Please be good, please be good…
“But I need to support the devs!” /s
When it’s good, buy the soundtrack too.
It’s another sequel. They just want another payday on an IP they own.
There’s nowhere left to go with Bioshock, let it rest in peace and make a spiritual successor for fucks sake.
A series whose last entry ended with revealing infinite accessible alternate universes has nowhere left to go? Also, a series whose entire reason for existing was to be a spiritual successor to System Shock now needs its own spiritual successor? Why?
So an infinite amount of the exact same fucking game and story getting milked to death for all time?
That was the point of infinite to fucking end it all. There is no where else to push it but into levels of absurdity that would even make Marvel blush.
Want to make another Bioshock? Make a new game with those mechanics and explore other themes. Like Judas is doing, the game from the guy that made Bioshock in the first place.
For your wishlists https://store.steampowered.com/app/388860/Judas
I feel like a lot of what made the Bioshock games good was Ken Levine’s social commentary. And while we’ve had Bioshock games that he didn’t write or direct, and it would be silly to argue that he is the only one capable of writing a good Bioshock story, I do think he understands that it’s more important to say something with a game, than just churn out another title within the same world.
Rapture wasn’t just a dark underwater city, it was a Libertarian utopia, with all the exploitation and unchecked capitalism that would come from that. Columbia was a Christian Nationalist utopia, with the cultish brainwashing, revisionist history, and racism that is common in that worldview. I hope the team in charge of the new games understands that the series is more than the locations, and the “Big Daddies” and “Little Sisters.”
Don’t get me wrong. I’d love more Bioshock (if it’s good), but I’m glad we’re also getting Judas from Levine’s new studio, because I have a feeling it’s going to feel more like Bioshock than whatever the next official Bioshock game ends up being.
