Arkane PREY - Arkane's immersive coffee cup transformation sim - now with Mooncrash roguelike mode DLC

[tormund]

Is he really that much of a name outside of dedicated western RPG communities like this one though? So much that they would connect his name to a AAA game purely for marketing purposes?

He is quite known. Of course he is not a super star like in RPG communities, but he isn't a complete unknown, such as, for example, people like Fargo or Sawyer. There are more people than you would expect who played Torment and liked it.

I'm not so convinced about that.

Torment is one of those games where existing fans are p vocal so that people hanging in certain communities might think how it and Avellone are far bigger than they are, and where it is fashionable for everyone else to put into Best Ever lists regardless of whether or not they have played it.

 

[Infinitron]

Do you see them using him as marketing? The only reason people know he's involved is because he tweeted about it.

But it won't hurt them, obviously.

 

[tormund]

I don't. It was more in answer to people commenting that will do little if anything of game's writing, which implies that he is there as a "guest star" (and IMO he really isn't that much of a brand to be used for something like that in a AAA game of this caliber).

 

[Doma]

Is he really that much of a name outside of dedicated western RPG communities like this one though? So much that they would connect his name to a AAA game purely for marketing purposes?

He is quite known. Of course he is not a super star like in RPG communities, but he isn't a complete unknown, such as, for example, people like Fargo or Sawyer. There are more people than you would expect who played Torment and liked it.

Sawyer I get, but Fargo? Fargo is a complete unknown?

 

[LESS T_T]

Well, FWIW the fact that MCA is working on Prey alone gave more coverage to them. Look at these articles.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-new-vegas-writer-working-on-new-prey/1100-6440750/
https://www.vg247.com/2016/06/13/chris-avellone-is-working-on-prey/
http://www.polygon.com/e3/2016/6/13/11919114/chris-avellone-prey-2-bethesda-arkane-studios
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...r-chris-avellone-working-on-arkanes-prey.aspx
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/06/13/chris-avellone-is-working-on-the-new-prey
http://www.pcgamesn.com/prey-2017/prey-is-being-worked-on-by-chris-avellone
http://www.develop-online.net/news/...avellone-collaborating-on-prey-sequel/0221632

 

[WhiteGuts]

I just hope it's more than just a gimmicky collaboration.

 

[---]

Sawyer I get, but Fargo? Fargo is a complete unknown?

Yeah, pretty sure that nobody knows him outside of RPG communities
In these hours I'm posting on a lot of forums, and in Prey topics there are many people who knows this "Avellone" guy, though.
Then again, his presence isn't for big marketing purposes. Just look at the most important videogame sites, almost everyone reported this information, but you won't find it in the home page, as if he was Kojima or Miyamoto.

 

[Mazisky]

Is this Rpg or more Survival? it's not clear

 

[Infinitron]

Heh. (note the shirt)

 

[undecaf]

Is this Rpg or more Survival?

Sounds more like survival.

 

[LESS T_T]

Heh. (note the shirt)

Looking forward to an interview with RPS.

 

[Lyric Suite]

More like he will "work" on Fallout 5 for 40 hours or so. What was the last time he was lead on anything instead of just minor contribution to generate hype by mere association?

Heh, i like how everybody wants Avellone to have some minor involvement in their game in order to generate hype by association, as you say, but nobody wants to have him as their lead writing man.

BTW, better Prey than any Fallout. Having Avellone work on any in-house Bethesda game would be like having Shakespeare write for a Michael Bay film. There's nothing to be gained in sticking a couple of precious pebbles in a giant turd. Also, this game is going to use id Tech 6, right? No Gamebryo shit i hope.

 

[tormund]

^Probably that Void engine (just like Dishonored 2) which is apparently based on id Tech 6.

And yeah, better Arkane that one of Bethesda Fallout/TES teams. At least this way there is a chance that his writing will be attached to actually good game.

 

[Riskbreaker]

Heh. (note the shirt)

Eh, I'm really not getting that reference and the comments aren't at all helping. What's it about? Something related to ye olde "press X for awesome", or something that requires lotsa points dumped into GAF Lore stat in order to be funny?

 

[Infinitron]

Eh, I'm really not getting that reference and the comments aren't at all helping. What's it about? Something related to ye olde "press X for awesome", or something that requires lotsa points dumped into GAF Lore stat in order to be funny?

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...kane-studios-prey-2-and-system-shock-3.92010/

 

[throwaway]

5-6 years after Dead Money, Chris's wish comes true.

?

 

[Roguey]

5-6 years after Dead Money, Chris's wish comes true.

?

He's wanted to work on something like System Shock for quite a while now. Dead Money was Dead Space: Fallout DLC Edition.

 

[DeepOcean]

Well, the best we can hope for is a version of Bioshock Infinite.

Nope, the space ship is open and they allow you to backtrack from new areas to old ones so for this alone it will better than Infinite Shit.

 

[Beastro]

Why are they using the Prey title for their shameless System Shock 2 ripoff? Give me Prey 2 you chucklefucks. The cliffhanger ending has been bothering me since 2006, I want my native american in space back. It was the last good shooter I played before the decline killed the genre.

 

[LESS T_T]

(2:56) "What makes it a Prey game?"

Oh, Pete's answer

 

[ghostdog]

MCA brought me here.

I've only seen the trailer and it looked like a shitty space jump scare shooter.

tl;dr Is this anything more than Dead Space Infinite?

 

[Ivan]

holy fuck is that Pete Hines? his hair....didn't recognize him

 

[Morgoth]

^Probably that Void engine (just like Dishonored 2) which is apparently based on id Tech 6.

And yeah, better Arkane that one of Bethesda Fallout/TES teams. At least this way there is a chance that his writing will be attached to actually good game.

Except Void Egine is based on idTech 5.

According to this, Arkane Austin has licensed the CryEngine in 2013:
https://www.destructoid.com/arkane-studios-is-making-its-next-game-with-cryengine-264843.phtml

Not sure whether that still holds true or whether they made a switch.

 

[Infinitron]

2:48

 

[Siel]

Mick Gordon, the guy who composed D44M, is the composer of Prey.