Bioshock PC Interface

Post by **brisk** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:17 am

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/pcblowout.html

Anyone else think it looks like arse? I'm sure its functional and the actual game looks fantastic of course, but come on... the typography is horrendous! Heres hoping for user-made custom UI's already...

Post by **Grudge** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:34 am

hmm, yea they should have done a better job of anti-aliasing the typefaces

oh, and those cartoonish drawn icons look pretty bad too, and why use shitty low-res textures in the UI?

I like the art deco style though

Post by **Mat Linnett** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:46 am

Yeah, I must admit, I was rather underwhelmed by this considering all the noise they had been making about having a whole other team dedicated to the PC interface.

On a Bioshock related note, Game on Oxford Street has a big-ass Big Daddy menacing the doorway

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:31 am

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:44 am

I'll be getting the PC version to mess with but I'll be playing the 360 one serious, so this matters not young ones.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:55 am

might be an intended effect - sort of rusty uber flat.

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:02 pm

I dont see what the problem is really, its just a UI, and its nowhere near as bad as the one Oblivion shipped with on PC... Now THAT was an issue.

You wont be using it all that much, just for hacking, upgrades and the like. The core gamplay will still be first person and we all know how stunning that is.

I do agree its a bit to cluttered and "HUGE" for my liking, a bit basic, but hell, if it does its job, then who cares. Nothings gonna knock this game off my 11/10 anticipation rating.

They could have given us a basic port but they didn't, you gotta thank them for that.

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:05 pm

That UI reminds me of The Chaos Engine or something.

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:20 pm

I'd also like to remind people about Falloout 3 and how utter fucking amazing that looks. BEST.HEADSHOTS.EVAR.

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:21 pm

UT2K7
HL2 Ep2
ET:QW

that is all

Post by **Foo** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:49 pm

Hey, they've got a pipemania mini-game. That's gonna be addictive for some peeps for sure

Aside from that yeah, looks like the old system shock/thief/dark engine UIs =/

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:21 pm

Yeah and that in now way made Theif Deadly Shadows or System Shock bad games.

Post by **DTS** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:46 pm

Looks alright.

Post by **StarShrieker** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:19 am

meh, I'm still waiting mainly for HL2E2, finally beat hl2 and ep1 a few weeks ago. I still don't know what to think about Bioshock. It won't run on this laptop, and I really don't want to buy games for our 360 since don't own it.