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Link to original post: The last level of Bioshock in the eyes of a noob
Today, I was sitting in front of my friend Filip's computer, playing Bejeweled Blitz. He told me it was boring or something, I don't know, all I remember is that I regained consciousness when I realized that he had pressed alt+F4 and my game had disappeared from the screen. Holding back my rage, I watched as he started up another game, Bioshock.
"This game is really, really good" he said and pressed Load Game. "I'll take you to an early level".
I had been thinking of getting Bioshock before. This was my chance to see if it was my kind of game. As the gameplay started, my crossbow wielding character entered a room with a disgusting looking man stuck to some kind of contraption. He was talking about stuff I probably should have learned by playing to this point of the game. Filip grabbed the mouse and went to the menu screen.
"No, wait! This isn't the beginning... It's the last boss. Let me get an easier level for you."
"It's okay, let me get owned" I told him.
I returned to the game and walked around the arena where I was supposed to fight. The human-like boss remained stuck.
"Walk up to him" said Filip.
I did as he said. The game told me to press E, and so I did. Suddenly, a huge syringe appeared and stabbed the man-thing in the chest. He broke loose and started floating around, throwing fireballs.
I clicked a bunch of keys in order to find the dash button, and when I reached the shift key, a screen appeared. It looked like if it was some kind of extended weapon selection.
I pressed the number keys where weapons are usually located in FPS games and found a monkey wrench as my melee weapon. I thought, while I was going to die anyway, I might as well try to beat him to death in the manliest way possible.
To my surprise, not only did the wrench do considerable damage to Mr. Man-Thing, but he also became frozen solid. This gave me a chance to use my crossbow on the guy, and after a few shots, he returned to his contraption. When I walked toward it, Filip shouted "PRESS F! PRESS F!".
I did as he said and my health returned to 100%. After giving the boss another shot in the chest, he started dashing around again, and this time, his attacks had changed slightly. Once again, I used the weapons I had to obliterate him within a minute and then pressed F to regain full health. After doing this one more time, I gave him another shot and... won?
I... beat the game? I had played the last level of a game I knew NOTHING about and had won the first time I tried. It wasn't even challenging, Filip told me I could have pressed F and regained health a few more times.
Is THIS what modern FPS single player games are like? Since I'm a Mac user, I haven't played any since the first Unreal back in the 90s but I'm sure there was ANY difficulty to speak of back then. Perhaps I'm judging an entire genre by the last boss of Bioshock, but this was just ridiculous.
Today, I was sitting in front of my friend Filip's computer, playing Bejeweled Blitz. He told me it was boring or something, I don't know, all I remember is that I regained consciousness when I realized that he had pressed alt+F4 and my game had disappeared from the screen. Holding back my rage, I watched as he started up another game, Bioshock.
"This game is really, really good" he said and pressed Load Game. "I'll take you to an early level".
I had been thinking of getting Bioshock before. This was my chance to see if it was my kind of game. As the gameplay started, my crossbow wielding character entered a room with a disgusting looking man stuck to some kind of contraption. He was talking about stuff I probably should have learned by playing to this point of the game. Filip grabbed the mouse and went to the menu screen.
"No, wait! This isn't the beginning... It's the last boss. Let me get an easier level for you."
"It's okay, let me get owned" I told him.
I returned to the game and walked around the arena where I was supposed to fight. The human-like boss remained stuck.
"Walk up to him" said Filip.
I did as he said. The game told me to press E, and so I did. Suddenly, a huge syringe appeared and stabbed the man-thing in the chest. He broke loose and started floating around, throwing fireballs.
I clicked a bunch of keys in order to find the dash button, and when I reached the shift key, a screen appeared. It looked like if it was some kind of extended weapon selection.
I pressed the number keys where weapons are usually located in FPS games and found a monkey wrench as my melee weapon. I thought, while I was going to die anyway, I might as well try to beat him to death in the manliest way possible.
To my surprise, not only did the wrench do considerable damage to Mr. Man-Thing, but he also became frozen solid. This gave me a chance to use my crossbow on the guy, and after a few shots, he returned to his contraption. When I walked toward it, Filip shouted "PRESS F! PRESS F!".
I did as he said and my health returned to 100%. After giving the boss another shot in the chest, he started dashing around again, and this time, his attacks had changed slightly. Once again, I used the weapons I had to obliterate him within a minute and then pressed F to regain full health. After doing this one more time, I gave him another shot and... won?
I... beat the game? I had played the last level of a game I knew NOTHING about and had won the first time I tried. It wasn't even challenging, Filip told me I could have pressed F and regained health a few more times.
Is THIS what modern FPS single player games are like? Since I'm a Mac user, I haven't played any since the first Unreal back in the 90s but I'm sure there was ANY difficulty to speak of back then. Perhaps I'm judging an entire genre by the last boss of Bioshock, but this was just ridiculous.
