Living With a Nerd

Bioshock provided one of the most intense experiences I have had with a video game.  The storyline, the setting, the control scheme…everything about it surpassed my wildest expectations. 

Bioshock 2, originally scheduled for release later this year, has officially been pushed into sometime in the first half of 2010.  While it is disappointing to be told that I have to wait before I can devour the steak, knowing that the steak is of a tastier and better cooked variety makes it worth waiting for.  I am glad that the team recognized that they would need more time to create the game that both they and us the gamers deserve.  In a single game, Bioshock became an incredibly important franchise, mixing excellent storytelling with intense action and topping it off with a generous heaping of scares.

I have never balked at the necessity of more development time.  Blizzard and Valve are responsible for some of my favourite games, and as such I have gotten used to the wait.  “Ready when it’s ready” should be a mantra that spreads itself across the entirety of the industry, but I recognize that reality does not permit this.  Still, it is refreshing to see a development studio recognize that they need more time, and actually have the balls to do so publicly. 

There are many things that were perfect in Bioshock, and few things that needed to be fixed.  Hopefully, they will only fix that which was broken.