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AdmiralKird wrote:I just shelled out $180 for an adapter to allow me to use a mouse and keyboard with my XBox360. I'm tired of the inferior control scheme causing me to die to 11 year old kids in Halo because I grew up using a mouse and keyboard in the first Unreal Tournament instead of dumb analog sticks. I figure this isn't a bad investment either, as there are only 500 of these custom controllers in existence (there are others to be had for $80 or so but they're vastly inferior). Due to future scarcity, the price of these units should only appreciate in value over the next 10 years.
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does anyone have any experience/thoughts of bioshock?

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my favorite game of last year. Probably my favorite game of this generation.

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clevername wrote:my favorite game of last year. Probably my favorite game of this generation.
its only 30$...think i might pick it up

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it has incredible atmosphere. Great visuals and probably the best sounding game I've ever played.

Creepy but not really horror.

Plenty of action and customization of your weapons and abilities/powers.

News about the sequel has started to leak out and I've been itching to run back through the first one again.

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thats what im reading as well...alrighty, well, think that settles it

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I want to officially confirm that the patch has been submitted and is going under approvals as we speak. That still puts us at an approximate Opening Day release without any hitches. I am still in the UK but I am trying to get full notes on it and hope to have that ASAP.

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Jocephus wrote:does anyone have any experience/thoughts of bioshock?
I think the demo is still out there. I love the concept, atmosphere, "set design," the use of music, etc..... But to me the demo was yet another "go from room to room and shoot" game. Maybe the full game has more variety, but I'm just getting tired of shooting games. For whatever reason I don't mind it in Fallout, but the approach is somewhat different there, and there's more to do than just shoot.

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i was going to get it (bioshock) but decided not to. ive already got 9 games and ive only had the box since, like, november...and im going back through the bond game i have, which is actually really good

i'll check to see if the demo is still there...it does look good and it is only 30$, but i dunno...'cause i have a hunch im gonna get the ghostbusters game and the batman game (assuming they get good reviews, etc)...

i guess i just wanted to spend something yesterday...'cause i was debating whether to get bioshock, or buy some microsoft points and get "doom" "duke nukem 3d" and the "TMNT arcade game" from the marketplace...but then i thought "am i really going to like this 'old' games of my past as much as i think i will?"...i will need some points though when the RE5 dlc comes out soon...

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ghostrunner wrote:
Jocephus wrote:does anyone have any experience/thoughts of bioshock?
I think the demo is still out there. I love the concept, atmosphere, "set design," the use of music, etc..... But to me the demo was yet another "go from room to room and shoot" game. Maybe the full game has more variety, but I'm just getting tired of shooting games. For whatever reason I don't mind it in Fallout, but the approach is somewhat different there, and there's more to do than just shoot.
yeah, i hear ya about run 'n shoot...i love FPS, but i do have a lot

when i was debating about "buying" somethign yesterday i was looking at fallout 3, dead space, bioshock...but yeah, i dunno if i should

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