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05-21-2009, 02:24 AM
Quote:Well, I'm hoping they brought the original creators back and hit it out of the park. Hopefully it won't be like Deus Ex 2, or StarControl 3.
They didn't, although Ken Levine was supposedly heavily consulted. We'll see. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.

But, I'm more worried about the Dune syndrome. Dune: Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, etc... are all excellent science fiction novels, written by the same grandmaster who wrote the original. And yet, the original book is so much better than the sequels, that the possibilities it hints at are superior if you consider them as such, and ignore the parts Frank Herbert filled in afterwards. (I will not even speak of the recent heresy.)

I'm not sure the story of Rapture will get better with more elaboration. Remarkable as it was (and I am a huge fan) the plot barely survived the whole game without overstaying its welcome. I fear that "Bioshock 2" will be conceptually akin to Weird Al's brilliant "Gandhi 2". There is one very excellent story to tell, and when the story is told, there might not be any elegant way to spin it out into something else, and degenerate into a slight self-parody.

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Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-05-2009, 07:48 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-07-2009, 03:02 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Wyrm - 05-07-2009, 06:17 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-07-2009, 06:54 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jim - 05-08-2009, 09:31 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Maitre - 05-08-2009, 04:34 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-08-2009, 04:56 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-08-2009, 05:37 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-08-2009, 06:03 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-08-2009, 07:00 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-08-2009, 07:55 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-08-2009, 08:44 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-08-2009, 10:10 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Bolty - 05-09-2009, 01:00 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-09-2009, 02:09 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Vandiablo - 05-09-2009, 04:21 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-09-2009, 07:00 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-09-2009, 07:41 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-09-2009, 07:41 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Lissa - 05-09-2009, 11:29 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-09-2009, 11:40 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Kevin - 05-10-2009, 12:09 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-10-2009, 02:05 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Skandranon - 05-10-2009, 07:30 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by kandrathe - 05-10-2009, 03:24 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by [wcip]Angel - 05-10-2009, 08:08 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Maitre - 05-18-2009, 02:20 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-18-2009, 09:53 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Maitre - 05-19-2009, 03:46 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by kandrathe - 05-19-2009, 04:58 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-19-2009, 05:06 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-19-2009, 05:12 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by kandrathe - 05-19-2009, 05:54 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-20-2009, 12:57 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-20-2009, 01:10 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-20-2009, 04:19 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by kandrathe - 05-20-2009, 01:53 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by kandrathe - 05-20-2009, 02:15 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Maitre - 05-20-2009, 02:25 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-20-2009, 06:43 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-20-2009, 07:06 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-21-2009, 02:24 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-21-2009, 03:37 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Maitre - 05-21-2009, 08:20 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-22-2009, 01:26 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by [wcip]Angel - 05-26-2009, 12:12 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-26-2009, 04:52 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Jester - 05-26-2009, 04:53 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by --Pete - 05-26-2009, 07:17 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Hammerskjold - 05-29-2009, 02:54 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by kandrathe - 05-29-2009, 06:18 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Maitre - 06-02-2009, 03:34 PM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Nastie_Bowie - 06-03-2009, 01:46 AM
Games with Intellectual Content - by Merlinios - 06-07-2009, 06:26 AM

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