By Jim Rossignol on March 24th, 2012 at 4:24 pm.
A NeoGAF poster has spotted that an announcement about the cancellation of Prey 2 seems to be in the pipeline. No official word from Bethesda yet, but tweets from a Human Head employee seem to back it up. I’m honestly really surprised by this. After Dishonored this seemed like Bethesda’s most promising title, as evidenced by our interview from late last year. It’s hard to tell what’s happening behind the NDA’d doors of a developer, of course, but this will be a terrible thing if it turns out to be true.
24/03/2012 at 16:26 ArtyFishal says:
Damn. I was really looking forward to this, Prey is one of my favorite games
24/03/2012 at 16:28 Irishjohn says:
I was looking forward to it too, though Prey definitely wasn’t one of my favourite games. I wonder will any of the ideas from this project survive for another game? The decision to make this game a Prey sequel sometimes seemed a little arbitrary.
24/03/2012 at 17:26 LionsPhil says:
Yeah. It had a deeply stylish trailer, a promising interview, and no sign of MAGICAL NATIVE AMERICAN COMING TO TERMS WITH HIS ANCESTRY.
What a
shameunfortunate event.24/03/2012 at 16:54 Torgen says:
God forbid someone try to make something different, with a little depth.
This is depressing. I was really looking forward to this.
24/03/2012 at 17:15 fish99 says:
Aside from the name the game really had no connection with Prey.
24/03/2012 at 21:18 lurkalisk says:
I believe it did, they just hadn’t elaborated much. The protagonist from the first was going to be in it in some capacity as well.
24/03/2012 at 23:22 MadTinkerer says:
Some of us who liked aspects of the first and hated other aspects (such as the protagonist) saw this as 100% the right decision.
And besides, at the end, the protagonist of the first game
[SPOILERS!]
chucked everything into the sun. Literally every place you had visited in the game (the aliens grabbed the bar, so even that) got incinerated, along with 100% of the bad guys and whoever didn’t quite make it off in time.
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So the second game wasn’t ever going to have the same setting or antagonists anyway.
25/03/2012 at 05:25 fish99 says:
In which case why call it Prey 2?
I don’t think it’s a good trend to see licenses misused like this to sell games which have no connection to the original to the unsuspecting buyer. I’m well informed enough not to buy them, but many people aren’t.
I also quite enjoyed Prey and would like a sequel that at least has some elements from the original, but I look at videos of Prey 2 and see nothing I recognize as the Prey universe, or any gameplay elements from Prey.
25/03/2012 at 07:39 MadTinkerer says:
The same reason that Half Life 2 is called Half Life 2? HL2 has only slightly more in common with HL1 than Prey 2 does with Prey 1.
If there’s more to the universe, which certain early development videos of Prey implied, then there’s nothing wrong with setting further adventures in those other worlds. Those other races enslaved by “Mother” came from somewhere.
Besides, Prey ended on blatant sequel bait. It’s a ham-fisted, utterly mediocre moment overshadowed by all the good and bad that came before it, so it’s easy to forget, but the very end of Prey is sequel bait. So there were plans for a sequel all along.
25/03/2012 at 15:57 fish99 says:
Oh come on, almost every character, weapon and enemy from HL1 recurs in HL2. The gameplay is nearly identical too.. It’s clearly the same universe, just a number of years later after an invasion and occupation.
Also Prey ending on a hinted sequel is irrelevant, because they’re not making that game. They’re just making a random game that has no connection to Prey and using the name to help sell it.
24/03/2012 at 22:15 Special Agent Brown says:
This game could survive if picked up by another company, similar to the way True Crime: Hong Kong survived as Sleeping Dogs.
26/03/2012 at 08:41 max pain says:
Or similar to DNF :P
24/03/2012 at 16:30 MrMud says:
Saw this on Eurogamer earlier today. A real shame if it is true.
24/03/2012 at 16:30 Jimbo says:
Always weird when games with good buzz get cancelled. That’s half the battle won already.
24/03/2012 at 16:30 DarthGadget says:
This game looked pritty badass,it was what I had hoped Star Wars:Bounty Hunter would be like back in the day.Dang it look so gooood :(.
24/03/2012 at 16:30 westyfield says:
Damn, this was looking awesome. Right up my neon-lit, rain-soaked alley.
24/03/2012 at 16:31 ChromeBallz says:
History repeats itself…
I wonder whether we’ll be seeing Prey 2 somewhere in 2018 or so.
24/03/2012 at 22:55 LionsPhil says:
I hope not, because the Prey 1 that got released was pretty naff compared to the Prey that was originally concieved. It’d be a shame to see that same downgrade happen to this.
24/03/2012 at 16:31 TheBrainninja says:
I heard some speculation somewhere that maybe Prey 2 was too ambitious for this generation of hardware, though I never heard anything that sounded outside their abilities. If that is the case, or at least is one of the reasons why the project was maybe canned, I would be pretty bummed about that. Let the PC run with it! Bring it to the neXtBox or PS4ever some point in the future!
I hope these rumors are baseless, but with every passing hour that seems less and less likely.
24/03/2012 at 16:55 Torgen says:
Too ambitious for the outdated consoles, is more like it. And everyone *knows* you can’t make money on a PC-only title….
24/03/2012 at 18:27 El_MUERkO says:
If console power is the case then they could easily have pushed the boat out for the PC version, sold a tonne of copies on the PC then released the Super Ultra Mega Special Edition on the Nextbox 430 :/
24/03/2012 at 19:26 pilouuuu says:
I think that developers should start testing waters with next-gen titles on the PC. Then later they’ll just need to convert to the consoles. But developers like to do it the wrong way…
25/03/2012 at 10:55 LionsPhil says:
Replace “developers” with “publishers”.
25/03/2012 at 21:13 aDemandingPersona says:
+1
24/03/2012 at 16:32 SkittleDiddler says:
The original Prey is highly overrated IMO, but this one looked really promising. Bummer.
Just another reason to put Bethesda on my blacklist, I guess.
26/03/2012 at 06:11 Uninteresting Curse File Implement says:
UNDERrated, more like.
It seems you can’t post an article about Prey OR Prey 2 without a bunch of people popping up to express how much they hated the original. It seriously seems to draw the Dragon Age 2 levels of hatred and I’m not sure it deserves it.
It had gravity manipulation, and portals, and scale tricks, but meh, who cares about that, now a Native American protagonist, that’s a dealbreaker!
26/03/2012 at 06:28 MD says:
So a large proportion of the people who dislike it dislike it because they’re racists? That seems like a bit of a crazy insult to throw around without any evidence.
24/03/2012 at 16:33 mrwonko says:
Might not have been very similar to Prey, but it sure looked interesting anyway. Would be a shame if it was cancelled.
24/03/2012 at 16:34 TychoCelchuuu says:
HUGE FROWNY FACE
24/03/2012 at 16:36 caddyB says:
Better if it’s canceled if it was going to suck otherwise.
24/03/2012 at 17:30 LTK says:
Did it look like it was going to suck?
24/03/2012 at 17:44 caddyB says:
You never know if they could really make all those great ideas they were talking about a reality though. It looked and sounded great, but that is also.. kind of hard.
24/03/2012 at 18:20 LTK says:
That’s just as true for any other ambitious game that gets announced. I’d have preferred it to have been finished and bombed than not having been finished at all.
24/03/2012 at 18:59 Zelius says:
I understand how you might have preferred that, but it doesn’t make much sense, financially.
24/03/2012 at 22:27 lurkalisk says:
Profitability depends quite a bit on how it looks, not whether it’s good. The first few weeks are the most important, and Prey 2 definitely had what it takes to sell well initially. So it’s set to sell at least a decent amount. If it’s good, everyone’s happy. If it’s bad, at least we know and Bethesda would likely make their investment back.
24/03/2012 at 23:12 Xocrates says:
Duke Nukem Forever sold less than 500.000 copies on it’s first month, and that was one of the most hyped and anticipated games ever made.
It’s entirely reasonable to assume that if the game was bad, even with good marketing, Bethesda did not expect to make the money back and just decided to kill it before the cost rose further.
25/03/2012 at 10:57 LionsPhil says:
DNF really wasn’t hyped in the everyone-wants-it way by the time it was released, unlike this—it was just widely known. It had become a running joke driven by curiosity to see what had emerged from its tortuous journey through a developmental large intestine, and the early response was that it was a stinker.
25/03/2012 at 12:32 Xocrates says:
Regardless, DNF had way more visibility and interest than this one, even if only due to its status as a joke. I would be willing to bet that the amount of people interested in getting DNF was greater by an order of magnitude compared with the people interested in Prey 2.
24/03/2012 at 20:55 TechnicalBen says:
Strange. It never stopped all those games that did “suck” from being released. Why break a tradition? :P
But really, it’s sad when so much work goes into something for it to come to nothing. Looked rather unique. Not 100% space marines stuff.
24/03/2012 at 16:37 simoroth says:
I’d like to point out that although the cancellation is very likely, those tweets don’t back it up.
Short sighted marketing departments and executives sometimes stop developers from discussing their work at conference because they are idiotic and think that they are giving away secrets to the competition or polluting their marketing drive with things they don’t understand.
24/03/2012 at 16:43 Vandelay says:
Quite. I was about to post to say that the tweet is only in reference to Zenimax pulling the Human Head talk out of GDC. Doesn’t exactly fill you with confidence, but it is certainly not acknowledging the game being dropped.
Game looked awesome though and was definitely one of my most anticipated titles.
24/03/2012 at 21:31 Commisar says:
yes, RPS took that comment WAY out of context.
24/03/2012 at 22:10 TsunamiWombat says:
From the perspective of a marketing director though, this isn’t bad publicity. People are talking about the game even though there’s nothing to announce. If it’s still business as usual, this is effectively a free publicity drive and all they have to do is come out and say “nope, we’re still making the game” and it gets people talking.
24/03/2012 at 16:39 frenz0rz says:
Bugger, I was quite looking forward to that.
24/03/2012 at 16:44 Unaco says:
We don’t know any details about this yet… so it might be a bit hasty to throw outrage at Bethesda, or say this is a terrible thing. The game looked and sounded great… wonderful concept, great ideas, and the devs were saying all of the right things in the interviews and releases. But… it was quite ambitious, quite an audacious type of game to be making… and it was slated for release this year. We’d seen some footage of it… but not much… and that which we did see seemed pretty linear. It could be that Human Head weren’t delivering or weren’t able to deliver the game that they had intended… that the interesting ideas and concepts and gadgets and open ended world and approach to bounties, weren’t being pulled off. Could be that what was intended as a somewhat immersive sim type FPS was just a sub-par shooter.
Bethesda might have just saved us from Daikatana 2.
24/03/2012 at 16:59 Lars Westergren says:
>The game looked and sounded great… wonderful concept, great ideas, and the devs were saying all of the right things in the interviews and releases. But… it was quite ambitious, quite an audacious type of game to be making
Yes. I thought it sounded lovely, but at the same time I thought – “Wow, this can’t be cheap to make”. Big, open world, open levels, non-linear story (I think it was hinted at?) and jawdropping graphics….
24/03/2012 at 18:11 caddyB says:
I couldn’t say it better myself. No really, I tried.
24/03/2012 at 18:20 Acorino says:
It’s true that Prey 2 sounds very ambitious, but this is true for pretty much all games published by Bethesda, isn’t it? I just hope this rumor isn’t true. I was very much looking forward to it. But I wondered why we heard so little about it recently…
24/03/2012 at 18:21 Xerian says:
Even more so when realising that Beth arent the deciding factor, but ZeniMax are.
25/03/2012 at 13:53 Harlander says:
On the other hand, they might have ‘saved’ us from something great.
I’ll keep my grumbling powder dry, though…
24/03/2012 at 16:44 LifeSuport says:
Bethesda, striving to be come the new
EA, Activision of this decade…24/03/2012 at 16:46 Unaco says:
Human Head… almost as bad as 3D Realms.
25/03/2012 at 07:49 MadTinkerer says:
I keep forgetting Prey 2 isn’t by 3D Realms, because Prey was originally started at 3D Realms shortly after DNF.
24/03/2012 at 17:21 magnus says:
Oh really, just because of ONE cancelled game? (enourmous sigh/headdesk)
24/03/2012 at 17:32 SkittleDiddler says:
You obviously haven’t been paying attention to Bethesda’s current track record, eh?
24/03/2012 at 18:21 ResonanceCascade says:
They published some crappy games and have QA issues. TEY MUST BEE EVEEL!
24/03/2012 at 18:22 caddyB says:
And Paradox seems to be well liked.
24/03/2012 at 19:03 SkittleDiddler says:
Not evil, just irresponsible. As a AAA game developer and publisher, they should know better.
24/03/2012 at 17:36 Kaira- says:
Well, there’s also the fact of completely disregarding customers while knowing to launch a game with a gamebreaking bug which hinders the ability to enjoy a game. What game is it? Why, it’s Skyrim. On PS3. Source here. Then there’s the case of Obsidian’s bonuses, but I wouldn’t personally count it, though it shows something about their morals.
24/03/2012 at 18:36 Jenks says:
What did Bethesda do wrong in terms of Obsidian’s bonuses? They failed to meet quality expectations (as usual), so they didn’t get their bonus. In business, almost doesn’t count. Bethesda did absolutely nothing wrong.
24/03/2012 at 19:11 Acorino says:
Measuring quality based on an arbitrary Metacritic score is not what I would describe as the right course of action…it’s not like such scores are something of a reliable metric. For one, scores are given by reviewers based on intuition than on anything else. And then how do you arrive at a fairly weighed score, anyway? And how do you account for reviews on sites that don’t give any score at all, like Ars Technica, Kotaku and Rock, Paper, Shotgun?
Not to forget the stupidity of converting all kinds of different score systems into a single one. When IGN gave New Vegas a 9, how could this be interpreted on the MetaCritic scale? Is this like a low 9, a middling 9 or a high 9? What is a low 9 anyway? 90%? Or something like 87 if we would account for rounding up?
And what is about all the reviews that weren’t counted? Because the reviews that MetaCritic picks are just a small and pretty arbitrary selection. Some reviews by german publications like GameStar and PC Games are accounted for, but what about this review by gamezone.de? With its score of 9,1 it might have made all the difference…
No, I think this just another way for Bethesda to weasel their way out of bonus payments. I can understand the criteria of commercial success, but a Metacritic score?
24/03/2012 at 19:24 caddyB says:
It doesn’t matter if it’s Metacritic score or if my grandfather’s game review website that only he reads himself gives it a certain amount of stars or something. I love Obsidian as much as the next guy, but If you don’t meet the amount that’s agreed upon earlier in the contract, nobody owes you anything. It’s sad, and it’s wrong to measure how good a game is based on it’s Metacritic score, but if they signed it that way, that’s how it’s going to be.
It sucks to be a developer without your own publishing arm, it seems.
24/03/2012 at 19:28 Acorino says:
Sure, those are the terms, but I think we can agree that they are pretty stupid terms? And that the difference between a 84 and a 85 has little to do with the quality of the concerned game?
24/03/2012 at 19:31 caddyB says:
Yes I agree but like I’ve said, it makes all the difference when you need a 85 to graduate and get 84 instead. That’s just how things work.
24/03/2012 at 20:37 Shooop says:
By making a quality game that was released too early but continues to be patched?
Yes, that is so much like EA and Activision who purposely cripple a game right from release and tell everyone there is nothing wrong with it, that they’re right and everyone else is wrong.
24/03/2012 at 16:44 HermitUK says:
I was really looking forward to this. Previews certainly made it sound like something I wanted to play.
24/03/2012 at 16:48 D-e-f- says:
It received so much praise last E3, I was really looking forward to this … well, I still am. Holding out hope!
24/03/2012 at 16:54 Bfox says:
I wonder if this is another publicity stunt by way of getting people to talk about it again, whatever, game looked sort of promising.
24/03/2012 at 17:03 ResonanceCascade says:
Making people think your game isn’t coming out sounds like a really stupid publicity stunt. “Gee, let’s confuse the consumer so they don’t even know if our game is actually being made or not.”
The fact that the Doom 4 rumors got a swift denial and this got a “no comment” tells me that something fishy is going on, be it a major delay or a cancellation. I can’t imagine that we’re going to hear that it’s all just peachy.
24/03/2012 at 16:55 MadMatty says:
This is so weird, the gameplay video and concept semmed quite promising
24/03/2012 at 16:57 Demiath says:
That’s a shame; it looked really good, most of the press coverage have been very positive, the concept was solid open world stuff which should have been doable, and there were no prior indications that the development was troubled in any way.
24/03/2012 at 16:59 Beelzebud says:
Let me guess: It was using idtech5, and they couldn’t get it running good without significant re-writes of the renderer.
24/03/2012 at 21:14 DrGonzo says:
It was using idtech4.
24/03/2012 at 17:00 empyrion says:
Human Head just cannot seem to get a break. I have to say that this is really unexpected, as I got the impression that they were quite advanced in the development process. Are we sure we are not talking about a large postponement instead of a cancellation?
24/03/2012 at 17:02 Petethegoat says:
I guess this is the perfect time to see if Kickstarter can work for games with an AAA budget, eh?
24/03/2012 at 17:19 Torgen says:
Except that Bethesda probably owns all the code and art, seeing as how they were paying Human Head to make the game.
24/03/2012 at 17:05 Derpentine says:
Beelzebud – no it was tech4 with heavy modifications.
Anyway – Bethesda were not concerned about the engine or anything like that, it seems to be around release dates and changes to the content. They stopped paying the guys at human head, who carried on working for a few months.
Publishers, dinosaurs that need to be culled.
24/03/2012 at 17:06 zontax says:
It’s like they don’t want to make profit.
It’s one of the few games I’ve really been looking forward to.
and you would expect that Bethesda has some room to take risks after the HUGE success of skyrim.
24/03/2012 at 17:08 Wreckdum says:
I still remember the first time I crawled through that vent then turned around and it was a different room… MIND = BLOWN. I can’t believe no one else did that until Portal… Or more people aren’t using it now.
24/03/2012 at 17:13 mrwonko says:
Well, there’s Antichamber, at least.
24/03/2012 at 17:33 LTK says:
I think Antichamber is in a different league altogether. Not so much “MIND = BLOWN” as an infinite loop of “MIND = BLOWN = MIND = BLOWN = MIND” printed on a Möbius strip.
24/03/2012 at 17:33 LionsPhil says:
That kind of trickery had been done before Portal: the original Unreal Tournament engine can do it. (And the very original, cancelled Prey did it all properly, so could pull off stuff like portals that are part of complex moving level geometry.)
25/03/2012 at 23:42 Thiefsie says:
I believe Forsaken (Descent Clone on hi tech back in the day) had physically improbably rooms ‘portals’ as well which I found to be refreshingly mind bending.
24/03/2012 at 17:09 Dowr says:
Damn it. God damn it! Although I have no reason to expect Prey 2 to be good (sequel to a bad game and published by Bethesda) the concept really interested me and could of been a great game if the developers really nailed the execution.
24/03/2012 at 17:11 mcwizardry says:
Hope it’s not true, there were a lot of elements to the game that seemed promising.
24/03/2012 at 17:17 Hoaxfish says:
This just feels stupid, especially since it seemed so far along, and seemed like a genuinely “new thing” compared to a lot of the other stuff in the current market.
24/03/2012 at 17:17 Yuri says:
A shame. The concepts that the devs liked to talk about really had me excited for Prey 2. :(
24/03/2012 at 17:20 Turbobutts says:
It’s over, Bethesda have defected to the dark side.
24/03/2012 at 17:40 magnus says:
A massive face plam is the only conceivable response I can make to your post.
24/03/2012 at 18:04 Tokamak says:
Yeah, everyone knows that Bethesda has been a wolf in sheep’s clothing for quite a while now.
24/03/2012 at 18:13 JackShandy says:
Game development isn’t divided into people who want to make you happy and people who want your money. It’s just a big mass of people who want to do both.
24/03/2012 at 17:25 Iskariot says:
How in the name of the gods of gaming is this possible?
The game sounded so promising and unique. It was on the top of my list.
I so much would have liked to play a bounty-hunter in een alien open city world.
Perhaps Lucas Arts could pick up on the idea and create a game called ‘Nar Shaddaa’. Just copy the Prey 2 idea but in a Star Wars setting and you are golden.
I would sell my soul and pay with my blood to be able to finally play a memorable non-MMO Star Wars game again.
24/03/2012 at 18:00 Drakedude says:
Damn it. Damn it all to hell. This had better not be true, and if it is I DEMAND A FUCKING KICKSTARTER!
24/03/2012 at 18:09 rocketman71 says:
Rage was released and Prey 2 is cancelled?.
Great work, Bethesda. Great fucking work. And another “notch” up the scale of shitty publishers. EA, Acti and Ubi are waiting for you up there, guys.
24/03/2012 at 18:11 jplayer01 says:
So, where’s the petition I need to sign?
24/03/2012 at 18:25 Drakedude says:
+1 all the fucking way. I can accept a delay. But not it being cancelled. Hell no.
24/03/2012 at 18:15 Muzman says:
All we know is that the GDC talks were cancelled, don’t we?
Couldn’t that just mean they missed a target or two and they’re not going to do any such PR until it’s back on track?
24/03/2012 at 18:19 Artista says:
I prey this isn’t true.
24/03/2012 at 18:28 JackShandy says:
This seems like jumping to conclusions – or it would, if Bethesda weren’t being silent on it. I don’t think there’s a lot of evidence that Prey 2′s cancelled, but why wouldn’t Bethesda speak up if it wasn’t?
24/03/2012 at 18:32 Kadayi says:
Damn it, that sucks. I was looking forward to this one.
24/03/2012 at 18:36 Max.I.Candy says:
actually this hasnt surprised me all that much.
had a funny feeling about this from the start.
would of been on my list if it became real.
24/03/2012 at 19:01 Navagon says:
Oh come of it! They published Rouge Warrior and released Brink and Rage in unfinished states and then they cancel this one? Prey 2 looked stunning. I don’t buy it. There’s got to be more to this.
24/03/2012 at 20:19 Silphatos says:
You forgot Hunted!
24/03/2012 at 19:24 Xaromir says:
To be honest: I see it as finished. No every great game needs a sequel.
24/03/2012 at 19:32 Acorino says:
It is more a sequel for marketing purposes than for anything else. It has little to do with the first game regarding the story, setting, gameplay and characters involved. Well, the aesthetics are pretty similar, I guess.
24/03/2012 at 19:29 pilouuuu says:
Here we go… All attempts at creating something ambitious, original or different destroyed… Maybe they were annoyed that it was not like COD…
24/03/2012 at 20:05 newprince says:
It’s like STALKER 2, only more cancelled.
Seriously though, I played a good amount of the original only because the MP was somewhat interesting (we played the MP demo when I was a game tester at THQ. Ah… memories). It had some novel ideas in that game, but the single player was laughably bad IMO.
This game seemed like such a departure that it was hard to get a feel of what it actually was. That seems to work for games like GW2, but not for a game like this. Meh
24/03/2012 at 20:17 StaticMigrant says:
This better not be true. I liked the setting, the idea, the gameplay and everything they’ve shown us so far, even if it was not a huge amount. My “interesting FPS of 2012″ list is already too small anyway… it would be a real shame if it missed this game.
24/03/2012 at 20:18 Silphatos says:
Nice commercial Bethesda.
24/03/2012 at 20:22 Coldblade says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ
24/03/2012 at 20:29 kud13 says:
Really?
this was the most promising game of last E3.
great job, Bethesda.
24/03/2012 at 20:52 RagingLion says:
Nnnooooooooooooo. (is my probable response if it made good on what it seemed to already be showing that it was doing)
24/03/2012 at 21:07 daphne says:
Depressing. I was very interested in this game, and I’m someone who plays raw FPS (i.e. no significant bleeding from other genres) once every few years or so.
24/03/2012 at 21:26 CorruptBadger says:
If this does go into development hell, i wish they’d do some sort of kickstarter thing, i’d put a few dozen towards it
24/03/2012 at 22:11 Davie says:
STALKER 2 was resurrected. Don’t give up hope just yet.
24/03/2012 at 22:45 PoulWrist says:
This sucks :( This sounded so cool.
24/03/2012 at 22:55 bear912 says:
I would be very, very disappointed if this turned out to be true.
24/03/2012 at 23:58 Navagon says:
There’s no way this will be allowed to just die. One way or another they’ll get the funding to finish it. Even if Bethesda doesn’t want to know anymore.
25/03/2012 at 02:13 Veritaas says:
That really, really sucks. It seemed like it was really far in development too (judging by game footage).
25/03/2012 at 02:17 Grayvern says:
It’s from a dutch website that is mostly speculating on the GDC talk cancellation, so it could be a storm in a teacup.
However gameinformer got a ‘no comment’ when contacting Bethesda, which makes me think it’s true.
25/03/2012 at 02:28 Kevlmess says:
The obligatory song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZmr8ycnmCs
._. Oh my.
At least we’ve got Dishonored. For now.
25/03/2012 at 04:03 alinos says:
That’s disappointing one of the few games i was actually looking forward to.
25/03/2012 at 12:46 Prime says:
Crossing all fingers, toes, ribs, testicles, chromosomes for this NOT to be true. Prey has been on my Most Anticipated list since it first appeared. PLEASE, Bethesda, don’t let such an exciting prospect die!
25/03/2012 at 12:53 The Sombrero Kid says:
Smells like BS to me tbh, remember the doom 4 cancellation rumour? my guess is Bethesda are having an evaluation just now & they just got round to this game, an employee saw the big wigs in the office and put 2 & 2 together,I seriously doubt they published hunted, made a tonne from skyrim & then thought let’s go canceling all or games & make an mmo our staff don’t want to make and gamers don’t want to play, pretty much every rumour about Bethesda we’ve heard before was BS, so will this be I reckon.
25/03/2012 at 14:41 Nethlem says:
Well that pretty much fits perfectly into my current view of the world.
We get new versions of angry birds, mass effect with tacked on micro transaction multiplayer and a whole slew of “F2P” games that only exist to suck money out of people pockets like an slotmachine.
But one of the few games that actually managed to impress me these past 2 years, that seems to get cancelled? What’s next? An announcement for Modern Warfare 4 at an 80€ pricetag?
Can’t we just end this? This is like watching an hurt animal wind in agony…
I’m voting on a crash of the videogame industry, who’s with me? It’s not THAT bad! We just have to accept that some things are beyond repair and thus need to die!
If we are lucky it might come back even better and more awesome. Maybe they will start creating actual “games” again? Okay that’s total crazytalk i should stop..
26/03/2012 at 04:21 MD says:
There’s still plenty of good stuff, really. It’s just that there’s also more bullshit than ever, and some of it is making huge amounts of money. But you can filter out a lot of the rubbish, and find enough great games to keep you entertained.
25/03/2012 at 15:09 vodka and cookies says:
Very disappointing news, I’d seen the in depth previews for this and it was looking very promising indeed.
I wonder what happened, Zenimax was pretty far into pushing the game marketing wise for it to be cancelled, I’m guessing whoever was championing the game at Zenimax left and the new person in charge killed it.
25/03/2012 at 15:12 brulleks says:
Gah. The one game coming out this year apart from Dishonoured that really seemed to be promising something new and interesting.
Let’s hope the show of support in comments threads changes Bethesda’s mind.
26/03/2012 at 03:47 hosndosn says:
Despite the odd lack of any native american themes, the game looked really promising. As a game, not a sequel to Prey. Maybe a bit of franchise-rape, but at least the game behind the name looked interesting. Too interesting, apparently.
26/03/2012 at 20:15 WrongThinker says:
I felt the first one was painfully mundane. Shooting something standing on the ceiling wasn’t any more interesting than shooting something standing on the ground. The levels were as boring as the enemies and weapons were.