BioShock + BioShock 2 Remaster, free on Steam if you own the originals on Steam

Well, I think yes, because it says respective titles.

Well, I got all three, but never played them, so I'm glad that they get a nice little touch-up.

I think they no longer know what people want, and are desperate for guaranteed income.

More and more nowadays you hear the story of "The guy in charge saw that people like X from another game, so now we're going to attempt to copy it without realizing why it was successful in the first place"

What do you mean already? The industry has been out of ideas for YEARS. Why do you think all games are the same as each other with only cosmetic differences?

I like it. There's too many old games I will never play, because I can't stand the graphics (like the original Deus Ex).

I like this, I just hope they fix all the crap with the broken achievements in Bioshock 2. Mostly the finish the game on hard, as the difficulty setting tends to reset, thus disabling the achievement on your save.

They're free tho, so basically, they are just update patches to decent engine. Nothing to complain !

It's profitable. The function of the gaming industry is to generate profit and distract the working class with entertainment, not to provide quality products. Welcome to capitalism.

Personally i'm almost certain both microsoft and sony said that there will be no more "new" generation of consoles. By this i mean they will take the android/iphone route in which each new hardware can run "everything" that the previous hardware can.
Companies knowing their bestseller are only in xbox360 and PS3 are bringing them to PS4 and Xbone so that they can always be sold.

The more serious question is, all these remasters, but no Mass Effect Remaster? WTF Man! Thats the one I'd pay for!

unlike with movies, there's good reason to remake games. some of the classics attempted or accomplished things that were ahead of their time and the modern gaming systems are able to do things the systems of their days really struggled with. there are also all kinds of complications in getting many older games to run on a modern system
in many ways it's more comparable to porting an old VHS movie to a DVD or Blu-Ray format. there are certainly examples of remakes just to make money, but the fact that they're giving the new version free to owners of the old suggests that this is not the case here

You can get these games on sale now for dirt cheap. So buy them dirt cheap, when the remaster comes out, upgrade for free. No profit, but still is nice. But yeah, on console, no luck, pay full price. Hurray for PC!

I thought the explanation confusing also, but if they put the and/or explicitly, so you may have only BS2 or have it with DLC and either way you'll receive it for free!
There's a huge upgrade for me, since I don't have it!

same question... that "and/or Minerva’s Den" is very confused

And if you already own BioShock, BioShock 2, and/or Minerva’s Den on Steam, you will be able to upgrade to the remastered version of the respective title(s) for free after release

• and/or ??? so you need Minerva´s Den to upgrade or not =?

I'm also confused about that.

It's not confusing; if you have either, you get the respective remastered version.
If you have BioShock 1, you get BioShock 1
if you have BioShock 2, you get BioShock 2
and, drumroll, if you have Minerva's Den, you get Minerva's Den.

They should learn from our politicians and only admit that they lied after people have paid.

If I understood it correctly, it will be remastered for consoles, but not for PC.

BioShock Infinite is not being remastered on PC

Basically they put the PC version on consoles, I guess.

Yeah, I've never played 2. I finally went and bought it after seeing this thread.

Yes
"And if you already own BioShock, BioShock 2, and/or Minerva’s Den on Steam, you will be able to upgrade to the remastered version of the respective title(s) for free after release. It’s a circus of values! "

Yes

Same, gameplay and story does seem pretty damn boring at least in the first one...

happy cake-day :)

You must try it again. First time I tried playing it I only played for a couple of hours as well, for some reason I gave it another shot years later and loved it.

if you didn't like BioShock 1 (for whatever reason), maybe try Infinite instead. :)

yeah, I found the game highly overrated.

Same here... for me, the most overrated game ever (except dishonored that was even worse ^^)
it is probably the upgraded Unreal Engine 2/3 ...I found them all boring (mirrors ege,dishonored, borderlands1,killing floor etc)
many said to me bs2 would be better but i dont trust them :p

These games are pretty meh idd.

Yep

Yes, this and Skyrim is a welcome. I think it's great to be able to play good classics with a little upgrade. A small fee, or free is the way. But I wouldn't pay for a remaster at full price. New gen console owners are the main target here, obviously.

I think it's smart. The games still run fine on modern hardware, and people who love the game and want to replay it won't mind the old graphics, so there's not a lot of sales there. This way they're not pissing off their loyal customer base.
But now they get to market it again to new players, and squeeze some extra money out of them (at a higher price than the non-remastered versions, which will no longer be on sale).

Last Summer I had to use Linux Mint on my main PC for a month, due to troubles with Windows 7, so I tried playing Infinite...
It didn't work really well, AMD's Linux implementation of OpenGL was atrocious...

With the lowest graphical settings I got something like 20 FPS with abnormal screen tearing (V-Sync reduced frames to single digit).
On Windows 7, I played in 1080p with medium details, and got 45-50 FPS without any graphical issue...

For reference, I have an AMD Athlon II X2 245, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, and a Radeon R7 240 2GB DDR3.

BioShock, BioShock 2, and/or Minerva’s Den on Steam, you will be able to upgrade to the remastered version of the respective title(s) for free after release. Respective, I think they mean that if you own only BioShock 1, you only get BioShock 1 remaster.

You'll get Bioshock 1 remastered.

They are not in it for the money. (yeah, sure) :)

nah, there are plenty of people who haven't picked it up yet. Some of those are put off by the graphics, and there's a market there. Some of those are too young, and when they grow a bit older, they'll have to buy the remastered games (at a somewhat higher price point).

It's smart business. remastering is relatively cheap.

Meme guy should be put here: "I don't always do remasters, but..."

You own Bio1, you get Bio1+all stuff it has, remastered.
You own Bio2, you get Bio2+all stuff it has, remastered.

They need to fix the control binding as well. They weren't set up right for the mini game making it impossible to play.

From what they wrote, no, you will not get DLC.

And there's no Infinite Remaster, consoles just get port from PC, there's nothing new on PC.

There's no Infinite remaster.
And dunno about the DLC, but if they include the DLC as an integral part of Bioshock 2 Remastered, then I think you'd get it... otherwise, no.

Did you actually read the announcement? It says right there that the first game is getting achievements.