PREY is getting Excellent reviews from everywhere
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I didn't hate on PC. I just prefer consoles because their pros are more important to me than the pros of PC gaming. There's quite a few people here that think console gaming has no pros at all.Bombiz said:
What is a 90's interactive sim Linda?! Difficulty is subjective (revive chambers didn't make System Shock 2 a snore?) Linda. You're repeating yourself, comparing the game to others instead of pointing out if it did ANYTHING original at all, and dodging questions again Linda.B-Cell said:
Gotta love hyperboling (I, for one stil would play the actual Prey if it's engine wasn't constricted to a single CPU core), plus, you forget that dying in System Shock is a slap on the wrist at most.B-Cell said:
Also, linearity is not always a bad thing.
I liked that one it was very fun.Headdrivehardscrew said:I'm with you on this one.RaikuFA said:
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.
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Either I know of the juicy B-Cell lore that you crave, or I just give people random first names when they act aloof. I'll leave that to your interpretation.Chimpzy said:
Intriguing. By all means, continue. I look forward to wherever this may lead.JagermanXcell said:
Based off the demo. The shooting is kind of crap, which is kind of expected (if you ever tried shooting in Dishonored as a regular go to). The stealths a little wonky too, feels really tacked on, not like the game was designed for it at all (and shadow tentacle crabs with no discernible faces are a little bizarre to try and decipher their vision angles). Didn't get too much into the System Shock homage RPG system within the span of it.
If Dishonored was Arkane doing their spin at Thief, this one is pretty clearly System Shock a la Arkane. But System Shock itself was more of an ambition and concept then actual execution, and Arkane seems to (in the demo impression) have the same issue when they spread their mechanics out more then they did in Dishonoreds primarily stealth play.
If Dishonored was Arkane doing their spin at Thief, this one is pretty clearly System Shock a la Arkane. But System Shock itself was more of an ambition and concept then actual execution, and Arkane seems to (in the demo impression) have the same issue when they spread their mechanics out more then they did in Dishonoreds primarily stealth play.
I don't call 6/10 [http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/08/prey-review-shock-of-the-new-6623206/] "Excellent", so evidently "everywhere" is objectively untrue... Discuss. Discus! DIS-CUSSS! Ahem...
The trailers made it look boring as fuck, and nothing I've read about it piques my interest. The actual/original Prey was--- kinda fun, in a dumb way that never really capitalised on its potential. A great opening to the game, at least by way of being a little different than usual. This Prey looks the complete opposite of 'a little different'.
The trailers made it look boring as fuck, and nothing I've read about it piques my interest. The actual/original Prey was--- kinda fun, in a dumb way that never really capitalised on its potential. A great opening to the game, at least by way of being a little different than usual. This Prey looks the complete opposite of 'a little different'.
That's great, but does it even matter? Is there anyone who STILL trust reviews?
Don't get me wrong, I think Prey is probably a quite good game. It's just that the reviews don't count. Reviews don't count anymore these days.
Don't get me wrong, I think Prey is probably a quite good game. It's just that the reviews don't count. Reviews don't count anymore these days.
thats only one review.Darth Rosenberg said:
beside i trust worthy youtubers than professional critics. they are used to of playing COD like FPS where you have explosion ever 3 second, scripted, regen health and cover system.
...unsurprisingly, I knew that'd be your exact response. If you wish to amend your thread title, by all means go ahead - if you actually meant 'Prey is getting excellent reviews from certain review bodies I approve of'.B-Cell said:
...please don't try to generalise about a review source you likely know nothing of. GC at Metro have been reviewing all sorts of games (as well as doing some of best interviews in the biz) over decades (in terms of lineage they technically go back to the mid '90's on Teletext, when it was known as Digitiser, though obviously it's now a completely different team).
YT has some excellent content creators, sure (George Weidman [https://www.youtube.com/user/bunnyhopshow] for one, Joseph Anderson [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyhnYIvIKK_--PiJXCMKxQQ] for another), but it also has a large number of brainless, ignorant idiots 'reviewing' games, so I say go the Mulder route; Trust No One But Look At Multiple Sources And Gather A Variety Of Anecdotal Player Experience And Then Maybe Watch Some Of An LP And Then Ideally Maybe Try The Game Out Yourself. Pretty sure that was an X-Files line...
Darth Rosenberg said:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/09/prey-review/
theres RPS review. who dont give scores but they praise it. and its PC focus site.
point is. except few negative review who dislike it because its too deep for them. its been getting positive reviews.
Is that a joke? The review I linked to - debunking your thread title - clearly didn't dislike it because it was "too deep", they disliked the lack of innovation in the setting, the bland enemy designs, and so on. It's just one opinion, of course, but so are all the other reviews.B-Cell said:
Its not bad. Its "worth-the-money, might consider a re-play eventually"-kind of good. So...yeah. Depends on peoples tastes. Most gamers seemed to treat the bioshock games as the second coming of christ(I found them entertaining but not a 10/10 experience), and im fairly sure that those people will appreciate this game greatly, since it has certain "bioshock, but in space"-vibes to it.
Its polished, well optimized, has fun combat mechanics, interesting-enough story and at least some re-play value. 8/10?
Not sure I consider it a game worth raising a ruckus about or placing on a pedestal though.
Its polished, well optimized, has fun combat mechanics, interesting-enough story and at least some re-play value. 8/10?
Not sure I consider it a game worth raising a ruckus about or placing on a pedestal though.
I'm just gonna say I hated the game so much I refunded it on Steam. So there's that. I'm obviously not a certified review outlet or anything, just a guy who's been playing video games for 27 fucking years.Darth Rosenberg said:
Funny how the moment you disagree with someone they just say, "Well you don't know WTF you are talking about."
It's fine to like something that somebody else doesn't, I don't know why people have to defend their game choices to the death.
Prey is not the second coming of video-game Jesus. It's not even good enough to be an FPS masterpiece as the 74 on metacritic will attest too. Prey is just a decent game, nothing more, nothing less. And like most decent games, people will either love it (like B-Cell, though im not sure he has played it yet) or hate it (like my mentally disturbed self)
What makes this funny to me is that the game's been out for three days and people are already completing the game in less than 20 minutes: https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/8/15583948/prey-speedrun-world-record
I know it's more of a speedrun community thing, but I just can't help but be unimpressed with the game if it can be busted this badly so quick.
I know it's more of a speedrun community thing, but I just can't help but be unimpressed with the game if it can be busted this badly so quick.
And! It! IS! GLORIOUS! ... no, really. Thoroughly entertaining.JUMBO PALACE said:
It makes me really wonder who/what he/she/it really is. My bets are on gunsexual male post-op transsexual lemure bodybuilder neckbeard with a limp in his left leg and a crippling addiction to MANdarins.