Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
edited December 2007
God damn it
Now I can't load my saved game
It just crashes to desktop and I get that "Bioshock.exe has encountered an error" thing
This could be due to the patch or it could be due to the fact that I had to revert to the latest drivers rather than those shitty beta drivers that made all the fences neon green in CoD4
So, I don't want to dig up and bump the old Bioshock thread... is it explained at all why Andrew Ryan decides to
have you kill him?
I'm currently in Olympus Heights, just knowing that it does get explained would be sufficient.
According to one friend's opinion....
He simply had no reason to live. Rapture was in ruins, his plans all gone to hell. He probably wanted to go out with a bang, taken out by his own son.
Yes, it is rather obvious the main guy is Ryan's son.
What I'm still trying to figure out, though, is what Fontaine meant after he revealed himself to you when he said.
"For a time, I was even a China-man."
At first I thought it meant he was impersonating Suchong, but that doesn't quite fit.
I didn't really delve too far into the backstory, but what I took out of it:
Ryan was testing your will to see if you could choose to override the mind control implanted into your genes. "A man chooses ... a slave obeys." He expressed disappointment that you could be so easily told what to do -- remember that he kept telling you to "would you kindly walk around" and generally pulling you around like a puppet. He was giving you one final chance to resist the mind control and use your own free will to not kill him. Of course, you can't overcome it, but I think the mere concept of involuntary action repulsed him.
The key here was the phrase "A Man chooses... a Slave obeys." Ryan didn't die because he had nothing left to live for, or to allow the player to resist, but so he could choose to die rather then be killed by Fontaine with the player as a proxy. With his death Ryan sees himself as the man and the player as the slave.
On the note about the patch I will not be happy until they add in the teleportation plasmid.
ITT: People complain that paying customers get prefferential treatment.
Maybe because they used to be able to download free stuff, but now are being penalized, because they aren't gold, you don't have to be an ass about peoples opinions.
ITT: People complain that paying customers get prefferential treatment.
Maybe because they used to be able to download free stuff, but now are being penalized, because they aren't gold, you don't have to be an ass about peoples opinions.
But they have every right to do it and a legitimate reason. I pay for my subscription, do you? No? Then why should you get many of the same privileges I do?
ITT: People complain that paying customers get prefferential treatment.
Maybe because they used to be able to download free stuff, but now are being penalized, because they aren't gold, you don't have to be an ass about peoples opinions.
But they have every right to do it and a legitimate reason. I pay for my subscription, do you? No? Then why should you get many of the same privileges I do?
You used to have to pay to have any live subscription at all, back in the days of the OXbox.
I think that Silver Accounts were a great idea, but I've been paying 50 bucks a year since April '04, and I think that I deserve to get a little more for that over the folks who don't pay a cent.
edit: and NO ONE is being penalized here. Silver members aren't getting it late, Gold members are getting it early. Gold members are being given a privelege, not silver members a penalty.
ITT: People complain that paying customers get prefferential treatment.
Maybe because they used to be able to download free stuff, but now are being penalized, because they aren't gold, you don't have to be an ass about peoples opinions.
But they have every right to do it and a legitimate reason. I pay for my subscription, do you? No? Then why should you get many of the same privileges I do?
Yes I do.
Anyways, Microsoft took away something that they've always had, but now the money-hungry overlords at microsoft took downloading free content away in a cheap shill to make a few extra bucks, Silver users have every right to be mad.
I took the instructions for setting brightness literally. Practically had to squint to make out the gray box against the background. And I'm glad, since it added a great deal to the atmosphere. It was only a problem gameplay-wise once, when I couldn't find a crawlspace and had to turn it up for a moment to figure out where the hell I was supposed to go.
Having Incinerate equipped never seemed to do much to light up a room. If it left a burning corpse, different story.
ITT: People complain that paying customers get prefferential treatment.
Maybe because they used to be able to download free stuff, but now are being penalized, because they aren't gold, you don't have to be an ass about peoples opinions.
But they have every right to do it and a legitimate reason. I pay for my subscription, do you? No? Then why should you get many of the same privileges I do?
Yes I do.
Anyways, Microsoft took away something that they've always had, but now the money-hungry overlords at microsoft took downloading free content away in a cheap shill to make a few extra bucks, Silver users have every right to be mad.
Are you retarded?
Do you not remember when on the OXBox you not only paid to get online but then you still needed to pay to get that DLC. You're bitching because people who pay are getting it a whopping 7 days early? A bloo a bloo a little more because this is a really good reason to get upset!
Everyone gets it in a week. You don't have to pay. You just have to wait.
Then what's the point of making Silver users wait?
Oh, yes. To try to coerce them into paying for a Gold Account. Of course this is about money.
Is this ONE thing worth $50 to me? Hell no. The only reason I didn't bother to continue my Gold is because I wasn't using most of it's benefits. Still seems off to me to withhold free content on the hopes that you'll get some account upgrades.
The problem is that they're not adding a new feature to entice people to upgrade to Gold accounts, they're taking away a feature to try to coerce people to upgrading. The strategy reeks almost as bad as Sony's removing the backwards compatibility in the latest model of the PS3 to try to force people to buy more PS3 games.
There are plenty of people who prefer single player and local multiplayer games. Penalizing them because they don't want to spend $50/year for the ability to play online, a feature they wouldn't use much, if at all, does not create happy customers.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE NOT GETTING, THERE IS NO PENALIZATION GOING ON HERE.
Penalization? Let me know how penalized you feel when you download your Bioshock pack next week after we paying members get it. That's right, you get a benefit of a $50 subscription for absolutely $0.
Gold members aren't getting it early. The new plasmids are in the PC version and they aren't paying a premium for Peer to Peer multi-player and the same Dorito's/Mountain Dew ads every month! This whole thing is bullshit and I think it's amusing that gold members feel all warm and fuzzy because their peers are being denied free content on a non xbox live-enabled game.
Vow: This is free DLC. No one is benefiting from this situation.
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One week.
All new content is being made exclusive to gold members for one week, then it's available afterwards.
Also, do we check the actual game or the Marketplace for the DLC?
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What do you mean "All new content"? Beyond Bioshock? It didn't used to be this way before, right?
Hot damn, I'm downloading soon as I get home.
Any opinions on the widescreen fix? Is it something applied automatically, or something you enable under Options?
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Now I can't load my saved game
It just crashes to desktop and I get that "Bioshock.exe has encountered an error" thing
This could be due to the patch or it could be due to the fact that I had to revert to the latest drivers rather than those shitty beta drivers that made all the fences neon green in CoD4
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Bullshit?
I pay fifty dollars a year.
You pay zip.
I see no bullshit.
On the note about the patch I will not be happy until they add in the teleportation plasmid.
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Vita Chambers? GET OF MY PLANE.
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Uh.
Yeah.
I had started a game on Hard before the update, downloaded the patch, and it works fine for me with my current save. No errors and no VitaChambers.
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Yea, it's buried in there somewhere. Gameplay I think.
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There's an option for Horizontal FOV Lock in the settings now. Turn it off, get true widescreen.
BTW, the patch (with the FOV fix) is available to all accounts. The Plasmids and Tonics DLC is only for Gold. Which pisses me off.
Maybe because they used to be able to download free stuff, but now are being penalized, because they aren't gold, you don't have to be an ass about peoples opinions.
But they have every right to do it and a legitimate reason. I pay for my subscription, do you? No? Then why should you get many of the same privileges I do?
You used to have to pay to have any live subscription at all, back in the days of the OXbox.
I think that Silver Accounts were a great idea, but I've been paying 50 bucks a year since April '04, and I think that I deserve to get a little more for that over the folks who don't pay a cent.
edit: and NO ONE is being penalized here. Silver members aren't getting it late, Gold members are getting it early. Gold members are being given a privelege, not silver members a penalty.
Yes I do.
Anyways, Microsoft took away something that they've always had, but now the money-hungry overlords at microsoft took downloading free content away in a cheap shill to make a few extra bucks, Silver users have every right to be mad.
Everyone gets it in a week. You don't have to pay. You just have to wait.
Having Incinerate equipped never seemed to do much to light up a room. If it left a burning corpse, different story.
That hits on a good idea, though.
There ought to be some DLC that is made free for Gold subscribers. maybe just a theme or gamer pic pack every couple of months, but something.
Are you retarded?
Do you not remember when on the OXBox you not only paid to get online but then you still needed to pay to get that DLC. You're bitching because people who pay are getting it a whopping 7 days early? A bloo a bloo a little more because this is a really good reason to get upset!
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I only mention it because someone was bitching about it earlier.
Then what's the point of making Silver users wait?
Oh, yes. To try to coerce them into paying for a Gold Account. Of course this is about money.
Is this ONE thing worth $50 to me? Hell no. The only reason I didn't bother to continue my Gold is because I wasn't using most of it's benefits. Still seems off to me to withhold free content on the hopes that you'll get some account upgrades.
The game is worth a replay for this feature alone.
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I'm seriously considering purchasing this game for this feature alone.
But a fixed ratio? 100 more Achievement Points for playing the game the way it should have been played?
Fix the subtitles and they have a second purchase from me.
There are plenty of people who prefer single player and local multiplayer games. Penalizing them because they don't want to spend $50/year for the ability to play online, a feature they wouldn't use much, if at all, does not create happy customers.
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Penalization? Let me know how penalized you feel when you download your Bioshock pack next week after we paying members get it. That's right, you get a benefit of a $50 subscription for absolutely $0.
Vow: This is free DLC. No one is benefiting from this situation.
Pretty sure I'm getting it a week before Silver members. I hope more DLC gets with this way of thinking.