Bioshock Infinite - the $200 million 6 hour literally on rails interactive movie with guns thread

[dnf]

YAY! I beat it!

Still. You are full of shit for calling the game "fucking easy" in 1999 mode.

COD is pretty hard at veteran too, but that doesn't make it a good game

Doesn't make it a bad game either... What's your point?

I'm not nearly as taken back by the story as the other reviewers, but I like the gameplay: As a shooter, it is faaar superior to Bioshock. And in 1999 mode, I have been starving for resources, which is rewarding in itself.

Its a design flaw. Bad challange ballance break the game.

 

[Cyberarmy]

It's not, because Citizen Kane was not the BioShock Infinite moment the film industry is waiting for.

 

[Borelli]

Bioshock 1 leaned more towards classic fps instead of CoD type

So does bioshock infinite. But what COD did by not allowing you to carry all of the games weapons at once at all times, was an incline.

Well the PROPER thing for Bioshock would be to use System Shock/Deus Ex inventory system so that you could carry as much weapons as the grid allows. But that would fry consolepeople brains (and controllers).

 

[skacky]

I have 1,200 bucks and died a couple of time, but it is still ridiculously easy, sorry. This is nowhere near the Impossible difficulty in SS2.

you are officially FULL OF SHIT! HOW THE FUCK do you beat the last wave in the good time club, where you at first have to fight against two turret missiles, and one walking turret missile with infinite health and then two FUCKING BALLON TURRETS at the same time as you lower the health of the walking missile turret, killing you in ONE second if you expose yourself to fire, which you will because it is impossible to find cover fucking ANYWHERE. Seriously, show me how you beat this "ridiculously easily", upload a fucking video. Or you will be forever known as a twatty liar. I've user 10 lives and have had to reload 4 times by now, doing the entire fucking longass fight over and over again, and I am FUCKING PISSED

That part was harder than previous parts, but still easy. Get to where the medkits are, sit there with the handcannon (this gun is completely overpowered) and shoot the heads of everyone who's coming. This is important since a headshot with it is lethal. Once the patriot appears, run up and down and shoot him in the back. Simple as that.

Wait until you meet the Mr. Handymen, these are challenging until you discover how to beat them super easily. They had me scratch my head for a while, which is nice.

 

[aris]

I have 1,200 bucks and died a couple of time, but it is still ridiculously easy, sorry. This is nowhere near the Impossible difficulty in SS2.

you are officially FULL OF SHIT! HOW THE FUCK do you beat the last wave in the good time club, where you at first have to fight against two turret missiles, and one walking turret missile with infinite health and then two FUCKING BALLON TURRETS at the same time as you lower the health of the walking missile turret, killing you in ONE second if you expose yourself to fire, which you will because it is impossible to find cover fucking ANYWHERE. Seriously, show me how you beat this "ridiculously easily", upload a fucking video. Or you will be forever known as a twatty liar. I've user 10 lives and have had to reload 4 times by now, doing the entire fucking longass fight over and over again, and I am FUCKING PISSED

That part was harder than previous parts, but still easy. Get to where the medkits are, sit there with the handcannon (this gun is completely overpowered) and shoot the heads of everyone who's coming. This is important since a headshot with it is lethal. Once the patriot appears, run up and down and shoot him in the back. Simple as that.

Wait until you meet the Mr. Handymen, these are challenging until you discover how to beat them super easily. They had me scratch my head for a while, which is nice.

What? If you stay in one place, you will get obliterated by the grenade thrower. One direct hit by the grenade pretty much one shots you. And he will throw it over to where the medkits are.

 

[skacky]

They didn't throw their bombs behind the counter in my case, they landed in front of it. Guess I was lucky. If it can reassure you I did die a couple of times in that area.

 

[Metro]

I've watched citizen kane... I have no idea how this is supposedly is the best film ever made...

Because it's more about the techniques the movie uses versus the actual writing and acting (which is still good).

 

[abija]

Number of weapons you can carry is pretty irrelevant btw, proper weapons are usually strategically placed. Some designers are probably congratulating themselves for finding a new way to give "subtle" hints to the player about how to approach the encounters.
It's not a bad shooter though, at least on 1999 (as long as you don't expect soul crushing difficulty like they advertise). Just had to tune out all their retarded emotional shit and enjoy shooting stuff in pretty locations. Nothing special either, standard shooter with good graphics and level designed raped by console limitations.

 

[Turisas]

Number of weapons you can carry is pretty irrelevant btw, proper weapons are usually strategically placed. Some designers are probably congratulating themselves for finding a new way to give "subtle" hints to the player about how to approach the encounters.

I just used the machine gun and sniper rifle throughout the whole game, because why the fuck not. Those and Murder of Crows (better range than Bucking Bronco, plus keeps them still instead of floating around which makes them easier to hit) plus occasionally Shock for those crow-immune types, made every encounter pretty easy. Except towards the end where the devs apparently forgot to place item vendor machines (instead there were 4-5 weapon upgrade machines in a row, all offering the same crap I already had o_O) - that made things a bit interesting.

 

[aris]

I found an exploit that basically break the game. I was doing the handy man boss fight, which is also tough as hell, but found out that I could beat him easily by just standing by a vending machine and keep buying 20% health, to get infinite vurneability as long as I had enough money together with the item that gives you brief invurneability. I did feel bad after doing that though, since the map was chock full of things that I could have used to my advantage. I don't think I will use this exploit any more.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Got a vid for that?
Seems more entertaining than Bioshock Looper.

Edit: someone edit posters of Bioshock with Bruce Willis' face and shit.

 

[skacky]

Resumed my game. I have heard people have been having trouble with the following part (Memorial Gardens/Emporia Downtown):

Spoiler

It is very easy to kill Elizabeth's mother's ghost. Take a handcannon and a repeater and get to where you can spawn the crank gun. Crouch behind a pillar and avoid fire from the other parts. Kill the ghosts as they spawn. Wait for Comstock to get near you and shoot her in the head with the handcannon. Repeat until you're out of bullets with both the handcannon and the repeater. Spawn the crank gun, kill any ghost who comes near and repeat with mother Comstock until she's dead. You may need to melee one or two ghosts to conserve ammo. Voila.

However the levels become a lot better near this area. Less linear with lots of things to explore.

EDIT:

Spoiler

The two other fights against her are even easier. In the fight in the bank, get upstairs, run around her goons and shoot her in the head when she's about to hit you. Stay away from her when she materializes, she hurts. Kill the ghosts if they get near you. If you're out of ammo get to the vending machine and buy some. The handcannon is as usual the perfect weapon for this.

For the fight before her house, stay in the corner with the vending machines and don't move. Kill the flak guy as fast as possible and shoot other ghosts in the head if they get near you. Shoot her when she materializes to summon new ghosts and repeat until she's dead. HOW DIFFICULT.

 

[Melan]

I found gaudaost's review:

The part where Kane decides his new girlfriend is a super-talented singer, builds her a million-dollar opera house, and decides all his money and newspapers can make the public forget she can't actually sing? That's totally a Bioshock Infinite moment.

 

[Jack]

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[WalmartJesus]

So apparently this game includes the same awful story-telling mechanic as Bioshock where everyone leaves their innermost thoughts lying around on tape recorders for the protagonist to pick up. So much for gameplay evolution...

To be fair, System Shock 2 also did this.

 

[potatojohn]

This game sucks. I really hate the clownish aesthetics and the plot is beyond retarded.

It's better than Tomb Raider though.

 

[evdk]

To be fair, System Shock 2 also did this.

Sure, but SS2 actually offered you a good game to go along with it.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

So apparently this game includes the same awful story-telling mechanic as Bioshock where everyone leaves their innermost thoughts lying around on tape recorders for the protagonist to pick up. So much for gameplay evolution...

To be fair, System Shock 2 also did this.

On a military spaceship on a groundbreaking mission, where one would expect the disciplined, well-trained crew to be keeping meticulous logs of events, and where said logs could usually be found in their quarters, on their corpses or in important areas. It's evidence of Bioshock's talentless "me-too" design that they thought that would transfer sensibly to an underwater city where random civilians get overwhelming compulsions to scream into jukeboxes about Bible importing and throw them into plant pots.

 

[Lancehead]

Yeah, the audio tapes in BioShock games were too contrived. A lot of the time it doesn't make sense why they recorded that, or why that tape is where it is.

 

[aris]

Has anybody found a way to open the goodie room crypt in lady comstocks cemetary? I haven't found the third rift yet, will it be available after that?

 

[evdk]

On a military spaceship on a groundbreaking mission, where one would expect the disciplined, well-trained crew to be keeping meticulous logs of events, and where said logs could usually be found in their quarters, on their corpses or in important areas. It's evidence of Bioshock's talentless "me-too" design that they thought that would transfer sensibly to an underwater city where random civilians get overwhelming compulsions to scream into jukeboxes about Bible importing and throw them into plant pots.

Lot of the SS2 logs was left at some pretty illogical places too. And it had overabundance of the "oh no, you've killed me" kind.

 

[DakaSha]

A friend of mine from college pre ordered this for my birthday (he just knows i like games a lot) and i ended up messaging him that eh shouldnt because it blows.
I'm not sure if hes mad at me now or not

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

First game was a pretty average corridor shooter. Not trying to be [too ] edgy; I did finish the game after all, and it was probably more entertaining than most shooters... yet, the glowing reviews it got are completely lost on me.

This looks better though. Is it an improvement of popamole or not?

 

[Admiral jimbob]

On a military spaceship on a groundbreaking mission, where one would expect the disciplined, well-trained crew to be keeping meticulous logs of events, and where said logs could usually be found in their quarters, on their corpses or in important areas. It's evidence of Bioshock's talentless "me-too" design that they thought that would transfer sensibly to an underwater city where random civilians get overwhelming compulsions to scream into jukeboxes about Bible importing and throw them into plant pots.

Lot of the SS2 logs was left at some pretty illogical places too. And it had overabundance of the "oh no, you've killed me" kind.

They definitely weren't perfect, and a couple of them were certainly a bit artificial or unnecessary, but on the whole, I think they were a good addition to the game that didn't often feel out-of-place. Bioshock had a scant handful of decent ones, I guess - I can't remember any, just that it did manage decent atmosphere in a couple of areas - but most of them were utterly stupid and senseless. There was just no reason for them to be in the game as a whole except because System Shock 2 did them first, and the context is too radically different for it still to work.

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

Yeah, the audio tapes in BioShock games were too contrived. A lot of the time it doesn't make sense why they recorded that, or why that tape is where it is.

Ken Levine stresses the importance of not letting story elements get in the way of people who just want to shoot stuff. Which is interesting considering Half-Life 2 and Overlord Newell's games are much better at 'environmental storytelling' than Bioshock's "everybody keeps an audio journal at the bottom of the sea" subtleties.