Prey Is Terrifyingly Underrated
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I used a rather large portion of one of hbomberguy's superb video essays for reference in this video, you can watch the full thing here:
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00:00:00 - Prey is Terrifying Underrated
00:05:15 - Introduction
00:08:15 - Neuromod Division
00:11:44 - Talos 1 Lobby
00:20:02 - Hardware Labs
00:26:14 - Talos 1 Exterior
00:31:27 - Psychotronics
00:41:34 - GUTS
00:42:42 - Arboretum
00:48:31 - Crew Quarters
01:00:34 - Deep Storage
01:04:34 - Cargo Bay
01:08:14 - Life Support
01:10:48 - Power Plant
01:22:57 - Unfinished Business
01:31:59 - Talos 1 Bridge
01:47:44 - Shuttle Bay
01:52:56 - The Finale
02:01:57 - The Flaws
02:10:54 - The Special
02:21:03 - Outro
Again, I can't thank you enough for watching. I'll be picking up production on vid projects so you won't have to wait so long for a video from me again. See you very soon ;) - เกม
Something NOT talked about enough is how good the AI is. So many instances of phantoms or robots scouring and area looking in every nook and cranny to find your ass
It does have its quirks though, a nightmare watched me walk through a UNLOCKED DOOR into a room, he could’ve had my ass, but decided to taunt me by sitting just through the wall, in the hallway. Had me shitting bricks😂.
"Colony" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Galaxy magazine, June 1953. The plot centers on an expedition to an uncharted planet, on which the dominant, predatory alien life form is capable of precise mimicry of all kinds of objects. The size and complexity of the mimicked object can vary from simple doormats to whole spaceships with the larger objects usually attempting to trap and "absorb" humans similar to carnivorous plants.
Nearly 3 hours of Prey? count me in!
Haha my kinda guy
I can't stop watching content on this game, or even playing the game, or trying to put into words WHY I love the game so much. I think WAY too hard, about everything. So when I have a game thay studies/presents the mind, ethical quandaries, the 'human condition' philosophy or putting that nagging feeling of "Am I doing the right thing?"
It immediately goes towards the top of my list of favorites.
@tickledpickle5671 I agree 110% it's one of my favorite games of all time now. I love it to a degree it's hard to explain, but I tried in one of my videos on the game here: th-cam.com/video/9zRzPbpCM3U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=u50_az_uT54ZHjRx
Bro completely forgot he could use nullwave transmitters, stun guns, and emp grenades on technopaths
I love when anyone gives this game the credit it deserves. I'm truly saddened by the fact that this type of game tends to sell badly, thus giving studios no incentive to continue making them. Yet they have some of the most passionate cult followings of any games out there
n a world where even "monopoly go" a smartphone game which outsells even Witcher 3. its most likely that the new kind of "gamer"doesnt like to think too much. therefore. we can be happy if we even get a new Prey or Nier Automata. the chanches are very low.
@@wahtari2994 dont be so reductive. No one ever talks about "monopoly go" or other popular mobile games, unless if its about how much money they can get from suckets
I’m so fucking MAD AND SAD, Arkane Austin shut down. We will likely NEVER see more Prey :((((
i love how when u install typhon abilities turrets will try to kill u
That is a nice feature, I love how it's incremental too so it doesn't happen straight away with the first install, but shows that Morgan is losing more human essence over time
make sure you have hack and if nothing else, the Typhon neuromods to change their allegiance with your mind
On a pure Typhon build, use force or electric arrow on those turrets to either disable/destroy them. But this also increases the Nightmare Typon to hunt you more that the Pure Human build. Small spaces like vents or closets are your safe options to kill it, since this game is close to 7-years old, that monster WILL glitch through to eat you!
If you install the Machine Mind Neuromod you can stop the turrets from attacking you at least long enough to go to each and hack it manually
@@XSilver_WaterX no such thing as age when talking about bugs and glitches. Bioshock 1 from 2007 has less bugs than Prey from 10 yrs later, simply one game was made by competent people while the other is made by arkane under bethesda. Bethesda games, the only games were roofs and walls are merely a suggestion. You can literally vault over shelfs in prey and end up out of bound, cuz most ceilings got no collision at all.
I've played through Prey nearly half a dozen times now, both on PC and Xbox. Yet this review showed me new things I hadn't discovered before - both the trick with Calvino's mug and the bullet stash under the entrance to Life Support. This game is still full of surprises.
The greatest aspect to the game in my opinion where the many things u could do in it.
From harvesting materials, choosing ur build, choosing how u fight.
The fact that gloo could be used for environmental changes aswell as combat.
The fact that u could control turrets.
And the cool ways to fight using the typhoon powers.
Don’t get me wrong the atmosphere is good but i find the gameplay overwhelmingly more present in the back of my head is what i remember most about it.
It is really good for play variety, that's another reason why I'm 7 playthroughs in. It's just got the variety to be fresh each time. The DLC seems to add to that a lot as well and really make you think outside the box.
@@thegavinside i didn’t know there was dlc, atleast i didn’t remember so thx for telling/reminding me :).
Also i came from reddit, and i liked ur video.
Thanks for coming to watch :) and yeah, I'd never played the DLC either, it has some really interesting roguelike elements though. It's called Mooncrash.
If only the game was bigger 😢
My favorite comparison for Prey is Metroid. People don't often think of horror when they think of Metroid (or at least they didn't until Dread), but I would argue that cosmic horror was at the game's earliest roots (just listen to the main menu theme!). In the very first game, the eponymous creatures didn't appear until near the very end of the game, but they were absolutely terrifying. These creepy, floating, vampiric jellyfish things would appear out of seemingly nowhere and beeline straight toward you, latch onto you immediately, and rapidly drain your life as you helplessly tried to remove them. The only way to remove a Metroid was to morph into a ball and frantically plant bombs until one managed to blast it off. They were also virtually impervious. The only way to kill them was to freeze them and immediately follow up with five missiles before they thawed out. It was a lot like the feeling of encountering a new Typhon far beyond your capabilities.
Metroid also had that same feeling of cloying isolation - this was the reclaimed ruins of a dead alien civilization after all - and mastery of your environment as you gained new traversal abilities and grew more familiar with the layout. It also had, in its own primitive way, a sense of problem solving as you discovered how your abilities unlocked new and hidden areas you might have been confounded by or missed entirely before. It even had the same sense of being inside a thriving ecosystem, as creatures would emerge from holes in the walls and floor, and rooms you left would become repopulated.
I see a lot of Metroid influence in Prey. Heck, the box art even looks a little like a smoky Metroid floating in the back ground above Morgan.
I've never had a chance to play any of the Metroid games, but you do make it sound very apt. I'm familiar with the term 'Metroidvania' that it coined as well and in some ways, I'd class Prey under this banner - having to revisit areas with new powers to unlock new things and places.
Prey is my favourite immersive sim of all time. It’s exceptional, and so is this video!
I have almost 300 hours in this game
loved every one of them
The last few characters corpses I have to find are the ones in the IT room that is Locked unless you kill literally everyone in the game. I cant do that. I cant let any characters die by my hands in any game lol.
@@sam11182 I remember not realizing how to get into that room but then found a method of glitching inside by using a bunch of gloo on the door and then throwing a recycler grenade. In clearing the gloo it somehow also removes the door itself
@@EvilTim1911 XD that is hilarious! I have the PC version and that method was removed in the updates and I spent countless hours trying over and over to get in using that method but no. I had to give up.
The Cheat Engine got me in! But it was not really worth it. I expected to find the bodies of the crew members but it was just their Id's. The countless hours and the 10 refills of the Gloo gun and the recycle grenades were wasted.
Really loved this recap and breakdown. I just finished Prey for the first time and have been binging video essays about it - this has been one of my favorites.
My thinking about the Shuttle: I was doing a “save as many humans as I can” playthrough and figured that if there was any chance that the humans onboard were ok they should be given the chance to survive. Moreover, I figured that the earth folks would be able to deal with any mimic outbreak anyway since I had no trouble dispatching them with my wrench :P
1:07:00 love that framing, actually
1:15:00 actually you can repair or gloo up an elevator shaft next to the fabricator/recycler and just leave without fighting any of them.
1:46:55 also what's so interesting about the Dahl choice to me is its basically asking if you're willing to be Alex. it's asking if you're willing to do to someone what Alex did to you with the neuromod wipes because you deem it's for the greater good of saving people. it's essentially asking you if you'd gaslight someone on the potential of saving human lives. and does them being an enemy make it easier for you? like of the game's 5 endings (you either destroy and escape, you destroy and don't escape, you set off the nullwave and escape, you set off the nullwave and don't escape, Alex's secret ending), all the 4 real ones tell Alex the same thing (see: the next paragraph). the Dahl choice is also a reflection of the story (just like the Fake Chef story is a reflection of the actual story) that's asking you questions about itself and what you're willing to do.
2:00:12 I mean, it's partly there for role-playing purposes but also, it's giving you the ability to judge people one last time, and finally decide how you feel about Alex at the end of it. this is because of the clever way and deeply unscientific way that Alex has set up the simulation in the first place. the reason the fake escape pod is not a legitimate choice is not because it's just a funny haha ending, it's because Alex won't allow the typhon that he's experimenting on to have an out from the experiment, it's inherently unscientific, the only option for you to get to the ending is to let Alex win one way or another. if you kill every human, it's telling Alex that you're willing to do whatever it takes and that you're capable of following orders, especially ones you deem as saving people (also love how Dahl actually praises you for doing his job for him if you're killing everyone). if you don't kill everybody, it's telling Alex that you're willing to do what it takes for science and helping people advance to a better society. the first option tells Alex that you care about people on a larger scale and you're willing to sacrifice the few for the many, the second option tells Alex that you care about people on a more intimate scale and think about the future and won't let humans die whenever you can save them. either way, Alex wins. because the only way to get to the ending is by making sure Alex's experiment is successful. that's why the characters at the end tell you that your motivation for doing something are impossible to judge because no matter why you did something, Alex wins either way and he gets what he wants either way, it gives you a moral quandary at the end to decide how you feel about Alex and decide if everything that he did was justified. the whole reason humanity was doomed in the first place was because people like Alex wanted to play god and transcend their place in the world and he is just doing that again by experimenting on typhon again. he is just repeating the same thing in a different way hoping for a different result. you get to decide if his experiment worked or not. you decide if humanity survives, even if there's some bad people in it like Alex. that's why there's the question about the fat man in the opening quiz, the fat man is Alex. the simulation that Alex designed is asking you if you will kill him to save humanity. no matter which way you feel about the trolley problem, the game presents it to you one last time as a culmination of its themes. i can see why some people don't like it because it's a little too gamified but the whole game is a self-reflexive statement on the nature of games (and all fiction at large) and how seriously we take them even though we know they're fake. like a lot of people assume it's a simulation within a simulation as soon as they break through the glass in the opening but they still try to save people where they can and if they don't, then at the end they get given another opportunity, this time reassured that it's real and lives are actually at stake. it's asking you the same question the game has asked you with every choice so far and this time with actual consequences because this is the last decision you make in the game, it's the culmination of your entire experience.
also the way Alex has set up the whole experiment tells us so much about his character like he's depicted himself as the bad guy in the story very clearly and he's even portrayed Talos 1 as a nightmare scenario and where the huge alpha eventually comes and kills everyone and like if the Talos 1 incident was anything like what we experienced, them escaping is what could have unleashed Typhons onto earth and caused what we see today. but we don't know if Talos 1 was like that or if it was even worse, Alex clearly managed to escape given his position of power, but what about the hundreds of crew working there? hell, Alex literally otherizes people in the simulation itself where he sees Russian prisoners as less than human and deems them worthy of being experimented on bc clearly nobody cares about them and they're expendable. and were all the characters we meet at the end actually people on Talos who uploaded their consciousness to their operators like Morgan did with October, December and January? was the only way they could escape the station by not being biomatter: something the Typhon clearly want? are they less than human because their consciousness is no longer attached to their body now? but also like the arrival of Dahl is literally asking you if you're willing to set aside your differences to work with Alex!! like will you unite to fight a common enemy or will you kill both enemies or will you just get the obstacles out of your way to your goals? I mean basically every choice in the whole game is self-reflexive and about the themes and a comment on both the game itself and games as a whole like it's extremely well done.
2:07:14 except you couldn't really sell that given the mental health implications. That was a marketing department decision. It just brings up images of electroshock therapy and no marketing department worth its salt would touch that.
fun video tho!
This video is terrifyingly underrated
thank you. See what I did there used your own gag. Great video definitely deserve more views and subs. Having just finished prey for the first time myself I dived into online discourse about it and im glad to see im not alone in calling a masterpiece of a game.
Thank you! I've seen thos game get a lot more recognition lately than what it got at release, thankfully. From what I've played so far, I've enjoyed the Mooncrash DLC too and would recommend it!
one of the best game ever made
Dahl and his infinite military operators were nice with my many turrets. I go to the database room, set up 4 fortified turrets, shoot the military operators to distract from the turrets, and once I have a pile, I strip them of spare parts, and then attach a recycle grenade until I have enough raw resources for a while. The most fun I have, haha.
When I find a way to get a LOT of desirable resources, I go on and on. The infinite neuromods is great. Just getting the better extracting skill I can collect a lot of exotic material.
This is what's great about this game and immersive sims, I would've never thought to do that. There's so many options.
But exotic material wasn't an issue for me... Mined material was the issue since I used it for shotgun shells and gloo...I had way too much of the other materials
I did the same. Id gather every item recycle it then pile every object and body in the game in a corner and use a recycler charge.
One of the stories that touched me in ways my uncle never could, was in looking through Calvino's transcribe records, I know most people think he was dealing with some mental issues but he got some neuromods removed and he forgot a lot of stuff including how his wife looked like plus he constantly had a lot of nightmares because of the phantom material residuals in his brain and had to seek psychological treatment on the base but because he was soo scared of them he stopped getting therapy.
The station psychiatrist is terrible tbh all the audio logs of his sessions result in the patient getting angry
@@logansinclair7488 I think it was on purpose anyway, they were test subjects to him, even morgan to a degree, even tho he was his boss.
This video is making me want to go back for like my 5th *Prey* through
Fantastic video! Love Prey so much. Sad about the recent closure of Arkane Austin.
The golden gun DEF is more powerful than the standard gun. At max I think it does like 50% more dmg
I feel like a hack how I got a channel to 1,000 subs while you are so close. This is the production quality of at least 100,000 subs.
Thank you, you must be a lucky omen, I passed 1000 shortly after you commented!
@@thegavinside cool.
the new vegas background music fit so well!
I'm just gobbling up these Prey analysis ain't I. Great video dude
Thank you, and hey, I'd be happy to watch more of them too if you can point me to some great ones!
@@thegavinside Uhh my comment got deleted because of the links I guess, so here's the video titles for what you asked:
The System Shock 3 we never got. - The Nth Review
Prey (2017) - The Best Immersive Sim? - Mister No Life
Prey - A Critique of the Mind Game - Joseph Anderson
Why Prey 2017 Deserved More Attention - Gingy
Why Prey Is Arkane's Masterpiece - Boulder Punch
if you haven't seen them, a few of my favorites are:
Critical Values: In Defense of Prey and those who made it by Ludocriticism
Prey | Fictional Empathy by Leadhead
Prey | Designing Meaningful Choices by Leadhead
Prey: how an ending no one picked contextualizes eldritch horror by NewtC
Arkane Lore: Prey and the power of Empathy by Eric Crosby
Prey vs Prey by Noah Caldwell-Gervais.
highly recommend the one by Ludocriticism especially (and all his other videos), it's the one i feel gets the game the most out of anyone i've seen discussing the game's ambitious metatextual ideas. Noah's video is also great in that regard, and just a great exploration of the Points™ of the game.
Ive been putting off this game for so long and you got me into this game so thank you and can't wait for more good content
Aww, thank you Jaxi, I hope you have as much fun with it as I do!
I bought this game in January of 2018... Played an hour of it and then stopped. Didn't play it again until Feb of 2024 and I can't believe I passed on this game for so long.
Absolutely amazing work here
Great video, you should definitely continue making them!
Thank you mate, I hope to! Life's changed quite a bit in the past 6 months but I've got a handful I really want to make over the next while when I get chance
Your intro speech was as underrated as Prey itself. How this has so few views, even by the standards of a Prey video is beyond me. Subbed.
Thank you for the kind words! ✌️ I promise I'll have more vids on the way to make your sub worth it haha, hard to work on stuff over winter but I'll be back at it soon
Deserves more likes to be honest, this is rad
1:32:54 Its not just that, but if you check the crew tracker log, you'll see that only one person is not on the stations, the only survivor of the incident you never see.
You can read in an email later that its a pregnant woman.
The ship with the charges, is almost guaranteed to be the same ship that holds the only inhabitant of the station who isnt actually on, or floating around, the station, and its a pregnant woman.
If this is not a literal trolley problem of 'save humanity but kill a pregnant woman' then i dont know what is.
love this video, idk how does your channel have only 956 subscribers, i thought it was 956K at first glance, well, now its 957
Aww, thank you very much! Working on a new video right now
Can’t wait to have some more time to watch this in its entirety.
Thank you, I hope the chapters help for easier viewing!
I agreed on not liking the ending until i saw a video of someone talking about prey and eldritch horror and now i love it, maybe it wasnt intended but thinking of it from a point of alex's hubris in thinking if he just keeps testing and keeps making little changes he'll get what he wants eventually. one day after a a couple, no a dozen or even maybe a hundred terminations he finally creates a typhon with empathy. sadly its first act of consciousness after learning it's whole life was a simulation and none of it's memories are real is to return to those base instincts and kill. now alex has created the final monster, one smarter and with real intelligence and empathy that can now fully utilise all of its natural abilities to end humanity in it's entirety
Just great! This game deserves more attention and love.
Incredibly well made vid
I don’t remember where I learned this, but I think it’s for this game. Some fire extinguisher boxes have secret stashes behind them
It is possible to get many neuromods early, before going to hardware labs or even watching the first video. Once you acquire a recycler charge in the lobby, you can go back to the neuromod division and recycle the crates blocking the back entrance to Halden Graves office, where you'll find the neuromod fabrication plan and plenty of exotic materials. You will have to deal with the technopath guarding it, but that can be done.
Great video! Prey is awesome!
soo good. great video and amazing game
Common gavinside banger 🙏
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Great video, been binging Prey video essays ever since i finished the base game around a week ago. Interestingly enough, prior to playing Prey, i thought id never enjoy playing fps games simply because it just wasnt my thing, but the immense enjoyment i got out of this game and its worldbuilding and immersion has proven me otherwise :)
Also, a bit of a tip regarding the Nightmare satellite lure/repellent transmissions for your possible future runs of Prey, you can actually listen to both of them while out in space after setting up the satellite and it will neither use up any of the limited uses, nor attract the nightmare (probably because you're out in the vacuum of space so where the hell is that thing gonna spawn, right?) while also letting the game know you've listened to those "unlistened" transcribe messages
Damn, that's a really good tip! 😁 I'll remember that for next time, thanks yo! And glad you enjoyed the vid. I'm not super into FPS's myself, so if you like Prey I suggest looking more into the immersive sim genre. I think it's first person more for the effect of immersing you more, but very often it's more about story and variety, with shooter combat being secondary to the player choice.
@thegavinside Yea, I'll certainly have to look at that genre more, seeing as Prey was my first imsim. For starters, i still have Mooncrash to try once the winter sale hits Steam on the 21st of Dec
I think that one of the worst things about this game is the enemy design, especially the aliens, Just these Black blobs and spikes (the exeption of the mimic with its cool and scary fast movement), in my opnion they are not Very scary or interenting (like the necromorphs for exemple) after the First time you meet them, still Very good (and scary asf) game.
Btw great video too, cant belive you dont have more popularity, cant wait for the DLC video
(Sorry for any bad english 🇧🇷🗿)
That's actually a really good point, and I'm inclined to agree. What I do like about their design is the heavy use of darkness and how they lean into that sense of dark unknown that space is made of too, but for such flexible creatures there's really only five designs - the mimics, phantoms, telepaths, technopaths and weavers (the nightmare is basically just a giant phantom.)
I like to think the phantom looks kind of humanoid because it's a mimic evolving as it tries to imitate a human. But their variations are basically just electric and fire versions. It'd be cool if they imitated different looking humans over the course of their destruction, like early cosmonauts in gooey spacesuits, or zombie-like US researchers.
@@thegavinside yeah they do feed into the fear of the unknown and blend Very well into the enviroment, but the potential was kind of wasted by making just 5 creatures, i didnt played the DLC but i Hope they have more cool desings in there.
The Idea of mimics evolving like that is incredibly cool ( and disturbing) maybe If they evolved to try imitating big machinery, making something like that boss from RE Village, that uses that kind of organic gell combined with metal parts (i cant realy explain my Idea but in my Head It sounds Nice💀)
@@AndreSilva-oi5ug There are new enemy types in the DLC, unfortunately so far it seems they follow the same basic design pattern. It's mostly just their behaviour that changes (like one that burrows underground)
Now that it’s been a while since I first played Prey, and I’ve played it a couple since, I think I can finally say with confidence I’ve found my favorite game.
that music in the beginning is from subnautica
Prey needs more LOVE. I NEED The Act Man to drop a why so awesome vid on it
Prey is criminally underrated, i did everything possible in this game and loved it. I had to have beaten it like 70 times now. One of my top fav games. Fun fact originally the game was going to be called Neuroshock until bethesda told Arkane to change it to Prey
What! I didnt find: The overshoot room, the DJ Room, Calvinos Appartment, and even more details?! Whoaa
The cystoids can actually be killed/redirected with the nerf bow. Even in the GUTS.
Criminally underrated channel and video holy shit. Definitely going into my videos I rewatch several times a year. Great work.
Thank you mate, I'm glad I made something for you to enjoy so much! I've got tons of similar essay ideas I'd love to develop soon
Bro, 5k views is crazy for this high-quality video
your video is underrated,also i didnt used any typhon implant because i was scared turrets going to shoot me
Interesting! We're there any changes to the Nightmare introduction without implants?
yes the nightmare will only appear once per main level and the aggressiveness of it's spawning will be decreased. another interesting fact is if you acquire many typhon abilities the gibberish that phantoms speak will start to sound like English.. your essentially becoming a typhon. stuff like that is why i love prey
This video is beautiful and that's it.
Thank you!
So many things I seem to have missed in my 30+ hour first run.. and another 30 for Mooncrash! Guess i gotta start a new playthru!
I want to know if the Killer7 track used a sample because it's the same music as Riddler's theme in The Batman, too.
I love this video and game thank you for shareing this masterpiece of a video game.
Fantastic review, very in-depth and thorough, picked this game up on sale recently myself and had an absolute blast with it despite the flaws (that third act..... my god 😔does it drag) such as: having to go through 4-5 different loading screens for the hubs just to get to a PART of a side quest to complete it and then having to trek all the way back to carry on with the rest of the quests. Coming hot off something like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (I'm on a bit of an im-sim genre dive yeah 👀) where you only REALLY gotta load once through an enormous, equally richly detailed and stuffed hub world that you can otherwise run thru with no load times, this was a buzz kill yeah, as was the hacking mini-game which I frankly felt was quite terrible.
However on an aesthetic, visual and audio level I thought this was one of the best games in the genre that I've played and even as a first-person shooter mechanically it functions very well and once you have some of the more powerful upgrades unlocked and at your disposal, the dynamics of predator/prey become quite blurred, as you gain this immensely satisfying feeling of overcoming odds and going toe to toe with foes that gave you trouble at the start. Which I am aware, is a very classic im-sim/upgrade skill tree based element in games but honestly ? played many games like that in the past that did not come anywhere close, to the feeling of creative agency and power that Prey offers.
I think it's a damn shame this game underperformed as this is some of Arkane's finest gameplay and mechanics I've seen from them and had they had the opportunity to make a sequel or a similar game in this genre, I think you'd see a refinement of ideas and concepts here, but presented in a much better, more well-rounded experience that doesn't completely drop the ball in its last half building to what I think is still one of the most anti-climactic endings for a story that otherwise kept me pretty engaged throughout.
Still very good game, very good video sir ! You've earned a sub !👍
Gavinside is terrifyingly underrated
Thank you Ina! I'm glad you're still here watching! I'll be picking up the pace on vids soon hopefully!
@@thegavinside…one year later
@rphntw1n yyyeeeaaahhh... 😅 so what happened was, afer i made this video, i was on a part time job that I'd gotten comfortable in, and i thought "hell yeah. Now i can finally focus on my youtube videos." Then, a bunch of price increases happened, and i had to get a new full time job quite far away, which just tanked my organisation and plans for videos.
I've actually been thinkibg a LOT about youtube lately and am definitely trying where i can to focus on it - there's a video halway down the editing timeline right now. It's just as much as i want to do youtube, it's very dependent on how much coming to work 11 hours a day 5 days a week takes it out of me.
I could use some memorywhipe so I can play Prey for the first time :)
I think that it would be beneficial to up the video resolution from 720P to 1080P, but overall the video is of superb quality and hope to see more from you in the future :)
also to just add to this video. I think that the scene after the ending is also a simulation. You can see the same "white flash" (a bug in the simulation) in the ending that you can also see in the helicopter ride which could be used to signal that it is also just a fake to make you think that you finally got out of the sim and can either still side with the humans or kill them all after finding out that you've been tricked/the human neuromods didnt work and your nature overpowered them. What do you think about this?
also you very overhyped the limited O2 setting as it is extremely inconsequential and does basically nothing. And you also asked about what type of comments January would make about the nightmare on a no neuromod run/if a nightmare would even appear and the answer to that is....... that he makes no comment about it and nightmares still DO appear just at a significantly lower rate (I had just a single actual nightmare spawn on my no needles run)
Thanks for giving such in-depth feedback! Unfortunately my computer really goes to pot trying to export at 1080p, otherwise I would've really liked to, especially seeing as some of my other essays were exported at 1080p when my PC was new.
I never considered that with the ending, interesting! 🤔 I'll have to go back and watch it again with that in mind. Thanks for the fresh perspective!
I disagree on the ending. Think of it this way. If you're humane, and you play the whole way through and choose the kill them all ending, you could:
A) Be the typhon lashing out in rage. You were tricked into feeling empathy, and after seeing all those innocent people get killed and Alex getting away with it, you kill him out of spite.
B) Be the typhon, with a new ability to hunt down its prey (no pun intended) and be more efficient at it, thanks to being able to trick it with empathy.
C)It was all a ploy. It knew the entire time and was just tricking Alex.
And if you choose the good ending, it's:
A) The test worked, and the typhon and humans could co-exist.
B) The test was successful, the typhon understands empathy and can save humanity.
And as for the title, i think Prey actually works for it. The typhon dont have mirror neurons, at least for humans, is because we're their prey, the whole game they are hunting humans and either using them to multiply like with the mimics or to control and feed off them like the weavers, apex and telepaths. They cant feel empathy because we're a food source to them and if they empathize with us then they starve and can't multiply.
The way our earlier self ended up in the mental head space where it was deemed necessary to destroy the station is the exact same way they deemed it necessary to abandon the station and the exact same they they deemed it necessary to use the nullwave. Personality drift. The nightmares. Being an 'outside' perspective into your own work. All of it leads to different conclusions as time and research goes on. First backup plan was simple. Nullwave the typhon if they escape. Second plan was escape with the data to explain what happened. Third plan, blow it all up. Nothing can survive.
Remember removing the neural mods resets your memory to the point you put in the neural mod. So the process is usually; install the mod, go to bed, wake up, do the tests, get truth bombed, read your notes from your self and understand. You never remember but you understand. You do your work, repeat. Sometimes you set up your backup plan in case the typhon escape, remove mods, repeat.
I finish Prey 2 days ago and today I found your video and channel, this video is underrater like the game itself, no brainer sub. I'm a compulsive gamer so I try to finish all the side quests before the last mission like I did in Prey. My goal was to save Talos I and destroy the typhons following Alex lead (don't know January always sounded sketchy to me), so tried to save Alex and Walter but didn't notice Alex had a timer and died, then tried to save Walter and accidentally he died too, so I was.....f**k it I blow up everything lol, now I will start a new game plus with nale Morgan and this time try to save everyone. I wasnt hooked up to a game in this way since Red Dead Redemption. I feel like a teenager lol
I love when games make you feel like that. And that's another reason to love this game, you can play the long game and build a plan, or just say 'fuck it' and start winging it whenever haha. I play the same way too, it usually makes final bosses a bit boring, but I like the credits roll to be THE end, with everything done.
I left in Alexs escape pod as soon as I got to the arboretum 😂 it gave me an achievement and made me reload from the last save point.
This and Kingdom Come Deliverance are two of the greatest games I've ever played. Both pleasant surprises that I knew nothing about until actually booting them up
Well, I disagree with your sentiment about the two choices ending, although I understand your viewpoint. I played this game only once and I am mostly playing as a nice gal, but as soon as I realizes it is a trick by Alex Yu, I decide my character felt so tricked, outraged, and decide to kill them. There are other reasons why a creature may be nice to each others beside empathy.. the typhoon attacks my character in the simulation so they are enemies, but the humans seems not and my character looks like one of them. For survival reason, it is better to stick with them, maybe they have more ideas of what been happening or perhaps my character have gone through this more than once and subconsciously learned what didn't work. Also, in the simulation my character have to kill a lot of typhoons, her actual people, and learn how humans been exploiting her race, a big reason to feel enraged.
Anyway, keep doing what you are doing, I enjoyed the essay from beginning to end!
That's an interesting perspective that I've never thought of before. These are my favourite kinds of comments, thank you! Perhaps only because the typhon Morgan now also has the emotional humanity of Morgan, but still identifies as a Typhon, it causes this middle ground of an emotional response in favour of their typhonkind. Interesting thought!
I hope you keep doing these great essays! ^^@@thegavinside
I feel like you forgot about the escape pod above Alex’s treehouse which you can take after you set off the reactor
Also if you’re a psycho you don’t get a choice at the end you just kill everyone
First off, deep dive into one of the absolute goat video games is a plus
Then entire vibe of this video oozes cinema. Another plus.
Then we get to some DARK SOULS 2 FOOTAGE. Fully committed and hooked
Notices the dishonored references. Even better
I'm not to the 0451 door yet. But if you note that reference and mention deus ex or system shock you'll be batting 1000 as we say.
Excellent so far!
Wait, what is the song playing at 3:50? I know I've heard it before and it gives me some sort of nostalgia, but I can't pinpoint where I heard it
It's the main theme from the movie Moon, 'Welcome To Lunar Industries'
Hey, thanks for the reply! It actually occurred to me after posting that it might've been from Moon (I love that movie too btw, but it's been quite a while since I've watched it).
I'm still watching the video so I still have a lot to go through, but let me tell you that I've been thoroughly enjoying it, and will certainly watch it all in these days! Spoiler alert: your like count will go up by one 😉
2:07:30 I saw someone suggest Psychoshock as a name, and while im partial to Neuroshock myself, thats a good alternative. Still much better than 'Prey but not really'
Prey is the best Im-Sim ever made, and by extension one of the best video games of all time.
This video is terrifyingly underrated and i dont like that everything Prey touches dies a quick death, including channels like this
Your Sunset Overdrive video was stellar too
good blacksmithing is in Kingdom come deliverance ;)
I actually have that and have been saving to play it cause I wanted to record my playthrough when I get my gaming stuff back up and running!
So you said that "systemy potrzymywania życia" (yes i play in Polish version, yes im a Polish player) is the god damn a fire alarms? Now that quest is way easier that i know what to seek.
Great video man love from the uk 🇬🇧 prey is one of my favourite games i just finished my 2nd new game plus playthrough and i literally breezed through it as i had nearly every single neuromod installed so i felt like god in the flesh i had hundreds of rounds of ammunition i don't think their was a door i couldn't hack and get into except the keycard doors haha it was a great playthrough but it felt so easyyy but i still had fun though its a brilliant game and you are right about it having ultimate replayabilty
Hey, thanks dude! I've honestly never even attempted NG+, I always figured the enemies would scale super high even with all the upgrades and neuromods and I chickened out lol. Maybe I'll have to give it a shot on my gaming channel when I get that back up and running!
@@thegavinside no problem buddy i feel like your right tbh i did still die but not nearly as many times as the first playthrough but i think you might be right about the typhon scaling to your level i defintely saw that and i also saw that there was alot more typhons and variations in rooms that id cleared before but thats what made it fun because it kept you on your toes 😅💯
I had chills running down my spine as much and as often as never before in my Life and I loved it, amazing game!
In my top 5 greatest games of all time
You didnt include the dlc! Theres a lot to learn from it in terms of lore!
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You ask why it's a choice but I believe the answer is pretty straightforward. You are a space monster who has just been revealed to have been a toy by very questionable individuals. All your life so far was a lie marked by suffering and strife and right in front of you are the ones responsible. They've given it humanity and forgot that humans are at their core spiteful, foolish, violent, and often times dangerously vengeful. They put all that into a monster and expect it won't go poorly. It's the hubris ending. The dystopian ending where humans taught a cold monster to feel and what it felt was loathing. Rather than the cold indifference of the typhon, it is the red hot hate of someone betrayed.
After all these years I never knew the green bar from the q beam is effectively lowered health from enemies! I thought you had to fill the green bar with the q beam XD. Which is impossible unless you max that bitch early
Prey is not underrated I have never heard anyone say this game is bad. Edit ( your videos are though holy shit this is insane quality love it mate)
That’s not what underrated means.
Epic
During the part where you complained about the technopath was the only time i disagreed with your opinion. I think it was just your build. I went into that fight with a phantom minion and just sat back. It was easy. Listened to the audio logs while i watched my pet beat up the techno
i like sutch game like Prey immersive sims a great, i hope at some point we get a second game that have atleast as mutch skills and power as the first and a bit bigger gamewolrd. I realy like sutch games and Prey is so great
I still think the only good hacking system is Bioshock 2's.
I would say GUTS was my least enjoyable area to go... Idk why but i hated it
I don't think it's underrated. People were definitely talking up it's praise when it released. I remember seeing more than one person talking about it being their favorite game of all time, etc. Just, like most single-player story games, it had it's time in the sun and then faded away.
I think a more accurate title would be you discovered it 6-7 years after it released.
It’s definitely underrated.
Prey is terrible because it's not prey. The original prey was awesome and this while it is a good game should not have the prey name.
I was glad to find something to watch - but im sick of these over 2 hour long TH-cam essays. No thanks.