A message from Ken Levine

Fantastic new site. Congratulations!

the site looks amazing. best luck!

Sweet site.

Here’s to hoping you’re working on FF3!

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?swat5&1

I’m really excited to start following this site and hear about the new project. It looks great, by the way, congratulations on returning back to your roots! 😀

Really loving the new website design, and the podcast is great. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out to see what comes next.

Nice to see you all back as Irrational Ken. In the current world of downsizing and swallowing up companies, Irrational bucks the trend and fights to get back it’s identity. Now about more Freedom Force games………..

This site hit me hard on my blind side…very pleasantly surprised!

I’d hope to see new SWAT5 😉 coz iam SWAT4 maniac.
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It’s the mysteries that keep us interested. 😉

Great site! I look forward to uncovering the secrets.

Clues should be planted around the website, we could do a scavenger hunt!

According to my calculations, if Nate Wells was any more slick, it would void the manufacturer’s warranty on this laptop.

Since I am writing this to trigger my first forum achievement, I am wondering what would happen if ingame achievements tied back into this forum.

In any event, I think it is great Irrational opens itself up beyond basic self-marketing interests. Socializing FTW!

Love the new website.

Good luck on future projects, I’m looking forward to them as Irrational is a quality studio.

Ken, I know you cn’t announce any details on your upcoming game, but could please put me at ease and tell us if you as a studio are still committed to the PC?

Awesome new site Ken. You guys are quickly becoming the most respected studio in the industry!

This is my first post ever in your web site. Just wanted to say that we love you 🙂
Keep the spirit up.

Whatever it is it’s the game I am most looking forward to, along with Half-Life 2: Episode 3 … wow two unannounced games are my most anticipated. It’ll be a long wait!

I just wanna say thanks for caring enough about your true fans and giving us a common place to share our thoughts and excitement about your upcoming projects. I think the site looks great and I can’t wait to see how it evolves. Long live Irrational Games!!!!

who doesnt like to get irrational every now and then

Another game in any of your famous series would be great, but I’m also looking for some new IP’s too!

Ken … mucho thanks for bringing back Irrational!

2 questions for ya ..
1) is 2K Boston officially dead/closed? or will Irrational live alongside 2K Boston? If it’s gone, you must have some pull to buck the 2K trend!
2) I understand you don’t have to rights to System Shock, and I understand you’ve made your “successor” to it in Bioshock, but if you could, *would* you revisit Hacker/Shodan/Xerxes/etc? Or, in your mind, have you closed that door?

Thanks again! and let me add one more pat on the back for all you folks have done …

====1) is 2K Boston officially dead/closed? or will Irrational live alongside 2K Boston? If it’s gone, you must have some pull to buck the 2K trend!

Not sure what you mean? Irrational became 2k boston and is now Irrational again. Unless there’s some dudes hiding under the floorboards we don’t know about?

I think it’s an axiom that video games are more limited in where they can go with story than other storytelling mediums. Even though this has been debated before it would seem that it would be easy enough to make this case: who wants to play games about strictly a love story or a personal drama about coming of age, etc?

However, the craft of sincerely attempting to harvest interesting and original stories from the pallet that exists for interactive entertainment is something that should garner our deepest respect. It is, in many ways, the tougher craft, I should think.

Sure, you developers could keep re-hashing the same stuff perpetually but with Bioshock you have proven you haven’t the stomach for apathy when it comes to story ideas. I have no idea what the sequel to Bioshock is supposed to be like, but I think it would be great if it were a philosophical COUNTERPART to the first one, rather than a continuation of what happens in that world.

You have shown us what you think could happen in the Ayn Randian ideal of private law, but what would happen if Thomas More’s antithetical “Utopia” actually saw the light of day (or the dark of the deep ocean)? Or a true New World Order where a single government decides who gets what and the products of labor are not privately owned?

What’s great is you guys have inspired us to think about the “what could be” in games rather than just “Hey, nice graphics!” So, thank you for being cool 😉

Also, here’s hoping you developers actually read some of these posts sometimes.

I wish more game developers would do stuff like this! It would be awesome! =]

I CAN’T WAiT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THE NEW GAME COMiNG OUT!!
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The day I heard about “Irrational Games” returning to the scene was the happiest day of my life. And I’ve lived over 20 centuries.

FOR FREEDOM!

still watin for bioshock 2 only 1week left of watin

Listening to System Shock 2 soundtrack on my headset and found my way here.

Great Site

It’s “System Shock 3” and everyone knows it. That’s why “Bioshock 2” has been sublet overseas for another party to develop it. This is kind of like, “Treyarch and Infinity ward” swapping Call of Duty titles every other year. 2K Bos. does Bioshock, Bioshock 2 goes overseas so Irrational can work on the game they always intended to make, “System Shock 3”. Another reason this makes sense is all in the name. Bioshock was no big deal. A new IP, being developed by a faction of 2k games. It’s all good. But!!!!, when you work on a project as ambitious as a System Shock 3, you can’t let fans of the old believe the game is being created by a bunch of clueless artists and designers. Hence, the renaming of “Irrational games”. Let the old fans no your back and in the drivers seat……I hope i’m right!!

Your true genius comes not from the ability to write characters to life, but the ability to allow characters to write themselves alive. Truly believable characters already exist, whether on the outskirts of our imagination or as a legion of riveting emotions. You do not create, Mr. Levine. You organize. You shape the worst of human qualities into a single, fleshy mass. You own personal Monster. And that’s what makes your work so fascinating. There is not a single, unrealistic quality about your rather supernaturalistic method of storytelling. It is the unknown, but it is a human. And to breath the human element into the deepest shade of darkness in such a calm and collective manner is nothing short of brilliant. For the first time in my life, I believed–no I knew the possibility of this kind of evil. Like every great story before it, Bioshock eventually came to an end. And the truth of reality instantly flooded through every vein. But during my journey into the depths of Rapture, it was the combination of those moments that defined the testimony of men. That he is evil. And for that single, defining 14-Hour moment I truly believed it. My faith in this sort of evil was never questioned. It simply was. For I had faith no longer. Thank you for your work, Ken. I look forward to seeing what mysteries lie behind the scarlet Irrational Curtain.