Bioshock Ending *spoilers*

helios

So I finished Bioshock at the weekend and I have to say that the ending was a bit of a let-down.

I was so drugged up on ADAM that there's no way I couldn't have beaten Atlas. Even with a handful of Splicers and some security bots all going at me at once, I still came out of it with near full health...

Did anyone else feel the same way?

Sad Professor

Yeah, the game was piss-easy, even on hard difficulty. I still loved every second of it though.

Basq

I'm currently working my way through it and also find it very very easy.. similar to Gears of War (but GoW has some difficulty in later stages). Have had it for about a week and have played it for about 2 hours a night for 3 - 4 nights.

Am a fair bit through it i'd imagine (left it last night

in Fontaine's home looking for Lot 192

)

Stephen!

Shows how bad i am at games... I played thorugh on normal and i thought it was challenging at some bits. Great game though, whether it was easy ornot. Houdini Splicers scare the crap out of me!

Did you harvest or rescue the Little Sisters coz there stwo ending and the one where you rescue them is meant to be much better (which is what i done)

Sad Professor

I saved all the Little Sisters (on both play throughs) and thought the ending was quite good, simple but effective. The other ending doesn't really work though, not unless you intentionally set out to be evil. Most people are just left confused by it, not realising that a single bad decision they made was going to haunt them for the rest of the game.

Bioshock would have been perfect if it had no difficulty setting at all and instead made it so that the player's choices regarding the little sisters directly effected how easy/hard the each level became. So choosing to harvest a little sister meant more adam, which meant more plasmids, which meant more dead splicers. Where as choosing to save the little sisters meant less adam, less powerful plasmids, making each subsequent level harder to survive. As a result the game's moral choice would have had a real effect on the gameplay. Maybe this was supposed to be the idea before it all got toned down.

Nitpicks aside I still consider it GOTY.

theothernt

My two cents - it's an easy game *but* the game is just so much to play - fantastic story, it looks great, wonderful music and atmosphere. I could go on and on, but you get the idea

Also, one of the best games I've played on the Xbox 360 so far.

- Neil

Basq

Just finished it there...

how easy was Atlas?!

But there's a couple of achievements i missed out on - didn't get all the Little Sisters and missed out a lot of the research areas. Didn't really think they meant much til i look at my achievements at the end of the game.

So gonna work through it again and rescue every little sister and aim for the fully research subjects achievements and fully weapon upgraded achievements.

Fantastic game doubt... without a doubt the game of the year!

I har

Sad Professor

basquille wrote: »

So gonna work through it again and rescue every little sister and aim for the fully research subjects achievements and fully weapon upgraded achievements.

And don't forget finding all the audio diaries. There's a few you can't go back for if you miss them and some that are pretty well hidden. You should aim for 1000 achievement, it's fairly easy, just check out the xbox360achievements.org forums for a guide. I managed it on my second play-through.

bucks73

Yeah Im going to do the same. Have a few researchs to do in full and find all the audio diaries.

sapper

I hated the vita-chamber thing - coming back to life with your enemies health still depleted just as when you died.

Halo 3 campaign has it problems, but play it on legendary and there are a few bits that are really difficult, that you keep getting killed on, but you know that just one more go and you'll crack it. The "Just one more go" factor is key in FPS's and Bioshock just didn't have it. I would have liked if the reviews made a bigger deal of the lack of difficulty

Vic Vinegar

Can someone give me a brief run-down of the good ending? i harvested all the way cos i wanted the power dammit!

monkeyfudge

mountain lips wrote: »

Can someone give me a brief run-down of the good ending? i harvested all the way cos i wanted the power dammit!

You should be able to find them both on YouTube.

The good ending is exceptionly better than the bad ending... which is bad in more ways than one...

helios

monkeyfudge wrote: »

You should be able to find them both on YouTube.

The good ending is exceptionly better than the bad ending... which is bad in more ways than one...

Bad ending is bad... I mean

what is a nuclear sub doing in the middle of the Atlantic looking for survivors? With its launch bay doors open??