Machina said:
ResilientFighter said:
Is this a political anger you have against the game? There are literally extremely high reviews of this amazing game and a select group of pissed of Republicans and Libertarians that despised the game due to political reasons not because of the mechanics, art, music, level building or AI etc
I never expected something like this from you since you usually have good tastes in games so what is your reasoning behind this hatred of one of the best FPS of all time?
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I'm not American. But surely if I didn't like it because I was a Rand-ian type Libertarian I wouldn't love the first game? Because despite Ryan being an incredibly charismatic and articulate figure he's quite clearly a villain and his libertarian dream has collapsed, descending into a brutal civil war. BioShock features a lot of libertarian concepts but mostly as a critique.
No it's almost nothing to do with the politics, although BioShock's political elements were more interesting a nuanced imo. No, it's just not a good game. Awful, repetitive wave-based combat, crap AI, uninteresting enemy types, tedious interactions and irritants in the middle of fights ('Look, Booker, I found a coin for the millionth time, here!'), and hazy graphics. And of course it was a massive downgrade over what we were led to expect when initially revealed, from gameplay to locations to story elements. The first half an hour was good but it's all downhill from there on out.
It had clearly become stuck in development hell - too ambitious for the time and for the team and its budget. So they patched it up as best they could and dumped it out. Critics lapped it up, but then they did the same with lots of hyped games that didn't deliver imo, not least GTA IV, so I don't really care that it got high scoring reviews.
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Sorry if I offend but all that you said sounds like clouded personal opinion not actual facts and opinions shared by other devs and reviewers except for some of the technical issues the game had which were caused by take two interactive being assholes forcing the game to be finished and budgets constraints.
When I saw back then conservatives praising the game as one of the best FPS ever made even though it "pandered to liberals with a bullshit political agenda" it blew my mind.
No worries though I have a similar situation of not liking a highly praised game like zelda botw due to it being overrated as hell, being boring and having technical/graphical flaws so I am aware we are all different and can interpret art of any kind in very distinct ways. Dont get me wrong though i would not call BOTW a stain on the series like you did to bioshock infinite that def was a bit overboard lol
