Bioshock: demo overnight

Logsi · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:04

Cant believe im paying for this, whoever is saying "at least we get a demo" its stupid, i expect a demo for £40 a year.

Hell, PSN is free and the demo's max my connection out when downloading them at peak times!

Its not fanboyism, its the truth!

Josh

tastyweat · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:05

slambo69 said:
Leon, thats a glitch, its not actually done 50%.

tastyweat, if you can, I suggest you go play 5 mins of gears then come back and say that....

I've played the game through :confused:

It was ok - but nothing groundbreaking.

tastyweat · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:06

fred_easey said:
People who've played the demo - What's the controls like?

I've played Halo on Xbox and found the controls fine (eg gamepad for FPS).

Would you put Bioshock in the same bracket? (eg is aiming ok?)

(I'm still deciding between new PC + Bioshock or buying a 360 and Bioshock )

Aiming's nice and easy - there's also a bit of auto-aim enabled too, so if you don't quite get the crosshairs on the enemy you can still hit them.

tastyweat · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:08

5bjoshua said:
Cant believe im paying for this, whoever is saying "at least we get a demo" its stupid, i expect a demo for £40 a year.

Hell, PSN is free and the demo's max my connection out when downloading them at peak times!

Its not fanboyism, its the truth!

Josh

Well you're the lucky ONE then... PSN is always much slower than Xbox live except when they release a highly anticipated game like this.

XBL used to max a 100mbit line & most of the time maxes the 20mbit line I have now.... with PSN whatever time of the day I'm lucky to see 10mbit.

And your gold membership has nothing to do with demo downloads... you can get them on silver without paying a penny. The subscription is for you to be able to play multiplayer over xbox live

KNiVES · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:17

5bjoshua said:
Cant believe im paying for this, whoever is saying "at least we get a demo" its stupid, i expect a demo for £40 a year.

Hell, PSN is free and the demo's max my connection out when downloading them at peak times!

Its not fanboyism, its the truth!

Josh

Yes, because there's been such a high demand for the demos on the PSN.

Not.

Shamikebab · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:18

tastyweat said:
And your gold membership has nothing to do with demo downloads... you can get them on silver without paying a penny. The subscription is for you to be able to play multiplayer over xbox live

He's been told this already, just seems intent on trolling. :rolleyes:

tastyweat · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:21

KNiVES said:
Yes, because there's been such a high demand for the demos on the PSN.

Not.

lol true... the only demo really worth downloading at the moment iirc is heavenly sword

Shamikebab said:
He's been told this already, just seems intent on trolling.

lol... fair enough... some silly people around... would be funny though if he actually bought gold membership to be able to download demos

£40 to MS for nothing lol

fred_easey · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:26

tastyweat said:
Aiming's nice and easy - there's also a bit of auto-aim enabled too, so if you don't quite get the crosshairs on the enemy you can still hit them.

Nice, sounds like Halo.

OK 360 it is then

tastyweat · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:29

fred_easey said:
Nice, sounds like Halo.

OK 360 it is then <bank balance breathes sigh of relief>

Yeah... the only thing I have noticed that's different on the aiming system... in halo, once you get the crosshairs ontop of someone and you're running around them, the crosshair actually follows them automatically, I haven't noticed this in bioshock.

Kainz · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:35

WARGH

I wanna go home! Having said that, I doubt I'll even get the thing downloaded today anyway

sunlitsix · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:35

mine is picking up speed now, sort of lol
its peaked at 220kb/s then crashed back down to 15, 20% downloaded though

PiKe · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:39

Major Nelson said:
If you are having problems, you may want to to the delete and re-download thing. I just re-downloaded the demo and it was pretty quick.

Shamikebab · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:41

well the demo itself has disappeared from my active downloads list several times, i then had to go and delete the data to re download it, still haven't got past 1%, didn't have any problems with the trailer

Reeve · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:47

PiKe said:
Major Nelson said:

If you are having problems, you may want to to the delete and re-download thing. I just re-downloaded the demo and it was pretty quick.

Click to expand...

i dont think i dare risk loosing 50% of the demo only to download it at snail pace again

Shamikebab · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:50

I hope this doesn't happen with the skate demo on wednesday, i really want to play that one.

Bonjour · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:55

Mine got up to 50% within the hour of my lunch break. Should hopefully be waiting for me when I get home around 4..

tomanders91 · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:56

so people that do have it, is it scary? Ive heard its incredably atmospheric.

Warbie · 13 Aug 2007 at 14:07

5bjoshua said:
Cant believe im paying for this, whoever is saying "at least we get a demo" its stupid, i expect a demo for £40 a year.

Now if only there was much worth downloading from the PSN in the first place

Everytime I go online with the PS3 it's like visiting an almost empty warehouse.

The subscription charge for the 360 is one of the best bargains you can get in gaming. From demos alone i've had far more fun than the average full priced game offers. Add Live Arcade (love Track and Field

), game trailers and the crap load of people playing loads and loads of games, all with headsets as standard, and it's cheap at double the price.

Scratchy · 13 Aug 2007 at 14:09

64% I started DL'ing it just after 7am, now that's slow but atleast it's still going

blueshift · 13 Aug 2007 at 14:14

tomanders91 said:
so people that do have it, is it scary? Ive heard its incredably atmospheric.

VERY