Is it me or is Bioshock overrated?

I honestly cannot see what was such a big deal about this game but what really caught me was the story.

The combat felt unbalanced, gets repetitive, and boring while you progress through the game. One thing I hated was once you got a new weapeon I felt like it made your past weapon useless. Like the pistol, It barley does any damage and has such a low ammo capacity that its such a waste. And really out of all the stockpile of weapeons I used the most it was the wrench. Really the wrench does insane amounts of damage to regular enemys and since the game is so linear it just makes the game kinda easy. SO I saved up all those weapons and ammo for boss fights and big daddys who become push overs when you get to the middle of the game.

I hated the short frequent hacking sessions you had to do. They really broke the pace of the game and REALLY became repetitve to do. I actually skiped alot of them near the end because I was just so fed up with them.

One thing that really seems overpraised is the story. I must be like the only person on earth who found NOTHING special about this story. It was "decent" but really had nothing going for it. the Twist near the end was just insanely predictable. When the game showed me the twist all I could do was just roll my eyes. learning that the twist was just so weak because how insanely predictable it is and not to mention not surprising in the slightest.

Their were no RPG elements at all or none at least that I can think of. i think the game was great but I just think that it gets way to much priase for so little it did.

the way i see it is the story, presentation and atmosphere were perfect and the gameplay was a solid "great" - also, it was engaging

for me, it was one of the best games i've ever played - but then again, i'm a sucker for a good story/atmosphere

Atmosphere and the exploration won it over for me.

It's not just you. ;)

to me it was WAY overrated, mostly because I playied SS2 when that came out, and playing Bioshock kinda feels like im playing a version of SS2 for retarted people...

To be fair tho, I can see why people like it, I just dont.

And the "art deco" did not really grab me at all, unlike SS2 it did not feel myself being sucked into the game, become a part of the world, I pretty much just walked through it all venting anything comming near...

So... I came in with expectations way too high, People who never did play SS2 might like it a whole lot more then I did.

I just thought it was poorly executed, great ideas, but in thier attempt to appeal to everyone It kinda failed to appeal to anyone (this is not really true since alot of people like it, just not any person I know IRL).

it is not just Bioshock that has tryied to appeal to a broad audience tho, I think the reason why most games this gen, somehow all are forgettable, is because they try to make everyone like it, and ending up spreading it so thing, and discarding areas that some groups of players would not like.

I wish they would simply say "this game is ment for this kind of people" and then follow it though, instead of saying "this game is ment for all groups of people to figure out and enjoy" thus making it utterly anomonus.

I think the game is pretty damn good, perhaps a little bit overrated, but if anything, not by much.

"Their were no RPG elements at all or none at least that I can think of."

Bioshock is a First Person Shooter. I loved the game, the story & atmosphere kept me engaged throughout the enitre campagin, & I can't say I didn't enjoy the action either.

I was disappointed by it.

Wasn't what I was expecting.

While I loved the presentation...yeah, it was generally disappointing. It just wasn't System Shock 3. :/

I absolutly love the game

Great game.....but to me it's still very overrated. Hopefully, Bioshock 2 will be more epic than Bioshock 1.

It was like a movie, amazing atmosphere, creepy cool graphics, and the abilities you use with plasmids make it much more than a standard op first person shooter. It was AAA all the way for me, gems like this dont release every month.

Bioshock is overrated as a game, yes. It does many things amazingly, I don't think anyone doubt that. The sound, the atmosphere, presentation, all great and deserve the respect.

However there are major issues with the gameplay, those silly mazes that interrupt what the game does well. They are repeative and boring and should have been removed from the game completely because they don't add anything, just clicking on stuff to hack them would have been much much more effective. As well as the easy-mode rez tanks that make the hard mode easy as pie, I personally started to play it differently by continuing via save game rather then respawn again and again while slowly killing big daddies.

As a whole work of art, Bioshock has major flaws. If they fixed those major flaws then it could have been one of the greatest games ever, but they didn't, which is sad since it really could have been great. The greatest games don't have really good aspects and really bad aspects, they are paced perfectly (hence don't have flaws like Bioshock), some of the greatest games don't even have to have new aspects that change gaming... No they just have an amazing amount of polish, and that is where Bioshock falls short.

One of, if not the best single player fps made this gen.

Also, I found most of the guns usefull in their own way.

Bioshock was one of the best games I've played in recent memory by all accounts. However, It's a game that like Half Life 2, recieved critical acclaim for many reasons, especially story, and also like HL2, is considered overratted by a good number of people. Why? I don'y know. Both deserved their acclaim, despite the apparent lack of "revolutionary" content.

I enjoyed Bioshock, except for the damn hacking minigame

play it on impossible (only the ps3 version has this difficulty) and turn vita chambers off, and you will see how every weapon in the game has to be utilized, and really you can play the entire game without hacking anything if you choose so i dont see the real complaint therestylesPS3

It's just you...

BIOSHOCK = AWESOMESAUCE!

I`ve played it and I didn`t like it.

I rented it from gamefly, played it for like 2 hours, 30 minutes in a stretch of 2 days and returned it. It wasn't enjoyable for me.

Bioshock was one of the best games I've played in recent memory by all accounts. However, It's a game that like Half Life 2, recieved critical acclaim for many reasons, especially story, and also like HL2, is considered overratted by a good number of people. Why? I don'y know. Both deserved their acclaim, despite the apparent lack of "revolutionary" content.

Brendissimo35

No, HL2 was criticised for the story. I think even the Gamespot reviews mentions it's disappointing. Only fanboys praise it, mostly because they can't make the difference between backstory and story.

HL2 was revolutionary.

BioShock is mediocre, but it has one advantage: when somebody says the RPG elements are mediocre, fans respond that it's a shooter. When the crap shooting mechanics are criticised, fans say it's a RPG.

The self-indulgent story is a bastardisation of SS2's story. Ken Levine must laugh his ass off when he reads such nonsense as "the game is a parable of your motivation and mannerisms as a gamer, doing what you're told without questioning the reasons" and so on...

[QUOTE="Brendissimo35"]

Bioshock was one of the best games I've played in recent memory by all accounts. However, It's a game that like Half Life 2, recieved critical acclaim for many reasons, especially story, and also like HL2, is considered overratted by a good number of people. Why? I don'y know. Both deserved their acclaim, despite the apparent lack of "revolutionary" content.

Baranga

No, HL2 was criticised for the story. I think even the Gamespot reviews mentions it's disappointing. Only fanboys praise it, mostly because they can't make the difference between backstory and story.

HL2 was revolutionary.

BioShock is mediocre, but it has one advantage: when somebody says the RPG elements are mediocre, fans respond that it's a shooter. When the crap shooting mechanics are criticised, fans say it's a RPG.

The self-indulgent story is a bastardisation of SS2's story. Ken Levine must laugh his ass off when he reads such nonsense as "the game is a parable of your motivation and mannerisms as a gamer, doing what you're told without questioning the reasons" and so on...

Both HL2 and Bioshock excell at presentation more than actual story...

Anyway, what's so crap about Bio's shooting mechanics? Seemed fine when I played it (admitted it was quite a while ago, at the games release on the 360).

Anyway, what's so crap about Bio's shooting mechanics? Seemed fine when I played it (admitted it was quite a while ago, at the games release on the 360).Filthybastrd

It's not just you.

Bioshock sucks.

More like System Shock 2 Casual Edition.

not gonna lie, the wrench is better then most weapons in bioshock... but i love bioshock!

[QUOTE="Filthybastrd"]Anyway, what's so crap about Bio's shooting mechanics? Seemed fine when I played it (admitted it was quite a while ago, at the games release on the 360).Cherokee_Jack

And on PC you can't disable mouse acceleration, which sucks.

great game. i loved the world of rapture

I loved bioshock

I honestly cannot see what was such a big deal about this game but what really caught me was the story.

The combat felt unbalanced, gets repetitive, and boring while you progress through the game. One thing I hated was once you got a new weapeon I felt like it made your past weapon useless. Like the pistol, It barley does any damage and has such a low ammo capacity that its such a waste. And really out of all the stockpile of weapeons I used the most it was the wrench. Really the wrench does insane amounts of damage to regular enemys and since the game is so linear it just makes the game kinda easy. SO I saved up all those weapons and ammo for boss fights and big daddys who become push overs when you get to the middle of the game.

I hated the short frequent hacking sessions you had to do. They really broke the pace of the game and REALLY became repetitve to do. I actually skiped alot of them near the end because I was just so fed up with them.

One thing that really seems overpraised is the story. I must be like the only person on earth who found NOTHING special about this story. It was "decent" but really had nothing going for it. the Twist near the end was just insanely predictable. When the game showed me the twist all I could do was just roll my eyes. learning that the twist was just so weak because how insanely predictable it is and not to mention not surprising in the slightest.

Their were no RPG elements at all or none at least that I can think of. i think the game was great but I just think that it gets way to much priase for so little it did.

JangoWuzHere

I agree with many of these points, but for me at least, they never detracted from my overall enjoyment of the game. I've yet to find a game that matches the quality of Bioshock's setting, art direction, and atmosphere (maybe the Resident Evil Remake), and that's what I love about it most.

The RPG elements come in as you slowlybuild upyour character with plasmids, tonics, and weapon upgrades. The weapons you complained about are pretty secondary to the plasmids themselves, and the fact that you can't actually equip all of the plasmids (and must therefore pick and choose for yourself) adds a ton of customization to the game. On the surface, the combat seems pretty cut-and-dry, but when you consider all the options the game gives you for offense/defense, it is actually pretty deep.

As for the game being linear, I partially disagree. It's true that the game itself deliberately funnels you through the story on a specific route, but part of the fun of the game is exploring. You'll miss a TON of stuff if you just follow the arrow from beginning to end.

Anyway, I don't think Bioshock is "teh bEsT gAeM EVAR!!!!!" but I thought it was quite good, and definitely deserving of the praise it received.

i know what you mean...its a good shooter with everything done the way it is supposed to be..but to me nothing stands out

another thing that i have the same feeling about is the ending of mass effect...it just felt like a tipical task (like the rachni for example), but both are getting sequels and i expect improvement in story and tweaking in some features

No, i completely immersed in Rapture that i couldnt care less about those other nitpicks. I loved every second of it.-DrRobotnik-

I like the way you think.