>publisher forces entirely new game to reuse old title despite having no connection whatsoever with old game
Has this ever happened before?
>>340988405
>Has this ever happened before?
Yes with Wolfenstein
Reboot.
>>340988614
Uhh? All the Wolfenstein games have some connection with each other. I mean, even when id took the expired trademark for the c64 game and made a spiritual sequel
Just thought of one: Kirby's Epic Yarn. Originally a new IP until Nintendo forced them to put the Kirby IP on it.
>>340988641
It's not a reboot, that implies there's a connection with the original when there isn't.
>>340988405
It's not fucking fair. It really isn't.
>>340988942
>that implies there's a connection with the original
Not true at all, there is no implication when it comes to reboots, just that the theme is similar. A reboot is exactly that, a reboot, it's supposed to be different, it can be different in many ways, not just a retelling of the same story.
>>340988405
Welcome to Fallout may I take your preorder?
>>340989858
Sorry but reboot implies that bares some similarity or relation to the original, this is a name attached to an entirely different game.
>Chris Avellone is on the Prey dev team
What the fuck.
>>340989858
The first Prey is nowhere near what the just showed off in the trailer
Unless Micheal also has some weirdass native american spirit powers
Starfox Adventures, kinda.
Quake 2, unfortunately not quake 4, and probably quake champions
>>340990326
It would explain why he's a labrat.
Fallout 3 is obviously the first one to come to mind
I never even finished the first Prey but I remember it to this day.
Nothing about that trailer reminded me of that game.
>>340990326
Morgan. And his last name is Yu. So if anything he'll have weirdass Chink spirit powers.
>>340988405
The Darkness 2
Red Steel 2
>>340988641
It's not a reboot, that would imply it has some connection to the original. This is a complete remake (a shitty looking one to me) of the series.
>>340991248
>This is a complete remake (a shitty looking one to me) of the series.
Isn't that literally what a reboot is supposed to be?
>>340991565
No, reboot is more like restarting a series and making some tweaks here and there. A remake can be a complete redesign of a series from the ground up, like this appears to be.
>>340992257
I don't think there is even a word for what this is. It's not a reboot or remake or reimagining - it's straight up an entirely different game with a name attached.
>>340992257
>In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning.[
Ehhh, you're kind of wrong. A reboot is to start from scratch.
>>340990314
>Chris Avelone works for Bethesda now
>He might work on next TES
YES PLEASE
>>340988405
Fear 2 technically. Though they did change the story around to fit as a sequel.
>>340988405
If you mean what I think, Kirby's Epic Yarn.
Final Fantasy.
>>340988405
Yup. And it was one of the best games of all time
Street Fighter 3.
>>340988405
i hope they reuse the children killing scene, shit is weed yo!
>>340993113
You're joking right?
You know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the development cycle of this game.
>>340992978
Final Fantasy Legend is a good one.
>>340993113
>Pic not related
FTFY
Super Mario 2.
>>340988405
Final fantasy
Xenoblade x
Zelda
Some Fire Emblem games
>>340990428
Not the same thing, retard.
That would be calling Quake 2 "Quake(1998)".
>>340988405
Are people just fucking oblivious to what OP is talking about?
Not a single proper example.
>>340993281
Different anon here, fill me in
>>340993591
*Quake(1997)
>>340993591
Because it's never happened before. They always have some sort of link.
>>340993537
This is a good example.
>>340993591
Kirby's Epic Yarn is a good one (it was an original IP sprite-swapped late in development), as is Final Fantasy Legend (which was the first SaGa game with the FF name added in the West)
>>340993673
Just go to the fucking Wikipedia or any FAQ website.
>>340993898
nah
>>340988405
This is a marketing clusterfuck, if the name alone is not good enough to sell a sequel creating a entirely new game and using the same name is pointless.
>>340994071
Bethesda just refused to greenlight an entirely new IP. I think it's going to lead to some backlash imo and cause them headaches.
>>340993887
But that's not what OP is trying to convey.
Bethesda isn't reusing ANYTHING about Prey.
They're just making a game and calling it "Prey".
I'm guessing the reason for this is because, they don't actually own Prey IP. They have no rights to the first game, even to resell it.
What Bethesda owns is a license to make a game called Prey. And that's it.
>>340994219
The damn businessmen need to get out of the industry already.
>>340994071
>>340994219
Probably some legal thing they needed to do to keep the rights to Prey.
>>340994352
Well, that's what publishers do. They're basically financially institutions that specialise in games.
>>340994280
Uhh, you're replying to the OP, Anon.
>>340994517
Most likely, they probably had an IP lined up for it but thought it would be much easier to just kill two birds with one stone.
>>340994539
Then not even you have any idea what you're talking about.
Bethesda Prey isn't a reboot.
It's not a pallet swap.
It's not even a rename
After some light googling this apparently happened with board games quite often.
