Can't get excited about Bioshock

kensutz

Quite possibly. I'm playing it now and loving it.

koneko

Considering your nick, it'll probably be your type of game

What's your PC spec like?

0ubliette

Considering the 360's upcoming titles, if you couldnt afford a PC powerful enough for bioshock, the times never been better to get a 360. Next week bioshock, next month halo 3, then Assassins Creed, the darkness a month ago, its overflowing with quality titles right now.

koneko

It is definitely a great time to get a 360. Let's not forget Mass Effect (360 exclusive) in November too.

JCDenton

I've been following the progress of this for a while - and after stumbling across this thread, seeing the videos and reading the reviews - I'm determined to go out and buy an X Box now!

I do have to admit though; it doesn't look quite as stat-heavy as it's spiritual predecessors - I haven't seen any screenshots of "Inventory Tetris"...

Kiith

Or Ace Combat 6 (online dogfights!!) in December, as well as Alan Wake (next year), Eternal Sonata, Blue Dragon, Lost Odessey...the list goes on.

0ubliette

koneko wrote:

It is definitely a great time to get a 360. Let's not forget Mass Effect (360 exclusive) in November too.

forgot all about mass effect, ill be picking that up too

mcgovern

It may not be an exclusive but there is also CoD4 which looks amazing.
Regarding Bioshock, some of the reviews are saying it is definitely a console seller, I think it will do a lot more to convince the undecided to buy a 360 than Halo 3 will.

Retr0gamer

mcgovern wrote:

It may not be an exclusive but there is also CoD4 which looks amazing.
Regarding Bioshock, some of the reviews are saying it is definitely a console seller, I think it will do a lot more to convince the undecided to buy a 360 than Halo 3 will.

I doubt it. I'd say Bioshock will be more popular than System Shock 1 and 2 that remained in a niche but the ignorant masses will lap up Halo 3 a lot more and proclaim it to be the best thing ever despite the fact it's just looking like more of the same.

mcgovern

Retr0gamer wrote:

I doubt it. I'd say Bioshock will be more popular than System Shock 1 and 2 that remained in a niche but the ignorant masses will lap up Halo 3 a lot more and proclaim it to be the best thing ever despite the fact it's just looking like more of the same.

Halo 3 will definetely sell more copies than Bioshock (1mil pre-orders in the US already for Halo 3) but those are the sort of people who already own a 360 or who decided years ago to buy one when Halo 3 came out. Bioshock will convince the non-Halo fanbois (older-young adults) though and thats a big lucrative market.

Fnz

kensutz wrote:

Started playing the full game last night and it's awesome. Totally enjoyable and good story line so far.

Are you playing it on a PAL machine? Would you mind confirming what version you got, and where?

I'm guessing it's the NTSC J version, from play-asia? Or did you get a broken street date NTSC U/K version?

I need a PAL machine compatible, English language version.

Cheers.

WellyJ

Fnz wrote:

Are you playing it on a PAL machine? Would you mind confirming what version you got, and where?

I'm guessing it's the NTSC J version, from play-asia? Or did you get a broken street date NTSC U/K version?

I need a PAL machine compatible, English language version.

Cheers.

They are all region free with English language

Fnz

WellyJ wrote:

They are all region free with English language

Are you certain? The only official word on it seems to be:

Lead Programmer Chris Kline wrote:

The main version that supports EFIGS (english, french, italian, german, spanish) will be a worldwide release, so that version will run on machines worldwide.

koneko

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php

Available for pre-purchase on Steam, apparantly.

MooseJam

I've got a 26 inch widescreen - E6600 at 3 ghz - 8800 Gts - 4 gigs ram, I hope thats enough

Sand

I dont know - might need to upgrade. Reckon youll need to set everything to lowest quality, should get 2 or 3 fps. Playable. Ish.

Elessar

Did Irish retailers get their stock yet? Any word on broken street dates here?

WellyJ

MooseJam wrote:

I've got a 26 inch widescreen - E6600 at 3 ghz - 8800 Gts - 4 gigs ram, I hope thats enough

Not a great card,

But should run decent

Kiith

Sand wrote:

I dont know - might need to upgrade. Reckon youll need to set everything to lowest quality, should get 2 or 3 fps. Playable. Ish.

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Seriously though, its supposed to be optimised really well, so even non-top of the line systems will play it very well.

shatners basoon

Hope to god my laptop can run this, only thing i'm wary of is the processor- its an intel CPU t2500 @ 2 GHz. THe min requirements say 2.4GHz single core, does the fact that its a dual core make up it? (apologies for tech ignorance!)
When the demo comes out i'll pick it up to make sure, otherwise i gotta pick up a 360...

WellyJ

shatners basoon wrote:

Hope to god my laptop can run this, only thing i'm wary of is the processor- its an intel CPU t2500 @ 2 GHz. THe min requirements say 2.4GHz single core, does the fact that its a dual core make up it? (apologies for tech ignorance!)
When the demo comes out i'll pick it up to make sure, otherwise i gotta pick up a 360...

Yes it does absolutely make up for it.

That CPU will be fine for it,

What the specs are referring to are P4 2.4GHZ and the equivalent AMD

Fnz

kensutz wrote:

I'm playing it now and loving it

WellyJ wrote:

They are all region free with English language

Sorry, regarding my questions above, just to clarify... I'm asking about the Xbox 360 version's region restriction.

shatners basoon

WellyJ wrote:

Yes it does absolutely make up for it.

That CPU will be fine for it,

What the specs are referring to are P4 2.4GHZ and the equivalent AMD

Halleluiah! Thanks for the good news!

This game is gonna rock balls (except for those who don't like system shock who'll hate it for no real reason other than being unable to comprehend why we love it so much!)

Fnz- the PC version has to be activated online after launch day so it could only be the 360 version.

Kiith

I'd be more worried about what graphics card you have in the laptop. The graphics card is as important, if not more important these days. And laptop gpu's are quite a bit below standard desktop ones.

And i didnt realise that the pc version had to be verified...i give it an hour before its hacked :rolleyes: (and yes, i will be buying it)

shatners basoon

its a geforce GO 7900 GS so it should run fine (mid settings for recent games usually) as far as i know.

Did HL2 get hacked considering all the protection it steam provides it with? I guess all hackers like a challenge.

Is the price for the collector's edition out yet? Might preorder it tomorrow, i'd rather not go to game though as they're usually a bit more expensive for new releases.

Fnz

shatners basoon wrote:

Fnz- the PC version has to be activated online after launch day so it could only be the 360 version.

Ahh, of course.

Any official confirmation that the NTSC J version is the version that supports EFIGS (english, french, italian, german, spanish)?

shatners basoon

I'd say so, the only place in europe to get its own one is Germany due to censorship laws (where they have major child harvesting problems...) afaik.

joe_chicken

Bioshock is on Steam!

$55. Is it worth pre-purchasing? How will that fair against the euro price?

It's also got a counter ticking down... could I be any more excited!?

no

MooseJam

$55 is 41 euro, won't get any better price in the bricks n mortar shops

Auvers

PC demo tomorrow

"The news comes after PC fans were disappointed in the release of an Xbox 360-only demo. Publisher 2K Games then assured the community that a PC demo would be released shortly--it will be available at FileShack tomorrow, August 17."

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=48490