Comments on: Diablog: Bioshock 2.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:09:34 +0000

Now that you mention it I never did feel scared during Bioshock. It’s not even that SS 2′s persistent sense of creeping unease wasn’t present, it’s that the game didn’t even attempt to replicate it. Like they looked at SS 2 and thought the most important part of the game was the simple existence of the voice diaries rather than using them to supplement and build on the unsettling atmosphere of the thing.

By: Anton Kassimov

Anton Kassimov — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:31:12 +0000

I really wanted to like Bioshock, but having played System Shock 2 prior to Bioshocks release, I just couldn’t. The RPG survivor/horror elements of SS2 were just lacking.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:26 +0000

Can’t say I particularly liked the first Bioshock either. It just felt too… too faux. It was overcrafted in its attempt to tell a story and I don’t think it really worked. It had a decent sense of place design, but it never felt enticingly plausible to me.

And I also thought that the story was pretty naff. And as a shooter it didn’t really work.

I’ve had this sitting in my steam account for over a year now and I’ve not got round to playing it. Probably won’t at all now I guess…