Wrong Location
Andrew Ryan - First Encounter ( Is in Neptune's Bounty -- Smuggler's Hideout )
That's the actual location Not FORT FROLIC
fix it! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 98.164.230.139 (talk • contribs) 02:05, 2009 July 15. Please remember to sign your posts with ~~~~.
Title
Should diaries have a capital D? How is it presented in-game? Kirkburn (talk) 00:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Numbering
I can't seem to get the Midiawiki-style #-based numbering to work on this page. All I get is 1.1.1.1.1 etc. Argh! -Justinhall 01:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Locations
Should this page have the location of each diary (like the Hephaestus section does)? Or should we just leave the location on the individual diary articles? --Klivian 13:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
marking non-backtrack diaries
i have a suggestion for this page. marking the diaries that you cant go back and get later somehow, even something as simple as an asterisk (*) would work. right now, you have some of them marked, but its only on the single pages, and thats really a pain to keep checking each single page to see if thats one i HAVE to get right now before i go too far. --UberFuzzy 11:37, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
- I suggest you find a new way to mark these entries. The gold background is a bit hard on the eyes, and it makes some of the text hard to read. Servitor 2152 21:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
- For the orange (salmon-coloured?) notices that say "NOTE: You cannot backtrack to this area, you MUST get these Audio Diaries if trying for the Historian achievement in the Xbox 360 version", the part that says "the Xbox 360 version" seems to be overlapping the line above it.
- I don't know how to fix this, but hopefully someone else does.
- --Habiat23 05:32, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Habiat23
cant find diary!!!
I know where the diary is located... its just not showing up... Its titled "first encounter" and its located in the farmers market near the dead big daddy in the employees only section... I have all the other diaries in the section just not this one??? my question is if I continue on and come back will everything reset and will it appear or what should I do??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.24.209.204 (talk • contribs) 04:51, 2008 May 2. Please remember to sign your posts with ~~~~.
- The "First Encounter" is labeled under Neptune's Bounty section. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.186.30.245 (talk • contribs) 14:52, 2008 May 3. Please remember to sign your posts with ~~~~.
Accu-Vox, Syncro-Vox?
Could Accu-Vox be a referrence to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchro-Vox ? 173.32.11.67 12:57, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
missing diaries
after counting up some of my diaries in the PS3 version, and counting up the ones that you had listed, i noticed that your missing a few, and i still havent been able to earn my trophie for the diaries. you might want to update before somebody else thinks they have them all and dont get a lovely trophie icon, i added a few that ive gone thru but your still missing some —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bioshockfan (talk • contribs) 22:42, 2009 April 5. Please remember to sign your posts with ~~~~.
Another possible non-backtrack diary
Upon trying to backtrack just now to the medical pavilion, I can't seem to get to Steinman's surgery where the 'Not what she wanted' diary is found as the door marked "Steinman's Aesthetic Ideals" does not open. I will mark this as a maybe on the main page but would appreciate verification if this is definite or just an individual bug.
Legather 18:48, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Splitting This Page
(see Talk:Characters#Splitting This Page)
Something to consider when splitting this page:
Currently there is only one audio diary for SITS, however, there are many phone messages and audio recording. Should they be included in the SITS audio page after it is split? ~Gardimuer { ʈalk } 15:27, December 21, 2009 (UTC)
Epistolary Novel Format
All Audio Diaries seems to be written in an Epistolary format. This is a kind of writing that an author uses newspapers, radio messages, e-mail for multiple points of view. This removes the need for a omniscient narrator. Houdini25 (talk) 17:06, May 8, 2013 (UTC)
Oldest Audio Diary?
Just pure speculation here, but could Andrew Ryan's audio diary The Great Chain Rattles be the oldest recorded audio diary in the entire series? It appears to have been recorded before Sofia arrived in Rapture (The audio diary talks about inviting her), so it must have been recorded in 1949-1950. It's possible that some are older, but with this one, we at least have an idea of the date. Makes me wonder how it lasted so long. Also, if compact casette players were invented in the mid-1960's then it says quite a bit about the advancement of Rapture's technology.Ant423 21:26, March 6, 2010 (UTC)Ant423
WIth all the odd places we find them , oddly strewn in often just the right order in our path, one wonders at alot of things.
It is possible that splicers used these recordings for entertainment or even as a kind of trade good which might account for them being carried just about anywhere in Rapture. Funny would have been a few re-taped over or with snippets of additional recordings either added later or remnants of a previous recording overwritten by the original speaker saying something quite odd or off the wall.
Audio messages or devices?
I want to be sure of something: can we really call as "audio diary" the device that records and plays audio messages, or just the recordings themselves? I've been thinking of that while playing Burial at Sea, because they are named "Audio Logs" in-game (no counting the related achievement/trophy description). Also the device which list all audio diaries at the player's apartment in BioShock 2 Multiplayer is named "Log Recorder", not "Audio Diary". Moreover, the manuals of both game describe them as audio/recorded messages, not recorders.
Another point on this wikia page, it states that audio diaries were made by Accu-Vox, a sub-division of Fontaine Futuristics, which is not true. The Accu-Vox (full name: Accu-Vox Personal Voice Recorder) is the retail name of the device, not a subdivision of FF which produced them.
So, should we change the introduction paragraph of this page? I honestly think we shouldn't call audio diaries as devices.
Pauolo (talk) 22:13, November 29, 2013 (UTC)
- Aren't they called Audio Diaries in BioShock? Maybe leave the page listed as "Audio Diary," keep the first paragraph as is, and just add a "history" section explaining the name.
- Unownshipper (talk) 22:46, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
- Well in fact they only call the audio messages as such when you pick them up or in the dedicated menu. What I mean here is, this page here seems to suggest slightly that the recording devices are called audio diaries, and Accu-Vox (the name of the log recorder) is the name of the manufacturer. I'd just want to change the text of this page so it appears clearer to readers.
- Pauolo (talk) 22:58, December 1, 2013 (UTC)