Post by JRavens on May 6, 2017 16:31:10 GMT
FINALLY a really good AAA game this year.
Prey is VERY very much like Bioshock, Dishonored, and of course my beloved System Shock 2.
It's an FPS / RPG hybrid with tons of abilities and strange weapons.
You are trapped on a space station with an alien race that has the unsettling ability to shapeshift into ordinary objects. You've never quite shit your pants until a coffee mug morphs into an inky black face hugger that tries to stuff itself down your throat
I found myself shoot goddamn stools just cause they looked a little too close to one another. Remember kids - it's not actual safe until you shoot it first.
Kidding aside the game is really polished and has incredible voice acting, sound, music, graphics, etc. It's got a good amount of tension and jump scares. Most importantly though it embraces the whole open world, choose your own approach to problem solving game play. It's really refreshing how far they have thought ahead and I've yet to break the game (despite trying... come on a DEV seriously figured I would drag a corpse halfway across the map and up 3 flights of stairs into a certain chamber just to see what happens? Apparently so
Some (not all of course) of the puzzles harken back to the classic days when you had to use your noggin to figure stuff out instead of hand holding it for you. I found a decryption key and figured out I needed to go back through my audio logs and find the right one to relisten to in order to get a letter puzzle that I had to figure out. My reward? Not xp or a shiny new gun nope it was a hidden audio log that added another piece of the puzzle that is the story. I love stuff like that!
Normal difficult has been quite challenging to me so far. Some of the enemies are downright unstoppable and I find I need to avoid them to survive. Not everything can be taken head on and ammo management is a requirement. There is a crafting system that lets you recycle junk into other items and boy do I find myself collecting every scrap I can to gear up for some fights.
Over all I think it's one of the best put together games I've played so far in 2017. 10/10 in my book. I guarantee this will be in running for game of the year.
Check it out if you haven't yet.
Prey is VERY very much like Bioshock, Dishonored, and of course my beloved System Shock 2.
It's an FPS / RPG hybrid with tons of abilities and strange weapons.
You are trapped on a space station with an alien race that has the unsettling ability to shapeshift into ordinary objects. You've never quite shit your pants until a coffee mug morphs into an inky black face hugger that tries to stuff itself down your throat
I found myself shoot goddamn stools just cause they looked a little too close to one another. Remember kids - it's not actual safe until you shoot it first.
Kidding aside the game is really polished and has incredible voice acting, sound, music, graphics, etc. It's got a good amount of tension and jump scares. Most importantly though it embraces the whole open world, choose your own approach to problem solving game play. It's really refreshing how far they have thought ahead and I've yet to break the game (despite trying... come on a DEV seriously figured I would drag a corpse halfway across the map and up 3 flights of stairs into a certain chamber just to see what happens? Apparently so
Some (not all of course) of the puzzles harken back to the classic days when you had to use your noggin to figure stuff out instead of hand holding it for you. I found a decryption key and figured out I needed to go back through my audio logs and find the right one to relisten to in order to get a letter puzzle that I had to figure out. My reward? Not xp or a shiny new gun nope it was a hidden audio log that added another piece of the puzzle that is the story. I love stuff like that!
Normal difficult has been quite challenging to me so far. Some of the enemies are downright unstoppable and I find I need to avoid them to survive. Not everything can be taken head on and ammo management is a requirement. There is a crafting system that lets you recycle junk into other items and boy do I find myself collecting every scrap I can to gear up for some fights.
Over all I think it's one of the best put together games I've played so far in 2017. 10/10 in my book. I guarantee this will be in running for game of the year.
Check it out if you haven't yet.
. That prove that sometimes new things brings good stuff 
