I picked this up for $5 during the steam sale also, between this and having bought Stalker for $5 a couple weeks earlier I’ve been having a blast.
I’ve just entered the Tea Garden section, not really sure how far into the game I am at this point. The atmosphere is great and I’m finally getting more used to switching plasmids/weapons/ammo types on the fly. My only complaint so far is that the guns have a somewhat floaty feel to me, though the more I play the more I’m getting used to it.
My one question so far, how the hell do you use the proximity mines? I’ve picked up enough that I cant pick up any more, but I cant find a key that lets me use them?
Thanks
shang
1902
You can’t place them by hand. They are special ammo for a certain weapon.
dermot
1903
They’re one of the ammo types for the grenade launcher - you need to switch to that weapon and then swap the ammo. I have no idea how you go about that in the PC version though.
metta
1904
That’s remarkable, considering how fucking snarky he is here on these boards. Personal growth? Or did The Broodax take him over and begin posting for him?
Ahh gotcha, thanks! I just got the grenade launcher and havent used it much yet, guess I just didnt notice the other available ammo type.
metta
1906
Bioshock is one of my favourite games of all time. Even the final battle couldn’t sully what had come before it.
Right from the start, when I arrived in Rapture and the splicer, whose attention my diving bell had caught, whispered “Is that someone new?”, I was hooked, and I loved every moment I spent creeping around down there, teeth chattering, on the very coast of panic.
We bought a 360 explicitly for the promise of three games - Bioshock, Assassin’s Creed, and Mass Effect - two out of the three are classics for me.
Rimbo
1907
I bought my 360 for Bioshock alone.
Of course, I’ve since enjoyed Oblivion, Mass Effect, the Orange Box, Rez, Geometry Wars, Uno, Penny Arcade Ep 1, and Fallout 3 on it.
Oh, and Earth Defense Force: 2012. It made me a better person.
Quitch
1908
I give backlash… an WTF is with the italics, is this a Bob joke? :)
For me it’s that the story and atmosphere really drive the first half, but after that you begin to notice that this is an FPS, and it’s not very good at being an FPS. And mini-games continue to suck. Unless you’re Space Rangers 2, because that game makes passionate love to me and has no flaws. None. At all.
Damn. ARISE orginal BioShock thread! here are images of concept art from the failed movie project:
More here: http://jimmartindesign.co/bioshock.html
I so hoped for a movie on this, I remember the talk about it a few years back. Sad.
So this is making the rounds:
That is a cover from a 1973 Japanese sci-fi magazine.
Wow, the little girl really looks the same.
geggis
1913
Why didn’t we get those really horrible looking little girls? They just seem so much more fitting. It would have been cool if saving them backfired on you too. Take that do-gooders! You’re in above your head!
geggis
1914
Oops, new reply instead of edit.
Very cool. Anyone know the contents of the magazine? (i.e., the story the cover refers to?)
(Scratches head) Tentacle pron?
geggis
1918
The comments mentioned these:
That July 1977 issue contained:
Assorted short stories and articles by Hiroshi Manabe, Aritsune Toyota, Kôichi Yamano, Tadashi Kôzai.
Two manga : One by Tezuka (Birdmen Anthology) and an Shôtarô Ishimori/Kazumasa Hiirai collaboration (shin genma taisen).
Various short stories by US SF authors :
“Please Stand By” by Ron Goulard
“Someday” by Isaac Asimov
“Into Thy Hands” by Lester Del Rey
“Grandpa” by James H. Schmitz
“Murder Will In” by Frank Herbert
The magazine is still published, too.
and:
From the Abyss is a main story featured in it, a translation, originally written by two Russian authors who mainly deal with works dealing with utopian society and Communism. (since they were living it at the time.) Sound familiar? Their main body of work known is called World Soul.
To which someone replied:
From the Abyss is from the April 1973 issue. Every SF magazine had a reader rating that appeared three months later. Looking at the April issue (http://kfactory.shonan-seashore.net/SFhtmls/SFM_19…) it looks like it’s a story about a conversation between an astronaut and a computer in the “abyss”. Not sure if it (or what) directly influenced the cover art but no doubt the stories/authors had some kind of influence.
That’s as far as I read before I couldn’t take any more!
Just an FYI. The remastered versions of Bioshock 1&2 are appearing on STEAM now. Should show up in your library if you own either of the original games.
LockerK
1920
Sigh. I’ll wait a few weeks to see if they fix the PC version. Bioshock 1, at least, is a mess.
