Should there be a Bioshock multiplayer...

[keith_v]

and if you think there should be, what should it be like?

 

[Purple Prancer]

Is everybody delusional today?

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Levine said that if there's a Bioshock 2, it will have multiplayer.

I guess the MP should be like Deus Ex's, but with plasmids adding a "class" dynamic like Team Fortress.

 

[Jerry!]

I think if they can devote about as much effort and time into it as they have the campaign and story, then yeah. I understand why there wasn't MP in the first game.

 

[keith_v]

I think that if they do a Bioshock multiplayer, make it its own game. Almost like Quake Wars. I think that it should have a very put together story, too. I would set it in the war between Ryan and Fontaine, and like Resistance where it's humans vs. chimeras, the Bioshock multiplayer could be Ryan's army vs. Fontaine's army.

 

[GFreeman]

I think that sounds awful.

 

[Purple Prancer]

I already know what the title will be: Shadowrun 2

 

[WhatsHisFace]

I think that if they do a Bioshock multiplayer, make it its own game. Almost like Quake Wars. I think that it should have a very put together story, too. I would set it in the war between Ryan and Fontaine, and like Resistance where it's humans vs. chimeras, the Bioshock multiplayer could be Ryan's army vs. Fontaine's army.

I personally would not go that route. I would just have everyone have zero personal backstory and just let plasmids to the talking.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

A multiplayer mode wouldn't feel right, the game is so much about being alone in this world and the atomsphere of being alone and exploration and discovering more about what's going on. I just think a multiplayer mode might cheapen the single player experience

 

[TheBat812]

A multiplayer mode wouldn't feel right, the game is so much about being alone in this world and the atomsphere of being alone and exploration and discovering more about what's going on. I just think a multiplayer mode might cheapen the single player experience

I agree with this completely, and said no.

 

[Jerry!]

Yeah but if theres no multiplayer in the sequel, then all it is is an "overpriced short single player game."

 

[Wolfwood]

If there was a multiplayer, I already know I'd be camping the sections with water puddles with my electric plasmid, waiting for some fool to walk through it.

 

[terry78]

The only way I could see it working is if they created clones of the main character, all of whom are in the same boat. The plot of the game doesn't make it seem to likely that so many of Rapture's peeps are out there.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Yeah but if theres no multiplayer in the sequel, then all it is is an "overpriced short single player game."

I don't think it's short at all, I'm at the point where I've got to search for the other three people to take pictures of in Fort Fortiscue and have logged about 16-17 hours so far, I love just walking through the world searching every nook and cranny.

 

[Jerry!]

I know, its just one of those criticisms of the game some people bring up.

 

[Carcharodon]

It's not just the story...the gameplay doesn't really lend itself to multiplayer. In Player vs. Player there would be too many balance issues, and the multiplayer would have an entirely different feel than the single player. I feel that it would set the game up for failure.

That's just me, though.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

People saying Bioshock's MP would such either don't understand how Irrational works or never played Deus Ex MP.

 

[keith_v]

People saying Bioshock's MP would such either don't understand how Irrational works or never played Deus Ex MP.

Yeah. To say that the game could never have a multiplayer is kind of jumping the gun. You just have to have a multiplayer that fits with the style of Biosock. It needs a little bit of story and a lot of atmosphere. It shouldn't be a run and gun shoot 'em up, because that's not in the theme of Bioshock. And as for your characters, I'd say go with customizable splicers. Don't even have the game take place during Bioshock, but before, during the war.