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Hypocritical because to me, Bioshock 2 simply felt like more Bioshock. Hence, people who love the first should at least like the second. If you don't, it's a bit like having pancakes for the first time in your life and loving it and then hating it when you get your second serving because it's what you got the first time around. It just seems strange to me - first you love the recipe and then you don't.
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I disagree, as myself and others have pointed out, the recipe wasn't the same at all. You're taking one aspect of it (the gameplay) and acting like since that part was unchanged from the first to the second, we should love it equally.
Well what puts Bioshock above other standard shooters like COD? I can tell you it certainly isn't the gameplay, COD's is far smoother and more refined. No, the reason people loved the game in the first place was the world and atmosphere it created, and the unique Ayn Rand utopia-turned-dystopia it parodied.
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I don't think the levels nor the story was much of a let down in the second game. It had a lot less novelty factor and I think people's disappointment in a lack of "new " manifests itself with a projected dissatisfaction with story, level design, etc. Not saying that's the case with any of you guys, but in general terms of how the game is rated, I believe that sort of stuff bleeds over and makes other aspects of the game seem less positive - even if they may well compare well to the previous game to a more objective observer.
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While it's true that the lack of excitement contributed, it also had to do with the whole contrived feel of the game. I found none of the characters interesting, the story was a bland love/emotional connection story lacking any of the political themes or objectivist philosophy that made it compelling in the first place. Plus the whole thing felt off, I can't remember any events in the 2nd game on par with those of the first. It just wasn't memorable.
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As I stated, the second game failed in bringing anything new and significant to the table. That makes it slightly inferior to the first. Everything else was pretty much like before. As I enjoyed Bioshock and wouldn't mind exploring the city of Rapture a little more after the first game, I was happy to come back. In the end, I finished both and I enjoyed both. I thought that would go for most Bioshock fans.
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You seem wholly focused on the black and white here, the fact that the gameplay and the setting is the same means we should instantly like it. Hell it didn't even feel like the same Rapture to me, the colors were a lot more dull in the game and, as I've said so many times, there weren't any colorful personalities to fill the empty halls of Rapture. The only thing that beared resemblance IMO was that it's still underwater.