RichieJr
RichieJr
Since 6460 Days
You don't even scratch the surface of Rapture in the first game. This is a massive underwater metropolis, you only have time to see a very small part of it. This second game focuses more on the other parts in and around Rapture and yes, there are still plenty of Big Daddy's left in the game.

They act similar to the first game, harmless until provoked. A Big Daddy's duty is to protect it's little sister, nothing else, and as far as I know there's no such alliances between Big Daddy's. And although you yourselft are a Big Daddy and are stronger, now you have the Big Sister's (yes, plural) to deal with, who aren't slow, lumbering juggernauts but are quick, agile hunters who will get you if you aren't careful.

It will feel different but I think 2K have thought about this carefully so as to provide difference, more challenge yet still keep the integral Bioshock feel, and although I was worried at first, I think they'll pull it off.

Also, what would be the point of the first Big Daddy being mentioned in the first game if he isn't key to how the first game's plot pans out? Maybe if you were getting told more of a history of the BD's by Tenenbaum, but again there was no need for him to be mentioned so he wasn't, conveniently leaving a nice little niche for 2K to base their sequel off. I assume this isn't how they planned at the time, it just happened to occur.

*Again, all the above is the latest I have heard, maybe a week back, I assume this is all accurate. At the very least the most part of it is.
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TyphoonS9k
TyphoonS9k
Since 6092 Days
@ KORNdog: If you ask questions you should expect answers ^^

Being the very first big daddy means that you have free will and of course, the ability to use plasmids. That makes you much more powerful than a regular big daddy. In the first game we found out that big daddies are not some sort of Frankenstein-monsters. They're created from regular male infants. Mutated via genetic engineering, and then heavily brainwashed to see no other purpose in their existence other than protecting a little sister. The first big daddy however hasn't been brainwashed or at least not successfully, so you are practically a regular person in the body of a big daddy.

The big daddies are your enemies again. They protect little sisters which have adam, and you want more adam. Simple as that. BUT, I hope the plasmid "Hypnotize Big Daddy" makes its return, even though you're one yourself. It was so great in the first game to find yourself a lonesome big daddy, hypnotize him so he thinks you're his little sister, and then watch as he beats up some splicers. It was also cool to piss off one big daddy while you have another on your side, then watch the two of them fight to the death. Ahh the memories.

I think BioShock 2 is for me. When I first played thorugh the first one, in the second level named Neptune's Bounty, I saw that big daddy through a window, seamlessly walking by at the ground of the ocean, I was like "Wow, I hope I can do that at some point in the game, I would feel even more like I'm in a screwed up underwater city if I was able to step outside".
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AimBot
AimBot
Since 7077 Days
Very strange, the gameplay looks great, but all those screenshots look terrible. Not really a fan of playing a big daddy. But if the story turns out anywhere near as good as the first, its a must buy for me.
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dingleberry
dingleberry
Since 6517 Days
Posted by TyphoonS9k
I know, but it's not too difficult to say it like you mean it... for example, it looks like it's not gonna be diverse enough, and it looks like it feels like an expansion or a mod... the way you say it makes you sound like someone who already has either played the game or seen more than the few pieces of footage released until now, like your assumptions would be a matter of fact.
Well, it basically does "look" like the first game. Think of it like a meal. I tasted the first one, and it was nice, but if someone handed me a second serving, I'd really have to like the dish in order for it to taste less bland the second time round. It's the same with MW2. It's just the same dish with a few added spices to disguise the blandess.
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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 7520 Days
^^ But what you said right there is everything about a sequal
There not going to change its core to much

Imagine for instance you go for a "balti" and you love that "balti" later on down the line you will think oooo i could could just eat a balti right now, you go out and get one
Low and behold when you bite into it you get a cheese and jam sandwich
When you complain they say " we changed it to keep people happy"

Get my point here...
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3monthsp
Since 6065 Days
Boshock is the best premise of any FPS i today consoles, that alone makes it great. give me sequels.
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Drow
Since 6905 Days
@TyphoonS9k: actually, you will be able to move underwater, to some degree. You won't be able to fight in underwater sections, since devs wan;t the player to have a little breathing space, where he would be able to chatch up with all diaries and things like that.

And it seems that you are, as a PBD, a normal human being sealed in a suit - sealed, but not grafted into it, like the regular BDs, which were essentially a bunch of organs grafted into the suits.
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TyphoonS9k
TyphoonS9k
Since 6092 Days
A bunch of organs crafted into the suits? Where did you get that reference from?

I know you're wrong, because in the "Alone Among The Dead" trailer from BioShock 2, you can clearly see an enouncter with a suit-less big daddy. He's basically a massive, deformed human, just like I would have expected a big daddy without his suit to look like.
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Drow
Since 6905 Days
TyphoonS9k: from audiodiaries. Like this one:
http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Cheap_Son_of_a_Bitc...

And general knowledge from the game itself:
http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Daddy
http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Failsafe_Armored_Es...

It is widely understood that big daddies are pretty much inside of a human body grafted inot the suit, also on the official forums for the Bioshock games.
And where did you see a suitless BD in that trailer? There isn't any.
There's only the Brute, but that's a buffed splicer, not a BD.

I suggest visiting official forum for the game, there is much information about all this :)
And watching GTTV episode special about Bioshock 2 on gametrailers.com, where the lead developer says all this himself :)
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TyphoonS9k
TyphoonS9k
Since 6092 Days
OK... guess I was wrong. My nerdscore just went -1.
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