Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell"
Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell"
System Shock 2's performance didn't give publishers much confidence
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They don't sell? I was an older teenager when BioShock 1 came out, and people LOVED shooters? Wtf were they talking about? QUAKE?? Everyone was playing cod or half life 2. Fps was a successful genre already, both single player campaigns and multiplayer. i really don't get this quote.
Immersive Sims never really sold well, that's why it's a dead genre since 2017
I never really understood how BioShock got this tag. What about it is an immersive SIM exactly? Bioshock is a linear first person shooter action/stealth game. There's no other mechanics. You don't have to survive in any way with food or water. There's no deep mechanic specific to the world that you need to tend to and maintain. Literally the only thing that comes even close to being that sort of mechanic is the hacking? Is it an immersive sim simply because you can hack things and lock pick? Because I do those things in Nancy Drew games as well, but I'm pretty sure those are just point and click adventure games. I think BioShock is an amazing atmospheric first shooter RPG, but I've never understood how people think of it as an immersive simulator.
Yeah the only way it is a "simulator" is in a literary "If Ayn Rand ran the world simulator" type way.
Like, people are calling one of the few games with some literary depth to it a fucking similator instead of comparing it and contrasting it to Rand novels.
The antagonists name is Andrew Ryan. The guy who helps you initially goes by Atlas. You couldn't get any fucking clearer on literary references but media literacy is just dead.
Just call me fucking Harry Haller because this shit is making me go mad.
Zomboid literally is a game of the dead, so yeah, this checks out.
Zomboid isn't an im-sim, tho.
It is if you mod it enough :D
You can mod it into a FPS?? :0