Favorite Bioshock moment?

[Azhura]

I'm a long time gamer. I come from the days of Wolfenstein 3D and even further back to the Black Cauldron on the Tandy. I've played almost every fps from Half-Life, to Doom (1, 2, and 3). I also enjoy MMORPGs and RTS's (and have played many games in those genre's as well). But Bioshock really struck me as the best game I've ever played.

I had a big part of the storyline spoiled for me early on about a certain someone being a certain someone. The story was still great and the cut scene was so intense that it still felt like a surprise when I watched it happen.

The combination of beautiful graphics, genius level design, excellent storyline, and actual meaning seemed to come together in a unique way. While I did feel a bit OP being able to instantly set splicers on fire and then shock them as they tried to find water, there was a decent and careful balance to the whole game.

It was also very scary. I don't mean that it was scary in a monsterish way. There are no demons or ogres in this game, just regular people. As someone else had posted earlier; the scariest part about Bioshock is that something like this could actually happen in the future.

The scariest part for me was the medical pavilion. It reminded me of fear dot com but some of the scenes made me nostalgic for Doom 3. It really did have a semi-Doom 3 feel to it. Things broke down and you had to predictably go find another valve to switch on or another part to collect in a predictably dark and scary/creepy area of the city. All games have some obvious predictable factors, but at least with Bioshock they filled in most of them with a good amount of content and storyline.

I've seen some people around Digg and other sites spamming three words that basically ruin part of the storyline (it did for me). It's sort of the "snape kills......." plot spoiler that happened during the last Harry Potter book. Most of the idiots who shout spoilers are haters of the game and are too stupid to realize its awesomeness.

In Bioshock, you actually have to worry about how much ammunition you burn up (unless you enable cheats). Or if you're not burning ammunition, you at least have to keep track of how much eve you consume.

I really hope they release Bioshock 2 for the PC as well (when it comes out) because I don't have a 360.

My overall favorite moment would be the Andrew Ryan speech, it's made of epic win and the reason this game is going to be a movie.

[Relight]

My favourite moment is one right at the beginning of the game. It's the flooded tunnel sequence as the tunnel is hit by the plane wreckage. There is a REAL sense of danger, because leaks keep springing, and the water effects are fabulous as the water is rushing all around you. It's all scripted of course and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't die if you just casually took your time making your way through the area (the same goes for the flooding elevator room - it floods quite a bit up to a certain height, but then doesn't flood all the way to drown you, which would have been cool), but there is a sense of urgency that pushed me through the flooding tunnel the first time I played it, and it was exhilarating. It was especially going around the corner and going down the "rapids" in that tunnel that gave the panicked "I have to get out of here NOW!" feeling. Welcome To Rapture, I think, was one of the best levels for that sense of things falling apart. Then you go further into the city and all the levels are more stable, though they still have leaks and stuff.

It's also special the first time you play the game - you just don't know what will happen! You don't know if that splicer at the very beginning is going to break into the bathysphere. You don't know at the end of the first level if the splicers are going to break through those windows.

I almost never had to suspend disbelief while playing the game - everything about the design of the game to the execution of the design was, I would say, a great success. I was always immersed in the game environment, there was almost nothing that broke me out of the experience.

[Bioshocking123]

Without a doubt my favorite experience was the first time I saw a little sister (having heard nothing about the game other than it was good before buying it) I felt like, I need to save her! She's there all by herself! Oh no, theres on of those brutish splicers coming to hurt her! And then the Big Daddy came out of nowhere and wasted that guy. Needless to say, I was surprised.

Another is when you get right out of the LS hideout and you head out to Olympus Heights and "Atlas" tells you to kindly go get stepped on by a big daddy, and you didn't, I felt all powerful... until he used another phrase.

I basically love the writing of this game. It was in a word... EPIC

[Asherah]

One of my favorite moments had to be the first big daddy fight. I felt euphoric after I killed him and than the little sister started crying and I felt ashamed.

[Sullivan's Deputy]

For me it will always be when Cohen's Masterpiece is complete and he comes down the staircase with a flurry of music.

[JM_Zen]

Not so much a favourite moment for me (just started playing less than a week ago), but one Hell of a start, let me tell you...

On the Medical Pavilion (Dandy Dentist); just got my Telekinesis Plasmid, and I'm feeling pretty good, so I decide to explore a bit before continuing with the main 'quest'. Anyway, it's at this little offshoot where there's a dentist's operating chair, and a tonic for - God, I don't even remember - but the point is, you get this tonic, and the small room is filled with this blueish gas so that you can't see a thing. It passes quickly enough, but then I turn around, and:

THERE'S AN EFFING ZOMBIE DENTIST OR SPLICER OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM THE POINT IS I KNOW THAT IT WANTS TO EAT MY BRAINS AND I KILL IT BUT GOOD LORD I CURSED AND IF ONE OF THE GAME DEVELOPERS WERE BESIDE ME THEN I WOULD HAVE HIT THEM BUT GOOD.

I had to pause the game and ALT+TAB out (I still see it innocuously resting in a little rectangle in my taskbar), because at that moment I wanted nothing more than to fire off an email of complaint, comprised of monosyllabic epithets and legal threats, to these game designers - who thought it was alright to make a twenty-something year old question the condition of his otherwise steadily beating heart. So in the absence of a 'contact us' button on the main Bioshock site, that's why I registered here.

In summation, I haven't been so scared in a game since playing Thief 1 in my teens. Or come to think of it, the other System Shock games. I really thought I was beyond my jumpy days, but Bioshock has definitely reinvigorated them. Wow.

Anyway, great game, but scary as Hell. I need a break now...

[Kyburz]

The Waltz of the Flowers moment, people who have played it will know what I am talking about.

[Relight]

Welcome to the forums, JM_Zen!

If you thought THAT was scary, just wait until you get to Fort Frolic!

LOL, glad to hear you're enjoying the game!

[Blue Lightning]

As great as the whole game is, for me the best moment is when the movie-screen in the bathysphere goes up, and there is the sea floor with a starfish, and then...Rapture. It was very dramatic.

[Bioshocking123]

Not so much a favourite moment for me (just started playing less than a week ago), but one Hell of a start, let me tell you...

On the Medical Pavilion (Dandy Dentist); just got my Telekinesis Plasmid, and I'm feeling pretty good, so I decide to explore a bit before continuing with the main 'quest'. Anyway, it's at this little offshoot where there's a dentist's operating chair, and a tonic for - God, I don't even remember - but the point is, you get this tonic, and the small room is filled with this blueish gas so that you can't see a thing. It passes quickly enough, but then I turn around, and:

In summation, I haven't been so scared in a game since playing Thief 1 in my teens. Or come to think of it, the other System Shock games. I really thought I was beyond my jumpy days, but Bioshock has definitely reinvigorated them. Wow.

Anyway, great game, but scary as Hell. I need a break now...

If you thought THAT was scary, just wait until you get to Fort Frolic!

After watching Johnny get gutted, fighting that first spider splicer in Neptune's Bounty, and then hiding from the first Houdini in Arcadia....
Let's just say for about a week of so, I didn't sleep too well

My arms were shaking my heart rate was crazy after my first session.
I had never been so scared in a video game. But you build a resistance to it. You learn to zap all puddles in a room, you shoot all "dead" corpes on the ground. The game makes you think and plan before going after even a thuggish splicer. Don't worry. Don't sue, you'll get used to it, and boy, when you do, it is amazing.


And PS, Fort Frolic was the least scary place for me ... I don't know, I wasn't scared at all.

But Medical Pavilion...
That's another story

[Relight]

And PS, Fort Frolic was the least scary place for me ... I don't know, I wasn't scared at all.

Well, I don't want to spoil anything, but you know the kind of freaky thing about Fort Frolic? Let's just say the FIRST time it happened, it scared the **** out of me. It happened for me in the freakiest way imaginable. And then it didn't happen again for quite a while, so I started to question my sanity!

[Bioshocking123]

but you know the kind of freaky thing about Fort Frolic? Let's just say the FIRST time it happened, it scared the **** out of me. It happened for me in the freakiest way imaginable.

Waaaiiiiit. Am I missing something?

I played it all the way through and the only part I can think of that would be considered "scary" was either when Fitzpatrick goes boom, or when all those Splicers came at you....

[Chezmat1]

I really like when you first saw a big daddy, that in game cut scene with the splicer on the first level. It blew me away, and it was really awesome to watch.

[Giostigma]

Playing it for the first time!

[Relight]

SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED FORT FROLIC YET!

When the statues come alive. Scared the **** out of me. They had all stayed statues for such a long time. I was in a dark, small room, it might have been a bathroom, suddenly I turned around and it was attacking me! In fact, I don't even think it had been close by to start with. Then none of them came to life for a while after that either, so I started to wonder if it had REALLY happened or not. Then, of course, they all started coming to life. Genuinely scary moment for me! I always play in the dark at night with my headphones on so that definitely amplifies the experience

[Bioshocking123]

SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED FORT FROLIC YET!

When the statues come alive. Scared the **** out of me. They had all stayed statues for such a long time. I was in a dark, small room, it might have been a bathroom, suddenly I turned around and it was attacking me! In fact, I don't even think it had been close by to start with. Then none of them came to life for a while after that either, so I started to wonder if it had REALLY happened or not. Then, of course, they all started coming to life. Genuinely scary moment for me! I always play in the dark at night with my headphones on so that definitely amplifies the experience

Oh. See, that's why I don't go into bathrooms unless the all-powerful arrow tells me to go there

[Asherah]

I hate those statues. Once I was in the little flooded room in the basement of Fort Frolic and I took the time to knock over all of the manikins in the room so I would know where the splicer were. Well once I killed all of the splicers in the room I turned around back to the window to get the goodies and wonder why there was manikin still standing. I didn't realize until it jumped at me that it was a splicer that had spawned right behind me.

[BioSoldier]

Definitely in the "Welcome to Rapture" level where you see the innocent Little Sister on the ground, by herself while you are traversing the framework above her. Atlas tells you to put your weapon down and walk slowly. He starts talking about the little sister and how they aren 't as innocent as they seem. Then you get down to ground level a and you are behind the glass. Suddnely a Splicer appears and he thinks he is going to get a nice dose of ADAM because there is an unguarded little sister. Suddnely she screams and the spotlight shifts to a Big Daddy who has just jumped down on ground level. He throws a chair (or was it a table?) at the splciers and then charges him, pinning him on the wall. Then he drills the poor Splicer and rams his head into the glass you are looking through.

That was an absolutely awesome introduction to the Big Daddy's and Little Sisters.

[BioShock Freak]

The Waltz of the Flowers moment, people who have played it will know what I am talking about.

Haha. How can I forget that moment?! It's freaky. LOL.

Welcome to the forums, JM_Zen!

If you thought THAT was scary, just wait until you get to Fort Frolic!

LOL, glad to hear you're enjoying the game!

No kidding! Fort Frolic is my favourite level. It's also the most beautiful one (next to Arcadia). But I think it's also the scariest. Lol.
~Mari.

[Azhura]

Haha. How can I forget that moment?! It's freaky. LOL.



No kidding! Fort Frolic is my favourite level. It's also the most beautiful one (next to Arcadia). But I think it's also the scariest. Lol.
~Mari.

Fort frolic really didn't scare me that much. The nature of what you had to do was a bit laid out already. I imagine the certain "surprise" that happens there as a shock to a lot of people, heh.

If Bioshock 2 games out, do you think they'll also have a PC release?

[Bioshocking123]

Definitely in the "Welcome to Rapture" level where you see the innocent Little Sister on the ground, by herself while you are traversing the framework above her. Atlas tells you to put your weapon down and walk slowly. He starts talking about the little sister and how they aren 't as innocent as they seem. Then you get down to ground level a and you are behind the glass. Suddnely a Splicer appears and he thinks he is going to get a nice dose of ADAM because there is an unguarded little sister. Suddnely she screams and the spotlight shifts to a Big Daddy who has just jumped down on ground level. He throws a chair (or was it a table?) at the splciers and then charges him, pinning him on the wall. Then he drills the poor Splicer and rams his head into the glass you are looking through.

That was an absolutely awesome introduction to the Big Daddy's and Little Sisters.

I agree. So much time and effort was put in to make sure all the parts of this game were impecible. So wonderful.

[UberBigDaddy]

Fort Frolic. Best level ever. Heard the person that made Fort Frolic is the lead designer for Bioshock 2.

[Bioshocking123]

Fort Frolic. Best level ever. Heard the person that made Fort Frolic is the lead designer for Bioshock 2.

Yayyy! That's great! Combining crazy scary with awesome... awesomeness

[Mr. Tiddlywinks]

*SPOILERS* just some of my favorite lines... (mostly kinda funny in retrospect) *ONCE AGAIN SPOILERS!!!*

"You, my friend, are F****D"

Ducky in basement of bar:"Fontaine runs this place from T**S to TOES"

"Don't fight the inevitable"

"It seems Julie's death didn't provide a clear enough lesson to you. Perhaps this will suffice."

"I can smell the malt vinegar in this one"

"LET ME GO YOU SICK F***" *BOOM!!!*

Just the entire Wild Bunny Audio Diary

"Would you kindly go get stepped on by a BIG DADDY"

"Faster'n you can say 'canned tomatas'"

[Bioshocking123]

"You, my friend, are F****D"

"LET ME GO YOU SICK F***" *BOOM!!!*

Just the entire Wild Bunny Audio Diary

"Would you kindly go get stepped on by a BIG DADDY"

"Faster'n you can say 'canned tomatas'"

*Spoilahs* (Yes, I mispelled it on purpose )
The Fitzpatrick one is the best. He starts tugging on the chair and goes KA-BOOM!!!!!

And when Fontaine gets mad because you won't go get stepped on, he says, "Oh, you've got Mother Goose playing with your eegs, eh boy?" Or somthing like that

[BioShock Freak]

Fort frolic really didn't scare me that much. The nature of what you had to do was a bit laid out already. I imagine the certain "surprise" that happens there as a shock to a lot of people, heh.

If Bioshock 2 games out, do you think they'll also have a PC release?

I don't see why it wouldn't come out for the PC. I'm sure it will.
~Mari.

[Atlas the Fisherman]

There are a couple for me:

-Coming up the elevator to the musical score where Atlas tells you he wants you to go to Neptune's Bounty and find his family. Then you get out and the female splicer is singing to the revolver in the carriage. That was a good example to show you just how crazy everyone in Rapture has gotten.

-Seeing Steinman for the first time; hearing him talk to Aphrodite.

-The scene where Peach Wilkins and his crew jumps you in the freezer of Fontaine Fisheries. Mostly all of the dialogue from Peachy is brilliant..."my friend, you are f***ed!"

-Smuggler's Cove!

-The intro to Fort Frolic, and Martin Finnegan.

-Eve's Garden...great ghost scene coupled with fantastic music!

I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting at the moment...

[adam21au]

for me would have to be just befor you meet ryan and you go in the room the who is atlas room all the writing it makes you go ☺☺☺.... then 2 mins later you find out whats going on your being controlled one of the best mind twists ive ever had lol to think ryan is the bad guy trying to kill you but hes only actually trying to save his city its great lol also when you walk in the room near the start of the game i missed this part on the fist play through but you go in the room into the water you can see a shadow on the wall and boom all goes dark and you hear movement run off all i remmeber is going ☺☺☺ **** and shooting the water with my plasmid lightning lol best horror part lol

[FISHY CRACKERS]

I would have to say the first Big Daddy fight, half because it's my favorite type of Big Daddy, and half because after the first one all the fights afterwards make you feel like saying: "Ugh... i have to go kill ANOTHER one of these things? *sigh...*" Meanwhile when you're about to fight the first one you feel like saying: "Ok what to do... ok i'll hide behind that desk with my tommy gun, use electro-bolt on it, then start firing while dodging like a maniac, then if he gets too close i'll-" Blah blah blah, anyway, it's the first time you feel like you're really about to get your ass kicked, so you take every precaution you can, but after you realise a Big Daddy can go down with great ease most people decide it's less time consuming to run at it and repeatedly fire their grenade-launcher.

[Deer Man 420]

I liked the part where you see the woman that raises the little sisters he calls her mother goose. That part was very well done it was hilarious when he calls her mother goose.

[thrall23]

my favorite bioshock moment was when I first saw sander cohen after doing his quest it was really cool

[FISHY CRACKERS]

my favorite bioshock moment was when I first saw sander cohen after doing his quest it was really cool

When i saw him, i switched to my Grenade Launcher with RPG rounds and tried to blow that crazy bastard up.

[Sullivan]

Easily, the big reveal of the "Would You Kindly" phrase. my first thought was "Holy s@#$! I can't believe I didn't notice that!" Even after hearing the Suchong audiotape that used the phrase. It was sort of like at the end of Shadow of the Colossus when you realize your character has been slowly transforming.

[adam21au]

When i saw him, i switched to my Grenade Launcher with RPG rounds and tried to blow that crazy bastard up.

lol i killed him after he gave me the prize... i wanted hes prize to had to kill him for the key to get it lol

[Darth Sithis50]

I have many favorite parts but the one i find most hilarious is on fort Frolic. its with one of the closed shops with a door that tries to open or close but there is a guys head making the door keep slamming on his head.

[Grim-421]

SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED FORT FROLIC YET!

When the statues come alive. Scared the **** out of me. They had all stayed statues for such a long time. I was in a dark, small room, it might have been a bathroom, suddenly I turned around and it was attacking me! In fact, I don't even think it had been close by to start with. Then none of them came to life for a while after that either, so I started to wonder if it had REALLY happened or not. Then, of course, they all started coming to life. Genuinely scary moment for me! I always play in the dark at night with my headphones on so that definitely amplifies the experience

Yeah that moment is awesome. The way all the plaster splicers standing at the doorway are gone. I remember asking myself out loud "OMG WHERE DID THEY GO! Even though I was scared out of my mind for the rest of Fort Frolic, (Check out my scariest moment http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/sho...t=24779&page=7 ) I was fully content and quite happy. A good mixture of sweat and/with sour. That's what Bioshock is all about.

[Grim-421]

Another great moment is the moment when Fontaine says those two life changing words. "Code Yellow". When he told me what it did I was like OMG what do I do Tennenbaum? TELL MY WHAT TO DO!

[Drill Power!]

I love the part when Sander Cohen starts yelling at you and sends a party of splicers.

[x IZ A KITTY]

There are SO many of my favorite moments..

My first favorite moment is the first time seeing a Big Daddy. I was so scared to advance through the tunnel because I had no idea what would happen.

My second favorite part was when Sander Cohen sent the wave of splicers at you while playing "Waltz of the Flowers". Amazing.

Lastly, I liked in Point Prometheus how they showed the rooms that the Little Sisters were stationed in and how they were conditioned and all.. I thought that was fascinating. That was probably my favorite part out of everything.

[Nixxer]

My favourite moment of this game was when I entered Rapture with that bathysphere in the very beginning; when you looked out over the city from the small window and at the same time heard Andrew Ryan say from the loudspeaker: "I chose.. Rapture!". That gave me goose-bumps.