If feasible, will you include local and online multiplayer into the PS3 version?

[wikoogle]

Splitscreen and online multiplayer would give me and tons of other gamers a great incentive to buy the PS3 version of the game inspite of having already beat the single player mode on the PC.

Metal Gear Solid is not a multiplayer game. But they built a wholly seperate entity, a splitscreen multiplayer mode into the game anyways, and called it Metal Gear Online. It's not a part of the single player campaign. It's there to be a different wholly seperate fun experience.

Why not do the same thing that Konami did, by developing a distinct seperate entity from the single player storyline to let you play the game multiplayer?

To Bioshock fans, if you don't want to play multiplayer Bioshock for whatever reason, fine. Don't play it. But don't argue to rob those of us (over 50% according to the original multiplayer poll in 2007) that do want a unique multiplayer game using plasmids that is a wholly seperate entity from the single player campaign. That's just selfish.

Don't think of the multiplayer mode as a part of the singleplayer game. Think of it as a wholly seperatae entity, one that is not a part of the storyline or the singleplayer campaign, but a fun experience where you can use plasmids against human controlled opponents using plasmids.

P.S: I'll understand if you don't respond to this question. You don't want to confirm a feature and get people's hopes up only to discover that the feature is unfeasible with the engine or something. But, please just don't rule this possibility out, keep it in mind when working on the game. That's all I ask. Thank you for your time and consideration.

[wikoogle]

To less hardcore gamers, games sell a crap ton of games because so and so had their game at a certain party and multiple people took turns playing it against each other.

Do you think games like Goldeneye, Smash Bros, Tekken or even Halo and COD4 would have sold even half the copies they did if it wasn't for gamers being exposed to these games at a party they were at?

Goldeneye as I recall had many average to crap reviews when it first came out. One magazine even gave it a 4 out of 10!

It sold because people played it at their friends house and realized just how much fun it was. And I bet Goldeneye and Smash Bros sold tons of N64s too, just as Tekken and Twisted Metal sold a ton of PS1s

I have a powerful PC. Most next gen console gamers do. So we already played Bioshock single player. There's little incentive to rebuy the PS3 version if something like local multiplayer play isn't incorporated.

I grew up on games like Street Fighter, Tekken, Twisted Metal, Goldeneye, Smash Bros, Soul Caliber, Halo, Madden, Gears and COD4.

Note how all of those games are multiplayer games popularly played at parties with friends.

We party gamers also enjoy solid single player games like GTA at parties but really enjoy them because with a group of people, even if we have to take turns, we can laugh at all the cop we blow up and cars we jack and crap like that.

"Consoles are about fun with your friends next to you, not being on your own."

Now with hdtvs everywhere, if 2K makes this game splitscreen capable, it will be my and so many others dream come true.

Especially when considering the huge number of quality FPS games scheduled to come out on console within the next year and a half, very few of which offer this very valuable feature (local multiplayer).

When you split a widescreen hdtv in half vertically, you get about the same proportions as a computer monitor so it would work very well.

Having your friend actually beside you is so much better than having to play with them over online. I would love to play with my bro by my side on my PS3 and my 50 inch 1080p plasma tv.

I know that these forums are dominated by 360 owners since Bioshock was a 360 exlusive initially.

But please don't take out your hate for rival consoles like the PS3 here. I know it's getting increasingly popular to hate on your console rival and try to sabotize them these days. But please only post here if you don't have a 360. This forum is for us PS3 owners. Thank you.

[Mike Swiznofski]

Multiplayer wont happen, not on ps3 and i even doubt for a sequel.
There are a ton of games with a decent focus on multiplayer, be glad there are still one or 2 decent developers putting out worthy single player games, especially for a fps.
I hope for the ps3 owners they finetune a few things and make it just an all round better version then the 360 one.

[wikoogle]

Lots of developers make quality single player titles.

Call of Duty 4, Metal Gear Solid 4, GTA 4, Resistence: Fall of Man and a whole slew of other recent games have a very high quality single player.

But on top of that, they have a strong multiplayer mode too. Multiplayer extends the game's longeivity.

Once you beat the game and know the story, what's the incentive to replay it?

Especially if you already beat the game on the PC like I have and I am sure many others, what's the incentive to buy the PS3 version too? One bonus level while cool warrants a rental at best.

A splitscreen multiplayer mode that allows you to use plasmids, and is considered a wholly seperate entity than the single player story (like how Metal Gear Online is treated as a wholly seperate entity from Metal Gear Solid 4) would be steller and very innovative and engrossing. Plasmids are fun. Splitscreen multiplayer is fun. Throw in both together and you give me and many others a very strong incentive to buy another copy of a game that they already purchased and beat multiple times. Leave them out, and the best 2k can hope from us is a rental.

[Mike Swiznofski]

Their pretty much aiming for the people who haven't played it before and its not like the ps3 is overwhelmed by great FPS games either.
How anyone can yearn for a multiplayer of Bioshock is beyond me, i was so glad that Irrational didn't sell out and made a half assed multiplayer just to put it on the box and please people who think like you.(not that your thinking wrong, i just dont see it fit with Bioshock)

[wikoogle]

I fail to see how it would strong for 2k to rely soley on people who haven't played the game already.

The game is out on a PC, and playable with moderate specs, it was more than playable on my budget graphics card. And it's been out for an year now. Given the amount of hype and praised it garnered when it came out, I don't see anyone with even some interest in the genre wouldn't have already played it on the PC.

If 2k releases a game with only token changes from the 360 and PC versions, I really hope they don't fault the PS3 userbase if sales fall well short of a million. A lot of the PS3 owners with interest in the genre already beat the game on the PC and many won't rebuy a $60 game for one extra level especially with the economy the way it is. I am not going to eventhough I loved the game.