Fontaine: Would you kindly press that bathysphere lever?

I just have one final suggestion, though. When you are collecting the big daddy suit components, it would be a nice touch if you could pick either the Bouncer parts if you wanted to be a Bouncer big daddy or the Rosie suit parts if you wanted to be a Rosie big daddy. The different suit types would have their own advantages/disadvantages, such as the Bouncer trademark instant-kill drill and rapid charge. The Rosie suit would give you the powerful rivet gun and more damage resistance as the Rosies in Bioshock have more hitpoints than the Bouncer big daddies.

Perhaps as bonus or secret, you could find the “elite” versions of the Rosie and Bouncer big daddy suits hidden in the area which would grant you even more damage resistance and make your attacks more powerful.

It’s kinda weird, the plugin seems otherwise well-made. It warns you can’t use single-quotes in these variables, but in fact you can’t even use double ones. And PHP just breaks the whole thing.

So all I’ve done is changed it to show “Loading older posts…” while it is, so anyone who didn’t realise it was doing that will at least know what’s *supposed* to happen. If it was getting stuck before, though, it’ll probably still get stuck. Maybe I can put older posts links in the sidebar or something.

Thanks for sharing!

(Cheers, btw)

Fucking brilliant.

On reflection, I like my first idea better anyway. It makes it extra heartbreaking that the sisters are willing to sacrifice themselves to save you even as you abandon them, and it’s just rather satisfying that the reason Fontaine has no hope of escape is that there’s simply no-one left in Rapture who likes him enough to help.

What always struck me about the final section is how utterly random it is. I mean, there’s a great big museum, presumably for tourists and the intellectual elite, right next to an Orphanage for Little Sisters and a place where you outright turn humans into monsters. Even in pressed-for-space Rapture, you think you’d avoid putting rather disturbing places like that right next to popular attractions. No one’s going to go look at your Blue Whale skeleton if there’s a man screaming and having his voice box ripped out next door.

You can sort of see their drawing board with all these ideas on them – escorting a sister, becoming a Big Daddy, Defeating Fontaine – and then tried to cram it into too small a space.

Bioshock 2 basically took two of the weakest bits of the first game, namely the Sister Escort and the Big Daddy suit (No drill? Really? Always loved how the endings entirely ignored the whole transformation thing, too), and essentially proved they weren’t bad ideas, just badly executed.

There’s a choice here, and that means it’s kinda important that either way, you lose to some degree.

So, some sadness? Fair trade.

Other than that I love it.

I’d also want the player to hate Fontaine. A side-effect of spending the whole game bigging up Ryan is that when the real villain shows his face, you haven’t had much time to build a grudge. He’s about to meet an incredibly nasty end, and that’s not going to feel satisfying if you don’t hate the guy.