Monday, June 1, 2015

Late Night Thoughts #1 - Bioshock Follow Up

Like everyone else, on many occasions, I have these random blasts of ideas for stories for movies, video games, or just ideas in general. So I decided I'd make a segment for those ideas on here. These would be a little less edited and proof read, and more rant-ish. Like Tumblr After Midnight, but less political and creepy and more exciting for the hope of the future! And now...ON WITH THE RANDOMOCITY!!

So a few days back, 2K released a website for this urban living thing called Advent Future and once you visited the website it had a lot of easter eggs and terms used in it's other titles. Long story short it was a teaser for XCOM 2. A lot of people speculated that it was a follow up to Bioshock. And it made me think of a concept for "Bioshock Revolution" (personal title idea).

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The game takes place in the future/alternate modern world, where modern medicine and technology are working together with a new discovery called Plasmids. And as we all know from the series, Plasmids, Adam and Eves and everything combined became the demise of Andrew Ryan's underwater utopia Rapture. So likely with plasmids in our world with rapidly advancing technology, are world goes to hell. And it's up to the player to survive in this distopia of New Rapture and all the junctions similar to it.

The game can be an open world where you discover these different places, including the original underwater city Rapture and a crash landed Columbia. Picture Fallout and maybe, some futuristic games (Syndicate, Crysis, etc.) with a Bioshock theme. It's linear in some places and open world in others.
Plus the story kind of makes sense since (SPOILER ALERT) one of the endings of Bioshock 1 has you either leaving Rapture and bringing the Splicers with you above water.

So we (Bioshock fans) know that Bioshock and Infinite are the two main games since they were made by Irrational Games and 2K while Bioshock 2 was just 2K by themselves. Sadly, Irrational Games closed their doors and branched to work on other projects that went to Kickstarter, which some unfortunately failed (Google "The Black Glove" and "Perception" on Kickstarter). Since 2K help expand the world of Rapture in Bioshock 2, they can do the same with a new story for the franchise. It's like if WB Montreal made another Batman Arkham game after Arkham Knight, since it's supposedly the last in the series for Rocksteady. It doesn't mean WB Montreal can't make Batman games; so why can't 2K?

I don't know man, it's late...