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The ownage that is Bioshock...

Its been a while since a new blog...ok, a looong while since a new blog . But any who, im finally writing a blog so ya betta post in it! Or prepare to be shunned! SHHHUUUNNED!!!!

So i got Bioshock the day it came out. Ive played the demo more than once so i knew what i was doing in the intro. Oh, btw...this game has one of the most AMAZING presentations i have ever seen since MGS1 and Half-Life2! And thats saying very little . But here i am, i get past the part where the demo ends, and im cant help but think, "this game is so amazing i can spend an hour just looking at the scenery!" SERIOUSLY! This game is absolutely gorgeous! And i wasnt even playing on my HDTV at the time !

So i find a shotgun thats just laying there on the ground, in this gigantic room thats darker than anything, with only one bright light shinning where the shotgun lay. And im thinking, "as soon as i pick up this shotty, i know something is gonna happen!" Well....i was right lol! [spoiler] Suddenly all the lights shut-off back and forth, while at the same time im hearing maniacal screams from crazy grannies coming from all sides! I get my electrical charge ready to stun one of the ladies momentarily, and BOOM!, i blast them with the shotgun. Then...BOOM again! Only i missed! And i get whacked hard!

Not only that....this game has made me realized that im a hardcore achievement junkie . Literally the first thing i did once i booted up Bioshock was check out the achievements to see if they have one for beating the game on hard. Unsurprisingly it did, in which i choose Hard Mode at the start up menu just to get that achievement . Which im sorta regretting now cause the game is..well...F-ing HARD lolz! But im still pushing, and i know im gonna beat this game.

The point of this thread....is that BioShock has the potential to win Game of the Year. HUGE potential! And im only in the beginning! Which also bring me to another point. The score that GS has giving to Bioshock. While i dont disagree with the 9.0 it received, i believe thats a fair score. What i disagree is with Jeff's professional reviews. He states that after long hours of play time, there can be second long freezes in the game. Look, i played Bioshock from 7pm last night, to 2am. Thats 7 hours, and i didnt experience a dam thing. Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion had the most "hitches" that i have ever seen in any game on my 360, and it received a score of 9.6. And the reviewer (which was not Jeff, it was Greg Kasavin) stated that the technical issues where passable. Also, Jeff states that the games lack of death penalty (which i some-what disagree) makes things too easy. Well....he's obviously not playing on hard mode like my ass is I believe that Bioshock should have deserved that 9.5. B/c quite frankly, with this new review system in place, a .5 means a lot now. I under stand that a review is all based on opinion, but Jeff's past reviews (Gears of Wars 9.6 and ZELDA: TP's 8.8 ) is making him look very un-proffesional in my personal opinion. Im beginning to think that GS uses reviews to boost activity/traffic up (specifically in System Wars) by giving extremly surprising reviews (Tony Hawk 3 ring a bell??) despite many other common and similiar reviews found among other gamesites other than GS it self.

GameSpot is beginning to lose its good credibility. Fanboys are now indirectly ruining GS' credibility b/c of System Wars being GameSpots main drive in its forum system. That, is the biggest point of my blog. Agree? Disagree?

Posted by Solid-CELL, 08/22/2007 4:43pm
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Gamespot is losing it's credibility?
You need credibility in the first place to be able to lose it.
l mean have you read even really old reviews like Metal Gear Solid?
8.5 and 3/4 of the review was spent bashing it.
Posted 08/23/2007 7:36am
I dont know, I'm just going to say sometimes I believe the ratings can be a little off if you know what I mean I'm a big castlevania fan they gave Curse of Darkness for the PS2 a 6.8 when I believed it deserved at least a 8.2 it was a real good game so I have to agree its losing its credibility

aka Halo series overrated
Posted 08/24/2007 9:02am
you can say the same thing with Subsistence. Sooo much more than Snake eater and only gets a .3 jump score
Posted 08/26/2007 3:30pm
GS review on Metal Gear Solid for the PS "Once you know exactly what to do and skip as much plot as possible, you can run through the game in three hours or less."
I think that review gave me cancer I hope its benai
Posted 08/30/2007 5:44pm
GS bashes all the the games to tell you why its bad but cmon!!
Its like if you bash a game for the controls but really the most important aspects are Story and gameplay.
Posted 09/05/2007 4:59am
Nah, Subsistence only getting a .3 jump is nothing. DMC3: SE had better improvements than Sub and got a .4 decrease

And Patryk, controls are one of the biggest aspects of gameplay
Posted 09/05/2007 6:40am
very true gallion dont want to break a window with your wii mote do you ?
Posted 09/05/2007 1:25pm
Umm....if you knew Gallion, which you dont, he would smack a hoe with the Wii-mote

Not actually BUY the Wii!
Posted 09/20/2007 7:51pm
wish. I had s/th to do with it
Posted 12/11/2007 2:38am
Hey Cell you got to update profile!
Posted 01/24/2008 8:32am
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