Bioshock Infinite - any good or should I sell my code?

[FrenchTart]

Lot's of people think it's awesome but I personally found it repetitive and the utter ridiculousness of the story too hard to swallow.

 

[FrenchTart]

Why on earth is my reply above the OP's first post?

 

[FrenchTart]

I really enjoyed it, beautiful world and art design, interesting characters and story and the combat though not perfect is more than engaging enough. It's not as good as Bioshock 1 but that frankly was and is a masterpiece.

From what I've seen on this forum most of the people who didn't like it seem to say so because they prefer more "standard" FPS games (perfectly fair) or couldn't follow the plot (not the games fault) or just played it because of the hype when they were never going to like it in the first place due to their own preference for other genres.

The combat in infinite is not perfect, however you aren't supposed to play it like a normal FPS i.e cover hugging, plasmids, skyrails, clothing augments, tears and scenery are available to you for a reason, if you actually make use of them the combat can be incredibly fun (melee focused skyrail builds are hilarious), if you don't I can completely understand why people wouldn't enjoy it, but the same could be said about playing Skyrim and cheating yourself full Daedric armor at level 1, yes you CAN do it but why would you want to?

I wouldn't put myself into any of those categories

The combat was okay though rather formulaic after a while. The strange choice to only allow you to carry two weapons at once was quite weird too. People hated that with Duke Nukem Forever so I was kind of surprised when I finally got round to playing Bioshock and it wasn't something people had been moaning about a lot.

The setting paled in comparison to the original Bioshock (I thought 2 was awful), as did the art style.

The story was god--awful, contrived and absurd. I can happily suspend disbelief all day long if a story is well presented and doesn't have so many logic holes (even within it's own convoluted logic) that I can predict the next thing that will happen by simply asking myself "What is the most ridiculously stupid thing that could occur now?".

 

[FrenchTart]

That's a good summary. I can't fault the voice acting in the game. It's a shame that none of the Bioshocks have come close to the awesomeness of SS2 though.