StaceyPowers Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 I’m playing Bioshock 2 for the first time right now. So far I’m enjoying the heck out of it, but I have to say that Rapture through the windows totally looked more atmospheric in Bioshock 1. They changed the lighting entirely (it looks kind of "washed out" now), and took away all the colourful neon. Did anyone else also prefer the look of the city in the first Bioshock more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingpotato Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 Rapture looks amazing under water on BIO1, is it Bioshock 2 that bad or is it just good but not as good as the first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted June 5, 2019 Author Share Posted June 5, 2019 13 hours ago, kingpotato said: Rapture looks amazing under water on BIO1, is it Bioshock 2 that bad or is it just good but not as good as the first? Actually, I thought Bioshock 2 was excellent (I just finished it). It lacks some of the "cleverness" of the first game, but the storyline is solid, the locations are cool, you learn a lot more about the history of Rapture--including insights into Bioshock 1, and there were a couple of gameplay elements I liked better as well. I would say it is my least favorite of the three games, but that still makes it an amazing game. kingpotato 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingpotato Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 10 hours ago, StaceyPowers said: Actually, I thought Bioshock 2 was excellent (I just finished it). It lacks some of the "cleverness" of the first game, but the storyline is solid, the locations are cool, you learn a lot more about the history of Rapture--including insights into Bioshock 1, and there were a couple of gameplay elements I liked better as well. I would say it is my least favorite of the three games, but that still makes it an amazing game. oh well I will try to get it anyways just to complete the trilogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 On 6/5/2019 at 9:16 PM, kingpotato said: oh well I will try to get it anyways just to complete the trilogy Skipping it would be missing out. It is a solid game. kingpotato 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 I think anything that is impressive in the Bioshock series, it has to be rapture and overall that concept of cult or say 1% rich paranoia building underwater cities. That definitely impressed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingpotato Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 On 6/8/2019 at 10:48 AM, StaceyPowers said: Skipping it would be missing out. It is a solid game. Just finished it, and you are right it is a solid game and very underrated, but Rapture did looked cooler in Bioshock 1, mostly because you spent your time in several places and you get to explore more of rapture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted February 22, 2020 Author Share Posted February 22, 2020 2 hours ago, kingpotato said: Just finished it, and you are right it is a solid game and very underrated, but Rapture did looked cooler in Bioshock 1, mostly because you spent your time in several places and you get to explore more of rapture. I'm glad you enjoyed it! I think there was something cooler about the lighting in the first game, but it's hard for me to explain why it was cooler. But Rapture still was awesome to explore more of, and I loved the story/characters. Also, it's almost odd Ken Levine didn't work on BioShock 2, given how strongly the themes seem to link to Infinite's. kingpotato 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 I think a not was revealed in the bioshock 1 so it kind of give that unknown mystery feeling. So it looked cool that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted February 26, 2020 Author Share Posted February 26, 2020 On 2/22/2020 at 10:37 PM, skyfire said: I think a not was revealed in the bioshock 1 so it kind of give that unknown mystery feeling. So it looked cool that way. The lighting in BioShock 1 was a lot dimmer, especially outside. Like you'd look out on the city, and it'd mostly be blackness ... and lights floating in the darkness. The illumination overall was brighter in BioShock 2, though the water was murkier. I think you're onto something. The city had more of an aura of mystery about it in the first game because of how it was lit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loot the Truth Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I agree with that, I definitely preferred most things about the first Bioshock. I don't dislike the second by any means though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingpotato Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 17 hours ago, StaceyPowers said: The lighting in BioShock 1 was a lot dimmer, especially outside. Like you'd look out on the city, and it'd mostly be blackness ... and lights floating in the darkness. The illumination overall was brighter in BioShock 2, though the water was murkier. I think you're onto something. The city had more of an aura of mystery about it in the first game because of how it was lit. Also one thing I noticed is that B1 has more windows that show you the city, surprisingly B2 has only a few windows that show you the outside of Rapture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 On 2/26/2020 at 6:37 AM, StaceyPowers said: The lighting in BioShock 1 was a lot dimmer, especially outside. Like you'd look out on the city, and it'd mostly be blackness ... and lights floating in the darkness. The illumination overall was brighter in BioShock 2, though the water was murkier. I think you're onto something. The city had more of an aura of mystery about it in the first game because of how it was lit. Yeah kind of some sort of deep meaning to setting up the entire theater underground. I don't know why they didn't made it more mysterious, and added cult or potential multi verse sort of thingy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted March 3, 2020 Author Share Posted March 3, 2020 On 2/27/2020 at 9:56 PM, skyfire said: Yeah kind of some sort of deep meaning to setting up the entire theater underground. I don't know why they didn't made it more mysterious, and added cult or potential multi verse sort of thingy. Kind of funny you mention that you would have liked to see the multiverse brought into the Rapture games, but you’re not a big fan of Infinite if I recall. How would you have liked to see the concept used in BioShock 1 or 2? Actually, wasn’t there some kind of cult involved in the area where the trees are grown in Rapture? But I can’t recall what that was all about. I did consider Lamb’s entire organization to be a cult in BioShock 2. The handling of religious fervour’s potential for destruction somehow seemed more artfully handled to me in Infinite though. I think it was that Infinite did a better job capturing the “appeal” of the rotten ideology and showing me how it tempted its followers (I think a lot of gamers could see the seductive allure of Columbia’s outward beauty). I never figured out what the hell anyone saw in Lamb’s bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 I kind of expected someone or something behind the multiverse. Like you know the cthulu game that recently launched which had a cult and had a story that lead to birth of cthulu reincartion vessel. So that sort of progression was expected. But the way BS Infinite moved I think it kind of dragged in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
