xhonzi said:
Funny that my old methods from the first game for effortlessly felling Big Daddies still works flawlessly,
Do tell!
Sadly, it worked at the beginning of BS2 before I got more powerful, later in the game all it took was holding the trigger on my drill down in their face for a few seconds. Disappointing. I was happy to see the Rumblers appear in this game, after having seen them in concept art for the first game, but they were way too easy to take out, and they were the only BD's appearing in later levels, usually you want things like that to get harder, not easier. Not sure where they were going with that one. Guess they decided getting the Little Sisters should be fairly easy since you have so much else to deal with, but it killed a lot of the fun for me.
My method in the first game, since you asked, was to plasmid a BD, toss some lead at him, dodge his charge, run away, turn around, plasmid, lead, dodge, run, repeat. That was for Bouncers. Rosies were always a lot harder for me, Circling while shooting, dodging, and taking cover and utilizing turrets and cameras when I could was the best way I found to handle them.
Hmm... I can't say I remember having particular trouble with splicers. I favored the rivet gun and the shotgun, and the ice and electrical plasmids But I did let roving turrets do a lot of my dirty work.
After writing my last post, I found that gene tonic that significantly slows down your EVE consumption but makes it so that you can only use the drill, camera, and hack tool. I decided to go for it, fell in love with it, and never went back for the rest of the game. I discovered the mini-turrets around that time too, they made the Little Sister gathering events much more manageable.
Over all, I found the game to be much more simple than the first and most definitely not on par with it. Not a worthy sequel, but a fun side quest. It was fun to revisit Rapture and to take on the role of a Big Daddy. Protecting the Little Sisters was fun and very different from anything in the first. I absolutely loved the part where you play as the Little Sister and see Rapture and the Splicers (live and dead) through her eyes.The Big Sister fights were okay, but nothing like the thrill I got from facing a Big Daddy in BS1.
Really annoying, I beat it without using a single vita-chamber, turned the things off right after I started the game, and for some reason it didn't give me the achievements. Oh well.