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[Let's Play] Bioshock! FIN
TVs_Frank
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I got mod permission to make this Let's Play. Get permission to make your own.
BioShock and What it Be!
Bioshock is a game about wrenching Splicers, mutated humans who've spliced their genes too much through the miracle of Plasmids and Tonics. The game begins with our character, Jack, crashing into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean near a lighthouse. This lighthouse is our only refuge and leads down to the underwater utopia-turned-dystopia Rapture, and we get to see a giant whale so that's cool too. Soon afterwards, we get bossed around by Atlas so we'll try to help him out since we have nothing else to do. Maybe we can escape with him when he gets everything sorted out.
Why Make a Let's Play?
Because I said so. Want to fight about it? Okay then. Bioshock was one of the most memorable games to come out last year and won many awards, including my heart, the most coveted award of all. It's modeled after System Shock 2, taking many elements and themes directly from the game. It's also got great art direction, story telling, and a power that shoots bees at people.
I'm going to make this as interactive as I can. If anyone has votes on which plasmids/tonics I should use then let me know. There are only two exceptions to this. The first is, don't vote on Telekinesis because I always use it. It's one of my favorite plasmids so I always keep it in. The other is, I'll always have hacking tonics in to make hacking as easy as possible so don't vote on engineering tonics.
Welp, this is my first Let's Play with commentary and hopefully it won't be too lame.
The Vydias!
Welcome to Rrrrrapture!
Learning to Shock Bios!
Medical Pavilion
Doctor Assisted Homicide Part 1
Doctor Assisted Homicide Part 2
Neptune's Bounty and Smuggler's Hideout
This Level Has Crabs Part 1
This Level Has Crabs Part 2
Arcadia and Fairmer's Mairket
There's Nothing Funny About Plants Part 1
There's Nothing Funny About Plants Part 2
Fairmer's Mairket
Greenpeace Incarnate
Fort Frolic
Being Sander Cohen Part 1
Being Sander Cohen Part 2
Hephaestus
Disney's Last Stand Part 1
Disney's Last Stand Part 2
Olympus Heights
Girls in the 'Hood Part 1
Girls in the 'Hood Part 2
Apollo Square
In the Ghetto Part 1
In the Ghetto Part 2
Point Prometheus
Luring Little Girls Out Part 1
Luring Little Girls Out Part 2
Proving Grounds and The End
FIN
Eeeeevil Ending
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Or what would load of it anyway, Google video doesn't seem to like me.
Also, I'm going to ask right away: are you considering uploading videos to other sites that allow for higher quality video? I've had good experience with Stage6.
I would have, but Stage6 appears to have disabled uploading for the time being due to hacker problems.
This is an awesome BD.
e: oh, you mentioned Stage6 problems already. Okay then!
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I agree, the game volume was a bit low.
This is yet another one i'll be watching regularly. Thanks for doing it, TV's Frank, i'm looking forward to it.
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Tell me about it. For a while the site was re-directing to rather unpleasant places. *shudders*
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But since my video card is out of commission for the foreseeable future, I will be watching this in lieu of actually playing Bioshock
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Generally, there is an unspoken stature of spoilage regarding Let's Plays in that games are left alone for the first 12 or 18 months of their existence. But who am I to question progress?
I think Something Awful's rule is 6 months minimum, which will be hitting in a few days.
Also, I don't think I can get the volume any higher because of the stupid way I'm recording game audio. I'll see if I can figure something out.
Six months on SA indeed, but usually unspoken as longer with game that have significant spoilers that are better when played than seen. This was mainly due to LP threads originally made to chronicle games that people passed over. But enough of this talk! HAVE AT YOU.
(Godspeed).
I really enjoy the game. It's not "hard", and I wish there was more variety in the bad guys (as it is they either disappear, shoot fire or run around and try to whack you). Most can be killed pretty easy once you have a good stock of plasmids and weapons, and boss battles are virtually nonexistent. Of course the gameplay in and of itself is fantastic, and hooboy if this isn't the most crackerjack story ever.
And oh man - is this game gorgeous. I started playing it on an SDTV and it looked good; I then tossed it in on my HDTV months later, and damn. Spent almost an hour backtracking and running around and looking at all the water and level design I had already completed.
RE: Game volume. I never had a problem here.
Good ol' Warhorse.
Yeah the game's enemies can get pretty linear but your in for some cool stuff later on. Plus some goddamn cool scenarios to move around in and not to mention
It was a stick.
IMO the game makes up for it by having so many ways to deal with them. There's more enemies than it seems too, they're all similar humanoids but differently equipped.
Next part's uploading now.
it's bad enough that SimBen hasn't made a Suzanne Vega joke yet in his Chrono Trigger LP. "My name is Luka!"
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I dunno, maybe after Polito I have issues, but...
I figured Atlas was an alternate personality of Andrew Ryan, given the names chosen for both. So I was slightly surprised. Really didn't see the "would you kindly" twist coming, though. Shame I was barely involved in the game enough to care.
Not quite done - I'm turning myself into a Big Daddy. Or something.
In non-spoilery news, the game doesn't feel like SS2 to me. I've been thinking about it, and would like other opinions - my own is that it feels like a cross between Thief and Doom.
Doom for the enemies, and how the levels, while distinct, at least appear connected; Thief because of the way enemies interact with you - that is, they run for health (read: help) - and the art style reminds me of Thief II.
But I think your right; SS2 was a very different game
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Edit: The upload messed up so wait until I upload it to Stage6.
re: your spoiler, why would you trust anyone, ever? especially in a game that is akin to SS and SS2?
be Fox Mulder. Trust No One.
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Satans..... hints.....
Well damn...I guess it stopped uploading abruptly because the original is fine. Sorry guys, just wait till I upload it to Stage6 then.
And part B is just plain 'Not Available' for me.
Nope. They both cut off abruptly but I'm uploading them to Stage6 right now so they'll be up later tonight.
What's KTMA? I'm guessing it's the cable station they started on right?
Yeah, it was a bit more improvisational back then so the riffs weren't as constant, but it had its own kind of ramshackle charm. (This is the big nerd bragging point that Minnesotans get to pull out every so often: "I saw it back in '88 when it was on a UHF station!" The station even showed unMSTed original versions of some of the movies weeks after they'd been shown on MST3K.)
Adventure!
Luggage?
Great work so far! Your comments are hilarious.