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2K teasing Advent on Twitter. BioShock? XCOM? New IP? [Up: Looking like XCOM]
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Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I don't get a Bioshock vibe from this at all. Not even close.
Syndicate maybe but that's an EA IP.
A new IP would make the most sense, can't think of an 2K Franchise that sounds similar.
I just hope it's not another god damn zombie game.
Syndicate maybe but that's an EA IP.
A new IP would make the most sense, can't think of an 2K Franchise that sounds similar.
I just hope it's not another god damn zombie game.
I will say that if it's a BioShock game, mechanically it sounds like a large departure.
I know it can't be, but I'm getting MASSIVE og Syndicate vibes from this picture.
The whole thing seems way more Syndicate or Xcom than Bioshock to me.
Interesting with Satellite Reign coming as well.
dr_rus
Member
These are medieval fantasy as much as they are cyberpunk.
Here's the old BioShock statement to note:
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/an...-dead-redemption-2-is-happening/1100-6419966/GameSpot said:
Obliterator
Member
Here's my thing, if it isn't Bioshock it basically has to be a new IP right? The themes sound absolutely nothing like X-Com at all
Yeah, it'd be a large departure for XCOM given it'd be entirely in one city and seemingly much more plot focused.
Take-Two has noted they release one new IP per (fiscal) year as well, but Battleborn already covers that for this year.
zenosparadox
Member
I would love for this to be a follow-up to XCOM.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I think it's just the pretty common looking city that makes me think this can't be a Bioshock game. But since Levine is doing whatever it is he is doing maybe they change things up?
Dunno, I just know that this doesn't look like the Bioshock game I want. But maybe I do. Who can tell at this point.
Isn't Battleborn Bethesda?
Edit: Oh wait, that's the Gearbox game right? What's that Bethesda game again? Battleblood?
I don't know about the one city thing, it seems to be about a city making company that's worldwide:
I do think it's worth considering that this is an entirely new developer with no real staff connection to the previous one, so if they were handed the series, they might strike out and do whatever. Even 2K Marin had a lot of Irrational staff in comparison.
Now, I agree that historically when a new developer takes over a series, they play it really safe. However, since those titles almost universally underperform, Take-Two might have told them to make something that feels quite new and different to try and avoid that.
ashecitism
Member
That's Battlecry.
Obliterator
Member
Still though they talk about this city / cities being a new start for mankind, gene splicing, the new world being good on the outside but corrupt on the inside. None of that sounds like X-Com at all.
I'm betting either Bioshock or a new ip
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Oh yeah. Memorable title. Both of them.
Yeah, sounds reasonable.
As much as I want a new Bioshock, I really hope this is a new IP. We could need a few more of those.
XCOM: Enemy Within (the expansion to Enemy Unknown) had an emphasis on gene mods, cybernetic augmentation, and
infiltration by the enemy from within the XCOM base itself
I agree that the city stuff does seem to be a departure from XCOM. In any case, I'm quite looking forward to a new XCOM or something similar.
That is a good point. I'm hoping for it over everything else, but this seems like quite a deviation for Xcom
The Lone Courier
Member
What if its Civ: Beyond Earth DLC?
darth_infamous
Member
This is one to watch.
MisterJoynt
Neo Member
This has me tingling with anticipation. thinking back to the style and nature of the early Bioshock marketing, this does give me that same vibe of introducing very abstract details and then expanding on the story of those details.
Bioshock and Bioshock 2 had newspaper clippings and journal entries, If this marketing is launched with the premise of a protectorate type organization that is there to keep the people uninformed, it would be a great setting for a Bioshock-esque story.
Bioshock and Bioshock 2 had newspaper clippings and journal entries, If this marketing is launched with the premise of a protectorate type organization that is there to keep the people uninformed, it would be a great setting for a Bioshock-esque story.
CertifiedFP
Member
I don't know about you, but this sounds like the premise of XCOM: Apocalypse to me.
Hurricane43
Member
Done some digging. Putting in some key words in google and I find this article.
Mafia and La Noire as one? We do know that team bondi is gone but the game was a good hit from what I recall.
http://www.upgaming.org/mafia-and-l-a-noire-are-back-as-one
Mafia and La Noire as one? We do know that team bondi is gone but the game was a good hit from what I recall.
http://www.upgaming.org/mafia-and-l-a-noire-are-back-as-one
They released a video of a spinning globe that was specifically the earth, so no it's definitively not "beyond earth". Dlc
Mushroomer25
Member
My point was that "shiny future city" is a common trope for games, unlike the cities in the original Bioshock and Infinite. All those games listed contain the same vaguely futuristic tone that this game is aiming for.
uncleniccius
Member
Battlecry, Bloodborne and Battleborn?
It is almost like the Dying Light/Deadlight/Daylight thing, like seriously.
uncleniccius
Member
Yeah, I call serious, serious bullshit on this.
No way this is happening. It'd be nuts and I'd love it, but no.
renegade_dewitt
Member
Firaxis already announced the upcoming DLC - Rising Tide. So it can't be this.
TimeEffect
Member
Guessing it's a new IP, hoping it's a strategy game of some kind.
What about some futuristic Civilization Revolution for consoles?
What about some futuristic Civilization Revolution for consoles?
My thoughts exactly. Anyone saying this doesn't sound like XCOM clearly didn't play EW. Could the city be an expanded version of the 2D base?
The Lone Courier
Member
Ah good catch didn't know that.
Funyarinpa
Member
Would it work in today's market?
Moreover, Ken Levine is not working on it (he left 2K to my knowledge and went off with Irrational as a small studio if I remember correctly.
renegade_dewitt
Member
still part of 2K, but the Irrational name has been dissolved IIRC
RipperGrim
Member
Cities of tomorrow? Sounds like Bioshock to me.
CertifiedFP
Member
FlammableD
Banned
Now that I think about it, a futuristic/Brave New World take on Bioshock could be really cool.
infinit777
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Deleted member 80556
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Don't think so, this is 2K, not Rockstar.
I dunno, man, it sounds like it's made up.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
I mean, realistically 2K pretty much HAS to be working on Bioshock. It's one of their staple IPs. I find it hard to believe someone isn't working on it, since development would likely take 3 years and they wouldn't want to have a large gap inbetween games since it is such a profitable series for them. I'd assume they started working on a new one shortly after Irrational was shuttered just based on this.
So all of their studios are accounted for except Brno and Hangar13. One is doing Mafia and I can only assume the other one is working on Bioshock. Since Hangar13 is the bigger one, I really believe it is them that are working on a Bioshock game, which I believe this is. I just refuse to believe that 2K haven't even started development on a Bioshock game to this date.
So all of their studios are accounted for except Brno and Hangar13. One is doing Mafia and I can only assume the other one is working on Bioshock. Since Hangar13 is the bigger one, I really believe it is them that are working on a Bioshock game, which I believe this is. I just refuse to believe that 2K haven't even started development on a Bioshock game to this date.
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