Dreams-Visions
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BioShock Infinite's Combat Director & AI Lead Leave [And Floating World Specialist]
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Sapphire Dreams
Member
Oh God, we don't need another vapoware. The list is already depressing.
Neuromancer
Member
It's Bioshock in the sky. Things in the sky are a lot harder to do than things underwater.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Where in the world are people coming to this conclusion from? All the evidence I have seen hardly points to KL hanging his hat up. Am I missing something here? All I have seen points to a extremely ambitious game taking a long ass time to make because its a very ambitious game. Not a first for the industry.
Hot Coldman
Banned
In a perfect parallel universe, this and Prey 2 come out next month and they're both Ocarina levels of glorious
pants
Member
How does the list currently look? Not aware of anything but this and Versus.
IC_Champion
Member
I hope everything turns alright with the game and the staff.
Krauser Kat
Member
Ouch. This games prospects are not looking great. I guess at its worst it will be bioshock in a different setting.
ArisenDragon
Member
Yep bring on netflix and hbo go.
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Deleted member 22576
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Prey 2, agent, last guardian, etc..
Shining Sunshine
Banned
MS: "Money"
snoopeasystreet
Member
They probably don't want to spend another 5 years working on one game. Other high profile developers would typically have 2 games released in that period.
ArisenDragon
Member
Just because a few people left doesn't mean the game will be bad, they can always bring in new talent.
this is what i expect: another bioshock, just in a different setting. the big new features that we sa in the tech-demo, will be reduced to quicktime or heavily scriptet events.
gaming_noob
Member
MS has finally learned to invest in talent, not brand names.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
I certainly hope so, and I hope it'll be good.
The last guardian, agent, Stalker 2 (some say it's canceled and some say it is not) and Prey 2.
These departures are late enough into a very long development cycle that I don't think they will impact the quality of the game. Could be a sign of fatigue though. I hope there are not any long term problems with the studio after Infinite ships.
They have the lead game designer of Crysis 2 working at Microsoft Vancouver. The rumor is that the game he is working on is a Space Horror FPS.
Cow Mengde
Banned
This actually give Bioshock some hope since the combat blows turds in the original.
GotchaForce
Member
I'm sure the game is great and is done by now. Pushing it back from Oct to Feb could have easily have been more for marketing/less competition than problems with development.
BioShock 2's only saving grace was that it improved the combat of the original, and it was made by more or less the same dev team. So I think it's safe to say they figured out combat.
NeoGAF recently is the only place where I've ever seen so many people down on BioShock. You're entitled to your opinion, I'm just rather shocked that GAF has such a generally negative reaction to a game that some hold up as a pinnacle of video game story-telling and immersive atmosphere.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I highly doubt it. It has to be near done by now. I'd guess that's why you see some of the people leaving. Their work was done so they jumped ship.
slaughterking
Member
Man, can't wait to play that Bioshock Vita.
4 months is a long time in game development. I don't think this is the reason why.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Wow. Massive gain for MS.
The 5 people that joined 2K Marin from Irrational can't be called "more or less the same dev team" unless the emphasis is on less.
it wasn't
HamPster PamPster
Member
If Microsoft is scooping up people from Irrational how about grabbing Shawn Elliot and putting him on a new Games for Windows 8 Magazine 
Oh, it was that few?
Nevermind. No wonder BioShock 2 sucked. I now have very little hope for BioShock Infinite.
But it still stands that BioShock 2 handles combat better than BioShock 1, which bodes well for BioShock Infinite in that regard.
Even if that were the case, all these people jumping ship makes me think something bad went down during its creation. I mean, it's not as if everyone was ready to leave the company after completing Bioshock, right?
Did Ken lose his mind or something?
Infinite was handled by most of the original Bioshock team, though (unlike Bioshock 2). Though with all these people leaving one has to wonder...
He could do a podcast focusing exclusively on game that run in Met... uh.. Modern UI!If Microsoft is scooping up people from Irrational how about grabbing Shawn Elliot and putting him on a new Games for Windows 8 Magazine
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
If Shawn Elliot is sticking around the game must be pretty good.
I expect a good game, but nothing groundbreaking. I thought the original Bioshock is vastly overrated and that the sequel was much better.
I expect a good game, but nothing groundbreaking. I thought the original Bioshock is vastly overrated and that the sequel was much better.
McBradders
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MAYBE LIKE THE GAME IS FINISHED AND STUFF SO PEOPLE ARE KINDA DONE RIGHT?
Right, guys?
Right?
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Right, guys?
Right?
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Hero_of_the_Day
Member
People have been jumping ship since the start of August. So, if the game goes gold about a month before release (start of Feb.) that was still a solid six months worth of development, and now four months without these guys.
Magicpaint
Member
On one hand, combat design has never really been one of the things I loved in Bioshock. But on the other hand, this is not the first person leaving + with all the rumours of troubled development...I'm getting kinda worried.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
They said it would be fun.