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It continues:
A new BioShock game is reportedly in the works at a 'top-secret' 2K studio
The new game is apparently in the early stages of development.
Buried within a lengthy Kotaku story on the current less-than-ideal state of things at Mafia 3 developer Hangar 13 is an interesting tidbit about another 2K game you may have heard of. The report says that a top-secret studio located "next door" to Hangar 13 is currently in the early stages of work on a brand-new BioShock game.
"Next door, a small group of people were working on a project code-named Parkside, quietly recruiting from across the video game industry for a game so secret, they wouldn’t even tell their colleagues at Hangar 13 about it," the report says. "Word got out, though, that it was in fact a new game in one of the most interesting shooter franchises of the past decade: BioShock."
The project is apparently still quite small. "They're trying to be really smart about figuring out what the core thing is," one person involved with the project said. "They’re careful about not falling into the same problem every studio has, where they have too many people and nothing for them to do."
Kotaku's report on Hangar 13 is interesting and well worth a read in its own right, and kind of sad too: Despite the problems with Mafia 3, it sounds like the studio was ready for bigger, better, and genuinely interesting things, but layoffs and a loss of leadership cost it much of that momentum. But it's the oddly-offhand mention of a new BioShock that's the real eye-opener. Not that it's surprising that 2K would return to one of its most visible and valuable series, of course, and it has been five years since BioShock Infinite came out. I guess I just expected a little more fanfare.
It'll be very interesting to see where BioShock goes next. The report doesn't indicate who's leading the game's development, but Ken Levine, the creative director on BioShock and BioShock Infinite, won't be involved: He pulled the plugon Irrational Games in 2014, and is now heading up a new, smaller studio called Ghost Story Games.
Hmm where could Bioshock go next? The Moon? Or maybe a spaceship...
Wasn't Bioshock Infinite met with a collective "meh" by pretty much everyone outside of the media? I was under the impression the franchise was effectively dead.
Holy fuck I hate casuals for appreciating that shit called bioshock
I know you don't like Bioshock 1 but this is an overstatement, Bioshock Infinite is much, much worse than the first game, I know it is something hard to understand how but there is no limit down on AAA land.Holy fuck I hate casuals for appreciating that shit called bioshock
Fixed. The original is just as bad.
That was a) only added via patch post-release (probably due to whining on forums). b) only for some platforms. It isn't an option for players of every platform nor players upon release, nor is it the "official" intended way to play.
Game is a dumb System Shock 2 clone anyway, so no thanks. I just use this argument to explain why it is objectively bad.
Did I say I wanted to play Ironman? That's a niche self-imposed style of play and too masochistic for the 99% of players. Games are supposed to be designed to feature harmonious game rules, not the player having to make up hardcore as fuck self-imposed rules to counter the developer's incompetence.
I find whining about chambers funny, they are arguably better/harder than simply reloading since you lose money/stuff by respawning, instead of nothing by reloading.