
Assuming that series creator Ken Levine’s cancelled Final Fantasy Tactics-esque vision for BioShock Vita wasn’t a big enough kick in the teeth, 2K Games has now announced that the series’ original entry will be riding Rapture’s bathysphere to the iPhone and iPad at some point in the near future. That sinking sensation that you can feel ain’t because you’re in water.
While it’s undoubtedly an impressive development in the mobile space, this news will likely hurt more than a punch from the bronzed boss edition of Frank Fontaine. After all, this was a franchise that was closely linked to Sony’s flagging handheld format for the longest time, so to see this port skip the system is a desperate shame.
What’s more irritating is that the first-person adventure’s controls seem much better suited to the Japanese giant’s device, which sports dual analogue sticks and physical face buttons rather than a single touch screen. Alas, overlord Take Two was able to successfully flog several Grand Theft Auto titles with inferior input interfaces, so would you kindly get used to the idea?
[source eurogamer.net]
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It is actually disgusting what they have done, people wonder why the vita is struggling? This is why
A port? And Vita didn't receive it? Dooooooooooom!
ill need to get this then: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/07/nes30_gamepad_brings_old_school_control_to_ios_android_mac_windows_and_wii
F*(&^$#$@ck
Please excuse my language.
This makes me mad because it would sell on vita but they wanna be like square Enix and put everything and phone........i love my vita and still support it to the very end
If it makes you feel better it looks like it will be a sucky port. In all honesty the game must be coming on ten years old now - if anyone was going to play it I'd say they'd have done so by now. If you've been hiding under a rock for all this time and still want to play it, then a game as dark, brooding and atmospheric as Bioshock NEEDS to be played on a proper screen in the dark (ideally with at least a 5.1 sound system), and not on a phone or tablet. Options are plentiful... PC, PS3 or Xbox 360 - and a second hand copy will probably cost you less than this download.
Who cares?
This series has actually been the same game repeated three times. I only played Infinite because it was free on PS+. Levine is just whiner and a greedy one at that.
I'd rather play the decent games we are getting for Vita from Japan. Currently enjoying FFX (first time for me), have Child of Light waiting and Freedom Wars and Gravity Rush incoming.
Who needs Bioshock with its boring, regurgitated "plot" anyway?
@john_c Who needs boring japanese games?
Wouldn't want to play this on Vita anyway. There's some people out there that seem to think Bioshock is a big franchise. It really isn't, if Sony really wanted a Bioshock game for their handheld I'm sure they could make it happen, but why would they? The franchise is pretty much dead.
@XFsWorld
I do
They are more interesting than FPS games (to me). Although that could be because I have the reflexes of a dead squirrel.
Why anybody would want to play FPS games on a Vita is beyond me. They are only ever fun in multiplayer mode and if you are online you generally are at home where you can play games on a big screen.
I'm more furious at the fact that it's an iOS exclusive. Sure it'd be great for Vita as well, and shouldn't be too hard to port over to considering Vita could be considered a righteously glorified Android gaming device considering the specs, but I want an Android version as well. iOS needs to stop getting exclusives, especially considering their game controller situation is far behind Android's.
Well, iOS gaming sucks. It just does. Every aspect of a game ends up inferior. But when you choose iOS, you don't have to worry about the install base. Everyone already owns an Apple device for its other capabilities. The games are just pudding. My frustration is just that real games play best on dedicated gaming devices. I think BioShock Vita could have been great, but Vita's catalogue of games is strong enough without it. I still play my Vita more than my PS4 because of the disparity in games, not that that won't change with Destiny and Middle-Earth on the horizon.
kinda insulting to the vita fans that where promised a Bioshock. They are willing to port Bioshock to phones but not to a powerful portable like the vita? Very insulting, but it kinda shows that Sony's Vita is basicly on no one radar anymore.
@hydeks Right it is kinda insulting but I don't think we were ever promised Bioshock. iPhones are powerful tho, I gotta give em that. But this sucks a**. Vita is the best handheld to play games on right now. Better controls.
I'm actually afraid where this could lead to in the future. This could mean us Vita owners getting bad ports of bad ports. Porting to IOS will probably turn out to be quite profitable, but I can't imagine this running smooth. To get some extra money, they might as well port it to Vita: it has a touchscreen too and players will het the chance to remap, if we're lucky.
Vita has some excellent ports, but really benefits from games being build from the ground up for the Vita. A direct console port will give more problems, than porting a crappy IOS version and because of the 'triple A scarcity' they could actually find an audience as well.
Tablet gaming is bull**** and it needs to stop; bringing 'HD remakes' from IOS to Vita or console, like we're seeing on steam now, should actually be prohibited by law...why isn't there a political gamer's party I can vote for? (While asking this question I already answered it myself: there probably would be one if we weren't all too busy gaming while covered in Doritos and Mountain Dew, screaming at our moms we'll go to sleep whenever the hell we please...cause were already 14 y.o damnit!)
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Always find it amazing people are still surprised that games such as this aren't coming to Vita. Not enough people own it to make it worthwhile developing games for it. That simple. Phones do hence they get them. Doesn't matter that they're mainly garbage and have worse control than a Dirk Kuyt first touch because people will buy them regardless. For some reason mobile phone gamers are more prepared to take chances on games than 'real' gamers. Look at the Final Fantasy games, there's no way they're worth over a tenner but they sell. Would they on PSN/Xbox Live? No.
This isn't that surprising really given the the smart phone market dwarfs Vita considerably, at this point it is up to Sony and I don't think they are committed.
So no Bioshock for Wii U, 3DS, or Vita... but it's on cell phones? Someone wants to loose a lot of money.
It does look pretty on the iPad though....
Sadly, my vita is used mostly for remote play, but I still love it.
@hadlee73 I still find this relevant somehow, idk.
Who the rubber duck, enjoyes playing games on an i-pad over a vita?....what's the world coming to!.
@hadlee73
I wasn't even aware Bioshock was suppose to have a Vita adventure. Then again I only come here once a month to check what came out on the PSN. shrugs
@XFsWorld
I'll take a JRPG over a FPS any day of the year. The only FPS I've ever liked was 3rd Birthday.
@tonyp1987 I agree with you, i just got a few things for it yesterday lol bestbuy was having a sale where i live lol
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