Prey (2006) - Dodging The Reaper
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Thinking with portals, heavy weapons. This video contains spoilers for Prey (2006).
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
03:29 - The Calm
08:04 - Don't Fear The Reaper
11:57 - The Guns In This Game...
17:09 - That Part Where... I
18:04 - No, Seriously, Don't Fear The Reaper
19:36 - The Part Where... II
21:00 - Ascent
23:04 - Spirit Poker
23:22 - Further Body Horror
26:00 - Ascent II
28:34 - She Had Become Like They Are
30:08 - Late Intermission
31:24 - The Rampage
33:49 - Mother's Embrace
38:53 - Here, But Now They're Gone - Ігри
"Prey will continue..."
Still hurts.
Oh hey JarekTheFOVDragon! Just saying hi!
Thanks Bethesda.
the mindset of probably everyone who knows about and liked the 2006 game
Hey Jarek, did you find a WW2 game without politics?
Hey jarek hows your summer I did not know you like civvie 11
can't believe civvie didn't mention the part in the game where you enter a dark room and tommy says "man... it's dark in here. I'm DOOMed."
HAHAHAHAHA
I'm surprised a hunter didn't pop out of a monster closet and go "OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!"
I played Prey a few months after Doom 3, that line cracked me
I can't believe he didn't mention "Take Me Home" at the conclusion. Fucking GREAT way to end the game!!!
@@chato3456 'Take Me Home'?
Tommy's VA did a seriously awesome job. He's campy when he wants to be, and when he's yelling at the Mother about immortality, that's some of the best voice acting I've heard from a pissed off and emotionally broken character. He's awesome.
I miss Art Bell. I remember him coming back on-air after a break to announce he nearly killed himself. Deck construction, took his beverage, forgot there was no deck, and Wile-e-coyote'd himself into the dirt exiting his front door.
Guy had a voice and composure like few men I’ve ever heard of. I need to listen to more cost to cost, wonder if there’s room in life to do something like that again. I remember when radio had wild stuff on it, coast time coast, Alex Jones and Howard stern just to name some of the stuff you’d hear. If you thought they were Good bad or otherwise it was interesting, bounds pushing and different.
Prey was my “bro, you *need* to see this” game in middle school.
I remember my friend had that pandora's box FPS
you prolly had the better game
I remember bringing it to my cousins house and making him play it. I had bought it the day before and played it before I realized I NEEDED to share this game. It was the second Xbox360 game I ever owned after Halo 3, and even though I played Halo 3 multiplayer on a theatre movie screen for a birthday party and winning the “tournament”, I still LOVED Prey just as much
Lmao sooo true
Mine was RE4... riiiiight up until it left the gamecube. It was a good run while it lasted though.
@@Gammera2000 i
One little detail I found while playing this game: Did you ever notice how the keypads on the Sphere only have digits 0-7? No 8 or 9. I thought I was going crazy for a little bit until I realized that the aliens you fight have 4 fingers on each hand. They're using base-8.
Human Head didn't have to bother with such a tiny detail, I can't imagine most people even notice it. But they did it anyway and I love that.
that's actually awesome lol
I remember realizing that and thinking they were on some AVP levels of world building.
The comics and games, not the terrible movies.
Sorry I'm braindead and genuinely curious, what about having four fingers on each hand would make you want to specifically use base-8?
@@eazyv2069 well we have 10 fingers, why do you think we use base 10, lol
@@xanious3759 I thought we used keypads numbered from 0-9 because you can make any other number in the universe just using those digits. Making keypads go from 0-9 because we have ten fingers sounds way less logical and intuitive to me, in turn making me not understand why having eight fingers would make you want to use keypads which only go from 0-7.
Fun fact, (if I recall correctly) the kids were originally intended to be just possessed corpses at one point, turning them into ghosts was a concession to get a rating in certain countries.
That is absolutely correct I remember that.
That doesn't make it any better. Sounds brutal and it's actually interesting.
Man, I cant imagine how people in 2006 would have thought about "No More Room In Hell" where child zombies are a regular enemy
NMRiH has zombiefied kids
As I am replaying the game now, the possessed idea is still kept in one of the radio talks you can hear (the second one), where a father calls to the radio, reporting his daughter behaving weird, having glowing eyes and locking him in a room.
And not just kids were supposed to be possessed. I remember one time seeing on UA-cam a video, that there is unused feature that you could get possessed (probably by a wraith). When it happens, you would get forced into the spirit mode and would have to shoot yourself to kick the wraith out of your body, until it drains all your life and kills you. Which would make the wraiths actually dangerous, if it would be implemented.
The inclusion of Native American spiritual themes is such a strange choice for a sci-fi shooter, but it's undeniably unique. I'd love to see something like this done again.
It did lead to me wondering what would happen if Tommy decided to convert to Christianity after finding out religion is real. Would be a much shorter game, I imagine.
Remember Turok
@@CruelestChris whoa. I didn’t expect to see you here. I love your old LPs.
wouldnt say that too loud someone will try and have it cancelled.
@@MisterPickle. This game really does seem like the spiritual successor to Turok in a lot of ways. Which just makes me want to play the hell out of this game. God I wish it was on Steam.
that political bit at the end is probably a big reason why Raven does COD stuff now. A nice steady job for industry veterans
It's not the most satisfying for longtime Raven fans, but at least the devs get their cjecks, right?
I mean, they do, right?
@@ArcturusOTE They get paid in free gun charms!
@@ArcturusOTE Tbh the COD stuff they do isn't too different in spirit from Soldier of Fortune, I doubt they feel like they're oppressed or whatever people think
I'd flip my shit if Activision let Raven do Heretic or Hexen
@@BobsRevenge Being put on CoD is creative suicide. There is no intense violence or radical messages in CoD. The last shocking CoD was MW2 because it had a scene where you are a terrorist mass shooter which was pretty cool. Although since then the series has gone 100% downhill, 100% different from their past where they had full creative control to do some cool as fuck thing.
29:50 True Pro FPS Player is saving ammo even when mercy killing his mutated girlfriend. Wonderful.
Pragmatic. And possibly traumatized from years of ammo crises.
Remember, switching to your wrench is faster than reloading as well.
@@nicolausteslaus You have to make actual effort to be funny, just being edgy doesn't cut it.
@@nicolausteslaus Found the 11 year old who just discovered edgy humor
@@nicolausteslaus No. Nothing I said has any indication of that. In fact, you seem to just throw around terminology like that as insults, even when they make no sense.
Actual comedy is an art that takes skill, not just throwing a poor tasting George Floyd reply to an unrelated comment because, what, the OP’s pfp is a black person?
Go back to 4chan.
What's hilarious and so ironic is that in the context of the game, Art Bell is for once receiving genuine alien and human abduction calls but figures they're hoaxes. lol
Even talks to one of the aliens and figures it's just some goof trolling him.
What's really bonked about Prey 2 is that it's already about 95 percent complete. So these guys were basically given a nearly impossible task, with next to no funding or time, and still managed to get so close to the finish line. But Bethesda only green-lit it to put Human Head into a position for a buy-out. And now we'll never get it.
Maybe one day a build of it will somehow end up on the internet.
@@Gatorade69 Everyday I hope Bethesda gets hacked all of their cool as fuck demos get leaked.
not first time zenimax did that as they apparently did something similar to the studio that made darkest corner of the earth
if ever copy of build is saved somewhere.
that makes me viscerally upset. i'll take 95% of prey 2 over 0%
It’s nice hearing something wasn’t delayed or overshadowed cause of half life
Damn... that sentence really hit in a bland spot
Always glad to see Prey getting more love. I still firmly believe it's the best shooter on Idtech 4 and one of the most underrated FPS of its generation.
I absolutely agree! Prey (2006) and Halo 3 are what started my love for shooters and videogames in general both sucked me in unlike anything I played before that.
Also thanks for dusk it's the most fun I have had playing an fps in a while I even broke my mouse in an intense 1v1 in multiplayer where I lost.
I tend to go back and forth between it and Quake 4 in terms of the best id Tech 4 game, as the latter also has several things that it does better than Prey imo.
Wouldn't call it underrated,everybody played it and knew about it.
It sold a million copies.
Couldn’t agree more! We need that sequel or possibly a remake of this with the newest unreal engine.
Rest in Peace John William Galt. Voice of Grandfather.
And Art Bell
And Lo Wang.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 That guy at the beginning of Daikatana too
20:25 The enemy AI can in fact pick up health! I started playing Prey after watching the video and yes, they can...I started to formulate a theory that the AI understands the player can find those health circles so when the player is close enough and distracted by others...one of them will run over to health circle and take it...I have seen it a couple of times now but I don't know...could just be coincidence
And not just pick up health, they can also turn off machines, like the anti-grav floor.
reminds me of Xenomorphs in AvP 2000 that could destroy pickups like health and armors
in a game with limited resources and respawning enemies - that sounds bad
the new dungeon unironically looks better than my room.
>tfw federal penitentiary inmates have better living conditions than you
calling it now either by the next sub milestone review or by the end of the year, something's gonna happen and he's gonna break out.
A Swiss prison then.
Same...
This says a lot about society
Prey was the first "NeXt GeN" game I ever saw back then. That opening act was one of those few moments when you can't even believe what you're seeing.
I had chills, it was so epic. Especially with BoC in the background.
Same here, I remember being in a bar fight with some racist peckerwoods, and then everything went more to shit right afterwards. I remember my brother and I just having our jaws drop at that scene cause it felt like nothing we'd ever seen in a game had done that before.
Not even Half-Life 2 made me feel like that.
Prey was ... interesting visually. So Doom 3 launches in 2004, as a PC game. We're still in the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era, so the game is still current gen in our minds. Hell, it even launches (in a compromised state) on Xbox. Then 2 years later Prey launches, visually blowing Doom 3 out of the water and yes, next-gen was here.
I'm rewatching this, and I just realized that proposed ending for prey 2 where you grow old and die and then wake back up as a clone on exodus was reused for the game Returnal.
The one thing I absolutely love about prey is how Tommy decides to go full vengeance against the aliens, no "Don't get driven by your emotions" garbage!
PURE UNADULTERATED VENGEANCE and even inisi is up for it, no bullshit here just KILL THEM ALL!
Best part is how absolutely abhorrent the aliens are. Like, you see what's happening to the people in this ship. You don't even get that kind of thing in Doom, you just see the aftermath of the demon invasion. But no. You see children hunted down by dogs in this game.
Well as a native from what im learning about my peoples mindsets history and thinking is that there use tobe this kinda treat others the way you wanted tobe treated in war . if your tribe tortured with no remorse after capturing them your warriors and people would get no remorse too sometimes . it really depended on which tribe you encounter comanche werent fun to deal with since they were warriors but crees up in canada were traders
Enisi went full Uncle Iroh: "nah, Zuko, Azula needs to get taken _down._ Go nuts."
more games need to make the villain legitimately despicable. you need incentive to kill the bastards after all. i feel way better about killing space harvesters than army grunts
Right? When I got there I expected Enisi to go "NO YOU MUST NOT HATE blah blah YOU MUST NOT BECOME LIKE THEM blah blah REVENGE BAD blah blah ". But no, Tommy says he wants to kill them all and Enisi is all "here's a health boost, now go fuck shit up".
What Civvie doesn’t know is John Carmack & John Romero are the ones keeping him locked up in the dungeon.
and randy pitchford
Ahh, the two Johns locking him in the john
You know what? Maybe they deserve to do this. Civvie's been singing their praises and sharing good game memories with us. Maybe we should... accept the Sphere.
Shush!
They will kill us all if he ever learns this dark truth.
Romero's the overseer, and Carmack's the AI running all the systems
about that "plot hole" about mother having made the deal and the earth still being harvested: I think what this means is that there are countless planets where the sphere has seeded humans for harvesting, so she might be human, but her people are not terrans.
This is actually correct. Elhuei (sp?) is also not terran, but still "human".
Or maybe she was fed of the "immortality" so she returned to Earth looking for a successor? As she is watching Tommy since he gets on the Sphere for some reason.
It may be irrelevant but many Aztec and Mayan mythology also feature Humans coming from the mouths of Feathered serpents that descended from the skies. I don't know if myths like that pervade through other native American cultures but it's kind of a nice touch to actually mix a little bit of actual native mythology into this game.
I think that was a plot point in some Star Trek t explain why all the aliens looked like humans. But I have a feeling the concept of aliens seeding humans goes back further than that.
A fun little quirk of Prey '06 is when you could walk away from NPC's during a conversation, and they tell you to come back.
The idea of using ghost powers to fight against an alien invasion is rad as shit.
Civvie: Needs to mercy-kill the protagonist's girlfriend in what is intended to be an emotionally harrowing scene
Also Civvie: W R E N C H
Because you're all emotional doesn't mean you can't save ammo.
it was a wrenching moment tho
(i'm sorry please dont kill me)
Guess you could say it was heart-wrenching
Wrench the whench
Twice
So, between the body horror, the pushing balls to activate doors, and the conclusion where you don't save the girl... Was Duke Forever trying to do a parody of Prey and nobody recognized it?
Parody implies they were trying to say something. Knowing DNF's development Brouchard probably forced another restart after seeing Prey
"What if we made Prey, but with like a super rapey version?"
@@Bloodletter8 So killing souls of children is fine, but ra*ey parody of Pray is bad?
@@AkiRa22084 Killing children sounds fun, I did it a lot in Dante's Inferno
@@AkiRa22084 Because well, it's rape
It's the one thing everyone unilaterally agrees it's bad
I've worked nights for about 20 years now. Coast to coast and Art Bell were my overnight companions when I started. There was something neat back then
These calls all came in on his talk show coast to coast. He helped with the promotion. Essentially he told them to just call the show without telling him in advance
He could treat it as a real caller and it would feel authentic while also buildin hype.
I legitimately remember some of these calls coming in while I was alone doing security for a construction site
I think having the protagonist and central story themes revolve around a Native American perspective was very refreshing considering that it's not often seen in media, ESPECIALLY in 2006. I think the opening segment centered around Tommy arguing with his grandfather about rejecting his heritage and wanting to leave the reservation most likely deeply connected with a lot of Native American youth considering the conditions of most reservations are very sub-par. I'm not a Native American myself, but the whole entire cultural identity struggle just resonated with me.
It came across as very real. There's some great story ideas in there, but natives don't get their share of cool characters for some reason.
We gotta watch the Forspoken girl shout cliche twitter lines.
While there was Turok before, I don't think that series seriously explored the Native American identity as much.
We need more games with Pocahontas.
I liked Tommy's arc as well. It's surprising to see an fps protagonist with such a defined one but Tommy going from hating his identity, to using out of necessity, to fully embracing it and becoming Domasi, Cherokee spirit warrior and protector of humanity.
Civvie didn't waste time at 40:18 assembling the montage of Bethesda game bug clips because he knew it appeared in all our heads the moment he said that sentence like a communal Direct X supported 'Nam flashback.
Jake eyes I didn't expect to see you here. also ep13 was pretty good.
Everyone has personally experienced some Bethesda bug, so he left it open to trigger THAT personal flashback.
DIRECT X SUPPORTED NAM FLASHBACK I'M LOSING IT
Ay man, " It just works."
@@n00bers38 Explosives aren't cheap! Everyone's too poor to bomb anything that deserves it.
Sad thing... Arkane's Prey got equally dicked over Bethesda, despite being an arguably truer successor to System Shock 2 than Bioshock...
Really? Why would they even do that? It seemed like the Prey 2 thing was just to aquire human head, but Arkane is already owned by Bethesda! What possible logical reason is there to screw over one of YOUR OWN STUDIOS!
@@34marmarmar Money. They probably didn't want a more 'hardcore' System Shock-like game, and preferred to have Arkane make a more mainstream game that would sell more copies instead of being a niche 'cult classic' that fewer people would buy.
@@MBOmnis Define what do you mean by "hardcore System Shock-like game" because IMO Prey 2017 shockingly complex for AAA console game, compared to SS2 most of the changes were more of a QoL stuff than outright dumbing down like Bioshock.
Money? Bethesda likely didn't need it. What it looks more like is indeed a case of cut-throat cooperate dickey, in which they were taking out smaller competitors.
@@MBOmnis Yes, I agree. With Raf Colantonios' immediate exit after Prey and the way way more commercial friendly DeathLoop on the way, I can see the logic behind this. Not to mention, Prey 2017 had some really divisive reviews.
The original Prey 2 sounded amazing, a genuinely innovative and fresh idea.
10 years ahead of it's time for time loop games
Unfortunately, Bethesda seems to be against genuinely innovative and fresh ideas.
Gotta say, the voice actor for Tommy in this game absolutely fucking kills it. You absolutely believe that rage, it's perfect.
Art Bell sounds genuine because he's heard things exactly like the script for this game, only in real life.
It was just another day at the office for him, and including him in the game was a genius idea.
I never listened to Art Bell while he was on the air bc I was too young.
But I dearly wish we had someone like him nowadays. I like Jones but he's too nutso.
The fact Art was included in this has made me decide to get it. Adds so much believability.
actually became a fan of Art because of the game. you can find his radio shows for download on the internet.
@@generaljeneral7503 yeah I'm older and art was real good at doing shows on things that he might not agree with but he found entertaining just the same. I remember hearing him for the first time back in the 90's when i was still living in Texas/Oklahoma (i bounced between the two).
Art Bell, the man who picked up Windows 95 at its Midnight launch, spent three weeks telling his audience that it was still in its box because he was afraid of it and Win3.11 worked just fine still, and then decried "Mac Fascists" all night before talking to Michio Kaku about how civilisations just like the Sphere wouldn't possibly mean us any harm because they're so advanced and peaceful and hold great respect for all living things.....
Art's Parts
Mel's Hole
Pilot calling during Area 51 flyby
Alex Jones calling from Bohemian Grove
The Face on Mars
Hyperdimensional Physics
Skinwalker Ranch
Remote Viewing
Moller Skycar
Crop Circles
Cattle Mutilation
Chupacabra
Ghost EVP recordings
The guy whose dog killed an alien and he kept it in a freezer
The spelunking woman
Michio Kaku
West of the Rockies
East of the Rockies
The Demon Possessed Line
The Time Traveler Line
John Titor
Father Malachi Martin
Bob Lazar
RIP Art 😢
Civvie has now covered half of the games John Galt voice acted in
I can't get over the fact that John Galt is a real person.
What's the other one?
@@SSD_Penumbra Well, John *Billy* Galt and not the character from Atlas Shrugged, but yeah
@@mrwoodchuck94 Deus Ex, Nocturne and tangentially, Balls of Steel.
Pretty impressive for a guy who Civvie originally declared dead but who is, in fact, in his 80s now.
And having wrote that, I'm reminded of reality and will be upset when the original Lo Wang passes on.
Following up on my last reply, there's really no metric to gauge how fucking sad I was when I got the news John Galt passed away. The man is a legend and Shadow Warrior will always be my favorite Build game (yes, you read that right).
Such a great and underrated game. I'm so glad I actually bought it on original CD in it's time and still have it. The CD-key even worked for Steam activation! Still replay it from time to time.
I've played this game so many times of the years. I think that the cancelled Prey 2 was the most heartbreaking game cancelations for me. I liked the new Prey, but I really hate how it pushed this gem out of a much deserved spot in gaming history.
It still hurts
I guess Civvie wasn't kidding when he said he was doing Prey 2006 after Alien World Order.
Also love the new setup, Civvie.
Prey is, in my humble opinion, the most underrated FPS ever made. It's frustratingly good and it deserved a fuck ton more recognition than the cult status it developed along the years.
I remember having a ton of fun with the game. I still have my Xbox disc.
It's probably the third most underrated game under Gothic 2 and the OG of "underrated as fuck": Brave Fencer Musashiden.
Ign is responsible for the damage done to it's reputation
@@blaakheart8 What did they do?
@@danieleproia they reviewed the game which such lack luster. Calling some of the mechanics and the A.I dumb and just over bad mouthing the game. I only heard of prey 2 because of the new game that came out of in 2017 and saw the original trailer that was going to be a far superior game. Then looked at the very 1st one and the review of it. And geez ign could have done it a bit better. Same reason why we won't ever get "the darkness 3"
One thing that stuck with me in this game was near the beginning navigating the ship, you hear a child crying asking where he is, only to be eaten by some monster
The first boss in this game is by far one of the most genius boss-fights I've ever faced. Seriously thought I was a dead man till you cut the things arm off, the grin and hype on my face was just bright. Absolutely a blast of a game!
"Programming overlord and nigh-invulnerable Nexus-VII prototype John Carmack"
Brilliant.
What's a Nexus-VII. Is it a bad thing?
@@SammyEdgeINC it's both an ancient android tablet and the type of replicant that roy batty was in blade runner
@@Nekkoru roy was nexus 6 tho, rachael was the only prototype of 7.
@@kitosjek9541 Deckard presumably was also a Nexus-7. Made specifically to procreate with Rachel. I'm 99% sure this is canon now. Even if no one but me likes it. Why Tyrell designed two sexbots and then went through the hassle of giving them careers for a couple of years before they'd fuck is something I can't answer. Maybe watching people do paperwork was a kink of his. Or maybe they weren't sexbots, just bots capable of having sex. So he wanted to make sure their implanted memories and other improvements were up to grade before having them test their tiddly bits on each other.
Sadly he wasn't around, because he absolved Uncle Roy of his sins and got his melon squeezed. See? It all makes perfect sense!
Worth noting is that the BR universe confirms a Nexus-7 can replace a human so well it can fool even the former human's own children. Deckard, even if he were human, could've been replaced directly prior to the events of Blade Runner 2019. Maybe he had the cancer or got Adam Jensen'd and needed a new body and Tyrell was like, "We'll do such wonderful things together!"
It's pretty clear in 2049 that he's a replicant though, imo. Oh, I was wrong. Tyrell designed all the way up to Nexus-8. Sapper Morton was a Nexus-8. Luv and K were Nexus-9 models.
It's so sad that this game was basically brushed under the rug. I was so amazed by it as a kid. Severely underrated game.
Probably would've been more famous had Prey 2 not get canned, but hey at least the debacle surrounding the series gave the games more attention
@@ArcturusOTE That's true. I haven't played the newer Prey but I noticed that you can't buy the old version on steam anymore. That's a real tragedy. It's still floating around on key reseller sites though, but the more people that make videos on it the more likely those will get redeemed.
@Honk 780 You have to realize that Prey 2017 had a way bigger budget and 11 years of tech and gameplay advances on it. So, it's not a fair comparison. I don't think anyone was crapping on the newer version, in fact I plan on playing it myself, I love immersive sims, but it's sad that it completely wrote over the original. Not their fault, it was the property rights they were given.
Anyway, back in 2006 the portals, gravity puzzles, animated alien weapons, etc were miles ahead of most. The weakest aspect was the story which I still think was really interesting. The whole "ancient aliens" thing wasn't part of the zeitgeist in 2006. As far as it being a "doom 3 clone"... that's just silly. It shares the same engine, and it's an fps. That's where the similarities end. Different enemies, weapons, characters, scenarios, story, gameplay loop, etc.
You can dislike it, and that's fair considering its age and how much gameplay has progressed. This falls in the awkward valley between boomer shooter and modern shooter, but it has a special place in my heart because I remember being 16 and watching a freaking bar get ripped apart to Don't Fear the Reaper, then getting trapped on a tiny planet on an alien ship. That kind of stuff (all in one game and at such a breakneck pace) didn't happen in 2006. Context is important.
It wasn't exactly brushed under the rug. It was a pretty big success in 2006. The problem is that the way the game was designed the cd-key functionality was limited, which means Steam ran out of viable keys to sell. That, combined with what happened with Prey 2 ultimately had Prey fade from memory faster than it should have.
It imo suffers from its basic slow movement and combat with linear corridors like doom 3 and quake 4 suffers imo....
Which is why doom 3 and quake 4 imo are the standing point of a generic action shooter..
Not that they're bad made games.
I do however think prey is better due to its weapons,environment design,and puzzles which are imo the best of
Idtech4 ....
It and doom 3 with its interactive ui screens in game and curscenes in game were what I would of wanted more modders to take advantage of and even maybe fire how to make faster gameplay and on top of the crazy portals and puzzles, etc.
Prey 2 was at the time my most anticipated game, although I have played the first part only at a friends house. The trailer was just anything I wanted in a game, the sci-fi noir scenario, the bounty hunter premise with gadgets, the Mirror's Edge like platforming with sliding and everything. It's such a shame that this did never see the light of day. I hope there will be a leaked version like with Duke Nukem Forever 2001 that is playable on modern hardware.
I actually played Prey 2017 first, love that game to death, it's super fucking good.
Only a week ago I beat Prey 2006, I was impressed by its quality, quickly became my second favourite Id Tech 4 game behind only Quake 4.
Guess the one thing the two games have in common, despite being completely unrelated aside from the name, is the fact that no matter which one you play, you're gonna be in for a great time.
I think Prey 2017 was supposed to be another another game, you know not related to Prey but the publisher wanted another prey game soo they made a game called it Prey and gave their regarts to Bethesda
@@averagementatsenjoyer8558 But that's exactly what happened, and that was one of the main reasons Prey 2017 director Raphael Colantonio left Arkane Studios to create his own studio, he directed Weird West, which came out not too long ago.
@@averagementatsenjoyer8558 The Original name of Prey 2017 was supposed to be Psychoshock. It's confirmed that publisher meddling was the reason the game didn't do so well.
@@ser0t0ninaddict94 its a fantastic game regardless
As good as Arkane's Prey was I'm still salty we never got Prey 2.
Never know, with the Bethesda showcase tomorrow night, fingers crossed.
Meh Arkene prey is too good to get salty for no reason
@@codylamp6814 Weirder things have happened. I wonder what they'd call it if it was released, since Prey 2 could mean Prey 2006 2 or Prey 2017 2 to different people.
Arkane's game should've never been called Prey to begin with. It created a wrong perception of it being a shooter rather then immersive sim. Not giving away early review copies and making misleading promos also didn't help.
@Norman their game didn't suck. I actually enjoyed it.
Civvie's got a shiny new toilet. He's moving up in the world.
an interactive toilet on top of that. :-)
@Bar-Jar Dinks yeah,but this one works
I love when the games industry isn't interested in making games.
Game dev is a business, but yeah....this was a bullshit in the end..
@@darkzeroprojects4245 it's a business that lives off a product. If the goal is to make money, studios constantly doing really greedy anti-consumer shady shit isn't going to make them money except from Suckers that buy every new edition of COD or Madden.
First, the enemies absolutely do heal themselves, I'm not sure if they seek out healing or just happen to get it when they run across a health pickup.
Second, did you ever wonder if Randy is just rendered using idTech 4?
So you’re saying it’s not grease, the shine is from mid 2000s rendering of specular lighting?
@@chrishargreaves7911 I'm just gonna say it's grease.
The story of what happened to Prey 2 will forever make me spontaneously cry in frustration in the dead of night.
You are now thinking about what happened to Prey 2...
@@joriankell1983 I am now thinking about the planned ending for Prey 2 and getting so angry about what couod have been one of the coolest set pieces ever
@@Jimbo55151 now I feel kinda bad...
@@joriankell1983 human head died because Zenimax and Bethesda are horrible shitheads. They were dangerously close to killing obsidian too
@@joriankell1983Good
Legitimately one of the most consistently killer FPS games I ever played.
I would easily class it as the best FPS campaign of that entire decade. It had some mind-blowing tech on par with HL2's physics system.
doom.tnt
@@emperoroftheinternet1448 id say its better tech than the source of 2006.
@@fruitylerlups530 Well it was engineered by the brains on legs we know as John Carmack
18:54 *Stops fighting mid battle to turn the damn music down* lmao
Despite not having Prey 2, if the story that we’ve been told is what was actually gonna happen, the absolute nuts on those guys for doing it woulda been huge. Absolutely love the concept that in the end, dying in a fulfilling life, you wake back up in your apartment, on to start the cycle again.
I really love games that mix the fantasy/ancient tradition and sci-fi elements together and have them clash. Doom, Quake, and this really show how awesome it is to face cosmic horror and alien intruders with a shotgun to the face.
This one is like a reverse Doom: acient magical horrors, meet shotgun. Prey: space horrors, meet magical bow
This merging of fantasy and sci-fi used to be popular in games. Wizardry series, Might and Magic series, early Ultima games they all were like that.
There's no better way to tell a demon/alien to "fuck off" other than tapping a double barrel to their faces.
Prey is kinda like body horror Turok, which of course is also awesome thus doubling the awesome.
Iji is a pretty sweet sidescroller that mashed up alien tech with 2000s futurism, weapon combinations, and nuanced moral dilemmas before Undertale. Best part is that it's free.
A room with a view.
...of other rooms.
You've earned it, Civvie.
It can't keep Cancer Mouse out, however.
"Remember when there was mirrors in video games?"
Arkane Studios remembers. At least, I *think* that's why Prey (2017) has Yu check out his eye in the mirror towards the beginning of the game - like an homage. That'd be cool, wouldn't it?
The creators of this game must have been big art bell fans, don’t fear the reaper is one of the songs art played before his shows a lot. Maybe that was the inspiration.
May art bell Rest In Peace btw
Civvie describing John Carmack is always enough to brighten up my day
You said it the best: "all killer, no filler" - this game was so COOL and FUN, and I'm actually glad that it was successful at the time. It felt and played like a big budget sci-fi/horror blockbuster and not seeing a sequel still stings to this day.
Perfectly stated. I played this game at the height of my gaming obsession phase, and HL2 and Doom 3 were the pinnacles. This game absolutely blew me away. The art, the sound design, the incredibly orchestral score, every single set piece, it just blew my mind. I'm so happy to see others rallying around this game's greatness.
@@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames Prey is so fucking good and hearing people talk about it makes me happy.
@@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames Absolutely! Especially the ending, man, as you enter the portal, the music kicks in...I felt like a little kid in the cinema watching something awesome happen and I couldn't wait to see more of it!
How can you call this a game though? There are no stakes, no challenge, you can't lose or win. You will literally never lose a single bit of progress, down to the damage you've already dealt to each enemy, whenever you are supposed to have been beaten. It's like they might as well have done away with all the combat or given you a God mode cheat so you didn't have to go through the same lame minigame once in a while if you wanted to go through the game invincible. The combat would actually have been nice if there were some sense of challenge that you needed to overcome in any given enemy encounter. Instead you could technically go through the game firing one pistol shot at a time before 'dying' and coming back with another one. It's a worse way of using the God Mode cheat because for pussies who like to go through a game like that (or children, it's fine if you're a young child just wanting to look at and pewpew at monsters without any strategy or skill necessary - I got this as soon as it came out when I was 10 years old and I cheated the hell out of games back then anyway so I had quite a bit of fun with it - though never through the combat; only through the pretty locations and setpieces, and walking on walls yeaaa. I still only played it once back then because I'd seen it all by then. Older me returned to it and hated it because there is no gameplay to speak of while the weapon design is so neat) it must only be more annoying to have the game being broken up each time with this meaningless minigame that will always give you health even if you didn't fire a single arrow)
@@JohnnyNatrium oh boy the "game isnt a REAL game because failure state isnt punishing enough" argument. I guess enjoyable gunplay and enviromental navigation isn't "real" gameplay.
fundamentally the game's death mechanic isn't too different from just quicksave scumming in other shooters.
Ended up circling back to this after the awesome movie "Prey" reminded me of the other awesome movie about Natives fighting aliens. That's a **weirdly** specific peanut butter/jelly combo to have worked so well twice.
I was about 16 when this came out. And me and my buddy got a computer to finally run. What an awesome experience. We stayed up so late for a few weekends working on the campaign. Good memories. Creative game in my opinion. Fun level design and the weapons were a lot of fun. Good review
So weird how a bunch of us were 16 for this game lmao, it was a great time!
It's amazing how many people I've shown this to get creeped out by the murdered kids. Civvie didn't even show the part where you find a school bus and all the windows are covered in blood.
At least there's no soul crushing "Dead Can Dance" music playing over the image like at the end of The Mist.
No one is safe, chief. Not even the guy who uses invulnerability.
This game had some balls of steel. Nowadays not many games play it risky like this anymore.
@Charles Wise that's rich coming from the incel himself
@Charles Wise To me, it can add to the atmosphere or concern over the characters and story. Some games don't allow children to be harmed or have them at all, which makes games that allow it all the more interesting. It also shows that no one in a story is safe from unseen consequences which can make guessing the fate of some characters even more uncertain for the better.
Civvie got a toilet! Biggest lore update since the new “computer”
Review toilet wine when?
old news chummer, patreon folks got a whole vid on that. :P
@@erickoebel2087 when was that?
@@gogurt_st april 29th. behind the scenes #3 (edit: unlisted, unless you're a patreon donator.)
Does that mean his patreon hit 5k finally?
I remember this game, my best friend growing up was Navajo so he picked this up and then played the shit out of it. The scene where u have to kill Jen was the most memorable for me. Love u civvie
I LOVE that game. It has a slew of it's issues, room for improvement, but there's something captivating about the audiovisual design that made me love the game as a teen and still makes me come back to it nowadays.
The fate of Human Head is like straight out of a M. Night Shamaladingdong plot
Lmao
I legit did not see that coming.
What a twist!
Didn't they go under after the release of The Quiet Man? Really bad game, but still a shame
@@mangleman25 No, Rune II is what finished them
My group of friends used to do bi-weekly lan parties, and we got this as something to try. It was one of the most unexpected gems we ever had the pleasure of playing for both multiplayer and single player. It's hard to be impressed by a new FPS game, since nothing experiments as hard as prey did and succeeds.
Bi-weekly LAN parties, what a time.
The last time I played this game around 2009 was with my friend online to get any online achievements. There was nobody in the world but us playing the game just boosting for the achievements and it was really creepy when another person joined for like 1 minute and then he left
Do you mean twice a week, or once every two weeks? The ambiguity kills me
Drinking game tip: always take a shot when you see a wall v*gina or hear Tommy 😁
I'm gonna be honest here. The intro got me into "Don't fear the reaper" which led to my eternal love for rock music and this game.
Loved Prey. Had a few nightmares after playing this as a kid. Loved them, it was more Prey!
First time I've ever heard someone say that they loved their nightmares, lol! That's hardcore and badass
You know we live in fuked-up world when during alien invasion, murdering, gore and destruction your first thought is "Oh shit, copyrighted music... need...to...turn...off..."
"Mother Susan" will send an algorithm after Civvie if he didn't.
The entire Prey 2 thing drives me insane. I have a handful of games that have really truly meant something to me over the years (Killer7, Beyond Good And Evil, etc) and Prey is one of those games. When I heard they were making a sequel I was ecstatic. I couldn't believe it. Development hell ensues and we end up with a new game called Prey (that I will FOREVER call Prey 2) that has absolutely nothing to do with the original game. And because Bethesda owns the name, we all know that we will never receive the legit Prey 2 we always wanted.
Despite my hatred of the fact that they forever cancelled Prey 2, I gotta say the game they ended up making with Arkane Studios actually IS quite amazing. I'll never forgive them for naming that game Prey though because it means we can never get the sequel to the original game we've all wanted for so so long. :'(
I've heard people saying that it wasn't really their idea to call it prey but Bethesda/Zenimax instead. I don't really know how real that shit is though or if its just a rumor.
@@giantzombiechild pretty sure arkane prey's director himself said bethesda gave them the license and told them to make a game with it, although i think they already had an immersive-sim sci-fi game in mind when they got it. bethesda didn't care if the games connected or not.
@@JewTube001 IIRC they really wanted to make their own version of System Shock 2 and now Bethesda gave them ability to do so on condition that game would be called Prey. I guess, for Arkane that was a good call because they are talented developers and did some great games (Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah) and even though I'm not really that fond of Dishonored (I just find gameplay boring), I can appreciate that Arkane definitely are good devs.
It's a shame that the naming of the 2017 game has really distracted people from viewing each game as individuals. Prey 2006 and 2017 are both incredible games for very different reasons, but a lot of people hate the 2017 game while barely having played it simply because Bethesda told Arkane to call it Prey.
Its pretty sad. Prey 2017 is honestly one of my favorite games of the last 5 years, and Prey 2006 is one of my favorite mid 2000s games. But if I try to discuss either of them, all it turns into it discussion about "which game is better" or "which game is really worthy of being called Prey" rather than why both games are fucking fantastic.
Calling Prey (2017) "PREY" was like putting a bullet in that games head. It probably would've done much better had they not done that one simple yet significant choice. Telling waiting fans of the original that a reboot is underway only to have it be (while still great) something completely different. Should've just called it "The Experiment" or something. Shame.
I remembered the trailer for this Prey from way back and thought it was awesome. Years and years later, I find out that only the Arkane Prey exists. I got that and had a GREAT time (seriously, it's like the original System Shock on steroids. I couldn't put it down). But I realized that it wasn't at all the same as the Prey I remembered. I found out that it was discontinued and the only way to get it was through a used box copy. I got it on ebay, and yeah, it's basically like Doom 4 on steroids, as you've thoroughly covered. We need more Prey!
Props for the "Don't Fear the Reaper"! Excellente!
Learning about this really puts a lot of the aesthetics of SCORN into context. It's a lot more understandable now. Let's hope when it eventually leaves it's secret cult developer's hands, it'll be fun.
Ah man, SCORN... been waiting on that one since 2015. Hope we get it soon.
If you like the horror aspect of scorn, there’s one called Lust From Beyond that captures the vibe pretty well. Plenty of weird, gratuitous, first person sex stuff though.
I almost forgot about that game! There is no way it's coming out at this point I feel sadly tho
@@Fightin_Mongoose they dont compare, SCORN has much more to offer than shockvalue and tits
@@PugsyP so does Lust From Beyond. You just have to pay attention to the story instead of getting caught up in the tits. Hard for some people, I know.
Judas priest AND blue oyster cult?? This game has a top tier soundtrack from the looks of it
The original Prey was supposed to have music from KMFDM.
And Clutch too
ok boomer
And the end credits song after the after credits scene is amazing
*Guitar hero 3 enters the chat*
Best episode yet, this is a criminally underrated game
The easiest difficulty being called casino made me chuckle
Casino isn't really a difficulty, so to speak. It just lets you hang out in the bar and play the casino games.
Holy shit this game does exist still! I remember when the "new" Prey came out, and I assumed it was just a glitch in the system and an Agent just violently murdered someone.
Fun fact: There was also a game called Prey: An Alien Encounter for Amiga CDTV and Amiga CD34.
Try the new prey, they are definitely different series (and Prey 2017 should be called something else) but Prey 2017 is so fucking good
Not only did Prey and DNF suffer development hell, it seems they may be in the same cinematic universe with all the similarities on the alien ship
Same people were maikng both games in the 90s. More talented have finished Prey, less talented decided to snatch some ideas without quite knowing how to make them work.
@Clanner Bob Did you even play Prey?
Jen most certainly was violated while attached to some weird alien monster.
The most fucked up boss fight in recent memory. I remember having to turn off my system from her pleas for death the first time I played it.
That Pg99 pfp is fucking awesome
Skramz gang forever 👹
@@idiotwhoedits3522 Hell yeah friend! Skramz gang represent every day
@@PiP99594 I met Jason Green of orchid the other day it was fuckin legendary
I still have my collectors edition of this amazing game back in the day i was blown away by the history, character and setting. A couple of years ago i replayed and still is amazing.
You can tell this started out as a 3D realms game. The main character's last name is "Tawodi," which is the cherokee word for hawk. So the main character is... Tommy Hawk. Yep, that seems right for the studio who created "Lo Wang."
Civvie: "It's a shadow UA-cam... I promise."
Also Civvie: "Oh hey girl did you get waxed?"
Seamless, Civvie.
So was the wax job, it would seem.
Is it just me, or does she sound somewhat like the Tribal Leader from Farcry 3?
As seamless as Jen's chest.
Like a floor wax...
@@no-facejames7360 Thank you sir, I spat out a good chuckle out of thine taut lark.
I like how the ending in Prey 2 was a cool and organic way of initiating the game's New Game Plus mode.
@Hidden Dude ??
That would have been so cool
"You can now play as Luigi!"
...wtf...
There's no Prey 2
prey 2 doesn't exist there's only prey 2006 and that other one
I love how he points out that you have to be REALLY close to enemies for the shotgun to have full effect and that it "ain't half bad" but I think there was another game on the same engine where you had to do the same thing except the average distance of engagement is MUCH closer and people call that gun a travesty, can't seem to remember what the name of that game was though...
This guy I used to know had this game and I never got the title of it, but some of the gameplay stuck with me. Absolutely fascinating.
I just gave up waiting for Prey 2...
me too bc prey 2 was cancelled a millennia ago :(
Unpopular opinion here: Prey 2 was shaping to become a rather unremarkable Assassin's Creed clone with aliens and guns. Like really, that gameplay reel was absolutely not impressive.
I liked the "prey" followup. I know it wasn't like the original. It's basically system shock. But damn do I love it
@@telefrag. it was at the time, but yeah, the fact that people still act like we missed something truly special is so annoying, especially when you've played Prey 2017 and know it's an awesome, creative and incredibly unique immersive Sim that's getting unwarranted hate because "it killed muh Prey 2 and therefor isn't good and I will never play it"
@@telefrag. counterpoint: your description is quite similar to what doom 4 looked like from video and screenshots. I think doom 2016 turned out well when they transitioned
"Bethesda" and "Quality standard" are two things that should never be on the same paragraph unless it's insulting Bethesda's incompetence
@Honk 780 except Bethesda are known to interfere with a games development out of pettiness.
And they screwed with Arkane during their Preys development as well.
@@Zelix678 lol how exactly? Prey 2017 was a masterpiece immersive sim
@@Zelix678 They absolutely aren't. That bullshit with Obsidian isn't and never was true, its a crazy conspiracy theory created by insane New Vegas fanboys. Hell, one of the heads of the company says that Bethesda helped out a lot in the development of New Vegas, and it wouldn't be as good as it was if not for Bethesda's assistance.
@@Bone8380 oh yes, 'cause Bethesda company heads have never lied about their fuck-ups... wink wink Fallout 76 wink wink.
Or that their game engine is as good as ever.
Or that microtransactions are cosmetics only.
If you actually use "company head said" in connection with Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA, Activision-blizzard as proof then I'm sorry; I cannot take you seriously.
Those people have EVERY reason to lie and not one to be honest with us.
Are you a plant?
@@Zelix678 Where is the proof that Bethesda actively sabotaged Obsidian during the development of New Vegas?
I know this is a 2 year + old video but two things. One is that the voice acting in parts really elevates this game. The other is I really love cancer mouse and would love to see more of his goofy ass in as many videos as possible because it's one of the goofiest but funniest gags going.
"We must hurry. The path before you is long. It will not be easy." After Enisi said that, he also said: "Seven trials await you, Domasi-- one for each of the sacred clans. Go now to the spirit cave." That part always bothered me about Prey. Why say that you're going to have a seven trial training sequence, and not have it? I wonder if the seven trials were planned to be in the game, but the developers ran out of time, and had to cut it out, but forgot to change or cut the lines that indicated that there would still be seven trials. It led me to believe that Prey was incomplete because of that. It's a shame, because I really would've liked to have experienced more elaborate training sequences in the Land of the Ancients. Maybe Human Head was planning on more Cherokee-based spirit weapons, but didn't have time, and so cut the trials that would showcase those weapons.
I'm guessing Human Head was also planning on explaining how the dark spirits from the Land of the Ancients came to possess the souls of school girls, but didn't have time for that either. It is interesting that after Tommy goes to the Land of the Ancients, Tommy's mind automatically translates the Mother's transmissions when he couldn't before. Interestingly, in the radio segments with Art Bell, a caller claimed the aliens looked like creatures from Cherokee mythology, and Enisi called the aliens the Mountain Spirits in the old trailer,
On the whole, Prey is still a very solid game. Tommy's dialogue and voice actor were inspired. Prey took the Doom 3 engine, and made an even more interactive and immersive game with that engine. The first boss fight with the Centurion was inspired. The Keeper and Mother boss encounters were also inspired. I like the implementation of the bar and the Oklahoma desert canyons, which made Prey stand apart from Doom 3's level design. I even got classic Apogee game vibes from playing Prey: it reminded me at times of Duke Nukem 2's plot taken to 11. I originally thought Prey would be just a be Quake IV-styled variation of Turok based on the trailers, but I saw Prey was more than that, and it left quite an impact on me. I wish they were able to do more with the game, and I still wish the original Prey from 1998 had been completed as originally intended, but I still love Prey 2006 as is. I sometimes wonder if it was thanks to the portal system in Prey that the Portal games came to be.
The whole debacle with Prey 2 is just so bizarre. I like very much Prey 2's ideas, and wish it was released. At the same time, I wonder who the idiot was in charge who requested that Tommy not be the main character in Prey 2, because Tommy's character and Cherokee abilities helped make the game. If the bounty hunter turned out to be Cherokee, and used similar abilities as Tommy, that would also be something. Still, the pettiness of the people in charge that led to Prey 2 being shut down is unbelievable. The pettiness to passing the Prey title to another game with no connection the original was also pretty weird. The original Prey deserves so much more, and I can think of countless ways its universe could be revitalized.
well the apparent plot is that the bounty hunter would just be a clone with the final mission having tommy join you and it showing mutiple bodies of the bounty having died and gotten farther each time with the theme of not truly dying being shared between them
It was probably going to be seven trials but the developers ran out of time, so they made it look like it was interupted
Regarding tommy not being the protagonist: it was likely a corporate push to make the protagonist a white man. Triple A studios often claim that white male protagonists are more profitable (though its probably just due to racism by higher-ups) and force studios under them to make their protagonists white. Prey received a decent amount of backlash for featuring Cherokee characters and tradition so prominently. Bethesda execs likely didn't want that to happen again because of racism/wanting to make more money.
Prey 2 not having Tommy playable feels like a MGS 2 type of thing. It's different but not bad, as it shows Tommy possibly ascending and being so powerful he doesn't need to be player controlled anymore
@@yootscute4769 Do you have any examples of that backlash, because I can't remember any "decent amount of backlash" to speak of?
One time my friend just went to his grandmother's funeral and came over so I fired this up to take his mind off it. Kind of forgot you watch your grandfather get murdered in the opening sequence
F for all those nights this keeps you awake
"It wasn't up to our quality standards." - Bethesda
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I fucking hate when companies quite literally spit in your face when they say this crap
If prey 2 didnt meet "quality standards" how tf did fallout 76 slip past with a 54.64 gb day 1 patch that brought more problems then acutally solved and they failed to deliver a canvas bag and a good nuka-cola bottle, fucked up refunds and has cosmetics worth $5 for a pair of tattered slippers
CAN YOU TELL IM BITTER?
@@praisethesun5873 dude I'm right there with you. A friend of mine bought us preorders because I told him how fun it was gonna be, I figured it was going to at least be a co-op Fallout 4 (it's no RPG but hey we could grief people) but I had completely forgotten that Bethesda's standards slip with every title they put out. I remember playing their "Beta" and knowing that there were problems there integral to the game that they would be spending the entire time it's live playing catch-up and sure enough that's all they've been doing, they'll never catch up It's been what 3 years? they've barely made any progress.
It's weird, Bethesda intentionally stays a small studio to prevent this and yet they seem to steer right into it anyway.
@@bobbybologna3029 completely agree with everything you said. Luckily, Microsoft owns them now.
They don't have an excuse anymore. >=]
Bethesda, the kings of releasing broken games that get fixed up by the community through mods. Bethesda, the kings of taking beloved franchises and completely dumbing them down to try to appeal to as many people as possible. Bethesda's quality standards are horribly low and they are like that since 2006 (Oblivion was patient zero for all the things Bethesda does now).
And after everything they went through, Roundhouse has been shut down by Bethesda.
"I'm so sorry I bashed you in the face with a wrench. There was probably a better way to do that."
With the wrench Civvie?? With the wrench!
When I played the game, I used the Spirit Bow.
Interestingly, I remember John Romero saying that he had helped finance Human Head at the start. Initially, they were supposed to work on Daikatana 2. That never happened, but some of the ideas they had made their way into Prey 2006 such as the walking around on those floors that defy gravity.
A guy with long hair called Tommy, surprised of not seeing a single The Room joke
Missed opportunities, but the administrators would probably shock his balls if he started doing that.
@Clanner Bob "The only thing you can do is let me go..."
"haha what a story Jen"
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, JEN!!!
@Clanner Bob I totally read that in Tommy Wiesau's voice.
@@34marmarmar He didn’t get shocked when he did it in his Rise of the Triad video. Although doing it again would probably not be the best idea…
This is best episode of this series of civvie vs guidelines
probably the most underrated game of its time
The ending of this review left a hard feeling on my heart and my soul
Thnx cv
@@n00bers38 because despite how it appears most video game fans aren't violent sociopaths
With that said what the fuck is your damage
@@Feasco
1. I have more likes than you. You're clearly in the wrong here.
2. Check your meds. Something's ruining your mind.
This game kicked ass. It is forever one of the greatest of both FPS games, and depressing memories.
"Prey will continue..."
It hurts more every time...
Half-Life 2: Episode 3
@@snarkylive You already got HL:A and with the teaser at the end of it, it seems valve is going to eventually move the story forward.
The most memorable moment for me was when you see the plane crashing, I yelled out "Holy Shit" or something along that line, and in game Tommy said the exact same thing at the exact same time.
Civvie 11, plz know you help me get through the day. Thank you for your videos. Especially the pro doom series.