What is your final consensus on Bioshock: Infinite?

I'm playing this baby in 1440p 60fps and it's damn right beautiful. A really well optimized game. But what about the game itself? I really enjoyed it then and I still do now. I know there was some controversy back in the day when whatever-his-name gave it a 4. So the game had some polarizing opinions. But surely this game is great, right SW?

Great fun but worst than Bio 1 and 2. It looked great maxed out when it came out

Good Game.

Expensive and kinda worthless DLC.

was that the GS second opinion? I'm assuming that was McShea

Its a really good game, on par with the first one in my opinion

Great for SFM Patreon creators.

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/bioshock-infinite-a-fan-scorned/1900-6415464/

I liked it quite a bit more than Bioshock 1 and a hell lot more than 2

Nowhere near as good as BioShock 2.

horrible story that made little sense

sorta boring game

bioshock 1 was much better

wasn't worth all the hype but still fun

It was a fantastic shooter with good characters, a great story, and a very memorable setting that I very much enjoyed.

The worst AAA game I've played in a long time. It's an obnoxious, dull, tepid slog of a shooter that is as awful to play as it is to think it was lauded as having a good story.

On the other hand I quite enjoyed the DLC, especially the second one.

I've got it for free last year and didn't even play trough it, yes the graphics were beautiful, but it was kinda boring IMO. I've played trough Bio 1 as well at the time and thought it was pretty meh as well. I still have Bio 2 sitting in my Steam library unplayed.

I'm the same when it comes to the Mass Effect games, I've played trough the first one but still haven't touched the second one even though I own it. Same with the Dead Space games, I've got them all but they're boring IMO. I got all of em from Humble Bundles, so I've payed less than $10 for all 3 Bioshocks, Dead Space's and the 2 Mass Effects.

I'm currently playing Chrono Trigger for the first time though (SNES/emulated) and that game shits on all of these games combined, plus I'm having more fun with Chrono than with some of the other PC games that I have, mainly GTA V, MSG V etc. No wonder people here crowned it the best JRPG.

I loved Infinite... great game. Do I like it as much as the first Bioshock? Don't know about that, but it'd come close.

I really thought it was the worst entry in the series. It's proof that a great art direction can only take you so far.

I didnt like it.

I'm currently playing through this and I think it's great so far. The story isn't fantastic, but it's fun.

I didn't play Bioshock Infinite until over a year after release. I liked it enough to buy the two DLC for it. The original Bioshock took three tries before I warmed up to it. No such problem with Bioshock Infinite.

I was really disheartened by how one-note the game play was. It has this bizarre, wild story but then the most basic run and shoot game play this side of Call of Duty.

The game was pretty decent. I didn't like the ending however. It didn't make sense to me why THAT Booker needed to die

Best bioshock by far. Incredible visuals and sound, fun story.

I enjoyed it. Can't remember it for the life of me, mind you.

I loved it....alot more than Bioshock 1.

Hyped to death because of all the controversy even among the staff that made the game, I played, finished it, wasn't that great. Beautiful to look, crappy shooter, crappy story far from the "wow holy shit" story everyone was hyping at the time.

Interesting setting and premise ruined by bad writing and tedious gameplay.

What was good about Bioshock Infinite? It got pretty repeatitive to me.

Metro: Last Light was a better shooter, and came out 2 weeks before.

All games, by their very nature, are repetitive. Doing the same thing over and over.

I found it boring and had to push myself to finish it.

I platinumed it so I enjoyed it. Still, they took out even the admittedly limited "decisions" from the first 2. Where were the grand decisions we were promised? That would have helped alot with replay value. And the DLC was kinda meh.

Did two playthroughs and while it was impressive for the PS3 (slightly better than even the 360 version if I remember correctly), it was so linear that I'm just done with it.

Great game with an interesting story and amazing atmosphere, but kind of pulled down by way too much shooting.

Got it free with GWG and still haven't played it.

@jun_aka_pekto: No they aren't.. you say that like games are unable to mix things up, every little part of Bioshock Infinite didn't have to deal with shooting at generic soldiers, they could've mixed in some puzzles or something, man.

It's on my top 10 list.so ...

It wasn't great, it was hyped up, even by me, just to disappoint. It had nothing special to it, and it was just so bland. I loved the story and ending though. But it kind of felt like a chore to get through. Such a great setting and art style, and it felt like a waste. But the ending.... Wow, really good to me.

I thought it was great. Not sure why people found the gameplay such a slog. I thought the first Bioshock was an absolute chore to playthrough. I never want to play that stupid hacking minigame ever again.

@JangoWuzHere: same here. The first bioshock is one of the worst playing fps games I ever played. That's why it took like 6 years for me to beat it

My favorite in the franchise and somewhere in my top 25 GOAT.

Interesting story ideas, but all of it is poorly executed. It has no real depth to it, no real nuance to any of the fiction as it has nothing to actually say, since the more compelling themes are dropped in favor of some alternate universe hopping bs, and said bs doesn't hold under any scrutiny. I thought the setting was imaginative, I thought the game was interesting enough that I did want to play through it twice, and on a basic level I enjoyed a lot of the action in the game as well, in the sense that I enjoyed using a lot of my dudes powers through out the experience. It was pure power fantasy, but with the emphasis on power.

The second playthrough is where I had a lot of misgivings with the gameplay (the initial playthrough just a handful sections I thought were shit like lady comstock, the back tracking near that area, that one stealth level, that final level) as I thought 1999 mode was such a poorly made difficulty setting for a game that really can't make the msot of that type of mode. All in all I probably like it way more than I should, because I've given significantly better games more shit than I've given Infinite.

But I can't say I wasn't entertained, grand scheme of things I'd call it good, no where near great. It's certainly no System Shock or System SHock 2, and in the case of irrational, it wouldn't stack up favorably against SWAT or Freedom Force.

cities in the sky are not my thing, the underwater city worked much better, was much more believable and had a much better setting.

Cities on balloons...

nah

I find it weird people complain about the shooting mechanics when the gunplay felt a lot better than the first one which people say is better. :s

I liked the game mostly - had potential to be more but ignoring prerelease hype (which we should this many years down the line) I thought the ending was good and game was fun for the most part (some of the fights in the last section of the game did get boring however due to large enemy spawns and muddy map design). Still one of the best single player Fps in a while.

Well, my take would be:

Overall good mechanics, fairly good story.

Just too bad that those things fit each other like two pieces of cake sledgehammered together.

It was jarring to put it mildly, each on its own I had little complaints, but the final result was this unnerving game which had a lot of fascinating set pieces, and things which we could not interact with in any way, and mostly did not even account for a player.

A stale amusement park which you had a shootout in.

I often wonder how the game came to be like that, I doubt it was the plan all along, but where everything in Bioshock 1&2 had a reaction to you in some sense, and if not, was kept at a healthy distance of the player, Infinite had a lot of things you could go right up to, and would never be interactive in the slightest, nor would people really react in any way. Unnerving.

So, a game with really good individual parts, which did not come together all that well?

It's a fun one and done. Nothing else to it. There's no depth to the mechanics or the abilities that you end up earning, and the story's themes don't carry enough narrative weight to warrant a repeated experience. It also has some pretty lousy gameplay stretches throughout its bloated length. Particularly the ghost witch thingy fight.

It was enjoyable while it lasted, but it has no lasting power.

Fun game, but kind of bummed it was like the original version they showed us in 2010 i think it was.

Fun Fact: This game let me loose respect for Angry Joe for having trouble on the last mission.

One of the few games I will go back and replay. The opening sequence is probably one of the best or the best in any game. Getting to just walk around columbia was awesome. I liked the combat and story but I can see where some where let down by the repetitive nature. The story however is amazing and I cannot wait to see what ken levine's studio does next.

One of the most overrated games ever. The first few hours though were promising, then it went down hill after the 5 hour or so mark

Good game.

Sorta like the other Bioshocks....somewhat fun but kinda shallow.

Ending threw me for a loop though. Had to take a step back from that one.