McTaffer on 13/4/2018 at 20:29
I'm not really surprised to hear this, since making a new Bioshock game with at least a reasonable degree of competence is basically printing money. If such a thing were actually announced, I might be cautiously excited. Bioshock 2 didn't have Ken Levine and was better than Infinite by leaps and bounds IMO, so the fact that he isn't there doesn't kill it for me. I'm more concerned that it will be handled the way so many AAA games are these days and be stuffed with microtransactions et al. 2K is far from innocent in that regard, so I'm sure there will be some degree of multi tier preorder bastardry at the very least.
Renault on 13/4/2018 at 21:58
I tend to think the whole Bioshock thing is kind of played out, I'm not sure a new game is going to have anywhere near the enthusiasm of the older ones.
Starker on 13/4/2018 at 22:41
It has brand recognition, though. Got to milk those cows until they're dead, after all.
Sulphur on 14/4/2018 at 04:51
Bioshock 2 didn't do too well in sales, did it? I doubt the average consumer looks at these for the brand more than the novelty of what was being offered - city in the sky, city under the ocean. Infinite had great art direction whatever its other faults were, so that didn't hurt either.
Starker on 14/4/2018 at 05:08
It had "lower sales than expected", but it still sold millions of copies, not much worse than the first game.
catbarf on 14/4/2018 at 05:17
I wonder if that has to do more with marketing than anything else; I'm with McTaffer in saying that Bioshock 2 was an awful lot better than Infinite. Frankly, I thought Infinite was tremendously overrated and I figured it'd be the end of the franchise.
icemann on 14/4/2018 at 07:24
Same here.
Bioshock 1 & 2 are immersive sims with "some" RPG elements. Infinite on the other hand is a straight up FPS. I was not a fan at all. The DLC was alright though.
BS 1 & 2 I quite liked on their own (when not comparing them to the System Shock games).
Vicarious on 14/4/2018 at 08:47
I enjoyed BS1 a lot when it came out (althought I was disappointed with it in terms of gameplay) and BS2 was cool too. Infinite was garbage, in retrospect I hate everything about it except the setting (yes, even the story).
In my opinion the best BioShock thing that ever came out is Minerva's Den - it didn't have the personality crisis like BS1 ("I want to be System Shock but I don't want to be System Shock") and got rid of a lot of pointless system that were nothing but residues from the early days when it was supposed to be a lot more like Shock2 (Power to the People weapon upgrades, clunky "snap photos to research enemies" thingy).
Then again in recent years my expetations for AAA games have skyrocketed thanks to games like Dishonored, DOOM4 and Arkane's Prey. So if they're really making BS3 it'd have be a lot more than what previous BioShock games were for me to care.
ZylonBane on 14/4/2018 at 16:26
Quote Posted by icemann
Bioshock 1 & 2 are immersive sims
They really aren't, which is why the community here was so indifferent to them after initial release. At heart they're traditional corridor shooters, wearing the trappings of the Shock legacy like a skin suit.