Skyways's perpetual whining has been heard: Bioshock Infinte getting "1999" mode

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-19-fan-feedback-prompts-bioshock-infinite-1999-mode

Okay. Like this is going to make the game anyhow better. But I'm pretty sure some people who are anal about these things will consider this good news.

 

There are game saves, and you're gonna f***ing need them

I'm an old school gamer

All the buzzwords have been used. FUCKING. OLD SCHOOL. YEAH!

 

So there'll be branching cutscenes. Big deal.

 

Specializations? Permanent consequences?

So what you're either passive & supportive boyfriend of Snow Whitermelonchest or assertive & empowering boyfriend?

"I can't do it... O_O"
RIGHT TRIGGER CLICK - "It's ok, you should rest!" - unlocks gun that shoots bees
LEFT TRIGGER CLICK - "Yes you can, believe in yourself!" - unlocks gun that shoots snakes

 

They just made me ashamed of being an old-school gamer.

 

Ken Levine is a fraud, and that's saying something considering the industry he's in.

 

With probably one path that is noticeably better than the other. More than likely being good offers better rewards than being evil.

 

Artificial difficulties, oh joy.

The game is still going to be an ultra linear on-rails cutscene driven shallow shooter.

 

What he means is that you can't respec your character which is hardcore.
And... there are game saves? F***ing HARDCORE, Ken

 

Give Bioshock to Bethesda.

 

Didn't he say that shit about having to conserve resources about Bioshock too? Funny how that worked out.

In any case, he's totally missing the point. Being able to switch enhancements around is fine. The problem with Bioshock wasn't that nothing was permanent, but that you could kill anything and everything comfortably with a wrench. If enemies/areas punished you heavily for not using a specific set of enhancements, and forced you to figure out what you really needed, then the game would be fine. Maybe that would actually force people to utilize all the environmental effects and weapon/plasmid interactions instead of blowing everything up with a randomly chosen weapon.

But then, that would actually force them do design a proper system for these interactions, instead of putting in a bunch of gimmicks.

 

Gamebreaking electric wires didn't help much in terms of strategy.

 

Yeah, and you're gonna f***ing need them.

 

And a meme was f***ing born.

 

More bullshit from one of the most formidable bullshitters in the industry.

 

Wow, so now normal difficulty is called "1999 mode". Makes you feel old.

 

Oh gawd. I read this somewhere earlier today, but seeing it again now just....

Fuck you, Levine. Fuck you very much.

1999 AS FUCK®

 

So 1999 is now old school.

 

This is called game balancing. So now instead of balancing a game, its left to the player as a tougher game challenge ?

What an innovative idea

 

Ah, choices....

 

I was gonna make a joke about how babies born in 1999 now fell badass & hardcore, but them I realised they are 14-years old already! God, I'm old.

EDIT: I can't even do math anymore...

 

Ken is just too old to give a shit about these things these days.

It's all a marketing ploy to keep the angry "old school" gamers confident. But we all know Ken doesn't give a shit.

 

I still think 1998 was like 2 years ago sometimes. That was the last good year for anything really.