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General discussion (archive)Irrational Games shutting down, 2K takes over BioShock(73 posts)(73 posts)
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Posted February 18, 2014
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Darvond: Ah, yes. The studio that only produced seven games in all its life?
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IAmSinistar: And how many from Blizzard?

Irrational was born out of the ashes of Looking Glass Studios, who incidentally created the Thief and System Shock franchises. So yeah, contenders for the "best gaming house ever" stakes.
The only reason I know Looking Glass is Flight Unlimited. :B
Posted February 18, 2014
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Darvond: The only reason I know Looking Glass is Flight Unlimited. :B
Ha ha! Fair enough, we all have our own spheres of interest. :D
Posted February 18, 2014
Well...RIP.
Posted February 18, 2014
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Darvond: The only reason I know Looking Glass is Flight Unlimited. :B
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IAmSinistar: Ha ha! Fair enough, we all have our own spheres of interest. :D
Give it #50?
Posted February 18, 2014
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Darvond: Ah, yes. The studio that only produced seven games in all its life?
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IAmSinistar: And how many from Blizzard?

Irrational was born out of the ashes of Looking Glass Studios, who incidentally created the Thief and System Shock franchises. So yeah, contenders for the "best gaming house ever" stakes.
I agree with Sinistar. The numbers don't matter.
Those guys know how to make a good game, they used to have good ideas and made few but great games.

The only critic I can make to them is the fact they never created a new engine for their games and this makes them less innovative than other developers (id).
Posted February 18, 2014
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Darvond: Give it #50?
More than happy to do so, thanks for the link!
Posted February 18, 2014
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dr.schliemann:
Less innovative technologywise, or less innovative video gamewise?
Posted February 18, 2014
That was a shock. Hope everything turns out well for the people being laid off. It sounds like they are trying to be as helpful as possible to them.

I am extremely interested to see what this small team will be coming up with. It sounds pretty interesting to me, especially this part -
In time we will announce a new endeavor with a new goal: To make narrative-driven games for the core gamer that are highly replayable. To foster the most direct relationship with our fans possible, we will focus exclusively on content delivered digitally.
I like how he makes an emphasis on replayability. Something that I thought Bioshock had absolutely none of.
Posted February 18, 2014
infinite was a pretty bad game compared to bioshock 1, System Shock 2(many many props to Looking Glass for this one) and swat 4 cant think of another good game from irrational :/
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Posted February 18, 2014
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GastonArg: infinite was a pretty bad game compared to bioshock 1, System Shock 2(many many props to Looking Glass for this one) and swat 4 cant think of another good game from irrational :/
The Freedom Force games land somewhere between "Awesome" and "Super-duper Awesome" =D
Posted February 18, 2014
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Darvond: Give it #50?
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IAmSinistar: More than happy to do so, thanks for the link!
Awesome, thanks.
Posted February 18, 2014
Never cared for Bioshock. but I weep for Freedom Force.
Posted February 18, 2014
man, 2K
not that i hate those guys, i actually like the games they publish, but their policy on DLCs sucks balls man

the most blatant case is Borderlands 2 with season pass that doesn't even include additional playable characters, none of the costumes and most importantly it doesn't even include all of the additional playable content dlcs. They're pretty cunning with their greed.
Posted February 18, 2014
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XYCat: the most blatant case is Borderlands 2 with season pass that doesn't even include additional playable characters, none of the costumes and most importantly it doesn't even include all of the additional playable content dlcs. They're pretty cunning with their greed.
Also they released the "Borderlands 2 GOTY Edition", and shortly afterwards announced more DLC.
Posted February 18, 2014
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XYCat: man, 2K
not that i hate those guys, i actually like the games they publish, but their policy on DLCs sucks balls man

the most blatant case is Borderlands 2 with season pass that doesn't even include additional playable characters, none of the costumes and most importantly it doesn't even include all of the additional playable content dlcs. They're pretty cunning with their greed.
Season Pass was only meant to include the essential DLC (main ones). With maybe 2 exceptions outside of this, the rest are unessential charachter skins?
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