zwqase
07-16-2011, 07:59 PM
The research camera have so far been in both of the Bioshock games and also appeared in the online mode, so I think it's kind of safe to asume that it will be included in Infinite as well. But, I would like to see some changes to it before that happen.
First of all, the change from simply taking pictures to filming (which was done from the first game to the sequel) was a great idea in the sense that it stopped beeing in the way while in combat. I still think it kind of was, but not nearly as much as in the first game where you could snap a shot of a spider splicer jumping towards you without you being able to defend yourself.
But I would like to see some more changes to it this time.
- Assign an exclusive button to the camera.
Now I know that this would be a tricky one, as the Bioshock games tends to use up pretty much the entire control, but I think i could be done with the D-pad. This woudl mean that you wouldn't have to manually select the camera from the weapon-wheel in order to use it, and I think that it would help in combat a lot. This would also mean that you could bring back the photo camera. If I remember correctly they kind of spoke of the film camera as some sort of miracle in the second game, and if it then would be a part of Infininte, which is taking place many years earlier, it would be kind of weird (unless of course they could fix it somehow with one of Elizabeth's tears...). Also just think about riding the skylines, taking photos, switching to a weapon as enemies approach, having to swith skyline... yeah...
- Allow the player to save the photos(/film) to the hard drive
Bioshock games are in my poinion extremly beautiful games, and to be able to show up some of its beauty to my friends would be wonderful.
Hope there wasn't already a thread about this...
Anyway, these were just my thoughts and hopes, what do you think?
First of all, the change from simply taking pictures to filming (which was done from the first game to the sequel) was a great idea in the sense that it stopped beeing in the way while in combat. I still think it kind of was, but not nearly as much as in the first game where you could snap a shot of a spider splicer jumping towards you without you being able to defend yourself.
But I would like to see some more changes to it this time.
- Assign an exclusive button to the camera.
Now I know that this would be a tricky one, as the Bioshock games tends to use up pretty much the entire control, but I think i could be done with the D-pad. This woudl mean that you wouldn't have to manually select the camera from the weapon-wheel in order to use it, and I think that it would help in combat a lot. This would also mean that you could bring back the photo camera. If I remember correctly they kind of spoke of the film camera as some sort of miracle in the second game, and if it then would be a part of Infininte, which is taking place many years earlier, it would be kind of weird (unless of course they could fix it somehow with one of Elizabeth's tears...). Also just think about riding the skylines, taking photos, switching to a weapon as enemies approach, having to swith skyline... yeah...
- Allow the player to save the photos(/film) to the hard drive
Bioshock games are in my poinion extremly beautiful games, and to be able to show up some of its beauty to my friends would be wonderful.
Hope there wasn't already a thread about this...
Anyway, these were just my thoughts and hopes, what do you think?