BioShock Creator Not Ruling out a Return to Rapture

[JokerCrowe]

God no. GOD NO! I'm fed up with Rapture, I get bored very easily (like most people who play games) so I got Really excited when I saw that Bioshock: Infinite (I still cringe at the title) was up in the sky. Please Irrational, or whoever makes the Bioshock games, leave it alone or let it develop into something else. Like Bioshock: Infinite. *cringe*

 

[Brad Shepard]

Thats just the thing, they already had a prequel, its was Bioshock 2's Multiplayer.

Nahhh that doesn't count at all. You never actually see the city alive, in it's prime. What I'm proposing is a BioShock game with Prototype-esque world progression (as you progress through the mission, Rapture slowly descents into chaos, people over-splicing more and more, guerilla attacks, increasing police forces, etc etc, and ultimately civil war) with a GTA-like mission structure (expand on BioShock's 1 free-roaming) and all the good stuff we know from BioShock.

That's not even remotely like BioShock 2's multi.

I would like that, Go to Take Two and pitch it XD

 

[oranger]

Well, given what mr. levine has said about how terribly linear bioshock was, and how little he liked that, the next time we visit rapture it will be a much larger, open experience.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Now that they've announced that they COULD go back to Rapture IF THE FOUNDING IDEA WAS SOLID, there are going to be loads of people dismissing 2K as franchise whores for no good reason, even though they've blatantly stated here that they're going to put it off until they feel the time is right.

Why all the hate? He said he wouldn't come back to Rapture unless there was something new to do or something else to say.

This is a man who wants the narrative concept to be solid before anything else happens - this sort of thinking is what makes great, memorable games.

Precisely, leaving little reason for concern if there is ever a return to Rapture in this sense. Obviously they are not trying to sap the original Bioshock and Rapture dry, what with the entirely new setting and various ideas yet unknown. Outside of the Bioshock name, we do not even know whether or not Colombia will have any connection to Rapture or its themes.

I see no loss if another Rapture game arises, so long as it stands out on its own as a distinct addition and not running off of the previous games' momentum. If that were the case, we may have been watching another trailer set in Ratpure instead.

 

[MajoraPersona]

Irrational's Ken Levine says that the BioShock series could head beneath the waves again, as long as the concept was solid.

Levine said that leaving Rapture behind had been very difficult for him, as he had a great deal of attachment to the setting. As hard as it might have been however, he thought that he had said everything he needed to in that space for now. He didn't rule out a return in the future though: "[N]ever say never," he said. "Yeah. I mean, life's a long time. But I'd HAVE to have an idea that drove that. I'd have to spring from the idea."

This part may be a little bit important.

Personally, the most appealing return to Rapture would be a non-FPS game, or one where your goal is to conquer the ruins of Rapture, rather than one where you're the invincible outsider. Someone mentioned Sim City; that may be an interesting approach.

And before anyone tells me how absolutely horrible these ideas are: It's 6am, and I'm just spouting a bunch of stuff after reading the article. I have no impact on what happens within Irrational's processes, and just because I'm saying I might enjoy the above does not mean I demand they spend several million dollars making the game. Nor am I insisting that you love it and praise it and spend money on it.