All the people who think this game is average....do you think Bioshock is an average game?
Because combat and movement is similar to Bioshock. And this game still is one of the best ever made imo.
I think a lot of people have jumped into this with an expectation of it being a typical AAA guided single-player FPS, rather than an immersive sim which doesn't treat the player like an idiot, and focuses on exploration and experimentation.
The fact that
The perfect Dark was able to get 6 hours out of the "opening hour" demo says a lot.
Aiming sounds like it could be problematic on consoles - at least with the wrench and the mimics at the start - but I don't know what the solution to that is really.
Gyro aiming makes a huge difference to aiming in FPS games with a DualShock 4 on PC, but most console players seem to hate that and I don't think there is a global option to use gyro aiming on the PS4 if it's not built into the game.
Other than that, what alternative is there? Make the player overpowered? Slow down the enemies and make them easier to hit? No thanks.
Everything I've seen suggests that the gameplay design of this was "PC first" rather than console focused - much more than the
Dishonored games - and I don't consider that to be a bad thing.
I have nothing against games coming to consoles, but there's been a trend of "dumbing down" games as a result of being developed
for consoles.
As an example,
Morrowind was a complex PC game which was made to work on the original Xbox, but
Oblivion was a console-first design and really simplified everything.
Skyrim went even further in that direction.
None of these are bad games, but
Skyrim was clearly built for a different audience than
Morrowind.
And I feel like that's been indicative of game design in general for the past 10-15 years.
There have been very few games which have actually advanced in complexity from where we were in 1998-2000 with games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Thief etc.
Games that assume the player is smart and capable of coming up with their own solution to problems, instead of pushing them down a narrow corridor filled with cutscenes and scripted sequences that only have one solution and play out the same way every time.
Most big-budget games have focused on being very narrow in scope, but very polished, whereas games like
Deus Ex,
Dishonored, and now
Prey, focus on dropping the player in a well-realized space and simulating as much of that as they can. Where interactions are systems-based, rather than scripted.
I'm also surprised that people seem to think the game looks bad graphically - I really like the look of it.
Hopefully it's also a good sign of things to come for the PC version if they managed to get a CryEngine game running at a locked framerate on both consoles.
Dishonored 2 had performance issues on all platforms. The PC version still runs better than the console versions, but it doesn't run smoothly no matter what hardware you throw at it.
