Bleeding Cool: "Bethesda Softworks, Arkane Studios, and Human Head Studios’ reboot of Prey should have been met with a ton of fanfare, but the PC problems and rushed reviews killed Prey with faint praise and worthy criticism."
The magnificent Prey was once again abandoned as Microsoft disregarded Arkane Austin's achievements and crucified it just for Redfall.
well, not entirely ... the main Arkane studio i.e Arkane Lyon's still there ...
Its only that, the sequel will take more time now ... after Blade & Dishonored 3
But who knows, Dishonored 3 could have been Austins next project, so might be cancelled.
Dishonored is Lyon's flagship IP ... Austin only assisted in the first one, the sequel was wholly developed at Lyon whilst Austin developed Prey.
If Dishonored 3 was indeed greenlit ... rest assured, it would've been helmed primarily by the Lyon studio.
Not even this Prey
Still longing for a sequel to the original Prey with Tommy
The studio didn't even want to call this Prey, it was just Bethesda being dicks to them for some reason.
Don't worry there are some other games in development that might fill that void. Look up Vigilancer.
Same Bethesda basically screwed over the original developer team human head back around 2011 so it was really never going to come despite a honestly amazing trailer. I liked prey 2017 but it always held a stink of disappointment due to what we never got
I really didn't like this game, tried it because of how loved the original Prey was, played the demo of this one and thought it was garbage, it didn't feel nice/fun to play.
Keep dreaming then as Prey and Dishonored 2 did not sell well enough to get sequels.
Hence we got Deathloop and Redfall instead.
Those people will just argue that Arkane Austin and Tango would've been shut down either way.
Zenimax allready put them in a tight spot by demanding them to do a multiplayer title. So it's not unlikely, considering how bad the game performed. They didn't stand a chance. MS had the money to save them and to correct Zenimax' mistakes.
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Prey shouldn't have been connected to the original, they should've changed the name. It looked good and had decent exploration but it was way too long and the ending was trash. Definitely gets more praise in the comments than it should.
I actually hated Prey after playing the demo, for me, it felt so bad to play, I agree that it gets more praise than it deserves. Most of this list is fine though, there are some really good games on there.
I couldn't get on with Prey either, sounded great on paper but I didn't enjoy it at all. I don't think I like Arkane, tried to get into Dishonored years before and it left me cold.
Did you play it on ps4/xbone? If so, yeah, it played terribly on those machines. 90 second load times, horrible input lag.
I couldnt enjoy the game until it got updated for Series X
I really want to like Prey. I've gone back to it a few times on my Steam Deck but I don't know, I just can't get into it. Mind you, I'm not the biggest fan of immersive sims
@Concertoine,
Actually it was PS4, I don't recall anyone mentioning that it was console specific at the time though.
I liked Prey (2017), but I think the original Prey was more polished and arguably better game of the two. If Bethesda had been so cheap, Prey (2017) could have trade marked as “Nightmare on Talos” or “Typhon “.
Played the demo of Prey (2007)
Never got around to actually playing it but it's BC so one day (soon) I'll hunt it down
I really liked prey, but I'll add I never finished. Dishonored, was a borefest for me I couldn't get into it with multiple times of trying.
The ORIGINAL Prey sequel looked dope as F. I would have loved to have played that instead of what we got.
I couldn’t get into Prey when I played it. I own it so I’ll try again someday.
I think the issue with Prey is how the media were infatuated with everything done by Arkane Studio and the Dishonored Universe.
For some reason they need to remind us all the time that Dishonored is among the best games and everything related to that suddenly becomes near perfection.
cue the same treatment for Deathloop.
Dishonored 1 is incredible. The 2nd is pretty darn good too ...
All their other games have been average to bad.
Idk if I agree, I never really hear Dishonoured being talked about a lot, I think the amount of attention Deathloop got was fine for what it was, then again, I never really cared that much for Arkane Studio's games.
I think the problem was releasing at the same time as another great racer, Split Second, no doubt the cannibalised each others potential sales.
Both great games but I think I prefer Split Second, just about!!
Game Rant Writes "With Redfall's launch on the horizon, Arkane Studios shouldn't miss out on the renewed popularity of a particular genre with a sequel to Prey."
It was ok but not a great game . Plus gamepass will prevent physical sales. It’s not a system seller type of game
One of the best game of the generation with the worst name ever. Neuro Shock (not Prey 2017) alongside the Dishonored franchise should be given the 1st Party treatment by Microsawft.
Why buy absolute monster studios like Arkane just to waste them away making Gamepass bait? Don't you have Rare for that? Soon you'll have ActivisionBlizzard for that too.
Give this Redfall: Rebellion version of the game to a low tier studio and let Arkane make a true 1st Party Single Player game about vampires called Redfall.
SMH...
I enjoyed prey but if I remember right the original stuff had you playing a alien bounty hunter. Would've been so much more fun
Painful to read this review with words such as 'beoken' and 'episotalry', and I thought Human Head was not involved with the development of this game?
IGN re-reviewed it after the latest patch, pushing the score from the original 4 to 8.
They are going to get to the point they are going to just stop doing PC ports if this keeps up. I remember the Angry Joe review of Arkham Knight just ripped it because of the shoddy PC version. Problem is.. It was a good game on ps4.
It's just not a good game. While I'm not at all a graphics wh**e, it looks like it was made in 2007. It sincerely could pass for a visually basic, 2nd year game from last gen.
Gameplay just doesn't feel right. It's not atrocious or anything but I'd recommend a wait for price drop or rent.
It does have some decent qualities, btw. They're just overshadowed by horrible visuals (when clearly trying to look "realistic"), bad performance and boring/bad gameplay mechanics. The story itself is pretty solid but even it is poorly told, IMO.
EDIT: I had someone PM saying that my gpu may be to blame for the bland/bad textures and it generally looking very 2007 (ha). It apparently has issues with certain Nvidia cards.
A 6 is laughable, it's a good game, easily deserving an 8 or more.