Bioshock 2 Teaser

pixelburp

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/10/16/bioshock-2-the-sea-of-dreams-teaser-images/

Anyone else see this? Seems like a game that didn't seem to fit a sequel is going to get just that. Hopefully this time they might refine the RPG-lite elements to ... well, have actual RPG elements in it. The teaser looks quite pretty though

Oh and in the comments is a naughty link to a video of said teaser

Mr E

Very purdy....

Is it still a prequel? They could have great fun with that, running into characters you've heard of or met in the first one.

L31mr0d

Mr E wrote: »

Very purdy....

Is it still a prequel? They could have great fun with that, running into characters you've heard of or met in the first one.

looks like a sequel. Isn't that one of the little sisters from the first one just grown up now. She's also holding a big daddy doll

pixelburp

L31mr0d wrote: »

looks like a sequel. Isn't that one of the little sisters from the first one just grown up now. She's also holding a big daddy doll

It looks like a sequel - that's a Little Sister grown up, and apparently with telekinesis powers to make a "Rapture" sandcastle.

armour87

Dying to see this when I get home from work.

Probably will be a sequel, rumours of there being a triology.

Any Daddies in the trailer? Mention of Ryan, Atlas?

Creamy Goodness

Wow I’ve seen more interesting pieces of wood than that clip, should fit in well to the bioshock story so...

pixelburp

armour87 wrote: »

Dying to see this when I get home from work.

Probably will be a sequel, rumours of there being a triology.

Any Daddies in the trailer? Mention of Ryan, Atlas?

We see a Little Sister, possibly in her early teens look out across the sea as the sun sets. She's holding a Big Daddy plushie in her hand, and then behind her, sandcastles of the Rapture skyline start growing out of the sand. That's it.

RobertFoster

L31mr0d wrote: »

She's also holding a big daddy doll

When I saw it first, I thought it was a Big Daddy Sackboy

Cremo wrote: »

Wow I’ve seen more interesting pieces of wood than that clip, should fit in well to the bioshock story so...

That's cold, Cremo, so very cold I thought the story was one of the better parts of BioShock, though I am a sucker for dystopia.

Maximilian

Would they kindly hurry up and bring the game out.

Pepe LeFrits

Bioshock 2 can suck my big sweaty balls.

Bioshock is the buggiest piece of crap I've ever come across. Could be a great game but I'll never know because it never works for longer than about 90 seconds. 2K seem to specialise in releasing games without actually playtesting the ****ing things.

Azza

I never had a single issue playing Bioshock. Nor did my flatmate have any issues. After the fuss over the limited activations I don't recall the game being accussed of having serious technical issues.

Your system up to date with the latest drivers and patches?

OctavarIan

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Bioshock 2 can suck my big sweaty balls.

Bioshock is the buggiest piece of crap I've ever come across. Could be a great game but I'll never know because it never works for longer than about 90 seconds. 2K seem to specialise in releasing games without actually playtesting the ****ing things.

I never had a single problem with Bioshock. Nor did any of my friends.

But yeah you're right, it's always the developers fault :rolleyes:

Pepe LeFrits

OctavarIan wrote: »

I never had a single problem with Bioshock. Nor did any of my friends.

But yeah you're right, it's always the developers fault :rolleyes:

A quick google will reveal that I am faaaaaaar from being the only one with massive problems running Bioshock.

I play a lot of first person shooters and crashes are extremely rare, unless I'm playing Bioshock. But sure, if you've got anecdotal evidence of it working well for you and a few of your mates, then I'm sure it must be just me :rolleyes:

Utopia Parkway

Never had any problems with Bioshock. Great game.

TerrorFirmer

Had a problem or two running it with Ati cards, but I didn't like the game all that much anyway. It was good - for awhile. After a few hours gameplay I got quite bored of it. Awesome style and visuals though - really, really cool.

wayne040576

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

A quick google will reveal that I am faaaaaaar from being the only one with massive problems running Bioshock.

I play a lot of first person shooters and crashes are extremely rare, unless I'm playing Bioshock. But sure, if you've got anecdotal evidence of it working well for you and a few of your mates, then I'm sure it must be just me :rolleyes:

I think doing a search on google for crashes related to any pc game will return quite a lot of results. It's just how it goes. If I remember correctly, a lot of people who got the disc version had trouble with crashes early on. I got it through steam and didn't have much trouble.

Azza

I have had lots of issues with dozens of games (Far Cry 2, Dead Space, Fallout 3) but not a single issue with Bioshock which is extremely rare for a PC game. Even if I did have issues with a game I would have enough sense not to scream "buggiest games ever" as it may be an issue with the hardware and software I'm running. I'm not saying that Bioshock is perfect but as the PC is an open platform with thousands of different software and hardware varations so you can expect issues for every single game. If thats unexceptable to you then go play the console versions.

Also a quick google will reveal every PC game ever made has had massive problems for some people. You will find hundreds of people complaining. Alot of these issues are related to users not having the latest versions of Direct X, graphics/sound card drivers, patches or issues with the games copyright software not working in conjunction with some virtual drive tools like Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools or problems with anti-virus software or running Windows for 18 months without ever defragmenting it or people using less than reputable no CD-Cracks.......the list goes on.

Also if the game was extremely buggy reviewers would of picked up on it and lowered the score accordingly yet the game remains one of the highest rated PC games ever according to metacritic (I don't think its that good personally). It would not have gone on to sell 1 million copies on the PC with a reputation for being buggy either.

Pepe LeFrits

I've managed to get it running for a couple of minutes without crashing thanks to a tip from another boardsie who also had loads of problems with it, and reckons that Bioshock doesn't like widescreen monitors much. Seems to work okayish in windowed mode... which is stupid but is better than the alternative I suppose.

Azza

I ran Bioshock on a 24" widescreen Acer monitor (AL2423W) on a Sapphire x1900xtx card at 1920x1200 full settings in DX 9 mode. I had no isses with in widescreen except the game was not patched at that time so widescreen had an incorrect FOV and the picture was cropped. This was fixed in patch 1.1

Whats your systems specs?

dreamers75

Bioshock on pc worked "better" when nefarious means where used to remove the cd check.


or so i heard

Pepe LeFrits

Core Duo 2.66Ghz, GeForce 8600GT, 4Gb ram. The game works OK in window mode, just the occasional crash.

As for the game itself... meh. It looks pretty but it's fairly repetitive and the enemies must be the most irritating ****ers in the history of gaming. It's satisfying to kill them purely because it shuts them up.

Valmont

That was a really crappy teaser video. Girl on beach followed by large phallic objects growing out of the sand, the end. Weird.

Valmont

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

I've managed to get it running for a couple of minutes without crashing thanks to a tip from another boardsie who also had loads of problems with it, and reckons that Bioshock doesn't like widescreen monitors much. Seems to work okayish in windowed mode... which is stupid but is better than the alternative I suppose.

I had the same problems with bioshock but 2 hours of googling and I had it running perfectly normal on my widescreen monitor.

GigaByte

Valmont wrote: »

That was a really crappy teaser video. Girl on beach followed by large phallic objects growing out of the sand, the end. Weird.

Do people actually think thats a good teaser video? I think anyone who does is just a Bioshock fan looking forward to getting Bioshock 2 and would have been just as easily impressed with a picture of "Bioshock 2 coming soon".

You could not call that a good teaser video.

Shantel22

Bioshock was a crazy game, used to give me nightmares when I played it

Kiith

GigaByte wrote: »

Do people actually think thats a good teaser video? I think anyone who does is just a Bioshock fan looking forward to getting Bioshock 2 and would have been just as easily impressed with a picture of "Bioshock 2 coming soon".

You could not call that a good teaser video.

Well, you could. The whole point of a teaser, is exactly that. To tease you and make you want to know more. Its not supposed to give any details of the plot/gameplay/characters. Its simply there to tease you. So, ya. Its a pretty good teaser.

RobertFoster

I still want a Big Daddy plushie

Soby

GigaByte wrote: »

Do people actually think thats a good teaser video? I think anyone who does is just a Bioshock fan looking forward to getting Bioshock 2 and would have been just as easily impressed with a picture of "Bioshock 2 coming soon".

You could not call that a good teaser video.

Whats wrong with it.All it was meant to do was "tease"

pixelburp

The teaser has generated discussion, debate and argument. There more for fans to chew on than just a single banner saying "coming soon". It has also created "brand awareness" as they say. So yes, it is an excellent teaser video in that it has worked perfectly to get the news out there.

RaverRo808

I loved Bioshock,great story,excellent gameplay,funny,interested,but I dont think they need another one,the last one I think was wrapped up nicely

Creamy Goodness

RaverRo808 wrote: »

I loved Bioshock,great story,excellent gameplay,funny,interested,but I dont think they need another one,the last one I think was wrapped up nicely

yeh but you're forgetting, anything that makes $$$ = automatic sequel no matter what the story is.

Mr. Spielberg anyone?

GigaByte

Kiith wrote: »

Well, you could. The whole point of a teaser, is exactly that. To tease you and make you want to know more. Its not supposed to give any details of the plot/gameplay/characters. Its simply there to tease you. So, ya. Its a pretty good teaser.

You're very easily teased, you're girlfriend has it easy!

LookingFor

Bump - the teaser site has opened:

http://somethinginthesea.com/

Has an irish connection too

FreeOSCAR

Big up The Cliffs of Moher

Stanzen

Bioshock, for me, has to be the best game......of all time. There I said it! I love the environments and there's nothin like playing it in the dark with surround sound. And who doesn't want to shoot fire and eletricty from one hand while holding a personally modified shotgun in the other!

Can wait for no. 2. Even if it was a carbon copy of the first, they can't fu*k it up.........can they?

pixelburp

Judging by the big map on that site, I imagine it'll update with other "news" stories, but Bioshock 2 set in Ireland would be kind of awesome. We knew Rapture was set in the Atlantic, so it tallies The dates also suggest a sequel, so I wonder what it'll involve.

Kiith

Do we really want Irish splicers?

"Top of the mornin to ya laddie, RARRGHH!!"

Retr0gamer

Bit harsh considering that Bioshock was one of the few games or films that actually had a good irish accent.

pixelburp

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Bit harsh considering that Bioshock was one of the few games or films that actually had a good irish accent.

Yeah, I was much surprised when I learnt the person who did Atlas' accent wasn't from our shores.

silvine

He wasn't??

Rumour has it Rapture is just west of the Aran islands

Stanzen

Has anyone seen the Bioshock Movie Trailer? There are only teaser trailers at the moment (and a few fake ones). But it looks good. It's based on the world of Rapture rather than the story of the game and is called.....Ryan's Rapture.

Like I mentioned before, I fricken love the environments and the art deco architecture, so at least we know it'll look good if nothing else..…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_o_9ckCmng

thorbarry

Stanzen wrote: »

Has anyone seen the Bioshock Movie Trailer? There are only teaser trailers at the moment (and a few fake ones). But it looks good. It's based on the world of Rapture rather than the story of the game and is called.....Ryan's Rapture.

Like I mentioned before, I fricken love the environments and the art deco architecture, so at least we know it'll look good if nothing else..…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_o_9ckCmng

Dude, thats totally fake

Kiith

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Bit harsh considering that Bioshock was one of the few games or films that actually had a good irish accent.

Ya, thats actually a fair point. I guess i'm just cynical after every other attempt at an Irish accent in games/films.

FreeOSCAR

Kiith wrote: »

Ya, thats actually a fair point. I guess i'm just cynical after every other attempt at an Irish accent in games/films.

Yeh like that fecking Heli Pilot from Mercs 2.

LookingFor

pixelburp wrote: »

Judging by the big map on that site, I imagine it'll update with other "news" stories, but Bioshock 2 set in Ireland would be kind of awesome.

Yeah...someone got an image file out of the flash on the site, that shows the map with 15 more locations marked. They all form a kind of circle, on north atlantic coasts..starting with ireland, then down europe, then the carribean, and up the north american east coast.

I guess these might all be reports of kidnapped girls. Might also suggest maybe that Ryan et al are on a moving platform or a 'mobile' Rapture?

Stanzen

thorbarry wrote: »

Dude, thats totally fake

That trailer may be, but the movie is going to happen.

There are a lot of fake trailers around but some of them have footage of neptune's fortune and scenes that look like they are in the movie.

RobertFoster

silvine wrote: »

He wasn't??

Would you kindly...

thorbarry

Stanzen wrote: »

That trailer may be, but the movie is going to happen.

There are a lot of fake trailers around but some of them have footage of neptune's fortune and scenes that look like they are in the movie.

oh i know the movie is happening... i was just saying that that wasnt a trailer for the movie

Haha, mental. Principal Snyder from Buffy did the voice of Andrew Ryan.

Valmont

god that somethinginthesea site had me foaming at the mouth. I can't wait for the next one. Bioshock was my favourite game ever too. Primarily for the fantastic storyline.

Niska

Bioshock in Ireland... Makes me winder, what was the last game set in Ireland? Only one I can remember was Clive Barkers: Undying (largely underrated game).