https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/report-arkane-studios-has-until-november-13-to-find-a-buyerThey won't find one, same as Ninja Theory.
>>750200381Didnt the original founder offer to buy it back or does microsoft want 50 billion for it or they would rather bury it and piss on it and hoard the ips in a coffin so no one else can touch it?
Thanks nigg-Dingahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTUuZdxqWWI
>>750200508They'll sit on it, no point in helping out potential competition!
>>750200381its chuds fault because they didnt buy redfall and prey..
All the decent devs left after NuPrey and even then everything they made after Dark Messiah was consoleshit with Harvey Smiths faggo pandering, that paled in comparison.
>Buy successful studio>Run it instantly into the ground>Sell for peanutsHow big do you think the bonus of the genius that came up with this strategy was? 50 million?
>>750200671Neither of these games were made by Arkane Lyon. Prey is also a masterpiece.
>>750200741>Run it instantly into the groundBethesda was already doing that way before the buyout, part of the reason they sold.>Dishnored 2Flopped>Wolfenstein the New ColossusFlopped>NuPreyFlopped>Fallout 76Flopped>DeathloopFlopped>Wolfenstein the YounbloodFlopped>RedfallFlopped>SaarfieldFlopped
>>750200793>Prey is also a masterpiece.It's a mediocre recycling simulator
>>750200381
>>750200381Them closing would be very sad. The Lyon studio was the original one too. it's not like the US branch.Release the unfinished half-life and The Crossing game as your dead man switch.
>>750201121>Them closing would be very sadNot really, Arkane was dead the moment Bethesda bought them out.It's just a fucking brand
Ohhhhhhhhmmmmmmm…….
>>750201335All the games Lyon worked on after being bought were very good to decent at worse. I'm not going to rewrite history.>All dishonored games>Deathloop>Small support on Prey
I really hope they stay afloat if only so we can get a Dishonored 3.
>>750200381Keep the layoffs coming!
>>750201464and they haven't done anything since.It's been a decade of nothing.
>>750200991But there was a shitty tv show.
I feel like Arkane would be doing better if their games didn’t have shit marketing. Dishonored 2 and Prey were both good games, but they sold like shit because they did a piss poor job marketing them.
i don't play western games anymore so i don't know, but is there a western company that's actually doing good? seems like they're dying left and right
>>750202723Hiding in Japanese games is just sticking your head in the sand. All of them are pozzed to the core by their Western branches whispering in their ear that we want woke we love woke we need woke.
>>750202061no thank you. you just know they gon put another nigress girlboss in it
>>750202912ok, but is there a western company that's actually doing good? seems like they're dying left and right
>>750202723IO Interactive is doing okay. Their Bond game did alright and even if it didn’t, they’d stay afloat because of Hitman. Rockstar are also obviously gearing up for GTA VI, and Larian and Sandfall are industry darlings at this point.
>>750202912They can be pozzed as much as they want if they keep making good video games.
No survivors
>>750202559Dishonored 2 sold well and was marketed correctly. the problem was the first game was dark and brooding and the second was set in bright and sunny argentina. and the troons too.
>>750203085Most of Arkane’s games are good. The issue people had with Dishonored 2 was that some wokeness ended up butchering the lore and that the plot was lazy. The actual gameplay was outstanding though. Even Deathloop was decent from a gameplay perspective.
>>750203601Arkane is one of the western Devs I actually like. I don't want to see them go under, I want them to rebound. Redfall is the only truly bad game they've made.
>>750202559100% true. I didn't buy Prey on launch because I thought it was a horror game. Years later I discover it's actually an imsim and have the time of my life playing it.
>>750200381HAHAHAHA I just called it this morning >>750194098
>>750200381oh no... not arkane!
>>750200991Das rite
All the people who created Dishonored and Prey already left and formed their own studios, and are working on new games.
>>750202061After how disappointing 2 was? No thanks. Dishonored 1 stands by itself it never needed any sequels.
Microshart actually needs more studios like Arkane. Small budget AA games that are just decent enough for what they are is the only way to make gamepass worth it. Can't keep putting 500m dollar games like queers of war on the sales blackhole and expect to break even.
>>750202061Deathloop is Dishonored 3. It's also a much better Dishonored game than 2.
>>750202504and he got killed in that movie lemao
>>750203946>development is so fucked they just have slideshows instead of real cutscenesShould have cancelled that piece of shit all it did was lose money and embarrassed both Arkane and Microsoft.
>>7502040362 was good as a game, the problem was just that they hired Tumblr writers and Raphael wasn’t there to tard wrangle Harvey Smith in terms of writing and lore decisions.
>>750200741It’s a perversion of the capture and kill strategy. Works great for tech companies but not so much for gaming studios.
>>750204101It’s retarded how it destroys the Dishonored world so nothing you did in the other games mattered.
>>750200381>Arkane is getting axedFucking finally. It's honestly a crime that they're still alive after making nothing but flops, when Microsoft has killed studios for less. The Blade shilling needs to stop, too. Snipes was cool, 1&2 are great movies, but no one actually cares about Blade the character.
When do people reailze that people make games, not companies, and that people leave said companies? So much undeserved value is tied to the sign in front of the shop.
>>750204256It was the logical conclusion, the ending you were always steered toward was high chaos and letting the Empire by destroyed. Outsider would be proud of the outcome
>>750204197Randomly bringing back Delilah as the villain (at Anita Sarkeesian’s request) and most of the missions taking place in broad daylight really killed the mood.
>>750204037Yeah, a constant churn of co-op sloppa is the way to go. A mix of chill hangout games and goofy brawlers and FPS. More games where you can meet people probably.
>>750203891Rocksteady next? The Skydance acquisition might cause things to happen.
>>750200381>forced to make Redfall>it flops>they get the blame for it, not the suits at Bethesda and Microsoft who pushed them away from their specialty
they gotta go and cancel the ONE capeshit game that was a cool black dude from the start instead of being blackwashed character like Black Thor or Black Spiderman or Black Cyclops
>>750204717Thst is in fact the entire problem with the Western Game industry. Arkane has a (relatively) clean record so it's more noticeable, but it's the suits behind everything, and then just escaping the collapse with all the money.
>>750204628They definitely deserve it after Suicide Squad. Most of their old talent is long gone.
https://archive.ph/ascU1>As the end of internal consultations and negotiations approaches, two unions are warning of the announced death of one of the biggest names in the French video game. They blame the American group for an “incoherent” decision and a “disrespectful” attitude.>Finally, it is in the run-up to these deadlines and after finding that “the negotiations on the PSE are going badly”, according to Simon, that his union and the Union of Video Game Workers (STJV) have decided to alert on the situation of the studio. “Microsoft no longer gives us a choice,” the union delegate told Le Monde. On 13 November, the official date of the end of the consultation of the Social and Economic Committee (SEC) on the proposed closure, the company will have to decide.>Although it officially negotiates on these terms until Friday, October 30, the union does not ultimately exclude to challenge “the economic motive of the plan to close before a court”. “This is in total contradiction with what we have been told in the CSE for years about the economic situation of the company,” Simon said. According to him, “Microsoft is looking to separate from Arkane, while the studio is doing well, in order to save money and improve the profitability of its investments in the short term.>“How can we justify this when Microsoft’s annual net profits are in the hundreds of billions of dollars? “, for its part, questions the STJV, which deplores on this point the lack of transparency of the company. Ecological spring also criticizes the band’s attitude and its “downcoming decisions made from afar and brutally imposed on the studio.” “We’re a collateral victim of Xbox’s strategy change,” Simon said, referring to a “cannibalization.”tldr: Arkane says they are profitable, was previously told they were alright, and will see MS in court if push comes to shove
a blade game is doomed. there's no blade movie in modern marvel. capesloppers have no attachment to him. they never saw ironman have sex with wesley snipes in the avengers. the peak of the franchise is a movie that was kinda decent and came out 30 years ago. it's already dead.
>>750204195The impression I get of Redfall is that it’s a game the studio didn’t want to make, but were mandated to make. Getting a company that specialises in immersive sims to make a co-op shooter was a bizarre move in Microsoft’s part. What interests me is that Raphael and Harvey have both said they’d want to make a Dishonored 3 if given the chance.>>750204505Tbf, most missions in Dishonored 1 take place during the daytime too. It’s just gloomy overcast weather.
>>750204870Nothing surprising here. It lines up with what we expected
>>750204717Even if Redfall was a 10/10 immersive sim it would still get made fun for its lame and gay writing and characters. Those game from Arkane themselves.Harvey Smith literally tried shilling the game by saying vampires are like a metaphor for capitalism. No suit put a gun to his head forcing him to say that.
i thought marvel gives money to make the game
>>750204592So, games like Kiln?
>>750205119Well considering their studio is being bled dry by suits, the metaphor appears to be on point lol
>>750205049i typed out 30 years ago as an exaggerated joke to emphasize how long ago it was and how nobody cares now but i just checked and the movie actually came out 28 years ago kek
>>750205119Harvey is an extremely talented level designer and game designer, but he should stay the fuck away from writing. He did the level design for the OG Deus Ex and the Dishonored games afterall.
>>750201464>dumbed down consoleshit filled with pozYeah, no, glad they're dead, Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah will remain their magnum opuses.
>>750204478Outsider's dead, whales are all (or almost) gone and their mystery and magic is gone with them, with only echoes picked up in the Egor's experiments, the world went through a cataclysm and Blackreef was the only place unaffected because of the timeloop, breaking it open at the end reveals everything's fuckedIt's a really fucking bleak way to end the dishonored universe
>>750205151Stop thinking. It doesn't suit you.
>>750205151Other way around, Microsoft is paying Disney
>>750205304Tbf, the tone of the games was always bleak, and the heart implies right from the first game that the logical end point of the universe is that the Void will swallow everything.
>>750205304As I read this, in my head I pictured Outsider doing the CGI Zelda "Good"
>>750200381>Creators of Redfall and DeathloopYikes.
>>750205090Redfall was in development before the acquisition.
>>750202723Only really small devs Big western publishers are eating mid to large studios alive
>>750205151They don't give any money. Marvel owns the ip, they get like 20% of the money from each sale of the game. Marvel's role is creative support/collaboration.
>>750200381>Arkane about to shut downWhat's wrong? Is making woke trash not working out for you?LMAOOOOO
>>750205151>nearing the end of productionHow many more years will they need?
>last games being Redfall and Deathloopoof, not looking good for them
>>750205695repeat after me:woke did not kill Arkane>woke did not kill Arkanewoke did not kill Arkane>woke did not kill Arkanewoke did not kill Arkane>woke did not kill Arkanewoke did not kill bioware
>>750205662>Big western publishers are eating mid to large studios aliveThat hasn't been true in more than a decade
>>750205832That's literally all thats been happening for the past decade+ the fuck are you talking about
Reminder that Arkane also helped make this piece of shit.
>>750205827Woke isn't real goyNow bend over
>>750200924What was the problem with Dishonored 2? I didn't like the setting as much as the first game's but the missions were really well designed and Emily's powers felt more balanced than Corvo's.
>>750205882Mid sized companies got gobbled up aftee the 2007 crisis.The new ones that gained notoriety and success around the mid-late 2010s are all independent/private.The only ones with any relevance in the last 10 years were Devolver buying out Croteam and EA buying Codemasters.The middle market has never been healthier.
>>750205903Bad feminist writing recycling a DLC villain and most of the plot beats from the first game.Should have just made Jindosh the main villain if they wanted to make a homage to Thief 2.
>>750200741EA is the king at killing studios.Microsoft may try but they can only dream about a list with equal prestige as EA's kill list.
>>750205903It's not bad, just feels utterly pointless. It's the same game as the first game but generally worse (two mansions notwithstandin).
>>750200982you're a mediocre recycling simulator
Good Arkane games and when they released>Dark Messiah - 2006>Prey - 2017That's it. 27 years of studio history.
>>750206149How can you like Dark Messiah but not Arx Fatalis or Dishonored?
>>750205903>Another consolized piece of shit like Dishonored 1>Less atmosphere>Terrible pacing>Making Emily a playable>Fag shit written in everywhereArkane went fron a top tier dev to mediocrity just by being near the vicinity of Bethesda and being cut off by Gabes terrible management which almost killed Gearbox and downright killed Ritual Entertainment.
>>750205827aaaaaaacccccckkkkkk
>Haven't made a good game since Dark MessiahNo Dishonored was not good, it is consoleslop but it was not woke I'll give you that much
>>750206149>Arx Fatalis - 2002>Dark Messiah - 2006FTFY
>>750206149There's only one bad Arkane game (Redfall)
>>750206241Emily has fun powers and isn’t an annoying girlboss. It’s just pointless making her and Corvo voiced protagonists since they never have anything important or interesting to say.
>>750206283Every single level in Dishonored has a note written by a gay character whose only personality is being gay.
>>750206306>Death to the Outsider>Youngblood>Deathloop
>Colantonio left and started a new studio>Harvey along with other Arkane veterans Ben Horne and Ricardo Bare started a new studiowhat's there to save? all important people left
>>750206384Exactly, making Corvo a voice protagonist adds nothing to the plot much like making Emily a playable character adds nothing to the plot, it's just by comittee checkmark bullshit.
>>750206452Deathloop is good desu
>>750206468What about Dingus Baka-baka?
>>750206468WE HAVE TO SAVE DINGA
Will companies stop making games designed by focus groups now?
>>750200924>>Fallout 76Akshually they did a 180 with this and it's one of the few live service games today making money. It gets new content every 2-3 months
>>750206424You know what you are right Anon, I was too kind. Dishonored is shit, Dark Messiah is the only good game Arkane ever produced, their half life 2 expansion would have probably been shit too
>>750206507It has so much wasted potential with the looping gimmick you have to follow the main quest to beat the game the way the devs want you to. And the buggy multiplayer invasion gimmick only detracts from the game.
>>750206195>but not Arx Fatalis or Dishonored?Arx Fatalis has neat concepts but also it is too old for its own good. The movement and combat are clunky, the magic drawing is barely ever functional, most terrains and animations look pretty bad not just because they were made during the age of low poly count 3D but also because the game was too large and ambitious for what the developers were capable of making. It could've been a good game but the dev team was not ready to realize the vision at the time. Dark Messiah is a much smaller, less complex game made after Arx Fatalis with additional funding and that was barely enough to make a good game.Dishonored is just overrated as hell. The difficulty is baby's first stealth game. The cartoony artstyle is off-putting to me. The narrative was weak and the sudden twist betrayal was so easy to see coming it's a plothole that Corvo didn't notice it
>>750200381Lol in this economy? They are fucked. Can you feel it? The new video game crash? It's in the air. It's so beautiful.
>>750206594Will companies stop making games designed by focus groups now that they've successfully closed every studio that still made interesting IPs? Hmmmm no, I don't think that will happen. I think we will be seeing nothing but focus group games now.
>>750200381Based. No more niggers in my vidya please.
>>750206503I didn’t mind the torch being passed down to Emily though it would have been better if she was still a cute loli.Ideally it should have had a completely new cast instead of being a direct sequel to 1. Dishonored could have been a great anthology series.
>>750206507Deathloop is ass and Dinga is a Bethesda nepobaby hack
Death of the Ousider was the Joker 2 moment for Arcane, no sure how they hung around for almost a decade after that
>>750206594If the EA message after Bioware's closure is an indication you're only getting sports and live service games from now on.
>>750206651True, its a rushed game, it needed like 3 times the stages and multiple ways of completing the loop. But the level design is great, the emphasis on high chaos is refreshing after being brow beaten for it for 3 games, the villains are much more charismatic than pretty much everyone but Daud in the original games and they all have either unique powers or weapons that make them interesting targets as opposed to glorified grunts. Imo Deathloop is a better Dishonored 2 than Dishonored 2.
>>750200381Hey they voted for this
>>750200381I LOVE WINNING BY DOING NOTHING
>>750206598Their Half Life Expansion looked good, but I doubt it would be more than Half Life 2 with worse atmosphere and more gimmicks.Ep1 and Ep2 were very much the same and the focus on Alyx was terrible. Big chunks of the episodes remind me of that part in Nova Prospekt in the base game where you have to wait for like 20 seconds for Alyx to open a cell door while talking to you.Terrible design to focus on superficial level writing and character interaction.
>>750206862This is better than nonstop DEI propaganda and I mean that sincerely. A decade of tranny domination has made me fucking miss shootersports dudebros.
>>750206792Same with Halo or any game with decent lore, but management is fucking retarded and thinks the games won't sell if they don't keep milking the same characters, concepts and situations.
>>750206891>Deathloop is a better Dishonored 2 than Dishonored 2The hate boner people have for Dishonored 2 makes zero sense to me. Play it as intended, with Emily, and you'll realize it's the best imsim ever made. Ignore the DLC thoughDeathloop's main problem is how much it relies on FPS combat, and the combat just sucks. That and the fact that you have to run the same routes through the same levels like 10 times before you finish the game
>>750206862Good, all EA should make is sports shit until they're shut down
Never heard of this guy before. Only knew about Harvey and Colantonio.He seems like a terrible studio lead with a track record like this.
>>750205903Female leads flop.
>>750202414That's pretty standard AAA game development time these days
>>750206059>It's the same gameThe only people who say that played as Corvo. He should've been an NG+ mode because he literally makes 2 a bad clone of 1 whereas Emily turns it into a great sequel with new abilities and a story that reverses the roles of the original and gives Emily a nice arc
>>750207149And I sincerely mean it when I say that you are a retard. Now that any studio that may be capable of making a unique game has been successfully sabotaged and torn apet, we can focus on the live service world of forever. This is literally the inteneded endstate of the last 20 years.
>make game for investorsgo broke>make game for journalistsgo broke>make game for twitterfagsgo broke>make game for evil chudsmoney
>>750201121I thought the Shepherd game was very unfinished and what got leaked was just a tiny amount.
>>750207716The flaw in your reasoning is that you thought making games and turning a profit from them was ever the goal. Acquiring and liquidating assets was the goal. Or do you think the heads of Microsoft aren't making outrageous amounts of money for themselves as these smaller companies go bust?
>>750206862At least we’re still getting a few decent Star Wars games.
>>750207180>The hate boner people have for Dishonored 2 makes zero sense to me.It's just edgy chuddies overacting to the woke elements of the game. Nothing else.
>>750200381How do you fuck up a simple slam duck that is a blade game + movie
>>750207680Retarded devs due to ideology and neophire deserves to get purged. Liveserviceslop already suffers the same fate of burning money and getting closed like Highguard.
>>750207680>Now that any studio that may be capable of making a unique game has been successfully sabotaged and torn apetlmao, all of said studios haven't been under an AAA company in years, too bad you'll never find them slop eater.
>>750207871Pushing blame higher up the chain of suits doesn't work anymoreI blame the devs directly. The head of studio at Arkane, the game director behind their recent failures, the narrative lead making everything gay and about women, the art director making everything about niggers, the individual programmers shitting out spaghetti code, the individual artists making everything ugly as sin, the HR department for existing, I blame all of them for their collective failures
>>750204852The people buying these studios don't know that their value is highly dependent on individuals at the production level.Honestly it brings me great pleasure watching these publishers lose their asses by not understanding that
>>750208106Working exactly as the people on top intended.
>>750200381Why would you want to buy a business filled with leftists?
>>750200381I haven't been this excited for anything videogames in like 5 years, long time coming.
>>750200381I bet they were preparing to sideline Blade for some girlboss or some shit like that, but after Halo and E-Day Microsoft is panicking and trying to cut them off.Which is funny, because Microsoft probably mandated it in the first place as development started..
>>750205903Just look at the cover and you will know why no one wanted to play that slop.
>>750207871That's all fine until the free money dries up and every single AAA game publisher folds up overnight. It's going to be so vindicating watching them desperately fighting over scraps and holding the bag while indie games and AA are raking in the potential.
>>750208298Their ips might be valuable. But all of their writers and artists need to be fired.
>Arx Fatalis>Dark Messiahonly two good games. the rest was mediocre and/or woke.
>>750208372Yeah it's real funny, the people responsible get away with all of the money and continue what they're doing and everyone else is just collateral damage.
>>750208298This is what happens when you have unchecked intellectual property laws, they're just passing around money and there's no product.
>>750208419>>750207381>>750206241Why is Emily bad? Also just play as corvo if you don't like her.
Will the industry ever recover from the damage inflicted by the Trump1game era?
>>750204791>Black CyclopsThey were making a Demoman game?
>>750206503Who gives a shit about the plot? Emily being playable gives you a bunch of fun new powers to do the levels with.
>>750206792I feel like they brought Corvo back for 2 because he’s an iconic stealth protagonist. Look at his character design and tell me it isn’t the coolest looking shit.
>>750208562what the fuck does this schizo babble even mean?
>>750208609The plot of the first game wasn’t groundbreaking, but it was a perfectly serviceable plot for a stealth-action game, and there’s even replay value in uncovering the lore and foreshadowing. 2’s plot is just a mess and feels like a bad fanfic.
>>750208562...What?
The only thing I remember about D2 is that they changed the Outsider's VA because the original's reddit name was something like trannydestroyer.
>>750208882Story in a videogame is like story in porn. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important
>>750208967It’s somewhat important for an immersive sim where the point of the genre is to immerse yourself in an authentic feeling world. Carmack made boomer shooters, so of course he wouldn’t care about story.
>>750208668An Overseer protagonist could have been kino.
>>750208837>>750208894Arkane's downfall can be traced back to them making leftist "vibe" games like Death of the Outsider, Youngblood, Deathloop, and to some extent Redfall (this one is partly the fault of execs becoming insane after the covid bubble burst, but the base product is still a "vibe" game). Leftists thought they won culture forever and ever and the games in that post are exemplary of that. Many such cases for Western game studios.
>>750208837>>750208894Genuinely which part of that post made you confused? Trump1 means his first term
>>750200381SHE CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL
>>750209228>the point of the genre is to immerse yourself in an authentic feeling worldThe point of the genre is giving you the freedom to achieve a mission's goal in multiple different ways and reward exploration and creativity. Does anyone give a shit about the Story in Thief 1? Garrett being a suave motherfucker is fun to listen to and plays into the fantasy but it's not a very complex tale full of twists and turns.
>>750208668They brought corvo back for 2 because 75% of people wouldn't buy the game if they couldn't play as him again
>>750207904No it's pretty universally considered a worse game than 1. I think it's clearly superior. The art direction is the only thing where you COULD choose 1, but I wouldn't
>>750209549Thief shouldn't really be considered an imsim because it's just a stealth game. There's literally nothing more to it. Devs were just too full of themselves to admit they made a stealth game
They deserve it for trying to bury the original Prey. Fuck them and fuck nuPrey
>>750209395The only problem with that is that the game has to be about being an assassin out of necessity, since the whole structure is about hunting down and eliminating targets. I could see a game about an ex-Overseer having to take out targets dealing in the occult while being on the run from his former Overseers though.>>750209401I really do feel like that whole period of cuiture is going be looked back on as a bizarre phase in culture. That kind of culture died around 2019-2020, but we’re just now starting the see that be reflected in media because games and movies take so long to make now.
>>750200381The company that could have printed money by delivering Dishonored 3 and perhaps 4 too? Good riddance, that's what happens when you don't produce stuff people are willing to pay any money to buy.
>>750200924How was New Colossus a flop?
>>750209869I think the reason they didn’t mill Dishonored to death was because Raphael said he wanted to try other things after it came out. In the developers let’s play of Dishonored 1 though, he said enough time had passed that he’d be interested in another Dishonored again.
>Dishonored 3: We Already Raped All The Lore, Sorry! Edition
>>750209913I remember that shit being 50% off 2 weeks after it released. Pretty sure they said upfront it was a sales disappointment.
>>750209869You have to be extremely retarded to think that Arkane themselves wanted to make Redfall.
>>750210049It's understandable you don't want to get saturated with the same title and material, but fuck, it came out 14 years ago and they could have at least started working on the third one. Not saying pump one each year like COD, but ffs Dishonored brand sells like warm pies.
>>750205151>Marvel's Blade is "nearing the end of production"Surely they have a trailer or even any gameplay footage they could show off? That'd help entice potential buyers.
>>750209808Funny how people only talk about the original Prey just to cry about the name being reused for a much better game.
>>75021036314 years is about 3-4 games in the current AAA dev cycle. If Arkane wanted to try other things, they’d do it before touching Dishonored again. Not to mention that Prey was a passion project that they genuinely wanted to make just like the first Dishonored.
>>750210441>Much better game>Only time anyone ever talks about it is in reference to it stealing the name of a much older gameYeah the new Prey is so good and that's why no one plays it or talks about it, just like Concorde and Dragon Age Veilguard, and Highguard and Deathloop, they're sdo good stupid gamers just don't understand how good they are
>>750205903i remember there being layered levels and from the top floor the shitty ai could see you through the floor when you were on the bottom floor and sitting behind cover.
>>750210441You must be retarded if you think nuPrey is better in any fucking way. Kill yourself
>>750210441prey 1 is another one of those "good" games that nobody buys or plays
>>750210631The original Prey was only ever remembered as a mediocre 2000s FPS. Prey 2 then got attention because it had a cool premise, but then people started shitting on nu-Prey because they were salty about Prey 2 being cancelled (even though Prey 2 barely had anything to show us and it was apparently a complete trainwreck behind the scenes).
>>750210234From what I heard it sold 2 million copies. So it wasn't really a huge flop. I honestly Rage 2 was a bigger flop cause at least people remember TNC. Everyone forgot Rage 2 was even a thing.
>>750210720Immersive sims sell poorly in general. It’s a curse of the genre. It’s a niche genre for autists.
MORE WESTERN STUDIOS SHUTTING DOWN
>>750200381They died because Wokeverine flopped, didn't they? Blade expectations got cut and MS realized it's not worth making
>>750211127it was an fps with some portal like tech, not even an immersive sim
>>750210678Prey 2017 is one of the best immersive sims of all time. It’s the closest thing to a System Shock 3 we’ll ever get.
>>750211318>one of the best immersive sims of all timeI imagine that everyone who says that never played another imsim in their lives. Otherwise it just doesn't make sense how that bland ass game can be considered the best of anything. It's competent, that's about all it is. Generic level design, generic abilities, generic story, generic characters, generic art direction, worse than generic mobs. A blob is a pretty bad mob when you're trying to use stealth, half the time you don't even know which way the blob is facing, what were they thinking
>>750211295Could be. It’s always a gamble making a Marvel game. They would have been safer making Dishonored 3 or another IP.
>>750210761Way to rewrite history faggot. It actually innovated to the point where people were demanding a sequel which got canned and then we got nuPrey garbage
>>750211541I agree enemy design/variety was weak and it becomes too easy once you start abusing the recycler/getting too many neuromods. But the level design and amount of freedom you have exploring the whole station is great. Especially letting you go outside and fly around in zero g.
>>750211318Its a shit game with absolutely boring as fuck environments and boring enemies. It does nothing new at all. You are a fucking retard
>>750211690The original Prey 2 also had nothing to do with the original.
>>750211318>It’s the closest thing to a Bioshock 3 we’ll ever get ftfy
>>750211707And guess what, original prey did all of that better even while not being an immersive sin. You simply never played it. NuPrey is zoomer core
>>750211758Yes it did. You continue where the original leaves off. Did you even play the original?Do you even know what you're talking about
>>750211886>new OC bounty hunting on a random alien planetWow what a faithful sequel to a game where you’re a Native American trying to save his gf from aliens.
>>750209808not this schizo nonsense againthis has to be some organized discord meme campaign, there's no way you actually this zealot about scenario you invented in your head
>>750211754>>750211816You guys have such an inferiority complex lmaoTry making threads about your “beloved” classic and see how many replies you get
>>750212134Yes you clearly never finished the original fucking retard
>>750212319Why are you so mad? Why care about a mediocre FPS with one cool gimmick so much?
>>750212149KillYour SelfNuprey is for fucking low IQ zoomer faggots.Combat is fucking exploitable to the point where the game is a fucking slog. Never design is insanely bland. Your little game has nothing going for it.Happy this Dev died. Now make like them and kill yourself as well
>>750212215No one on /v/ talks about good games./v/ is for posting games with fanservice or games that absolutely fucking suck. This is why we saw so many nuPrey threads. When you look inside you see how many people dislike it
>>750212450The original Prey’s dev died back in 2019 lol, after making garbage like Brink and The Quiet Man.But Prey 2 would have been amazing guys! Really!
>>750212405>mediocre Why not actually try playing games before posting about them?
>>750206664For me, it's the lack of interaction with NPCs. It doesn't have to have a Morrowind level dialogue system, but I should at least be able to ask a quest giver for fucking directions.
>>750212537Go back to /vr/ then instead of seething like a whiny bitch
>>750212619>noooo you can’t dislike my favorite game!You are mentally ill if you would give it more than a 7/10.
>>750212587Even Brink was better than nuPrey. At least it had actual gameplay
Schreier says they will be fine.
>>750212659Nah. I'd rather keep reminding you that you should kill yourself like Arcane just did
>>750212757Good joke.
>>750212758well now they're cursed, thanks stupid kike
>>750212758How many times has he been wrong now. This is just getting sad
>>750212821I’m sure you’ll get to play Prey 2 in your dreams one day.
>>750200381After Blade Trinity's release, the Blade IP has been nothing but failures at this point
>>750212758I think they will spare no expense this time. Coping isn't journalism.
>>750212848Heres a better joke >nuPrey
>>750212758You know what’s even more expensive? To keep funding woke games that are guaranteed to flop.
>>750212919With AI models he probably will since theres half a demo already out there and a lot of footage
>>750213005not in europe where it's illegal to fire someone, and surprise europe has no industry
>>750213068Just close them down anyway. What’s Macron going to do? Send feral “students” to burn down the studio?
>>750212758Is he the Jim Cramer of videogames
>>750205895i dont think this game was that
>>750213291Kek he might, but not before sucking them off
>>750213483>Uhhh did I just like…shoot a Nazi? Epic! (vomits then starts dancing)
>>750213291>studentsis that france's new euphemism for algerians
>>750212450Take your meds, retard. And then consider getting out of your discrod cult. Arkane just as responsible for the death of Prey 2 as Kojima and Sam Lake.
>>750213605Not to mention Youngblood ending on a cliffhanger when TNC already ended on a cliffhanger
>>750212758Ironic to bring out Shrier. He's the main reason why Prey 2017 didn't become System Shock 3 but Prey. Back in the day Arkane wanted to buy SS IP which was dormant. The kike leaks it on Kotaku, the price hikes and Bethesda nopes out of the deal.
Arkane started falling when Antonov died.
>>750214002>wanting Bethesda to own System ShockFuck no.
>>750205895Yes, levels for it. The only good part.
>>750214064and now Tencent owns ithappy?
>>750213776Non-white rioters in general
>>750207968Because they wanted to make some knitting circle shit with blade as a very distant secondary character.
>>750214146Would Microsoft have been better? It's a dead IP anyway.
>>750209606I didn't find it worse, felt like largely the same game but more. I guess they are called "immersive sims" but I wish games like those were more common.
>>750200381>The Blade movie was canceled>The Blade game will be canceledI notice a distinct lack of Westley Snipes in either of those.>There's only ever going to be one BladeTalk about calling it.
>>750200381My power continues to grow and all I did was nothing.Trannys, what say you?! Bow to your new master!
Sony put a offer on arkane, they want european studios and divest a good chunk of their westcoast american developersThey wanted to own them even before deathloop
>>750215149Sony would just turn them into another Marvel slop factory like they did to Insomniac.
>>750205173I wonder if they based the main vampire bad guys on Bethesda and Microsoft suits, like DICE did with Andrew Wilson in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst.
>>750200381Good riddance. Coming from someone who liked most of their games
>>750209395I dont know why more games dont have something like that were you play as a guy from the enemy faction of the protagonist, a sitting or ex Overseer who was Dishonored would be fun especially if you got to fight Corvo or Daud
>>750200381So will immersive sims go back to being a niche indie thing now that both Deus Ex and Arkane are dead?
>>750200381Not shocking in the least
>>750203946Not only was Redfall DEI garbage, it barely functioned or ran properly. Like a woke Left 4 Dead 2 Alpha
