God I adore this game, can you believe I never once saw BioShock's intro ever? I call myself extremely lucky I knew nothing about this game, the chillingly amazing intro, the terrifyingly beautiful city of Rapture, the mouth gaping twist. I came to this franchise late, but better late than never

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

That’s so awesome to hear! Glad it all holds up so well for a newcomer!

@theappetiser775

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's a good time to have joined the fanbase, I'm pretty sure bioshock 4 is in development now!

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

It is in development! I can’t wait to find out more about the presumed new setting and gameplay!

@thedeepcocoa

2 жыл бұрын

It's in development, shit what a time to become a BioShock fan!

"I hope the length of the video won't be a problem" Uhmm that's why I m here

Dude this is so well put together, you definitely deserve more attention

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@marcellosandoval2974

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly he is my type of reviewer good job and I love the details and explanations of the game keep it up

Bioshock is a classic masterpiece, one of my favorites. Thank you.

This channel is the circus of value! And I love it

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I love the Circus of Values voice and it's so funny that it's Ken Levine himself. "Come back when you've got some money buddy!"

good video man, keep going - getting the first 1k subs is tough but you have the quality and attention to detail to grow a healthy community here. can't wait to watch your other stuff

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

you deserve more of out this quality of content, i saw you bioshock 2 video and thought you must have had atleast 10,000 subs

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much! Maybe one day but I’m also happy with the small but supportive audience I have now.

your ending statement was so sweet austin! to put it simple i think bioshock would be too "scary" for me to play but holding ur hand and going it through it together was a pleasure! im excited to see where we go from here in the next entry!

@AustinAshworth

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you were able to at least experience the game vicariously, it's really something special!

@JacobIsACheese

4 ай бұрын

@@AustinAshworth Yeah! ive always heard only great things about bioshock and i do see why you are so enamored with it! just watched your minervas den retrospective too! such a tragic ending - and that voice performance was indeed great!

Amazing review, love your analytical style

i really enjoyed this video!!!! everything you had to say was super interesting and insightful, and your voice is weirdly calming as well lmao. i’m looking forward to more videos from you!

@baileym2885

3 жыл бұрын

i also especially liked your point about tenenbaum “going soft” and how she’s really one of the only women in the game. i hadn’t thought about that when first playing, but it’s definitely something i’m thinking about now!

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Comments like yours are really appreciated as I work to grow an audience. Never knew I had a career in ASMR haha! I should have a new video out soon but in the meantime I hope you check out my other uploads!

That was the fastest 47 minutes of my life, this video was very well put together and you have a lot of great points that aren't just praise or just negative. This video needs more attention

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Perhaps the most egregious sin is how, if you decided to forego harvesting the Little Sisters throughout the game and instead saved them, the net loss you get in Adam is largely negligible and made up for in the form of a gift of Adam from Tenenbaum after you kill Ryan. Apparently Levine argued against this and wanted the choice to either harvest or save the Little Sisters to have real consequence in the difficulty of the game, but higher ups in the Production team insisted that players not be punished too harshly for choosing the "good route."

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Ken was definitely in the right there! As is, the biggest effect the moral choice has is just which cutscene plays at the end. It barely affects the gameplay experience at all.

Your videos are so well done that I thought you're a big youtuber but no, that's not the case. Well, nicely done!

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Hopefully one day haha

love your bioshock videos and your insights! I must say though when you are talking and you also have the audio of them speaking behind it its hard for my attention not to be pulled between the two

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I struggle to get the audio balance right. My intent is to have the subtitles from audio logs on screen so you can read them because they relate to my discussion. Unfortunately if I have the game volume too loud it’s distracting. I’ll try to improve that aspect.

@bradleyc7623

2 жыл бұрын

@@AustinAshworth I feel that! I respect your vision, just a suggestion. Take care 💖

I've watched a lot of Bioshock videos. A lot. Your video absolutely wins best category for one aspect. Best Ken Lavine pic. Hands down. Say what you want about the man, but he sure does enjoy a tasty beverage! Hilarious. Bravo!!!!!

yknow what. this video was so fucking great i have to sub. great shit man, just about to watch your bioshock 2 one!

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much and I hope you enjoy my other videos just as much haha

Bioshock is a absolute masterpiece. The first two games i got with my 360 back in the day were Bioshock and Assassin's Creed. I've got so much nostalgia for the early days of the 360 and Bioshock in particular was a highlight.

@AustinAshworth

2 ай бұрын

Xbox in particular was cooking in 2007: Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo 3...

great video!

man I love your content. pump out more videos please

@AustinAshworth

2 ай бұрын

I really appreciate the kind words! Please understand the videos take a long time to make and be patient. I wish I could upload more too haha but it’s hard to find the time to work on this channel

to an extent Bioshock's simplification from its predecessors is that you can only play it as a first-person shooter. the "sim" aspects have been reduced to the point there's no role-playing at all. and this is why dishonored and prey are my favourite sim games; in dishonored you can finish the entire game without killing anyone. still, the bioshock games are pretty entertaining by themselves.

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

I’m really bad at stealth games but still enjoyed both Dishonored games. Prey is fantastic though, I was so engrossed in it that I couldn’t put it down when I first played!

You should definitely use Telekinesis as a combative plasmid. Damage from objects are scaled by the size of the object thrown. For instance in Medical Pavillion the hospital beds can 1 shot splicers on survivor difficulty. Amazing video, coming from a guy who holds this as his number 1 game and I can tell you'll have a large channel one day if you keep pushing out amazing content like this. Keep it up!

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

Just like the gravity gun in HL2! That definitely sounds really effective - I've never really explored telekinesis's potential in that way because I really dislike how much the objects obscure the screen. Thank you so much for the kind words - this comment made my day!

41:50 This segment of the game doesn't just randomize the plasmids you use. It also give you access to plasmids you never used, or maybe missed entirely. In this way, it's a bit of a carrot on the end of the stick for a second play-through using different abilities, which meshes nicely with the kill/save decisions. It's also one of those moments that removes the "gameplay brakes", so to speak, and really tests you on how well you understand the game systems by making you adapt on the fly.

@AustinAshworth

Жыл бұрын

That’s a good way of thinking about it! You might have actually changed my mind on this section, although I still think it’s frustrating in practice

You do see Diane McClintock! The scene of "The Longest Con."

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Wow somehow I totally missed that - good catch and thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Very nice review brother!

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciate! Thanks for watching!

I disagree with your take on the chemical thrower. The chemical thrower is one of my favorite weapons to combine with other weapons. Electric gel for the chemical thrower can be used in tandem with the crossbow, shotgun, and grenade launcher in quick bursts to deal massive amounts of damage. I use this to take out big daddies and sometimes leadheads. Sometimes, I get the chemical thrower ammo upgrade in order to save on ammo. This makes the gun much more fun to use in my opinion, and this might completely change how you see the weapon. I don’t know though, it might depend on your play style. Love the video though.

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

That rapid weapon swapping sounds like something out of Doom Eternal haha. I can definitely see the damage potential there but it also sounds like a lot of effort to make the weapon useful. Like you said. I think it’s a play style thing - another commenter was talking about heavy use of the telekinesis plasmid for damage and that was such a foreign strategy to me lol. Just shows how open ended the combat system in Bioshock is!

@Donut117

Жыл бұрын

The chemical thrower is also essentially a gun version of the Electrobolt, Incinerate, and Winter Blast plasmids, and so allows you to continue melting ice and opening doors without always needing a slot dedicated to those plasmids.

I liked the review alot but the point about tenenbaum being a poor representation of a female main character was not only out of place just like her accent but I would consider wrong. Her "going soft" isnt negative as it shows she is most likely the only soul in this city of sin , envy, and greed that is capable of having a conscious, not to mention her being a survivor of the holocaust only adds to her character as she is a survivor and a genius she is a force to be reckoned with as evidenced in her being a LARGE part of the reason Fontaine fails. She also knows when she is wrong and tries to atone for her past sins like any good hearted individual would, she is not afraid to do the right thing nor admit her own mistakes. I can only think some preconcieved notion of a woman not being ruthless somehow persuaded this opinion but I dont see it as very concrete as the rest of the review. besides that I like everything else.

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

You make a good counterpoint and I thank you for challenging me when I don’t do a good job supporting my arguments. I see now that I failed to clearly convey what I meant. I just thought it was too trite that the most prominent female in Rapture is the only genuine ally like she was singled out for that explicit purpose. It feels like the “mother goose” caregiver role was created first and then Tanenbaum’s background as a scientist and Holocaust survivor was added after that utility was already set just to give her character more depth. Like the story required a protector for the little sisters so of course they used a woman and it just so happened to be practically the only woman in a very male centric cast. I’m probably still not explaining it well but that’s the best I can do. Again thanks for pushing back a bit and encouraging me to make more cogent arguments in these videos.

just finished this game. So much and ya I agree the ending feels so silly. I hate escort missions and the final boss fight felt very forced. The twist was so well done, but the game had nothing planned after that. I did however like the disney ending cut scene though haha

I had a _very_ different experience with this game. I tried to play it 3 or 4 times and ended up dropping it every time in the early stages. It's worth mentioning that the story and setting never hooked me and I already knew the twist going in. I _only_ played this game again because I made a deal with a friend. I told him that he needed to play 'Fallout New Vegas' and he said that he would play it start to finish under the condition that I do the same for the first Bioshock. I slogged through the early game and ended up loving it purely for the gameplay. Something I don't hear enough about this game is just how _viable_ everything is. I said to hell with hacking which had pissed me off every other time and bought my way through that shit. I wasn't super into the other plasmids, but I loved telekinesis and used it pretty much exclusively throughout my playthrough. The game really lets you use what you like, and you can mostly ignore the parts of the sandbox you don't like.

@AustinAshworth

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your very unique perspective. I can’t imagine not being hooked by the story or setting! To each their own but that’s the biggest draw for me. Glad you were able to enjoy it regardless. Sounds like you did a Gravity Gun run from Half Life 2 haha

The best game of all time 🙏

Hey KZread, would you kindly share this video with more people?

Like commented and subscribed 👍

personally, i really like that Brigid doesn't retain her humanity so much as she finds it for the first time. I think its interesting that this awful place brought out something good in her that she thought she'd lost after the person she had to become to survive the camps

this & half life 2 basically changed my view on fps campaigns

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

The HL series (especially 2) are favorites of mine as well! I’d love to do a video series on them someday (but don’t currently have plans so don’t get too excited haha)

chemical thrower? *waves away* crossbow? *thumbs up* All my homies hate the chemical thrower!!

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

Haha You get it!

Rapture is basically Libertarian Atlantis

Post more videos please!

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

I plan to! Glad you enjoyed!

1. i played the series for the first time in 2021. 2. i hate FPS 3. but boy did i love this game. Also I don't think tenenbaum went 'soft'. I think she was one of the few characters that went from being a monster to becoming human, in contrast the rest of rapture. Theres nothing wrong with the little sisters needing a motherly figure..plus we have the insanity that is lamb to counterbalance the female roles.

Did you play the remastered version of this?

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

Hi! Thanks for watching my video! The footage is recorded from the original PC release, not the remastered version. I'm not super knowledgeable about all the differences between the two but I don't think it makes a big difference which you play when on PC. I stuck with original because it's the version I am familiar with; some of the superficial changes to the water effects and the all the added seaweed kind of bother me in the remastered version. Just as a warning for anyone who plays the original, you may have to do some tinkering to get it to work right. For example, I had some issues with mouse acceleration but was able to fix it pretty easily.

@bvailcards44

3 жыл бұрын

@@AustinAshworth I see, and I thought you were playing it because the game looked pretty good.. I guess I remember the game looking duller and I guess grayer? Idk. It looks good still though!

@AustinAshworth

3 жыл бұрын

@@bvailcards44 Ah gotcha! It’s rare that a game looks better than we remember! Bioshock has fantastic art direction so it holds up a lot better than some other games that released alongside it.

Am I the only one who enjoys the hacking minigame XD

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

Lol you may be haha. More power to you!

@robertmurdock1848

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah , after hacking everything my first playthrough ; I started using my money to buy out as many hacks as I can , saving auto hacks for the more costly hacks.

@AustinAshworth

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertmurdock1848 I always find myself with way more money than I can otherwise spend in Bio1 so that’s not a bad strategy haha

Second!

First!

14:53 I’m not going to sugarcoat my response or give you some leftist essay on why I disagree but the fact is women are more emotional than men and that’s one of the reasons why Tenenbaum “went soft”. Not to mention if Tenenbaum was a dude, he would have reacted the same way since anyone with a conscience and a dark past like Tenenbaum’s could see that experimenting on kids is evil. It’s not a “stereotype” or whatever it’s a realistic response

Ngl super smash bros ultimate seems overrated asf to me. I played a lot of it but it’s not really some great game tbh. It’s just a fighting game with some popular characters 🤷‍♂️

47 minute nit pick