Bioshock 2, BIG news

[LCP]

YAY, just YAY

 

[Corven]

Bioshock is one of my all-time favorite games and i would love to be in that world again. i hope this stuff is true although i am skeptical about being a big Daddy.

Spoiler: screen shots from the magazine that I took myself with my camera.

Spoiler: player character about to drill splicer in the face

Spoiler: player character setting splicer on fire with pyrokinesis plasmid.

Spoiler: player character in front of little sister confronted with obligatory moral Choice

Spoiler: player character about to use rivet gun on hapless splicer

Spoiler: player character looking in reflective surface revealing default Big Daddy suit

Quite possibly. I doubt most people will read it on April fool's day though. I kinda hope that they are lying about the little sister escort missions. That one at the end of the first part was the least fun part of the game.

the escort missions are completely optional, if you save one of the little sisters she hops on your back and only extracts adam from corpses if you prompt her to, otherwise she'll just ride along untill you get rid of her in whatever way the game will let you.

 

[Simriel]

I'm assmuming by 'First ever' they mean the first ever one to be created. and that its still alive. And your it.

 

[nmmoore13]

If it is, then it's a really crappy joke because all of it is believable and could actually create a really cool game. If it is a joke, then it's not funny, it's just stupid. It would make sense that GI is getting the exclusive on Bioshock 2, GI did a full cover story for Bioshock when it was first announced, they were the ones that really got the hype train chugging.

please read my post.

If it is, then it's a really crappy joke because all of it is believable and could actually create a really cool game. If it is a joke, then it's not funny, it's just stupid. It would make sense that GI is getting the exclusive on Bioshock 2, GI did a full cover story for Bioshock when it was first announced, they were the ones that really got the hype train chugging.

please read my post.

That was weird. My post came up like 20 min. after I originally submitted it. I would not have posted that if had read your post before, but it wasn't there when I posted.

 

[Ansem-The-Wise]

Sounds cool, but who knows how reliable that source is?
EDIT: How can you play as the "First ever" big daddy if it is set ten years after the original.

THe source is VERY reliable. Everything he listed has already been stated by GameInformer in the April issue. ANd when he said 'FIRST EVER' Big Daddy, it means that you play a prototype Big Daddy, with more high-tech weapons and the ability to use plasmids.

 

[AdjectiveAnimal]

While it sounds fun I really, really hope it will be not considered canon.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

Am I late? Has someone else already posted this?

Almost every major video gaming website including the escapist has had a news article on it since days ago. Not this leak though.

 

[[Gavo]]

Even though this is late, I learned more. Good job.

I want to play on the ocean floor...

 

[Xivilai87]

Game Informer interviewed Jordan Thomas about this. Hes the Creative Designer Behind Bioshock 2. i have the magazine right in front of me, and the original post is completely true.

you do play as the first ever big daddy, according the Jordan Thomas. the original big daddy was an experiment, and after its success, more were manufactured. the ones you saw in the first game were these manufactured ones, and they were created t be controlled. the original big daddy however cant be controlled like the others (not so much explaination as to why however).

the big sister is infact a little sister that escaped rapture, and has returned.

its all on gameinformer.com

 

[scnj]

I remain skeptical about the whole thing. The first game was such an amazing experience, I fear this could bring the whole thing down. And Ken Levine not being involved just sucks.

 

[MooseRyder]

Pssh..
Got my Game Informer yesterday..

 

[Corven]

I was in the process of writing out the entire article from the issue in Microsoft word, just so everyone could get the straight facts and not just hearsay and vague facts from the article, but now that there are finally other people who have read the article besides me, (seriously I felt like the only one on the entire website to have this magazine)I can stop this one man battle of relaying the information from the article in it's original context.

 

[Simriel]

I liek this post. I will now proceed to again worship the feet of the game designers at 2K. Imma get to drill splicers. YEY!

 

[OiXerxes]

I predict that the sequel will ruin Bioshock for me. It should have been a one trick poney.

Who knows? "Indigo Prophecy Syndrome" might ruin it for us, after all, it is a sequel...but has anyone noticed that they dropped the "Sea of Dreams" subtitle? (Awesome)

you cant play the first ever big daddy if its

1)ten years after the first one
and
2)If you already played as a big daddy. remember the final level of the first one.

other then that sounds pretty cool

Whats exactly stopping us from playing as the "First Big Daddy"? Although I think it might up it's own ass in features because well...Big Daddies were BONDED to their scuba suit and I highly doubt could use plasmids...

...so 2K might be pulling a Halo 2 because they said Bioshock 2 was sort of a prequel and sequel so it might be flashing back between the "First Big Daddy" and whoever is searching for the missing girls on somethinginthesea.com while he is exploring Rapture in a more ruined state than Jack did in Bioshock

 

[McClaud]

My guess is that you have to adopt different Little Sisters as you go, because going OUTSIDE UNDERWATER would probably KILL them if they went with you. So when you dump one to do the underwater missions, you have to find a new one when you get back inside Rapture.

That makes better sense than you constantly collecting them until you end up being more of a Little Sister jungle gym than a giant one-monster fighting machine.

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

Bioshock was mediocre enough I'm not too hyped up about this. I'd rather have System Shock 3 for more Shodan.

 

[McClaud]

Bioshock was mediocre enough I'm not too hyped up about this. I'd rather have System Shock 3 for more Shodan.

The unfortunate reality of System Shock and any further sequels is that the original creator of the majority of the game said that he was holding onto his creative rights to System Shock 1 and 2 and not allowing anyone to make any more sequels. Which then kills their ability to make any until the guy either dies or they buy his creative rights.

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

Reminding me is so cruel =(

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

well actually you went throught the entire process of being a big daddy. You put on the suit,you changed your vocal chords, and you changed your natural body smell so that you smell like a big daddy.

I don't buy that really. According to the game's cannon the process of becomming a big daddy is irreversible - the volunteer is sealed inside the suit until they die. Given that we can clearly see in the game's final cinematic (if you didn't kill any little sisters at any rate) that the PC is on his death bed clearly NOT wearing the suit, I tend to believe he essentially only put on the suit for protection.