[Nosferatu]

Discuss. Also, viral awesomeness.
http://kotaku.com/5165091/bioshock-2-warns...hing-in-the-sea

[Drizzy Drake]

Thos posters are the fucking shit.

[Nosferatu]

Big Sisters anyone?

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/03/gi_bioshock2.jpg

[Nosferatu]

Om nom nom awesome news.

http://kotaku.com/5169798/spoiler-alert-ho...ne=true&s=x

[Caael]

Saw this the other day, the idea of playing as a big daddy sounds ridiculous. I doubt there'll be much plot to it, but I saw a pretty interesting theory about the big sister.

"after spending 8 years in rapture, everybody went insane. With Tenenbaum being down there all that time, you'd have thought she'd have lost her marbles too so maybe she's suited up and is out to track down her lost children"

[Someone Else]

I too sense a weak plot, which is horrible because the whole reason the first BioShock was so good was because of it's amazing plot...

[Split Infinity]

Hi-Res Game Informer Exclusive Pagescans

JUICY.

[Someone Else]

Well maybe the plot won't be so bad after all if it keeps the narrative of the first game.

Playing as a prototype Big Daddy? Innnterestinng...

What was cool about the first BioShock was that you were more of a "tourist" in Rapture rather than actually belonging there... this could be cool too, though.

[Nosferatu]

How bouts some footage?

http://www.gametrail...ayer/47807.html

[Caael]

DO WANT!

The underwater bits look awesome, and so does the combination of plasmids and weapons. I'm not entirely sure about buying yet though.

Also, it looks like playing as a big daddy will take away the vulnerability and fear of the first game. This one isn't going to be very scary I sense as you're in a big daddy suit, you're the most powerful thing in Rapture besides the little sister and you can dispatch most things with little effort.

[Someone Else]

Caael, on Apr 10 2009, 02:23 AM, said:

Also, it looks like playing as a big daddy will take away the vulnerability and fear of the first game. This one isn't going to be very scary I sense as you're in a big daddy suit, you're the most powerful thing in Rapture besides the little sister and you can dispatch most things with little effort.

You don't remember all the Big Daddy corpses around Rapture in the first game?

[Nosferatu]

Caael, on Apr 10 2009, 02:23 AM, said:

DO WANT!

The underwater bits look awesome, and so does the combination of plasmids and weapons. I'm not entirely sure about buying yet though.

Also, it looks like playing as a big daddy will take away the vulnerability and fear of the first game. This one isn't going to be very scary I sense as you're in a big daddy suit, you're the most powerful thing in Rapture besides the little sister and you can dispatch most things with little effort.

They're tough, but far from invincible.

[Split Infinity]

I'd imagine there'd be somewhat deadlier enemies to make up for the fact that you can absorb two dozen shells and be near-immune to melee attacks.

[Caael]

Someone Else, on Apr 11 2009, 12:12 AM, said:

You don't remember all the Big Daddy corpses around Rapture in the first game?

Nosferatu, on Apr 11 2009, 12:20 AM, said:

They're tough, but far from invincible.

I said vulnerability, not that the big daddies are invincible. In the first game you were a human who'd just been dropped in the **** and you feel weak. Compared to a hulking, metal big daddy with a massive ****ing drill, I think the fear would be taken away. I'm not on about difficulty, I'm on about the amazing tension and atmosphere in the first one, which will be taken away by the lack of vulnerability. I mean look at silent hill. They were so mind-numbingly scary because your character was a normal guy, and as soon as Silent Hill 5 was introduced with its US Special Forces main character, the fear is taken away because you're not as vulnerable. I fear the same will happen with this.

[Swedishfish]

I don't care about deatails, i just want this s***t.

[Someone Else]

Caael, on Apr 10 2009, 05:46 PM, said:

I said vulnerability, not that the big daddies are invincible. In the first game you were a human who'd just been dropped in the **** and you feel weak. Compared to a hulking, metal big daddy with a massive ****ing drill, I think the fear would be taken away. I'm not on about difficulty, I'm on about the amazing tension and atmosphere in the first one, which will be taken away by the lack of vulnerability. I mean look at silent hill. They were so mind-numbingly scary because your character was a normal guy, and as soon as Silent Hill 5 was introduced with its US Special Forces main character, the fear is taken away because you're not as vulnerable. I fear the same will happen with this.

I do get where you're coming from, but I don't think you should worry too much. Just look at the footage. Looks creepy and frightening as heck.

[Split Infinity]

By the end of the first game you were a walking tank anyway, it's not like there's going to be a huge change.

[Mo Cappy Ton]

Looks sweet....the tentative release was novenber?

[Someone Else]

IGN says Q3 2009, ergo, more like April - June.

[Caael]

Q3 is July, August and September.

And also, there may be things that jump out at you, but that's not necessarily fear, just shock. Seeing as you're a walking tank it'd be hard to build up much tension, seeing as you could probably completely destroy any threat with your massive ****ing drill.

[Split Infinity]

Big sisters don't look like the easiest critters to catch, though. You can only use the drill for charge attacks, and that's not very useful if they're jumping all over the walls.

[Someone Else]

Caael, on Apr 10 2009, 06:55 PM, said:

Q3 is July, August and September.

Eh, really? But wikipedia said...

And I imagine much of the game's true fear is going to come from the Big Sister constantly hunting you down.

[Caael]

Someone Else, on Apr 11 2009, 03:02 AM, said:

Eh, really? But wikipedia said...

Oh I was just going by dividing the year into quarters. I didn't realise about all that fiscal stuff.

Yeah but you have a rivet gun which pretty much fires most of the stuff from the first game, and you have plasmids to use at the same time as guns/drills. All of which can be upgraded. Sounds like even from straight off the bat you're built like a tank.

[Someone Else]

You could be right. I just sure hope not, I loved the atmospheric fear in the original Bioshock.

To be honest, Bioshock wasn't all that scary, to me anyway... but I've got the emotions of a rock and I sit through most horror movies just fine. (little anecdote, I've watched a scary movie with some girl friends and they all grabbed on to my various limbs as I sat through the movie) But the atmosphere was brilliant, very creepy. What other game can you find dead cat bodies?

[Split Infinity]

Someone Else, on Apr 11 2009, 12:02 PM, said:

And I imagine much of the game's true fear is going to come from the Big Sister constantly hunting you down.

Hunting you down? Looked like it was running away to me.

[Someone Else]

Supposedly when you, a Big Daddy, begin killing other Big Daddies for their Little Sisters and generally causing up a stir in Rapture, the Big Sister begins to track you down to put an end to your antics.

Now, to me, that looks like the beginning of Bioshock 2. So I'm guessing the Big Sister doesn't see any point to killing you just yet. She probably just wanted to get away from you, I mean, you are kinda following her...

[Nosferatu]

Oh god, it's not "Would you kindly" it's "Get away from me you ****in' pedophile."

[Someone Else]

Nosferatu, on Apr 10 2009, 07:37 PM, said:

Oh god, it's not "Would you kindly" it's "Get away from me you ****in' pedophile."

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z84/WindDude/HighFiveDrunk.gif

[Nosferatu]

MY CITY TOPIC WILL LIVE AGAIN.

http://kotaku.com/5317128/bioshock-2s-the-...-jhonen-vasquez

[Toasty]

Someone Else, on Apr 10 2009, 07:02 PM, said:

Eh, really? But wikipedia said...

I've known about the fiscal year, but I figured that when developers gave dates out to the public, they just divided the year into quarters because that's simpler for the general populous to understand.

And that picture is creepy Nos.

[Split Infinity]

Toasty, on Jul 18 2009, 02:58 PM, said:

And that picture is creepy Nos.

Expect nothing less from The 'Squez.

http://img13.nnm.ru/c/2/a/0/5/c2a05f0a0590974624b7d366090dc15b_full.jpg

[Nosferatu]

****. YOU. COMIC-CON.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/07/504x_biotoy2.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/07/504x_biotoy1.jpg

My reaction to Comic-Con so far.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9858/1245910874747.gif