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Bioshock Infinite

DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
edited August 2010 in General Chat
Move over, Andrew Ryan. Here comes Bioshock Infinite, a new title in the Bioshock series that takes place in Columbia, a flying city* (Read: not not underwater).

So, this is quite a different direction for BioShock. What do you think?

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  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited August 2010
    DrRocketGenius wrote: »
    So, this is quite a different direction for BioShock. What do you think?

    That direction being up instead of down. I'll see what it's like when it arrives, but it seems too similiar to Bioshock really to have the same impact. it's different, but is it really new?
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited August 2010
    The biggest thing that stands out to me about this is the constant American-ism, patriotism, and perhaps imperialism flaunted throughout the trailer and screenshots and logo. This is OBVIOUSLY not Andrew Ryan's doing. I really like the idea of horror in sunlight, and the fact that it still feels like Jules Verne wrote a horror story. It's still Bioshock, which is what I want from a Bioshock game.

    But that's the pros of what I think. My cons are that these guys are using really similar technology to what Andrew Ryan used. Unless he IS involved which is doubtful, then that does feel a bit uninventive. Do they have to use the same robots?

    Anyway I'll see how it turns out when its finished.
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited August 2010
    Seeing as how at the time of this narrative I would be a teenager, it seems like a story that doesn't involve me in the slightest. It seems to be a Final Fantasy style sequel, that it to say that connections to its predecessors are merely thematic and mechanical. That being said, I look forward to exploring the city of Columbia and their jingoistic orgy of psychopathic murder crows.
  • RibsRibs
    edited August 2010
    I'm betting it'll go like this:
    You save the lady
    You realize the only way to stop madness is to destory airship
    You manage to disable the engines and the airships fall in the atlantic ovean
    Sealed up inside a room, you watch in horror as Lady dies in front of you
    Shocked by this, you decide to never leave the water again, and come up with a new identity: Andrew Ryan, and you reconstruct yourself in the Vitachambers to be 10 years younger.
    5 Years Pass, and your city is nearing completion. You make a speech ending with the word rapture but not as the name of the city. You go to your apartment, pick up your putter, and hit the golf ball into the hole.
    Cut to Credits
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited August 2010
    StLouisRibs wrote: »
    I'm betting it'll go like this:
    You save the lady
    You realize the only way to stop madness is to destory airship
    You manage to disable the engines and the airships fall in the atlantic ovean
    Sealed up inside a room, you watch in horror as Lady dies in front of you
    Shocked by this, you decide to never leave the water again, and come up with a new identity: Andrew Ryan, and you reconstruct yourself in the Vitachambers to be 10 years younger.
    5 Years Pass, and your city is nearing completion. You make a speech ending with the word rapture but not as the name of the city. You go to your apartment, pick up your putter, and hit the golf ball into the hole.
    Cut to Credits

    Beautiful.
  • RibsRibs
    edited August 2010
    Also, I really dug the first BioShock for the Andrew Ryan plotline, but once he
    bit the dust
    , the game fell flat.

    This game seems to have everything going for it, including a brighter setting which is infinitely better in my opinion.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited August 2010
    If it's anywhere near as uninspired, diluted and dull as the first entry in the series? I'll wait until it hits the bargain bin so that I can think about picking it up and then proceed to decide that $5 is far too much to waste on it.
  • RibsRibs
    edited August 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    If it's anywhere near as uninspired, diluted and dull as the first entry in the series? I'll wait until it hits the bargain bin so that I can think about picking it up and then proceed to decide that $5 is far too much to waste on it.

    D'ah, he just Rather Dashinged the Thread.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited August 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    If it's anywhere near as uninspired, diluted and dull as the first entry in the series? I'll wait until it hits the bargain bin so that I can think about picking it up and then proceed to decide that $5 is far too much to waste on it.

    Hey guys, look! A game that Rather Dashing doesn't like! That never happens!
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited August 2010
    StLouisRibs wrote: »
    I'm betting it'll go like this:
    You save the lady
    You realize the only way to stop madness is to destory airship
    You manage to disable the engines and the airships fall in the atlantic ovean
    Sealed up inside a room, you watch in horror as Lady dies in front of you
    Shocked by this, you decide to never leave the water again, and come up with a new identity: Andrew Ryan, and you reconstruct yourself in the Vitachambers to be 10 years younger.
    5 Years Pass, and your city is nearing completion. You make a speech ending with the word rapture but not as the name of the city. You go to your apartment, pick up your putter, and hit the golf ball into the hole.
    Cut to Credits

    Well. Now I don't have to play the game.
  • RibsRibs
    edited August 2010
    Oh, and throw in some father issues about obeying ultimately ending in the revelation his father made the airship, and he goes against his fathers orders, and chooses to crash the city.
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited August 2010
    One thing I read that I don't like is that the main character will talk in this one. Doesn't feel very Bioshock-y to me.
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited August 2010
    MORE LIKE SKYOSHOCK HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    heh
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited August 2010
    Fealiks wrote: »
    MORE LIKE SKYOSHOCK HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    heh

    Coming soon
    Cryoshock: The Antarctic Adventure and Dryoshock: Desert of Doom
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited August 2010
    ESRB has recently rated all of the following games:

    Flyoshock: The Air-based Kart Racing Adventure

    Spyoshock: A Tale of Espionage

    Hiyoshock: Where Making Jokes Could Save Your Life

    Tieoshock: Where Tying a Tie Could Save Your Life

    Thaioshock: Where Tying a Thai Could Tie Your Tie

    and Systemshock 3
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited August 2010
    Fealiks wrote: »
    and Systemshock 3
    I believed you until you got to this one. I'm sorry, but that is just absurdly ridiculous.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited August 2010
    Fealiks wrote: »
    Thaioshock: Where Tying a Thai Could Tie Your Tie

    Even though I got lost and confused about halfway through reading this, I think that this one in particular has the potential to be a really fun game. :p
  • BoneFreakBoneFreak
    edited August 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    If it's anywhere near as uninspired, diluted and dull as the first entry in the series? I'll wait until it hits the bargain bin so that I can think about picking it up and then proceed to decide that $5 is far too much to waste on it.


    Entry? This isn't a performance or a movie, or anything.

    Also, yes, you did just "RatherDashing'd" the thread.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited August 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    I believed you until you got to this one. I'm sorry, but that is just absurdly ridiculous.

    I :D'd and then I :('d
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited August 2010
    DrRocketGenius wrote: »
    One thing I read that I don't like is that the main character will talk in this one. Doesn't feel very Bioshock-y to me.

    You are aware that the first game opened with Jack monologuing, right?
  • Ray-The-SunRay-The-Sun
    edited August 2010
    So instead of getting genetic superpowers through hypodermic needles, we get genetic superpowers through DRY ALE.

    Oh, and Andrew Ryan can't be in this game because he's in Russia at this point in the series.
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited August 2010
    Ray-The-Sun wrote: »
    So instead of getting genetic superpowers through hypodermic needles, we get genetic superpowers through DRY ALE.

    Oh, and Andrew Ryan can't be in this game because he's in Russia at this point in the series.

    Maybe this game is set in Russia and the dudes in the sky are just American gypsies, squattin over Rusher and whut nut. Yerp.

    Also, MORE LIKE DRYALESHOT
  • RibsRibs
    edited August 2010
    Unless god forbid Andrew Ryan lied. And we know he doesn't do that.
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited August 2010
    StLouisRibs wrote: »
    Unless god forbid Andrew Ryan lied. And we know he doesn't do that.

    Yes. Lying is a horrible sin against all that is good. Now then, would you kindly disregard circumstances were the truth must be creatively reinterpreted?
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited August 2010
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    You are aware that the first game opened with Jack monologuing, right?

    Yeah, but he didn't talk throughout the rest of the game.
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited August 2010
    DrRocketGenius wrote: »
    Yeah, but he didn't talk throughout the rest of the game.

    He did, however, shout out in pain and made confused grunts. There are entire dialects which consist solely of this in Rapture because we're so... advanced?

    Furthermore, I am entirely convinced this thread was created simply to solicit a statement from myself on my removal from the franchise. Can I get confirmation?
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited August 2010
    Andrew Ryan wrote: »
    He did, however, shout out in pain and made confused grunts. There are entire dialects which consist solely of this in Rapture because we're so... advanced?

    Furthermore, I am entirely convinced this thread was created simply to solicit a statement from myself on my removal from the franchise. Can I get confirmation?

    I had thought your invention of the eternal life plasmid and creation of Icarus was what got you expelled from civilization and led to the foundation of Rapture?
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited August 2010
    SHODANFreeman wrote: »
    I had thought your invention of the eternal life plasmid and creation of Icarus was what got you expelled from civilization and led to the foundation of Rapture?

    No, no. It's totally cool. Would you kindly disregard any apparent discrepancies in my story?
  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited August 2010
    what i'm wondering is wether andrew ryan will show up as a small child in columbia... it'll turn out that his living in columbia during whatever troubles take place in this game will be what completly turn him against capitalism and democracy and such... and the hatred of the ideas that columbia are built on cause him to build rapture at the bottom of the sea... ^_^
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited August 2010
    SHODANFreeman wrote: »
    I :D'd and then I :('d

    Same, it made me die a bit on the inside.
  • SucklebugSucklebug
    edited August 2010
    StLouisRibs wrote: »
    I'm betting it'll go like this:
    You save the lady
    You realize the only way to stop madness is to destory airship
    You manage to disable the engines and the airships fall in the atlantic ovean
    Sealed up inside a room, you watch in horror as Lady dies in front of you
    Shocked by this, you decide to never leave the water again, and come up with a new identity: Andrew Ryan, and you reconstruct yourself in the Vitachambers to be 10 years younger.
    5 Years Pass, and your city is nearing completion. You make a speech ending with the word rapture but not as the name of the city. You go to your apartment, pick up your putter, and hit the golf ball into the hole.
    Cut to Credits

    haha, i think it just might.
  • SpykesSpykes
    edited August 2010
    I actually didn't realize that the original creators of Bioshock weren't the same people that made Bioshock 2 until they announced Bioshock Infinite. That makes me a bit more hopeful for Infinite. Bioshock 2 was OK, but it was just too much of the same. I'm quite happy they didn't go back to Rapture again as it seems that well has run dry.

    It'll be interesting to see if they tie the floating city of Columbia in with Rapture at all.
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited August 2010
    Andrew Ryan wrote: »
    Furthermore, I am entirely convinced this thread was created simply to solicit a statement from myself on my removal from the franchise. Can I get confirmation?

    Sorta. :p

    Nah, Mr. Ryan. I'll miss you. Or, your city at least.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited August 2010
    Ray-The-Sun wrote: »
    Oh, and Andrew Ryan can't be in this game because he's in Russia at this point in the series.

    Clearly, he had just used his "multiple bodies" plasmid at this point in the series. Duh.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited August 2010
    To be frank; I have not finished Bioshocks 1 and 2. I just saw the trailer for Bioshock Infinite, and I thought it was gorgeous, and I can't wait to see some gameplay.
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited August 2010
    tredlow wrote: »
    To be frank; I have not finished Bioshocks 1 and 2.

    Bioshock 1 has one of my favorite endings ever. ;-; Well, the good ending. I hated the evil ending. :p
  • taumeltaumel
    edited August 2010
    Two feelings: amazed and bored.

    Amazed because it looks very good and it's hopefully better than just the boring expansion pack labled Bioshock 2.

    Bored because Bioshock in the skies? Where is the dark mood? Can't they just think of something more different and also call it another way?

    It will be interesting if coming from the sea, now getting to the sky, will finally lead us again into space or onto another planet. Even the moon would be interesting.
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