PREY demo today...

<Dubz> · 21 Jun 2006 at 09:48

got this come into my inbox from Gamespot.

Havn't seen anything of this before, looks very Doom 3 ish, guessing it's the same engine.

http://uk.gamespot.com/promos/2006/prey-demo/index.html

edit: okay i just watched the latest trailer, Dang this looks good.

edit2: okay just watched trailer 3 which is basically 2 or 3 mins of someone playing the game, REAAALLLYY want a go!

ic1male · 21 Jun 2006 at 09:57

Not available until 9PM Pacific DT tonight IIRC, so that'll be 5am Thursday morning here.

Gerard · 21 Jun 2006 at 10:20

Really love how demo releases are usually timed to suit americans and screw the rest of the world. :rolleyes:

Gerard · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:35

Interesting thing about prey, its the doom 3 engine using a new direct 3d renderer according to gamespot, at least unlike ea and thier pacific assault (which ea claimed was a new engine and was nothing but quake 3 with a d3d renderer, same as cod 2) 3d realms aren't swinging from the ceiling claiming its a new engine.

Lagmeister · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:55

Probably because it looks far too like doom 3 engine, in looks as well as game style so any claim like that would be seen through by the peons.

PinkFloyd · 21 Jun 2006 at 19:22

I will be downloading the demo of this as soon as I wake tomorrow I imagine. Looks great, especially the whole running the on the roof thing. Graphics look great.

clapton is god · 21 Jun 2006 at 19:29

5am...if we are lucky.
and i'd like to remind peeps that it could be even later if it is an exclusive d/load .

PinkFloyd · 21 Jun 2006 at 19:33

clapton is god said:
5am...if we are lucky.
and i'd like to remind peeps that it could be even later if it is an exclusive d/load .

I'm hoping download.com have a link..... there usually pretty quick. Everywhere else is really slow or you have to que for ages

Psyk · 21 Jun 2006 at 19:45

Gerard said:
Really love how demo releases are usually timed to suit americans and screw the rest of the world.

What do you expect them to do? Favour the UK and screw the rest of the world? It's an american game, it makes sense to release at a time thats convienient for the US.

HangTime · 21 Jun 2006 at 19:48

It's arguably MORE convenient for europeans anyway, since by the time there are decent direct links up it will be morning in europe - meanwhile the yanks are going to bed.

Gerard · 21 Jun 2006 at 21:08

Psyk said:
What do you expect them to do? Favour the UK and screw the rest of the world? It's an american game, it makes sense to release at a time thats convienient for the US.

Well why not have it around 7pm est or 8pm est? That asking too much? Around 5am for us is retarded.

DaveyD · 21 Jun 2006 at 21:24

Gerard said:
Well why not have it around 7pm est or 8pm est? That asking too much? Around 5am for us is retarded.

As it'll be some other awkward time somewhere else in the world instead then. Not everybody can be happy.

Best thing to do is get over it, it's not the end of the world that you can't get your mitts on a demo for a few more measly minutes or hours. I'm interested in the game, but I'm not going to be there hitting refresh at 5am to get it downloaded. It's something nice to wake up to at 9am maybe, or start downloading before you get off to work.

dave2k2005 · 21 Jun 2006 at 21:45

Well, this looks like the demo we have been waiting for

5 huge levels, and it all looks very very fun, I will so badly cry of laughter if the game is crap

Waiting all this time, game looks amazing etc., then it turns out like timeshift ¬_¬

kdd · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:04

Gerard said:
Well why not have it around 7pm est or 8pm est? That asking too much? Around 5am for us is retarded.

impatient

Adjective

1 restless and intolerant of delays
2 anxious and eager, especially to begin something

Gerard · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:15

kdd said:
impatient

Adjective

1 restless and intolerant of delays
2 anxious and eager, especially to begin something

Cute....

Energize · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:21

Gamespot always have downloads at retarded times, if they put it at 6pm est it would be 11pm in the uk and 8am in places like Japan. Instead they have it optimized for people living in the pacific ocean. :rolleyes:

Why dont they use gmt instead of their own timezone, makes it a hell of a lot easier to tell what time it will be in your own country. :confused:

BloodWolf · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:22

Yay!!!!

Can't wait <3

Hey what is IIRC? Just wondering.. :confused:

dave2k2005 · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:31

I hate GS speeds so much, only get a few KB because everyones just spamming their servers, thats what I ahte about these exclusives :rolleyes:

<Dubz> · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:38

i dont mind, i dont finish work till 7am and i probably wont remember for a couple of hours after that

DaveyD · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:40

Energize said:
Gamespot always have downloads at retarded times, if they put it at 6pm est it would be 11pm in the uk and 8am in places like Japan. Instead they have it optimized for people living in the pacific ocean.

Why dont they use gmt instead of their own timezone, makes it a hell of a lot easier to tell what time it will be in your own country.

They've probably got good reasons to release at that time, but at the end of the day, what, you're going to lose maybe 4 hours of not being able to play it if you get up at 9am tomorrow and don't have to go to school/work etc to get up for. Big deal you have to wait then to maybe 5pm tomorrow. Not as if you have to be one of the first people to download and play it or anything. If it was 12pm GMT, you'd still get people moaning about they've got to wait 12 hours, they want it at 00:01am !!!!