Arkane PREY - Arkane's immersive coffee cup transformation sim - now with Mooncrash roguelike mode DLC

[Frusciante]

Sounds pretty cool....

 

[Morgoth]

This game commits one major sin of first-person shooter/RPG design: There are no meaty, humanoid grunts to shoot at. This could potentially cost the game many sales, because shooting at amorphous, teleporting alien squids isn't very satisfying.

Even Shock2 had mutants in it, the basic grunt. Prey needs a basic grunt too to avoid financial disaster.

 

[Excidium II]

I thought this would have mind-controlled people.

 

[Morgoth]

I thought this would have mind-controlled people.

Yeah, but those aren't the "bad guys" per se. You could kill them but then there would probably be repercussions or some bullshit.

They should at least include some infected human zealots in it that you can remorselessly kill.

 

[Excidium II]

Hmm that's bad. Would probably make the game spoopier to have posessed people skulking around, or if they went for a bit of The Thing angle.

 

[evdk]

Hmm that's bad. Would probably make the game spoopier to have posessed people skulking around, or if they went for a bit of The Thing angle.

I am pretty sure it's gonna turn out your are the Thing.

 

[ColCol]

I like how this game looks. Yet, I feel it's going to fail (evne if it is good) because the way it has been presented seems bland/boring.

 

[Excidium II]

It's prob. going to tank like Dishnored 2. RIP Arkane

 

[evdk]

Time to create an independent studio and make the spiritual sequel to Arx Fatalis everybody (read "I") wants.

 

[vortex]

Time to create an independent studio and make the spiritual sequel to Arx Fatalis everybody (read "I") wants.

What would spiritual sequel to Arx Fatalis look/play like ?

 

[evdk]

Like Doom, obviously.

 

[Morgoth]

Like King's Field but with more RPG elements. Perhaps throw in some Ultime Underworld too lulz.

 

[toro]

This game commits one major sin of first-person shooter/RPG design: There are no meaty, humanoid grunts to shoot at. This could potentially cost the game many sales, because shooting at amorphous, teleporting alien squids isn't very satisfying.

Even Shock2 had mutants in it, the basic grunt. Prey needs a basic grunt too to avoid financial disaster.

Sometimes you get it.

 

[vortex]

Like Doom, obviously.

 

[toro]

It's prob. going to tank like Dishnored 2. RIP Arkane

Nope. They will continue to work as slaves for their generous overlord.

 

[Ash]

Dishonored 2 tanked? How come? Wasn't it more of the same popamolified Immersive Sim design as the first that the mainstream and even some of the old school find satisfactory? It had Bethesda/Zenimax-backed marketing, surely it produced results in the green?

 

[toro]

Dishonored 2 tanked? How come? Wasn't it more of the same popamolified Immersive Sim design as the first that the mainstream and even some of the old school find satisfactory? It had Bethesda/Zenimax-backed marketing, surely it produced results in the green?

They sold 40% less than the first game (until now).

This means that in the end they will probably sell something between 2 and 3 million copies and another crisis will be averted. They will be just profitable instead of hugely profitable.

In other words, don't get your hopes high. Arkane future is pretty much safe at this point. For them to go tits up they need to release at least one huge stinker.

But as much as I hate Bethesda this will not going to happen.

 

[Forest Dweller]

I liked that trailer.

 

[Latelistener]

They sold 40% less than the first game (until now).

A lot of triple A titles sold poorly this year, including Mankind Divided. Publishers are trying to make a poker face about it, while making discounts like 33% on Dishonored 2 on Steam a couple of days ago (literally within a month after the release).

I wish I knew what's going on (maybe the shit quality of those titles has something to do with it), but their "solution" to the problem will only make the situation worse. I mean, what's point of buying something on release, when you can get it with 75% off after 3-6 months?

 

[Beowulf]

[...]I mean, what's point of buying something on release, when you can get it with 75% off after 3-6 months?

And yet people still pre-order games.

 

[KlauZ]

They sold 40% less than the first game (until now).

A lot of triple A titles sold poorly this year, I wish I knew what's going on

Unbreakable DRMs at their best

 

[Siel]

All month long, Game Informer will be updating its hub of exclusive features covering Prey from Arkane Studios (the creators of Dishonored) to coincide with our new cover story on the game. In this video interview, lead designer Ricardo Bare explains what makes the gameplay in Prey different than what you've played before but also how it loosely compares to games like Metroid and Arx Fatalis.

Watch the interview below to learn how much freedom players will have in the space station and the extent that the game will have "survival" elements.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Siel]

when he said

Other parts of the Audience are not going to be a customer to the fact that the game allows to experiment some of the game mechanics

he should have said

console retards

 

[Morgoth]

Arkane gets it.

 

[Siel]

Arkane gets it.

Let's hope Zionmax playtesters too.