BioShock Infinite

[mrclutch]

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Finally got around to playing through the game. I bought it at launch but just never had time for it. The whole game was really fantastic. Has to be in my top 10 all time.
I'm looking forward to going to back and taking it a little slower next time. I rushed a little too much in the beginning instead of fully exploring Columbia to it's fullest.
I had never played the Bioshock games before. No doubt I will be picking the other 2 up someday.

[Bellsprout]

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You should definitely make time for the first two very soon. They're fantastic.

The first one especially. But I think the second one is really good as well despite the crap it gets sometimes, and I think it's unquestionably better than Bioshock 1 in terms of gameplay.

I bought the Minerva's Den DLC for Bioshock 2 last night. Looking forward to going through that. I can't get enough of this series.

[justamush]

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You should definitely make time for the first two very soon. They're fantastic.

The first one especially. But I think the second one is really good as well despite the crap it gets sometimes, and I think it's unquestionably better than Bioshock 1 in terms of gameplay.

I bought the Minerva's Den DLC for Bioshock 2 last night. Looking forward to going through that. I can't get enough of this series.

Minerva's Den was awesome

[RedPhazon8]

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I found this game to be just another decent game from Irrational, the game play isn't all too fun and the story's pacing is a little to scattered.

[Herky]

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Beat this last week and liked it. The ending was sort of "Inception" like.

Even though I enjoyed the experience, and story, and the world, I probably won't play it again. I could pick up some more achievements but honestly I got everything I wanted out of the initial play.

I heard Ken Levine is going to work on a screenplay which would be awesome because he is creative and a great storyteller.

[Bellsprout]

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WE'RE GOIN' BACK TO RAPTURE! AND WE'RE PLAYIN' AS ELIZABETH (Well, part of it)!

Irrational has announced details about the three pieces of DLC in BioShock Infinite’s Season Pass, including challenge maps and new story content set in Rapture.

Clash in the Clouds, a combat-focused set of challenges spread across Columbia, is available starting today on Steam, PSN and Xbox 360 and costs $5 for anyone who doesn’t own the Season Pass. Clash in the Clouds includes four challenge maps (The Ops Zeal, Duke & Dimwit Theater, Raven’s Dome and Emporia Arcade), each of which contains 15 waves of enemies. Each wave includes a Blue Ribbon Challenge with a unique, difficult objective, and leaderboards will track your scores on each map and allow you to compare with friends.

Clash in the Clouds also includes the Columbia Archaelogical Society, an in-game museum players can explore to view character models, concept art, behind-the-scenes videos and more. Players will also be able to access new Voxophones and Kinetoscopes that provide additional insight into Columbia’s lore.

Additional content for BioShock Infinite will come in the form of Burial at Sea, a two-part episodic story that will make up the remaining two pieces of DLC in the Season Pass. The first episode of Burial at Sea is set in Rapture on December 31, 1958, the night before the famous fall of Rapture. Players will once again take on the role of Booker DeWitt, but in mysterious new circumstances that include a new, noir-like version of Elizabeth. A second episode will allow you to play as Elizabeth, but Irrational hasn’t released many details yet other than saying that her gameplay will differ from Booker’s, and be “almost survival horror.”

In an interview with IGN, BioShock creator Ken Levine provided additional information about Burial at Sea, including insight into playing as Elizabeth and how the DLC will reconcile Columbia and Rapture’s gameplay differences.

“It’s really a story of Booker and Elizabeth again, but set against the backdrop of pre-fall Rapture,” Levine told IGN, “and to have an extended period in pre-fall Rapture without combat, where you’re just living in the space, like you got to sort of live in Columbia at the beginning of the game. Which nobody has ever been able to do before, with those systems and that technology. My favorite BioShock quest is actually in that part, with no combat. He meets an old friend from BioShock 1. Not a very nice friend, but a friend. And in the second half, it takes place in a department store, a Fontaine department store that’s been shuttered and sunk to the bottom of the ocean by Ryan after he takes over. All of Fontaine’s cronies are put into that department store, so that place has gone to hell. It’s very traditional BioShock 1. They’re all spliced up down there. They’re all crazy. You get this mix of pristine Rapture and a very traditional Rapture experience, in a pretty organic story.”
According to Levine, Burial at Sea will reconcile the idea of having Booker, who uses Vigors in Columbia, living inside of Rapture, where Plasmids exist instead. He explained that players will use Plasmids (which were injected in BioShock 1), but that they’ll be drinkable like Vigors.

“Game systems are essentially Infinite game systems. There’s a reason they’re drinkable in this world. You’ll see why,” he said. “We did, however, re-tune the feel of the experience. The system guys have been very hard at work. We wanted the combat, because of the nature of Rapture, to be more player-initiated than it was in Infinite. You know how BioShock game systems are about hearing the enemies at a distance and being able to plan your attack? We wanted more of that. That sort of slipped away from us a little bit in Infinite. Therefore the traps get much more meaningful, I think. We have that system. We did some tweaks to the various Vigors. There’s a new Vigor. There’s a new weapon. And a new plasmid – they’re called Plasmids in this.”

Levine also explained that Elizabeth will be a very different experience for the player, moving back to the scary feeling in BioShock 1.

“When you play Elizabeth, it’s even more towards a survival horror game,” he said. “I just played the first prototype of her the other day. We’re almost in beta on part one of the Rapture one. We’re at sort of early stages of the second part, where you play Elizabeth, but I’ve played a prototype of what it’s like to play her. It feels very different. We’re mostly working on the systems side to make things feel different.”
Beyond the tone, Elizabeth will also be more “fragile” than Booker, with gameplay more about setting traps than shooting guns.

“Elizabeth is much more fragile, in terms of in terms of combat,” he said. “She’s not going to go and wade into it with a Big Daddy. She has to really set up the experience to work for her. She has a sort of combination of Thief and Tecmo’s Deception. There was a game called Trapt on the PS2, I think, that was in the same franchise. Getting her to use the environment, using tears to create things in the environment to lure people into and sneak up on people and avoid people, that’s very much a part of being Elizabeth. It’s an experiment. Every time you go away from the known model, you’re experimenting with things, but we really wanted Elizabeth to feel different. The audience will judge how successful we are. We’re still relatively early on that part.”

Levine also hinted that "it’s important that Elizabeth is a person of multiple dimensions," but wouldn't say more for fear of spoiling the story. As for why the DLC won’t be set in Columbia, Levine said it’s as simple as a good idea that was stuck in his head.

“There were some Columbia ideas we kicked around, but I think we also got to the point where we felt like that was the story that we had just told. We had told it to the extent we wanted to tell it,” he confessed. “But I had this image in my head of this moment in this detective’s office, Booker’s office. Elizabeth walking in dressed like Veronica Lake. And I just fixated on that.”

Keep checking back to IGN for more on BioShock Infinite’s upcoming DLC in the weeks to come, and for much more on everything BioShock Infinite, be sure to consult our BioShock Infinite wiki.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/30/bioshock-infinite-challenge-maps-out-today-story-dlc-soon?abthid=51f7aa931d3014cf01000005

EDIT: OH MY GOD I WANT IT NOW.

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[Cyros]

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[CMH]

I woke up this morning asking when we will hear Bioshock Infinite DLC news.

I am pleased.


Sent from my mobile device.

[LowerWolf]

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Looks like I need to play the first BioShock to get ready for the DLC.

[The_Wise_One]

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Clash in the Clouds looks like a challenge but man the Rapture DLC.....epic. Levine said that it's almost a survival horror!

[tbennett54]

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WOW!! Its so cool seeing Rapture before the civil war!

[The_Wise_One]

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Just played the arena DLC and man oh man is it tough. The blue ribbon challenges make some waves very difficult. I got to the final wave of the first area and had to fight a patriot and TWO Handymen. Didn't last very long.

[The_Wise_One]

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So I'm going through the Museum Curator and unlocking all of the beautiful design portraits and art concepts when I finally come to the last one. It says Columbia Art Direction Concept Art, so I buy it and this baby shows up.

Spoiler for size not content.

Spoiler

[Bellsprout]

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Just started my second playthrough. Already I'm noticing things I'd have had no way of knowing before I played through it the first time.

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Lutece 1: "He doesn't row."
Lutece 2: "What do you mean he doesn't row?"
Lutece 1: "No. He doesn't row."
Lutece 2: "Oh, yes, now I remember."

Paraphrased that, but it was still cool.

I also wonder if that's a previously dead version of Booker under that mask tied to the chair as you ascend the lighthouse.

[Sandman42]

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Just started my second playthrough. Already I'm noticing things I'd have had no way of knowing before I played through it the first time.

Spoiler

Lutece 1: "He doesn't row."
Lutece 2: "What do you mean he doesn't row?"
Lutece 1: "No. He doesn't row."
Lutece 2: "Oh, yes, now I remember."

Paraphrased that, but it was still cool.

I also wonder if that's a previously dead version of Booker under that mask tied to the chair as you ascend the lighthouse.

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Pretty sure I remember in one of the Voxaphones its mentioned by one of the Lutece's that it was a guard that had killed Booker in one of the timelines so they went and had him killed in all the rest so he couldn't stop Booker. I'm fairly sure it was in one of the voxaphones, but with the amount of explanations I read for the ending it could be something I remember from a random forum poster.