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The themepark, Lamb as antagonist, flooding, Big Sisters and lunging around like a 3 ton wolverine all sound simply super.

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However, I had a neat idea. Image that Bioshock 2, instead of a sequel (to a story that was pretty finished, in a place that was about to collapse and be filled with water anytime), was a prequel.

An adventure game prequel to be precise (not as in “Rub items A and B together to solve illogical puzzle”, but a game where you primarily explored and talked to people). You would see Rapture in its full glory, filled with people and life. The beauty and optimism would be tainted because the player knows what will eventually happen. You would play, say, Anna Gustavsdottir or whatever her name was, the woman whose corpse you find, who tried to assassinate Ryan. You would meet some of the strong bit characters whose personality you only saw through audio recordings in the first game – the voice actor who worked for Cohen, the jewish couple with their daughter (pre-Little Sister).

Starting as an idealist trying to help build a city based on Objectivist ideals – freedom, capitalism, human creativity, you would slowly find unsettling hints that not all is well. Some seem to take the übermench ideal more from Nietzsche and fascist territory, and as paranoia rises things start to unravel quickly.

This game could also continue to explore the philosophical topics from the first game. Did Rapture fail because Ryan and others didn’t live up to their own high ideals, or from attack by outside infiltrators? Or is the ideology like communism good in paper but incompatible with human nature and always tragic if attempted in the real world?

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(enemies shouting at you, big daddies being big daddies etc)

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That said, I have no personal issues with the content itself. I think excessive gaming has made me immune to this sort of thing. :)

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I do think the whole concept of BioShock multiplayer could indeed be interesting, but only to the degree that a typical Source mod is interesting, say. To actually stand out in my eyes, they need to harness the BioShock universe concepts to create some fun and unique gameplay mechanics — not just rely on the inherent marketing of “Look! It’s BioShock! But with multiple players!”.

Sadly, it seems they’re doing the latter. Case in point: When I think “CTF using Little Sisters”, I imagine all the fun game mechanics that could stem from that. When 2K thinks “CTF using Little Sisters”, they (apparently) imagine a flag that screams at you as you lead it to an excessively long capture animation. Yeah, that sounds like fun.

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In Firefox, I hit the back button, then the refresh button. Refreshing maintains the contents of the form, so my comment is still there if I have to resubmit. But it also typically shows me my posted comment, all good and not invalid-ified at all.

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