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Game » consists of 17 releases. First released on Mar 26, 2013

The third game in the BioShock series leaves the bottom of the sea behind for an entirely new setting - the floating city of Columbia, circa 1912.

Ken Levine Explains How "Tears" Will Work In Bioshock Infinite

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#1 Posted by BeefyGrandmole (194 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

cool

#2 Posted by GlenTennis (3128 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

That's the worst deck I've ever read.

#3 Edited by FourWude (1993 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

You broke my heart with Bioshock 1 Ken. YOU BROKE MY HEART!!

It was meant to be the ultimate FPS-RPG and it succeeded in doing neither particularly well.

I know it was you Ken..... I know it was you. But I'll give you once more chance, and you better not fuck up. 

P.S. I liked Bioshock 2... 

#4 Posted by paulithon (71 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

I fully expected to see a load of people crying when I opened this video up and wondered what would happen with the 'tears' 
 
total facepalm

#5 Posted by drag (1223 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Delicious tears.  
Oh you mean tears

#6 Posted by Funger (34 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

I just want to watch Ken Levine talk all day. 

#7 Posted by Jonathan (653 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

I could not be more excited for this game. Seriously, those guys are geniuses.

#8 Posted by zyn (2591 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Holy... O_o;  I NEED THIS GAME NAO!

#9 Posted by DaemonBlack (332 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Im trying to avoid as much info on this game as possible. I want to be wow'ed like the original Bioshock.

#10 Posted by xMrSunshine (355 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

HLARGBHALRGB This game.
 
I've reached the point where I know I shouldn't watch or read anything about it but I just can't let it be.

#11 Posted by Jeffk38uk (704 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

I forgot GB mentioned the tears and that seemed pretty interesting use of choice and creating cover but also a way to access time and place itself.

#12 Posted by Zettalock (23 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Oooh, cool, That's the 1980s thing they were talking about on the Bombcast

#13 Posted by Wuddel (1600 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Ah. Scientist name dropping. I need this game!

#14 Posted by zombie2011 (4667 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

WTF this game is still a year out right? 
  
They need to stop getting me so hype for the game so early.

#15 Posted by ABritishNerd (318 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago
@FourWude: Wait, you liked the vastly unsuperior Bioshock 2 to the masterpiece that was the original?
#16 Posted by LifeByDegrees (230 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

It reminds me of Orihime's power in Bleach. The whole denial of reality concept. Different in how its implemented- but a similar character trait. 
Or it may just be that she wants to heal the horse.

#17 Posted by Roomrunner (576 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Giant Bomb's video player saves my birthdate, so I don't have to enter it for every age check. 
 
Also, I can play the video full screen on my second monitor, and it won't disable full screen when I do stuff in other windows. 
 
You guys are the best.

#18 Posted by RTSlord (1161 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

so she can pull stuff from other realities?

#19 Posted by rmanthorp (3351 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

@Funger said:

I just want to watch Ken Levine talk all day.

Yup.

#20 Posted by Origina1Penguin (3500 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

This game is mind-fucking me ear to ear and it's not even out yet.

#21 Posted by Gre (153 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Whoa!  The first showing of Revenge of the Jedi is at 9:30 in the morning?  That is crazy!

#22 Posted by Apollo87 (142 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Revenge of the Jedi sounds like a pretty interesting movie.

#23 Posted by MrGtD (287 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Heisenburg?

Stay out of my territory, Levine.

#24 Posted by peterpie (52 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Aww man, and I thought the Countdown To Tears was finally over.

#25 Posted by DonutFever (3006 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago
@MrGtD said:

Heisenburg?

Stay out of my territory, Levine.

Well played, sir. 
#26 Posted by ChuckNoLuck (136 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Wow.

#27 Posted by Hector (3204 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Oh wow...this game is gonna be awesome!

#28 Posted by The_Nubster (1540 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago
@FourWude said:

You broke my heart with Bioshock 1 Ken. YOU BROKE MY HEART!!

It was meant to be the ultimate FPS-RPG and it succeeded in doing neither particularly well.

I know it was you Ken..... I know it was you. But I'll give you once more chance, and you better not fuck up. 

P.S. I liked Bioshock 2... 

Me and you both, man. Bioshock 1 was underwhelming and just felt 'off' overall, but I felt that Bioshock 2 fixed all of what was wrong with the original.
#29 Posted by lokilaufey (203 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Accidentally put in wrong year, got "You're too young to watch this video. Go to church instead." I love GB.

That said, I am so so so psyched for Bioshock Infinite. SO PSYCHED.

#30 Posted by emilknievel (68 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Dare  I say it? This will be the game of the year 2012! 
There I said it!

#31 Posted by alexstone108 (11 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Every time I see anything from this game I am in sheer awe. That horse thing? Stunning.

#32 Posted by LackinPantz (3 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Aw Ken, really? Smugly dismissing the far superior sequel which took your heavy handed universe in an interesting exploration of parenting with a quick "original bioshock" quip? What a shame.

Truly, the ability to control a terrible "ghosting" story device overused since System Shock 2 demands our immediate attention and a game of the show award. WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE PLAYER? Antlions, a care package or a Gears of War wall?! The options truly are limitless in this fantastical land we must call "Game of E3 2011". Keep name dropping more scientists alongside your terrible one-note characters, Ken, I heard it gives insta-cred with folks who haven't cracked a book recently.

I can't wait for a hack game dev to come in to the podcast one day and say how much his relationship to big-breast token girl changed his views on love and marriage. Hrm, yase, then we too can enjoy a magical trip through their own misogynistic worldviews and the clucking of neckbeard tongues that agree. Hell, he's already echoing the shallow South Park perspective of "the truth is somewhere down the middle~~~" with an awful attempt to capture USA's resurgence of 1920s xenophobia.

Here's a simple challenge Irrational: Try telling a story without the ghosts, audiologs or cutscenes. I seriously doubt you have the chops for it anymore. In your defense, you're making a colorful universe that I can't wait to see the 2k devhouses make a real game out of.

#33 Posted by Nomin (870 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Well, seems pretty much like a scant novelty game mechanic, to me.

#34 Posted by coakroach (2387 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

*chin on fist* Tell me more Ken

#35 Posted by Mr48 (91 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Game designers should stop pretending they understand anything about science. The Bioshock and Assassin's Creed games are just embarrassing in their attempts to sound "scientific".

#36 Posted by Fjordson (2437 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago
@LackinPantz: So much failure in one comment. Fascinating!
#37 Posted by emem (1923 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Wow, okay.. and wow again. It's time to stop watching anything related to this game until I've played through it.. no more spoilers for me.

#38 Posted by buhssuht (431 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

at first, i was like "how is crying tears gonna help?" and then i see the video, "oh that tears"

#39 Posted by TurboMan (5499 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

can we please just get a video of the freaking demo being played?

#40 Posted by jbuchan76 (91 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

I think i'm in love.. :) can't wait to experience the world.. looks so good!

#41 Edited by Sanious (686 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago
@Mr48 said:

Game designers should stop pretending they understand anything about science. The Bioshock and Assassin's Creed games are just embarrassing in their attempts to sound "scientific".

I find it embarrassing that people think they know what the developers actually know about the subject. Or embarrassing that people are making that judgment based on a couple minute video.
#42 Posted by Dustpan (1683 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Looks super polished.

#43 Posted by PXAbstraction (231 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

I would pay a substantial amount of money to watch Ken Levine give a talk about how he comes up with ideas like this.

#44 Posted by DrLove (347 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago
@LackinPantz said:

Aw Ken, really? Smugly dismissing the far superior sequel which took your heavy handed universe in an interesting exploration of parenting with a quick "original bioshock" quip? What a shame.

Truly, the ability to control a terrible "ghosting" story device overused since System Shock 2 demands our immediate attention and a game of the show award. WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE PLAYER? Antlions, a care package or a Gears of War wall?! The options truly are limitless in this fantastical land we must call "Game of E3 2011". Keep name dropping more scientists alongside your terrible one-note characters, Ken, I heard it gives insta-cred with folks who haven't cracked a book recently.

I can't wait for a hack game dev to come in to the podcast one day and say how much his relationship to big-breast token girl changed his views on love and marriage. Hrm, yase, then we too can enjoy a magical trip through their own misogynistic worldviews and the clucking of neckbeard tongues that agree. Hell, he's already echoing the shallow South Park perspective of "the truth is somewhere down the middle~~~" with an awful attempt to capture USA's resurgence of 1920s xenophobia.

Here's a simple challenge Irrational: Try telling a story without the ghosts, audiologs or cutscenes. I seriously doubt you have the chops for it anymore. In your defense, you're making a colorful universe that I can't wait to see the 2k devhouses make a real game out of.

do you work  for 2k?  I loved both Bioshock's but the sequel was not superior ...
#45 Posted by halfcirclepunch (10 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Holy hell. Does that billboard at the end say "Revenge of the Jedi"? I think it does. That's crazy!!!

#46 Posted by Falconer (1563 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

Damn it! I was hoping for that entire sequence (Tears for Fears playing and all).

#47 Posted by gorkamorkaorka (426 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

STOP MAKING ME ENTER MY AGE. THIS IS A GOOD WEBSITE

#48 Posted by DHunter329 (81 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

@xMrSunshine said:

HLARGBHALRGB This game. I've reached the point where I know I shouldn't watch or read anything about it but I just can't let it be.
#49 Posted by ninjalegend (340 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago
@Mr48 said:
Game designers should stop pretending they understand anything about science. The Bioshock and Assassin's Creed games are just embarrassing in their attempts to sound "scientific".
I don't think accuracy is what they are going for, duder. I know that punching holes in other realities would more likely produce a crossing the streams (Ghost Busters reference) effect than anything helpful. I think it to be more sci fi than sticking to scientific doctorate. If I can buy into a dude getting shot, than recovering in a few seconds, the inaccuracy of depicted inter dimensional crossing does not seem as far of a logical leap of faith.
#50 Posted by plasticsaber (14 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

@emem said:

Wow, okay.. and wow again. It's time to stop watching anything related to this game until I've played through it.. no more spoilers for me.

I keep telling myself that. It's not working.

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