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Article #697820Re: Prey early reviews
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 15:38
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 15:38
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On Sat, 06 May 2017 09:19:21 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 5 May 2017 16:34:15 -0600, "rms" ><rsqui...@MOOyossmanMOO.net> wrote: > >>>could be the best game since HL2: >> >> I wish the devs all the success and moneyhats, but will let this one >>slip by until the fall and keep working on my backlog. > >Yeah, this is definitely a back-burner for me. The huge glut of games >waiting in my library is definitely one reason, as is the price (I >just don't pay $60 for games anymore), but mostly it is because I >honestly don't care that much for Arkane Studio games. I can >/appreciate/ them for what they are - I've played most of their >titles: Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, Dishonored and even games they've >assisted on like COD:World at War and Bioshock 2. But none of them >have been games that really thrilled me. The stories and settings have >been poor, and the gameplay felt too focused on the mechanical aspects >- "Oooh, lookit how we cans kicks an orc onto a grate of spikes!" >which was the overriding theme of Dark Messiah, That's one way, but I found killing via defense more interesting. It was more fun to bait the enemy and timing it so they lunged at me, either impaling themselves or going bungee jumping without a cord off the cliff behind me. lol. More of a twitch / action game than what a lot of people look for in a fantasy title, which I think might account for the polarized opinions out there. The MP game was a lot of fun while it lasted.
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