Quote Originally Posted by unwinddesign View Post
The main draw is the story, which I wish people would stop creaming themselves over. Clearly everyone who says the story is so deep and fantastic and intriguing has either never read a book or never played a game with a really deep story. It doesn't even brush up against the somewhat over the top stories of the Final Fantasy series. It has all the intrigue of the Da Vinci Code, which means it's somewhat entertaining, but ultimately retarded. People will still do massive analysis on it, though, because they feel intellectual when playing it.

It's a good game, not amazing, since the actual gameplay is a bit iffy and has a lot of issues (360 version). Don't know if they were truly fixed in the recent patch that was so hyped up, but I haven't really been inclined to check it out again.

When reviewers were comparing it to Deus Ex, I was excited, but it has jack shit on DE, and doesn't even come close to that level of subtlety and mastery. And, on a side note, Ayn Rand is a fucking moron and a bad subject to base a GAME on.
You know what? I've been spending the last week being absolutely intrigued with this game, and I consider myself a reasonably literate person.

I wouldn't say I feel "intellectual" while playing it, but I definitely feel something. A something I haven't felt since Snatcher. I personally haven't played a game with a backstory this fascinating since playing through that on the Sega CD in '95. There are a lot of neat literary devices at work in the game. My background is in science, so I lack the fancy schmancy lit vocabulary to describe everything, but I'm really enthralled with it.

Really, I hate FPS games for the most part, but the whole aesthetic of Bioshock just draws me in. There is something more to it. I could love any game, regardless of the gameplay, if it was presented in this interesting of a manner.

Also, you might not like the way it's done, and you may have problems with the gameplay and that's valid. But I don't think it's fair to imply that everybody who is moved by this game is a dribbling idiot.