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Bioshock 2

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    They intended to have Eli show the events in detail to the player via a sort of presentation, where he'd use a projector to show various footage and whatnot. In the end they decided it was too forced.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    god i love that comic so much

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  • FingerSlutFingerSlut __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    I dont recall that one, is there like a cool peoples only link with more comics?

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    the jigs' up, boys

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    It was a pretty good jig while it lasted.

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  • FingerSlutFingerSlut __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    There was a jig, and I wasnt invited? D:

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  • CorakCorak Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    FingerSlut wrote: »
    There was a jig, and I wasnt invited? D:

    Don't feel bad. Nobody even told me there were ANY comics. I thought this was just a self-standing forum. :P

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  • FingerSlutFingerSlut __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    Corak wrote: »
    FingerSlut wrote: »
    There was a jig, and I wasnt invited? D:

    Don't feel bad. Nobody even told me there were ANY comics. I thought this was just a self-standing forum. :P

    But you know now, and had access to said jig?

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  • FalstaffFalstaff Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    So I hear they're making another Bioshock. Someone should make a thread about it.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I think I've finally figured out how to play Bioshock, seeing as I'm now trucking around a full load of ammo for everything, a full wallet, and slaying Big Daddies for giggles because those fuckers don't stand a chance against a couple Trap Bolts, prox mines, AP ammo and a healthy dose of OH GOD BEES.

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  • 101101 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Once you get trap bolts Big Daddies go from being average in difficulty to being the lowest risk to you.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    101 wrote: »
    Once you get trap bolts Big Daddies go from being average in difficulty to being the lowest risk to you.


    Pretty much

    Shoot a trap bolt and giggle

    shoot another and giggle

    shoot another and giggle, repeat a few more times

    Yell out "Hey fatty!" shoot the big daddy in the ass with the revolver, and watch as he falls for your clever ruse

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  • RustRust __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    101 wrote: »
    Once you get trap bolts Big Daddies go from being average in difficulty to being the lowest risk to you.


    Pretty much

    Shoot a trap bolt and giggle

    shoot another and giggle

    shoot another and giggle, repeat a few more times

    Yell out "Hey fatty!" shoot the big daddy in the ass with the revolver, and watch as he falls for your clever ruse

    even better, get one at the end of a long hallway, line it with trap bolts, piss off the big daddy and then turn the corner as he rushes you

    odds are his dead body will coast to a halt just as it clears the hall

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  • ChanceChance Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Incendiary Bolts + Lightning for crowd control work great too.

    Or just electric buck.

    Or some turrets to draw aggro and anti-armor rounds in the machinegun.

    If you're going for the I Choose The Impossible trophy it's a whole new ballgame, though - especially with Rosies. You have to throw everything and the kitchen sink at them, and then hope you get really lucky.
    Rust wrote: »
    even better, get one at the end of a long hallway, line it with trap bolts, piss off the big daddy and then turn the corner as he rushes you

    odds are his dead body will coast to a halt just as it clears the hall

    I love when that happens.

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  • VeganVegan Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    101 wrote: »
    Once you get trap bolts Big Daddies go from being average in difficulty to being the lowest risk to you.

    I hear this a lot, and I don't think I ever used those. Yeah, I died at the hands of a lot of Big Daddies.

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  • StrikerkcStrikerkc Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Chance wrote: »
    ...If you're going for the I Choose The Impossible trophy ...

    Not familiar with that one, is it just another name the no vita chambers on hard acheivement goes by or something?
    Rust wrote: »
    even better, get one at the end of a long hallway, line it with trap bolts, piss off the big daddy and then turn the corner as he rushes you

    odds are his dead body will coast to a halt just as it clears the hall

    I personaly prefer letting them slide to a halt at my feet. Stepping around to corner is tantamount to expecting your traps to fail. :P

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  • EtiowsaEtiowsa Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    They threw in an extra difficulty for the PS3 version of Bioshock that basically made big daddies super ammo sponges capable of 2 shotting you. until you get the chem thrower and trap/incendiary bolts killing them usually required all the ammo you had on you, and the slightest misstep would end you real quick.

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  • SceptreSceptre Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    That was pretty much what they were like in the other versions too, as far as I can recall.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    So I just got to the point where I start tripping balls and having Plasmid issues. How close to the end am I?

    Also thanks to Scrounger + Clever Inventor my ammo usage makes Rambo look like a little bitch. I regularily get "Cannot carry any more" and "Your wallet is full" - and last session I started getting "cannot carry any more" on components, so I started crafting Heat-Seeking RPGs and using them on solitary Splicers because I can.

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  • StrikerkcStrikerkc Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    So I just got to the point where I start tripping balls and having Plasmid issues. How close to the end am I?
    Not a huge way from being done, I think you've only got one "zone" left.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Strikerkc wrote: »
    So I just got to the point where I start tripping balls and having Plasmid issues. How close to the end am I?
    Not a huge way from being done, I think you've only got one "zone" left.
    Well, two. Three if you count the, you know, the thing, as separate from the area right before it.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Strikerkc wrote: »
    So I just got to the point where I start tripping balls and having Plasmid issues. How close to the end am I?
    Not a huge way from being done, I think you've only got one "zone" left.
    Well, two. Three if you count the, you know, the thing, as separate from the area right before it.

    You bastards. I have actual stuff to do tonight, and now I want to play more Bioshock to find out what these things are.

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Strikerkc wrote: »
    So I just got to the point where I start tripping balls and having Plasmid issues. How close to the end am I?
    Not a huge way from being done, I think you've only got one "zone" left.
    Well, two. Three if you count the, you know, the thing, as separate from the area right before it.

    You bastards. I have actual stuff to do tonight, and now I want to play more Bioshock to find out what these things are.

    I'll tell you what they are.

    shitty

    nyuk nyuk

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Cram it, Frenchy, or you'll be getting a mouthful of bees. :x

    yes, i heard the ending was shit, but it can't be worse than Fallout 3

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  • RustRust __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    Cram it, Frenchy, or you'll be getting a mouthful of bees. :x

    yes, i heard the ending was shit, but it can't be worse than Fallout 3

    yes it can

    it really, really can

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    godammit I'm not french

    I don't even speak it well

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    DeMoN wrote: »
    godammit I'm not french

    I don't even speak it well

    You live in Quebec

    it's contagious, don't you know?

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Oh they made me take French classes

    but they could never take my freeedoooom

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Woo so I finished the game
    cool shitty ending, broseidon. Final boss was a fucking pushover - oh hey, here's a bunch of explosive ammo while I'm constantly setting you on fire/electrocuting/freezing you, oh I'm out of bombs, have a full clip of antipersonnel ammo that I'm just spray-and-praying, since I've got four more, that "alternate ending" linked a few pages is epically better, and goddamn. That may well beat FO3 for shitty shit shit endings, it definitely ties it.

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  • RustRust __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    Woo so I finished the game
    cool shitty ending, broseidon. Final boss was a fucking pushover - oh hey, here's a bunch of explosive ammo while I'm constantly setting you on fire/electrocuting/freezing you, oh I'm out of bombs, have a full clip of antipersonnel ammo that I'm just spray-and-praying, since I've got four more, that "alternate ending" linked a few pages is epically better, and goddamn. That may well beat FO3 for shitty shit shit endings, it definitely ties it.

    you can thank the suits for that whole shitty endgame

    they insisted the developers ram through a "traditional" boss fight and a morality system with multiple endings, so the whole final section was done half-assed

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  • CronusCronus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Rust wrote: »
    Woo so I finished the game
    cool shitty ending, broseidon. Final boss was a fucking pushover - oh hey, here's a bunch of explosive ammo while I'm constantly setting you on fire/electrocuting/freezing you, oh I'm out of bombs, have a full clip of antipersonnel ammo that I'm just spray-and-praying, since I've got four more, that "alternate ending" linked a few pages is epically better, and goddamn. That may well beat FO3 for shitty shit shit endings, it definitely ties it.

    you can thank the suits for that whole shitty endgame

    they insisted the developers ram through a "traditional" boss fight and a morality system with multiple endings, so the whole final section was done half-assed

    As long as we don't have to deal with it for the sequel. I've got to imagine they've learned after the player reaction to the first one. Though leave it up to the publisher to screw up the sequel too.

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I too am here to voice my disappointment in the final boss.

    SISSY PUSHOVER.

    That is all.

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  • CarcharodontosaurusCarcharodontosaurus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    About the final boss;
    I actually think it's really neat that Fontaine was a total pushover. It makes sense given how he operated; he always preferred to let others do his dirty work, and he would go to great pains to never be directly involved. He's like a gun runner who has never fired a weapon before but is still an extremely crafty businessman.

    When you catch up to him, he completely loses it. Splicing will make him better able to fight, so why not use all of them at once? It's like the gun runner deciding to defend himself by grabbing the biggest, scariest looking machine gun he can find and opening fire with it. The gun runner is going to break his arm, and be wildly ineffective because he doesn't know the first damn thing about properly firing a weapon.

    Fontaine, despite being in control of so much Adam, doesn't know how to fight with it. He's being forced to fight you because he screwed up royally; it makes sense that you can beat him so readily. You're more or less an Adam enhanced super soldier trained and conditioned from birth to be good at killing both conventionally and with Adam.

    The final boss fight is just a showcase of how far Fontaine has fallen.

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  • RustRust __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    About the final boss;
    I actually think it's really neat that Fontaine was a total pushover. It makes sense given how he operated; he always preferred to let others do his dirty work, and he would go to great pains to never be directly involved. He's like a gun runner who has never fired a weapon before but is still an extremely crafty businessman.

    When you catch up to him, he completely loses it. Splicing will make him better able to fight, so why not use all of them at once? It's like the gun runner deciding to defend himself by grabbing the biggest, scariest looking machine gun he can find and opening fire with it. The gun runner is going to break his arm, and be wildly ineffective because he doesn't know the first damn thing about properly firing a weapon.

    Fontaine, despite being in control of so much Adam, doesn't know how to fight with it. He's being forced to fight you because he screwed up royally; it makes sense that you can beat him so readily. You're more or less an Adam enhanced super soldier trained and conditioned from birth to be good at killing both conventionally and with Adam.

    The final boss fight is just a showcase of how far Fontaine has fallen.

    No, it's not. There's nothing symbolic or significant about it, it was just a rushed job.

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  • CarcharodontosaurusCarcharodontosaurus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Rust wrote: »
    About the final boss;
    I actually think it's really neat that Fontaine was a total pushover. It makes sense given how he operated; he always preferred to let others do his dirty work, and he would go to great pains to never be directly involved. He's like a gun runner who has never fired a weapon before but is still an extremely crafty businessman.

    When you catch up to him, he completely loses it. Splicing will make him better able to fight, so why not use all of them at once? It's like the gun runner deciding to defend himself by grabbing the biggest, scariest looking machine gun he can find and opening fire with it. The gun runner is going to break his arm, and be wildly ineffective because he doesn't know the first damn thing about properly firing a weapon.

    Fontaine, despite being in control of so much Adam, doesn't know how to fight with it. He's being forced to fight you because he screwed up royally; it makes sense that you can beat him so readily. You're more or less an Adam enhanced super soldier trained and conditioned from birth to be good at killing both conventionally and with Adam.

    The final boss fight is just a showcase of how far Fontaine has fallen.

    No, it's not. There's nothing symbolic or significant about it, it was just a rushed job.

    I never said it was symbolic.
    Fontaine's complete failure is directly presented to you. Seeing a man who has never had to fight before suddenly panic and essentially overdose on Adam to try to stop you is not symbolic.

    It may have been a rushed job, but that's not my reaction when I went through that section.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    My reaction was "hey, finally something that might present a challenoh what the fuck he's dead already."

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I just used electricity to kill the boss. It was the most anti climactic battle ever, since electricity stuns him.

    He was literally just standing there, only able to move when I had to reload..

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Maybe I'll load the save beforehand, switch to the Wrench-buff plasmids, and take him out melee-style. :P

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  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
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