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May. 26th, 2008 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luciazephyrMum was going to be on her own in the receiving department at work due to the holiday (happy holiday, btw, folks), so she asked me to come along with her. I've done it several times over the years. This time, though, Mum pulled a rental copy of Bioshock for me to try out because I'd been curious about it for a while now.
That's my FPS cherry popped. (Portal lacks the S in FPS, so it doesn't count.)
I've never played a "scary" game or a real FPS game before. It was a very strange experience. I've been gaming since I was a kid, but the amount of delicate control that goes into FPS gaming surprised me. And it is genuinely terrifying to be seeing it from a first person perspective.
Bioshock does this thing where you'll being idly making your way down a hall and suddenly all the lights go out. You hear the hostile chatter of some splicers (evil mutants) and start taking a few steps back. The lights come on. The splicers spot you and charge. You start to attack- but shit! It's just your wrench, you were using it to break things! You taps the shoulder button to pull up something decent but you're out of ammo on eveything but the machine gun but you clicked past it in your rush so you tap the other shoulder button and let fly with your shock bolt attack. Congrats, you bought yourself about one second to find your damn machine gun, load it, and waste the splicers.
To summarize: I think I understand why people like FPS games. The adrenaline rush is awesome.
-Luce
PS: Yahtzee was totally right about the game, except one thing: You do not trip over ammo, money, and med kits. You trip over money and med kits. I keep running out of bullets!
That's my FPS cherry popped. (Portal lacks the S in FPS, so it doesn't count.)
I've never played a "scary" game or a real FPS game before. It was a very strange experience. I've been gaming since I was a kid, but the amount of delicate control that goes into FPS gaming surprised me. And it is genuinely terrifying to be seeing it from a first person perspective.
Bioshock does this thing where you'll being idly making your way down a hall and suddenly all the lights go out. You hear the hostile chatter of some splicers (evil mutants) and start taking a few steps back. The lights come on. The splicers spot you and charge. You start to attack- but shit! It's just your wrench, you were using it to break things! You taps the shoulder button to pull up something decent but you're out of ammo on eveything but the machine gun but you clicked past it in your rush so you tap the other shoulder button and let fly with your shock bolt attack. Congrats, you bought yourself about one second to find your damn machine gun, load it, and waste the splicers.
To summarize: I think I understand why people like FPS games. The adrenaline rush is awesome.
-Luce
PS: Yahtzee was totally right about the game, except one thing: You do not trip over ammo, money, and med kits. You trip over money and med kits. I keep running out of bullets!
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Date: 2008-06-01 04:00 am (UTC)And is it just me, or have the last two reviews been really, really, really funny? Like, funnier than he's been in a while? I burst out laughing more than once, where as lately I've only giggled a bit.
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Date: 2008-06-01 04:02 am (UTC)He is totally on his A-game lately. I dunno, the Mailbag Showdown is my absolute fave of the latest reviews. "Go~ Team Retard!"