games. Fallout America is a less disturbing setting. I didn't think that was possible.

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[varadia]

Now I really want to get this game. And the first Bioshock.

And play Fallout 3 again, only for real this time.

[camwyn]

I'll be honest, I wasn't all that thrilled with the first Bioshock. I mean, interesting game, neat setting, funky mechanics, but I got no sense of the character at all. And the morality was kind of 'Mother Teresa' vs. 'Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells', despite all the talk about difficult choices. Still a pretty cool shooter, though.

[themightyspazz]

I'll be honest, BioShock Infinite is great, but BioShock 1 will always have a special place in my heart, flaws be damned. I guess something about the setting appealed to me? Plus there's the running theme of sacrificing your humanity to survive in Rapture vis-a-vis the plasmids, and you don't really get that sense with the Vigors.

[camwyn]

See, that was part of the problem for me- the sacrificing your humanity aspect just wasn't there when I played it. I couldn't feel a sense of personhood from Jack, so there didn't seem like there was any humanity there to lose in the first place. And I was trying to get a sense of the character.

I don't know, maybe it was just me.

[themightyspazz]

I know Ken Levine was trying to deconstruct the fundamentals of FPSes and Mission Control in BioShock, so maybe he meant for players to project themselves onto Jack? I dunno.

[camwyn]

That's entirely possible. I wound up deciding after the fact that it was actually pretty brilliant, considering what you ultimately find out about Jack- I don't know how much Lynne's played or read of the game so I'm not going to say. It's just that while it makes sense, given what we know, it didn't really 'catch' me.

[themightyspazz]

Everything up to Battleship Bay is nothing. Wait until you get to the Hall of Heroes.