Prey - scifi/horror game by Arkane

Its a great game but only on PC, the console versions have significant problems. Not as bad as "this is unplayable", but just that 3-6 months of optimization and polish they didn't do thats the difference between Uncharted 4 or Horizon Zero Dawn and Mafia 3 or Prey. Mafia 3 is probably a great comparison actually, it also was not very good on consoles (better on PC) and had some core game ideas that were quite good but would also be very divisive depending on what kind of game you like, and it lacked that polish (no fast travel especially) that turned a 8/10 into a 6/10.

The story in Prey is imo fantastic albeit very twisty and hidden up, sort of like Destiny its hidden behind emails, audio logs, secret areas, etc. Some people are gonna love that, others are gonna hate it.

We won't know for a few weeks how sales are but I'm pretty sure they are going to be abysmally bad. Its kind of a sad day for big budget single player games, Square Enix is going to sell off IO Interactive, makers of Hitman because it doesn't make them any money. Hitman was one of the best games of 2016 too imo. Dishonored 2, Prey, ME:A, Hitman and other big budget SP story games are having trouble making a profit, of course stuff like Persona 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4, etc are all massive successes but it used to be a mediocre game had a pretty good shot at a profit, now it feels like either you have to have a service component (destiny, Division, Rainbow Six, Ghost recon Wildlands) or have a lot of buzz and luck.

the next assassins' creed is gonna be an interesting case.

I'll Gamefly it once there's a Pro patch. Seeing how much better the PC version is would normally get them a sale from me, but they chose to go with Denuvo so that's a big NOPE.

You can tell these guys loved System Shock with how they basically made this game an homage to it. I'm only about 10 hours in so far and have to keep putting it aside due to RL shit, but I'm definitely feeling the old SS vibes and the further I get into it the more I'm enjoying it. Like spronk said, though, don't bother if you can't handle searching for hidden or alternate paths, and story that's mostly told through audio logs, emails, or the environment itself. You're basically coming though things in the aftermath of a shitstorm, much like SS, so the game doesn't force feed you story like most games. It's a bummer this game won't be a huge seller, these are my favorite types of games and I'd like to see more of them.

IGN just updated their 4/10 review to an 8/10 now that a patch fixed some problem the reviewer was having.

Still shitty they did that. I doubt they would have dared to give ME:A a 4.

What's really shitty about it is Metacritic does not update scores so their aggregate score is forever dragged down by IGN being petulant.

Which is why people need to stop using that piece of shit site and move over to OpenCritic. Among other things, it also allows you to ignore all reviews from sites which don't deserve to even have their existence acknowledged (Polygon, for example).

People read IGN?

Vorph said:

Which is why people need to stop using that piece of shit site and move over to OpenCritic. Among other things, it also allows you to ignore all reviews from sites which don't deserve to even have their existence acknowledged (Polygon, for example).

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OpenCritic is Metacritic but you can flag sites you oppose? If so, that sounds amazing.

Opencritic also seems to embrace far more of the smaller web sites. Meta only has 23 professional reviews while Open lists 78. That makes it far harder for a single IGN to tank your score. On the flip side it's less popular for the user reviews.

Intrinsic said:

I'm guessing this still isn't / won't be cracked because of the big D.

Glad there are positive reviews though, hopefully it'll see a sale soon.

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I've found a possible crack for it tonight, am about to try it once it finishes. Will let you know if it works.

Yeah, some group named Baldman is claiming to have cracked this.