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BioShock pt 2

Wed, 12/05/2007 - 11:49 |  Robert MacLean
In my previous post on BioShock I commented that the VitaChambers were a big gameplay issue for me since it made it far too easy. What I didn't comment on was how they broke the story completely. Why am I the only person who can use them? I know my character is special, but if I am so special that makes me the only one who can use them, why are they scattered around rapture like candy?

Thinking more into this, the answer to a lot of gameplay issues actually would be to drop the number of VitaChambers (2 per level, maybe) and seriously drop the number of bad guys. Then enable bad guys to respawn at the VitaChambers too, unless caught by a little sister (and thus drained of adam). This opens up some nice avenues of gameplay, one it slows it down a lot to enable you to actually be tactical. It lowers the number of bad guys allowing for more distinct-ness in them. It makes little sister harvesting an interesting issue, do you kill them early to get adam or let them run around as cleanup crews for and then only kill them later.

Despite that dream which will never happen, one nice thing has happened. A patch for BioShock has been released and does support turning off VitaChambers completely. More details on the patch at http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/pcpatch.html

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you are retarded

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 16:15.
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you are not the only one that can use the via-chambers. an audiodiary tells us that ryan had them set specifically to his dna harmonics. and you (the character) have his dna. so it doesn't ruin the whole continuity of the game...just another complaining gamer who is too quick to criticize.

I never knew that - guess it

Submitted by Robert MacLean on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 11:58.
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I never knew that - guess it was an audiodiary i never found. The audiodiary part reminds me of "Thank you for smoking" where the director says something along the lines of: we'll add in one line of dialog about how we invented the xyz which allows us to smoke in space and that'll fix the logic. I am confused at why you think I'm too quick to criticize especially with the fact that a) I have a solution I think would've worked better. If I was just complaining why would I have spent time thinking about it b) The fact they brought in an option to disable use does point to the fact they even realise some truth in this.

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