Comments on: Bioshock: Patched At Last

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:30:28 +0000

yay.

Finally got it to work, finished the game last night. Ending was ok but can you tell me if there are alternate endings because it…erm….wasn’t quite what I expected.

Replay possibility? meh out of ten i think. maybe huh out of ten if there is another ending to see

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:10:41 +0000

nope uninstalled – reinstalled, repatched same problem.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:19:45 +0000

I love co-op, and in many games I’d be champing at the bit for its inclusion. Bioshock just doesn’t really seem like an appropriate game for it, though.

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:09:17 +0000

Jeremy hit the nail right on the head with regards to co-op. Why is it that we had it for so long, and then lost it? Quake, Rainbow Six (pretty much every version until it showed up on consoles, bizarrely), System Shock, Perfect Dark (original and Zero), and then, what Gears of War? Not only was that the most buggy co-op FPS I’ve ever played, it wasn’t even worth playing. Cover is one thing, but requiring it for every single fucking kill? Count me out.

Somewhere along the way, it was decided that games needed massive budgets to make them have unplayably-ugly bloom or some shit, and that actual control and playability were a distant 3rd priority.

I’d rather have an ugly game with great controls and co-op than a pretty game with mediocre controls and SP and deathmatch.

By: kuddles

kuddles — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:55 +0000

The real depressing thing about this patch is how they had to conform to the pressure. A developer finally makes a game that takes advantage of widescreen monitors, and they got torn to shreds for doing it.

By: Mr Wonderstuff

Mr Wonderstuff — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:07:37 +0000

Wish I had originally played this with the new FOV setting on my 360 (you realise how cramped it was before – the new setting seems more natural and not like you are looking through binoculars).

By: Bob Arctor

Bob Arctor — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:48:07 +0000

What’s wrong with a game that is great first time but you don’t really care to replay?

I don’t mind. I’ve seen most of it, I had a great time, now I can play the many other games I have to play.

By: LSNDuck

LSNDuck — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:42:30 +0000

Jeremy, you are right indeed (as is Funkula). I have a good gaming friend, and we regularly play together. We both much prefer co-op gaming over DM or other competitive modes. We have battled through all three Sams on Serious, Lego Star Wars, Baldur’s Gate, and yet there are so few games out there that encourage co-operation. System Shock 2 is next on our list, but then the hopeless search for another game starts again.

More please developers.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:15:51 +0000

Another big ‘meh’ for Bioshock from me these days too. Enjoyed my first play-through but replaying it with a patch? Nah.

It’s just a silly little jolly-bobble for giggly baby-men.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:11:35 +0000

this is pissing me off!
when will people get this through their heads!

The original game was widescreen it was developed for wide screen monitors, the team desided when the aspect ratio was not 16:9 to add screen content to the top and bottem of the screen thus providing the fairest experiance since the vertical FOV is less important than the horizontal.

people moaned about it because they don’t understand or they think widescreen is better in some way and that they wanted extra content over square monitors god damn it or whatever thier stupid point of view was.

Irrational responded by saying it’s correct the way it is anyone who wants a bigger FOV for widescreen is gonna get an artificicially wide FOV but we’ll shove it in the patch to shut you up.

thus the pictures on videogamer are correct the borders on the top and bottom are the extra borders added for 4:3 users (which morfs the image on screen in a way it was not intended) and the new borders on the sides are added in the patch to let widescreen guys see more of the action.

i realise i’m talking to myself here, i wish irrational had released it with 360 degree FOV and then told you all to just block out the parts of your screen you don’t want and then you can all get the FOV you want!

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:42:06 +0000

Ahh right so the UK version of the patch is not actually the UK version. Clear as mud. So a reinstallation is on the cards for me then.

Annoyingly I was very close to finishing the game, tbh part of me isn’t entirely sure whether I want to waste the time doing so.

What I don’t get is that on both patch versions it points to Bioshock.exe. being in the wrong location

By: Funkula

Funkula — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:55:38 +0000

I realize this is nothing like what you’re talking about, but Serious Sam had the best co-op ever.

Ever.