I really do enjoy first person sneakers more than first person shooters. Figuring out interesting ways to deceive an AI is usually a lot more fun than thinking up different ways to shoot an AI. I've been playing through Bioshock, and I am throughly enjoying the lovingly crafted art and art deco everythings, But even compared to system shock 2 I'm finding myself displeased at the way it's dumbed down.
As a PC gamer I reflexively think that any game on a console is going to be more geared to a beer swilling idiot than a borderline savant like myself. In both SS2 and Deus Ex (made by Ion Storm, who you forgot to include in your struck out list in that other post) forced you to make moral decisions, and also forced you to make strategic decisions favoring combat, engineering, or superpowers.
Despite having a potent and interesting story, the gameplay of Bioshock involves only one moral choice, kill little girls or do not kill little girls. It's not much of a conundrum. Also you advance in power with your supernatural abilities, engineering abilities and combat abilities all at the same time so there really is no strategic reason to choose between them.
The story and art are beautiful, but it's a mystery that involves shooting my way to the answers, which was never really my favorite kind of detective work. I do like some level of violence for exhilaration, as a penalty for a screw up, but combat is pretty much the only way to solve a given problem in Bioshock.
I *Love* the theif series. I've got 1, 2, and 3, and regularly replay them, just because they're so weird and moody and special.
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Date: 2007-09-04 07:39 pm (UTC)As a PC gamer I reflexively think that any game on a console is going to be more geared to a beer swilling idiot than a borderline savant like myself. In both SS2 and Deus Ex (made by Ion Storm, who you forgot to include in your struck out list in that other post) forced you to make moral decisions, and also forced you to make strategic decisions favoring combat, engineering, or superpowers.
Despite having a potent and interesting story, the gameplay of Bioshock involves only one moral choice, kill little girls or do not kill little girls. It's not much of a conundrum. Also you advance in power with your supernatural abilities, engineering abilities and combat abilities all at the same time so there really is no strategic reason to choose between them.
The story and art are beautiful, but it's a mystery that involves shooting my way to the answers, which was never really my favorite kind of detective work. I do like some level of violence for exhilaration, as a penalty for a screw up, but combat is pretty much the only way to solve a given problem in Bioshock.
I *Love* the theif series. I've got 1, 2, and 3, and regularly replay them, just because they're so weird and moody and special.