Bioshock on Xbox 360

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:17 pm 0

CarlBillen wrote:
Can you get all plasmid slots and gene tonic slots if you rescue them?

Yeah, that bird will give you gifts of Adam if you save the kiddies.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:14 pm 0

I just finished this to get the "good" ending. I'm usually a terrible cynical bastard, but that denouement made my innards go all squishy and warm like a case of Ebola. The problem is, I really don't think I can replay this and harvest them now. You'll see.

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:31 am 0

It *IS* very good, isn't it? I'm just past Fort Frolic (the part with Sander Cohen), and when I hung up the third picture it started playing that piece of classical music (I don't know if it is from the Nutcracker Suite, or from Peer Gynt; it's one of those classical music pieces that I grew up with) it was pure art

I also noticed that a lot of other YakYakkers were playing it

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:01 am 0

betamax wrote:... made my innards go all squishy and warm like a case of Ebola.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:53 am 0

I got the good ending too. It is nicely mushy isn't it?

But if I want 1000 achievement points I'm going to have to play it again cause I messed up and missed an audio diary in a place you can't go back to, and also managed to mess up the bit that nets you a secret achievement and one of the weapon upgrade stations.

Of course, given that one of the achievements requires you to finish it on hard I'm going to have to play again anyway, but even so...

Anyone else think that the making of documentary was a bit poo?

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:45 am 0

CarlBillen wrote:It *IS* very good, isn't it? I'm just past Fort Frolic (the part with Sander Cohen), and when I hung up the third picture it started playing that piece of classical music (I don't know if it is from the Nutcracker Suite, or from Peer Gynt; it's one of those classical music pieces that I grew up with) it was pure art

I also noticed that a lot of other YakYakkers were playing it

Probally my favourite level so far - very surreal, very nightmarish.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:47 pm 0

benedictw wrote:
CarlBillen wrote:It *IS* very good, isn't it? I'm just past Fort Frolic (the part with Sander Cohen), and when I hung up the third picture it started playing that piece of classical music (I don't know if it is from the Nutcracker Suite, or from Peer Gynt; it's one of those classical music pieces that I grew up with) it was pure art

I also noticed that a lot of other YakYakkers were playing it
Probally my favourite level so far - very surreal, very nightmarish.

My favorite part in Fort Frolic was when

you are searching through the rooms and see one of the paiper mache rabbit men sitting in a chair facing into the corner. You think nothing of it, but continue looting the room... then you turn around to leave and the chair is empty and the rabbit man is standing about ooh, a foot away from you in a ballet pose. It gives you about a second of "WTF?!" time and then takes a slap at you!

Brown trousers and jingly jangly nerves time...

mutopian · Post by **mutopian** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:58 pm 0

Anybody else having the game stick when it loads in the info on new plasmids being picked up? Just got to the telekinesis one and the box locked up solid

Also noticed you have to be bang on the money with the auto-aim switched off. Even with splicers in the middle of the crosshair I can still miss them. Wasting that much eve I may have to switch it back on.

mightyzim · Post by **mightyzim** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:01 pm 0

yeah mine does. The drive spins down too so its a has it? hasn't it? moment.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:02 pm 0

Eh? Auto-aim?

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:22 pm 0

All the auto aim seems to do is keep you facing a target if you stop firing and it moves into cover.

Although thats more me noticing it messing up than noticing it doing it's job.

For the most part, it's fairly inobtrusive compared to some games I've played.

mutopian · Post by **mutopian** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:58 am 0

Seems to do more than that. With it switched on (the default setting) if you've got an enemy in the aiming circle you can always hit it with a plasmid/weapon. Switch it off and they have to be dead on centre and even then you can still miss, especially with plasmids.

Thats possibly why its on by default

Loada · Post by **Loada** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:19 pm 0

Just a long shot (and I haven't read through the whole thread to see if this hasn't already been discussed) but I've noticed that a few hours into the game (not to spoiler, I've just done the photographing the 3 "things" bit), either the game is playing up or my 360, or both.

The symptoms are that the game seems to pause frequently and randomly, almost as if its loading something...each pause happens for a second or two, much like an high-end PC game struggling on a low-spec PC - it didn't seem to have been happening earlier in the game but plaguing it now. I've tried taking the disc out (no scratches) and rebooting but it's still happening.

It did download an "update" recently and I wonder whether that's caused it? Or perhaps it's the level I'm on puts some particular stress on the graphics/game engine??

My main worry is that its my 360 beginning to go west - it is an "original" model and other friends who got them at the same time have all had total failures, so I guess this could be my machine's time?

Anyone else get these wierd hang-ups in Bioshock?

edit: well, I guess I should have searched google BEFORE posting this

It's a HDD/cache thing apparently: http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9247

edit2: reading the last few posts of that 2k games thread it turns out that it sounds more like the update has caused this - people are clearing their 360 cache (and NOT re-updating the game) to get rid of the issue. This IS the internet mind, so who knows what I should believe. Sigh.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:01 am 0

It's never been anything but peachy keen on my 360... I seem to have escaped pretty much every horror story for every game I own thus far.

Which probably means it'll burn my flat down 5 minutes into Halo3.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:59 am 0

Flabio wrote:It's never been anything but peachy keen on my 360... I seem to have escaped pretty much every horror story for every game I own thus far.

Which probably means it'll burn my flat down 5 minutes into Halo3.

Or vent antimatter into your living room, devastating your ant farms and Flock of Seagulls collection. The horror!