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

[Lagole Gon]

Is this game bro-approved?
It's on sale on GOG and I'm considering it.

 

[Doktor Best]

Dunno, just finished Prey today - best good guy playstyle payoff ever btw - and I'm just looking back reviewing all the moments in the game when an objective marker would be necessary and coming up blank.

I won't take much, a better wording in some quests, an adjusted objective placement here and there, a few hours of work and you can do away without markers completely.

Its interesting that i got about 50/50 agreement/fake news ratings on my comment stating that you dont need markers to finish the game. I mean yeah some stuff is obscure, but i always felt like it was meant to be obscure. In old games you also have stuff thats hard to find, which means you have something to find out when you replay a game. Just because you cannot 100% Prey on your first playthrough without mission markers doesnt mean those are mandatory. If you disable then, you sign up for potentially missing out on content.

 

[Doktor Best]

Is this game bro-approved?
It's on sale on GOG and I'm considering it.

If you're into immersive sims at all you gotta play it. Its a notch below Deus Ex GOAT quality, but its really really good.

 

[cvv]

Is this game bro-approved?
It's on sale on GOG and I'm considering it.

Looks and plays a lot like nuDeux Ex, only with an emphasis on vertical level design and atmosphere instead of traditional NPC interactions and questing.

 

[Ryzer]

It's meh, overrated on the Codex, especially considering its unique and recycled enemy type throughout the game, its cringe woke dialogues, and kinda trash story. It's also a game with terrible balance, many weapons and powers are useless while a handful of them are overpowered in particular.
However the level design kinda save the game, not that it is spectacular but it's a bit better than what we have recently.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Its ok for a couple of playthroughs, but I found it gets boring pretty quickly.

 

[Silverfish]

Going to start my first Dishonored run soon, is it like Prey markers-wise? Can you realistically switch it off?

It's slightly better than Prey in that regard, but that's due the levels being smaller, self-contained affairs.

 

[cvv]

Its ok for a couple of playthroughs, but I found it gets boring pretty quickly.

That's a weird standard.

For me game is great if it's great just for one playthrough. Which Prey absolutely is.

A game worth several playthroughs is legendary-tier, a Hall of Fame material, cropping up once in a blue moon.

 

[Jaedar]

Is this game bro-approved?
It's on sale on GOG and I'm considering it.

It has its flaws, and the replayability is pretty low (although I've been getting a small urge recently) but it's pretty cool. Well worth at least 20 dollaridoos or your regional equivalent.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Prey is probably the best AAA title I’ve played from the last 20 years, especially with Mooncrash. You can argue that that statement is damning with faint praise, but it’s still one I will stand by.

If you’re the monocled sort, play it with RoSoDude ‘s rebalance mod.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The first half of Prey is pretty good, but unfortunately the second half is total garbage and as a consequence it leaves a very bad taste in your mouth when you're finished. I wouldn't pay too much for it.

Spoiler

in fact I paid nothing HOHOHO

 

[Average Manatee]

Prey and Mooncrash should have been combined into one game, called Prey.

Give me a semi-randomized roguelike space station with tons of pathways to get everywhere please christ how has this not been done. I can even overlook the fact that there's only like 5 different enemies if the game required you to dynamically navigate station hazards and shit.

As it is, it's decent and also in a fairly sparsely populated genre so its not like you have much option if you want to play a game like it.

 

[Jaedar]

Mooncrash

Mooncrash was kinda cool, but I didn't finish. The fact that you can freely move items from character n to character n+1 kinda destroys the whole idea of different specializations and selectively looting what you need so the next person through still has a chance.

 

[Israfael]

The fact that you can freely move items from character n to character n+1 kinda destroys the whole idea of different specializations and selectively looting what you need so the next person through still has a chance.

No one really forces you to use the bot (I didn't as I skipped the tutorial screen and didn't realise it was a mule, lol)

 

[Average Manatee]

The fact that you can freely move items from character n to character n+1 kinda destroys the whole idea of different specializations and selectively looting what you need so the next person through still has a chance.

No one really forces you to use the bot (I didn't as I skipped the tutorial screen and didn't realise it was a mule, lol)

Same lol, only figured it out on the last character of my last run.

 

[kangaxx]

The first half of Prey is pretty good, but unfortunately the second half is total garbage and as a consequence it leaves a very bad taste in your mouth when you're finished. I wouldn't pay too much for it.

Spoiler

in fact I paid nothing HOHOHO

I don't think the second half is bad, but the very end of the game isn't good. That said you can plough through it pretty quickly.

 

[kangaxx]

I have objective markers on when playing Prey and Dishonored

Going to start my first Dishonored run soon, is it like Prey markers-wise? Can you realistically switch it off?

Maybe I'm the wrong person to ask, but I think the main quest should be fine but you might have some trouble with some side quests.

I think Dishonored is probably better for turning off markers than Prey, just because of the map design and individual levels vs. "open world" spaceship.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Its ok for a couple of playthroughs, but I found it gets boring pretty quickly.

That's a weird standard.

For me game is great if it's great just for one playthrough. Which Prey absolutely is.

A game worth several playthroughs is legendary-tier, a Hall of Fame material, cropping up once in a blue moon.

Its not that weird when you consider that there's multiple endings.
If a game has multiple endings but you don't want to play it more than once to experience them all, then that's a fault.
I do agree with you that it's absolutely worth a single playthough.
Problem though is that usually means a lot of content gets wasted, as the designers intended for the game to be played multiple times.

 

[cvv]

I have objective markers on when playing Prey and Dishonored

Going to start my first Dishonored run soon, is it like Prey markers-wise? Can you realistically switch it off?

Maybe I'm the wrong person to ask, but I think the main quest should be fine but you might have some trouble with some side quests.

I think Dishonored is probably better for turning off markers than Prey, just because of the map design and individual levels vs. "open world" spaceship.

Just finished the first mission (Campbell) and not only you CAN switch of markers easily, I believe it made the level actually interesting. Otherwise it'd be too cramped and simple.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Yeah, Morrowind made me appreciate the lack of markers, as it makes gameplay a lot more open ended. With markers there's a strong urge to just make a beeline to the objective, and that's no fun.

 

[kangaxx]

I have objective markers on when playing Prey and Dishonored

Going to start my first Dishonored run soon, is it like Prey markers-wise? Can you realistically switch it off?

Maybe I'm the wrong person to ask, but I think the main quest should be fine but you might have some trouble with some side quests.

I think Dishonored is probably better for turning off markers than Prey, just because of the map design and individual levels vs. "open world" spaceship.

Just finished the first mission (Campbell) and not only you CAN switch of markers easily, I believe it made the level actually interesting. Otherwise it'd be too cramped and simple.

I liked that level it must be said. There's a fun way to enter the building by scaling a wall outside in the courtyard if you ever replay it. There's also a very strange bug that you can trigger in the same courtyard by scaling a gate and then opening it from the inside. For some reason it screws up the scripted event when the target enters the room with the whisky glasses.

 

[cvv]

I liked that level it must be said. There's a fun way to enter the building by scaling a wall outside in the courtyard

That's what I did. First thing I upgraded was Blink, then I just teleported onto the ledge and waltzed right into the meeting room. Mission done in like 5 minutes. I only explored everything after I killed Campbell.

Already suspecting Blink 2 kindda breaks the game.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

There's another power that allows you to stop time. Those magical abilities you get do indeed break the game.

 

[SharkClub]

Turning off the quest markers in Prey just seems like pointless busywork to me. There are several side quests where the only direction you are given is "I'm sending you the location of X", and a couple more that give you the "X is in Y" chunk of information without any further context. It's especially bad when it comes to the exterior of the station and any objectives out there, it's absolutely gigantic and 99.9% of it is empty.

Granted, I don't doubt that someone familiar with the game would be able to get it all done with no markers at all but I don't know if I'd say that is THE way to play it, and I doubt I'd recommend doing so to a first-time player. The game was clearly designed with the markers it has in mind. Maybe an alternate universe version of the game where it outlines a chunk of the map for you to explore to find your objective in rather than the 100% accuracy popamole quest marker system would have been better.

 

[ciox]

And there are quests where you cannot rely on objective markers even if they are enabled, like finding the voice samples. Like with many things, Prey sits somewhere in the middle when it comes to the incline-decline axis.