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Giant Bomb Thread #4: A thread of perceived slights
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Backfoggen
Banned
27 beats.
Fleet_of_Foot
Member
About 20-25 minutes.
Lord_Nergal
Member
CambriaRising
Member
The screwed up part is that you can't even correct them in the chat because
1. It is full of people screaming old memes and spoilers
2. They don't pay attention to it. (See 1)
Keyser Soze
Member
Fuck Stealth
I disagree with Brad's take on the story, too, but it's fair to say that storytelling and setting are much more important in Infinite than they are in Heart of the Swarm. Heart of the Swarm is still a satisfying game to play (with a fantastic, enormous multiplayer component) with its bad writing, but if BioShock Infinite's writing was as terrible as Heart of the Swarm's, the game would suffer immensely.
XANDER CAGE
Member
(Infinite spoilers)
Man I already want to replay this game, although I'll probably go through on easy to avoid some of the combat slogs.
This is super frustrating for me because I think Brad is technically correct with the whole "returning to the root" concept, but he's so down on the ending that it makes me sad.
Man I already want to replay this game, although I'll probably go through on easy to avoid some of the combat slogs.
Chance Hale
Member
Does Brad not understand what the "root" they refer to is
? I'm just honestly confused about his current complaint, at the same time they're trying not to talk too much about the ending exactly until they get there so they're being vague.
Edit: Ok, Jeff totally didn't understand the ending. This is odd.
(booker being reborn)
Edit: Ok, Jeff totally didn't understand the ending. This is odd.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Woah wtf, spoiler your shit, for fucks sake. I didn't enter the fucking bioshock spoiler thread, didn't even know this was on.
I didn't know you could stealth through.
yeah, I have to admit, every Boy of Silence got lit up with a shotgun blast.
EVERY ONE.
Not really spoilers per say but I'll do it anyway.
I think they give you the perfect amount of information really. Theres something to be said for an ending that instantly makes you want to discuss it with friends or other people. You don't HAVE to completely understand it right away.
Yeah their discussion of the ending was odd it seems like none of them actually understood it
Keyser Soze
Member
Vinny is getting close to
!!
Turn around
Backfoggen
Banned
Here it comes!!
XANDER CAGE
Member
oh man jump scare time
throwawayname
Member
here we go
Vire
Member
It's alright that each Bomb member has a different interpretation. Not going to hate on Brad for seeing it one way while Jeff sees it another.
I think that's what makes it great.
But Brad's complaints just really don't make sense to me. He said earlier "they are lucky the narrative and art design are so good because it's basically COD in linearity".
Lucky? This wasn't achieved through some miraculous chance of luck. It was achieved through hard work and incredible talent.
I think that's what makes it great.
But Brad's complaints just really don't make sense to me. He said earlier "they are lucky the narrative and art design are so good because it's basically COD in linearity".
Lucky? This wasn't achieved through some miraculous chance of luck. It was achieved through hard work and incredible talent.
Chance Hale
Member
Thought it was pretty tame but sorry mate! For whatever reason I thought this was the Giant Bomb Bioshock Infinite spoiler thread.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Someone needs to mailbag Giantbomb some Calvino or Borges, augh
Keyser Soze
Member
Melee-spec Vinny is really speeding this up. I took much longer.
It will help in he fight
It will help in he fight
to save the core too
disappeared
Banned
This is so good. Props to the crew for doing this sort of in-depth talk.
Holy shit.
And yeah Vinny is taking less time than I expected.
I so badly want to start my 1999 playthrough.
And for a guy who plays vigi games as a job, not understanding the difference between a CoD FPS and the combat in a Bioshock is either really disingenuous or really alarming.
HiddenSentry
Member
I really hope Vinny doesn't rush himself in trying to finish this. I so enjoyed taking my time with pretty much everything past this point.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Braaaaaaaaad (more infinite spoilers)
Booker had Anna after rejecting baptism. Comstock wants a blood heir, and that's why he steals Anna.
Chance Hale
Member
More doesn't really seem to mean much in this case
And his misunderstanding of why
Comstack wanted Booker's child as well as what the root was seem to imply a lot of them didn't really......get it? I don't know. Maybe I'm just misinterpreting their statements
Backfoggen
Banned
He got stuck on the same spot I got stuck at. FPSes need some better sliding along walls mechanics.
Chance Hale
Member
I used undertow to give me some breathing room from the larger enemies like Patriots and Handymen.
Cerebral Assassin
Member
I don't think he was saying that it plays like CoD but that it is as linear as a CoD.
It's sorta useless when you upgrade bucking bronco's longevity, you can just melee them while they're hovering and they'll fly off into the abyss. Or just put a couple shots into them so they fly away.
Now undertow with Handymen, that shit will save your life.
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