Comments on: Dicey Underwater Choices: Bioshock 2 Trailer

By: luphisto

luphisto — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:06:22 +0000

yes but captain jack sparrow was a funny and likable character, well written and played by an exceptionally good actor. whereas a big daddy is a massive moaning behemoth. i dont think we are going to get the same type of experience.

By: luphisto

luphisto — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:56:13 +0000

1984? i rather think not. unless your only referring to the fact they are both set in dystopia. pacing in and themes are entirely different from what i can see.

By: RIP

RIP — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:20:10 +0000

Looks boring, well nothing new then?

By: Taillefer

Taillefer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:19:45 +0000

Ahh. I couldn’t find anything definitive. Withdrawn.

By: SheffieldSteel

SheffieldSteel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:35:29 +0000

System Shock 2

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:54:39 +0000

I always got the feeling Fontaine wanted to use Rapture as the hub of his criminal empire. I imagine it would be hard to arrange extradition of a ruler from his soverign state at the bottom of the ocean. A state that happens to include nuclear weapons.

Ryan burnt down his forest to stop the government taking it off him. So apply that concept to Rapture,

By: dhex

dhex — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:22:19 +0000

their lives. at a certain point backing down means you die, even if the original goal is lost.

By: Urthman

Urthman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:42:33 +0000

Having watched that trailer, that woman’s voice and the stuff she’s saying is really lame. That’s the omnipresent voice of your nemesis? Yawn.

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:30:15 +0000

The trailers for original Bioshock focused on gameplay choices and consequences. For these trailers it seems they have given the edit suite keys to Michael Bay (whom I love btw) and he’s gone all “KAPLAW, BOOOM, KRAKKA KRAAKA SHOOM!” which isn’t what Bioshock should be about. Pity.

By: Gabanski83

Gabanski83 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:42:49 +0000

Too much shooty shooty, not enough creepy creepy scary stuff.

One of the reasons I liked Bioshock, was because it could be hauntingly quiet and forbidding. The atmosphere was ladled on in bucketloads, and it was brilliant for that. This just looks like a normal shooter, in a fairly unusual setting. And it’s a shame, as I don’t want a gung-ho balls out blaster of an FPS in the Bioshock universe. I want more creeping through the cold dark lifeless watery depths, the crushing pressure making the whole city creak and groan ominously as I clomp through the sections in an achingly slow Big Daddy suit.

Well, ideally, I’d prefer to play without the safety of a Big Daddy suit. I want to be shit scared when I hear the insane laughter and metallic skittering of Splicers in the distance…

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Well every example on that list was in other things long before Condemned. The one thing I will say was very similar was the “One two punch” of shock-thwak.

Though bizarrely it missed out the living manikins in both games and the fact they both play grandma’s foot steps with you.

By: Lars Westergren

Lars Westergren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:13:40 +0000

Exactly my thoughts, EBass.