Josh @ 27/12/2017 0:17

The first game is so much fun. I don't care much for the second one at all, though.

Agreed, I barely remember it but I definitely remember being let down at the time. I just read part of an article trying to convince people that it’s actually the best of the series and it made some interesting points. I’m excited to play it again without the hype and massive expectations

They're my planned Summer games at the moment. It's too hard to find time to play any story games / series with the way my schedule is right now. I had intended to finish up Mass Effect Andromeda over this Christmas break but that fell through.

Going to start this my first day after school ends. I'll make sure someone holds me accountable.

Save file worked fine, I was nervous after your post Boc. Everything's still running great

Headphones and lights off is definitely the way to play

If I could give any tip to new players it'd be to really listen to those audio tapes. Find as many as you can and stop walking for a few seconds to listen to it unfold, it's so worth it. They tell mini stories but also come together to form the full picture of what happened to Rapture before you showed up

Wikey @ 27/12/2017 21:53

Intro/Med Pavilion + Perhaps my only complaint is that the seemingly infinite respawns detract from the tension a bit. Like, when fighting Big Daddy, it was tense as fuck, but after the first few deaths it was just a matter of hammering away at him. Didn't help that no matter how many times I died, the damage I did to enemies remained. Is that specific to the first level?

Spoiler

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Yeah that's a p. fair complaint, it's like that throughout the whole series. But to be fair I could see it being ridiculously hard otherwise. It's easy to run out of ammo or ADAM so if you blow through all your ammo on a Big Daddy and he kills you, the dent you put in him is kinda necessary. Otherwise you really will be whacking at them with the wrench all game which would blow. I can see how it takes some of the tension out though

I've been having to relearn the balance between ammo and plasmids after I kept running low on ammo. I'm not very good at switching to antipersonnel or anti armor or electric ammo at all, I gotta get better at that. But I've been having fun mixing different plasmids together and resorting to those over weapons

Hephaestus/Rapture Central Control

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Hephaestus: Theme of this level wasn't as immediately interesting as the previous few but it was still cool. Cool to see the inner workings of the city and get more audio diaries about how it was built and run. I like that Ryan's office is way down there too, all the way on the ocean floor instead of way up high in the luxury apartments I don't remember appreciating McDonagh as a character as much the first times playing through, but he was better this time around. He built half of Rapture and then saw Ryan slowly but surely go power mad and start to destroy it so he decided to try to assassinate him. Sad to see him pinned up in Ryan's trophy hall, that location was great Ryan was perfect in this one, we heard the most from him by far throughout the level I liked the relics of the dead Big Daddies littered in different places throughout it AND THENNNNNNNNN OFC the big twist, which I won't even go into right now in case any of these fucks decided to click into this tag without having finished the level yet. If you just did that and you're reading this, shame on you. SHAME ON YOU But I will say that it's fucking great and shocked me like crazy the first time I played. I bet at the time it was the first major twist I had come across in a video game. I don't remember any other games around that time being so story driven and well written. I remember my jaw dropping the first time I realized what was going on, it's so well executed. And the big Ryan scene was really great too I love the Little Sisters showing up when it's all going to hell to lead you to safety

Olympus Heights/Apollo Square

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Man did this game get hard overnight. Post-twist starts to get real tough. Fontaine keeps lowering your health and later he fucks up your plasmids so you keep getting one randomized one. I ran real low on ammo during these levels. Always had a full wallet but when you buy a handful of ammo it drains it so fast Good shit with Tenenbaum and Fontaine taunting you the whole time. He makes for a really good villain post-Ryan I liked entering the apartments of some of the major side characters, that was fun. Cohen's was my favorite ofc and you got to find the body of The abandoned apartment was fucked up, it had a couple and their three daughters dead on the couches from suicide A lot more from Suchong who is great. The end of the last one had the incredibly sad audio tape where he makes the little kid break his dog's neck to test the mind control. Fucking BRUTAL! But he gets what he deserves because you find his body later with a Big Daddy drill still steaming and in his back. Great moment Also came across Culpepper's body after Sullivan killed her. Not a big character but a sad ending for her Apollo Square was cool, I like how some of the lower class apartments were re-purposed for Atlas' rebellion during the civil war. It was nice seeing Atlas' headquarters and finding the place where all the Atlas propaganda was posted. You also find Diane McClintock's body after she walks in on Atlas recording a diary in his Fontaine voice, he must've killed her right after Design of the two places wasn't as interesting as others before it but it was fun to see one level housing the powerful and one housing the poor Point Prometheus tomorrow. Might end up finishing the game then, I don't think I have much left