Comments on: Thomas: Bioshock 2 to feature “long, slow, empty, scary sequences” http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/ VG247.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: DeSpiritusBellum http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-130145 DeSpiritusBellum Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:07:09 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-130145 Relativity in video games is the main reason why a lot of them tend to seem like shallow distractions today, rather than the immersive experiences this guy is talking about. Maybe if I was 12 and wanted the world to be some kind of sick fantasyland tailormade to my every whim, I'd find that sort of thing entertaining. When I play a videogame today however, I don't want to make my own story, I don't want to make my own playingstyle, I don't want to help shape the game for the developers. I want them to make it for me, and I want them to do it right, without a thousand compromises - That's why I dish out the dough. Sadly developers act like mallrats today. If one of them comes up with something "Cooool" - All the others just replicate it ad nauseam, until every shooter ends up just like the former. Now it all has to be relative and "open", with five meaningless endings instead of one really good one. Sadly that makes Bioshock 2 sound like a pass. @freedoms_stain Yeah, but what made F.E.A.R. so awesome was the fact that it had those sequences wrapped in an extremely solid shooter. It was totally satisfying every time you took down a squad of clones. I didn't get that from the sequel at all, though, and I'm not sure if Bioshock is really comparable. The setting was what sold it to me, not the gun-and-slap-play. Relativity in video games is the main reason why a lot of them tend to seem like shallow distractions today, rather than the immersive experiences this guy is talking about. Maybe if I was 12 and wanted the world to be some kind of sick fantasyland tailormade to my every whim, I’d find that sort of thing entertaining.

When I play a videogame today however, I don’t want to make my own story, I don’t want to make my own playingstyle, I don’t want to help shape the game for the developers. I want them to make it for me, and I want them to do it right, without a thousand compromises – That’s why I dish out the dough.

Sadly developers act like mallrats today. If one of them comes up with something “Cooool” – All the others just replicate it ad nauseam, until every shooter ends up just like the former. Now it all has to be relative and “open”, with five meaningless endings instead of one really good one.

Sadly that makes Bioshock 2 sound like a pass.

@freedoms_stain

Yeah, but what made F.E.A.R. so awesome was the fact that it had those sequences wrapped in an extremely solid shooter. It was totally satisfying every time you took down a squad of clones. I didn’t get that from the sequel at all, though, and I’m not sure if Bioshock is really comparable. The setting was what sold it to me, not the gun-and-slap-play.

]]> By: Phoenixblight http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-130003 Phoenixblight Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:30:06 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-130003 @Psycho So did the first one. The videos can't do it justice. WHat actually made me buy the game was the demo. When you are just coming into Rapture and you come into a dark room hearing the splicer above you. That right there gave me the chills up the spine. @Psycho
So did the first one. The videos can’t do it justice. WHat actually made me buy the game was the demo. When you are just coming into Rapture and you come into a dark room hearing the splicer above you. That right there gave me the chills up the spine.

]]> By: Blerk http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-130002 Blerk Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:28:48 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-130002 Indeed. They've made far too much of the multiplayer so far, to the point where they've actually put me off. Indeed. They’ve made far too much of the multiplayer so far, to the point where they’ve actually put me off.

]]> By: Psychotext http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-130001 Psychotext Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:27:02 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-130001 I really hope so... because so far it's just looked like random FPS 48,912. I really hope so… because so far it’s just looked like random FPS 48,912.

]]> By: bobbymington http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-129997 bobbymington Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:21:02 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-129997 Andrew Ryan was just a puppet, and we all know who was pulling his strings....MOby fucking dick, thats who Andrew Ryan was just a puppet, and we all know who was pulling his strings….MOby fucking dick, thats who

]]> By: Phoenixblight http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-129994 Phoenixblight Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:18:51 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-129994 "unless they have a spec ops mode" THey already stated that Multiplayer is a seperate beast of the actual single player game. ANd stated there is no Co-Op. And I really see no point in Whale Killing for the story. “unless they have a spec ops mode”

THey already stated that Multiplayer is a seperate beast of the actual single player game. ANd stated there is no Co-Op.
And I really see no point in Whale Killing for the story.

]]> By: bobbymington http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-129993 bobbymington Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:13:01 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-129993 I'm gonna be sorely disappointed come the release of bioshock 2, if i don't get to kill at least a baby whale. It's the sequel, you've gotta pump it up, we all remember the whale in the opening sequence from the first game. Well in bioshock 2 we want to be able to play out that opening sequence, and god help me kill that bloody whale. I’m gonna be sorely disappointed come the release of bioshock 2, if i don’t get to kill at least a baby whale.

It’s the sequel, you’ve gotta pump it up, we all remember the whale in the opening sequence from the first game. Well in bioshock 2 we want to be able to play out that opening sequence, and god help me kill that bloody whale.

]]> By: bobbymington http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-129991 bobbymington Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:07:42 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-129991 unless they have a spec ops mode where you and a friend can co-op together to kill a whale...that would be worthwhile, and also pure awesome, this is the kinda unexpected, wow, elements i want, UNDERWATER RIVET GUN WHALING, and finish it off with your arm drill in its blow hole unless they have a spec ops mode where you and a friend can co-op together to kill a whale…that would be worthwhile, and also pure awesome, this is the kinda unexpected, wow, elements i want, UNDERWATER RIVET GUN WHALING, and finish it off with your arm drill in its blow hole

]]> By: bobbymington http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-129989 bobbymington Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:03:10 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-129989 i can't see how they can make it scary, considering you're a walking tank, i hope you get stripped of your armour at some point...i hope they do something completely unexpected and wow my ventures into the multiplayer will be purely to get the "play 5 ranked matches" achievement....i hope they don't put any achievements into the multiplayer, so i wont even have to dirty my mind with the thought of playing it. If this multiplayer turns out to be good and worthwhile and has a large following it'll be the biggest shook in gaming this decade i can’t see how they can make it scary, considering you’re a walking tank, i hope you get stripped of your armour at some point…i hope they do something completely unexpected and wow

my ventures into the multiplayer will be purely to get the “play 5 ranked matches” achievement….i hope they don’t put any achievements into the multiplayer, so i wont even have to dirty my mind with the thought of playing it.

If this multiplayer turns out to be good and worthwhile and has a large following it’ll be the biggest shook in gaming this decade

]]> By: freedoms_stain http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/01/thomas-bioshock-2-to-feature-long-slow-empty-scary-sequences/comment-page-1/#comment-129983 freedoms_stain Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:51:03 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=69754#comment-129983 One of the things that made FEAR stand out ad more than 'just another shooter' was that suspense factor. That shit really works on me as I am by habit a cautious gamer, I do creep around slowly trying not to get blind-sided, so I tend to notice the little nuances and suspense mechanisms more than someone who bulls through and plays 'one-man-army'. So this sounds like my cup of tea. One of the things that made FEAR stand out ad more than ‘just another shooter’ was that suspense factor. That shit really works on me as I am by habit a cautious gamer, I do creep around slowly trying not to get blind-sided, so I tend to notice the little nuances and suspense mechanisms more than someone who bulls through and plays ‘one-man-army’.

So this sounds like my cup of tea.

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