Bioware can really learn a thing or 2 from Prey

You do realize that may not happen right? There is still that Dylan game coming out, and for all we know, they are at work for MEA2. There is a good chance BioWare will continue on. Just because you don't like them anymore doesn't mean the company should vanish.

The guy who reviewed it for our website says otherwise about Prey being a gem. It looks derivative to me honestly.

As to what you say in the OP, different genres, not really sure if such a thing will work with the gear and the enemies.

Writing however is interesting. Can a game, by it's very definition of having choice and consequence and character interaction, learn from a linear FPS shooter about genre writing?

Why is that? I mean, I agree, they are probably over their zenith at this point and unless there is some serious rethinking, in the studios, they'll probably no longer make the kind of games I'd like. But why wish them dead? It's not like a decline of BW wouldn't magically spring up another sutdio that will take their place. A lot of the oldschool devs have already left the company anyway and no one keeps those that are still there, so it's not like it's BW's fault that these people didn't start up something new again.
Even if they did, it' wouldn't necessarily mean that it's going to magically produce something awesome.

Let BioWare be. Best case scenario, they come up with something great again at some point.
Worst case: We'll have to rely on other studios to make BioWare-esque games. But even then, I don't see BW's demise helping us cRPG-fans in any way.

That's not a worst case scenario, that's a non-scenario.

Heh. Okay. Whatever man. I'm just too tired to argue with you at this point.

My biggest problem with the stories in BioWare games is they try and leave them extremely open ended, which I think hurt Andromeda because of it being an open world game removed a chance at structuring the game through story instead of the world.  The one advantage I see with Prey and its story is that everything is written for a Morgan protagonist, even if you swap the gender of the character all that is changing is the pronouns the NPCs use.

Something I just saw was that there is a speed run of Prey that a person can beat the game in 20min, I am pretty sure they are using things the developers didn't expect.  I just wonder how the community would have reacted if something similar happened with Andromeda.

With god awful combat.

Honestly with people comparing the game to BioShock I am pretty interested in it. And yes, I suppose at the end of the day, BioWare could learn some 'story' things from BioShock/ or Prey...but at the end of the day they are also very different stories.

I'll just wait for someone to create a thread about how Bioware can learn from The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy.

I looked at Prey and honestly it looked like it would scare the sh*t out of me playing it so I passed.  The above statement though says it all for me.  They used to do dialogue and interesting characters so much better; someone mentioned they wanted lightsabers to make the game better?  Forget that.  Just give me HK-47.  His dialogue of slightly less than veiled insults while you were trying to unlock his memory still makes me laugh out loud.  Wouldn't SAM have been a bit more fun if he had a slightly malignant personality?

It would only make things worse. The competition is already learned from Bioware's mistakes and don't think for a minute they're not paying attention. Bioware f***ed up with three horrible releases that needed heavy patching (because derr... every AAA does it... derp... why not Bioware... derp), they closed their own forums (snowflakes, p***ies, b****es because they're too sensitive. Let's all give them a collective "awww... poor baby") and everything is more beautiful in Frostbite, but they can't code paragon/renegade (because it's too hard, derp.) and make excuses not to include fundamentals that made their previous games great and popular. They're trying... it's all I can say as a compliment for now. Missed potential. No modding. EA, Enthusiasm Annihilated. (I am talking of real modding.) Character creator my ass. Here are your choices: Ugly, uglier, and fugly. I WANT MY HIT OF BIOWARE DAMN IT!!! I spent $75 on bunk.

Hmmm from what I've seen of Angry Joe playing the demo, Prey looks incredibly generic and boring. I couldn't be any less interested.

Even if the full game is good, the entire concept and style is very very different from Bioware, even before they went teletubbies in space.

Frantic survival horror combat is not something I enjoy. Nor is first person (Bioshock Infinite was an awesome ride though). So personally I hope Bioware doesn't look at that game for inspiration. But do discuss away!