BioShock Has Arrived
 

Alright, the title is a tad misleading, BioShock officially comes out tomorrow.

Who is planning on picking it up?

Make sure to post all your impressions here.

EDIT: Remember, BioShock is $49.99 for 360 and $39.99 for PC at Circuit City.

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Damn it, I wish I weren't in debt.

Tell me, what would you do, if you had the choice of either spending your next paycheck to spend about $2000 on a brand new PC to play BioShock, or using that paycheck to continue paying off school debts that won't be paid off until a year from now?

Answering just buy a 360 doesn't count. I don't want a 360.

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I am hoping to pick it up for the Xbox 360, I need to play through the demo first though to make sure I enjoy it. I'm sure I will though.

Downloading the demo now.

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I would buy a 3... well, ok then.

In all seriousness, I'd pay off your debt. Debt is the root of all evil.

Demo will be well worth your download.

Be sure to share your impressions after you've played it.

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if i can run it on my PC...i will go pick it up for 39.99...if not, then who knows

i'm going to see what happens i'm downloading the PC demo right now

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Yeah I think I will be prudent and continue paying off the debt. I never know when I may lose my job, so I want to pay it off as soon as I can. Right now everything I make minus some food/drink/girlfriend spending needs goes towards paying it off.

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I will be purchasing my copy for the PC first thing tomorrow. I'm downloading the demo right now. Not really sure why since I will be buying it anyway...

I'll post some impressions when I get a chance.

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I cant wait till I encounter my first Big Daddy.........

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Hm, I didnt know the PC demo was out. I doubt I can run it though...

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Well, I played the demo last night on my PC and it ran smoothly (35-45 fps) on my system. I was playing it at 1680x1050 with everything maxed out, which makes me very happy in the pants.

My specs at a glance so you can guesstimate your performance:
nVidia 8800gts 640mb
Core 2 Duo e6600
2gb of Corsair eXtreme RAM
Win Xp


One note, my CPU is set to overclock itself up to about 2.9ghz under heavy stress. However, I didn't overclock my video card at all.

Also, when I was installing the demo, it said that the game was optimized for a dual core system and that if you had single core you'd want in excess of a 2.6 ghz chip.

Otherwise, I liked the game very much. It has a great atmosphere to it. At many times I found myself just walking around looking at all the different random shit they put in there. The graphics are extremely beautiful.

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Do you have water cooling, or are fans enough? That automatic overclocking bit, is that a feature of your motherboard, or something with software, or what? Which mobo do you have?

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This game is awesome.

I have yet to encounter my first big daddy, haven't been playing for too long though.

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I bought it at lunch and FUCK does it look fantastic. Everyone here in my office agrees. We couldn't tell when the gameplay started.

I also got an "I PWN" hat because I bought it from future shop. Yeah, bitches!

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Well, it's not really a bug. It just the way it designed. I'm disappointed, but didn't even notice it when I was playing the game.

And manasecret:

I just have fans, no water cooling for me. My cpu runs fairly cool even under heaviest load (<55). It's a feature of my motherboard. It might also be on other mobos, nut sure. I have the Gigabyte 965P-DS3.

Bought the game this morning and have been playing it since. Fantastic. The Big Daddies can be quite hard if you don't go in with a plan.

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Yeah, I got beat pretty bad by my first Big Daddy. Eventually killed him though.

I've encountered my second one in a rather large room and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to deal with him yet.

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Argh, hearing you talk about it makes me want to play this game. Seems... epic.

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I <3 BioShock.

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I feel like I should be stuffed in a mental institution, because this game doesn't look remotely fun, or enjoyable to me.

It just looks like the same first person stuff, that's been hyped way too much.
Just like most other first person games.

Thanks lot, HL2.

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To be extremely objective, the game has been over hyped some, but it is still an excellent game. It's nothing earth shattering, but the environments are stunning, the story is excellent and the combat is solid.

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the sound cut out on the demo for me, but the game ran flawlessly with medium graphics at 1440x900 <3

so now i wait to see how big my next paycheck is...otherwise i torrent ;)

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VAMPY WANT

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Fuck Bioshock is awesome. I couldn't get enough of it tonight. I wish I had a whole day to just play it.

But I'm stuck playing Turok. I guess it's alright. :tiphat:

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Some guy that was searching for the PC version could only find the 360 and the demo versions.

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How often do you get all those things nowadays though?

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Has anyone been able to unlock Cohen's music box?

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i bought the game, woo, i just got to my first big daddy....definitely beatable, just going to require a bit of strategy

i'm playing it on hard and it's definitely providing a challenge, i rescued one of the girls but i might harvest her in the interest of picking up something useful....otherwise, the fire eve is awesome

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No... save the little sisters!

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demonoid has a legit torrent i think, but i don't mind supporting good developers and it looks like lots of hard work and time went into the game, it's very polished. the other thing is the game needs to be web activated, and that's too much trouble when you can just get it at circuit city for 40 bucks :p

ha, maybe i will, maybe i will....apparently if you save a few you'll get some good stuff

my only complaint about the game so far is that the shotgun feels underpowered, i'm so used to the shotgun blowing away my opponents in one shot at point blank range...but it's hard to hold a grudge when you can set things on fire!

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Yeah... it's worth it to save the little sisters... (don't want to spoil anything here though). It also makes you feel like a better person.

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As I patiently wait for everyone else to finish the game... I just want to say, the game has one bad plot twist and one good plot twist in my view.

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You played 20 hours already?

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I've got it maxed out on my new PC. I'm really enjoying it so far, very entertaining. But I'm at work, so really can't sit typing for long enough to give impressions.

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3 way big daddy fight........................... amazing

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Well Ive been doing a bit of research on the PC version, and theres a big bunch of people seriously pissed off that you need a Pixel Shader 3.0 capable graphics card to play this game. According the the polls that valve runs through steam, over 40% of gamers have a card that is not 3.0 capable, and thats a lot of people. Sounds like a lot of the ATI's produced over a year ago dont have it (mine included), apparently ATI decided to stick with the 2.0. This is despite the fact that many of these cards are actually more powerful than cards that can play the game, only because they support 3.0. This has to make you wonder, especially with the whole "Nvidia: The way its meant to be played" nonsense, if Nvidia had something to do with this. There is hope though, some guy got it working with a patch he made in about an hour...some textures missing, ect, but its apparently playable. Anyways, hopefully 2K games gets off their lazy asses and just releases a patch that fixes the problem.

On a side note, I did play the demo on my laptop, which has an Nvidia, and it was fun, but it didnt run too well...very beautiful though.

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I was meaning to ask, did you figure it out?

Status report: Im just entering Ryans place. The game is amazing so far.

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I got it. Spoilers below:







There are two options to deal with Cohen after he tells you to go away. You can either kill him or let him live. Killing him now gives you the key to the music box, but you can also let him live and encounter him again later in the game. (You get certain achievements by not killing him initially that you can't get if you kill him right away)

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Yeah.......


Creepyiest part in the game IMO


SPOLIER






Is that crazy doctor who wants to create the perfect person.

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How far are you now Fox?