BioShock 2 video shows you how to become a Big Daddy

*jaw drops*

Yep. Knockout.

You two are the weirdest people on the planet…

This looks…. Ridiculously derivative. How this game gets the acclaim it does I still don’t understand… I don’t. I am dizzy. It’s crazy.

Add a third weirdo to the list

Derivative of whom? Or of what?

That’s just completely sold it to me. Can’t wait to see it properly. In fact, I’m going to go and finish the first one.

After some sleep.

Mike, of the first game. It’s another awkward feeling FPS. Great sense of atmosphere, ugly fire effects, splicers, little cliche girls… It’s the first one. Again.

I mean… Just someone fill me in on this inside joke. What did I miss that made this knockout, or worth dropping your jaw over?

Seriously, I am willing to stop being ignorant and being a dick, what did people like about the game?

Was it the narrative and atmosphere? I get that more than anything else.

if you need to ask why you as a person didn’t like a game and can’t understand why others actually got it and loved it then you will never understand why it was such a good game.

David says: Blah blah blah I just go with the crowd and haven’t got a reason for it being good

To everyone else, not everyone else is as incapable as analysing why they are hyped. What are you guys excited about, and I won’t come back to answer, I just want to know.

Does anyone really need to say any more than they enjoyed / loved the first game and this is building on that for them? I’d think you’d understand different people liking different things given your fave game and how niche it is.

I mean damn… I’m into auto-erotic asphyxiation with car batteries clamped to my nipples, but don’t ask me to explain why.

No, i think you have to now….

Well yeah, that’s what I want to know. I want to know WHY people loved it, and why and how I didn’t like it so much. I can tell you why I don’t like your fetish, atleast that’s rational.

And Bioshock isn’t niche. Neither for that matter is Shadow of the Colossus.

Sad to say the video did nothing for me. I didn’t want to admit it before, but it’s starting to look like the fact that you play as a big daddy has pretty much taken away any appeal the sequel held for me

Looks stunning too, particularly the underwater bit, but how they hope to make it feel even nearly as atmospheric and chilling as the first game (and those it was inspired by for that matter) when you play as a hulking great monster in a diving suit with a drill for a hand I have no idea.

@No_PUDding: Why did I love it? The story was compelling, I felt extremely comfortable with the main character (it was easy to empathise with what happened to him) and I absolutely adored the environments. It’s still one of my top 5 games this gen and one of the few games I’ve ever gone back and played again after I completed it.

First time I played it was over two days pretty much continuously with both my nephew and my missus for company (at various points)… and they enjoyed watching / following the story as much as I enjoyed playing it.

Oh, and asking people to deconstruct an emotional reaction is an exercise in futility. Just accept that just because you didn’t like it, it doesn’t make it a bad game.

That all said, I have no idea if I’ll feel the same playing the sequel. I’ll only know once I’ve had a go with it.

Okay so Dr. Haggard (have you been to the TIG Eurogamer forums by the way? Bruno visited again) said he liked it becuase you were just a guy and it was scary. I can get that, totally.

That’s why I said I was going to stop being an ignorant dick, and listen to what people liked. I didn’t even think it was a bad game actually. Just don’t understand the hyperbole.

And how do you think good games are made if people are too lazy to try to recognise and harness these emotional reactions to the games we play? It’s not an exercise in futility, it’s an education of different players and playstyles.

Two levels of subjectvity in games. Whether we like them, and how we play them.

It’s an exercise in futility because most people aren’t capable of putting those feelings into words.

Bioshock is an outstanding game. I could not stop playing it. one minute its midnight, the next its 8am. im pretty sure that game helped drive me towards using a piss jug.
i guess thats a blessing.

certainly looking forward to Bioshock 2; no question about that. one rather large reservation however is how well it will work if it revolves around simply walking around, finding a dead body, keeping the splicers off the little sister, repeat ad nauseam.

hopefully some future trailers/interviews will give more of an idea on this issue.

Well that’s true. It can quickly become an arguemnt of semantics (man that word is wearing on me), but it’s still worth a shot.

And it’s kind of what I hope from people. And you just gave me your reasons very well.

/not watched vid

Surely if you played the first game to completion, you already know how to become a Big Daddy?

I guess I’ll continue to be underwhelmed by this franchise. I just pray they actually make use of the setting this time.

Though, to be honest, I’d rather have Space Giraffe 2. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Bioschlock.

Oh my lord, this looks incredible!

No Pudding: If people like it that’s all they ever need to say also what people like in the game might be what you disliked. At the end of the day you can analyse something to death but it will simply come down to I like it or I hate it.

The story and atmosphere drew you into an incredibly dark and rich world, the game-play is not your standard FPS and has bags of variety in the way you can attack your enemy. Some people will moan it was just a wrench game but those people just found something that worked and stuck with it till the end.

The characters the way the story is told by the tape recordings and radio conversations. The twist near the end were everything you experienced just hits you in the face. Not everyone will like a specific game but bioshock deserves the praise it gets