Bioshock Infinite - the $200 million 6 hour literally on rails interactive movie with guns thread

[sea]

Game is visually stunning, looks like a shitty boring current-gen shooter with no distinguishing features otherwise. Like all of them, it's a game where lots of stuff happens around you at all times in order to delude you into thinking you are awesome.



Spend $100 million/4 years on a game, cannot into gameplay. Why are Irrational even making videogames at this point? Looks more like they'd have better luck with animated films.

 

[Commander Xbox]

yo im buying this purely because of the setting and because it has so much color. looks mad good

shooting mechanics may or may not be bad but who cares, thats what ive got quake and cod for

 

[Major_Blackhart]

No fucking way they spent that much on a fucking game.

 

[sea]

No fucking way they spent that much on a fucking game.

I'm exaggerating, still, it's yet another case of devoting a massive amount of time/money/etc. almost purely to artwork when the gameplay itself stagnates and becomes yet another interactive cutscene.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Does anyone know how much they spent on it?

 

[Metro]

More than the GDP of Paraguay.

 

[Menckenstein]

More than the GDP of Paraguay.

BioShock Infinite had a budget of six goats, one Catholic apologist retard, five plastic pan flutes and eight ponchos?! Astounding.

 

[Don Peste]

lololololol

@ChrisAvellone
Could watch the BioShock Infinite Beast of America trailer a hundred times. Soooo good.

 

[LivingOne]

Spend $100 million/4 years on a game, cannot into gameplay. Why are Irrational even making videogames at this point? Looks more like they'd have better luck with animated films.

The most fun thing is that this happens while Levine continues to do interviews where he boasts about how videogames are interactive and how cool he is for not using cutscenes.

 

[J1M]

Bioshock was originally supposed to be more , but it was (quite infamously) butchered by focus testing. Retards just couldn't handle it. One of the first games to really suffer from that, I think.

So they claim. Show me the gameplay footage proving it.

"Our game was totally going to sell awesome! Honest! But it was ruined by piracy focus testing!"

 

[Major_Blackhart]

What was the problem with the focus testing?
They employed retards or something?

 

[Morgoth]

What was the problem with the focus testing?
They employed retards or something?

That's the whole point of focus testing: To make it retard-ready.

 

[Infinitron]

Bioshock was originally supposed to be more , but it was (quite infamously) butchered by focus testing. Retards just couldn't handle it. One of the first games to really suffer from that, I think.

So they claim. Show me the gameplay footage proving it.

"Our game was totally going to sell awesome! Honest! But it was ruined by piracy focus testing!"

Who said it was going to be "awesome"? They explained in a post-mortem how they made many critical changes because of focus testing. Many other games since then have done the same thing (see Dishonored, or the Overstrike/Fuse debacle)

But I'm sure they didn't see those changes as something that made the game less "awesome". Quite the opposite.

 

[Jarpie]

Levine said somewhere that they removed quite a sizeable chunk of the story from the original script to the finished Bioshock, I think it was either 1/3 or 2/3 removed. He was quoted in finnish magazine, if I can find the right issue I can check it.

 

[Melan]

The most fun thing is that this happens while Levine continues to do interviews where he boasts about how videogames are interactive and how cool he is for not using cutscenes.

Oh, yeah. He keeps doing it while reducing the player to an observer. The same issue why I quit halfway through HL2EP2 - whatever was happening, it was happening to other people. After the game turned into an interactive movie, it was time to realise it wasn't exactly a good one at that. Bioshock was better at hiding this under the lavish environments, audio logs and such, at least until about halfway through when it all fell apart in a shower of dried glue and sawdust. By the time our hero was deepthroating a rusty drill to modify his voice (he literally does this), in order to be able to pass through a door (yes) in order to be able to play an escort mission (oh yeah), it was over. Just over.

 

[DalekFlay]

I really get the sense of troubled project off this game, to a larger degree than normal. I hope I am wrong, I liked the original and am hoping for the best.

 

[Jaesun]

Levine said somewhere that they removed quite a sizeable chunk of the story from the original script to the finished Bioshock, I think it was either 1/3 or 2/3 removed. He was quoted in finnish magazine, if I can find the right issue I can check it.

I'm honestly shocked that wasn't a DLC.

 

[J1M]

Bioshock was originally supposed to be more , but it was (quite infamously) butchered by focus testing. Retards just couldn't handle it. One of the first games to really suffer from that, I think.

So they claim. Show me the gameplay footage proving it.

"Our game was totally going to sell awesome! Honest! But it was ruined by piracy focus testing!"

Who said it was going to be "awesome"? They explained in a post-mortem how they made many critical changes because of focus testing. Many other games since then have done the same thing (see Dishonored, or the Overstrike/Fuse debacle)

But I'm sure they didn't see those changes as something that made the game less "awesome". Quite the opposite.

Levine said somewhere that they removed quite a sizeable chunk of the story from the original script to the finished Bioshock, I think it was either 1/3 or 2/3 removed. He was quoted in finnish magazine, if I can find the right issue I can check it.

I know what they've claimed. I am calling bullshit on it. Same with Dishonored.

Focus groups are the new scapegoat. Piracy is the old favourite.

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/In...hought-Overstrike-Was-Too-Cartoony-47577.html

 

[DalekFlay]

They must have picked their focus group form the Wasteland 2 thread.

 

[Ulminati]

It's probably going to be linear as fuck, popamole consoletard gruel. But the trailer kept me reasonably entertained

 

[Morgoth]

Insomniac always made shit games, but what I have just watched is just beyond words to describe.

 

[J1M]

Not sure I follow you. That trailer does look like cartoony animation done on the cheap by a south korean studio. It also contains zero gameplay.

It also doesn't look like they've changed any mechanics, just visuals.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Not sure why Chris Avellone was drooling all over that 'Beast of America' trailer. The gameplay and visuals looked hardly any different from Bioshock. Bioshock was interesting and not bad for its time, but I really don't want to play the same game again but in a floating city instead of an underwater one.

 

[Infinitron]

Not sure I follow you. That trailer does look like cartoony animation done on the cheap by a south korean studio. It also contains zero gameplay.

It also doesn't look like they've changed any mechanics, just visuals.

The point is, it's an example of focus groups having an impact.