bioshock prequel

[Valten]

BioShock Getting The Prequel Treatment?

Ah rumors, how I love you so. Especially when they make as much sense as this one does. Tom Ivan over at Next Generation's blog reports on rumors surrounding the next BioShock. According to what I can only imagine is wildly unfounded speculation, the next game will be a prequel that focuses on the initial fall of Rapture itself, giving players a glimpse at what the utopia looked like before it all fell to pieces and little girls were transformed into walking moral choices. Rumors also indicate that the development of the game will take place at the new 2K Marin studios, and that BioShock creator Ken Levine will not be involved in the project. While of course we take any unconfirmed rumors with a heaping helping of salt, it does sound like the perfect way to explore the BioShock universe without trying to build on the first game's lame endings.

[Shocker]

Well a prequel would make most sense based on what happened in BioShock. I'm looking forward to it already. I never thought the ending was lame either, it was brilliant from start to finish imo.

[BanzaiBk]

Bioshock - my game of 2007. Of course there's going to be a prequel, we've been set up for one.

[Crazydude]

I had always hoped for some sort of Bioshock sequel but taking over the world seemed pretty closed case storyline to me.
Definetly interested Bioshock was one of the best shooters Ive ever played, and I especialy loved Whatshisface the musician he was the embodiement or Rapture, the beauty of an artist turned to the sickening maddness that he was when you meet him.

[Adyx]

Originally Posted by Crazydude

I had always hoped for some sort of Bioshock sequel but taking over the world seemed pretty closed case storyline to me.

Psh! Thanks for ruining it for me. Anyway never mind a Bioshock prequel, I want a System Shock 2 sequel!

[Valten]

Originally Posted by Adyx

Psh! Thanks for ruining it for me. Anyway never mind a Bioshock prequel, I want a System Shock 2 sequel!

I think the whole...I AM SHODAN things a bit old....

[Crazydude]

Originally Posted by Adyx

Psh! Thanks for ruining it for me. Anyway never mind a Bioshock prequel, I want a System Shock 2 sequel!

Heh, change the 'd' in your name and it becomes Alyx like Alyx out of Half-life
Just thought it was worth mentioning
And anways thats not the only ending to the game that one is only if you harvest the little sisters

[Mario Mattster]

i write this but only for people who know the story pretty good but not all of it well enough to make sense of it

dont read this unless you have the game complete

Spoiler: There could be a second one set before and a tiny bit after as andrew ryan is not actually dead.some people are probably saying WHAT to this but the vita chamber works on one person ryan, of course it works on you you are a infigment of ryans DNA allowing you to respwn there but no one else can and allowing you to use the genitic key aswell as ryan can.thats why ryan told you" kill would you kindly" sure he would come back to life but after he would the genitic key would have processed foantaine as the king of rapture now(second in command in a contract made two years before rapture fell apart) but when you kill faontaine that means either thrid or back to number one in command meaning ryan.this is very hard to understand took me a while and had to collect every tape to learn it

so yeah there could be a second bio game

any questions on bio i should now as im spliced up on bioshock every day of the week

[Thorgils]

Originally Posted by Valten

I think the whole...I AM SHODAN things a bit old....

I once read a post in Kieron Gillen's blog entitled The Girl Who Wanted to be God (warning, spoilers lurk within) and I have to agree: Spoiler: at the end of SS2 SHODAN had attained her goal. Defeating her again would just diminish her.

But, and I realise I'm ranting, I was bitterly, bitterly disappointed with Bioshock. We were promised a SS2 spiritual sequel, with a wonderfully, almost whimsical, steampunkesque setting. It had such potential and then we learned it was to be ported to the consoles alongside the PC release.
Needless to say, I felt the RPG elements and in fact anything vaguely resembling the gameplay in SS2 was oddly missing. Not to mention it was incredibly toned down in terms of difficulty.

Dying in SS2 had consequences. Med-hypos were hard to find, never mind med-kits, and being resurrected with only a fraction of health with nary but a pistol with two rounds and a wrench to take on a combat droid...well, it was terrifying but exhilarating. Every victory was all the more rewarding for the difficulties faced in succeeding.
In Bioshock...I feel rather numb when I kill an enemy. Oh sure I can look at them and think, "Oh he was a doctor before this, how interesting", or the like but it didn't have the same feel as SS2. Picking up a log of a person nearly turned into a hybrid and listening to the changes in voice and realising that these were the same people you were fighting was quite different. It wasn't just logs of them fighting off the Many, it was their day-to-day lives that gradually became stranger as events progressed.
Never mind the cyborg mid-wives. Or the combat droids. Or the cyborg-ninjas. Or the Many. Or SHODAN's scathing taunts and barbs - "When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.".

In Bioshock when I hear Ryan ranting at me I just feel...sorry, for him. He's the classic man who was ruined by power and his idealism. SHODAN was something altogether different. She wasn't just another HAL gone AWOL; she genuinely looked down on humanity, and took every opportunity to remind you of it. Before there was GLaDOS with her removed morality core there was SHODAN with her ethical constraints ripped away and set loose upon mankind. And we all know how well that worked out for us.

Ultimately, I suppose, I'm to blame. I bought into the hype of it being a SS2 spiritual-sequel and having done that simply cannot accept the game for what it is. I sit here, alt-tabbed out of it, ready to take another stab at Rapture but it's been giving me problems. It's slow to load (a few minutes each time) and slow to play (that's a new one, though).
****, I had less trouble getting SS2 to work - flawlessly, might I add - under XP or Vista.

On topic: I hope they pick up on the cries of SS2 fans like me who feel very let-down. And of those with troubles getting the game to work properly. At this stage though, I'm just not bothered about any sequel or prequel to this bug-ridden mess.

[Ced]

Originally Posted by Crazydude

Heh, change the 'd' in your name and it becomes Alyx like Alyx out of Half-life
Just thought it was worth mentioning
And anways thats not the only ending to the game that one is only if you harvest the little sisters

So?
You still spoilt one of the endings for me and everyone else who hasnt completed the game yet.