Bethesda Marketing said no one will identify with Tommy's spiritual Native American goals and he was too whiney in the...

>Bethesda Marketing said no one will identify with Tommy's spiritual Native American goals and he was too whiney in the first game. so they said forget Tommy and make the protagonist someone else. Tommy was in the game however, as a mentor and guide on Exodus.
>After Prey, he spent years tracking down the Keepers and found them pulling the political and power strings on the Planet Exodus. They were constructing a new Sphere. Not a Harvester like the one in Prey, but a War Sphere to go back to Earth and destroy it.
>You (the player) were going to help Tommy destroy that Sphere before it left the planet. One of the DLC could have been Tommy's story between Prey 1 and 2.
>But as you know now, it was more important for Bethesda to own the studio than finish Prey 2.

This was confirmed by Nathan Cheever, the guy behind the original Prey 2.
Fuck Bethesda.

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The publisher was nice and supportive until after E3 when everyone saw.the game. Then they got all weird and demanding. After we essential said "stop acting weird" they didn't say anything as far as I know for months and months. We just sat there waiting to finish the game.

After two years of waiting I left the company. Then a guy who works for the publisher casually told someone in an interview that they were no longer interested in working on Prey 2. It would've been nice if they had told us earlier instead of waiting every week for years to hear from them.

The game was in a typical production state and could have been released in 2012 if they had let us.

Tommy is a dirty peasant who touches his eyes after poo in loo and wonders why he gets an eye infection.

You mean Morgan.
Fuck nuPrey. I don't want Bethesdas version of SOMA or Alien Isolation and we're already getting a true sequel to System Shock.
This game can suck dicks at the bottom bargain bin where it will inevitably end up.

>Instead we get "GAME THAT'S NOT ALIEN ISOLATION"

>add niggers and homos in any setting they don't belong to and claim diversity
>"we can't have a Native American protag, no one would like it"
wew

Have you watched the original gameplay trailer for prey 2 recently. It's looks unplayable. I suppose those gimmicks seemed novel at the time but it would be pure aids now.

>. It's looks unplayable
youtube.com/watch?v=BPkHZfjK5z4

You're saying that on a board that still loves and plays Fallout New Vegas.

>tfw all ive wanted for years is a sci-fi bounty hunter game
>prey is announced
>notlikethis.jpg

Fallout 3 and 4 just don't do it for me, user, what else am I supposed to do?

Fuck Bethesda, seriously.
There needs to be a bigger backlash over this.

>no one will identify with Tommy's spiritual Native American goals
I don't identify with dudebro #21564 either, so what the fuck does this even mean

I don't want to live in this crazy messed up world anymore.

There's nothing wrong with that. Nobody who's normal plays Fallout New Vegas for the gameplay. It's all about that atmosphere and storyline.

Also, rest in peace Blood Dragon.

>Doom
>Doom 2
>Doom 3
>Doom

>Thief
>Thief 2
>Thief: Deadly Shadows
>Thief

>Devil May Cry
>Devil May Cry 2
>Devil May Cry 3
>Devil May Cry 4
>DmC: Devil may Cry

>Prey
>Prey

There is a point where using the same name as the first game is somewhat acceptable and Prey has clearly not reached that point.

>he was too whiney in the first game
He was stuck in a native american resort with essentially, no way out.
Also, THIS FUCKING HAPPENED TO HIM
youtube.com/watch?v=B8Nl1qo6o4I

Can someone explain this new Prey to me? Is it a reboot? It looks NOTHING like Prey. Is it a sequel? Then why is it called Prey? What the fuck is going on?

They had to use the trademark somewhere

>We will never get Prey 2
>We will never get Star Wars: Bounty Hunter 2 and even if we did >>>>>>EA

>he was too whiny.
well, they were right. I hated tommy, and the game.

You know Prey? Forget LITERALLY everything about it.
That's new Prey.

Have you tried Star Wars Bounty Hunter? It's for GameCube,PS2 and if you have neither of those PS4.
or you know emulate it

it doesn't look as good as i thought i remembered it looking

I'm mad. Prey had a unique cast of charcters and theme, and great atsmosphere. It wasn't the best but I really liked it.

I hope the worst they've done is soiled a first impression but something tells me I'm going to be very disappointed.

So what other games that don't exist and nobody ever played are we going to pretend were fucking great?

Seriously, none of you people gave a shit about the story to Prey and stop acting like you cared about the epic journey of Tommy to the stop the evil aliens.

It won't matter if they did a shit job, Bethesda's marketers will work overtime to shoot down any critique about it.

>Why do you care about Prey 2? It didn't even look like the original! This new one is much more faithful and interesting than boring space bounty hunting. Please buy the new Fallout 4™ DLC, available today!

>be native american
>a race that doesn't get any inclusion in games
>the only game besides turok that features a native american protagonist gets scrapped because apparently nobody can identify with him

Funny, being an actual minority and I don't get included. I thought these developers were supposed to be "diverse".

>I don't like this game so no one does!
I'm more annoyed about Boba Fett Simulator being replaced by another "System Shock spiritual successor".

>Seriously, none of you people gave a shit about the story to Prey
My boxed copy of Prey says otherwise.
Eat shit Betheshill.

WE

Considering how fucking retarded Prey was about the Indian-ness.

>Die
>spirit of dead grandpa
>literally goes
>Tommeh! Tommmmmeh! You're dead. Defeat the spirit walrus to return to material plane

Prey was surprisingly not terrible, but it was definitely not that good.

>all these madfags hating on dead space 4
top fucking kek delicious tears

I played it and liked it, it was unique

>add niggers and homos in any setting they don't belong to and claim diversity

which Bethesda game did this?

Nobody ever mentioned Prey or a desire to see a sequel until shitting on Bethesda became a meme around here.

Even when it happened there was only a minor and short lived "outrage" that something that seemed promising was not going to happen again. A couple of years later and suddenly it's "OH MY FUCKING GOD! HOW COULD BETHESDA CANCEL THE GOTYAY! PREY IS MY FAVORITE GAME EVER AND TOMMY WAS A GREAT CHARACTER AND BLAH BLAH BLAH!"

>Dad walks in

>mfw they could have taken the resources and start rebuilding prey 2 and added a freelance element on top of it, spaceflight and shit

...

you have selective memory

fans were destroyed then and are reminded of it now

None of 'em

HOW are you doing

>which Bethesda game did this?
Skyrim.

>>>"we can't have a Native American protag, no one would like it"
Did they say this outright?

Wolfenstein: New Order

We got so good a murdering your people that you're too much of a minority to care about apparently

Yeah, but its cool. I don't hate you for it.

>Nobody ever mentioned Prey or a desire to see a sequel until shitting on Bethesda became a meme around here.

You retard. The original was in development hell for a decade, so when it finally did come out with a cliffhanger people were naturally not going to get too hyped for a sequel due to the high chance of it never happening. When Prey 2 got announced, people got hyped because it wasn't expected and had a good chance of coming out on time on top of looking like a pretty good and interesting game.

People started shitting on Bethesda when they shat on Human Head and canned the sequel. Bethesda deserves all the hate they get.

>no niggers in the 1960s
wew lad
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when people do posts like this it always makes me think of a guy looking for a high five after telling a bad joke and being left hanging. It's one of the most embarrassing bits of nu-chanspeak

>prey fans

Just like Prey 2, they don't exist.

Prey was a mediocre title that deservedly received a lukewarm reception on release. It was yet another sci-fi shooter in a period when sci-fi shooters were coming out every other month.

Nobody cared and they are only pretending to now because it's a good excuse to shitpost about Bethesda.

>Africans and Jimmi Hendrix in Berlin and Croatia in the 60s
???

the new prey is system shock, portal, and half life mashed together.

what I meant was enthusiasts, people whose fancy the concept, demo and promise it captured

yes, people cared

people had been wanting this sort of game for a long while and will continue to

t. redskin

They are a resistence group
And all the nazis are white unlike star war "nazis".
They are also fucking based and have personality. youtube.com/watch?v=O4CDo9dywUY

>people had been wanting open world game for a long while and will continue to
>in 2016
wew lad
e
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are you pretending to be retarded? space booty huntin

>nothing wrong with blacks being numerous and common in Europe in the 60s
>on a comic book world where Nazis won
Holy shit listen to yourself.
The bethdroning is real.

Those aren't "enthusiasts", they are suckers who are falling for hype.

Bethesda canned Prey 2 because they thought it wasn't very good. Considering the mediocrity that company releases all that says to me is that it must have been pretty bad. The gameplay demo sure didn't look all that special.

And I don't buy the "It's all an elaborate ploy just to acquire Human Head" story. Bethesda has worked with many developers over the years and they don't buy them all out like claimed, they buy the ones out that have talent and people worth a shit in them. Human Head are fucking nobodies, a company that has only ever dealt in forgettable titles and ports. Do you really think the Prey license is that desirable to a company that has TES, Fallout, Wolfenstein and Doom?

>blacks being numerous and common in Europe in the 60s
where in the game suggest that?
all the blackies in that game are resistence.

Can the developer change the name of the game into somthing else and release it? Like what they did with sleeping dogs. I know it's not that simply but it's still a possibility and they can release for half the price on xbox marketplace or somthing

>Bethesda canned Prey 2 because they thought it wasn't very good

Keep sucking Zenimax's lawyer-run cock

When an ip is idle for too long, there is a risk of losing the right.

>do you really think the Prey license is that desirable

Yes, because they're using it now. Stop contradicting yourself.

Mate, people wanted space bounty hunting sim.

The idea of using human shields, bargaining chips, the thrill of the hunt. It looked like it was going to be a good fucking game.

The aesthetic was also great.

>Bethesda canned Prey 2 because it wasn't very good
If they canned bad games, why did Skyrim and Fallout 4 get released?

ok then

it did not show promise, the concept did not capture the attention of considerable segment of gamers who had wanted a game like that since forever, since forever, made better it wasn't fucking star wars

nobody was hyped but suckers, the suckers are still suckers years later just sucking it up to annoy you, a superior gentlemen of superior understanding who is definitely not a contrarian for the sake of it

Well they paid for it because, like you, they were sold on a promising concept. Human Head failed to deliver and now Bethesda is trying to salvage a bad deal by doing something with the only thing they got out of their investment, the IP.

They obviously don't care about the IP that much, they threw almost all of it away.

here's to hoping cyberpunk will scratch the itch somewhat

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>Human Head failed to deliver

>Bethesda canned Prey 2 because they thought it wasn't very good.

Go to hell shill.
Zenimax starved Human Head in order to buy them out. When HH wised up to all this and refused to play ball, Zenimax left them in the dust.
This was confirmed by several former HH devs.

Seriously. Eat a bag of dicks.

Because they sell based on their name alone.

I don't need to fucking identify on every god damn level with the protagonist or main character of a story for Christ sakes. In fact I don't really need to identify at all if the character is at least somewhat interesting and well written. Fucking Bethesda has been cancer forever Jesus Christ.

>human head failed to deliver

Near enough all the devs confirmed that the game was complete. All that was left was marketing and bug fixing. Which Bethesda didn't like at all.

Surprise, surprise.

I have only two words to say to this; Tim Schafer.

post about it on reddit

I'm 100% serious, as an actual minority you can say that bethesda "white-washed" the one game that cared about your heritage

worst case, you get bethesda to look like faggots for a day

>Bethesda canned Prey 2 because they thought it wasn't very good.
They must have thought Brink was fucking amazing then.

I honestly don't care, though. If I whined about it I would become what I hate.

This was an entire team of professionals and not some kickstarter project or Star Citizen jewery.

You would have a basis for truth if Arkane and id weren't acquired in similar fashions.

I'm so pissed they scrapped the original concept. I fell in love with the first one waited for years on the 2nd till i just gave up, now this??

>You would have a basis for truth if Arkane and id weren't acquired in similar fashions.

They weren't.

For fuck's sake, it was well known that id had been "up for sale" for years before the buy out. Activision made an offer too. The notion that Bethesda had to do some sort of underhanded trickery in order to acquire id is not only complete and utter bullshit, it's obviously complete and utter bullshit.

You are just making up your own version of reality based on your rather blatant biases.

>They weren't.
kotaku.com/5611517/bethesda-snaps-up-another-developer-arkane-studios
Stop it shill. It's too obvious.

>canceled it because it wasn't good
But Brink and their bug filled Fallout games were?

Not only did you link to kotaku you linked to something that in no way backs up your claim that the acquisition of Arkane was the result of some sort of evil plot.

How about you try thinking instead of just parroting bullshit you heard on Sup Forums for a change?

>Hunted, Wet, Brink and Rogue Warrior were all good enough for Bethesda to publish
>Prey 2 was not

Either Prey 2 was utter garbage or Bethesda fucked over the developers. Considering that Human Head was made up mostly of ex Raven staff, the former is not likely.

Wet was a Bethesda game?

Developed by Artificial Mind & Movement, published by Bethesda.

>Hunted
I liked the designs

Waaah the game nobody ever talked about on Sup Forums in the first place sucks now

You have to be 18 to post here

There's always a third possibility, the game was not nearly as complete as the developers are claiming and that Bethesda had lost faith in Human Head and was not confident further investment was wise.

Shocking as it may be to some people around here, developers are just as apt to be liars as publishers are.

I never played original Prey and I don't give a shit about Prey as a franchise, but Prey 2 was my most anticipated game from the second I saw the first gameplay of it. Blade Runner setting, graphics that STILL look good (imagine how crazy those were 4-5 years ago), functioning parkour, cool aliens, cool gadgets, Cowboy Bebop bounty hunter storyline. That's like my ideal game. I was so fucking excited for Prey 2, it was looking to be my favorite game of all time. Hell yeah I'm disappointed it got canned for no reason, hell yeah I'm pissed off that it got turned into some shitty generic sci-fi thriller game. Fuck you dude, I really wanted Prey 2.

Can't a developer sue a publisher for something like this? I have a feeling we are going to see something like this at some point some time in the future. They can't keep getting away with this.

>Can't a developer sue a publisher for something like this?
With what money?

The publisher's

Holy shit you are new.

prey 2 looked like shit
get over it

nope. the publisher owns the IP so they can do whatever they want

Without a doubt the most soul curshing, surprise disappointment of E3. I didn't even know this disappointment could exist, but here it is.
It's not even about any supposed sanctity of Prey the first, it's not about the fact that we won't get Prey 2, it's about the flagrant and indifferent use of a franchise name that you just so happen to have the legal rights to market. It's like making a football game and calling it "Mega Man Legends".