Prey is System Shock 3

[Great Rumbler]

No SHODAN, but still.

[Sho Nuff]

It's got Mick Gordon, the filthiest composer in the industry

 

[Great Rumbler]

The soundtrack in the first part is really great.

[Cerveza mas fina]

is it any good

[Kara]

Is it the sequel to SS1 or SS2?

[toku]

i hate the way the game looks but buddy of mine i game share with got it so I'll give it a shot tho

[Positive Touch]

audio is really glitchy on ps4

still this game went from "who cares" to "i must play this." can't imagine there'll be too many more games like this.

[Fifstar]

Is this like a proper System Shock type of game?

[Positive Touch]

the way you interact with the environment by looking at documents and searching through furniture and whatnot is exactly like system shock. hell, your first weapon is a wrench and one of the in-universe things is called Looking Glass.

if this game doesn't have system shock people working on it I'd be really surprised

[Sho Nuff]

-- I like the story setup
-- I don't think the enemies are actually that fun to fight yet
-- opening track is amazing but then it goes into industrial style noise
-- the audio is super fucked on PS4
-- that jump scare sound cue is gonna get real old real fast
-- art direction is just not doing it for me

I dunno, I think I need to play it beyond what the demo shows

[stufte]

Trying hard to be Deus Ex, but I'm excited.

[chronovore]

I got the demo, yet to play it.

Trailer was cool but I'm only really sold on it because of the OST tbh.

I'll take a poke at the demo. For some reason, I didn't realize people still made demos.

[Great Rumbler]

Played about 5 hours today, it's really good. Feels like a natural progression from System Shock 2 in a way that Bioshock almost was, but not quite. Bioshock dropped some of the flexibility and complexity for a more streamlined, but faster-paced experience. Don't get me wrong, I really like the original Bioshock, but Prey nails the slower-paced feel of the old Looking Glass/Ion Storm games. Bioshock was also a bit more an A-to-B-to-C progression, whereas Prey [again, like those older games] puts you in a large location that branches out into other, smaller locations, and you have to figure out how to access them.

[Great Rumbler]

Also, one of the future technologies featured in Prey is something literally called the Looking Glass. So, yeah.

[Boredfrom]

I liked the demo but I hated the Mimics and their cheap jump scares so probably will wait some months to a price drop. They feel like a more gimmicky version of Half Life s black headcrabs.

[Great Rumbler]

With the mimics, it's Garry's Mod Prop Hunt in space. Bash anything that looks suspicious, because it's probably an alien that wants to eat your face.

[a slime appears]

Holy shit this game is in-fucking-credible.

This is the System Shock 3 I always wanted.

[chronovore]

Holy shit this game is in-fucking-credible.

This is the System Shock 3 I always wanted.

Damnit, now I'll have to buy it. I've always wanted a more true-to-original sequel. I loved the first Bioshock, but it wasn't hitting the same highs as SS2. And Bioshock Infinite is fucking garbage. Beautiful garbage, but still garbage. Like a Kardashian.

[nachobro]

Watched the GB quick look and this game looks fantastic. Never played Dishonored so I don't know much about Arkane but I might have to move Nier to the back of the line and play this once I'm finished with BOTW (yes I'm slow at playing games )

[demi]

Save your money, this game is only 12 minutes long

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6a3jrr/wr_prey_2017_any_in_1246_by_drtchops/

[Coax]

The game has various visual similarities to Dishonored, with a kind of space flavor. Haven't seen that many videos of it though. Is the PC version non-shit?

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, the PC version is alright.

[Valkyrie]

Great, now I'll have to choose between this and NieR.

[FartOfWar]

Play Prey people. My son needs you to.

[chronovore]

Play Prey people. My son needs you to.

I don't get it.

[fistfulofmetal]

Play Prey people. My son needs you to.

I don't get it.

that's Shawn Elliott, he worked on the game.

[demi]

Can Shawn Elliot explain why he spent so long working on a videogame that's only 10 minutes long?

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6a87q2/wr_prey_2017_any_in_1052_by_bjurnie/

[benjipwns]

Play Prey people. My son needs you to.

Shouldn't that be "buy Prey people"?

Or are they doing royalties based on Steam playtimes now.

[FartOfWar]

Can Shawn Elliot explain why he spent so long working on a videogame that's only 10 minutes long?

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6a87q2/wr_prey_2017_any_in_1052_by_bjurnie/

In prioritizing player agency we wanted to let you decide if you'd prefer to spend 10 minutes or 30 hours. 

[Joe Molotov]

Can Shawn Elliot explain why he spent so long working on a videogame that's only 10 minutes long?

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6a87q2/wr_prey_2017_any_in_1052_by_bjurnie/

Wow, worse game than Breath of the Wild. Everyone that works for Bethesda should be embarrassed.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm so bad at this game that I've been playing it for 20 hours and I still haven't beaten it. :'(

[toku]

[Great Rumbler]

Just beat it, got the good ending. At first, I was disappointed by the ending, because it felt like nothing really got answered, but there's a scene after the credits where everything that you did in the game [actions in the main quest, how you handled the sidequests] comes into focus. I really liked the way that was handled. And even though it's kind of an open-ended ending it still felt conclusive to the story of Morgan Yu, while leaving open a pathway for the series to go moving forward.

So, I'm happy with how the game turned out.

[a slime appears]

I'm at the Arboretum (not a spoiler, you can view the station map at any time) and the game really picked up.

[FatalT]

I just repaired the Looking Glass and now there's ultra super hard mimics and phantoms and oh god I need more bullets why did I rent this game.

[nudemacusers]

Aspects of this look cool but unsure about the enemies... look kinda zz. Hmm.

[Rufus]

Prey discussion on the Crate and Crowbar podcast.

[a slime appears]

I just beat Prey.

While I really enjoyed the game, I left it not liking it as much as I initially did. Environment design wasn't as strong as I would've hoped due to the small size of the levels and constant loading stunting the experience from feeling truly interconnected. Enemy variety was disappointing and by the end of the game I ran past most combat encounters since enemies don't have any clever combat engagement variations beyond their basic routines. Even mimics and their cool shape-shifting gimmick weren't put to good use beyond a small scare here and there. I think the most disappointing of all were the characters and their lack of development; not really giving the player any opportunity to identify with anyone, comprehend their motives, or even explore the supposed rich backstory of the narrative. The lack of a strong villain, aside from an uncaring and undecipherable enemy entity, is probably its weakest moment. Also, the bugs on PC were pretty annoying. I had to fight the game from deleting my leveled-up weapons multiple times whenever I'd hit a load point, several quests were bugged and couldn't be completed, and performance was unplayable forcing me to revert my drivers back to the March release.

While that came across more negative than I intended, the game really did have moments where it felt like System Shock 3. The gun-play was pretty rock solid with multiple interesting weapons and grenades, with the recycler charge and gloo gun being pretty inventive. I thoroughly enjoyed the skill customization and felt right at home with the System Shock inspired upgrades while the typhon skill tree presented a new and fun twist. I also really enjoyed the whole material/fabrication system and it was sublime in its intelligent solution to item hoarding and inventory management. The game also did a great job of slowly introducing gameplay concepts and by the end of the game you're given complete control to maximize your character which felt pretty empowering. The ending and was also refreshingly unexpected with amazing possibilities for a sequel which left me pretty excited for the series.

I strongly recommend the game to anyone and while I hate to be reductive I'd probably describe it as a better playing and designed version of BioShock with deeper player customization but lacking the interesting characters and plot of that series.

[Positive Touch]

i read every single one of those edits

[a slime appears]

They're not edits, they're patches.

 

[Kurisu]

Soundtrack is the best part of the game. All the rest is terminally boring, just like the first Dishonored was. Not sure if I'm going to keep playing, as I really don't see what should draw me into this game:

- combat is horrible
- exploration, normally I would like that, but the space ship is so fucking generic and bland looking
- story... yeah, no.

For the record, I loved System Shock 2, liked Bioshock, hate this.

[Boredfrom]

The game is good, and probably better than anything than the Bioshock series gameplay wise... But it feels that is still not as good.

The writing is decent and the setting can be pretty interesting at times but I would not call them memorable (outside one big exception that then the game cheats in the end). I suppose that one could argue that the characters are intentionally more like set pieces given the ending but it feels they could have been more interesting with some extra work or dialogue. Talos 1 is fun to explore but doesn't feel as good as Dishonored or Deus Ex levels or as memorable as settings as the Bioshock series, is in a middle ground that feels that didn't wanted to totally compromise freedom with strength of the setting and ends with mixed results.

I liked the ending and is a pretty interesting twist, but I will not say that that the game benefits from it. I cannot a blame anybody that feels cheated, thought I also think they were building out for it. It just lacks of any meaningful impact after the original bewildering of it.

[fistfulofmetal]

Game is half off right now plus there's a demo!

I just started the demo... how long is this demo? LOL I'm at 2 hours and it doesn't seem to be over yet.

I'm really digging it. Love the setting and exploration. I like figuring out unique ways to kill the big enemies. I encountered two of those Phantoms, one was on fire. I managed to use a combo of the stun gun and quickly throwing explosive canisters. Took em down!

I'll probably play until the demo is over and then decide to pick it up or not.

[archie4208]

I've never seen a game fall apart so fast.  I was having a blast until

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dahl

[close]

showed up and suddenly I'm facing infinitely respawning robots and am basically out of supplies.

The first 75% is awesome, the last 25% is horrible.

[fistfulofmetal]

I've heard that the game nosedives near the end so it's good knowing that while I play.

I bought the full game and played about 4 hours over the weekend. I just arrived to the GUTS which seem a little annoying! But i'm still having a lot of fun.

[Steve Contra]

I've never seen a game fall apart so fast.  I was having a blast until

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dahl

[close]

showed up and suddenly I'm facing infinitely respawning robots and am basically out of supplies.

The first 75% is awesome, the last 25% is horrible.

There's a quest to turn the robots off right after, and if you have machine mind it isn't to hard.

[fistfulofmetal]

I'll need to make sure I put some neuromods into that then.

[fistfulofmetal]

The GUTS are super annoying and the enemies there are stupid.

[fistfulofmetal]

Did anyone have problems with the game getting super crashy once you get to the Arboretum? Every few minutes it crashes with a memory error. Was working 100 percent fine up until this point. I've seen some reports of people having the same issue around. Tried to verify game cache and now I'm reinstalling it all together. Super lame.

[fistfulofmetal]

Seems I managed to fix the issue.

I fixed the Main Lift and took it back to the Lobby so I could explore some places with my new abilities and noped the fuck outta there when I saw like three MASSIVE new enemies.

Respawning enemies is kinda lame. I get why they're doing it but it discourages exploring a bit for me because I wanna feel like I've accomplished something when I clear an area out.

[fistfulofmetal]

I'm about 20 hours in. The Dahl part wasn't nearly as annoying as I expected. Machine Mind + disruptor Pistol made it a breeze.

I didn't realize I was about to actually encounter him during one of the missions where he disables the life support in the Cargo Bay. So when I went to turn it back on and he was just there I quickly knocked him out with the disruptor pistol.

Now I'm a little bit further past that after meeting Alex and a whole lot of shit just went down so I feel like I'm nearing the end.

[fistfulofmetal]

I've enjoyed talking to myself in this thread.

I finished Prey the other day. It was surprising how quickly the game wraps up. The ramp up starts then less than an hour later you're done. It made the ending sequences feel super abrupt and a little underdeveloped. It seems like there was an idea there that wasn't thoroughly explored which is unfortunate.

That being said, I REALLY enjoyed it a lot. It hits a lot of the things I love about playing games; a dense world to explore, an interesting premise, things to scrounge for, interesting ways to improve your character that wildly change the dynamic of play (those Typhon powers really completely changes how I handled combat encounters which was near). This game honestly really did feel like the thing I wanted from a sequel to Bioshock.

[Steve Contra]

I felt like the game came to a close right when I had enough neuromods to really have fun with combat. There wasn't any end game enemies or scenarios that really pushed what could be accomplished with various late game builds. Otherwise I liked the game a lot.

[fistfulofmetal]

Yeah. For awhile I was sticking with the human upgrades and having trouble with the Telepaths, Technopaths, Weavers, and stronger Phantoms. But then I spent points on the two psychic attacks and maxed them out. From that point forward I was pretty much able to take everything out without any issue.

The one idea that def felt the most undercooked was the Nightmare. I guess they meant for it to be a kind of Nemesis thing but it's AI was stupid and you could just hid behind a door for 2 minutes. Or just let yourself die and reload. I managed to kill it once because it got stuck on a door and another time Dahl's military bots killed it for me.

[Great Rumbler]

Definitely felt like the end-game was a little rushed, but everything up to that point was really good. As far as the ending itself goes, I liked that all the little choices I made ended up getting referenced. I'd really like to see some kind of expansion that starts out with you at full-power and gives you enemies and scenarios that force you to make use of them.