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Caeden said:

So don’t shoot me but I missed Bioshock. The original. And the subsequent sequels. Having hard time getting time on ps5 to play the Batman Lego game, so reverted back to PC. About 3 hours into Bioshock one. I regret never touching this. MMO period.

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Bioshock 1 - Probably the greatest game of the PS3 era. Story, atmosphere, gameplay. Absurd how good it is. Upgrade the pistol last, the upgrade stations are few and far between and there are just enough to go around. Shotgun was the best thing to upgrade early IMO.

Bioshock 2 - Actually an underrated sequel. Wasn't as good as the first and got boo-booed a lot. Has the best gameplay of the three, with more options and variety than the first even as it loses ground in other areas.

Bioshock 3 - A bit overrated, does great on story and atmosphere while suffering on gameplay. It's a half step above a single-player COD in that regard, restricting you to two weapons at a time and turning your attack spells into glorified grenade types.

In short, 3 has good story/atmosphere, 2 has good gameplay, 1 has both. I'd play all 3, no doubt. They're doing a fourth but it'll probably let everybody down.

Runnen said:

I really enjoyed Blasphemous and happily grabbed Blasphemous 2 when it came out, but I couldn't even finish it. I'm not sure why, I just got really bored about halfway through and couldn't be bothered. I might go back to it someday, but I think the general consensus is that it wasn't quite as engaging as the first game.

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I've got so many Metroidvanias I wanted to check out and never got to. Blasphemous 1+2 are two of the big ones. Also Ori 1+2, Hollow Knight 1+2. Didn't know where to start, they all kinda felt too similar. Can definitely see burnout settling in fast if I actually went through a bunch of them. I was going to try to do Ender Lilies 1+2 this past month (basically rolled a die) and couldn't even get going with that, got maybe an hour in.