Rapture Revisited

This game has mocked me twice before with stalled gaming sessions.  This time I plan on finishing it with the help – rather I should say cattle prodding – from all you guys.  Here are the notes straight from my notepad with my expanded thoughts.

-       “No gods or kings… only men.” And plasmid addicts, oh and mutants with a drill bit for an arm.

-       Rapture is still a well-designed vision of what Atlantis might be today.  The entrance scene on the bathysphere I still enjoy.  I wonder how many people drowned building this city?

-       Nothing like eating potato chips straight from the garbage.  Who the hell throws a full bag of chips away?  Better question – I haven’t been in Rapture for more than five minutes and I’ve already gone this low?

-       Plasmid use has to be the closest event I’ve seen to equate the actual use of heroin.  The splicers look so strung out.  If I have flashbacks to Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream, I think they’re getting the point across well.  Hey look, one’s wearing a bunny mask.  Jesus that’s creepy.

-       This Atlas character.  Dude I only have been talking to you for 10 minutes on a radio, and you want me to rescue your entire family?  Seriously, WTF did you do to have to rely on me?

-       These audio diaries are outstanding – great voice acting.   And all the tapes do quite well to characterize the city as the glorious empire it once was – and of course what it’s turned into now.  Well, except McClintock’s bitch ass.  “Alone on New Year’s Eve… again.”  Woman, you live in a city where people can wield electricity through their hands.  Put a tampon on.  Andrew Ryan had better things to do, and so do you.

-       Another note about the audio diaries – it’s considerably slowed down my gameplay.  I love listening to them, but it has me on edge.  I worry so much about missing one that I search rooms at such a slow rate.  Due to this pace difference, I had no idea how much of the game I played on any of my attempts to this point.  I may have gotten to our agreed stopping point, but I honestly don’t think I played that long at all.

-       Hacking sucks.  I may be more upset at this because of my day job, but man this rip-off of Pipe Dream makes me angry.  Difficulty could be on easy for a vending machine and I get 3 seconds to solve it.  Get this mini-game out of my face.

-       Telekinesis is going to be a lot of fun.  A ton of fun.  Tossing dead bodies at splicers have already brought me such glee.

I'm excited to be back in this game.  I've already passed my previous save point from last year.  As I look at that previous save, my progress it wasn't as impressive as I remember.  Exploring the city of Rapture is shaping up to be an experience.

SBG out.