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Oct 2nd, 2007, 02:30 AM
It just seems like an awfully contrived mechanism to kick-start the game. Suspending disbelief for a moment to think that the main entry point into Rapture - a major metropolitan city - would be out in the middle of fucking nowhere, HIDDEN AWAY in a creepy haunted house, there is absolutely no reason presented to me why I should care about anything at all that's going on.
Since this is theoretically a story-driven FPS, you'll have to EXCUSE ME for using comparisons to Marathon.
In marathon, you know the following at the beginning: You are a security officer, you were sent from mars to check in with a problem on the Marathon, things are fucked up, the ship tells you that as a security officer you need to fix the problem.
In bioshock, you know the following at the beginning: You are a man filled with GREAT PROMISE.
I guess my biggest problem with bioshock is that everything really only seems to matter in terms of your next task. Why do you go down the elevator? No reason; it's the only place to go. Why do you pick up the radio? No reason; you can't leave until you do. Why are you following this guy's orders? No reason; it's the only way to proceed. Why should you care? No reason. Why doesn't Ryan kill YOU with one of his thousands of traps that he kills all his subordinates with? No reason; you're lucky, I guess?
Let me put it another way: In marathon, when you don't know something, it's usually either because it doesn't pertain to anything going on (but you can figure it out if you're interested - you being a cyborg, history of AI rampancy, etc.) OR because someone specifically doesn't want you to know it. In Bioshock, when you don't know something, it's because the CHARACTER YOU ARE PLAYING AS just isn't sharing that information with you, and there's no way to figure out what it is YOU ARE THINKING until you can piece it together near the end of the game.
Since I haven't played through Bioshock, I can only assume that the reason for this is that you find out you're really some asshole in league with Ryan or some other evil syndicate, and that's why they couldn't tell you earlier so that you can be all GASP WHAT HAVE I DONE, but really now. Giving NO reason for you being there until then just leaves me disinterested.
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