1. Bioshock used System Shock's heritage.
2. Fallout and Bioshock are like best games ever.
3. Therefore Beth developers certainly knew about Bioshock's invention.

Bioshock did not invent recorded audio logs. End of story. You can't argue this, because it's a fact.

If anything Bioshock ripped off the whole 50's thing from Fallout. >_>
But I'm sure Fallout ripped it off some old 8-bit game or something.

Still, saying something ripped off Bioshock is just wrong.
Lots of games has done just what Bioshock had.
The Telekinesis plasmid, Halflife 2's Gravity Gun.
Audio Logs, I think I remember the game "The Great Escape" had some and it was released a couple of years before Bioshock.
Good vs bad choices, see just about every RPG game made.
Killing children, Fallout 1 and 2 and Postal 2.

You name it, another game had already done it.
So repetition is inevitable.

/offtopic I guess.

there's a number of holotapes i've found lying about.

But there are alot less, imho there's more pressing concerns about the game i have than the holotapes.

Simple.. Obsidian happened.. -.-'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbSQ8JbyQo8&feature=related

That argument is invalid, there is still roughly the same amount of holotape/disks the only difference being that more of them are text now instead of audio.



Please do, I'd really like to see it. Hell make a new thread about it. Can never hurt.

What a logical point you've made. :rolleyes:

Smacks of cost-cutting. Cost-cutting like that on a game that is pretty much guaranteed to sell millions of units isn't appropriate.

The audio recordings helped humanize wasteland living (and dying, usually) and I was really surprised to be pushing level 26 before I bumped into my first one of the game.

I really like those little journals of characters long gone. It put a ghost into the environment that was most welcome.

Nice avatar. :tops:

* Text entrees make perfect sense to me, and they have been text for most of the series. A lot of us prefer text because its easy to glance over it and get the gist long before the speaker gets to the point... Some say the same for NPC dialog (myself included). I usually read to the end long before the speaker concludes. :shrug:

I actually like this come to think of it, because it also means that User created quests can come from holotapes and not seem awkward for them not including (or for including) amateur recorded voice files.

IMO there should also be hand written notes (not displayed on the Pip); as well as non-holotape audio/video recordings. This could allow for the PC to find cassettes or even a Betamax tape and need to find an appropriate player. :laugh:

Bioshock ripped off Atlas Shrugged.

As to the voice tapes, my guess is that Obsidian's voice acting budget wasn't enough to cover readings of all the holotapes they wanted to include, so they only had some of them done.

They did seem to go with a wider variety of VA for NPCs, as well as giving dialogue to even minor supporting NPCs, so if you ask me that's a pretty fair tradeoff

And recordings of Legionnaires killing NCR rangers and taking the woman as a sixpet.

Hmm. Speaking of which, can you find and rescue that girl? Does she show up in Nelson or Cottonwood Cove?