Ninjat_126 said:
I get that they're recycling, but it's the way they're recycling that's interesting me. They're not just copypasting Rapture and connecting it to some hot air balloons, they're copypasting Rapture, attaching it to helium balloons, giving the whole thing a fresh coat of paint and putting in some actual protagonists instead of just Mission Delivery Devices and Floating Hands With Guns.
In short, it sounds like an improvement rather than a detriment. The game might actually be better than the first two.
(And if they'd named it something different, you'd have hundreds of people refusing to buy it since it was so obviously a Bioshock clone. They've kept it as a Bioshock game, and now it's being criticized for being different and innovative. Not even going to go into System Shock here.)
I think we should just agree to let the whole it copy and pasted System Shock thing go, its been, what a good decade or two since System shock was out, it hadn't been on any modern system, so they were forgiven for that one. (in my mind anyways) But first off, Bioshock 2 was not a copy and paste of Bioshock 1. Just because it happened in Rapture again means nothing! The story was completely different, it had no "HOLY FU-" moment like the first one had, the gameplay was improved, the plasmids updated, in fact personally, and yes I've been with the series since the beginning, the second one was a more fun game. The actual gameplay was more enjoyable. Yes it didn't have a Steinman or Cohen, the story was very short, etc. But overall it was an enjoyable experience, and Minerva's Den was actually slightly more interesting than the story.
Bioshock: Infinite is a clone. It is not innovative. It is not original. It's some guys idea that, "Dude everyone was getting tired of Rapture. We need a new setting. Lets do a special city in the sky!" If they were ACTUALLY being innovative I would praise them for it. A copy and paste job, is NOT innovative or original where I come from. If they had named it differently, and said "FROM THE CREATORS OF BIOSHOCK" then no one would have whined. Well, no one we listen to anyways.