were arkane actually inspired by the original prey when making their game? i thought it was just bethesda forcing them to use the ip name since they owned it. iirc arkane said prey 2017 was another attempt from them at making an imsim set in a trapped location similar to system shock.

i didn't say they were inspired by the original. while the reboot was a new IP more akin to system shock and the name being Bethesda's meddling, its no doubt they took several ideas from Prey itself. A lot of Prey did change the game, as System Shock, Dishonored and Thief did and they were more direct inspirations for Prey (2017). The Prey title was a lot to live up and I'm just glad that it paved the way for Arkane to make something new with the name, even though it wasn't their intention entirely