~Grey Forks

[zarla]

SO RIGHT

MAZE

Drove all over LA getting lost with and without ubivat, which isn't really a surprise at all because I have no sense of direction. As funkicarus will tell you. I GET LOST VERY EASILY AND ALSO CAN'T FOLLOW DIRECTIONS

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[illix]

I know! I spent much, much longer playing that game than any of my friends because they just blazed through it and I spent forever examining every single room and investigating every nook and cranny and finding every audio diary, etc. etc. The game designers clearly invested a lot of time into getting every detail right and really thinking about everything.

There were a couple of times when I got jumped by Big Daddies, usually when I was fighting someone else and accidentally hit one of them, when I just pulled out the grenade launcher and fragged them to death. But by and large I felt that if one were going to kill these things, one ought to do it right. And after the game designers spent so much time on the environment, it'd be a crime not to use it.

Yeah I definitely...I did not see that particular twist coming. I actually noticed the phrase but didn't think on it any further than figuring it was some kind of dialogue affectation. I figured there would be a dramatic plot twist, but not of the kind that actually happened. I did guess correctly who the final boss would be, and quite frankly I still wish that they...okay, spoilers past here for any random passerby who hasn't played the game yet (what the fuck are you doing? go play it). I really thought that Atlas should have been real, that he should have been who he said he was, but starting after Neptune's Bounty he should have gone more and more into a revenge kick that ultimately messed him up far more than Ryan or any of the other splicers, and at the end of the game he's threatening to bring the whole city down or something and you have to stop him. I like the idea that everyone in the game went mad for something, like Steinman for beauty and Cohen for art and Ryan for ideals, but Atlas goes mad for love and vengeance. It would fit perfectly with the whole arc of the city itself, that anything created idealistically can be brought down, that even the most magnificent city or honorable, heroic person can go wrong when strong emotion combines with unchecked power - that if we're really given the ability to do anything we want, we turn into horrible, distorted caricatures of ourselves. Really, Bioshock is a singularity fable. A lot of people don't look further than the objectivist/libertarian commentary (which is also very interesting) but at its heart Bioshock scares us because we can see that sort of thing in our own future - even our own present - the power to do those kinds of things, and we aren't sure that humanity will be able to handle that.

But then I suppose we couldn't have gotten that one epic line of Fontaine's at the end that summed everything up so perfectly: "Betrayal, kid...life ain't strictly business."

Erm, sorry. Went a little overanalyzing there.

Oh yeah, in Fort Frolic there were all these plaster statues, but when you hit them blood would come out and you realized Cohen had gone around covering real people in plaster :o
Fort Frolic had some really creepy moments for me, like the part where you're in the ice hallway and suddenly Cohen comes on the radio and goes "Iiiii can seeeeee your bre-ath~" like a five year old and aaaaaaaaah
and the big room under Sinclair Spirits that had all these dressmaker dummies in this wide open space and some stuff at the other end, so you went over to pick up the stuff, but while you had your back turned splicers would run in and knock the dummies over and stand in their place and freeze when you looked at them and then as soon as you turned away RUN JUMP LEAP MURDER

[zarla]

Haha that's true, I probably should have put more thought into killing the Big Daddies come to think of it. BUT IN THE END I DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO KILL THEM ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO WATCH THEM INTERACT WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND EVERYTHING
hahaha i had no idea that they called the little sisters out at first, i just followed one and watched it all :> and then i was shocked to see that when it knocked on a wall, a little sister came out :o I HAD NO IDEA
and how they throw the little sisters behind them to protect them if you attack them, awwwww

yeah, it wasn't something that you'd pay a lot of attention to offhand. :O I know I didn't. My friend actually pegged the guy as lying pretty early on when we noticed a poster for a play that had two characters that shared the same name as his wife and son, and he was like DON'T TRUST THAT GUY, HE'S OBVIOUSLY LYING TO YOU, DON'T TRUST A WORD

NO DON'T BE SORRY I'M INTERESTED IN THIS SORT OF THING :D it makes me wish I'd played it more recently, haha. It's all a bit vague for me now. I should really play through it again, but my brother has the 360 so I can't. Although he's playing through it himself slowly. :O Haha he got too scared by the nurses at that one point to continue though, hahahahaha.

OH MAN I FORGOT ABOUT THAT THAT WAS SO FREAKY :OOO man i wish i could remember more of the gamenow aaaaa

[illix]

I KNOW RIGHT just follow them around and watch them. It was so much fun to watch everything interact with the environment. One of my favorites was the splicer couple dancing in Sander Cohen's apartments in Olympus Heights; I watched them for a couple of minutes...before I lobbed a frag grenade at them. But still.

THEY LIVE IN THE AIR DUCTS APPARENTLY no wonder their knees are all dirty. Yeah I loved it when they would like throw the Little Sisters up on their backs and the Little Sisters would be pointing at you and shouting encouragement to the Big Daddy.

HMMM WAIT I TOTALLY MISSED THAT ONE. I was a bit suspicious but the story made sense given the signs we'd seen of a resistance to Ryan so I totally bought it ;_; I'm a sucker I guess.

You should! You can get it on PC too. I don't actually have an Xbox 360; there isn't anything I want to play that I can't also get on PC, except maybe ODST and that isn't worth getting an Xbox for.

BWAHAHA the NURSES scared him?? Wait until he meets the spider splicers :D that reminds me of the time my sister bugged me and bugged me until I let her play the game; she started from the beginning, getting more and more creeped out, while I sat down next to her with a big glass of chocolate milk in hand to watch the show. Long story short, she of the horror movie enthusiasm completely LOST HER SHIT when the very first splicer lunged out of the darkness towards her, totally freaked, arms failing, panicked screaming - hurled the controller clear across the room - and poor little me ended up with chocolate milk everywhere.

ONE DAY I NEED TO MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO OUT OF THAT GAME. I've been meaning to make one for a while; I have a song picked out and everything.