Courier said:
You can't judge Bioshock infinite on a ten minute preview.
Not setting Infinite in Rapture seems like a good move to me, we'll just have to wait and see how good the game actually is.
Not saying that it won't be an excellent, well written game; I just wanted BioShock to be a stand-alone deal. Look, I love the setting of BioShock, Rapture, the lore and backstory about as much as I do the Enclave. I looked out of every window in the city and took in every detail, those Big Daddies were just stealing the 'true' face of BioShock - Rapture - in my opinion.
BioShock 2 was disappointing, making me play as one of the stupid things, making Ryan look like a complete fool for bringing in the ultimate anthesis into his city so early in it's creation and just introduced plot-holes. Besides, what are Big Daddies and Little Sisters? Criminals turned into unfeeling metal monsters and the abducted victims of genetic experimentation, bound by a completely artificially induced 'love'. Truely something worth exploring.
Then Ken Levine comes out and says, "Remember Rapture? Yeah well we're going to make this better!" Feels like a - completely personal - punch in my gut. Worse than making a shitty sequel, Rapture's creator turning it into a stamp: you got your plasmids, your fantastical setting and exploration of historical themes and boom you got a BioShock.
Again, purely personal, but to me Infinite is a betrayal, Rapture will be left behind. I know for a fact that this game is going under 'I' for Infinite.
EDIT: I really want to play BioShock now.