Analyzing Bioshock - 17 Years Later 

I genuinely never understood the mouse acceleration thing.. Windows has mouse acceleration built into it.. if you want to use mouse acceleration, you can turn it on and you probably already do if you like that thing.. I remember I used to use it.. But I had a very very specific setting for it to be useful lol. I can only imagine how miserable that must be with the Windows fighting the game's mouse acceleration.. But I do remember.. not in specifics I just remember it being awful. It's like, it's just a setting in the unreal engine configuration files.. and I just I just don't understand why even to this day why this is a default? And it's not like irrational didn't have PC experience... They almost had exclusively PC experience, in fact that was one of my disappointments.. going from system shock 2, and SWAT 4.. to BioShock was such a backwards step in immersion and presentation.. this was like invisible war basically but released at a time and for an audience that didn't know any better, which good for them.. But.. you know.. It is it is so absolutely confusing now, like did you.. did you play test this at all? I can't remember if the games for Windows BS that ruined every peripheral that used to be a thing on Windows XP.. I can't remember if that had already ruined the landscape of gaming, but given this was a 360 game initially for development that wouldn't surprise me.. I just don't know many PC gamers that had an Xbox 360 controller back then, you had to get a specific controller as well for the PC not just an Xbox 360 one and plugged it in... I only found this out the hard way that this was the new future when the flight mission in crisis didn't recognize my joystick, and then I realized oh yeah this is awkward... Looking at the unbindable Xbox 360 logo for the controller binds in the menu.. then GTA 4, I remember being kind of excited when the helicopter mission showed up.. and I remembered San Andreas letting you not only mine pretty much every peripheral in existence, but you could have triple binds in the PC port.. well nope lol same stupid picture of an Xbox 360 with unbindable controls.. My joystick pluged in, it read all the inputs lol.. Just you know didn't work anymore in a modern game, which is somewhat of an ironic term given how many steps backwards we had already gone in that regard. It's just it's such a simple stupid thing, and with BioShock it it was unreal 2 engine.. like this was not an unknown quantity on the PC.. and it had been an engine that irrational had worked with on SWAT 4.. so it's not like they didn't know.. it's like what did you expect everyone to go buy a 360 controller to play a crappier controlled version of your game which already controlled crappily because it was designed around the 360 controllers limitations? I don't remember that part in the manual.. I got nothing against mouse acceleration if you like it, like I said I used to use it... It made sense I had a very small mouse pad and space for it.. I got it so that I could control it and predict it and I got pretty good at doing that and that's the way I like doing things it made sense to me it was pretty low for what it's worth with the resolutions back then.. But.. funny enough... There's a switch for mouse acceleration in the engine configuration.. there's no switch for the sensitivity threshold for it... So I'm assuming you're just using the 360 thumbsticks switch settings.. That's a very small threshold I assume to compare to a mouse pad of even a small 3M original normal back then size lol.. I'm never gotten an answer on any of this stuff and any of these interviews that I've gone through... And maybe some brush-offs and some generalizings and whatnot but.. it's like.. how did you forget the PC controls and how it controls overnight...? When you spent your entire career working with it up until then...?

Cool I thought I'm the only one that knows that little detail.

Agreed. I played Infinite first and then the first two a few years ago. I liked the first and really liked the story of the 2nd one.

Kinda, but also there's too many people who did play it & for whom the social critique that fundamentally informs and creates the story just ricochets off of the smoothness of their head.

Too bad the MA and saving issues are still prevalent

@@matteodelapaz1698 I personally haven’t run into save issues, on Mac or Xbox, but of course that’s just my experience

Ohhhhh you’re the guy who’s always on my community polls

I really hope another bioshock comes out.

The health bars and upgrades carried the combat

Who didn’t do research? I’d spam pictures on every enemy I saw. Also don’t forget the Chemical Thrower, Electric Gel was *the* most broken thing in the game. Hilariously easy kills on Big Daddies

Idk I'm not gonna claim is greatly balanced or anything But I really don't agree I'm not an expert ofc But through most of my run my game plan was Shotgun + Electro Bolt, telekinesis and Inferno Saving the grenade launcher and chemical thrower for big daddies And gotta say I had a pretty good time and most importantly a fun one

He could have commanded him to do any thing so I've always thought this take away was reaching just a bit too far

​@@Jarekthegamingdragonyeah but Andrew Ryan still drunk the objectivism kool aid. Besides he was going to die anyway if I remember correctly from de audiologs. And your character was Ryan's son, but can't recalled if Ryan knew this or not.

Andrew was a dead man anyways. Fontaine was back in charge and dictators have awful fates to mobs. He had already decided to end himself and the city too with the self destruct.

Jare' really deserves it. He's done the work and paid the dues

Think it's from the game Legendary if I'm not mistaken.

Eve is probably an Adam based product. So he isn’t wrong in that regard.

BioShock 2 is better than BioShock 1 in a lot of aspects, try replaying it

i bought it. the gun play is great but somewhat miss b1 more. bs2 story isnt as great imo but thats just my thoughts not as scary too i digged the horror more of BS1 @@inesitadeica

not a bug, thats how the console version is for the remastered version

That's a bug on all platforms.

@@benehnn2803 bro it ain't a feature lmao, it's definitely a bug

@@AGuyInShades saves on pc are fine for both remastered games for me, just on consoles I had the issue mentioned above

@@fudgepacker2858 correct.

Aim sights is useless because the hip fire is already good.

You click in on the stick and you get a zoom, it’s really only useful with the crossbow

Bioshock doesn't play like an immersive sim. It plays like a fairly linear shooter with light rpg mechanics. Deus ex, prey, and dishonored are a really different style of games.

If its netflix, it wont lol

@@GMOTP5738 Netflix sometimes has good shows. It’s a big toss up on what a show will be on it.

i don't know but its really cringe

I don't plan on making videos of system shock. I'm not a fan of immersive sims so I prefer the more typical FPS approach of bioshock.

@@Jarekthegamingdragon I see. Why aren’t you a fan of them as much?

@@ldragon2515 I don't like the set up, stealth, and general hassle of making sure every thing is right. I just want to play a more straight forward shooter.

@@Jarekthegamingdragon That’s understandable. Though one of the reasons people like those kinds of games is because, at least in games like Deus Ex, nearly any option is viable, including playing it like a shooter. Admittedly though, gunplay does take a backseat in those games.

You sure the aiming in Bioshock 1 was fine to me.

@pigeondude2468 positive. Played it at launch and again on switch. Try drawing a circle with the crosshairs and I promise you'll get squares

@@tyrusgailey3131 I replay it a few days ago the aim feels off compare to other games.

He sorta did a review on that game but was disappointed because it had a shit name

When System Shock 2 remastered coming out by the way?