Posted December 18, 2018
I couldn't play BioShock in 2007 because I neither had a next-gen console nor a gaming PC capable of playing it. I was aware of the game, liked first-person shooters, and found the setting and aesthetics interesting. I even marked it down on one of those hypothetical lists of games I'd get to justify a new console purchase (in this case, the Xbox 360).
However, I was turned off by the 360's unreliability (the disc-scratching put me off, not the red rings) so I never got one. That generation of gaming just became part of a dead zone for me where I'd only catch up the backlog of older games on older consoles. In fact, the original Xbox is still the most recent console I own.
As far as getting it on Windows, I wasn't much a PC gamer back then. I didn't even think that much about DRM because all the games I had were old enough to not have advanced copy protection. Until I built my gaming PC a couple of years ago, I would've still considered myself a console gamer despite not playing anything on them newer than 2006.
However, I was turned off by the 360's unreliability (the disc-scratching put me off, not the red rings) so I never got one. That generation of gaming just became part of a dead zone for me where I'd only catch up the backlog of older games on older consoles. In fact, the original Xbox is still the most recent console I own.
As far as getting it on Windows, I wasn't much a PC gamer back then. I didn't even think that much about DRM because all the games I had were old enough to not have advanced copy protection. Until I built my gaming PC a couple of years ago, I would've still considered myself a console gamer despite not playing anything on them newer than 2006.