Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell"
System Shock 2's performance didn't give publishers much confidence
I really didn’t care for the changes made to Bioshock Infinite to make it appeal to a wider base. I got maybe a third into it and stopped. Loved Bioshock 1 & 2 though.
I have to disagree. Personally I liked that Infinite felt fresh. I loved 1 and Infinite. I didn't get too far into 2. It just felt like 1 but worse.
It just felt like 1 but worse.
I don’t disagree, but I still liked it much more than Infinite. I didn’t care for the art style of Infinite, the social commentary didn’t land for me, and the guns weren’t fun to use. I know a lot of people liked it, but it wasn’t for me. It’s been a long time so maybe I need to revisit it.
Ya 2 felt like the panburger partner of BioShock
i started and abandoned 2 so many times. i just play like an hour and keep thinking "is this going anywhere" before uninstalling again
I pirated it and still felt ripped off. When people were praising the nonsense plot when it first came out it felt like I was taking crazy pills
The fact that they both sides'd a slave uprising got buried in that 2deep4me multiple timelines bullshit
I really didn't care for the changes made to Bioshock to make it appeal to a wider base. Loved System Shock 2, though.
They don't sell? I was an older teenager when BioShock 1 came out, and people LOVED shooters? Wtf were they talking about? QUAKE?? Everyone was playing cod or half life 2. Fps was a successful genre already, both single player campaigns and multiplayer. i really don't get this quote.
Immersive Sims never really sold well, that's why it's a dead genre since 2017
I never really understood how BioShock got this tag. What about it is an immersive SIM exactly? Bioshock is a linear first person shooter action/stealth game. There's no other mechanics. You don't have to survive in any way with food or water. There's no deep mechanic specific to the world that you need to tend to and maintain. Literally the only thing that comes even close to being that sort of mechanic is the hacking? Is it an immersive sim simply because you can hack things and lock pick? Because I do those things in Nancy Drew games as well, but I'm pretty sure those are just point and click adventure games. I think BioShock is an amazing atmospheric first shooter RPG, but I've never understood how people think of it as an immersive simulator.
