If you haven't been paying attention to one Ken Levine, he's undergone a quiet chuddening over the years as he became an enlightened centrist type and started liking the tweets of Quillette writers on twitter, joining Razib Khan rooms on Clubhouse, and going on Colin Moriarty's vidya podcast. We saw a trailer for his new game at last night's PlayStation State of Play:
The keen investigators at ResetEra suspect something is up:
Look forward to more seethe should this game ever actually release
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Bioshock infinite was the only good bioshock
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The story was really badly written.
The ideas were decent, but the underlying mechanics were r-slurred, and ruled by convenience.
It looked great, though.
No comment on the gameplay, since I wasn't the one actually playing.
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Story in vidya is never good.
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You obviously haven't played any of the Hideo Kojumbo games, or one of Quantic Dreams cinematic experiences (TM).
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Bideo Fijima just makes cheap spy romps with a dash of 14-year old profoundness. Not bad games, not good stories.
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I was only unironic in disagreinggg (spellcheck died, no idea how to spell this now...) with the point, not the examples.
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Video games can't have (good) story. 90% of "stories" in video game is just to lorebait women for free promotion.
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Because games writers are failed movie writers that completely ignore the fact that linear stories don't use the only storytelling advantage video games have - interactivity.
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Play first biocoсk
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Not true.
Empire Total War for example allows you to recreate the birth of the United States in beautiful detail. You can even sail over to Britain and bring the revolution to King George's doorstep.
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Gameplay was completly forgetabble all enemies were stupid bullet sponges.
The only thing i can remember is how racist it was lol.
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The story in the first game was good, if a little cliche. The third was just a mess by comparison.
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Fun gameplay for a single playthrough cool mechanics that definitely should've been better refined. Great movement ideas with the rails for that era of gaming
Communism will win
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weak bait, 1/10 made me reply
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I'm completely unironic. I played infinite first and it was so cool and awesome and looks great but then I tried to play the first 2 and they were sooooo boring I couldnt.
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The original gameplay teasers for Bioshock:Infinite we so amazing. You can do all this wacky stuff with plasmids and looked like it was going to play very different. The game we got was alright, but I think ended up being a more stripped down version than what the studio initially planned to release. It came out more like a standard shooter of the time, but with a rail riding mechanic. And having someone follow you around and just constantly heal and feed you ammo eliminated a lot of the tension the previous Bioshock games had.
My point is, it could have been a way better game, and i hate change
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What gave you that impression?
Was it when the horrifying ambient stalker monsters were cut and their design regurgitated as camera turrets in a nonsensical dream sequence?
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The what?
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They were good for their time, but they're certainly clunky and rough around the edges if you've played Infinite first
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The only thing Bioshock I care about is Elizabeth
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I have seen the most unspeakable things done to this character.
And only like half of it was even hot.
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!coomers Biopeepee Infinite Elizabeth and the 2012 reboot Lara Croft were the Kweens of early 2010s SFM kino
That said though, you are right, this was the time when DeviantArt/Furry cute twinkry was still quite popular in SFM circles, before they fricked off to their own niche fetish shitholes, and the Elizabeth/Lara anims were 50/50 whenever if they were gross or hot
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Like what?
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Mayos and their consequences
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Bioshock that kitty until it gushes.
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unironically seething at this post
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Look into your heart, you know it to be true
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They are derivatives of System Shock.
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Now those darn little annelids, those were scary.
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What?
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Genetically engineered worms that the evil AI used to attack you in System Shock 2. Have you never played the classics?
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Shodan made the Many but she didn't control them.
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No?
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The fricking first one is a fricking derivative of System Shock. The fricking other two aren't
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Also, how long does the fricking Edgy award last?!? I don't see a fricking time limit, and I hate having to swear all the fricking time
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Mouse over the badge on your profile. It'll last about 2 more hours
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Thanks a fricking lot, king, motherlover!
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In the sameway a lunchable is a derivative of a charcuterie board, sure.
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Bioshock is literally the same game as SS2 but more linear. They even have the same exact plot twist.
@donkeynol_k_roolotyl love sucking peepee
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Okay boomer.
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The alternate title was way better. Bioshock : How Do You Configure Your Vigors, BIPOC?
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!downmarseyrs he's still above 0
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im right u know
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All three were amazing
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About what?
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The first Bioshock is my fav but Infinite has two of my most favorite things in the franchise: the Luttece siblings and the vigor that lets you attract bullets into a magnetic field, shit was broken it was a delight to play with it lmao
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All bioshock games were good.
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I've seen resetera posts with better takes than this.
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I tried playing the first one and died of boredom in hour 1
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Try infinite its 100x better, the opening is so good.
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