7th December 2006, 1:00 PM
ABF, that CAN be chocked up to coincidence. Magical thinking doesn't JUST apply to shamans, it also applies to conspiracy theories. Keep that in mind.
As I said, the Valve guys have already stated exactly where their inspiration game from, and it was from a group in Digipen's really old demo.
Now, if you think there's more to that, that's all well and good, but provide some evidence. Circumstance and conjecture don't count.
You say there's "no way" it couldn't have been inspired, but there is. If they didn't hear about it, that's one right there. I for one didn't know Prey even existed until I saw it in a store. Unless you have something more substantial than an announcement "soon after" (and when else were they going to announce it? They had obviously already been working on it for some time, did you expect 10 years? Coincidence easily explains it without needing further entities), you'll need more evidence. Just let it be.
As I said, the Valve guys have already stated exactly where their inspiration game from, and it was from a group in Digipen's really old demo.
Now, if you think there's more to that, that's all well and good, but provide some evidence. Circumstance and conjecture don't count.
You say there's "no way" it couldn't have been inspired, but there is. If they didn't hear about it, that's one right there. I for one didn't know Prey even existed until I saw it in a store. Unless you have something more substantial than an announcement "soon after" (and when else were they going to announce it? They had obviously already been working on it for some time, did you expect 10 years? Coincidence easily explains it without needing further entities), you'll need more evidence. Just let it be.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)