First video footage of Bioshock
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Just wanted to give a heads up on IGN's 15 minute clip of ingame footage of Bioshock. I'm sure there are System Shock 2 fans amongst you, and definitely appreciaters of interesting art direction
Just wanted to give a heads up on IGN's 15 minute clip of ingame footage of Bioshock. I'm sure there are System Shock 2 fans amongst you, and definitely appreciaters of interesting art direction
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lol
I bet there's still plenty of creepy to be discovered. All kinds of new mutants just waiting to scare the crap out of you.
that's one colorful gun...
What kinda worries me about the game is the lack of variety in the characters that Im expecting to find. The enviornements will probably be beautiful and varied, but Im betting we're gonna see the same little girl and big daddy characters about 1000 times. Same goes for random splicers. Games like Half life 2 can get away with it when all the enemies are uniformed and in masks, but it kinda bothers me when everyone is a clone with no explanation. Perhaps tech or budget just isnt there yet?
The plot/story elements Im expecting to be fantastic though
ive seen a few different versions of the big daddy character in screenies, so hopefully we wont see the same ones over and over again
Anyhoo.
My favourite part about what I was seeing was the relationship between Little sisters and Big daddys. I can't wait to find out more about that - why it is how it is exactly. The idea behind Rapture, why it was made and how it came to be, really intrigued me. As he was walking around in the video I had an interesting sense of wonder - I really wish I could have taken over the controls and looked around some more.
Oh, and what FPS couldn't do without a little bit of Adam?
And I'm willing to bet this game won't have a rocket launcher or shotgun.
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Well, if you take a look at the second screenshot on the IGN page, you'll see what appears to be a shotgun. And if you take a look at the third screenshot, you'll notice what is apparently a makeshift paint-can launcher... true, it may not technically be a rocket launcher, but I think we're splitting hairs if we make that distinction.
Not that I have a problem with any of that. I think people are reading too much into the guy's comment about breaking cliches. It was just one of those bullshit things people say before a presentation.
I don't think I've ever played any of the system shock games, but this game looks pretty cool. I really like the visual style myself (don't agree that it's too colorful or comic'ish). I think it has great atmosphere, and something about the style 'feels' like the 1940s to me. I don't know what it is... the colors and hues look like an old color movie from the era, maybe. Can't put my finger on it, but the visuals really seem to fit the setting of the game.
i will be honest that i never got the chance to play system shock games extensively but i will be looking out for this game
screenie
Other stuffs i dig.
I also think 'Mr. Bubbles' was cool.
Frank the Avenger
Then for some reason the supply stopped and they turned on each other.
edit: the story might by similar to the movie where they make the most popular food out of corpses, *something* green, cant remember.
awesome.. cant wait.
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And I'm willing to bet this game won't have a rocket launcher or shotgun.
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Well, if you take a look at the second screenshot on the IGN page, you'll see what appears to be a shotgun. And if you take a look at the third screenshot, you'll notice what is apparently a makeshift paint-can launcher... true, it may not technically be a rocket launcher, but I think we're splitting hairs if we make that distinction.
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Ah yes yes - very true. However, they might not be your typical guns. Very moddable and interchangable etc. Anyway, cool!
edit: the story might by similar to the movie where they make the most popular food out of corpses, *something* green, cant remember.
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the guy was contradicting himself, would have been better with some music and no talking. Wanna break the mold? why not make the guy tired from holding his gun right next to his eyeball for the entire game. That gun looks fairly heavy.
those splicer lady clones are very badly animated. Same goes with the little girl clones. big daddy thingies were cool.
well thats the bad things. Water looks nice.
Anyone else think that guy sounds like Woody Allens deeper voiced brother?
The AI features didn't sound all that special, the fights were pretty straight forward, it just looks like you'll be able to switch who is on your side a lot based on your special abilities.
The trailer definately gives the same feeling i got when watching Thief2/SS2 for the first time.
of course, the cynic in me is just dying to post "whoopee doo, they implemented FFT's in hlsl"
If any fps game sells the xbox to us old gits it'll be this one.
no scripted events but sometimes the scripted fight will come into that record store where you have that other scripted fight.
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I guess it's how you define scripted, it sounds like the big daddy, little sister, and two splicers are always in that area (it could be just for the demonstration, he did say everything kind of wanders around doing it's own thing)
The fight between the big daddy and the splicer wasn't scripted, he tagged the big daddy with that aggressor irritator but he could of easily walked up and blasted the splicer away, same for the second one.
On that note, it did end on a scripted sequence of the windows closing and the splicers appearing on the ceiling.
Maybe he should of said less scripted sequences but there's no marketing buzz to that!
edit: actually when I think about it, as long as some kind of explosion happens at the end I'm fine with pretty much any scripted
actually when I think about it, as long as some kind of explosion happens at the end I'm fine with pretty much any scripted
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The Michael Bay school of game design!
Looks gorgeous... gameplay doesn't look all that great to me though.
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Good summary. The Art direction looks strong, and the engine impressive. I like the soft shadows. But this certainly doesn't seem to break any moulds from where I'm sat. I think I'd get bored pretty quickly.
"only one splicer in 1 green dress = first splicer we got in the game. welcome to the joys of getting the demo done for e3!"
"Not only will be there a whole pile of different splicers, they will all be able to use any splicer power, and there will be numerous varities of each, utilizing different skins, attachments, hats, masks, voices, etc."
"Little sister only has a few lines because we only had time for half a recording session before e3.
Real game will have dynamic fire lighting, spreading, and extinguishing.
HUD is placeholder and first pass (it's actually already been completely replaced for the next demo)
Yeah, we'll tune things like weapons bob. Sheesh, the demo was a year from ship!
There will be some form of frob hilight."
The thing that truely brought the vid down for me was the damn narrator, I despise geeks poorly attempting dynamic voice acting, it ruined the Dark Messiah vid and it has this one in my opinion.
The one thing that I didn't like about it was the movement. The speed of the movement was pretty damn slow, unless the speed booster has some sort of time lapse, it wasn't very fast either. Hate it when an FPS makes me feel like I'm truding through sludge.
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The movement seemed fine to me. What, when you play an FPS you expect your character to run like an Olympic sprinter?
The whole community is built on adam but the source is kept secret, but the cover gets blown and everyone stands before the moral choice wether its ok to harvest from dead or not.
The ones who choose that its wrong refuse the power that come from it and get wipen out by the power-hungry ones who abuse the powers to the point where they stop being human.
The city was built after WW2, millions of dead and tons of adam to harvest so maybe the supply ran out and they started to collect from within the community and got caught.
The player might be either some guardian whos been dormant for decades or perhaps someone escaped the city and asked for help.
Ofcourse good stories are not as straightforward and i hope i am completly wrong
link to a hi-res version for those who aren't subbed to ign.. usual ridiculous fileplanet waiting times.
As for the narrating, I didn't mean I don't want developer commentary, far from it, I too love it and encourage it, just not an idiot puttin on silly serious voices, it's cheesey as hell.
I dont think creators should be narrarating videos for a trailer... Because most of the time they just dont have the proper verbal/communication skill to make things really compelling for the audience..
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I think it was more a demonstration than a trailer.
I do hope they improve the human character art though. The big daddy looked awesome. The little sister looked okay, however everyone else looked like, said before, mannequins.
I hope there are more enemies that are like the big daddy and little sister. That they won't bother you too much as long as you don't bother them. Just because I like that idea that not every thing in this city has that "I'm gonna fucking kill you" mentality, and their whole purpose for being there is to stop you from getting from point a to point b.
Anybody else catch the comment about getting your junk enlarged? God knows what sort of advantage that will bring in the game.
I loved Mr. Bubbles, I thought the little sister was good too, but agree about the splicers. They actually reminded me a bit of the zombie women things in SS2, hopefully they'll be brought up to the standard of big daddy.
I hope they don't dumb the game down from SS2, I hate when games dumb down sequels/successors like that.