This Original Pitch For BioShock Is Bananas

Sorry dude, your rich heiress is not in this castle.

5 pages of comments and no Ryan-isms?  I'm disappointed GB community.
 
Oh well.
 
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Could be interesting but all that underwater city fiction turned out pretty good.

I don't know guys, I'm pretty glad it didn't  turn out to be this.

Reading this story gave me banana mouth.

I really hope they recycle that story in a latter BioShock.

This is old news for anyone who actually followed BioShock's development and was excited for the game before the media told us to be excited about it.
 
I was so excited for a System Shock successor.

So it'd have been Far Cry?

I thought Doctor Moreau too. 
To everyone who likes System Shock 2, you should try out System Shock 1 also, it's actually a very good game. At least I like it.

wonder if they changed it because the pitch summary posted here sounds exactly like a little game called Far Cry more or less?

this is really interesting, both what bioshock was to begin with and this old idea in general

" Wow, if they actually followed their original pitch, the game might have been good...  It goes to show you how desperate console gamers are for a good game when they take a shitty, and dumbed-down version of System Shock 2, and consider it good.  What do you expect from the same people who buy God of War, or Halo? "

"Bioshock Will: 

• Scare the hell out of people."

" still waiting on the true successor to system shock 2 "

".. giant underground and undersea complex..." Sound like the water was there right from the start, at least in some extent :)

This pitch is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S
 
(sorry, someone had to do it)

Pretty interesting how different it is compared to the Bioshock now. The original Bioshock sounded like a very daring game with a lot of big ideas.

This sounds good enough to become another franchise for Irrational to fall on if Bioshock doesn't live to their expectations.  I would definitely like to play as a deformed creature trying to return to the form of a human being.

Wow, this definitely should have been Bioshock 2.

still waiting on the true successor to system shock 2

This sounds like the island of doctor moreau.  A pretty cool idea.

 I gotta say, the original pitch for Bioshock is indeed, wildly different. Would be pretty cool to have seen what could have been if they had stuck with it, but at least quite a few of those idea's made it into Bioshock. Not to mention that not all those idea's could have possible made it into the final product if they had done so.

Matt Kessler?  M.K. in the...

This sounds neat! I probably would have liked this game!

I would love to see what this game would have been like.
 
The BioShock franchise is desperately missing Ken Levine. 

" Crab monsters would have been cooler than underwater junkies.. "

irrational should just keep making bioshock but with a different concept each time. there could be the rapture bioshock, and then this weird island one, and then one on mars or something. think about it.

Who the hell are these writers popping up on here?

This is some pretty hilariously cliched writing.
 
Poised to reinvent the genre! Unprecedented! The most ___ ever created! Unparalleled! Unprecented (again!) Limited only by your imagination (x2)! Incredibly deep! Unlike anything ___ ever seen! Never-before-seen!

Sooo 
It was the island of Dr Moreau then. 
interesting I suppose from a creative evolution stand-point.

Crab monsters would have been cooler than underwater junkies..

ok so who is this guy? i know he's the new intern but i've heard the crew say matt bodega before...is he on old friend or like some super user that got promoted or what?

Very interesting read. I'll be honest though, the pitch sounds like it'd be more suited to my play style than the current bioshock. Sounds like a mental version of Far Cry.

That shit is indeed bananas. 
 
And MattBodega ain't no hollaback girl.

Haha, you'd be able to make your own custom weapons..
Too bad they've changed that. Also, it had multiplayer.

That is so cool to see how Bioshock started, thanks for sharing the info!

I would love to see this game released, even if it's not the original idea. There are a few ideas I don't love, per se, but it's still sweet sounding.

I'm going to be honest, that games sounds like something I would like a lot more than BioShock if they delivered on all the promises.

They should use this for the next Bioshock. Start fresh with this script.

Wow, if they actually followed their original pitch, the game might have been good...
 
It goes to show you how desperate console gamers are for a good game when they take a shitty, and dumbed-down version of System Shock 2, and consider it good.
 
What do you expect from the same people who buy God of War, or Halo?

" @emkeighcameron said:

" @sofacitysweetheart said:

" @emkeighcameron said:

" Man, THIS premise should've been used for Bioshock 2, would've made that game way cooler. "

You mean a rough idea of how the first game would have gone had the process of this lil thing called 'development' not interfered? Not a deep interesting story that compliments the first game? Yeah, sure. Makes perfect sense :/ "

What I mean is that I found Bioshock 2 had a suck-ass story and wasn't nearly as interesting as its predecessor, so yeah. This story sounds way cooler to me than what BS2 tried to do. "

I thought the story in the sequel furthered the legend of Rapture and its inhabitants pretty well. Especially considering what the first game left us with. "

" @sofacitysweetheart said:

" @emkeighcameron said:

" Man, THIS premise should've been used for Bioshock 2, would've made that game way cooler. "

You mean a rough idea of how the first game would have gone had the process of this lil thing called 'development' not interfered? Not a deep interesting story that compliments the first game? Yeah, sure. Makes perfect sense :/ "

What I mean is that I found Bioshock 2 had a suck-ass story and wasn't nearly as interesting as its predecessor, so yeah. This story sounds way cooler to me than what BS2 tried to do. "

" @emkeighcameron said:

" Man, THIS premise should've been used for Bioshock 2, would've made that game way cooler. "

You mean a rough idea of how the first game would have gone had the process of this lil thing called 'development' not interfered? Not a deep interesting story that compliments the first game? Yeah, sure. Makes perfect sense :/ "

Still sounds pretty cool to me.

" Still waiting on the next Freedom Force game. "

Some of that stuff sounds bad ass. Maybe they'll incorporate it into a different game.