View Full Version : A Bioshock Prequel
Lightnote
06-20-2009, 02:46 PM
A sandlot style game would be awesome! basically a heavily diluted gta mixed with everything we like about bioshock.
I imagine something taking place during the time when Fontaine Fisheries was in business. You'd play as one of the workers/smuggler. You'd be there when Tenenbaum first found the slug, and doing all sorts of illegal grunt work for fontaine when he was in his business war with Andrew Ryan.
After Fontaines "death" you'd naturally end up joining the side of atlas since your at the bottom of the rapture social class and then you'd get caught up in the civil war.
It obviously wouldn't end in a happy ending
A_Man_Chooses
06-20-2009, 03:09 PM
Bioshock and GTA should never be mentioned in the same breath
Lightnote
06-20-2009, 03:21 PM
I mean in the sense of the sandlot style, but not actual gameplay and stuff
A_Man_Chooses
06-20-2009, 04:37 PM
It's an interesting idea. I was just hoping you weren't suggesting a game where you pick up spliced up hookers and kill them afterwards... haha
Circus of Values
06-20-2009, 04:59 PM
I think it would be a lot cooler if it had some RPG elements in it too, like being able to choose between Ryan or Fontaine. I hate Fontaine, I'd never work for him.
ADAMJUNKIE
06-20-2009, 05:17 PM
I dont think there would be much action in a prequel like how you described it. You said it was way before the civil war when ADAM and stuff were just bei g discovered. Nobody would be spliced up and i dont think many good fights would be going on...yet. There would be a terrific story to tell though. I think a prequel like you described it would be better served as a book or novel.
ATLAS IS WATCHING
06-20-2009, 05:22 PM
I think it would be a lot cooler if it had some RPG elements in it too, like being able to choose between Ryan or Fontaine. I hate Fontaine, I'd never work for him.
but then you would already know what happends.. :p
Lightnote
06-20-2009, 05:41 PM
I dont think there would be much action in a prequel like how you described it. You said it was way before the civil war when ADAM and stuff were just bei g discovered. Nobody would be spliced up and i dont think many good fights would be going on...yet. There would be a terrific story to tell though. I think a prequel like you described it would be better served as a book or novel.
Your kinda right upon the initial discovery of adam nothing really happened, but during the industrial war between Ryan and Fontaine I'm pretty sure a lot secret eve wasting battles and missions went down. Plus the civil war period screams for urban guerilla warfare with plasmids! lol
ADAMJUNKIE
06-20-2009, 07:39 PM
Your kinda right upon the initial discovery of adam nothing really happened, but during the industrial war between Ryan and Fontaine I'm pretty sure a lot secret eve wasting battles and missions went down. Plus the civil war period screams for urban guerilla warfare with plasmids! lol
the civil war is already being covered in bioshock 2 multiplayer...that doesnt leave much action left. I guess there could be some secret missions and stuff, but the real fighting started during the civil war and beyond. It just seems to me like there wouldnt be enough action for it to be a video game.
You know what's worst in doing prequels afer you got some cool movies?
You already know the ending, and this is pretty much not fun.
IMO the same applies to games.
BucketBot
06-21-2009, 01:03 AM
Many disagree Drow, which is why Hollywood keeps making prequels and people keep going to see them. I being one of the many who disagree.
I have to say though that a video game where you play as a dock worker harvesting fish or something doesn't sound very fun. Sort of sounds like a crossover between The Sims and BioShock, but that doesn't mean that it's not a good idea. I mean, look at The Sims as I mentioned! There is nothing that could possibly sound more dull and horrible on paper. I don't even know how that game got off the ground.
"I have an idea! Why not make a game where you control a person who goes to work, pays his bills, tries to keep his house clean, struggles to make ends meet with only $20 in the bank and then becomes manically depressed and sets his kitchen on fire!"
It sounds just like the horrible, crushingly oppressive lives that real people play games to forget about and yet it was a smashing success.
So I think that your idea actually could work. It could include all sorts of sneaking spy missions inside Rapture and all that kind of stuff.