I don't play Video games much. The last game I played through was portal 2, before that was portal, and prior to that I don't ever recall finishing any video game I started. I did do a lot of multiplayer FPS games in the late 90's, the last one I really spent any time in was unreal tournament.
However I need to play through bio shock infinite when it comes out for reasons which I'm not going to go into here.
I will be going over my system specs to make sure it's up to it, but not being used to the market I'm somewhat confused by the various editions and options available.
It appears there are three editions, standard, premium, and ultimate songbird, and on top of that there is something called a season pass on steam which appears to be DLC.
What is contained in each? How does each edition or the season pass affect gameplay? Are these just window dressing and behind the scenes, are they additional stories inside the same universe but not compelling to the main storyline, or do these contain portions of the game that one would need to include to consider having played the whole game? Is the amazon version different than the steam version?
Also, how much of my experience will be lessened by playing on a suboptimal machine? Right now it's a quad core i7 with 16gb of ram and a low end graphics card. I assume I'll need to update my graphics card, but will I miss out on anything if I don't go above and beyond the recommended specifications? (I already meet the minimum)
My preferred appliance is PC, but is the release to the Xbox or ps3 expected to be different in substantial ways, such that I should look at borrowing one for this?
Lastly, how many hours of gameplay are we talking about here? I understand the bio shock franchise is known for replayability, but for the initial run through and experience what should a typical gamer expect? I did portal 2 in about ten hours straight through the night it came out, which isn't great, but I don't expect I will be a particularly slow player. I certainly won't be attempting higher difficulty settings, though.
However I need to play through bio shock infinite when it comes out for reasons which I'm not going to go into here.
I will be going over my system specs to make sure it's up to it, but not being used to the market I'm somewhat confused by the various editions and options available.
It appears there are three editions, standard, premium, and ultimate songbird, and on top of that there is something called a season pass on steam which appears to be DLC.
What is contained in each? How does each edition or the season pass affect gameplay? Are these just window dressing and behind the scenes, are they additional stories inside the same universe but not compelling to the main storyline, or do these contain portions of the game that one would need to include to consider having played the whole game? Is the amazon version different than the steam version?
Also, how much of my experience will be lessened by playing on a suboptimal machine? Right now it's a quad core i7 with 16gb of ram and a low end graphics card. I assume I'll need to update my graphics card, but will I miss out on anything if I don't go above and beyond the recommended specifications? (I already meet the minimum)
My preferred appliance is PC, but is the release to the Xbox or ps3 expected to be different in substantial ways, such that I should look at borrowing one for this?
Lastly, how many hours of gameplay are we talking about here? I understand the bio shock franchise is known for replayability, but for the initial run through and experience what should a typical gamer expect? I did portal 2 in about ten hours straight through the night it came out, which isn't great, but I don't expect I will be a particularly slow player. I certainly won't be attempting higher difficulty settings, though.
