I beat it recently and I really enjoyed it, but the game was definitely carried by the setting. You could tell the gameplay was designed for a different game though. Like half of the equipment was designed for fighting from the sky rails. Like half of the fights didn't even have rails, and even when they did I rarely touched them.

I've played through it three times and still can't figure out why it had to be a Bioshock game. It's an alright game, lost a whole weekend to it when it came out, but narratively its such a mess and if you were there for the hype it was a giant bundle of lies and false promises by launch.

It is a bad game.
It's missing so many features from the last two games, that it feels like a previous-gen game.

>>747619775
I played through it twice and can't remember anything about it. Which is weird because I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it at the time.

>>747617886
The setting and story is the only good part. The gameplay itself is whatever and some might even say a downgrade to its prequels

>setting is utopia-turned-dystopia themed around american nationalism and evangelicalism
>uhhh something something muscular statues of george washington and a black guy gets called bad words mumble mumble
>story is about many worlds theory
>literal direct admission from ken levine he doesn't understand the concept
>gameplay is a bioshock game
>two weapon limit, half the weapons are shit and the other half are boring, plasmids are boring, everything stripped down to a corridor shooter
I thought it was great!

I loved it . and the dlc. I had dreams about it since it stuck with me.

>>747617886
this game was so dumbed down it was hilarious and ken levine was so far up his own ass. i can't believe 2k fell for it again and gave him more money to make judas.

It's a mess.
It wants to stay a Bioshock game but the new setting doesn't work as well with the old ideas.
The story is also lacking with the characters doing stupid things and the overall ideas being poorly thought out.
Gameplay isn't horrible, but B1+2 did more and did it better.
The first previews we saw looked much more interesting, shame they couldn't deliver.

>>747617886
It's fun as linear shooters go, it's just way more linear and restrictive than a Bioshock game should be.

im not super into bioshock games but i thought it was a fine shooter and enjoyed it. sky city was more interesting than rapture

dont get /v/ autistic hate for it

>>747617886
It's a good game but it's a bad Bioshock game.

>>747617886
It was utter shit.

>>747618945
This is all true. Also carried heavily by good main characters though, you feel really invested in Booker and none of his decisions feel "wrong".

I genuinely think most of the extreme hatred you see for it nowadays is just a massive overcorrection to how much journos sucked it off back in the day. On its own it's a decent enough game with a great setting, but mediocre story and gameplay.

No, it was shit. Literal Call of Duty tier garbage people shilled as something "high IQ" and the creators were proud retards.

>>747617886
I would say it was pretty bad.

>>747617886
Very anti white game, in a "jewish intellectual" way.

>>747617886
The story shitting the bed when you get to the Chinese gunmaker bit violently yanked the game down multiple ratings with me. I liked the initial setup, especially with the implication that you can choose to throw the ball or not which then led to the industrialist or rebel contacting you with an underling. And then that went nowhere. It was like the game was stuck between wanting the player to have choice and then forcing you back onto a themepark ride of what Levine HAS to tell you. I did like the stabbed hand vs shooting first bit but again that was forgotten after a minute or two. I won't get into just how retarded the chinese gunmaker plot was, or really how retarded the whole alternate worlds thing was, but I genuinely thought this point was where I decided what kind of Booker I would be. The game could have done with at least one more ending - the "selfish" one. Have the drowning (wasn't a fan of the concept or the logic) be the "good" ending and have you taking Elizabeth away to Paris be the "bad" ending. It might just be a personal reaction but I could not give less of a shit about alternate reality Comstocks.

>>747623891
>gameplay is a bioshock game
Fuck no it wasn't. Gameplay was "we want the CoD audience" dogshit and was by far the worst thing about the game. Not-plasmids were shit, the guns were shit, the upgrades for the guns were shit, and being limited to carrying two weapons was extreme shit.

>>747617886
I would say it was an outright bad game. The previous bioshocks were middling, this had zero redeeming qualities.

>>747637349
And they still messed it up by making the soldiers bullet sponges in the late game

>>747617886
Played this a long time ago and I really didn't think much of it. Played recently the first two and I didn't think much of them either, except that they're mid. Infinite at least has Elizabeth.

I played it on release and finished it out of spite. Terrible linear shooter with horrible balancing.

>>747617886
I think it’s wild that critics were hailing this as one of the greatest games of all time upon release and then it was completely forgotten as soon as TLOU came out. Its lasting legacy is Elizabeth porn, which is something Ken Levine is still salty about to this day. That, and Levine himself also had a “mask off” moment where he admitted he was a Zionist and that the entire franchise was a Jewish allegory for how the goyim ruined Israel.