Icehearted said:
Cheesebob said:
Icehearted said:
Original IP good, another cash grab bad. I loved Bioshock and Sysstem Shock 2, but I didn't even bother with BS2 since everything about it seemed just wrong.
They had nothing to do with the 2nd bioshock (teamwise)
I am calling...SWAT 5 and somthing awesome
Oh, I'm aware of some of the shifts, though my understanding is that it was the original's creator that stepped away, not the whole team. My point was more that BioShock was a complete package, a sequel was not only unnecessary, but largely unwelcome, and a great deal of the mechanics in it seemed to be counter to the original game's formula. It was a cash grab in every sense, and not a very popular one either. Also, it's not the team but the company I'm fixated on. They're all parts of the same whole :/
...Except that Bioshock was made by Irrational Games/2K Boston, in Boston MA, and Bioshock 2 was made by 2K Marin, in Marin CA.
While I imagine the top guys at Irrational had some oversight of the operation, the *entire* production of it was done by Marin, not Irrational. Both studios may be owned by 2K Games, but concluding "they're all parts of the same whole" is like saying Mars owns both M&Ms and Starburst (which is true) and therefore M&Ms taste like fruit chews.
