Bioshock -- the "sequel in spirit" to System Shock 2

seems like there's a lot of staff leaving the developer. doesn't bode well - maybe they're far enough along that it won't impact on the quality of the game too much?

more likely they stayed on till their principal work on this was finished.

I think the move to 2013 was more to give it some clear space in the schedules, rather than it not being nearly ready.

sure there will be polishing till release, but I'd say the main stuff is all done and people are now free to leave.

there have been quite a lot of talk of a troubled development though, Gears of War producer was brought in a few months ago to pull it together etc
eg http://kotaku.com/5933119/bioshock-infinite-update-multiplayer-modes-cut-gears-maestro-joining-should-fans-worry

http://media.whosay.com/254969/1/254969_la.jpg

well, i'm *finally* playing bioshock 1, on a retina macbook pro, and it is glorious and smooth and beautiful. i love the maps.

anybody else really, REALLY surprised they didn't put the big-eyed/large-busted lass somewhere on the cover?

maybe next time

this might be one of the few new games on my immediate wishlist for the next six months

People who care way too much about this kind of thing are apparently pissed about that cover- grizzled white man with gun steadfastly refusing to look at off-screen explosion, etc- but it could have been a lot worse. I have to voice my appreciation for bright colors and zeppelins tbh.

all video game box covers are terrible. except for http://benandalice.com/images/megaman.jpg

http://amigairc.amigarevolution.com/badcat1.jpg

god dammit

http://amigairc.amigarevolution.com/badcat1.jpg

Irrational hired a Russian cosplayer to be her official face:

http://irrationalgames.com/insider/we-love-our-bioshock-cosplayers-so-much-we-hired-one/

http://ormeli.deviantart.com/art/Elizabeth-252947899

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/227/f/3/elizabeth_by_ormeli-d46ljuj.jpg

always think of this game whenever i drive by one of these trains
http://i.imgur.com/TECDos.gif

http://irrationalgames.com/files/2012/12/Happy-Holidays.jpg

FILL YOUR CRAVINGS

AT THE CIRCUS OF VALUES

*ding ding ding doot doot doo doo*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIAqZSfz6A

FILL YOUR CRAVINGS

AT THE CIRCUS OF VALUES

― the late great, Friday, January 11, 2013 12:20 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hysterics

This comes out next week, right?

Anyway, here's a GB sit-down with a tired Ken Levine:

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/elizabeth-is-a-shark-ken-levine-on-bioshock-infini/2300-7164/

definitely didn't pre-order this. Im worried its going to be a turd. bioshock 2 wasnt exactly amazing. then again infinite looks more than just a rapture rehash..

Im worried its going to be a turd. bioshock 2 wasnt exactly amazing

Totally different developers though - I'm not saying this won't be crap, but the people who made Bioshock Infinite had nothing to do with Bioshock 2 (and everything to do with the first game + System Shock 2 and SWAT 4).

I'm pretty sure this is going to be a masterpiece but what do I know.

all the trailers have been so chaotic, explosions everywhere, big guns. hopefully that's just the shit that looks exciting in a trailer and not what the majority of the game is like.

reviews falling all over themselves to slobber ken levine's dick here. as long as it's an attractive shooter with enough "trenchant social commentary" to counterbalance all the right wing islamophobe modern warfare stuff i'll be happy.

this looks comically awful in every way

glad i didn't have to say it

this looks str8 wikked imextremelyhumbleo

Turns out I preordered this in August or something then forgot all about it until I got the message today saying it'd been dispatched. But I'm away from home for the next 2 weeks bah.

http://i.imgur.com/hVC8e1b.jpg

lol

Lowest score on Metacritic so far is an 80.

the first one was entertaining and involving enough but was not exactly fashion forward as a shooter. if this one is about the same that's worth it to me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jchIi-vR_js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jchIi-vR_js

I will probably rather enjoy this. I love the art design, and my first job was as a dude in a historical American village set between 1865-1914.

The RPS review had this great turn-of-phrase:

story-based games which revolve around targeting reticules

That review: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/25/bioshock-infinite-pc-review/

god why does adam sessler fucking talk like that

getting repeatedly stuffed in lockers does things to a man

Being forced to cope working with Olivia Munn

this looks comically awful in every way
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, March 25, 2013 1:32 PM

disney + steampunk

I'm getting some Sky Captain: The Game vibes from the commercials for this thing

looks dope + free xcom from steam. mostly worried about annoying companion AI girl b/c that shit never works

girl from ico, pour one out

ken levine has a copy of devil in the white city, access to google, a thing for toddler-women with dewy eyes and huge tits who are based off his ex-girlfriend, and now he even has an AAA game about skyracists to show for it.

http://i.imgur.com/B4dmKRN.jpg

did ken levine beat you and bill magill up or something

okay lol

Who the hell was Levine's ex, then?

“I’ve had the experience of knowing a girl once, dating her once actually, who had been with somebody who had abused her before. All the clichés you hear about are true. She would say that this guy had pushed her down the stairs when she was pregnant, that he had made her kneel in glass… all these unspeakably horrible things. Then she would make excuses for him, all the time. I knew the entire time that we were dating that she would go back to him. I could just see it. It was this tragic thing happening in real-time. And she did go back to him.”

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/13/bioshock-infinites-elizabeth-shaped-by-ken-levines-experiences/

so gross

never gave a shit about his pretentious thoughts on the first gamed, not sure why i would care now.

but go on digging through the back catalog of pcgamer to make fun of us nerds. ;)