Bioshock

Oh no, I understood what you were saying, I was just extending it to the water FX ino general, like when you're swimming, and look behind you, it's just a texture washing over the water. Probably shouldn't have said "I agree" and then start talking about something totally different though

 

heheh cool. I agree they could use improvement on the ocean fx as well.

Best RT ocean graphics I've seen are in FarCry xb360. Living my whole life close to the ocean and many hours at the beach etc, those guys nailed it for the most part. Not sure how that same effect would hold up in close proximity such as what would be required for that intro sequence though.

Nitpicking stuff though as it's not part of the core experience (afaik...)

I can't wait to have my HT fully functioning again (no surrs, half sub, no center, no projector, remodelling = ) so I can fully enjoy this title.

 

I love B3D. You guys will nitpick a game to death... Mario 64, MGS2, Gunstar Heroes (my favorite game of all time) and Zelda OOT werent graphically perfect either.... but they were magical in the sense where it all just looks and feels right... Thats the sense I get from this demo so far... too bad I CANT PLAY FPS' for long... motion sickness and all.

Bioshock, Halo 3, COD4 are like an FPS'ers dream! I may have to invest in in some sea sick medicine for the fall.

 

As far as daytime lighting of water yes Far Cry gets a definite nod... but i've never seen nighttime calm seas done as well as Bioshock. It honestly looks like the water in the US virgin islands at night

 

Honestly I didn't want to go down this road with Bioshock as the game is freakin awesome (demo).

Just seemed with all the perfect scores coming in that people might get the wrong impresion and overhype the game. ... though with the limited marketing/hype/buzz this game has received up to this point, perhaps it needs some overhyping to have a chance to shine...

BEST! GAME! EVER!!!!!!!1111!!!!!

hmm ... I'm not even sure if that's overhyping come to think of it ...

 

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId...17&sec=REVIEWS

10

and let's not forget as we wind down the road in this thread... we only played a small sample. these 10s are coming from seeing the whole game. We do not have enough info to judge completely.

 

Mythbusters did a show on motion sickness and found that among common remedies, ginger/ginger pills was the only non-drug that actually worked.

 

courtesy of a GAF post

 

I keep on creamin' my pants

 

I can't stop playing the demo.

I did the same thing with the Stranglehold demo. Except the more I played that, the more I disliked the game.

I find my mind drifting here at work, jonesing to play a demo I have already played through 5 times.

I can't WAIT for Tuesday, and we can get the full experience. This is such a well designed demo to give you a little taste of what Rapture is. Ive had some friends over the last few nights, and everyone sits on the couch with jaw dropped.

Gears got a similar reaction from my friends, but nothing like this. Is it Tuesday yet?

 

Yup, 5 times for me too now, I hit it again last night

It's funny, I had a friend over, gave him the controller and let him play through...as soon as the demo was over, what's he do?? Presses "start" and replays the entire thing...

 

the reviews' sound parts are always inspiring me to splash out on 5.1 speakers. how much do i need for 5.1 speakers i need some research

 

you can probably get a cheap set for like $50

 

IGN 9.7

 

Ideeowt

Wow..Im gonna sound like a 13 year old kid,BUT I JUST RELEALIZED I HAVE OFF WORK!!!I put in for this day months ago,with no relation to the games release date...Its like an episode of lost...

 

i disagree. i'm only 4 hours into the game (and i'm taking it really slow) but even up to this point there are just so many different weapon/plasmid/upgrade combinations, so many different ways of progressing , so many secrets/details scattered around i'd say most people will come back to this game way more than just a couple of times

 

Oh you just had to go and rub that in didn't ya!

 

HOLY CRAP, if this keeps going, its gonna be the best game in history according to reviews (going by metacritic and gamerankings.com)

 

well next week when all of you guys start enjoying the greatness that is bioshock, i'll be busy with being miserable (i'll be in training 12 hours a day for the next 1.5 months without a single day off) i call this fair trade sir

 

thanks to GAF