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Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

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Zjuggernaut

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Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

As many of you know, Bioshock 2 (released in February 2010) will have Online multiplayer just like Halo and Call of Duty.

The question is, should it be online?

I think it might ruin the originality of the game.

Discuss?
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

I dont think Bioshock needs an online mode. Its a story driven shooter and should sell on the story alone. A tacked on multiplayer experience might lower the scores it gets and dampen the experience a little.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Normally I would say no. Look at Halo, which was originally a story-driven game. By Halo 3, the story was rubbish, whereas the multiplayer was the real selling point.
HOWEVER, the Bioshock multiplayer is being developed by a different company, which means the main developers can focus on the single player experience. Plus the multiplayer looks like it'll have some cool additions.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Purple Nurple;351428 said:
Normally I would say no. Look at Halo, which was originally a story-driven game. By Halo 3, the story was rubbish, whereas the multiplayer was the real selling point.
HOWEVER, the Bioshock multiplayer is being developed by a different company, which means the main developers can focus on the single player experience. Plus the multiplayer looks like it'll have some cool additions.
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Halos multiplayer made it stand out from the start though. I mean if Halo didnt have co-op play i dont think it would have been the huge seller it was to begin with.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

I think there's a mode where you can "Capture The Little Sister" like CTF. I hope they don't mess it up, and as you said, if a different company is working on the multiplayer... At least that gives the others more focus on the story.

As Drakan said, I bought Halo 2 because I heard it was Online and Halo 3 for the same reason. ODST not having online put me off big time. Halo is a multiplayer game now. Always will be.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Zjuggernaut;351438 said:
I think there's a mode where you can "Capture The Little Sister" like CTF. I hope they don't mess it up, and as you said, if a different company is working on the multiplayer... At least that gives the others more focus on the story.

As Drakan said, I bought Halo 2 because I heard it was Online and Halo 3 for the same reason. ODST not having online put me off big time. Halo is a multiplayer game now. Always will be.
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Capture the sister looks INSANE. I like how you can choose your character, and the pre-game lobby is rumoured to be an interactive apartment, with machines to upgrade your person, weapons, and buy items.

I know, but I thought the story in Halo 3 was poor compared to the other two games.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

i enjoyed bioshock as a single player, story driven shooter. a lot of bioshocks great story telling mechanics and presentation would be ruined by, say, you're friend dry humping a splicer who is trying to introduce a wrench to your brain.

playing with friends is fun... but a game with a story like bioshock would take a heavy beating from it.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

cheezMcNASTY;351459 said:
i enjoyed bioshock as a single player, story driven shooter. a lot of bioshocks great story telling mechanics and presentation would be ruined by, say, you're friend dry humping a splicer who is trying to introduce a wrench to your brain.

playing with friends is fun... but a game with a story like bioshock would take a heavy beating from it.
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the online isn't Co-op, it's PvP, with it's own baackstory.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Purple Nurple;351460 said:
the online isn't Co-op, it's PvP, with it's own baackstory.
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Yeah. Apparantly, Online has it's own storyline. With a narrator.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

^ It doesn't have a narrator. It has an answering machine! Each level you go up in Bioshock 2 Multiplayer will unlock messages on your machine in your apartment, filling in the backstory of the Civil War.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Bioshock 2 has a story, being developed by 2K.
However, it also has multiplayer PvP, being developed by Digital Extremes, I think.
It's gonna be good.
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Purple Nurple;351538 said:
Bioshock 2 has a story, being developed by 2K.
However, it also has multiplayer PvP, being developed by Digital Extremes, I think.
It's gonna be good.
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yeah ive looked in to it there is very little story line to it, its just a string of multiplayer games with story kinda tossed in there... like unreal tornament was
 
Re: Should BioShock 2 Be Online?

Aions;351540 said:
yeah ive looked in to it there is very little story line to it, its just a string of multiplayer games with story kinda tossed in there... like unreal tornament was
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There will be a story completely seperate to the multiplayer...
 
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