Don't Trust 'Prey' Reviews Today

I'm digging it, just turn off the objective markers. They ruin the game.

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>>376136480
>forbes contributor
It's basically glorified /v/ shitpost

>>376136538
That's cool of them to put in an option to turn it off. Glad they realize not every gamer wants to be spoonfed.

>>376136480
>it's totally okay to play the first couple hours of a game and then write their final review.
Giant Bomb has been doing this for years,so have Gamespot and IGN.
I dont see your point.

>>376136764
And that's why nobody has any respect for any of those sites.

Destructoid has a completion policy and they're much more highly regarded.

I don't trust reviews even if they had a week or a month Advance copy.

Those fuckers don't even finish the games. The IGN reviewer for Sonic Unleashed never made it out of stage 1 and submitted a full review for it.

There was the other guy that shit on the game for not having a proper ending. The dev commented that there is one on any mode outside of easy. The reviewer replied back that he played it on hard. The review was late edited to remove the bit and deleted the comments.

The press isn't filled with critical thinking people. It's just a bunch of fucking video game fans that suck ass at them and want free swag

Who the fuck still trusts ANY reviewers in fucking 2017?

>>376137082
I'd hardly even call them fans. I often get the impression they aren't even in it for video games, they do it to pad their resume and fuck women.

>>376137204
Good question, yet you'll always see Metacritic score threads getting hundreds of posts. I don't know why those aren't dismissed immediately, it's like people have legitimately become stupid enough to start trusting reviewers.

>>376136480
prey is out? is anyone playing it?

>>376137725
Prey came out in 2006.

>>376136747
Yeah arcane are good at giving you options. I think they learned from the Deus Ex yellow object highlight.

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>>376136917
>Destructoid has a completion policy and they're much more highly regarded.

>Destructoid
>highly regarded

>>376136480

https://youtu.be/FwzKboA81o8

Good wholesome review.

>>376136480
>CONTRIBUTOR

>>376138013
That looks incredibly edited.

>>376137725
yea i am. it's alright

>>376136480
Fuck off Dave.

>>376136747
Does that mean that proper attention is payed to environmental clues so that you can play sans markers?
Dishonored was pretty bad with this if I remember.

>>376138074
>Yet often poorly told story
There is no way he finished it. Closed video and downvoted.

>>376136480
>Game has a demo
>You can refund it
>People still NEED reviewers approval before they buy anything.


I know this isn't the case with most games but for fuck's sake just fucking play it.

>>376138396
People are dumb and they're like "muh time." And I'm like, bitch, if you have time to sit on /v/ posting your dumb bullshit, you have time to try a game for a few minutes.

>>376136480
Honestly the game is looking pretty good, does it have Denuvo?

>>376138171
yeah, it's one thing to have the option of disabling in-your-face markers, but if the game is designed around using them and becomes frustrating otherwise, what's the point?

>>376138740
Yeah.

>>376138074
What a scrub. Yeah the game has it's flaws but when he said the game is hard on normal I lost all faith in opinion. Or complaining that your not an unstoppable ubersoldat by the end. Just felt like he didn't like the game but then had to grab at straws to support his opinion that the game is bad.

Only reason people are struggling so hard with the mimics is that they don't repair their fucking suit at the start. The higher the percentage, the less damage passes through to your health pool. I noticed this later on when I was rolling around with my suit status at 100% all the time, the mimics barely tickled when they actually hit me, and I didn't have any of the neuromods to increase damage resistance or anything.

arboretum is a death trap for me right now

>>376139976
How can he remotely have an opinion on the game in just one day?

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where would i find this guy?

g.u.t.s. is a nightmare, and i can't find his name on a crew list to track his life band

>>376140469

He's Australian, game's out since may third there.

>>376140469
You can rush to the end and get an adequate vertical slice of the game, but you're going to get the bad ending, and miss the majority of the content which is the sidequests. There is a LOT of quality sidequest content in the game, which I am appreciating a ton.

>>376136480
>I'll be doing a first impressions post at some point soon, which is about what you can trust at this point: in the meantime, read Paul Tassi's. But remember that first impressions are only a snippet of the experience of playing an entire game. If you're the type that wants all the information before buying, don't make your choice based on those.

What the fuck is this? Well reasoned and considered journalism with disclaimers to give consumers the best chance of making a well informed opinion even to the detriment of the one writing the piece?! Well I never!

>>376140575
He is in the crew list, under Hardware Labs.
Also, when you reach the T part in GUTS, one path goes to the Arboreum and the other is where you will find the guy, he's dead floating behind some huge pipes in the first big room.

>>376140575
you can find him near where the large red pipe bends

any idea where the tech officer is?

>>376141337
for what mission

don't remember a tech officer

>>376136764
Giantbomb reviews like 3 games a year, who cares about them?

>>376141565
main mission. disable Dahl's Tech officer hiding outside Talos

>>376137725
came out before you were born

>>376141823
i'm not that far

i haven't gone to deep storage yet, i've been trying to do side stuff a lot

>>376138171
the game literally has roadsigns pointing you to each areas

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>Be youtube eceleb
>Ask devs for a copy
>They give it to you
>Two weeks later the game comes out.
>"woooow how can you know if the game is good it just came out!!!"

>>376141995
>the game literally has road signs pointing you to reach areas

That's how most space stations work or any work station. Did you think everyone just guessed where everyone else works?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/05/05/prey-day-one-impressions-what-kind-of-game-is-this-exactly/

>>376140575
>G.U.T.S.
I think he's on a boat somewhere?

>>376142156
Did you even read the article? Bethesda doesn't give out review copies. They don't like reviewers deciding how well their game "deserves" to sell, which is understandable.

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>>376142389
They do give copies to some random youtubers, but not professional reviewers.

Gggmanlives says the same thing in his review.

Don't trust reviewers and don't trust /v/.

Play the games for yourself and form your own opinion.
Ask your friends if you can't try the game.

If you don't have friends and you can't play video games then i suppose just shitpost all day like usual.

>>376143045
>If you don't have friends and you can't play video games then i suppose just shitpost all day like usual.
Why do you think we shitpost in the first place? Exactly that reason.

>>376138074
>running out of ammo
>on normal

I'm playing on nightmare and have plenty of ammo to spare, what the fuck was that nigga doing to run out of ammo on fucking medium?

>>376136747
Have any games NOT given you the option to turn these things off?

>>376138171
You got lost in dishonored?

Were you that guy they mentioned who wouldn't go upstairs because the guard said so?

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>>376142606
Fuck me I nearly shit myself when I got there. I normally don't fall for jump scares either. Also mfw afterwards I hear the door open behind me and loud thumping down the stairs.

>>376143778
Ubisoft really cut corners with Far Cry 4. All you do is wait in a room for 15 minutes for the gay guy to get back. Shortest game I've ever played.

>>376136480
This game is absurdly fucking boring, I cannot overstate, how boring it is.

>>376144220
I cannot overstate, how bad your comma placement is.

>>376142296
Anon...

>>376137082
>There was the other guy that shit on the game for not having a proper ending. The dev commented that there is one on any mode outside of easy. The reviewer replied back that he played it on hard. The review was late edited to remove the bit and deleted the comments.

Kek I remeber that one.

>>376144264
Shut up, loser.

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Are there any references to the original?

>>376144363
>g-game of the year guys

>>376144363
>Factorio that high up

Damn, I didn't realize that there were that many intelligent Steam users.

>>376136480
Anyone trust AGC?

So is it good?

>>376144419
>Shut, up loser.
This is you.

>>376144561
Building and watching automated factory lines run is like catnip for autism.

>>376144404
Any articles about it?

>>376144573
It's basically half life and bioshock
Nothing new

>>376144484
Original what?

>>376144561
Factorio is free to play, of course there's a lot of people playing it.

>>376144662
Everyone I've played with has said it's made their brain hurt from thinking too hard.

>>376143778
I've actually never gone through there because Dishonored is a stealth game and the guard is physically blocking your path and he doesn't like being shoved away from guarding a restricted area.

>inb4 stop time and sneak past
>implying that I trust the outsider and accept his powers

>>376144781
>Factorio is free to play

No it isn't.

>>376144752
Half-Life and Bioshock are some of the greatest games of all time, so.

>>376144484
About as many references as the Underworld movies have to Ultima Underworld

>>376144871
Baited.

>>376136538
Wait what...how do you turn them off? I was looking for that in the options but didn't see anything like that

>>376144752

Im down for another Bioshock, as long as we're talking Bioshock 1 and not Infinite

>>376144992
>"LOLZ I TRULLD YOU"

No, you're just a dipshit.

>>376145105
Baited HARD.

>>376144782
It took me a minute, but once I figured out it is incredibly easy to just demolish and rebuild sections of the production line and fine tune them before assembling an actual factory, I was good to go.

Sure, it isn't space conscious, but it works and allows me rooms of error.

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Are Prey and pic related the only two instances of a developer using the name of an IP for no other reason than they happen to own it?

>>376142207
The marsbase on Doom (new and old) didn't have them neither did the space stations System Shock. I wouldn't bring realism into this argument. The game is easy enough to follow even without objective markers.

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>>376145265

>>376137269
>becoming a video game journalist to fuck women

>>376136480
give men an archive, I'm not disabling adblock for 1 article

>>376145179
Shut up, nerd.

>>376138396
>Game has a demo

Yeah I'm gonna download 40 gigs to play for 10 minutes.

>>376145265
Star Fox Adventures and SMB 2 kind of but at least they made minor changes to accommodate the IP

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>>376145265
I cant think of any, there are some close cases though. Even Ken Levine didn't want the name but he stuck with it. Starcraft also was supposed to be a 40k game until they gave up on getting the rights.

>>376145265
botw :^)

>>376145640
>Shut, up nerd.
This is you.

>>376145769
Doesn't the DLC take place in the location of the first Bioshock? I don't think it counts.

>>376145816
Zelda doesn't count because there's no rhyme or reason in the connection between any of the games in the series. It's like Mad Max.

>>376144363
>Gmod
>ARK
>TF2
>Warframe
Literally who plays these fucking games still?
Also:
>Fallout 4 over Skyrim
>when fallout 4 doesn't even have the full array of lewd mods yet
>press square to doubt

>>376145037
Seconding this. I looked all over. I want them gone

>>376145265
This is way more common than you think. I don't know why you think there are only two examples, people do this all the time where they make a game then realize it fits with an IP they own and use that to sell more copies.

>muh original prey
>game hasn't even been sold on steam in years and nobody gives a shit

what a classic

Game looks like shit anyways. Super generic fps with dumb skill trees that lock paths for no good reason, no reason to have the Prey name other than to sell, and dumb gameplay idea (SCARY PROP HUNT xD).
Whatever, it has Looking Glass gimmick so 10/10 GOTY.

>>376146234
so you didnt even play it?

>>376146234
>other than to sell
Prey wasn't even that popular to begin with.

>>376146297
No, I didn't, because I've already played games exactly like it 4-5 times.

>>376146049
Do you really think that a developer goes through the logical chain that naming an entirely unrelated new IP after an existing one would generate sales simply out of the butthurt over using a name of a different game? Everyone knows by this time in the information age that name recognition has no effect on sales, and may have a negative impact due to protest over what is obvious condescending exploitation. In the case of Prey there's literally no reason to use that name. They managed to get a successful franchise off the ground with no problems with Dishonored.

>>376146558
>Everyone knows by this time in the information age that name recognition has no effect on sales
Not even true. People still think Story of Seasons is a Harvest Moon knockoff.

>>376146402
not if thats what you think it is

>>376136480
well IGN had a "prey week" so you know they'll be objective

>>376146558
Prey is such a generic name that they don't have to use it out of any connection to the original but instead because they feel it is a good title for the game. Which it is, it's fitting. So it's lucky for them that they own the trademark over a simple fucking word like Prey.

>>376145037
Apparently it's under the objectives tab anon

>>376145425
The game literally started off development as a direct sequel to Tiberian Sun before they decided to scrap it and opted for an entirely new theme instead, while keeping the engine and all the other groundwork they had already made

>>376146135
>He didn't use a key reseller to get a copy of Prey on Steam

What a fucking faggot.

Hell, at least the original Prey had an interesting setting, interesting critters, and an interesting art direction.

Even the by-the-numbers, boring, pseudo-Turok Native American protagonist was more interesting than Yu is.

What a fucking waste.

>>376138074
>game is hard
GGGManlives is based as fuck but god damn it boggles the noggles how he can plow through old school FPS games with ease, and tackles indie games designed to be hard with no sweat (often decrying them for being too easy), yet gets stumped on shit like Prey.

>>376147051
>GGGManlives is based as fuck
What the fuck?

>>376146991
the point is that the Prey name doesnt warrant being tied down by a mediocre fps from 10 years ago.

>>376142274
Tassi is a huge asshole who could fit perfectly in Kotaku. Kain and the fat weeaboo are the only decent Forbes writers for the most part

>>376144764
I will shank you punk.

>>376146773
This is why I made the Quake 2 connection. In the case of id, they just couldn't think of a name for their new cyber-zombie-alien shooter and used what they already had.

>>376147129
How is it "being tied down"?

>>376147218
are you an invalid or what

so whats this game about, it looks like bioshock to me

>>376147372
Aliums loose on a station, humans were experimenting on them. Your memory was wiped in some sort of experiment. The experiments are based around removing and installing memories through eye injections (that's the mcguffin to represent skills. you inject yourself with recorded memories of how to do these things.)

>>376145741
The entire game is 18 gigs. If you're worried about wasting time downloading 18 gigs to get a feel for the game, you're beyond autistic.

>>376147129
>Mediocre

You have seriously shit taste.

>>376147352
Are YOU an invalid or what?

>>376147197
That implies someone at the marketing department at Bethseda has any sort of creativity whatsoever. If the guy with the MS degree in communications and marketing calls it Prey then everyone follows.

>>376146019
settlements anon

>>376146019
Warframe is still updated pretty much constantly. Not really surprising that it's active considering the devs legitimately care about it.

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my turrets lasted 1 second when i entered the area

>>376143045
>yes buy the game first before you review that will show them damn devs

>>376140876
Forbes has decent writers in general. People outside here just go "lol they are just contributors" even though everyone at Forbes is a (paid) contributor. They ignore they are generally more experienced and educated writers that the college dropouts found at gaming sites.

>>376143045
What you meant to say on that last point is check gameplay on YouTube for a while and decide if it's worth a purchase

>>376136747
Can't find the option to turn it off. Unless you deselect the "quest"

>>376144697
I think it was PixelJunk Shooter.

It, like many shmups, locked away its final stage and true ending behind Normal and higher difficulties. Honestly, that's on the nice side, most Japanese bullet hell shmups lock theirs behind a harder second loop, often complete with a bonus, even harder true final boss.

>>376146773
Talos 1 would've been a better name imo.

>>376150273
I can admit that shmups are way too hard for me.

What a dick of a reviewer to get called out and actually lie and say "N-no I beat it on hard."

>>376148401
They care about giving you more hamster wheels to run on pretending you're getting anywhere.

At least in a JRPG where you grind, it means something when you're dishing out insane damage.

DE's shit at game design because they literally don't have a game design document with Warframe, so they keep adding shit and if you're lucky, it's strong up to matter endgame/non-DEAC otherwise you need specific frames to survive.

>>376150486
Can't use that, Talos Principle already exists.

>>376147128
*grab you by the throat*

>>376151124
Back the fuck off?

>>376150656
It points to the real issue with being a game reviewer: you don't realistically have the time to review all the games that come out since you're covering every game that came out. Not to mention the whole problems with biases towards certain genres.

It's why you DO see them hand free copies to Youtubers. They often, admittedly, do have those biases, but with said bias tends to come a better understanding of the genre's more subtle factors like map design and AI for FPS games. It gives a richer, more accurate review, even if they're also inherently more likely to like the game itself, and thus give the review the publisher wants to get. The smaller time ones don't tend to review so many games they can't spend a real amount of time for an familiarized review.

Story any good? Am 4 hours and am not feeling it...

Shame, I thought I would get that BioShock 1 feel again.

>>376152458
You've burned out on games probably. Like me, I want to enjoy games but I've seen so many at this point compared to when Bioshock came out that I just feel so detached, like I'm not in the game anymore.