Game Rant Writes "BioShock 4 has some big shoes to fill, but it might need to leave behind the multiverse set up by the previous games in order to do that."
What appears to be the first BioShock 4 screenshot has been unearthed, and it gives a look at some of the abilities, UI and more.
Did you play through 2?
I dismissed it when it came out, as this quick cash-grab from a greedy publisher, but got the trilogy collection on disc earlier this year on Xbox. Finally played it, and Minerva's Den - it was a really great experience. Years and years late to the party but it was really solid and holds up.
A couple crashes, and weird texture loads in Minerva's Den, but the joy I had in it makes me want to revisit Infinite too.
2 wasn’t nearly as good as 1 but I did enjoy it. Infinite felt like a spin-off and I got bored half way through
I got BS1 when it finally released on PS3. Has been one of those games i was envying 360 owners for.
I loved it it was unlike anything i played before..
Boy did I want to love Infinite. But It felt like the game was almost trying to make me hate it. I remember the last third of the game basically turning into a combination of obnoxious escort mission/time crisis.
interesting setting, and the world at times felt compelling to investigate, but all thrown to the wind with constant battles and rounds and rounds of spawn closeted enemies that became more and more grating as you kept playing.
Bioshock 2 was a genuine surprise to me. It took me a couple years to get around to playing it, and I loved it. Not the classic like the first game, but damned close. It felt inspired and felt like it actually had a reason to exist, expanding the lore without crossing the threshold into utter ridiculousness like Infinite did. (Which was somehow even more ridiculous than the idea of a massive underwater city).
Whatever this game turns out to be, I just hope it gets back to the essentials without inducing players to "feature creep" just for the sake of it.
The second game was my favourite, I think it did everything the first did but added some extra things to it, it still had the same cool atmosphere as well which was why I liked the first one a lot. I didn't mind infinite but it wasn't anywhere near as good as the first 2.
I didn't hate Infinite by any means, but it didn't come close to the earlier games for me. The DLC was great though.
I didn't like Infinite much either, before a shot was fired it was amazing but it went downhill after that. Too much action and not enough interesting lore/atmosphere.
It was a game too ambitious for its own good, what we got was a compromised heavily cut down version of what they really wanted to do with it.
There's a sense of too big of empty spaces in the game for no good reason and never get utilized it makes the looked bloated and yet felt unpolished.
While I liked it I just thought the idea of them introducing the concept of the multiverse with "There's always a man, there's always a lighthouse, there's always a city" was pretty wasted with what we got as we didn't really it utilized much. I really wanted to see a lot of variations of Columbia but we didn't get that.
Also there was a lot they changed or cut from the early reveals we saw that seemed far more in depth, it always reminded of how awesome the early days of Final Fantasy XIII Versus looked before it was changed into the final version of Final Fantasy XV. Felt like a downgrade at times in comparison.
As a slave, I obey and shall purchase this one as soon as it hits store shelves
I know I am weird, but Bioshock didn't do it for me. Not sure why, as I LOVE fps games...but nope. I think I should try it again after all these years.
There's definitely something different about Bioshock. I'm on the opposite side of things where I enjoyed it as someone who traditionally hates FPS games.
That, and Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Bloody LOVED those games.
Condemned, ahh that's a game I don't see name dropped near enough.
My buddy and I each played through it twice over multiple weekends back when it and the 360 came out. Achievement hunting with that as the real game, TMNT and King Kong as the quick cheesy games. Fun times
I got an Xbox 360 about 2-3 months after launch and that game was an absolute standout during the launch window.
Also loved Burnout Revenge and Fight Night Round...3 at the time, I think?
Those are less important to the context of this topic, but it's such an incredible look back at how much things have changed since then.
It didn't for me either when it first came out, especially when you had to start Fighting the flying drone things. They just frustrated me all to hell. But i decided to try again after the trilogy got some graphics update i think for ps5 or ps4 pro. And MAN i super enjoyed it the 2nd time around, saved all the little sisters and everything.
Hopefully it hits for you this time like it did me.
BioShock 4 was announced a few years ago. Now, it appears to have ramped up its development as the studio goes on a hiring spree.
'team at 2K Cloud Chamber'
okay, but never heard of them personally, been gaming 25+ years, sooo......hungry for info, hopped straight to google search/ wikipedia entry, and we discover:
'In December 9, 2019, 2K announced that they had set a new studio in Novato, California and Montréal, Québec, led by Kelley Gilmore, former executive producer for Firaxis Games. Cloud Chamber will work on a new BioShock game. Several members that were part of the original BioShock game are part of the studio, including Hoagy de la Plante, Scott Sinclair, and Jonathan Pelling.[2] Kelley said the focus of their studio is to "create yet-to-be-discovered worlds – and their stories within – that push the boundaries of what is possible in the video game medium"
I've been following BioShock 4 for 10 years and it's got a very interesting development history.
I don't have much confidence in the project without Ken Levine, but hopefully they prove me wrong
Far Cry 5, Ghost of Tsushima, Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs writer confirmed as narrative lead for FPS game BioShock 4, some ten years after BioShock Infinite
Meh, they'll never recapture the magic of the first one. The rest are just filler and hand-holding nonsense.
I still remember that opening crash in the water and first stepping into Rapture. Holy crap that was a masterpiece. Didn’t care for 2 and I liked infinite but the first game will always be the best.
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Can't have a Bioshock game without Ken Levine.
Can have a Bioshock looking game, if that's the goal.
I think that would be the general idea hopefully
Every Universe the same kind of story plays out with constant and variables, the Light House, the man and the City, so hopefully this new Universe will take us to a world where we are introduced to a new city.
If they decide to go "Oh yeah this other rich guy got inspired by Rapture and made his own city somewhere else" then it would cause a bit of confusion, would that mean this "second" story would happen across the multiverse aswell? Did the same happen with Columbia's Universe?
I'd prefer if they just did a new Universe from scratch with Columbia and Rapture references.
I have no expectations because Ken Levine isn't making it.
Though I'm kind of curious about his next game.
The atmosphere is what made the game. The first game with the underwater city Rapture, the Big Daddies and the 60's style is iconic. The third game tried to have the same feeling of a Bioshock game with a different setting and I think they succeeded for the most part.
That is a problem with games that are successful because of a very distinct setting or feeling that you get by playing the game. To make a sequel that has that same feeling without it being repetitive and add nothing new.
I mean there is always space as far as a new city goes.
This is nitpicky, but i really enjoyed seeing my weapons evolve as i upgraded them in the first 2 games. I was quite disappointed to see that they didnt take the time to add that into infinite. The game was still good, but i really hate to see any regression in a franchise, no matter how small. So yeah, i hope they bring that back lol.