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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Flint on August 26, 2007, 09:58:03 PM

Title: Bioshock
Post by: Flint on August 26, 2007, 09:58:03 PM

Words such as revolutionary, next gen, developers should be worried .. etc have been bandied about.

Only came on sale recently in the uK, gotta say I love it.

Have fond memories of the HL2 thread, come on you fps'ers, anyone one else like it?

Title: Bioshock
Post by: jam83 on August 27, 2007, 04:09:20 AM

i think its to easy

Title: Bioshock
Post by: Nilsen on August 27, 2007, 04:11:19 AM

Ive seen som fairly impressive gameplay videos. The visuals looks great, but im not sure if its something id enjoy playing. Dont think my laptop is powerful enough anyway.

Title: Re: Bioshock
Post by: Ack-Ack on August 27, 2007, 05:25:42 AM

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Originally posted by Flint
Words such as revolutionary, next gen, developers should be worried .. etc have been bandied about.

Only came on sale recently in the uK, gotta say I love it.

Have fond memories of the HL2 thread, come on you fps'ers, anyone one else like it?

Great game, although the PC release is a tad buggy.  I like hypnotizing a Big Daddy and enraging another one just to see them fight it out.  It's like an epic 10 minute slug match.


ack-ack

Title: Bioshock
Post by: nuchpatrick on August 27, 2007, 08:21:03 AM

Its seems like a good game, I DL the demo off XBox live. I just hate things that jump out of the dark. Even if its a silly game.

Title: Bioshock
Post by: Terror on August 27, 2007, 09:58:23 AM

The rumors that it installs RootKit (http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/08/24/213256.shtml) type behaviors as part of it's copy protection software (SecuROM) I will be skipping this title for now.

Any software that hides directories, intentionally makes malformed files so they are hard to delete, and puts uneditable/deletable registry keys in place is software I don't want on my PC.

Terror

Title: Bioshock
Post by: Engine on August 27, 2007, 11:18:38 AM

Yep, there's a huge firestorm about the SecuRom copy protection on the Bioshock and Steam forums. It's such a hassle for legitimate customers, who have to call both 2kgames and SecuRom if they have a simple installation problem. I bought it anyway, but I don't like it. :)

I wish I had more time to play, but I spent about two hours trying to get a decent framerate (1.7Ghz Athlon, 1GB RAM, 6600GT), and trying to figure out why I kept crashing every time I tried to switch levels. Downloading the recommended nVidia drivers seemed to solve this problem, which is caused by using a high-detail shader (or blooming, I forget which) graphics option when changing levels.

While trying to figure this out, I had to visit their forums, which is an inferno of complaints about game crashes, glitches, and technical bugs. I do think the game is buggy on the technical side, but if you can get it working you're golden. Gameplay looks bug-free so far.