>>314803316It was originally going to be a fully open world like the old System Shock games.
It was originally going to be a survival horror about scavenging and avoiding combat.
Plasmids and melee were to be the primary forms of combat in the game and there weren't supposed to be any real firearms. There were projectile weapons in the game but they had to be constructed from scrap and effective ammunition was extremely rare, the alpha showed a gun that had been built using soup cans.
There was more agency given to the player originally and there were real consequences for player decisions, it was not a linear game with a fixed "LOL ISN'T IT FUNNY HOW WE ALL JUST DO WHAT WE ARE TOLD TO IN GAMES" narrative.
Plasmids were not without consequence.
Water and flooding played a far bigger part and was not just a mostly aesthetic thing.
It sounded like it was going to be the spiritual successor to System Shock I wanted, instead we got some mediocre console shooter which everyone praises because of it's story. Fuck it's story.
