i wish there was an option between yes/no for bioshock. because it's an important game. but my god, it's aged so badly. while the art direction still holds up, it's not the looker it once was, and the remaster does butcher some aspects. the combat feels so floaty and imprecise and mushy. none of the guns or plasmids feel great. the story is.....rapture both goes deep on subjects you wouldn't expect for the time, but it never goes deep enough (a recurring trend with AAA storytelling tbh) and all that is really memorable is the Twist. and the twist is fine, i guess? like, yeah. you did some meta-commentary. congratulations. the levels themselves can sometimes be really great in their theming but i wish there was more of a sense of the day-to-day in rapture. i can't escape the feeling that bioshock needed to happen so we could get past it and onto better things (like real immersive sims such as dishonored). i will say, the challenge room stuff (formerly ps3 exclusive) is really fun and i did enjoy the psudeo-director's commentary, even though ken levine comes across as a clueless idiot at times (he is). i really don't know if you need to play bioshock. there are better games. but if you must, it's not the worst thing in the world, i guess.

i wish there was an option between yes/no for bioshock. because it's an important game. but my god, it's aged so badly. while the art direction still holds up, it's not the looker it once was, and the remaster does butcher some aspects. the combat feels so floaty and imprecise and mushy. none of the guns or plasmids feel great. the story is.....rapture both goes deep on subjects you wouldn't expect for the time, but it never goes deep enough (a recurring trend with AAA storytelling tbh) and all that is really memorable is the Twist. and the twist is fine, i guess? like, yeah. you did some meta-commentary. congratulations. the levels themselves can sometimes be really great in their theming but i wish there was more of a sense of the day-to-day in rapture. i can't escape the feeling that bioshock needed to happen so we could get past it and onto better things (like real immersive sims such as dishonored). i will say, the challenge room stuff (formerly ps3 exclusive) is really fun and i did enjoy the psudeo-director's commentary, even though ken levine comes across as a clueless idiot at times (he is). i really don't know if you need to play bioshock. there are better games. but if you must, it's not the worst thing in the world, i guess.