Bioware can really learn a thing or 2 from Prey

So Arkane's new Prey recently came out and it's an absolute gem. If you haven't tried it, you owe it to yourself to do so. It's got genuinely alien aliens, solid writing (exploring the conflict between utilitarian and emphatic forms of morality) and awesome gear/setting. I think Bioware should really take a look at the game as an example of how to create a truly interesting sci-fi game. I'm going to list a new examples:

The Typhon: these are your main enemies in the game and they come in so many different forms each encounter seems 'unique'. Even at their most basic they can mimic any environmental item to ambush you and more powerful forms have all sorts of crazy powers, the most memorable being the teleporting/telekinetic...thing that attacks you in a dark room. Even though I killed it, it was such a frantic battle against such an elusive enemy that even now I'm still not sure what it is. 

Writing: The writing is solid. Sure there isn't dialogue but you can express yourself through your choices. And these aren't trivial either, no attempted murder is not a thing in the future or illegal baby whose mother gets off scott free quests. One quest has you confront a known human trafficker and pedophile on death row in his cell. You have the choice of freeing him, or unleashing an alien monster to kill him before processing the alien monster for loot. Personally I found it genuinely difficult to decide what to do, in the end I just left him to his fate in his cell and walked away (not really a choice in the quest, but they don't give exp or anything anyway and there are other ways to get the loot from the quest so that's the choice I made and I didn't feel forced to make a decision either way)

Gear: Inventive for the most part. Though you have your standard pistol and shotgun, you also have guns that shoot foam that can trap enemies or create handholds and grenades that turn enemies into crafting materials, much more interesting than the standard scified versions of modern weapons that ME:A employs.

Also, this is how you make a selection wheel.

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