It's a bit early to judge but this creates many plot holes. For example how are they going to have plasmids seeing as they come from a sea slug. Also I'll be pissed off if it turns out that rapture is just columbia fallen into the ocean. Andrew Ryan was supposed to be an extremely determined and insane genius who went to rediculous lengths to build Rapture. His character would be ruined if it turned out that Rapture just fell from the sky. If somehow IG ties up the story well, the change in setting could be a breath of fresh air for the franchise.
Bioshock: Infinite unveiled!
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Why not? At the end of Bioshock 2 Eleanor was brought to the surface by Delta in which she was allowed live a life there. She look liked she was in her pre-teens to me, maybe a bit older, so that would mean (assuming dates are compliant) that she would be old enough to be this other girl in Bioshock Inifite.CobraX said:
I meant 2, sorry.Axolotl said:
Thanks for clearing that up anyway. Well, there's goes the continuity =P
they explain in BIOS2 that Andrew Ryan built it Colombia and Rapture are unrelatedTheNamlessGuy said:
Personally I'm really excited for this. The thing that I loved about the first Bioshock is the fact that you were in this strange environment that you'd never seen before and didn't understand. It was beautiful, it was intriguing, and sometimes it was terrifying. That sense of wonder was seriously missing from the second game, which might as well have been an expansion. Rapture was great the time we had with it, but it's story is done.
Bioshock Infinite is I think a great example of how to do a sequel; retain elements that make the first brilliant while also taking it into a new fresh direction. It's keeping some of the key elements (an imaginative, retro, politically corrupt city/magic like abilities/horror) yet changing things completely at the same time (Rapture is now Columbia/ADAM is replace by another power/claustrophobia is replaced by vertigo).
Of coarse there's every chance that this game could be shit, this is only a trailer with no gameplay after all. We've seen with Left 4 Dead 2 what day light can do to a horror game, but then again maybe falling to your death is more frightening when you can see the ground. It could be that the atmosphere simply doesn't have the same impact that Rapture had the first time around, maybe the story is crap ect. Still, I like the direction they're taking.
I do agree though that the name is a bit crap. It's not even set in the Bioshock universe (and even if it is it's more than 30 years before so wouldn't have much connection) so there's very little reason to call it Bioshock. My guess is that's just there to sell game, new RPs are notoriously bad business after all. And ultimately it's just a name so it doesn't matter so much. It would just make it more sense for it to be another level of the "___Shock" thing like System Shock. Then again I haven't really heard any good alternatives. Aeroshock or Airshock doesn't really mean anything. Vertigo Shock doesn't really roll off the tongue well.
Bioshock Infinite is I think a great example of how to do a sequel; retain elements that make the first brilliant while also taking it into a new fresh direction. It's keeping some of the key elements (an imaginative, retro, politically corrupt city/magic like abilities/horror) yet changing things completely at the same time (Rapture is now Columbia/ADAM is replace by another power/claustrophobia is replaced by vertigo).
Of coarse there's every chance that this game could be shit, this is only a trailer with no gameplay after all. We've seen with Left 4 Dead 2 what day light can do to a horror game, but then again maybe falling to your death is more frightening when you can see the ground. It could be that the atmosphere simply doesn't have the same impact that Rapture had the first time around, maybe the story is crap ect. Still, I like the direction they're taking.
I do agree though that the name is a bit crap. It's not even set in the Bioshock universe (and even if it is it's more than 30 years before so wouldn't have much connection) so there's very little reason to call it Bioshock. My guess is that's just there to sell game, new RPs are notoriously bad business after all. And ultimately it's just a name so it doesn't matter so much. It would just make it more sense for it to be another level of the "___Shock" thing like System Shock. Then again I haven't really heard any good alternatives. Aeroshock or Airshock doesn't really mean anything. Vertigo Shock doesn't really roll off the tongue well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock_InfiniteAlternatePFG said:
There will be.
The method you collect them through seems a tad iffy though. Still quite looking forward to this game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock_InfiniteAC10 said:
Aeroshock would have been better in my opinion or Turboshock? (in reference to turbulence)
Also, they haven't kept the big daddy thing going. It is just ONE robot that apparently chases you through the game.
I don't think they're plasmids at all. In fact from the bits of information we're getting I don't think this is even set in the same universe as Bioshock. It would seem odd for ADAM and plasmids to exist over 30 years before a magical hand that shoots bees was even a twinkle in Andrew Ryan's eye, especially with no mention of it.Daedalus1942 said:
Not plasmid's in the traditional sense, but I was referring to the blanket term..SomeBritishDude said:
"Powers" of some sort do appear in Infinite. Obviously they aren't called plasmids, but they will be back, of course. I wonder if they'll go back to the idea of single wielding weapons and powers.
Dual wield worked in 2 because you played as Delta. I think it would be stupid if a human duel wielded.
I think it was less to do with playing as Delta and more to do with stream lining the gameplay. Using plasmids and guns simultaneously makes combat more interesting and varied.Daedalus1942 said:
And assuming this is a new universe with it's own set of rules (the fact that they have solid brick buildings that float hundreds of feet above ground kind of suggests that) there would be no reason for DeWitt not being able to duel wield, unless they create one themselves