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Prey is BACK! (Arkane Austin, 2017, PS4/XB1/PC)
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I loved the original Prey, such an underrated game. I think the trailer looked pretty good though. I'm looking forward to it.
Wishmaster92
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DarkLordMalik
Member
The trailer was 100% CG. The game looks early in development.
HyperBitHero
Member
Definitely cg
Pretty sure the trailer was made by Blur Studio just like the original Prey 2 trailer was.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I've never played the original Prey, but I wonder if this is set in the same universe (will bring back this Tommy guy), or it's a total reboot, and from now on, they'll do the Far Cry type thing, with each game being something related to being 'prey', united thematically, but not narratively.
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Deleted member 80556
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I will take an educated guess and say that it's on a different universe.
Barkley's Justice
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Yoooooo! I've never seen that premise ever in anything ever.
Mr.Monitor
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Honestly I'd love this, wish more series did that.
Melchiah
Member
Same here. It also seems like SOMA with guns.
Morgan is chinese. You choose male or female.
Cheever
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Cheever
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DOWN
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I find it hard to get excited for this when it is stupidly associated with a gross corporate takeover that took away a fantastic project from a great studio. This doesn't thrill me as much as Prey 2 and it's sad. Hope this game is good, but it seems like Bethesda is just forcing a brand.
It associates it with a game that didn't do well enough for a sequel and doesn't seem to be anything like this game.
Basically if someone is familiar with the old game and doesn't like it, it turns them away from this. If they are familiar with the old game and like it, it turns them away from this. If they aren't already familiar with Prey it might as well be a different name anyway because there's no familiarity.
I see zero benefit to using this name.
(Most of that)
If you are Prey's Cheever, I'm so sorry that your work never got to see the light of day.
(Congrats on Mafia 3, btw!)
Great reveal trailer. Gameplay soon?
Poimandres
Member
Aye, my bad. I watched on a small youtube window at work so it was difficult to tell. Big shots like that make it very clear!
Human Head's Prey is still pretty fun to play. I bought a copy on eBay last year and asked the seller to email me the key before sending the disc. Every retail key as far as I'm aware can be redeemed on Steam, so I've never needed the disc. Good times. Great with the Steam controller, too.
(Most of that)
What happened to the original game? I've read it was pretty much complete.
It should be leaked on a torrent site or something just for preservaton's sake. It's a goddamn shame it was canned.
Yeah people are getting so carried away with the "meh, generic white guy" slogan that they don't even look twice before pulling the trigger. It's almost as annoying as the original issue.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
agreed. cool new IP reveal. Prey this was not. How odd.
Same here
So, this is a game that has nothing whatsoever to do with the first game, only a very loose thematic resemblance, if I'm reading it right. And not even the portal mechanic is there?
So it's really not a sequel to or a reboot of Prey from 2007, it's just a different game that happens to share the name.
Not sure why they're even using that title for it then. Or is there a link I'm not seeing?
So it's really not a sequel to or a reboot of Prey from 2007, it's just a different game that happens to share the name.
Not sure why they're even using that title for it then. Or is there a link I'm not seeing?
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Looks very intriguing, but I still really wish they went through and made the old idea of Prey 2. Goddamn that looked good.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
For all intents and purposes, this is a new IP. Just think of it as this game and the 3D Realms game just being named the same.
dark_inferno
Member
Yeah. The more i think about it the more i think this will never be 1/4 as good as the original or the awesome looking Prey 2. This is a disservice to the Prey IP.
"People found out about Prey 2 and hate us for it. Lets make a reboot". What kind of idiot thinks that?
ThoseDeafMutes
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And I forgot there was a part 2 to the old Prey 2 leak:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/227321489/Prey-2-Document-2
That has a lot more gameplay goals etc. Keeping in mind of course that things change between early concept phase and final product.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/227321489/Prey-2-Document-2
That has a lot more gameplay goals etc. Keeping in mind of course that things change between early concept phase and final product.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Oh well, goodbye bounty hunter/open world Prey 2. You were always too good for this world.
This looks okay, need gameplay to get a proper idea of atmosphere, etc.
This looks okay, need gameplay to get a proper idea of atmosphere, etc.
NumberThree
Member
Can't really say anything about the game after a trailer like that, but it does sound interesting from what they've said. "Good morning, Morgan" sure sticks, though.
That's great, one of the first things I thought of when I saw the trailer was if you'd get a choice with the main character.
That's great, one of the first things I thought of when I saw the trailer was if you'd get a choice with the main character.
Do you have a link to this? Always like hearing about STALKER but never got the chance to talk to Shawn about it.
Auto-Reply
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They set it up in the first game (set up a sequel, not this game).
spoiler of prey ending:
Gigantic biomass alien construct is harvesting planets (like earth), at the center is one being that is in control of everything. You take control of it at the end and put the construct into the sun to destroy it. The native american culture is implemented ala Stargate Egyptian culture. It was way older than anything on earth, originated somewhere else. On the alien construct/vessel you get help from an underground rebellion group that consists largely of half transformed (half human-half machine) people like yourself. You manage to free them and their leader is rescuing you from the sun-death and is taking you through an interdimensional portal to an unknown place, to help them in a far larger war.
I may have gotten some things wrong here, it's been a long time since I've played the game.
I may have gotten some things wrong here, it's been a long time since I've played the game.
I personally thought it was an interesting story, I like how crazy it got towards the end. As I said, it was very Stargate like imo and it would have been easy to make new stories around that.
this is not the scifi prey game I wanted... ;_; especially not after the ending of prey 1.
damn I'm salty now.
EDIT: is there a way to buy the first prey for pc?
damn I'm salty now.
EDIT: is there a way to buy the first prey for pc?
it will probably be a nice game, but I had enough of gritty dark shooters. I mean prey 1 was also dark and with some horror stuff..but the story and all the native american stuff was amazing
"It's not a sequel. It's not a remake. It has no tie to the original. It's more like an Arkane version of the original." - Arkane on Prey (2017).
dark_inferno
Member
"It's not a sequel. It's not a remake. It has no tie to the original. It's more like an Arkane version of the original." - Arkane on Prey (2017).
Arkanes version of the original? With no tie and no reference to the original. No retelling. Not the same design. Not the same aliens and stuff...
Yeah well why naming it Prey then?
Generic Power Ranger
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"It's not a sequel. It's not a remake. It has no tie to the original. It's more like an Arkane version of the original." - Arkane on Prey (2017).
Well that's disappointing. The game will probably be good (and I do think it sounds interesting), but prey was a unique game, and was hoping to hear more about that universe and what happened to tommy after the end of the first game. Has the full story from cancelled version leaked ?
Wish they would have called this something else if it doesn't tie into the other games in any way.
so this is their "system shock 3" game.
I guess the thing that links this to the original prey, is the presence of a technology (time reverse? trapped in virtual simulation?) that, much like the portals and the gravity platforms of the first game and the spirit world part, fucks things up, with the resulting feeling that the reality you're witnessing is... "is it real?". Prey felt unreal sometimes to me, nightmare-ish specifically.
Also the best thing of prey 1 was the first level in the bar, so much interaction. A new game that a has an highly interactive gameplay, like system shock, feels the right thing and very interesting to me.
Certainly much more interesting that the canceled prey 2, which sounded just a sci-fi assassin creed.
I guess the thing that links this to the original prey, is the presence of a technology (time reverse? trapped in virtual simulation?) that, much like the portals and the gravity platforms of the first game and the spirit world part, fucks things up, with the resulting feeling that the reality you're witnessing is... "is it real?". Prey felt unreal sometimes to me, nightmare-ish specifically.
Also the best thing of prey 1 was the first level in the bar, so much interaction. A new game that a has an highly interactive gameplay, like system shock, feels the right thing and very interesting to me.
Certainly much more interesting that the canceled prey 2, which sounded just a sci-fi assassin creed.
"Prey2" is in the Steam registry and has achievements that span the entire campaign, so it must have been content complete or close to it.
It's time like this I wish I worked at Valve, so I could generate myself a key and satisfy my curiosity.
That's what I don't get. Why trade on the name if you don't want to make something even remotely similar to it? Especially when the original will be a decade gone by the time this comes out.
We might want to change the thread title, because really there's nothing that is "BACK".
Turin Turambar
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But, what's Prey?
The original game was in development hell and the final released version didn't have a lot in common with the original concept, from what I know.
Later, the announced Prey 2 again didn't have anything to do with both proto-Prey 1 concept or Prey 1 game.
And now, this game doesn't have anything to do with Prey 1 or proto-Prey 2.
Former HH dev:
Prey 2 had Tommy? Forreals?