Your thoughts on BioShock 2?

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So yeah, BioShock 2. Simple question: What are your thoughts? I'm somewhat mixed about it, and I was from the very start. To me, I felt that BioShock's ending was moot. It wrapped the story of Rapture up for me, and what questions I had were fairly minor and I put my imagination up to the task of answering them; and considering the games sometimes ambiguity and allegorical themes, using your imagination to fill in some blanks isn't really a negative. And as more media came out, I've became a bit more skeptical.

I'm still a little uncertain about the story, prequel, sequel, concurrent retelling, whatever I still feel like Rapture's story has been told. I'm also not sure how I feel about the whole "Playing as a big daddy" concept. Not only does the idea bother me in regards that it might make the game even easier, it doesn't click well with what I felt was established about the big daddies in the first game. I got the impression that big daddies were essentially past the point of humanity and not even so much "cyborg" as "Robot" and lack almost any and all free will, completely programmed to do its task for an eternity. I know that you play as the "prototype" and its hinted that you have escaped this programming... but isn't that a little cliche? BioShock had a unique story that, for the most part, didn't stick too many cliches and was wholly original in most regards. But where have we heard the story of a prototype or "failed" experiment going rogue against its kin? Oh, I dunno, about a bajillion sci-fi novels and other video games?

Now I'm not going to say "The game sucks" just because I don't like what I've heard about it. I'm not that kind of guy. I am going to give the game a fair chance and if it surprises me, then that's a good thing! But I'm not going to rush out and buy it or really get too hopeful. So fellow BioShock fans, what are your thoughts?

 

[IrateDonnie]

I cannot wait for the sequel. I've played through the first Bioshock at least twenty times. It won't be easier just because you play as the prototype Big Daddy(Delta). They have stronger enemies like the Brute Splicer the new Big Daddy (The Rumbler), and a few more they haven't mentioned.Plus you can't forget about the Big Sisters.
I saw an interview with Jordan Thomas and he said that Jack(the character you play in the 1st Bioshock) wouldn't be able to survive in Bioshock 2, and that's why you play as a Big Daddy. For some reason( maybe for killing Dr Suchong?) Delta was put into hibernation before the first game. When he is woken up he goes on a quest to find his lost little sister, which the Splicers revere for some reason.
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[Rukus.]

Answering You

I agree with you for the most part on the Big Daddy part, it sounds like it would make the game easier. I would much rather be some kind of other entity living in rapture. It just makes it stupid, and there better not be more little sister escorting. That crap made me throw the controller in the first one.

The single play is a sequel, taking place 10 years after the first. 'A Big Sister came back to Rapture after being taken to the surface as a Little Sister. Mechanizing herself in a similar fashion to the Big Daddies, she returns to the surface and kidnaps several little girls. She brings them down to Rapture and turns them into Little Sisters, who can now produce ADAM for the increasingly desperate Splicers. As time passes, more Big Sisters appear in Rapture, eventually creating an army, who are now under the employment of Dr. Lamb. Eventually the "original" Big Sister disappears. The remaining Big Sisters are now the main protection of Rapture, and they viciously hunt down anyone who disrupts the balance of power.

I have heard, however, that a certain part of the game shows you rapture before the fall. When it was beautiful.

The multiplayer takes place in 1959, during the Rapture Civil War.

My Thoughts

I really wanted something more creative, like maybe playing as one of the Little Sisters (now somewhere in their late 20s) and returning to rapture because Jack couldn't successfully remove all the ADAM, which is making them sick, and having Jack guide you through the city. It would give some nostalgia to the player and would satisfy me.

I really hope you get to see the Rapture pre-fall, that would make the game for me.

So, I would give it a 7.5/10 at first look, we'll see though.

 

[IrateDonnie]

I know what you mean about escorting the Little Sisters. I'm pretty sure that there will be a lot more escort missions though. I think it's how you have to get adam, you can either Harvest or Adopt the sisters. If you choose to adopt her you take her somewhere so she can get adam from an "angel" and while she's getting adam you have to protect her from waves of Splicers.