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Jason Schreier: Top-secret 2K studio is now working on a top-secret new BioShock game
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PS360 weren't powerful enough to do an incredible concept like that full justice. Just now in this gen we are seeing the games becoming closer to the developer's vision.
Do you really think big publishers will fund something like System Shock in this day and age? At least Bioshock wasn't so bad compared to, say, Thief reboot...
Ugh, I don't know about this. We've seen BioShock without Ken Levine and it took a DLC from a unique and creative mind to salvage that garbage. I didn't even think Infinite's combat was good. I really don't know about another BioShock game. They should almost give it a different title like how BioShock was different from System Shock.
I admire the word play of this post a great deal.
I, however, disagree that Bio 2 is a worse experience than Infinite. Opinions, of course. Bio 1 is without a doubt a game I would recommend most people at least play on Easy to see the story. Two after that if you wanted more of that world in a more fluid game.
Also, the main plot of Bio 2 was more gripping than Bio 1 for me since you were just playing for some random to escape a city. Lives were on the line in Bio 2.
Was worried a couple days ago that hangar 13 would get shut down but I guess for their safe that being said what happened to irrational doesn't bode well for them.
Mafia 3 was really impressive from a writing standpoint and the bar for this franchise is beneath the floor at this point so it can only get better from here.
Mafia 3 was really impressive from a writing standpoint and the bar for this franchise is beneath the floor at this point so it can only get better from here.
Sad story for Hangar 13's devs.
Now that would have been really interesting, too bad. Still happy for a new BioShock though.
Now that would have been really interesting, too bad. Still happy for a new BioShock though.
I know it won't happen, but I'd love for Fullbright to do a full-fledged Bioshock game. Minerva's Den with a giant budget.
Agreed. Mechanically, Infinite is easily the best in the series. Best shooting, best traversal, best level design, most enemy variety. As a shooter, those things are pretty important and Bioshock has always been a shooter above all else. I also thought Infinite's story was a lot more interesting than the previous games. Rapture was a cool setting and had a cool backstory but it was pretty one-dimensional. Infinite's story is literally multidimensional. Its characters are much better developed too.
I think the biggest problem people had with Infinite was not with the game itself but with the fact that it didn't match their preconceptions of what it should have been. When people saw the initial E3 reveal, they imagined that Infinite would be an open-world shooter RPG where you jump between realities at will. When the final game wasn't that, they were disappointed. Expectations can be very dangerous which is why publishers and developers generally try to avoid revealing games until they've been finalized from a design standpoint. 2K made the mistake of revealing Infinite too early.
Eh... I really wouldn't cite the first Bioshock as an example of logical coherence. The notion of making super-powers readily available for anyone is absurd and one that Andrew Ryan would have never realistically allowed given that he was obsessed with holding power. Their presence in Infinite is actually more believable. Rapture was all about individualism and that, combined with super-powers, inevitably led to war and the city's downfall. Columbia, on the other hand, was all about the Prophet. Everyone in Columbia (except for the workers who didn't have access to Vigors) worshiped the Prophet and were united under his will. They had no reason to abuse their powers or fight over them because they all served the same master and had the same goals. Anyone who strayed from this doctrine was punished severely, as shown by the public humiliation/execution of the interracial couple.
As for Vigors and Songbird being literally inspired by Plasmids and Big Daddies, that is correct. This is still a Bioshock game after all and there are certain fundamental elements that need to be consistent between games. Super-powers and large, iconic enemies are one of them. That said, the analogy is a bit off. In Infinite, the Handymen are much closer equivalents to the Big Daddies, since there are multiple of them. Also, the Handymen are much more interesting to fight than the Big Daddies. Songbird was also way more awesome than any of the Big Daddies.
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I've been under this assumption for a while now. Hopefully the game will take place in Columbia, and we'll have a repeat of Bioshock 2 where an alternate team improved significantly upon Ken Levine's original ideas.
I don't think this is a good idea at all especially when there is a System Shock Remake (ok put on hold but it might come later) and mostly because of System Shock 3 being made by Warren Spector, the creator of that genre (Thief, Deus Ex, System Shock) and whose ideas influenced the creation of similar games like Bioshock, Dishonored, Prey etc.. from the same ex-members who worked with him. I don't think both BioShock and System Shock can coexist if they are scheduled for the same era. That would be a real shock.
Don't worry. System Shock 3 from the real father and the real Shodan will fill that gap.
Cue the absurd Infinite hate train. This can be really bincreidbi, just thinking bhoe design has come in this gen I can't wait to see a Bioshock game with this gens new techniques!
Yeah I'm surprised anyone is excited after Infinite. 2 wasn't exactly blowing either.
I want a full-on detective game set in Rapture or a similar location. It's never gonna happen of course, but I wouldn't be interested in another linear shooter like Infinite. The action is what made those games not as interesting as they could be to me.
/edit: A game in the vein of System Shock or Prey would be more than welcome too.
/edit: A game in the vein of System Shock or Prey would be more than welcome too.
