Gamepro sits down with Ken Levine to discuss the Empire State Building, interoperability, and BioShock.
GP: Bioshock has shown to be a complex game; just playing the first two levels shows a lot of its depth. Is there something about the game in particular that gave you the most trouble with content?
LEVINE: The very nature of what someone called the interoperability -- that anything can be used as a weapon, that any object can be used -- makes for a challenging game to balance and tune. But it also makes the game really awesome, like when a tester comes back and tells you " You know you can do this, right?" and we say, "No!" We found out a few weeks ago that the bots that follow you around once you hack them; if you stick a proximity mine on them they'll kamikaze the target. That just happened. Or when you use telekinesis on a tripwire. Of course a lot of unintentional things happen also that we have to fix. But when you build an underlying simulation like we did, these situations come out and it creates more and more gameplay. The creative director of 2K has a good saying: "Say yes to the player. When you expect something to work a certain way, whenever you can, say yes to him."
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The movie was absolutely garbage !!!
BH needs to do better - since Halloween Ends - Exorcist , Freddy is Shyte - STOP IT !!!!
Dead Space recently received a popular remake that was faithful yet constructive, and the original BioShock is also deserving of this treatment.
No it doesn't need it. It was remastered in 60 fps last gen and still looks and plays great. Would be a waste of time, money and resources imo. It's games from 3 or 4 gens back that could use the remake treatment.
The games that need remaking are.
Resistance fall of man.
Motorstorm.
PS5 would produce something special.
There's been such an advancement in tech since the PS3 days. It would be awesome. DAY 1 BUY for me.
I would love this
Expand on the lore
Incorporate Bioshock Infinite and Bioshock 2 plot lines
Add room rooms or maybe even an extra area
Maybe new plasmids
Give Jack a personality and add voice acting, it worked for Isaac. Jack did speak at the start of the game so adding onto that and giving him convos between Atlas or Ryan would be great
Man could you imagine what bioshock would look like in ue5 with full raytracing, phwaaarrrhh.
This post looked sad and lonely without a comment. I'm going to read the article now.