What I'm Playing Now: Bioshock

Actually, it's what I'm Not playing. I picked up a copy of Bioshock recently at the discount price of $5 during a Steam sale. I felt obligated to buy it after listening to Tycho rave about Bioshock for years, seeing it's 96 metascore on steam, and seeing it featured in an early HAWP.

Though I really wanted to finish the game before I read through any spoilers on first-person-shouter or otherwise, I've had to give up. I just don't like this game - not even a little.

I'm still early on, too - I haven't even fought a big daddy yet. ...but I have seen the gatherer's garden, and all the things you can 'buy' with ADAM. It's all junk. This game hinges on the player's concern with making huge moral decisions in the drive to acquire more ADAM - and I couldn't care less about ADAM. That's a problem.

I did like the art & music, though, and wondered what Rapture looked like before it was destroyed. That may be what we get with Bioshock 2, according to this offworld post.