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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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Sometimes I think I should revisit BioShock. When I played it over a decade ago, I did so on the Xbox 360 because my PC would’ve probably played it at around 15 FPS. I recall the game not feeling optimized for the console, felt tired of the game at the end, and that its gameplay was overall tedious. I wish I enjoyed it like everybody else.
To comment on the story, and SPOILERS FOR ANYBODY.
Yeah you're not wrong. The last act after killing Andrew Ryan was pretty unfulfilling. It becomes a full blown first-person shooter.
In spite of that, Bioshock holds a special place on my heart. There's some really really good level design and storytelling (both through the radio AND environmental storytelling) leading up to Andrew Ryan. I ranks up there with Half-Life 2 in terms of telling stories without hitting the player on the head.
Bioshock 2 and Infinite... Not so much.
I thought Infinite was fairly well liked? That's a bummer to hear, it's in my backlog docket. I just played Bioshock 2 a few months ago however and while solid I probably do agree it's got nothing on the original.
Personally, I prefer Infinite over the first two. Maybe I'm biased because I played Infinite first. But to me the story seemed a bit more polished and coherent.
It's fine, it just couldn't live up to BioShock. If nothing else it helped destroy the trope of the useless sidekick character in video games so we owe it a debt.