The Nerd Next Door

After the magical world of Spyro I decided I needed things to get dark, so I decided to get into Bioshock Remastered . Now I had played Bioshock on the Xbox 360 as an easter gift from my parents, because my parents were awesome like that. But that was fourteen years ago in 2008, when I was 12. I was also young and stupid as a child, so how does it hold up now that I'm older and slightly less dumb than usual? Well first up is the actual Remaster job which was fine. I know some bemoaned the lack of graphical options but it's a remaster of a game from 2007, it can probably run on a toaster. Ran like butter for me at least so I have nothing but praise for this Remaster, which boosts the frame rate beyond the original 30fps. Now I didn't notice any big graphical changes, but I last played Bioshock in 2008 so I'm not a good position to judge. Frankly I much prefer Bioshock Infinite to Bioshock  even if it is a sloppier game, but I'll get into that one day, for now, our fe...

As part of my attempt to clear my Steam backlog I've gone back and replayed Bioshock as I purchased the remaster a while back but never played it (though I did play the original in 2008). A lot of people have written both in praise and derision of Bioshock so a lot of what I say about it is largely going to be the same; gameplay and story are great with incredible world building. However, the morality system doesn't work so well; with the only tangible difference from the morality system is the FMV that plays at the very end. With that said as I replayed Bioshock , I noticed that there is an opportunity no one brings up to fix the morality. To understand what the fix is, we need to go over the plot and morality system that run through Bioshock , just in case you haven't played it before. In Bioshock you play as a man who winds up in Rapture; an undersea city gone amok. In order to escape you're forced to survive crazed gene splicers, gene harvesting little girls called ...