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Rumor: Arkane Austin's Prey reboot to be announced on June 12th
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NinjaTehFish
Banned
All those monkey references in the design doc, are ex free radical peeps involved in this?
It is, although it's pretty old. Dunno how much of that we'll see in the final game.
Also, Bethesda's E3 conference is June 12, not June 14.
sixteen-bit
Member
Arcane Kids are the best one tho
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Let's see how deep this can go
dancrane212
Member
Any idea if the game will still have the "Prey" branding? If Arkane was trying to get the System Shock IP,
Whoops, looks like I misremembered; the leaked doc had the Danielle name in more than just the potential SS1 prequel scenario.
dancrane212
Member
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paragonpro
Banned
I love the first prey. One of my early 360 memories. i was ver excited for that sequel, I hope this retains the same premise and gameplay ideas that prey 2 was going with. The concept of intergalactic bounty hunter was really cool.
This is pretty meta.
Whoops! The professional sites are probably trawling through your previous Kotaku posts for more juicy insider scoops!
I wonder if Arkane are still using Crytek? I know a number of Battlecry Studios employees joined the Austin branch after their F2P game was canned, and that ran on the Cry Engine.
They are indeed! Also, nothing against Alien Noire, but their original "scoop" was... dubious. I found out after my original article ran (in May of 2013) that their information about Arkane developing Prey 2 had come from ME in the first place.
Inside baseball time! In short, I'd asked someone to help me corroborate the news (as I often do when I hear something from a single source), and that person actually told the people at Alien Noire. They didn't care about corroboration or accuracy, so they just ran it. I didn't find any of this out until a while after I'd published the article.
In other words, Alien Noire's tweet is likely just based either on my Kotaku comment or on nothing whatsoever.
PetulantChild
Banned
Don't even care about it if it isn't the Human Head Prey.
SmackAttack
Member
Wait, so will it be a different Prey 2 or will it just be Prey? Did the original Prey 2 even have anything to do with the first? Such a weird path for this "series".
Interesting backstory! I thought it was weird that a fan site would break a big story like that. However, the timing made it look like it could've been an exception, considering no Prey leaks besides the 2012 Shacknews story had occurred prior to it launching.
Jason, do you have any specific details about Obsidian's time with the game?
Right, because it couldn't possibly be for any other reasons.
Jazzkokehead
Member
I don't know how much of spoiler this is, since the game never came out, and the new version might not retain anything at all from the original, but...
A developer from Human Head said that the new player character in Prey 2 would have eventually encountered Tommy (the protagonist from the first game), and that you'd actually get to play as him in the later stages of the game.
So yes, the stories of the two games would have eventually tied together. Although in what way, we obviously don't know.
Bethesda have never once disputed claims that they tried to buy the studio. When other games in Zenimax's portfolio encounter "quality concerns," they either put the team on other projects like Battlecry, or give them extra time to polish the experience like Dishonored, Evil Within, and especially Doom. It was nearly at alpha, and Bethesda tried to move forward with the game, first with Human Head (on the condition they sold their independence) and later with Obsidian.
Some info from former Prey 2 developers:
https://twitter.com/NathanCheever/status/528424067771011073
www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/05/what-went-wrong-with-human-heads-prey-2
http://www.develop-online.net/inter...uman-head-recovered-from-cancellation/0205225
http://noobist.com/gaming/interview-gameplay-designer-jason-richardson-bioware/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...cks-lie-that-prey-2-was-only-ever-just-a-demo
Spring-Loaded
Member
You aren't familiar with Bethesda and ZeniMax's history, I take it
valkillmore
Member
I am playing through Prey on 360 for the first time just by chance, and I am blown away by it. Continues to surprise. And the vilence is twisted and graphic; nice.
CertifiedFP
Member
Man, everyone gives Bethesda shit for this, but the harsh reality of the industry is that up until a few years ago, EVERY publisher was trying to do to 3rd party developers partnering with them what Bethesda tried to do to Human Head (And did to Arkane). Bethesda is just the one that's the most documented over the Prey 2 drama.
It's how DICE, Pandemic, and others ended up owned by EA - The same kind of milestone-abuse that Prey 2 suffered. It's also what killed GRIN when Square Enix attempted to do it to them three years before the Prey 2 drama. Quite a few closures of independent studios last gen involved situations similar to Prey 2's.
Thankfully the Kickstarter revolution has proven a nice kick in the nads for executives trying to pull this bullshit. Can't really extort your development partners into giving full ownership of their to you when they have a Plan B for when you pull their funds, can you boyo?
Harvey Smith dodging the Prey question. I guess Ricardo Bare is the lead designer for the Prey reboot.
Brian_FETO
Banned
These are the guys who specifically said "avoid Blade Runner neon tropes" for the reboot right?
I don't know that I can support such a team, but I'm willing to hear them out
I don't know that I can support such a team, but I'm willing to hear them out
AHA-Lambda
Member
Vinterbird
Member
Fully expect this to be called Quake now.
Buttonbasher
Member
Oh man. This would be really funny.
Doug Heffernan
Member
Harvey Smith dodging the Prey question. I guess Ricardo Bare is the lead designer for the Prey reboot.
Just look at that smug face! He's hiding something from the press sneak fucks.
Hypertrooper
Member
Well. Bethesda gave us Doom and Wolfenstein. I am in for another shooter!
Wasn't the whole gameplay faked for the E3?
Vinterbird
Member
It was as faked as anything at E3 is. It was a vertical slice, and it worked better then other vertical slices I had seen at the time. It didn't crash the entire game if a developer met a bug or didn't do the script 100%.
In my demo they had to reset the player position becuase they fell through the geometry and stuff, so it felt more real then demos I had seen of Bioshock Infinite which was just a on rails camera more or less.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Seriously: why hasn't another publisher approached Human Head and got them to develop a futuristic SpaceCop bounty hunter game like from that Prey 2 demo? That looked insanely good.
My emotions are all over the place. Fucking ecstatic that Prey 2 was back on, but now I'm even more depressed then ever that they probably won't go the space bounty hunter route.
Why can't I chase alien bad guys in space to the tune of Johnny Cash?
Why can't I chase alien bad guys in space to the tune of Johnny Cash?
Nerd Leaks tweeted that both http://prey2.com & http://prey3.com were updated by Zenimax 3 days ago. They now redirect to hidden FB page http://www.facebook.com/prey2
1. Pubs have largely entirely moved away from the studio for hire model.
2. HH bit the hand. Even if what they said is 100% the truth, no one is going to give them a big project again because of it.
If HH comes back in any way, it'll be doing smaller stuff like Obsidian is mostly doing right now.