Prey (2017) - Arkane Austin

Increasing on 15/2/2017 at 15:25

(http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/291429/Feels_like_a_different_life_Arkanes_Raphael_Colantonio_on_going_from_Arx_Fatalis_to_Prey.php) http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/291429/Feels_like_a_different_life_Arkanes_Raphael_Colantonio_on_going_from_Arx_Fatalis_to_Prey.php

Here's hoping that this will do well enough to warrant a sequel - and I am primarily talking about sales. We aren't getting new Thief and Deus Ex titles anytime soon by the looks of it, and Arkane's own Dishonored 2 didn't do too well sales-wise so far.
If Prey fails, we might have another drought of titles in this veit to look forward to.

henke on 15/2/2017 at 16:04

Polygon is currently live-streaming the first hour of Prey on Facebook.

(https://www.facebook.com/polygon/videos/1455921121087178/) (not sure if this gets saved after the stream is over)

Looks alright!

SDF121 on 15/2/2017 at 21:55

Some other outlets have put up videos of their first hour as well

Rock Paper Shotgun
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DewDLgIDA4E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Rely On Horror
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hbGudyanTBI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

TannisRoot on 16/2/2017 at 11:22

Yep - looks like a *shock game.

twisty on 16/2/2017 at 11:39

Yep it looks like DX MD with head crabs ;)

faetal on 16/2/2017 at 21:29

Neither of these things sound at all bad to me.

Vivian on 16/2/2017 at 23:16

I just don't think it looks interesting. I know that's a subjective judgement, but the feeling I most remember from Dishonored (1 or 2) was just being bored. Like, ennui-type bored. There's no pizzazz to any of their stuff, no verve, nothing that really makes it special. This doesn't look particularly different. I would love to be wrong.

This may be me being in my mid-30's and suffering from the same thing that makes people unable to engage with current music unless it's the right kind of retro.

chk772 on 17/2/2017 at 00:00

TBH, i think they should really go back to a few, but essential features, instead of all that "You can do this, and that, and this, and then you can do this, and that, and this". I'd rather have some logical, fun features, than that feature overkill nowadays games offer, where i keep thinking "Hm, they only built those in to attract people with a gazllion of features". System Shock 2 already had a lot of features, and those features were all useful, and well thought out. I don't really see that in many of the feature monsters they offer these days.

froghawk on 17/2/2017 at 00:20

Bioshock in space.

Jason Moyer on 17/2/2017 at 05:06

Quote Posted by Vivian

This may be me being in my mid-30's and suffering from the same thing that makes people unable to engage with current music unless it's the right kind of retro.

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