Bioshock… anasaywhahuh?
Ok, so I bought Bioshock the other day (I know, about 6 months late) and started playing it after hearing nothing but how intense and deep the story is and many other great reviews of the game. Well…I don’t get it. I played for about 3-4 hours, finished the first boss, halfway to the second before I stopped playing. All the while I was expecting to see something that was really revolutionary and mind-blowing only to be really let down. I gathered many of the recordings and got three of the plasmids (out of 11 I believe) and a few other power-ups, but nothing really great. After reading about it online and returning the game, I see that you get trip wires, landmine’s, RPG’s and such, but it still doesn’t seem like the great game that everyone is raving about.
As far as the story goes, meh, I figured that after at least an hour or two you would have some sort of information, even in the slightest amount, about what’s going on with your character. The first thing I noticed was the fact that after getting into Rapture and seeing the side effects of the plasmids via the crazed population (that seem to know exactly who is and who isn’t one of them somehow) your character decides to go ahead and just pump himself full of ‘em…yeah. After reading more on the net about the game I find that your character is more or less being controlled by this ‘Atlas’ guy by using the phrase "Would you kindly…" to push you in the direction he wants you to go, which suggests to me that the game is basically you doing all this stuff for this guy, then at the very end you finally regain control and do whatever it is that you feel you should do. Kinda lame if you ask me.
The "monsters" in the game were way too repetitive and predictable to me, they just seemed like the same 5 models (barely repainted) thrown at you time and time again. The AI was so-so, I didn’t find the enemies doing anything great, just a lot of kamikaze-type behavior.
It all just seems like re-hashing old game concepts into one game, nothing too ground-breaking. All in all, it was a very disappointing experience after hearing all the hype. Just my 2.3462 cents.
New little utility for CS:S server admins
I wrote this script to help keep my maplist.txt file updated. I tried to write it in Perl but unfortunately I’m not familiar enough with Perl to actually do anything with it, so I wrote it in PHP. Its rather simplistic and should work for any game that uses "maplist.txt" in the same directory of "maps/" but I only have CS:S server and haven’t tried on anything else.
This script is to be used at the users discretion, I claim no responsibility for any outcome of the script, even if it works right. Other than that, let me know if you’d like to see any improvements or whatever.
[Download id not defined]HARD-WiRE - ReWired
Ok, yeah so the whole building a linux box didn’t go exactly as planned, but I got slackware 12.0 up and running on the old box and now its used for a Counter Strike: Source and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year server (if interested let me know and I’ll pass on all the necessary details.) for now.
Anyhoo, the whole building a linux box fiasco is now behind me that I have a stable linux-powered machine, and now on to the new question of "What shall I do with this blog?" Well, after some thought I think I am going to start commenting about random tech-based news from around the net and my own personal projects (making this the 234,345,135th useless blog! w00t!)
So here I go with the re-wiring of HARD-WiRE. God help us all.
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