A few of the players did start to see the possible depth of the game, but even they were frustrated by the difficulty of actually using the systems we had created. They were so overwhelmed by dialogue and backstory that they missed key information.
They didn't interact with the Big Daddies, and they didn't understand (or care) how to modify their characters. Players would acquire new powers but not know how to use them, so they stuck to using more traditional weapons and became frustrated.
The first level, they said, was overly dense, confusing, and not particularly engaging. So, just after the first beta, the entire design team plus a contingent of 2K producers headed off to see how a group that knew nothing about our company or BioShock would react to the first level. The first external BioShock focus test was meant to be a sanity check: to get a better sense of what was working well but needed polish and what wasn't working at all.Īt this point we had already done one small round of internal focus testing with friends of friends, which had turned out mostly positive feedback. Tl dr: System Shock ruined Bioshock for me. Corridor shooters with terrible shooting don't usually work that well. This wouldn't normally be an issue, but among the only things not changed from SS is the rather clunky combat with bullet-sponge enemies. Seriously, the game loves to lock you in rooms while waves of Splicers come at you. The dungeon-crawler level design is replaced by disappointingly linear corridors that shuffle you from combat arena to combat arena. But it feels like they streamlined it so much that they wound up removing everything fun. The story is fantastic and the setting is cool. I still run through the System games regularly, but Bioshock just feels so dull in comparison.īioshock definitely does a lot right. I enjoyed it enough to go back and play its predecessors, the System Shock games, which now rank among my favorite games of all time.īut now, when I try to go back and play Bioshock again, I simply can't run through it without getting bored and stopping. Context: I played Bioshock when it first came out and loved it.
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