Recently finished Bioshock, Spec-Ops: The Line and Nier Automata (not so old, but played really well).

I’d love any suggestions for older AAA titles that are worth a play-through!

    • Azathoth@feddit.de
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      2 years ago

      Ooohhh there are two preys - the release date of the newer one always felt off to me because I played the original back then. Are they related?

      • 0xc0ba17@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        No relation between them. Literally zero, aside from the name. The Prey from 2017 is only called that for marketing reasons.

      • Mummelpuffin@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Unfortunately not. Actually there’s a pretty frustrating thread running through Prey. Zenimax / Bethesda Studios got the rights to the name in 2009.

        In 2011 there was going to be a “real” sequel set in the same universe that still managed to have nothing to do with the original. It was one of the first games I got really hyped for. Big shock, it got stuck in development hell and got scrapped. (Side note, I love how in 2011 every video game was acting like what’s now basic quality-of-life movement stuff was revolutionary.)

        …Then ZeniMax / Bethesda bought Arkane Studios, and after Dishonored 2, they wanted to make the next game in the System Shock / BioShock / (DeusEx?) immersive sim spiritual successor soup, and they wanted it closer to System Shock than anything else had been. They considered the names Typhon and Starseed. A lot of people are convinced it should’ve been called Neuroshock. Zenimax, though, some suit at Zenimax decided it was too risky as a new thing and reached for the nearest sci-fi names they had access to. So regardless of what Arkane wanted, it was called Prey.

    • HER0@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      One problem: It is not easy to legally obtain Prey (2006) anymore. I wish more old games were still available on Steam :(