2K release a "QoL update" for Bioshock 1/2 Remaster, Infinite that adds yet another launcher

[Day of the Cope]

You enjoy having a launcher for a nearly decade old game? Me neither. However, 2K thought that these games needed a launcher "with a Store to buy things". For those who need a reminder, Bioshock Infinite is nearly a decade old. What's more, the launcher causes the game to simply not run on Linux which is a bit of an issue considering that Valve can barely keep up with the demand for the Steam Deck. Suffice to say, people are rightfully pissed and Bioshock Infinite's review has tanked.

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[Zaryiu2]

So they managed to somehow make Bioshock Infinite even worse somehow, never change 2K

 

[Day of the Cope]

So they managed to somehow make Bioshock Infinite even worse somehow, never change 2K

On the upside, some people have been saved from playing Bio: Inf.

 

[batterybee]

are the first 2 worth playing?

 

[TVStactic]

what in the fucking goddamn?
they added 2K launcher on bioshock? for what reason? i kind of get Xcom but bioshock? does that thing even has co-op? it fucking doesn't...

are the first 2 worth playing?

they are but it's like the witcher 3, people say it's the 2nd coming of jesus christ but it's just a decent game that has few bugs instead of being pozzed shit that is broken to hell and back like the new saints row reboot...

 

[WULULULULU]

Welp. out of all the games from 2013, Bioshock (and TLOU) really aged poorly, especially compared to the competitors at that time.

• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - OG 2013 GOTY, Amstrong approved
• Grand Theft Auto V: Rockstar's gigantic cashcow that is still fun (ignore online)
• Saints Row IV: vastly different from its predecessors yet the superpower gameplay made it fun as fuck
• DOTA 2: Very fun for masochists, even better if you're slavic or Russian
• Some other shit I forgot.

 

[Pissmaster]

are the first 2 worth playing?

Probably a unpopular opinion, but Bioshock is honestly a pretty shitty FPS where everything looks muddy and indistinct. It's also very easy, even on the hardest difficulty. The twist is kind of cool, but absolutely not worth the 15 hours to get there.

Bioshock 2 is a decent FPS with actual difficulty, but the story's weaker and the final act of the game was a letdown: it just kind of ends, without even much fanfare. It's the better game if you absolutely must play a Bioshock game, but all in all, they're very overrated and hideous. I've been nice to them before, but fuck it, there are countless way better shooters out there. I'd give the first a 3/10, and the sequel a 6/10.

 

[Toolbox]

Welp. out of all the games from 2013, Bioshock (and TLOU) really aged poorly, especially compared to the competitors at that time.

• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - OG 2013 GOTY, Amstrong approved
• Grand Theft Auto V: Rockstar's gigantic cashcow that is still fun (ignore online)
• Saints Row IV: vastly different from its predecessors yet the superpower gameplay made it fun as fuck
• DOTA 2: Very fun for masochists, even better if you're slavic or Russian
• Some other shit I forgot.

But speaking of Rockstar, they are no better than this. they went back and raped a launcher into GTA 4, and came out with the horrid triple pack of gta 3, gta sa and vice city, which I believe removed the originals from sale and very likely comes with their shitty, broken ass launcher too.

 

[Day of the Cope]

are the first 2 worth playing?

Well, the original versions aren't on Steam and don't really run very well on modern Windows. The remasters? Well, here's your fucking GFX options in the first game:

Enough said. Could you believe they were even worse on release? Check the attachment if you don't believe me. If you want to try it out, find a 360/PS3 version of the originals and play that because the remasters are a massive downgrade and they straight up run like shit on PC.

 

[WULULULULU]

But speaking of Rockstar, they are no better than this. they went back and raped a launcher into GTA 4, and came out with the horrid triple pack of gta 3, gta sa and vice city, which I believe removed the originals from sale and very likely comes with their shitty, broken ass launcher too.

Ez pirate with repack or vanilla version.

 

[Toolbox]

Ez pirate with repack or vanilla version.

I've tried one of them and it just would not work. I think starting from the steam version is a lost cause.

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

On the upside, some people have been saved from playing Bio: Inf.

Something you don't like about Infinite (besides the plot "twist" at the end)?

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

Something you don't like about Infinite (besides the plot "twist" at the end)?

come on man, bioshock infinite was ass and you know it. the story sucked. elizabeth sucked. wow, she can see the dimensional merge! she'll give you a health kit! she'll let you choose if you want a turret or a giant turd for cover! wow! then she gets taken by the big gay bird like five times in a row! such amazing character. i remember the big gay bird snatching her after the ghost bitch fight and i just said fuck it. the guns sucked. upgrading them felt like nothing, where in the other bioshocks when you upgrade your gun it changes. the plasmids sucked and i barely remember using them. the twins were gay as fuck and woke up each morning staring at their poster of the gman. the rails felt like i was trying to do cirque du solei with my dick. they took away the wrench, man.

 

[Super Hans]

Something you don't like about Infinite (besides the plot "twist" at the end)?

The fact that to make the story make sense you have to take a sledge to your head. Multiverses and time travel are universally shit plot devices, but going beyond having just one and choosing to combine the two is a crime against writing.

 

[Rembrandt]

Fixes for bypassing the launcher have been discovered on day one - as simple as adding a launch option with a fake command or making a desktop shortcut. And thank fuck, because for some people the launcher wouldn't even download (leaving an empty folder with no. exe), locking them out of the game.

What the fuck, 2K?

 

[Day of the Cope]

Something you don't like about Infinite (besides the plot "twist" at the end)?

Oh boy, do you have a weekend? Right from the word go, the game treats you like a fucking idiot. You're given a note that is clearly a passcode of some kind. Instead of being able to enter the code, like a video game, you watch Booker enter the code for you in a cutscene. This continues into the baseball scene where, despite being a first-person shooter, the game turns the act of throwing a ball into a button prompt which only does a disservice to the game. I doubt as many people would have even realized they could have thrown the ball at the stage conductor if there wasn't a button prompt to do it. But the worst part, the absolute worst part, is how people huff this games farts and act like it's some groundbreaking achievement to say "racism is bad, m'kay" while having a population that never even calls a black person a "nigger". If you ever so much say point out a fault of the game, and there as many as you can so clearly see, inbredditors will say it's "2deep4u". All this isn't even getting into what could have been.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Well, the original versions aren't on Steam and don't really run very well on modern Windows. The remasters? Well, here's your fucking GFX options in the first game:
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Enough said. Could you believe they were even worse on release? Check the attachment if you don't believe me. If you want to try it out, find a 360/PS3 version of the originals and play that because the remasters are a massive downgrade and they straight up run like shit on PC.

I tried playing Bioshock 1 for nostalgia's sake. The fucking moron devs decided to put in film reels of a making of into the game. You know so when you're playing an Immersive-ish FPS you can then sometimes get taken out of the experience entirely to hear Ken Levine pretend he's a brilliant film director.

 

[Rembrandt]

But the worst part, the absolute worst part, is how people huff this games farts and act like it's some groundbreaking achievement to say "racism is bad, m'kay" while having a population that never even calls a black person a "nigger". If you ever so much say point out a fault of the game, and there as many as you can so clearly see, inbredditors will say it's "2deep4u". All this isn't even getting into what could have been.

People have been waking up to just how bad Infinite is, thankfully. Here's a few video essays/critiques that shit on the game, addressing BTS fuckery going on with Ken Levine and critiquing even smaller details than the notepad shitpost. For example, Burial at Sea fucking over the plot just so Elizabeth can be behind all major plot events for no reason + downgrading already established characters to "we stole from each other lul" and "I took the kid hostage so Elizabeth can become a stronger person "

 

[Anon88]

It always confused me that Bioshock Infinite even had Bioshock in it's title. There's nothing connecting it to the original Bioshock games, even the location of the game is different. Yes I didn't play the garbage DLC to get the "full story" but that shouldn't be the only part that's like the first games in the series.

 

[AMHOLIO]

I'm fat and gay and enjoyed Bioshock Infinite a lot, just redowloaded it to replay after not playing it for 5 years, this fucking blows. They fucked up the console ports remaster, now they have to make the pc master race suffer like assholes.