A number of games are leaving Xbox Game Pass before April 16. They include Prey and Guacamelee for console.
Starting today, Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition and Guacamelee 2 are free at Epic Games Store.
Arkane's six-year-old immersive sim has never looked better.
that's what happens when developing for two xbox consoles, one doesn't align with the other. :D
She's got one eye on the fire place, the other on the chimney pot. Maybe it's her unlockable 'special skill'.
Prey was a decent game. Not as good as Dishonored imo. They usually make 7-8 type of games depending on your taste so Redfall is a huge disappointment.
Dishonored was incredible. World, action, puzzle and approach based gameplay. Prey was pretty good but started lacking in enemy variety. Those mimics are by far my favourite enemy type of any game.
Death loop was a massive let down for me.
Agree, I liked the mimics and some parts of the story/characters in Prey (was unfortunately spoiled of the early twist and the ending, so that was a let-down to begin with) but didn't captured me like Dishonoured did. Thus I'm surprised they mentioned how good Prey looked. To me it was easily the worst part of the game, extremely sterile, bland looking objects, areas and enemies. The art design, especially of the vampires, were one of the things which turned me off instantly when I saw the preview trailers of Redfall.
I enjoyed all the Dishonored games as well. I tried Prey & I just couldn't get into it.
I really enjoyed prey over dishonered. Probably cause I love scinfi. To be honest though I've never giving dishonored it's fair shot. I dabbled in it a little. I'd like to. Think they had some sort of remaster on ps4 I'll have to check amazon
Arkane lost a few key people over the years. I don't know if that has anything to do with Redfall
I didn’t mind it but I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn’t called Prey
Seeing a game you loved get rebooted into something that isn’t anything like what it actually is was super sad. I liked Tommy, I wanted to see his story continue and we got a complete reset.
If they changed the name it probably would have helped them.
Anyone remember that incredibly amazing Prey 2 cinematic trailer? Why they would ever cancel that game is still dumbfounding.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I am still pissed that I never got to play that game. The cinematic trailer is cool but there's tons of actual gameplay out as well.
Anyway, Bethesda tried to force the devs to let Bethesda buy them and the devs said no. So Bethesda cancelled the game and made up a story about poor quality and the game just being nothing more than a tech demo. The director said the game was actually almost done by the time it was cancelled, and that it certainly didn't lack in quality.
Then Bethesda forced Arkane to call their game Prey, pissing off prey fans and associating the game with a series it had nothing in common with. Then one of the main devs from Arkane left because of it.
The worst part of this is that Prey 1 and 2's dev Human Head Studios then went on to revive their old Rune series. Immediately after Rune II released the studio went bankrupt and Bethesda swooped in the pick up all the devs and open a new studio, Roundhouse. So they still got what they wanted. It's unlikely they'll ever let Roundhouse revive Prey 2 but I really hope they do.
See this seems like a situation where important lines in the legally binding contract between the Publisher and Dev should have been written in. Clauses like the publisher cannot back out after a certain point. Else who's to stop any Publisher really from just tricking a dev into making a game and then on purpose canceling it at the end and go nawwww sorry bruh we changed our minds, sucks to be you! byeeeee
Agreed. Human Head got royally screwed. I hope most devs are smarter with any contracts they sign.
Bethesda tried to buy the studio. When Human Head said they wanted to remain independent Bethesda canceled the game, bankrupting them. Very scummy move. Didn't surprise me though - this is the same Todd Howard who essentially took Ken Rolston's credit for making Elder Scrolls open world. Ever wonder why there is very little innovation to ES since Morrowind? Ken left early in Oblivion's development and Todd is a hack
EDIT: worst part is via developer diary thing, Human devs said the said the game was almost complete
Prey 2 would've been fucking awesome if it had come to fruition. I was pretty damn hyped for that game.
Yeah it looked great
Only issue was the main character who was a generic looking space marine / bounty Hunter
They had Tommy in the game as an NPC rather than the main character, made no sense to me.
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