PREY is getting Excellent reviews from everywhere

[DaCosta]

I didn't torrent them either. There are so many options, especially with Steam family sharing and GOG not having DRM. .

Just because GOG doesn't have DRM doesn't mean it's not piracy to download the installer without buying it.

Did I at any point condemn piracy? I don't have any issue with it. I also didn't say downloading them is what I did. For all you know, I copied them from a friend or family. They know the risks when they sell games without DRM.

If you copied them from a friend or family it's still piracy, and you say that you "didn't torrent them either", as if this is any better.

Yes, they know the risks, and it's this sort of abuse that leads to more games coming out with shitty DRM like Denuvo, and less games coming to GOG.

 

[CaitSeith]

Pass on this garbage. Espesially since they threw their legal boner at a indie studio for titling their game Prey of the Gods. YEAH BECAUSE YOUR LEGAL TEAM CONSISTS OF TIM LANGDELL!

because they let other company to change the name so entire game is bad. right?

I'd like everyone to take a moment to reflect on B-Cell arguing that a single negative element or decision does not ruin an entire game. Just let that sink in.

OMG! Cats and dogs, living together! Mass hysteria!

 

[RedDeadFred]

2. Steam reviews aren't a good source of information...

I kind of disagree with this. If you skip the memes and one-liners (literally scroll down for half a second), a lot of the helpful rated reviews go into a lot of detail and I find you can get a much better sense of the overall quality of the game. User reviews call out bullshit and notice underlying issues a lot better than actual reviewers who tend to rush through games to meet their deadlines. The best part of these reviews is that you can actually see how long a person has played the game. Considering how often major reviewers (youtubers included) don't even bring up major issues with games, I find Steam reviews to be a lot more honest.

Also, most importantly, Steam users usually aren't running the latest cutting edge that major reviewers are. You're a lot more likely to find out how the optimization is for a game. Just look at Dishonored 2 as one of the best examples. Few reviewers noted the terrible optimization. Steam reviews let me see that the problems still haven't been fixed.

I honestly find scrolling through user reviews on Steam to be a lot more useful than going and looking at Metacritic or some Youtube reviewers. There are exceptions to this of course (I love Joseph Anderson's lengthy critiques), but if I'm wanting a fairly quick gauge of quality, I find Steam user reviews to be the most helpful.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

2. Steam reviews aren't a good source of information...

I kind of disagree with this. If you skip the memes and one-liners (literally scroll down for half a second), a lot of the helpful rated reviews go into a lot of detail and I find you can get a much better sense of the overall quality of the game. User reviews call out bullshit and notice underlying issues a lot better than actual reviewers who tend to rush through games to meet their deadlines. The best part of these reviews is that you can actually see how long a person has played the game. Considering how often major reviewers (youtubers included) don't even bring up major issues with games, I find Steam reviews to be a lot more honest.

Also, most importantly, Steam users usually aren't running the latest cutting edge that major reviewers are. You're a lot more likely to find out how the optimization is for a game. Just look at Dishonored 2 as one of the best examples. Few reviewers noted the terrible optimization. Steam reviews let me see that the problems still haven't been fixed.

I honestly find scrolling through user reviews on Steam to be a lot more useful than going and looking at Metacritic or some Youtube reviewers. There are exceptions to this of course (I love Joseph Anderson's lengthy critiques), but if I'm wanting a fairly quick gauge of quality, I find Steam user reviews to be the most helpful.

Yeah, that's fair...it's just a pain in the ass to sift through all the useless garbage reviews.

 

[Blitsie]

Still looks like a less interesting current-gen Bioshock with shit enemies.

I'll give it a look when it comes down to the price of a takeaway lunch.

What think? Two months? Three?

I've got Persona 5 still to play anyway so I'm also gonna wait for that price drop, it won't be too long I bet.

 

[chrissx2]

Pass on this garbage. Espesially since they threw their legal boner at a indie studio for titling their game Prey of the Gods. YEAH BECAUSE YOUR LEGAL TEAM CONSISTS OF TIM LANGDELL!

because they let other company to change the name so entire game is bad. right?

I refuse to buy it on principle and encourage others to do the same.

You know, both companies were kinda dicks. Beth for wanting them to change the name (they contacted them 2years ago) and PotG creators for sticking with it as long as they could, hoping for some exposure caused by this dispute. Noone I've asked knew what Prey for the Gods is, until now.

Both companies are happy now. Beth "saved" their mark name and PotG may get more fans and bigger sale numbers. Beth got a little hit to their rep and PotG ended up with silly name.

They didn't force them to cancel the game. It was just a stupid name change. If you had your own brand that you care about, you would do the same thing.

 

[RaikuFA]

I'd like to point out that apparently it's ok to abuse copyright law on common words because the one abusing it made games you like.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I refuse to buy it on principle and encourage others to do the same.

I'm with you on this one.

After what happened with Human Head Studios, Bethesda and Prey 2, I simply found myself unable to put much hope into this all-new "Prey", Arkane Studios or not.

The original Prey has a special place in my heart, as one of the most surprising good games of its time... too bad it's still being forced into extinction and generally being forgotten by the gaming public.

Maybe, just maybe this new "Prey" will eventually, later-on in the story, or in some remote DLC offer some of that sweet walking-on-the-ceiling action or even just more interesting enemy types than "hot black smoke tentacle thing crab-style" and "hot black smoke teleporting tentacle man thing"... not a fan. Sure, it may be much "better" than the legendary Gearbox rape and ongoing exploitation of the Duke Nukem IP, but an average, 08/15 shooty shooty FPS just won't do it for Prey in my books.

Thanks to Arkane for somewhat trying, but Bethesda's spirit animal for this one is clearly the maggot.

 

[bjj hero]

I dont buy Bethesdas stuff as they are a horrible company and I do not want to encourage them.

 

[Bombiz]

Macks from worth a buy claim that its best FPS since Half life.

why do I care about his opinion again? same guy that gave Farcry Primal a good review but a bad review to Dark Souls 3, correct?

 

[Bombiz]

Gaming is quite cheap if you play on a console.

also on PC. Don't hate PC just because of the PCMR people. makes no real sense.

 

[Bombiz]

I didn't torrent them either. There are so many options, especially with Steam family sharing and GOG not having DRM. .

Just because GOG doesn't have DRM doesn't mean it's not piracy to download the installer without buying it.

is it piracy if I have the CD and lend it to a friend to install on their machine?

 

[DaCosta]

I didn't torrent them either. There are so many options, especially with Steam family sharing and GOG not having DRM. .

Just because GOG doesn't have DRM doesn't mean it's not piracy to download the installer without buying it.

is it piracy if I have the CD and lend it to a friend to install on their machine?

If you're both able to play it at the same time on your own PCs, yeah, you duplicated the game, it's piracy.

 

[Raddra]

Once they start getting bigger it's just bullshit though. Bullet sponges that charge right at you with projectile attacks you can barely dodge.

Agreed, the humanoid enemies are utterly frustrating to fight. You just can't dodge their stuff most of the time. The projectiles travel too fast (or straight up just appear at your feet as an explosion) so even if you're already runing for cover you'll get hit. The fire ones with their 'explosion appears at your feet' are the worst. IN one encounter I even set up 2 turrets to help me take one down and the fight ended up with 2 dead turrets and me at 30% life.

The thing literally face tanked 2 machine guns at once and had the time and attacks to kill both f them and nearly kill me.

That is way too much health.

 

[TheFinish]

I'll put the following in spoilers because it discusses some enemies that may or may not count as spoilers. But TL;DR: Stun gun is aces, weapon damage upgrades are your friends.

Spoiler

I don't know, maybe it's because I play on Normal but I've found the humanoid enemies to not be trouble. If it's a Burning or normal Phantom, just use the stun gun (against Etheric or Electric, GLOO obvs). Not only does it lock them for a long time, any weapon you use on them since does huge damage. Seriously stunned phantoms take 2-3 shotgun shells to take down (although granted, I've upgraded the shotgun AND I bought the Security skills that ups Pistol/Shotgun damage. Much like Sneak Attack skills, they really do make a huge difference)

Now, the really big guys, like Technopaths and Telepaths and Weavers? Those can be a pain (although Weavers go down fast to the Q-Beam, and Technopaths count as tech so the good ol' Stun Gun absolutely demolishes them. The problem is you have to hit them in a weak spot for it to work properly).

And the Nightmare is just a pain all around, unless you can get it stuck somewhere.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

Worthabuy is a master of posting reviews for a game without actually reviewing the game. I've watched a few of his videos in the past to check for consistency and the man seems to have no sense of how to review a game properly.

Prey is another game in a long list of game's that I'm sure is average at best and will likely find it's way into my GameFly queue at some point.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

Macks from worth a buy claim that its best FPS since Half life.

why do I care about his opinion again? same guy that gave Farcry Primal a good review but a bad review to Dark Souls 3, correct?

He seems predisposed [https://youtu.be/qwFiCgsUvrw?t=890] to hating third person/console games.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

I refuse to buy it on principle and encourage others to do the same.

I'm with you on this one.

After what happened with Human Head Studios, Bethesda and Prey 2, I simply found myself unable to put much hope into this all-new "Prey", Arkane Studios or not.

The original Prey has a special place in my heart, as one of the most surprising good games of its time... too bad it's still being forced into extinction and generally being forgotten by the gaming public.

Maybe, just maybe this new "Prey" will eventually, later-on in the story, or in some remote DLC offer some of that sweet walking-on-the-ceiling action or even just more interesting enemy types than "hot black smoke tentacle thing crab-style" and "hot black smoke teleporting tentacle man thing"... not a fan. Sure, it may be much "better" than the legendary Gearbox rape and ongoing exploitation of the Duke Nukem IP, but an average, 08/15 shooty shooty FPS just won't do it for Prey in my books.

Thanks to Arkane for somewhat trying, but Bethesda's spirit animal for this one is clearly the maggot.

Prey 2006 was very mediocre and subpar shooter. it was very easy and you cant even die.

new one resemble any 90s immersive sim. excellent level deisng and game is very deep and complex with RPG elements.

 

[JagermanXcell]

I refuse to buy it on principle and encourage others to do the same.

I'm with you on this one.

After what happened with Human Head Studios, Bethesda and Prey 2, I simply found myself unable to put much hope into this all-new "Prey", Arkane Studios or not.

The original Prey has a special place in my heart, as one of the most surprising good games of its time... too bad it's still being forced into extinction and generally being forgotten by the gaming public.

Maybe, just maybe this new "Prey" will eventually, later-on in the story, or in some remote DLC offer some of that sweet walking-on-the-ceiling action or even just more interesting enemy types than "hot black smoke tentacle thing crab-style" and "hot black smoke teleporting tentacle man thing"... not a fan. Sure, it may be much "better" than the legendary Gearbox rape and ongoing exploitation of the Duke Nukem IP, but an average, 08/15 shooty shooty FPS just won't do it for Prey in my books.

Thanks to Arkane for somewhat trying, but Bethesda's spirit animal for this one is clearly the maggot.

Prey 2006 was very mediocre and subpar shooter. it was very easy and you cant even die.

new one resemble any 90s immersive sim. excellent level deisng and game is very deep and complex with RPG elements.

And? Plenty of other games have everything the Reboot Prey has (I also think we need to revisit the definition of what an "immersive sim" is cause a moment ago you said this was an FPS rivaling Half-Life? please pick one). It's no wonder why everyone on this thread is yawning at it's "reliable" praises. We'd rather see HumanHeads' Prey because they were actively striving/pushing for new ideas for the genre before being given the boot on a 90% finished sequel.

Bethesda and Arkane... slapping "Prey" on things haphazardly? suing for using the word? losing sales? Sounds about right.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

I refuse to buy it on principle and encourage others to do the same.

I'm with you on this one.

After what happened with Human Head Studios, Bethesda and Prey 2, I simply found myself unable to put much hope into this all-new "Prey", Arkane Studios or not.

The original Prey has a special place in my heart, as one of the most surprising good games of its time... too bad it's still being forced into extinction and generally being forgotten by the gaming public.

Maybe, just maybe this new "Prey" will eventually, later-on in the story, or in some remote DLC offer some of that sweet walking-on-the-ceiling action or even just more interesting enemy types than "hot black smoke tentacle thing crab-style" and "hot black smoke teleporting tentacle man thing"... not a fan. Sure, it may be much "better" than the legendary Gearbox rape and ongoing exploitation of the Duke Nukem IP, but an average, 08/15 shooty shooty FPS just won't do it for Prey in my books.

Thanks to Arkane for somewhat trying, but Bethesda's spirit animal for this one is clearly the maggot.

Prey 2006 was very mediocre and subpar shooter. it was very easy and you cant even die.

new one resemble any 90s immersive sim. excellent level deisng and game is very deep and complex with RPG elements.

And? Plenty of other games have everything the Reboot Prey has (I also think we need to revisit the definition of what an "immersive sim" is cause a moment ago you said this was an FPS rivaling Half-Life? please pick one). It's no wonder why everyone on this thread is yawning at it's "reliable" praises. We'd rather see HumanHeads' Prey because they were actively striving/pushing for new ideas for the genre before being given the boot on a 90% finished sequel.

Bethesda and Arkane... slapping "Prey" on things haphazardly? suing for using the word? losing sales? Sounds about right.

more like. They slap the name of mediocre game and turn it into masterpiece.

no one cares about original prey. its gameplay suck. was too linear and scripted, too easy and you cant even die

new Prey is challenging game in the vien of system shock 2.

I rather have System shock 2/Half life successor than Prey 2006 successor.