Dan "Shoe" Hsu: It's not like I didn't have the PC-strategy chops. I used to be hardcore into series like Master of Orion, Civilization, Warcraft, Galactic Civilizations, and Heroes of Might and Magic. I even created maps and embarrassingly dorky stat sheets for the RTS Dark Reign. Did this former PC strategy-game fan just grow too old?
I don't believe so. I think console games simply melted that part of my brain away.
The fourth game in the ‘BioShock’ series has been in development for more than a decade
Bioshock is one of my favourites franchises. I love all 3 games and have played each several times. I even have a room in my house that is loosely decorated around the theme of Bioshock (with a Lighthouse, coral models and postcards styled as though they are from both Rapture and Columbus).
And yet I am going to find it extremely difficult to get even remotely excited about any future episode in the series after all the problems this has had in its development cycle.
Leave the franchise alone. Remaster them again if you have to. Then put whatever talent you have to use on something brand new.
Since ken levine isn't involved i'm not surprised what's going on. i'm more excited for his next game which looks like bioshock. Yet he still works under take2 and they are making bioshock 4 without him, strange situation.
Yes. Judas. Looks brilliant, but it's one of those games that seems to never have had a release date. Instead it's had release windows that keep getting pushed back.
Once it's ready, I'll be there for it though. Ken Levine is an excellent developer.
I get the feeling he dissolved Irrational Games simply so that 2k couldn't tell him what to do. It seems it will pay off, but I feel sorry for those who worked as part of Irrational before it was dissolved, who hadn't independently made a name for themselves.
"Remaster them again if you have to"
Well apparently they were doing a remake but that got cancelled
It sucks this game is in development hell because I love BioShock and would love a 4th game. I hope it turns out great, but I guess we'll see.
It's been in development hell since 2014. This is nothing new. It saddens me because it's one of my favorite series. At this point, Judas may end up releasing first.
Bioshock 4 (if it ever comes out) will probably still look and play like a Bioshock game, but without Kevin, it might miss that spark that made the originals so special. Honestly, Judas might end up feeling more like the real spiritual successor.
Game Rant gets an exclusive look at Sins of a Solar Empire 2's new population mechanic that refines and expands the system from its predecessors.
Game Rant chats with Sins of a Solar Empire 2 producers about how modders have helped shape the game from within and without.
That picture totally cracked me up. He brings up some good points, especially that arrow crap in PD Zero -- that crap was lame!
Someone get this man a gaming rig, save his brain!
They make you stupid. That's why console kids are so easily amused by linear 8 hour shooters like Uncharted 2. OOO SHINY GRAPHICS, THAT MEANS IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER EVEN THOUGH IT HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING UNIQUE OR ORIGINAL AND REQUIRES ABSOLUTELY NO THOUGHT TO PLAY!
I didn't buy Splinter Cell Conviction precisely because of all it's dumbification. Splinter Cell used to be a tough and rather intelligent game. Its disrespecful to the fans, who (partly) made the game what it is, to just U-turn a franchise into something that's 'less' than the original. I waited so long for it to come out, and i got smacked in the face. Hard.
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And Dark Reign was god-damn awesome.
"Richter 7.5!!!"
if all you play is generic dull FPS games then yeah you might get even more stupid,you need to mix it up with brain challenging games.
games good for your Brain (challenging puzzles):
example: uncharted1&2,echochrome,br ain academy..etc
games bad for your brain & blood pressure too:
halo & gears (boom headshot).
:p