ok so who is this guy? i know he's the new intern but i've heard the crew say matt bodega before...is he on old friend or like some super user that got promoted or what?

Crab monsters would have been cooler than underwater junkies..

Sooo 
It was the island of Dr Moreau then. 
interesting I suppose from a creative evolution stand-point.

This is some pretty hilariously cliched writing.
 
Poised to reinvent the genre! Unprecedented! The most ___ ever created! Unparalleled! Unprecented (again!) Limited only by your imagination (x2)! Incredibly deep! Unlike anything ___ ever seen! Never-before-seen!

Who the hell are these writers popping up on here?

irrational should just keep making bioshock but with a different concept each time. there could be the rapture bioshock, and then this weird island one, and then one on mars or something. think about it.

" Crab monsters would have been cooler than underwater junkies.. "

I would love to see what this game would have been like.
 
The BioShock franchise is desperately missing Ken Levine. 

This sounds neat! I probably would have liked this game!

Matt Kessler?  M.K. in the...

 I gotta say, the original pitch for Bioshock is indeed, wildly different. Would be pretty cool to have seen what could have been if they had stuck with it, but at least quite a few of those idea's made it into Bioshock. Not to mention that not all those idea's could have possible made it into the final product if they had done so.

This sounds like the island of doctor moreau.  A pretty cool idea.

still waiting on the true successor to system shock 2

Wow, this definitely should have been Bioshock 2.

This sounds good enough to become another franchise for Irrational to fall on if Bioshock doesn't live to their expectations.  I would definitely like to play as a deformed creature trying to return to the form of a human being.

Pretty interesting how different it is compared to the Bioshock now. The original Bioshock sounded like a very daring game with a lot of big ideas.

This pitch is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S
 
(sorry, someone had to do it)

".. giant underground and undersea complex..." Sound like the water was there right from the start, at least in some extent :)

" still waiting on the true successor to system shock 2 "

"Bioshock Will: 

• Scare the hell out of people."

" Wow, if they actually followed their original pitch, the game might have been good...  It goes to show you how desperate console gamers are for a good game when they take a shitty, and dumbed-down version of System Shock 2, and consider it good.  What do you expect from the same people who buy God of War, or Halo? "

this is really interesting, both what bioshock was to begin with and this old idea in general

wonder if they changed it because the pitch summary posted here sounds exactly like a little game called Far Cry more or less?

I thought Doctor Moreau too. 
To everyone who likes System Shock 2, you should try out System Shock 1 also, it's actually a very good game. At least I like it.

So it'd have been Far Cry?

This is old news for anyone who actually followed BioShock's development and was excited for the game before the media told us to be excited about it.
 
I was so excited for a System Shock successor.

I really hope they recycle that story in a latter BioShock.

Reading this story gave me banana mouth.

I don't know guys, I'm pretty glad it didn't  turn out to be this.

Could be interesting but all that underwater city fiction turned out pretty good.

5 pages of comments and no Ryan-isms?  I'm disappointed GB community.
 
Oh well.
 
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Sorry dude, your rich heiress is not in this castle.