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Picked up a few games on the Steam sale, but haven't bought much. Really want Monaco to go on sale.
Now for my contrarian rant.
I got Bioshock Infinite off Green Man when they were undercutting Steam. I've played about 5 hours or so. The first hour was, 'wow, this is pretty'. The rest has been progressing from meh to boredom to actively being irritated by it.
I haven't finished it, so no spoilers. But I must be close to halfway through and, Jesus, is it getting tedious. The combat is abysmal; I easily melee everything to death. There is no consequence to dying, as Elizabeth brings you right back, right in place just a couple silver dollars lighter. In fact, it's hard to die when she keeps throwing me ammo if I get low, throwing health if I'm wounded and guess what happens if I run low on salt for my vigors? Am I going to be facing a bunch of baddies? No worries, Liz can pop a turret, mechanical patriot or barricade out of nowhere.
I appreciate the previous Bioshock games were on rails, but perhaps because this hints at a bigger world, it's glaringly obvious how I'm just being funneled from one locale to another to advance the plot.
Columbia started out interesting, full of people who all disappeared as soon as I had to be Mr. Gun Shooty Man turning it into a shooting gallery rather than a real place. It's nice to find the touches in the real world - posters, graffiti, recordings - that give a bit of feel to it, but that's about all that I can really say now. I'm losing interest in the story because of how bad the gameplay is.
I am really disappointed in this game, especially given the plaudits it got. Thank Xenu I bought it cheap.