Ill back you up on this.  What is the deal with carebear games now a days?   Bioshock was rediculous.  My biggest compliants

1.  the difficulty curve dropped off to almost nothing about half way through the game.  I had so much cash, so much ammo, all the plasmids i wanted....i never worried about anything.

2.  The respawn system was retarded.  Challenge me!  there was almost no penalty for dying!  the one penalty was frusttration because I would have to run into a situation with less and less ammo/health and basically keep going at the enemies until fucking attrition won out on my side and my infinite lives outpaced thier single ones. 

3.  I played on the hardest setting and I was a god by the end of the game.  I kid you not....I ran though the last 1/4 of the game with a wrench only...until the last boss.  I could melee a big daddy and win with only using one medpack because of my freezing/damage/speed/lifetap plasmid combo.  other enemies were nothing.   It was comical at first, but then just a little sad....like playing paintball against kids in wheelchairs.  (They are out if you hit them in thier wheels, I argued.  Cecil-san remembers that day.)