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[Khayness]

Well, let's hope the gameplay with Elizabeth will be infinitely (lawl) better without op plasmids and gear this time around.

OdanUrr wrote...

No release date though.

The old season pass description said all content will be avaliable by May, there's that for speculation.

[OdanUrr]

Khayness wrote...

OdanUrr wrote...

No release date though.

The old season pass description said all content will be avaliable by May, there's that for speculation.

Good thing I bought the season pass at 75% discount then!

[LPPrince]

Isn't Elizabeth supposed to be stealthing about rather than wandering around shooting people all the time.

[OdanUrr]

LPPrince wrote...

Isn't Elizabeth supposed to be stealthing about rather than wandering around shooting people all the time.

Maybe she's trying to channel Booker?

[LPPrince]

OdanUrr wrote...

LPPrince wrote...

Isn't Elizabeth supposed to be stealthing about rather than wandering around shooting people all the time.

Maybe she's trying to channel Booker?

Oh, lets just announce to everyone where we are, such fantastic strategy

[OdanUrr]

March 25th, people. And there'll be around 5-6 hours of content.

‘BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea – Episode 2′ Release Date & DLC Length Revealed

[AventuroLegendary]

I remember resisting the temptation to buy it at 15 bucks during the Steam winter sale so I could wait for a complete edition when it comes out. Then they offered Bioshock 1 and 2 along with it which had me throw money at the screen.

I'm a bit iffy on the two-weapon system but everything else is actually pretty fun. Booker's monologue can get obnoxious.

[OdanUrr]

New video with more details on Episode 2 while we wait for March 25th:

 

[OdanUrr]

Episode 2 is available starting today!

 

Have you played it? If so, what did you think? I'll try to find some reviews.

[Khayness]

Episode 2 is available starting today!

 

Have you played it? If so, what did you think? I'll try to find some reviews.

 

It just got avaliable like clockwork after the -75% discount ended. Downloading another whopping 9 gigs, largest game on my hard drive. >.>

 

Edit: 40 gigs overall, woohoo.

[spirosz]

I'll wait till both are half off and pick them both up.  I have the season pass for the Xbox, but I haven't touched in forever and I picked this up again on my PC - so I'll just wait for summer sale or such and play the game again, with both DLCs.  

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

Anyone play episode 2 yet? I can't play till tomorrow

[SlottsMachine]

I probably wont get a chance to play until tomorrow either. Dat swag internet.  

[Isichar]

I have both episodes but have not played either yet. Can anyone let me know approximately how long is it going to take to finish both?

[Khayness]

Well, let's hope the gameplay with Elizabeth will be infinitely (lawl) better without op plasmids and gear this time around.

 

NOPE.

 

The first plasmid upgrade a hour in breaks the game, so there goes the challenge hype again with the 1998 mode. The checkpoint system is still bull, but atleast there are no respawning enemies this time around. Instead you get some lovely recap/Lutece comment montage every time you have to reload, which got annoying pretty fast, so screw it, I don't feel cheap breaking the game.

 

According to the audio diary achievement, I'm 25% in after two hours (I backtrack a lot for scavenging, so it can be significantly shorter if you use the item highlight option or you don't care at all).

 

It is still highly atmospheric, the stealth was good until the aforementioned plasmid upgrade, the story is raising midscrew triggers pretty fast, so I'm curious.

 

A lot better than Burial at Sea part 1 already, let's hope the remaining content will be just as good.

[Heimdall]

Just finished it. I didn't play in 1998 mode, but it's still pretty challenging if you want to go stealth. Elizabeth never has the rechargeable shield that Booker has, she really can't take much in a straightforward fight. I'm not the most skilled, however.

As for the story:

Spoiler

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL!!!!!!!!

...Was my initial reaction. Once I got over Elizabeth's demise, I realized two things-

A. This is a pretty strong end to Bioshock's story (No matter what the publisher decides now that Irrational is gone)

B. Levine really doesn't like Bioshock 2, does he? He completely ignored it.

It certainly leaves Episode in the dust, that's for certain.

[OdanUrr]

Just finished it. I didn't play in 1998 mode, but it's still pretty challenging if you want to go stealth. Elizabeth never has the rechargeable shield that Booker has, she really can't take much in a straightforward fight. I'm not the most skilled, however.

As for the story:

Spoiler

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL!!!!!!!!

...Was my initial reaction. Once I got over Elizabeth's demise, I realized two things-

A. This is a pretty strong end to Bioshock's story (No matter what the publisher decides now that Irrational is gone)

B. Levine really doesn't like Bioshock 2, does he? He completely ignored it.

It certainly leaves Episode in the dust, that's for certain.

 

Does everyone

Spoiler

have to die in this game?!?!

[Khayness]

So clocked 5 hours with it, for those who asked how long it would take. Part 1 took 3 hours in 1999 mode. I wouldn't recommend a full price purchase. However, with 5 euros for the Season Pass, I'm content with it. I'll run through once more for the missed audio diaries, then never going to touch the DLCs again.

 

As for the whole experience, not a story spoiler, just my opinion (putting it in spoiler tag just to be sure anyways):

 

Spoiler

If you think BioShock 1 is the best game ever, you will probably like it, but if you were looking for the wrapping up of Infinite, you will be disappointed, like me.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

Just finished it, it was kinda meh, tbh I kinda prefer the Bioshock story without this dlc, also not enough Booker.

 

Also was I the only one who was bugged by the sound of liz's shoes.

[Ren Roche]

Some art

 

 

 

 

[Chewin]

Have been avoiding this thread for awhile concerning any spoilers from Burial at Sea (thank God there are 'spoilers' now).

Anyway, decided not to get the Season Pass since I don't wholly trust them and buying something that isn't quite a certainty will turn up great will be quite a disappointment (eg Burial at Sea Episode 1). It's soon has been over a year since I last played Infinite, and with Irrational Games having shut down, I think this will be the perfect opportunity for some closure. Considering some friends I trust stated that Burial at Sea finishes and does justice to "closing up" the Bioshoc franchise, I might still buy both Burial at Sea Episodes when on a good sale and experience for my self whether they were worth the time or not.

[BigEvil]

I just finished playing both episdoes of Burial at Sea last night. I really enjoyed myself while playing through it, but afterwards, the more I think about the story the more it falls apart and seems like it's trying to glorify Bioshock itself at the expense of Infinite, as well as confusing me about some of the timeline, reality things that don't seem to be explained.

 

Some thoughts

 

Spoiler

One thing I am glad about, mostly, is the scene with Daisy Fitzroy and the Luteces. I was really disappointed about her going off the deep end in Infinite and trying to kill a kid. It now makes me like the Luteces less, but I kind of think you're not really supposed to like what they do.

I realise Elizabeth died and thus became mortal without her powers and omniscience, I found a voxaphone from Rosalind Lutece which says if they became flesh again they'd lose their knowledge of the mysteries of the universe as well. But what I don't understand is how Elizabeth actually died between the two episodes or ended up where she did compared to where Booker's body was. It just seems like it was done for a shocking reveal or something. I suppose the Big Daddy killed her, but still, it seems like it only did because she allowed it all to happen.

On reflection, the whole of episode two seems to be storywise about making Elizabeth a slave to destiny. She has to take whatever happens because she's not allowed to alter anything. It also ends on a particularly sour note with her gushing about seeing through the door and seeing "him", complete with heroic manly posing and lighting which seems to give him an aura. Of course, Elizabeth can't fix any of this crap, no we've got to wait for Jack the man to come along and sort it out.

I mean, we've already got an entire game about infinite alternate realities and timelines, why couldn't we have had an alternate Rapture (even one very close to the original) where Elizabeth hands over the activation code to Fontaine and gets out with Sally, perhaps with some clever plan to escape.

 

Kind of rambled on a bit so I'll finish with this. Did anyone else see the jumpscare in the resturant?

 

Spoiler

It was when you watch one of Cohen's films in the room off to the right of the main area. When I was heading to look at it I was thinking, realistically trying to watch these would be inviting a splicer to sneak up behind you, and the damn thing still caught me off-guard.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

Some art
 

and there is my new desktop background.

[SlottsMachine]

All in all I thought it was all right. Better than part one for sure. The one think I did really like is that we get concrete closure in the end, though I do agree with most of BigEvil's sentiments regarding its execution. 

[BigEvil]

A few more thoughts that have been rattling around.

 

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Rapture is still a beautiful environment with great art design, much like Columbia was. I could walk around those starting areas (Ep1 and Infinite's beginning) for ages soaking in all that atmosphere. I spent a lot of time listening to as much ambient dialogue as I could in Ep1.

The section where you need to get a mask to enter Cohen's private party was great, especially Elizabeth playing those shop-owners like fiddles to distract them. I loved that, and I especially loved that it didn't instantly devolve into, "we need a thing, so let's shoot people to get the thing."

Maybe I'm alone but I'd have loved the game and DLC a lot better with more character interaction and less shooting. Obviously with the splicers it's combat and things are going to hell, but still. The parts of the Bioshock games I've enjoyed most have been characters, audiologs and things like Elizabeth watching the film of her and songbird. The amount of detail in areas, such as the Ryan the Lion school, the various signs and things like that really create a great atmosphere.

Hell, they made Rapture style dirty magazines and had Elizabeth make a wry comment about them. It didn't require shooting things all the time.

I liked the lockpicking mini-game in Ep2. Ok, it wasn't perfect, mini-games rarely are. They can be annoying. But I certainly loved the way the art became like an old schematic of the lock mechanism telescoping apart as Elizabeth focussed on it. I think it kind of showed how Elizabeth is such a well-read and knowledgable thinker, and to bring it back to something negative (since it seems to be a theme to my posts nowadays), it disappoints me that they couldn't have Elizabeth put her brain to use in figuring out ways out of the problems instead of mostly going "I can't see all the possibilities anymore, now I'll just have to go along with everything since it's useless without godly powers."

Maybe they were trying to go for a theme of hopelessness and futility in the face of time/destiny/what-have-you and I just don't 'get it'. But it seems like such a weak idea when the main game didn't let that really get in the way. If things couldn't be changed, if there were no loopholes to get around temporal/reality-based situations, Booker and Elizabeth would have given up when they found the gunsmith dead.

The music was great. I especially loved the credits with Courtney Draper (I think that's Elizabeth's VA's name, terrible at remembering names) singing You Belong to Me. It brought back memories of Porridge as well. Obscure reference, but I immediately thought of it due to Fletcher singing bits of the same song in a couple of episodes.

I think, ultimately the best thing I can say about the DLC is I'm conflicted about it and I'll likely play it again after some time has passed.