7th December 2006, 11:31 AM
Quote:Are Prey and Portal REALLY all that similar?
Try watching the Portal trailer and then the Prey "portal wrench" video. If you come out with any response other than "Portal obviously was inspired by Prey"...
Now, I know that Prey wasn't the first game ever to have portals; some old games do have them. And it'd have been much better if it'd had user-creatable portals as an official part of the game, certainly. But still, Prey took the portal idea way farther than any other title; the portal concept was the central idea of the game from its original inception in 1995. Sure, Prey didn't actually get released until this year, and other games have had some small, limited uses of portals in the meantime, but still, it clearly pushed forward the concept in a big way. There's no way that stuff like Portal (or Narbuncular Drop) wasn't inspired by it.
Want more proof? Hmm, I wonder why Valve announced Portal so soon after Prey's release...