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Posted on: March 18, 2020
LiamTheLamb
Verified ownerGames: 5 Reviews: 1
Constant crashes
I got to the medical pavilion and found a new plasmid, and then everytime I try to use it, the game crashes.
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Posted on: August 29, 2025
Meatknife
Games: 503 Reviews: 2
Great game barred under jarring bugs
To keep it simple: The game is as beautiful if not prettier than the original. However, it is filled with bugs and errors that are never going to be fixed anymore. I personally wanted to replay the whole series and thought doing so with the remastered version would be a great idea: it offers increased FOV, crisper and cleaner textures and doesn't struggle with animations not tied to fps etc. But then, there were the bugs, especially the one that made me stop playing and uninstalling the remaster. There is a chance that the game might crash the moment you save your game. I read online that people therefor recommend using at least 2 different save files, meaning you should always save twice. Why is that important? Because if the game crashes while saving, your file is corrupted and won't show up the next time you re-launch the main menu. Even using 2 save files might not do it for you, depending on how often that bug occurs. I personally don't want to think about my safe files possibly corrupted all the time. The only saving grace and the reason I leave it at 2 stars is that you're getting classic Bioshock as well with this one. If it is on sale, buy the remaster and play the original. I did and it still runs great, for me personally on Linux and Proton GE 9-4. Textures are less polished but still look great imo and the smaller FOV actually increases the immersion and makes the gameplay more intimate. Still, if you're planning to get it for the remaster, especially on full price: don't.
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Posted on: June 26, 2024
ChrisOzzie
Verified ownerGames: 784 Reviews: 56
Bad Hacking, Bad Port, Still Amazing!
FYI: Remastered version is a lame port, but I still suggest playing it over the original for reasons below! So Bioshock 1 is an incredibly fun first person shooter with a big emphasis on RPG'ish elements and big open-ended levels. Let me tell you why it's SO good first! - Its story is my favorite of the franchise. The game's villain is Andrew Ryan, the founder of the big underwater city you're trapped in. There are also tons of other great characters that you can learn about directly via conversations over your radio or by audio logs similar to how System Shock 1 and 2 worked. - It also has an interesting setting of an early Cold War, extreme Anarcho-Capitalist society. The underwater city is like nothing else we've seen in video games before and has great fitting music. - Fun Economy System! So you loot money, ammo, and crafting materials from crazed enemies and buy medical kits or ammo from vending machines. You also use the crafting items to obviously manufacture unique ammo types or useful devices. - GREAT Combat! You get a selection of 8 different upgradeable weapons. Almost all of them can use different types of ammo. On top of that, you get Plasmids, the "magic" of the game. You can zap, freeze, and immolate enemies. This really spices up the combat! - Great Character Progression: You can obtain and swap different "genes", which essentially give the player useful perks! Unfortunately, there's some bad to be found here too: - Unbalanced Weapons: The pistol, shotgun, and machine gun becomes obsolete once you get the grenade launcher, chemical launcher, and crossbow. - Hacking is BORING: You gotta hack a LOT of machines, and it's a boring mini-game that takes too long. - Port Is Kinda Crappy: It mostly works out of the box, but the Remastered's only improvement is better resolutions, an FOV option... and that's it i think. Some people report that it crashes a lot, but it only crashed once for me. Still a great game, and I recommend it!
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Posted on: July 15, 2021
AlDim
Verified ownerGames: 123 Reviews: 5
Constant crashes for this version.
Bioshock is still an amazing game 14 years later. The setting is one of the best we've ever seen, the visuals and art direction are beyond stunning, the gameplay is unique and engaging, and the storytelling is also at a high level throughout most of the game. The ending is poorly thought out and executed, but that remains the only real weakness of this masterpiece. However, this version is utterly broken. I am among a very large group of people who have experienced regular crashes. In my case the game would crash every few times I access the map and on occasion when loading a level or when saving. I had to restart it probably 50+ times to get to the end. Then it crashed right at the final pre-rendered cutscene, so at that point I just gave up and watched it on Youtube. The remaster has done virtually nothing to enhance the visuals as well. The remastered dev's name is kind of telling. As the saying goes, even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while. Blind Squirrel didn't this time.
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Posted on: November 1, 2024
wfay79
Games: 18 Reviews: 1
Unplayable...
I was excited to get this from GOG via my Amazon Prime account. I have played the intro probably 12 times and every time it crashes right after getting into the elevator to Rapture. When the elevator stops and the loading screen pops up it sits there for a minute or 2 and then crashes out of the game altogether. It does not save so you cannot get back into the game and start after the elevator....you have to go through the plane crash, swimming, getting on the elevator, pulling the lever, and then the game crashing again....
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