I just saw PREY on sale for $5 bucks for the PC and it got me thinking that this game ranks as the least fun I have ever had with an FPS, and I tend to try them ALL. Its also the only game I paid money for ($10 bucks for Prey) that I could not bring myself to finish, even forcing myself through levels just to see the eye-candy....cheating to get all the (lame) weapons....I grew so bored I uninstalled and tossed the disc in the trash.
The odd thing is, the game was pretty..but I hated so many aspects of it that it was just toilet-bound for me.
The worst, of course, is that I absolutely hated the shallow douchebag I was trying to play. At a certain point in the game you would expect him to start "turning himself around"...but nooo he still keeps on with the "Shut up old man, I need to rescue my girlfriend!" crap and I was like "Wow..I...I actually want this guy to DIE! Can I play as an alien and blast his ass into space?".
I also hated the really lame assortment of "Bio Weapons" I had to deal with, I thought their sound stunk, and I thought their feel also stunk...they just weren't any fun to use. The main gun you are stuck with sounds like someone hitting a SNARE drum every time you pull the trigger. The later weapons didn't get much better, either. "Oh look a big...slug cannon minigun thing....kill me now".
Lastly, I really hated how the game would try to shock you with horror at some times (Little kids being killed, any parent knows thats tough to watch even when its pretend)...and then watching people die gruesome deaths....but then, 2 seconds later, your idiot character is making funny quips...and then the aliens are like "YEEAAAH!" when they turn on Judas Priest in the teleported Bar. The whole game was a writing MESS and only further alienated me.
Prey is, by far, the worst FPS I have ever played..that I really wanted to like. To its credit I think its use of the little in-game hover vehicles was cool (if limited), and it had what I consider to be nice graphics...wasted on endlessly repetitive "same ****" design...sad, could have been so much cooler if they'd just varied the terrain a bit.
I dunno....Quake 4 was also 5 bucks and it ALSO ranks as some of the least fun I've ever had with a FPS....but its alot better than PREY.
Dunno..what say you all?
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The odd thing is, the game was pretty..but I hated so many aspects of it that it was just toilet-bound for me.
The worst, of course, is that I absolutely hated the shallow douchebag I was trying to play. At a certain point in the game you would expect him to start "turning himself around"...but nooo he still keeps on with the "Shut up old man, I need to rescue my girlfriend!" crap and I was like "Wow..I...I actually want this guy to DIE! Can I play as an alien and blast his ass into space?".
I also hated the really lame assortment of "Bio Weapons" I had to deal with, I thought their sound stunk, and I thought their feel also stunk...they just weren't any fun to use. The main gun you are stuck with sounds like someone hitting a SNARE drum every time you pull the trigger. The later weapons didn't get much better, either. "Oh look a big...slug cannon minigun thing....kill me now".
Lastly, I really hated how the game would try to shock you with horror at some times (Little kids being killed, any parent knows thats tough to watch even when its pretend)...and then watching people die gruesome deaths....but then, 2 seconds later, your idiot character is making funny quips...and then the aliens are like "YEEAAAH!" when they turn on Judas Priest in the teleported Bar. The whole game was a writing MESS and only further alienated me.
Prey is, by far, the worst FPS I have ever played..that I really wanted to like. To its credit I think its use of the little in-game hover vehicles was cool (if limited), and it had what I consider to be nice graphics...wasted on endlessly repetitive "same ****" design...sad, could have been so much cooler if they'd just varied the terrain a bit.
I dunno....Quake 4 was also 5 bucks and it ALSO ranks as some of the least fun I've ever had with a FPS....but its alot better than PREY.
Dunno..what say you all?
