DL'd it for the X360 last night. Very atmospheric. As a scientist, the notion of plasmids as presented in the game is completely bonkers, but I'll roll with it given the even more WTF idea of a 50's style US city under the freakin' ocean! I like the way the game asks you to set the brightness based on making a dark-grey box juuussssttt visible against a black background, without telling you that means the game is going to be Doom 3 levels of dark. Dragging myself out of the ocean after the plane crash (all the while accompanied by gasping at the numbing cold) then entering the strange lighthouse only to have the lights suddenly flash on so I'm facing a giant statue with a banner proclaiming "There is no God, only Man" scared the f**king crap out of me. Then being stuck in the bathysphere while the creepy hook-handed dude gutted the guy outside... shiver. Felt better for having that wrench in my hand. And whoever came up with the idea of the Little Sisters is a genius. Creepy little girls with sing-song voices are always good in horror, especially when they harvest energy from the dead. I'm preordering this baby.
I am eagerly waiting for the PC demo to see if my computer can actually run this, the instant I know I can run it I will be hitting the purchase button on Steam.
Yes, but it'll kick the ass of all but the most modern of computers. I'm waiting on the demo before purchase to ensure that it will run nicely on mine. By the way, the underwater city is Art Deco in style, and that predates the 50s by about 30 years . Makes sense though in terms of the game's chronology - the city would have had to have been established for a pretty long time. Art Deco lends itself remarkably well to fantastic environments and a very mechanical sort of reality. From everything I've seen, this game will probably be the most vicious lashing of Libertarianism that I've ever seen. Hell, it even includes some very nice poking at Ayn Rand in the demo alone - the guy who leads you along is named Atlas (and I can't help but be suspicious of him considering his similarity to Polito from System Shock 2), and the antagonist in the game - Andrew Ryan - has a very similar sort of name to Ayn Rand.
There have actually been protests from some people of the political leanings portrayed in Bioshock. Not because they feel misrepresented, but because they think the idea of a society following their beliefs ever failing to be an impossibility.
Forgot to mention this, but yeah. As soon as I saw one in the demo, I shuddered and said, "Oh fuck, now this is the kind of shit that scares me." God, if there's ever like a flock of them all singing in unison, I really probably would go cower in a corner.
Yeah, and ten quid cheaper than the X360 version, according to Amazon preorder Still getting the 360 version - at least I don't need to check to know it'll play.
OH downloaded it but, before we got a chance to look at it, the 360 packed in. Again. Bloody Microsoft.
I just finished playing the Bioshock demo, I turned a couple of settings down but it still ran quite nicely on my ageing pc (3ghz Pentium 4, 256mb 7800gs, 2gb ram) I will definitely be picking up this game.
I already have my copy on preorder, I tried the demo this past weekend and played it through a few times so I could fully explore it and the possibilities even in the limited section of the world. My sense of self preservation never did allow me to just stand around in that glass tube while it filled with water. Though I ask, did any of you spot the 'little girl' that backs away from you in one of those holes high on the wall? Can't really explain at which point she is, but I noticed it on a subsequent play through- her pinkish-red eyes faintly glowing at me and growing dimmer as she backed away into the dark, away from me.
Dammit. Checked my finances, looks like I'll have to wait to get this one. I just can't afford fifty dollars now.
Try telling that to the makers of the game. I think the funniest thing about it all is that Rapture was in most intents and purposes to be Libertarian utopia and in some manner or another it will take a Capitalist hero to save it.
Check your serial number. Send it back to them, tell them you want a brand new XBox360.. Check serial number when you get it back and make sure it's not the same. Only advice I can offer... I've only had mine break once, I think.
Played the demo. Looks really great graphically. Tempted to buy it. The graphics (using dx10) are amazing. I was able to put everything on high settings and it ran like a dream. The demo didn't have options for AA though, so I don't think there was any anti-aliasing enabled. I was playing at 1650x1050 though, and the environments are pretty dark with lots of great lighting and water effects so I couldn't really notice any jaggy edges. Didn't have fraps running or anything like that, so I couldn't tell you fps #'s. On my C2D E6600 with 2GB of DDR2 800 and a 8800GTS (320MB), I didn't notice a single hiccup. I had problems changing resolution at first though... ended up taking the demos suggestion and grabbing the 164.44 beta drivers for my graphics card and it cleared up that issue.
If you search for the information on how to do it you can force AA using the latest beta ATI and Nvidia drivers that were released with the Bioshock demo.
Easy to do using nvidia or ati control panel... I just didn't bother to do it. I'm just saying, the game (or at least the demo) has simpler-than-normal graphics options. So it wasn't immediately clear to me whether picking the highest settings enabled AA, and if so what level, same thing with AF. I could force settings using the driver control panel but it looks pretty amazing as is... plus HDR effects dont always play well with AA.
