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[Mau ®]

Cool design. Cant wait for the info!

 

[okno]

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some cool, secluded 'City of Lost Children'-style port town would be awesome!

I would explode with joy if this happened.

I'm really liking this teaser site business so far. I've got the itch to go back and play through Bioshock for a second time now. I'm so excited for this game, oh god.

 

[Borgnine]

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... but I thought they got out of Rapture. If you chose the 'good' path, at least.

Well the fact that there's 2 endings basically negates the entire ending anyway. Besides that, I don't think either ending was written with a sequel in mind, so I'm choosing to ignore it. Though again they could just be called big sisters because it sounds cooler than big mommy, though I don't agree (that it sounds cooler or that that's the reason).

 

[Kildace]

I really can't wait. Probably the first time I've ever actually been hyped by a viral website.

 

[mjc]

Nomura works for 2K ?

At least the belts here serve a purpose, they're holding those metal bracers onto her legs.

 

[Redd]

bioshock2 image[/IMG]
Hmmm!

Very interesting!

A Big Sister = Little Sister attached to something?

I'm surprised this thread is so small. Bioshock one was my favorite next gen game until just recently. Can't wait for the sequel.

 

[rollingstart]

big sister looks cool

 

[Neiteio]

Bumping this glorious design to the new page.

I imagine this sucker will be all flippy and shit. Running up walls and across ceilings. Or at least, I get a Spider Splicer vibe from it. The viral site mentioned an incident where the Big Sister cut a hole in a window with great precision using that blade. So I'd expect swift, surgical strikes as opposed to the brute force of the Big Daddies.

Can't wait!

 

[Undeux]

I hate that the industry is so obsessed with making sequels. Why not take the same creativity that went into the first one and make a new IP with a new twist on the mechanics and ideas? Isn't that more or less what Bioshock was?

I'm going to buy it and probably love it, and I'm excited to play it, but I would've been much more excited if the original team decided to work on a completely new idea.

 

[Arnie]

Awesome design, I wasn't too far off with my paint mockup.

 

[Borgnine]

I'm going to buy it and probably love it, and I'm excited to play it, but I would've been much more excited if the original team decided to work on a completely new idea.

Isn't this exactly what happened?

 

[ice cream]

this is so exciting

 

[Tieno]

First reaction to the big sister was a laugh. Looks contrived and a bit ridiculous. Will probably change when I see it in action.

 

[faceless007]

I'm going to buy it and probably love it, and I'm excited to play it, but I would've been much more excited if the original team decided to work on a completely new idea.

Supposedly that's exactly what Kevin Levine it up to now.

 

[Joseph Merrick]

looks ridiculously terrible

 

[Borgnine]

Awww... the little sister made little fishy drawings on the big sister's tank, isn't that cute?

Spoiler

DIE BITCH GIVE ME YOUR SLUG.

 

[The Librarian]

Awww... the little sister made little fishy drawings on the big sister's tank, isn't that cute?

Spoiler

DIE BITCH GIVE ME YOUR SLUG.

:lol So this is this month's issue of GameInformer? Will we be able to pick it up in stores this month?

 

[Bernbaum]

Wow, a lot can happen when one leaves to go to bed!

I love the idea of 'Big Sisters'- they're probably very likely grown-up little sisters from the first game. Now that I've seen the design on the Gameinformer cover, I'll need to see it in motion to be more convinced. I'm hoping the reasoning behind 'Big Sisters' is that the little sisters were so obsessed with their metallic guardians, they chose to become like them to protect a new generation. Does this mean something has happened to all the Big Daddies in the previous 7 years? I guess we'll wait and see.

I can understand a newspaper not wanting to pay attention to a guy with a bunch of newspaper clippings, given that when our friend Mr. Lynch sent his clippings, the kidnapper(s) hadn't reached the other side of the Atlantic yet. But you'd expect that there'd be someone else wanting to investigate this.

The name of the person collecting the clippings is Mark Meltzer.

:lol So this is this month's issue of GameInformer? Will we be able to pick it up in stores this month?

No, April issue.

 

[djblackice]

Worst MS Paint edit ever.

 

[Orlics]

Why big "sister" and not big "mamma"? Just sounds better, or is that a conscious choice of words?

Because people would call the game racist if there was a "Big Mama."

 

[Circle Jerk]

:lol So this is this month's issue of GameInformer? Will we be able to pick it up in stores this month?

Yeah, within the next week or so I'd assume.

 

[The Librarian]

No, April issue.

Yeah, within the next week or so I'd assume.

*is confused*

 

[Bernbaum]

*is confused*

Says right on the barcode, April 2009. I haven't bought a print magazine in years, but they might release a few weeks early.

Here's hoping for a trailer before or at GDC by the end of this month.

 

[The Librarian]

Says right on the barcode, April 2009. I haven't bought a print magazine in years, but they might release a few weeks early.

Here's hoping for a trailer before or at GDC by the end of this month.

I though magazine issues were also one month in advance of the month they were released in? The March issue of GI came out in February, right? So the April issue should come out this month, correct?

 

[Borgnine]

*is confused*

This is the way magazines work, it's not uncommon for a magazine's cover to have a month stamped on it that is actually several months away from the actual month is went on sale.

 

[Wallach]

I though magazine issues were also one month in advance of the month they were released in? The March issue of GI came out in February, right? So the April issue should come out this month, correct?

This is correct. This issue will go on sale sometime this month.

 

[The Librarian]

This is correct. This issue will go on sale sometime this month.

*counts the seconds until I get to read the issue*

 

[randomwab]

Ohh god, why do I get the feeling from this image that this game is going to be a major rehash of the first game. Colour me worried. : /

 

[Fuu]

That cover is so hot.

 

[Blast Processing]

Damn, I was hoping we wouldn't be going back to Rapture but instead fighting splicers on the mainland in Bioshock 2.

I'll take a wait and see approach...

 

[Masked Man]

SO EXCITED.

(Also, I'm excited that one of the "sightings" posted on the viral site happened on my birthday, June 14th.) :lol

 

[MNC]

I wonder how old she is.

Spoiler

I wonder if she's hot.

Looks good enough for me. Can't wait for new info.

 

[Danielsan]

Love the Big Sister design and Bioshock without Rapture would not be Bioshock.
Hopefully the story is as good or better than the first and hopefully they amp up the horror.

 

[SovanJedi]

Why big "sister" and not big "mamma"? Just sounds better, or is that a conscious choice of words?

Spoiler

Maybe Tanenbaum is Big Mamma?

 

[Anticitizen One]

Is anyone else reminded of IG-88 from Star Wars when they saw the gameinformer cover?

Oh and could someone do a photoshop of that cover with that creepy black lady from the other thread :lol

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

http://gameinformer.com/NR/rdonlyres/BBD90755-D289-429A-9B4C-A4322FB44313/17881/gi_bioshock2.jpg
Hmmm!

Very interesting!

A Big Sister = Little Sister attached to something?

:O can't wait

 

[dagZ]

am I the only one who hates the face of it? It doesn't look feminine to me.

 

[VictimOfGrief]

YES---YES---YES---__YESSSS!!!!

 

[Dabanton]

am I the only one who hates the face of it? It doesn't look feminine to me.

What the big sister?

 

[Slathe]

The name of the person collecting the clippings is Mark Meltzer.

Doesn't he ink up the letter with "to protect the innocent". I thought that was a reference indicating it was a pseudonym.

I'm also not convinced he is Jeremiah Lynch. Not sure if that is the prevailing theory, but it doesn't make all that much sense that he receives a letter and photos from Lynch and then makes his own notations on that if he is Lynch.

 

[Anduron]

am I the only one who hates the face of it? It doesn't look feminine to me.

Design isn't doing it for me either, worries me a bit.

 

[pringles]

Design isn't doing it for me either, worries me a bit.

I don't really like how the head looks, it's a bit too "robotic" looking, rather than looking like someone in a diving helmet.
I do however love everything else about the design.
Especially that it carries the Little Sister on it's back, I can see some interesting scenarios coming from that.

 

[HiccupTruck]

am I the only one who hates the face of it? It doesn't look feminine to me.

You heard him, 2K!

Work some cleavage into that design!

 

[Amir0x]

Oh god those things are gonna be all speedy and terrifying.

SPEEDY horrors are so much scarier >_<

 

[Firestorm]

Has this been posted:

Game Informer Bioshock 2 Cover

Haven't played the first, but thought you guys would be interested.

Hoooly Craaap. Big Sister as in the little sister we see is actually a big sister or is that thing in the suit the big sister? o.o

 

[Spoo]

Surprisingly sexy

(Mostly) kidding. I'm hyped; that's a great design and I can only imagine how freaky the game will be with 2-meter-tall big sisters moving about.

Hopefully the little sisters aren't confined to that cage...

edit: Take it back; thought that was a cage lol. It's prolly jus how they move them about in danger (as opposed to her hugging onto its neck; it lacks the width of a big daddy)

PS: I want to see MORE than two types of big sister goddamnit.

 

["God's Beard!"]

if it can cut through windows you just know it's gonna come in the rapture hallways from out in the fucking ocean.

Dogs jumping through windows didn't flood the fucking room. One enemy, two ways to die.

 

[bodyofanamerican]

if it can cut through windows you just know it's gonna come in the rapture hallways from out in the fucking ocean.

Dogs jumping through windows didn't flood the fucking room. One enemy, two ways to die.

oh my goodness this would be incredible.

also, i forget the thing is TWO METERS TALL.

terrifying, and i think the exact direction they should be going in. can't wait.

EDIT:
What do we think they sound like? Since the Big Daddies had that whale sound thing going, I wonder what this could be? A high screech of some sort?

 

[Red]

Where did that thing come from? Who could have built it?

Not sold on the design. Looks like Voldo with a fish bowl on his head. The cage thing on its back interests me, though; wonder how that'll be involved in gameplay.

 

[Son of Godzilla]

Wow that looks fucking terrible. They should rebrand this as Prince of Persia goes to Rapture.