The developers said they wanted tools that made the player feel like they were getting away with doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing and this gun is a perfect example
Dishonored was one of my favorites, but even I somehow missed hearing about Prey. I just finished it yesterday. It's absolutely brilliant. Any minute I wasn't playing, I was thinking about it. The music, where the story was going, the characters, the consequences of my choices, etc. I haven't had that happen in a very long time.
When you reach tier three of the Mimic ability, you get the power to turn into the robots of Talos 1... These bots can fly. This means that in areas with those robots, you can fly around for as long as your brain juice will last you. I tried flying to the top of a VERY high pillar in, I believe it was the hardware labs? Anywho, I just wanted to see how high the game would let me go, and to my suprise, upon reaching the top, I found a small amount of loot. Just some ammo and fruit, nothing super special, but the fact that they made something to reward players who went exploring was amazing. The areas are so chuck full of secrets and mysteries, I woudn't be suprised if we'd missed a little container somewhere. The game hands you a bunch of tools, and says: Have fun. Do you want to carry around a turret that you can upgrade and repair, and upon seeing enemies, you deploy it AND become a turret yourself? Sure! Have fun, become the gatling gun of your dreams, and enjoy the limitless ammo. Spell slinger? Sure! Enjoy your alien powers! Total pacifist? Possible! Really annoying, but possible! A fun challenge is ONLY using one active alien power to beat the game. You may only turn into objects to sneak, or turrets to fight. No using weapons or tools. Good luck. Much like Dishonored, the difficulty is a player choice, and not needed for achievements. Do you WANT to play at the hardest difficulty, and not use ANY neuromods at all?! Sure! They're not needed at all, have fun! It never felt like a railroad, it felt like a loosely walked path, that said "go in that general direction" How, was always up to you, the Player
Just finished my first playthrough without using any Typhon neuromods and the fact that the game understood this and even rewarded me with a special line of dialogue was all the more satisfying. Now on to Mooncrash.
Well said. I finished the game once but there is obviously so much more to do. I finished it, but I barely *played* it. This was actually the first game I ever played on the PS4, it was free so I probably would have not played it otherwise. One of the most memorable moments for me was having the bright idea to actually check out the space shuttle in the distance. For most of the game I had assumed it was part of the background like the Earth, or the moon. Like you, I figured, 'what the hell', how far can I go? Well when I realised there was another piece of the puzzle there I knew I had stumbled onto a bloody beautiful game.
Really cool example of how the game encourages you to try new things. I feel like there's a lot of moments like this where the thing I wanted to do was facilitated by the game's mechanics but never forced upon me (or made off limits).
There’s a Portal 2 mod called Aperture tag where you use a gun that can shoot two different gells. It’s not like the gloo cannon but it’s similar in the way you add substance to the environment you’re in.
@Karanjeet Kainth I don't understand why popularity matters in such a topic. Besides, I would say Zelda does a bunch of this successfully and is very popular!
Prey is one of the best games I have ever played. Hands down. I love how much thought and care Arkane put into each and every facet of this game. For instance- Talos one is designed like a space station that people could legit live in and do their research. How would goods move between different points in the station? The GUTS tunnel system. How would you generate oxygen and water for the entire station? Must be the reason for the Arboretum and the water filtration system’s existence. How would such a huge space station generate power for its needs? There is an entire section of the station that’s a reactor for this purpose. Between the game’s main story and many side missions, you will probably have a mental map of the entire station and all its shortcuts that you’ll probably use a shortcut to avoid the longer path. Find a locked door and you haven’t invested in the hacking skill? No worries. Use a gloo gun to find a vent or a recycler charge to remove a heavy item. There is always another way. God! I could go on about this game for hours! My only complaint about this game might be the loading screens, but at this point it really seems like a nitpick. Seriously though. Arkane Studios might probably one of the best devs in the industry. I just wish more people would give Immersive sims like this a chance.
@@aolson1111 Never knew what the heck an Immersive Sim was until now and I am so looking forward to researching this more. Always loved games like Dishonored and Deus Ex that allowed you to tackle objectives twenty different ways. Here's hoping cyberpunk 2077 is somewhat similar to that with all of the skills you can get!
seriously. as an RPG player, this kind of semi-open design is so much better than 100% open world design. the only open world I really liked is the outer wilds, and it only works in a game like that.
I said it when the game came out and I'll say it again: The GLOO Gun is on-par with Half Life's Gravity Gun as one of the most inventive weapons in a video game ever. God of War's Leviathan Axe got a lot of praise for being so multi-dimensional, but it's nowhere as close as to what the GLOO Gun offers in terms of creativity and player expression of intent. Prey got totally overshadowed in 2017 by Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Persona 5, and Horizon Zero Dawn, but it was my GOTY for that year despite having played and loved all those other big hitters in the year. I still do multiple preythroughs of the game with different mods and constraints. Mooncrash is an absolutely stellar expansion and Typhon Hunter can result in some hilarious shenanigans.
while i totally agree that it got totally overshadowed by the likes of botw and odyssey, i don't consider it quite GOTY because of the presence of those two. i can see where you're coming from, though; any other year, it would have been able to seriously compete with the likes of god of war or sekiro.
Agh shame that it came out on suuuuch a fucking great year, it is easily in my TOP 10 games of all time and isn't even my favorite of 2017, wich is maybe another one that got overlooked in favor of other indies, Hollow Knight, both such masterpieces.
I absolutely love how in Prey, the game doesn't force you into one specific playstyle through means like guilt. They don't beat a dead horse, if you make a mistake, they won't mention it, but you still feel like you made a difference.
I still remember my first playthrough of Prey. It was unlike any other game I've ever played. No, it was not just that. At the beginning I was like "okay, cool, so I can do 'a crazy idea', how about 'another crazy idea'", and after some time I stopped asking myself such questions, because I have already assumed, that at any given moment game would allow me to act just like my physical body was on Talos I. And all of the impressive systems that game has, really helped to sell that illusion. And I do agree, that GLOO cannon really embodies many of mechanics and motifs of Prey.
"Let's you turn into a coffee mug, roll across the floor and through this gap in a door, and transform back into a human. Handy." We have reached peak gmtk.
I've never played Prey, and was totally engrossed. I love these small-scale videos. They're a great balance for the really high-level essays you've been doing lately.
I'll just agree with the rest of the responses. Prey was a game that I slept on depressingly long, but... I put it high up. I'd say it's almost on par with super metroid or the original Dark Souls when it comes to the cleverness in how it familiarizes you with its world. The the plot is *SO GOOD* Hadn't Nier Automata came out the same year, Prey would be my GOTY2017
I've gotta agree as well it gaves metroid vibes with it's theme and how the levels are connected and to me it gave me some half-life 1 vibes as well in how direct the aproach to new mechanics was and it fell really intuitive and without stopping the gameplay at any moment. Just really good and really fun
@@colin-campbell smart ideas, wasnt just running behind the trends. You dont just get these kind of ideas and make a game this good, smart people were behind this
I have never played this game, but watching it on video was extremely unsettling. This is, in part, due to my extreme dislike for needles though. Also, at first I thought the character was going to stick it in his eye which was not pleasant to think about.
A game that made me re-feel that FASCINATION with what a game could be that I felt back when I first played Bioshock. Prey truly is a gem, made with a TON of thought put into it.
I think they've produced at least five games; Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Prey, Dark Messiah or Might and Magic and Arx Fatalis. Plus Death of the Outsider, if that counts. Collect them all! Oh, and they're building Deathloop currently, so hopefully that one is awesome as well.
I think they botched Dishonored 2 with regards to its release state. The game was heavily unoptimized on PC and even now my PC still has trouble running it even though it can easily handle other games that demand much more resources. It could have been great if it ran well.
Prey is one of the best games of this generation and one of my favorite games of all time. If you're even remotely interested in what you're seeing you need to play it.
5:14 I discovered it's way easier to make a staircase in the side of that volcano next to G.U.T.S entrance. It has some loot at the top and a quick acess to the other side of the arboretum if you break through the looking glass exhibit.
I just got to say, the integration of the quote at 4:26 is one of the most creative quote integrations I've ever seen every. Top-notch editing skills Mark!
@@tiefensucht The DLC captures the initial hours of the base game of struggling for resources and high incentive to improvisation which are naturally lost with further progress in the main game. The quick nature of rogue-lite runs, a timer and character specialized classes helps to maintaning this condition for longer. But if you don't like this aspect, you probably won't like Mooncrash.
@@MuriloRiFO i also felt like while you struggled for resources, you were more encouraged to use what you had, and be more creative with these limited resources, causing you to actually play more aggressively and engage with more of the systems, because if you dont use those resources you could just die and lose them.
Man, so glad you covered this game, definitely one of the best games of the 21st century so far. Has so many great design choices, interesting ideas and lastly (although disputed) an intriguing and touching story.
Crap, I thought that not been able to stick gloo into other gloo was a design choice and not compromise. It works so much better the way they did it that looked totally intentional to me. Great vid. Love Prey. Move Prey, please.
Man the music takes me back to playing this game alone at night. Really emphasized the contradicting isolation and the bleak aftermath with the warm colors, fanciful architecture, and the occasional endearing logs/emails. Gives me goose bumps.
Your channel is responsible for me getting back into gaming again, being able to get games like this for under £20 is the blessing of discovering them years after they came out. Thank you!
This masterpiece became my favorite game after playing it. Not only is the gameplay incredibly deep, but the story and lore is expansive. An easy 10/10 for me.
Just a couple hours ago, I taped a "NOT A MIMIC" post-it to an USB stick as a reference to Prey, and now I can't decide if I should be worried about being trapped in a time loop or happy because my psychic poweers are finally manifesting.
RogueCheepSheep yea but it did start off as prey 2, the previous developers scrapped it and Arkane picked it up and just started from scratch. It should’ve had a unique name tho, but probably zenimax said no to that for brand recognition.
I LOVED Prey. The systems are a joy to experiment with (a quick save-load will let you try out different abilities), and by the end of the game I felt like a mad-scientist mixing up the different tools and abilities at my disposal. The Gloo Cannon is the best example of what makes this game great.
When I first played Prey as soon as I got the GLOO cannon all the possibilities for verticality ran through my head, I spent the rest of the game getting as high as I could in any given level. It's a brilliant concept executed super well, made exploring the whole of Talos 1 that much more enjoyable.
I've always been on the fence to purchase Prey. I'm glad I watched this vid because I finally made up my mind on buying it. Best $10 I spend on the playstation store right now👍👍👍
One thing I never heard people mention is the music of Prey. It is so simple, but creates this incredibly immersive atmosphere that makes you feel so small when gazing into space. Prey is a masterpiece, like all of Arkane's games in my opinion. Incredibly smart game, I hope more people give it a shot - it is definitely worth it.
Indeed you have. Plenty of games have been standard stuff, devs just hitting their checks in a box, others have been stellar examples of why video games are so great.
Prey really came out of nowhere for me but it was blast. What stuck with me in particular was the story. I loved how it makes you unsure about who to trust and drops hints on what's going on. And then the ending was pretty cool too. But I won't spoil anything so you can find out for yourself!
This was such a neat game. One of my favorite moments from playing was when I discovered that I could use the foam dart launcher to push buttons and activate touch screens from a distance.
Yeah, that was awesome to discover on a second playthrough, because I had no idea what purpose the foam crossbow was meant to serve on my first playthrough.
@@NanoElite666 It can also interact with touch screens. In my no-neuromod playthrough, this was essential to getting into areas I wouldn't be able to go otherwise. All hail the nerf crossbow.
I still remember laughing out loud when I smashed a window in the Psychotronics morgue and shot one of those squeaky Nerf bolts to press the button to a door for which I'd been trying to find the key card for about an hour. It was a spur of the moment idea and the dopamine kick from it working was just amazing.
I'm playing Prey right now and it's magic, I love it. The model for the Gloo Cannon looks great as well, it looks so hacked together, a bit grimy, and somewhat bulbous, not sleek like the conventional weapons. That all makes me love it more.
I have been devouring your videos every day as if they were food, and in fact they are. They are food for my soul. In the future I intend to create games, and you have been a flashlight amid so many doubts that I have. Thanks for everything.
This video is epic, it really lets you see how genius the Gloo Gun is, even if you haven't stopped to think about it. I think one of the best things about Prey tho is a lot of the same thought behind the Gloo Gun went into pretty much every other weapon in the game to some degree. Every weapon serves it's own unique purpose, and even tho Prey's arsenal is pretty small compared to other FPS games, they all exist to drive some aspect of the Immersive Sim gameplay. The Wrench is your ammo saver (and if you so choose, you can straight up build your character around the Wrench) , The Pistol and Shotgun are your standard mid-ranged and close-ranged killers respectively, The Disruptor Gun is great at both stunning enemies long enough to easily kill them, or to outright kill mechanical foes efficienty, and the Q-Beam can actually be used both to kill tougher enemies easier, and to conserve ammo if you know how to use it's overload thing correctly. Even the Nerf Crossbow is way more useful than you'd ever think, since if you're creative enough you can use it to open doors from a distance, or to just distract enemies. Then you have the Grenades which are just as cool, starting with the Recyclers being a grenade/tripmine combination. But since they turn the stuff they suck up into materials you can use to craft things, you can use them pretty creatively to help fuel your crafting needs. The Typhon Lures admittedly kind of lose a lot of their usefulness later in the game, but early game when the Typhon can kill you extremely easy they're lifesavers. Same kinda thing with the EMP grenades, only for the mechanical enemies. The Nullwave Transmitters help a lot against the more advanced Typhon, but someone who wants to go around saving people is going to end up getting a lot of mileage out of them, since it's by far the best way to knock the posessed people unconcsious so they don't explode. And none of that is even skimming the stuff you can do with the Psi Abilities, let alone the entire Neuromod system and how it makes you feel like a badass overtime. Everything in Prey you can use to your advantage is less about killing things and more about being tools you can use however you can imagine using them. Every little thing you can do in Prey is about rewarding you for your own ingenuity and creativity, and I think it's easily the best game of the last decade for that reason in my opinion. It's straight up one of my top 2 favorite games of all time, along side System Shock 2. TL;DR Prey is based, you owe it to yourself to at least try it if you're into immersive sims, FPS/RPG games, hidden gems, or just, yknow, good games in general. It's legitimately one of the most rewarding video games I've ever played, I can't really express in words how good I think it is.
Right these games are all about having a ton of multi use tools at your disposal, and combining them together in creative ways. I think a problem with the genre's fan base is that they often confuse side objectives or features as the main reason to play. Hell, the term immersive sim implies these games are aiming to be a 100% copy of reality, which Prey is manifestly not. You're on a space station fighting shapeshifting mind controlling aliens and can use material from said aliens to turn into a coffee cup and roll around. It feels incredibly frustrating when fans proclaim these games need to be realistic, or first person, and get side tracked for an imaginary standard of purity. Have you heard of Mimimi? They're a German dev who made Shadow Tactics, Desperadoes 3 and Shadow Gambit. These games look very different from Arkane's games; they're top down with multiple characters to control and higher difficulty. Thing is from my playing of them, they have a lot of the hallmarks of Arkane's games; you have a variety of abilities with varied uses that you're encouraged to combine together to accomplish a mission. In Shadow Gambit one character has a short range teleport that can be combined with her time stop skill, which freezes a single enemy in place and renders them unable to see. Combine them and you can much more easily get around guards. Another character can summon a concealing thicket, which you can use as a safe space to move to with blink. Shadow Tactics and Desperadoes 3 also seem to have similar ideas, and I think a major plus of these games is the higher difficulty. I remember going through all of the final level of Dishonored 2 with only blink, my sword and choking guards. In Shadow Gambit the guards are numerous and your health is low; the difficulty I play on gives you only 4 hitpoints. This means you're constantly challenged and are encouraged to use all your abilities to their fullest. Shadow Gambit has you unlock characters as you play through a campaign and take any unlocked characters on any mission; however you effectively gain a special resource after a character has sat out of use. It's a neat way to get you to vary up your tactics. I'd recommend you check Mimimi's games out!
I had actually never heard about it before watching this video, and I know and play a lot of games. I see on Steam Charts that it had very few players, although it looks like a big AAA game, weird.
Its just too good to be a popular game. Its just like system shock 2.. Anybody who played it back then said it was the best game ever to be made, but it was way too complex, too farfetched to be enjoyed by your typical audience and sell well Thats why the immersive sims genre died it the early 2000, and thats why its probably never going to come back to life again after that quick arkane revival
@@erradate6425 I dont agree, the immersive sim made a pretty big comeback in the late 2000s/2010s. Arkane's dishonored and Prey but also 2 Deus Ex games and 2 Bioshocks (these were more fps and I dont think you can call infinite an immersive sim). Granted these were somewhat simplified from the original System Shock but still. Unfortunately bad marketing and release controversy kinda damned Akanes latest efforts and Mankind Divided so it seems to have died all over again...
I remember you mentioned in your "The Best Levels of 2017" that you wanted to make a video on this, but I thought it would never happen since it's been so long!
My absolute favorite FPS of the past decade along other works from arkane and a couple other games here and there. Its a complex game that not everyone can enjoy but oh boy if you are into it, its going to grab you by 2 hands and take you through a hell of a journey The level and world design is mind bending, the sound design, the ennemies, the gameplay, the atmosphere. Everything is just so good. Its a spiritual successor to system shock 2 in any thinkable ways, even in the great reception but bad sales.. unfortunately..
I am still amazed that I still get wow-moments from your videos! They are always super interesting and well put together and is a great source of inspiration! A huge thank you for all the work you do!
It looks so fun that it's crazy it didn't blow up. Haven't played it yet but, definitely going to try it now. This seems like one of the only cases where the word underrated would actually be an accurate description.
@@lederp42 If you're really stressed by the mimics there is a method of auto revealing them about two fifths of the way through. Though it requires going through some... delapidated areas. :)
Now I know that I never gave this game enough of a chance. I thought it would follow suit of so many other shooters and never offer much more than what was experienced at the start. Seeing all the other tools, and creative use of the gloo cannon, has me wanting to give this game the time it deserves.
This video convinced me that I needed to play this game and now I have 9 months later. This is easily within my top 10 of all time. Why isn't it more popular?
I love that even though your videos have been great for a long time now, they still keep getting better every time. The presentation on this one was particularily crisp and engaging!
@@PlebNC I'm still not entirely sure it CAN get rid of those puddles, since they go away on their own after a bit. Who's to say it didn't just time out on its own while he was GLOO-ing it?
@@cyberfoxvii6253 That's what I thought happened. If nothing else, in a pinch you could make some stepping stones out of Gloo to hop over the puddle I suppose.
not only can you simply freeze enemies, you can instantly kill massive flyers with it if there's enough altitude i first learned it from here: ua-cam.com/video/1LehSB64ZMM/v-deo.html
Amazing video as always, you are probably our favorite channel in the whole youtube. As game designers we often use your videos as inspiration or source of information or to teach to other designers actually. Anyway please keep up the good work
"The only thing I couldn't seem to do was crush enemies by dropping objects on them" Even still, the fact that it was highly possible for you to do that kinda shows that Prey gets atleast the first step of a good game right; open possibility in everything. Even in unconventional stuff.
Man, Prey did so much right it makes me sad that it didn't get more love.
megamagicmonkey got dlc
In my top 5 games ever made
SeriousName in your opinion 😂😂😂
it got all the love. It just didn't sell incrediby well.
Oussama Okbi we're lucky to have mooncrash
Prey is genuinely one of the most underrated modern games.
thanksbetotap It really is.
Yes
@@colin-campbell and last of us is the game normies love to love. I'll take prey.
Maybe overlooked but not underrated
Yup.
It deserves more ap-prey-ciation.
The developers said they wanted tools that made the player feel like they were getting away with doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing and this gun is a perfect example
"Today is March 15..."
Why didn't you wait a couple days, that could've been perfect!
TreyGamr58 I know, right? As soon as I heard that, I was like “what day is it?!” 😂
It would still be not right, since March 15 this year is not Monday
@@GLAlegend it's also not 2032 but he could have gotten the march 15th part!
Lol, I've noticed that and thought "Wow, Mark chose a day very clever", didn't see it was 2 days ago :D
I'm watching this for the first time on march 15 haha
Prey is such a masterpiece. I really hope it finds a bigger audience in the years to come through word of mouth and videos like this.
Dishonored was one of my favorites, but even I somehow missed hearing about Prey. I just finished it yesterday. It's absolutely brilliant.
Any minute I wasn't playing, I was thinking about it. The music, where the story was going, the characters, the consequences of my choices, etc.
I haven't had that happen in a very long time.
This video has definitely convinced me to play it. I've been on the verge of getting it for a long time
The original Prey from 2006 is still one of the best games I remember playing. Look forward to playing this new version in the future.
@@Gorguruga It's a complete reboot of the original Prey. The only thing they have in common is the name.
@@Gorguruga This game has 0 relation to Prey 2006. Bethesda just slapped the Prey franchise name on it after it was mostly finished.
When you reach tier three of the Mimic ability, you get the power to turn into the robots of Talos 1...
These bots can fly.
This means that in areas with those robots, you can fly around for as long as your brain juice will last you. I tried flying to the top of a VERY high pillar in, I believe it was the hardware labs? Anywho, I just wanted to see how high the game would let me go, and to my suprise, upon reaching the top, I found a small amount of loot. Just some ammo and fruit, nothing super special, but the fact that they made something to reward players who went exploring was amazing. The areas are so chuck full of secrets and mysteries, I woudn't be suprised if we'd missed a little container somewhere.
The game hands you a bunch of tools, and says: Have fun.
Do you want to carry around a turret that you can upgrade and repair, and upon seeing enemies, you deploy it AND become a turret yourself? Sure! Have fun, become the gatling gun of your dreams, and enjoy the limitless ammo.
Spell slinger? Sure! Enjoy your alien powers!
Total pacifist? Possible! Really annoying, but possible!
A fun challenge is ONLY using one active alien power to beat the game. You may only turn into objects to sneak, or turrets to fight. No using weapons or tools. Good luck.
Much like Dishonored, the difficulty is a player choice, and not needed for achievements.
Do you WANT to play at the hardest difficulty, and not use ANY neuromods at all?! Sure! They're not needed at all, have fun!
It never felt like a railroad, it felt like a loosely walked path, that said "go in that general direction"
How, was always up to you, the Player
Just finished my first playthrough without using any Typhon neuromods and the fact that the game understood this and even rewarded me with a special line of dialogue was all the more satisfying. Now on to Mooncrash.
I missed some of these things.
Didn't really knew I could mimic the robots.
thisthisthis NakeyJakey's video on Red Dead Redemption 2 sums up my feelings on this to a T
Well said. I finished the game once but there is obviously so much more to do. I finished it, but I barely *played* it.
This was actually the first game I ever played on the PS4, it was free so I probably would have not played it otherwise. One of the most memorable moments for me was having the bright idea to actually check out the space shuttle in the distance. For most of the game I had assumed it was part of the background like the Earth, or the moon. Like you, I figured, 'what the hell', how far can I go? Well when I realised there was another piece of the puzzle there I knew I had stumbled onto a bloody beautiful game.
Really cool example of how the game encourages you to try new things. I feel like there's a lot of moments like this where the thing I wanted to do was facilitated by the game's mechanics but never forced upon me (or made off limits).
Gloo cannon is incredible showcase of simple mechanic that you can make whole game out of.
Kinda like portal. 😁
Or Driver: San Francisco.
There’s a Portal 2 mod called Aperture tag where you use a gun that can shoot two different gells. It’s not like the gloo cannon but it’s similar in the way you add substance to the environment you’re in.
A more complex example is antichamber.
@Karanjeet Kainth I don't understand why popularity matters in such a topic. Besides, I would say Zelda does a bunch of this successfully and is very popular!
Don't forget the gravity gun.
Prey is one of the best games I have ever played. Hands down.
I love how much thought and care Arkane put into each and every facet of this game. For instance- Talos one is designed like a space station that people could legit live in and do their research. How would goods move between different points in the station? The GUTS tunnel system. How would you generate oxygen and water for the entire station? Must be the reason for the Arboretum and the water filtration system’s existence. How would such a huge space station generate power for its needs? There is an entire section of the station that’s a reactor for this purpose. Between the game’s main story and many side missions, you will probably have a mental map of the entire station and all its shortcuts that you’ll probably use a shortcut to avoid the longer path.
Find a locked door and you haven’t invested in the hacking skill? No worries. Use a gloo gun to find a vent or a recycler charge to remove a heavy item. There is always another way. God! I could go on about this game for hours!
My only complaint about this game might be the loading screens, but at this point it really seems like a nitpick.
Seriously though. Arkane Studios might probably one of the best devs in the industry. I just wish more people would give Immersive sims like this a chance.
Uh, is this your first immersive sim or something?
No! I live for Deus Ex, System Shock and anything made by Arkane- They're probably some of my favorite games of all time...
@@aolson1111 Never knew what the heck an Immersive Sim was until now and I am so looking forward to researching this more. Always loved games like Dishonored and Deus Ex that allowed you to tackle objectives twenty different ways. Here's hoping cyberpunk 2077 is somewhat similar to that with all of the skills you can get!
seriously. as an RPG player, this kind of semi-open design is so much better than 100% open world design. the only open world I really liked is the outer wilds, and it only works in a game like that.
@@wngmv Even then, Outer Wilds is open world in the sense that we usually think of (copypasted ubisoft games)
I said it when the game came out and I'll say it again: The GLOO Gun is on-par with Half Life's Gravity Gun as one of the most inventive weapons in a video game ever. God of War's Leviathan Axe got a lot of praise for being so multi-dimensional, but it's nowhere as close as to what the GLOO Gun offers in terms of creativity and player expression of intent.
Prey got totally overshadowed in 2017 by Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Persona 5, and Horizon Zero Dawn, but it was my GOTY for that year despite having played and loved all those other big hitters in the year. I still do multiple preythroughs of the game with different mods and constraints. Mooncrash is an absolutely stellar expansion and Typhon Hunter can result in some hilarious shenanigans.
Heh. Preythroughs. I like that
I agree
while i totally agree that it got totally overshadowed by the likes of botw and odyssey, i don't consider it quite GOTY because of the presence of those two. i can see where you're coming from, though; any other year, it would have been able to seriously compete with the likes of god of war or sekiro.
why do people have to be so analytical now
porridge gun from wallace and gromit in the zoo was almost like your gloo gun
Agh shame that it came out on suuuuch a fucking great year, it is easily in my TOP 10 games of all time and isn't even my favorite of 2017, wich is maybe another one that got overlooked in favor of other indies, Hollow Knight, both such masterpieces.
I absolutely love how in Prey, the game doesn't force you into one specific playstyle through means like guilt. They don't beat a dead horse, if you make a mistake, they won't mention it, but you still feel like you made a difference.
Not only it doesn't guilt you, pretty much all characters you help are surprised you went out of your way to help them. Feels good, man.
I still remember my first playthrough of Prey. It was unlike any other game I've ever played. No, it was not just that. At the beginning I was like "okay, cool, so I can do 'a crazy idea', how about 'another crazy idea'", and after some time I stopped asking myself such questions, because I have already assumed, that at any given moment game would allow me to act just like my physical body was on Talos I. And all of the impressive systems that game has, really helped to sell that illusion.
And I do agree, that GLOO cannon really embodies many of mechanics and motifs of Prey.
"Let's you turn into a coffee mug, roll across the floor and through this gap in a door, and transform back into a human. Handy."
We have reached peak gmtk.
I've never played Prey, and was totally engrossed. I love these small-scale videos. They're a great balance for the really high-level essays you've been doing lately.
Go play it dude its dirt cheap nowadays and its fantanstic
Please do yourself a favor and go play it then.
Some of the best 40 hours of my life, *add this game to your list of good memories*
I'll just agree with the rest of the responses. Prey was a game that I slept on depressingly long, but... I put it high up. I'd say it's almost on par with super metroid or the original Dark Souls when it comes to the cleverness in how it familiarizes you with its world. The the plot is *SO GOOD*
Hadn't Nier Automata came out the same year, Prey would be my GOTY2017
I've gotta agree as well it gaves metroid vibes with it's theme and how the levels are connected and to me it gave me some half-life 1 vibes as well in how direct the aproach to new mechanics was and it fell really intuitive and without stopping the gameplay at any moment. Just really good and really fun
One of the smartest games in the last decade.
@@colin-campbell smart ideas, wasnt just running behind the trends. You dont just get these kind of ideas and make a game this good, smart people were behind this
Fartest XD LOLOL
Except this idea is not new, all aspects of it have been done before, not even once...
@@Darkernorakeln
The smartest ideas aren't always the most original, but they are redefined in clever ways.
Theres a reason the game was immediately forgotten in a week
"Painful looking" my god how much i agree. The first neuromod is traumatic!
I have never played this game, but watching it on video was extremely unsettling. This is, in part, due to my extreme dislike for needles though.
Also, at first I thought the character was going to stick it in his eye which was not pleasant to think about.
@@kylerivera3470 As someone who has played the game before, you thought correctly at first: right in the eye.
Kyle Rivera Your skull’s eye sockets have holes that lead to the brain, it’s how lobotomies were performed
It obviously goes in the eye. Just look at the shape of the socket the needles come from
And then you find out the neuromods are made out of prisoners
This game is so incredible. It definitely needs more attention. Prey is one of my favorite games.
Original was pretty fun.
"We knew that the bounds of the player were set by the ceiling."
Prey Speedrunners: "Are they, though?"
A game that made me re-feel that FASCINATION with what a game could be that I felt back when I first played Bioshock. Prey truly is a gem, made with a TON of thought put into it.
I personally love the angular low-poly look of the foam - it looks great, and obviously saves on polygons drawn.
Prey really is one of the most interesting and memorable games of the last years. It has so many great ideas and is definitely worth checking out.
"The Gelifoam Lattice Organism Obstructor"
Doofenshmirtz: You forgot to put "-inator" at the end
The Gelifoam Lattice Organism Obstructorinator or
Theinator Gelifoaminator Latticeinator Organisminator Obstructinator
@@krenze1164 yes
@@maniasquid9715 a or b
-Yes
KREnZE yes
@@krenze1164 *Yes*
Developers like Arkane Studios are the definition of quality before quantity - only 4 games, and all of them perfect. They deserve more attention.
I think they've produced at least five games; Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Prey, Dark Messiah or Might and Magic and Arx Fatalis. Plus Death of the Outsider, if that counts. Collect them all!
Oh, and they're building Deathloop currently, so hopefully that one is awesome as well.
I think they botched Dishonored 2 with regards to its release state. The game was heavily unoptimized on PC and even now my PC still has trouble running it even though it can easily handle other games that demand much more resources. It could have been great if it ran well.
So nice hearing some praise for Prey's creativity, the game is awesome.
I love the way you integrated the quotes into the in game screens. That was a really inspired idea, and looks super good
Searched for this comment, was thinking the same thing! Also the way the title of the game appears from behind the suit at the beginning of the video.
Mark!! Why didn't you wait until March 15th for the intro line????
Release a video on a Sunday? Are you mad!?
@@GMTK A small price to pay for salvation
COMMIT TO THE BIT
@@GMTK Then wait for next year, jeez.
@@GMTK Should've waited till monday march 15th
I'm glad I'm not the only one still thinking about this amazing game 3 years later. Great video!
The sound design of Prey is amazing! The musics and sounds always give me chills.
Prey is one of the best games of this generation and one of my favorite games of all time. If you're even remotely interested in what you're seeing you need to play it.
Prey was my favorite game of 2017 back then and still one of my favorites to this day! Criminally underrated
5:14 I discovered it's way easier to make a staircase in the side of that volcano next to G.U.T.S entrance. It has some loot at the top and a quick acess to the other side of the arboretum if you break through the looking glass exhibit.
I just got to say, the integration of the quote at 4:26 is one of the most creative quote integrations I've ever seen every. Top-notch editing skills Mark!
Prey is soooooo underrated. I replay it all the time and its DLC is some how even better than base game in some ways. I really hope it gets a sequel.
In what way is the addon better? Its so damn hard for noobs like me :D
@@tiefensucht The DLC captures the initial hours of the base game of struggling for resources and high incentive to improvisation which are naturally lost with further progress in the main game. The quick nature of rogue-lite runs, a timer and character specialized classes helps to maintaning this condition for longer. But if you don't like this aspect, you probably won't like Mooncrash.
@@MuriloRiFO i also felt like while you struggled for resources, you were more encouraged to use what you had, and be more creative with these limited resources, causing you to actually play more aggressively and engage with more of the systems, because if you dont use those resources you could just die and lose them.
Man, so glad you covered this game, definitely one of the best games of the 21st century so far. Has so many great design choices, interesting ideas and lastly (although disputed) an intriguing and touching story.
Thank you for making content on this Prey, such an underappreciated game!
Crap, I thought that not been able to stick gloo into other gloo was a design choice and not compromise. It works so much better the way they did it that looked totally intentional to me.
Great vid. Love Prey. Move Prey, please.
Man who ever decided to put the articles in the in game terminal made a great choice
Great editing
Prey totally flew under my radar, but I'm going to buy it now.
Man the music takes me back to playing this game alone at night. Really emphasized the contradicting isolation and the bleak aftermath with the warm colors, fanciful architecture, and the occasional endearing logs/emails. Gives me goose bumps.
OH MY GOD HE'S DEDICATING A VIDEO TO THIS MASTERPIECE
Your channel is responsible for me getting back into gaming again, being able to get games like this for under £20 is the blessing of discovering them years after they came out. Thank you!
Forget grapple hooks we need more gloo-cannons in games.
Avalanche Studios joined the chat.
@Moral Relativism they make the just cause games
This masterpiece became my favorite game after playing it. Not only is the gameplay incredibly deep, but the story and lore is expansive. An easy 10/10 for me.
Just a couple hours ago, I taped a "NOT A MIMIC" post-it to an USB stick as a reference to Prey, and now I can't decide if I should be worried about being trapped in a time loop or happy because my psychic poweers are finally manifesting.
**Skyrim Guard Voice** Wait... I know you.
Jokes aside, didn't expect to randomly stumble upon you on a UA-cam video, lol.
I'll come back to this comment when I finish the game because I don't get it.
i never got that. that sounds like a good idea until the moment mimics start including the post-it in their copies.
@@GraveUypo there is a room in the game full of post it lol
time loop hell
Prey was one of my favorite games I’ve played in the past 5 years. Such a shame this game didn’t get more love.
I blame the publisher, shouldn't have used the name of a game that it has no connection to.
RogueCheepSheep yea but it did start off as prey 2, the previous developers scrapped it and Arkane picked it up and just started from scratch. It should’ve had a unique name tho, but probably zenimax said no to that for brand recognition.
"Even my PC struggles..." that's a genuine flex right there.
I LOVED Prey. The systems are a joy to experiment with (a quick save-load will let you try out different abilities), and by the end of the game I felt like a mad-scientist mixing up the different tools and abilities at my disposal. The Gloo Cannon is the best example of what makes this game great.
Man, your editing skills are amazing! Everything feels just in place.
When I first played Prey as soon as I got the GLOO cannon all the possibilities for verticality ran through my head, I spent the rest of the game getting as high as I could in any given level. It's a brilliant concept executed super well, made exploring the whole of Talos 1 that much more enjoyable.
I've always been on the fence to purchase Prey. I'm glad I watched this vid because I finally made up my mind on buying it. Best $10 I spend on the playstation store right now👍👍👍
One thing I never heard people mention is the music of Prey. It is so simple, but creates this incredibly immersive atmosphere that makes you feel so small when gazing into space.
Prey is a masterpiece, like all of Arkane's games in my opinion. Incredibly smart game, I hope more people give it a shot - it is definitely worth it.
It really looks like I've missed on quite a few gems over the last few years. I'll be sure to check Prey out when I can.
Indeed you have. Plenty of games have been standard stuff, devs just hitting their checks in a box, others have been stellar examples of why video games are so great.
You won't regret it.
Prey is awesome.
Honestly so much fun. Never been so immersed even in vr.
It's mooncrash dlc is worth it too
Prey really came out of nowhere for me but it was blast. What stuck with me in particular was the story. I loved how it makes you unsure about who to trust and drops hints on what's going on. And then the ending was pretty cool too. But I won't spoil anything so you can find out for yourself!
Loved Prey. So great to explore that ship. Great story that pins everything together too.
This was such a neat game. One of my favorite moments from playing was when I discovered that I could use the foam dart launcher to push buttons and activate touch screens from a distance.
Yeah, that was awesome to discover on a second playthrough, because I had no idea what purpose the foam crossbow was meant to serve on my first playthrough.
I think I mostly used it as a cheap and easy way to clear out cystoids and their nests before discovering it could push buttons as well.
@@NanoElite666 It can also interact with touch screens. In my no-neuromod playthrough, this was essential to getting into areas I wouldn't be able to go otherwise. All hail the nerf crossbow.
Hail!! Hail!! Hail!!
I still remember laughing out loud when I smashed a window in the Psychotronics morgue and shot one of those squeaky Nerf bolts to press the button to a door for which I'd been trying to find the key card for about an hour. It was a spur of the moment idea and the dopamine kick from it working was just amazing.
I really loved Preys "Looking Glass" I was so fascinated by the helicopter scene it still gets me everytime :D
I was just thinking that I wished more people talked about Prey. Damn that was a fantastic game. Why don't more people talk about it?
I'm playing Prey right now and it's magic, I love it. The model for the Gloo Cannon looks great as well, it looks so hacked together, a bit grimy, and somewhat bulbous, not sleek like the conventional weapons. That all makes me love it more.
Simply one of my favorite weapon ever create, inside one of my favorite immersive sim
I have been devouring your videos every day as if they were food, and in fact they are. They are food for my soul. In the future I intend to create games, and you have been a flashlight amid so many doubts that I have. Thanks for everything.
YES YES YES!
Prey is the most underrated game of the generation. Masterpiece.
This video is epic, it really lets you see how genius the Gloo Gun is, even if you haven't stopped to think about it. I think one of the best things about Prey tho is a lot of the same thought behind the Gloo Gun went into pretty much every other weapon in the game to some degree. Every weapon serves it's own unique purpose, and even tho Prey's arsenal is pretty small compared to other FPS games, they all exist to drive some aspect of the Immersive Sim gameplay.
The Wrench is your ammo saver (and if you so choose, you can straight up build your character around the Wrench) , The Pistol and Shotgun are your standard mid-ranged and close-ranged killers respectively, The Disruptor Gun is great at both stunning enemies long enough to easily kill them, or to outright kill mechanical foes efficienty, and the Q-Beam can actually be used both to kill tougher enemies easier, and to conserve ammo if you know how to use it's overload thing correctly. Even the Nerf Crossbow is way more useful than you'd ever think, since if you're creative enough you can use it to open doors from a distance, or to just distract enemies. Then you have the Grenades which are just as cool, starting with the Recyclers being a grenade/tripmine combination. But since they turn the stuff they suck up into materials you can use to craft things, you can use them pretty creatively to help fuel your crafting needs. The Typhon Lures admittedly kind of lose a lot of their usefulness later in the game, but early game when the Typhon can kill you extremely easy they're lifesavers. Same kinda thing with the EMP grenades, only for the mechanical enemies. The Nullwave Transmitters help a lot against the more advanced Typhon, but someone who wants to go around saving people is going to end up getting a lot of mileage out of them, since it's by far the best way to knock the posessed people unconcsious so they don't explode.
And none of that is even skimming the stuff you can do with the Psi Abilities, let alone the entire Neuromod system and how it makes you feel like a badass overtime. Everything in Prey you can use to your advantage is less about killing things and more about being tools you can use however you can imagine using them. Every little thing you can do in Prey is about rewarding you for your own ingenuity and creativity, and I think it's easily the best game of the last decade for that reason in my opinion. It's straight up one of my top 2 favorite games of all time, along side System Shock 2.
TL;DR Prey is based, you owe it to yourself to at least try it if you're into immersive sims, FPS/RPG games, hidden gems, or just, yknow, good games in general. It's legitimately one of the most rewarding video games I've ever played, I can't really express in words how good I think it is.
Right these games are all about having a ton of multi use tools at your disposal, and combining them together in creative ways. I think a problem with the genre's fan base is that they often confuse side objectives or features as the main reason to play. Hell, the term immersive sim implies these games are aiming to be a 100% copy of reality, which Prey is manifestly not. You're on a space station fighting shapeshifting mind controlling aliens and can use material from said aliens to turn into a coffee cup and roll around. It feels incredibly frustrating when fans proclaim these games need to be realistic, or first person, and get side tracked for an imaginary standard of purity. Have you heard of Mimimi? They're a German dev who made Shadow Tactics, Desperadoes 3 and Shadow Gambit. These games look very different from Arkane's games; they're top down with multiple characters to control and higher difficulty. Thing is from my playing of them, they have a lot of the hallmarks of Arkane's games; you have a variety of abilities with varied uses that you're encouraged to combine together to accomplish a mission. In Shadow Gambit one character has a short range teleport that can be combined with her time stop skill, which freezes a single enemy in place and renders them unable to see. Combine them and you can much more easily get around guards. Another character can summon a concealing thicket, which you can use as a safe space to move to with blink. Shadow Tactics and Desperadoes 3 also seem to have similar ideas, and I think a major plus of these games is the higher difficulty. I remember going through all of the final level of Dishonored 2 with only blink, my sword and choking guards. In Shadow Gambit the guards are numerous and your health is low; the difficulty I play on gives you only 4 hitpoints. This means you're constantly challenged and are encouraged to use all your abilities to their fullest. Shadow Gambit has you unlock characters as you play through a campaign and take any unlocked characters on any mission; however you effectively gain a special resource after a character has sat out of use. It's a neat way to get you to vary up your tactics. I'd recommend you check Mimimi's games out!
awyeahh, prey. the game deserves more attention. certainly the favorite one i played in 2019 by far.
This game has been on my list to buy for a while. This vid has substantially increased its place up that list. Thank you
Prey is possibly the most criminally underrated game in history
I had actually never heard about it before watching this video, and I know and play a lot of games. I see on Steam Charts that it had very few players, although it looks like a big AAA game, weird.
Its just too good to be a popular game. Its just like system shock 2.. Anybody who played it back then said it was the best game ever to be made, but it was way too complex, too farfetched to be enjoyed by your typical audience and sell well
Thats why the immersive sims genre died it the early 2000, and thats why its probably never going to come back to life again after that quick arkane revival
@@erradate6425 I dont agree, the immersive sim made a pretty big comeback in the late 2000s/2010s. Arkane's dishonored and Prey but also 2 Deus Ex games and 2 Bioshocks (these were more fps and I dont think you can call infinite an immersive sim). Granted these were somewhat simplified from the original System Shock but still. Unfortunately bad marketing and release controversy kinda damned Akanes latest efforts and Mankind Divided so it seems to have died all over again...
IMO that distinction belongs to Outer Wilds
Thank you for covering this! Prey is one of my favorite games of the past decade and really deserves more love.
I remember you mentioned in your "The Best Levels of 2017" that you wanted to make a video on this, but I thought it would never happen since it's been so long!
Argh Prey is hands down my favourite game ever. Thank you so much for making this video.
My absolute favorite FPS of the past decade along other works from arkane and a couple other games here and there.
Its a complex game that not everyone can enjoy but oh boy if you are into it, its going to grab you by 2 hands and take you through a hell of a journey
The level and world design is mind bending, the sound design, the ennemies, the gameplay, the atmosphere. Everything is just so good.
Its a spiritual successor to system shock 2 in any thinkable ways, even in the great reception but bad sales.. unfortunately..
I am still amazed that I still get wow-moments from your videos! They are always super interesting and well put together and is a great source of inspiration! A huge thank you for all the work you do!
Finally, the algorithm shows me something good.
It looks so fun that it's crazy it didn't blow up. Haven't played it yet but, definitely going to try it now. This seems like one of the only cases where the word underrated would actually be an accurate description.
I love Prey so so much. It was the System Shock 3 I never knew I wanted.
Now I really want to play Prey (2017.) Awesome job (as always)!
Sad this game didn't do well, finished this game 6 times on every difficulty.
Pathetic
I was too scared to get it. Can't play much of these types of thriller/horror games. :/
@@lederp42
If you're really stressed by the mimics there is a method of auto revealing them about two fifths of the way through. Though it requires going through some... delapidated areas. :)
@@lederp42 Also, they produce sound. Something like high pitch force field sound effect :)
Great video Mark, I played Prey finally last year on the PS Now and it truly is one of the most underrated games of the last decade.
Prey is one of my favorite games to have come out in the past 5 years, that and Subnautica.
The worlds of Arkane Studio games really seem to have an amazing sense of style in architecture and prop design. Love their work.
Yeessss. This amazing game has so many incredible mechanics, it's unreal! A true gem, my favourite game ever.
Now I know that I never gave this game enough of a chance. I thought it would follow suit of so many other shooters and never offer much more than what was experienced at the start. Seeing all the other tools, and creative use of the gloo cannon, has me wanting to give this game the time it deserves.
Man, Prey was such a phenomenal game. Everytime a video pops up on it there’s always something I haven’t seen or tried yet. Time to replay it 😂
This video convinced me that I needed to play this game and now I have 9 months later. This is easily within my top 10 of all time. Why isn't it more popular?
GMTK: "Adding objects is totally possible, but usually with restrictions"
KSH: "Hold my Space Engineers"
I love that even though your videos have been great for a long time now, they still keep getting better every time. The presentation on this one was particularily crisp and engaging!
Mark: "So, when you get it, you immediately learn it's first purpose: freezing enemies"
Me: "YOU COULD FREEZE ENEMIES WITH IT?!"
For me, I didn't know the Gloo could be used to get rid of the Typhon puddles. I did use it alot for freezing enemies and following up with a shotgun.
@@PlebNC I'm still not entirely sure it CAN get rid of those puddles, since they go away on their own after a bit. Who's to say it didn't just time out on its own while he was GLOO-ing it?
@@cyberfoxvii6253 That's what I thought happened. If nothing else, in a pinch you could make some stepping stones out of Gloo to hop over the puddle I suppose.
It's non-conductive, so it's useful for walking over electrocuted areas (Volunteer Quarters Bathroom) with GLOO walkways.
not only can you simply freeze enemies, you can instantly kill massive flyers with it if there's enough altitude
i first learned it from here: ua-cam.com/video/1LehSB64ZMM/v-deo.html
Your editing keeps getting better and better.
And then, he turned himself into a coffee cup! Funniest shit I've ever seen XD
Amazing video as always, you are probably our favorite channel in the whole youtube. As game designers we often use your videos as inspiration or source of information or to teach to other designers actually. Anyway please keep up the good work
Just my best game ever, it's really pity that the sales of this game was bad..
That's why having a small environment packed with stuff like deus ex and prey is a great way to build an immersive sim
Mark: Signature weapon Like Kratos' Levaithan axe.
*Childhood ruined.
well that's another game on list to check out. Jeez man you do this every time! my list is gonna outlive me at this rate!
Been waiting on a video on prey it has some of the best mechanics ever you should also do a video on Dishonored
Putting the quotes in the monitor for the game is such a nice touch
Dude, if you waited just a few more days to upload, that intro clip would’ve been saying the date of upload. Missed opportunity right there :P
Such an awesome and underrated game. Thank you for shining a light on it!
"There was no way we could do this and have it perform on console"
Imagine my shock.
This was one of the best videos i have ever seen on youtube
Morgan from Prey, Freeman from Half Life, Morgan Freeman confirmed
Kudos for making the articles apear like in game mails... chef kiss
"The only thing I couldn't seem to do was crush enemies by dropping objects on them"
Even still, the fact that it was highly possible for you to do that kinda shows that Prey gets atleast the first step of a good game right; open possibility in everything. Even in unconventional stuff.
Man the production in this video is seriously underrated. Nuanced and smooth af. Well done, Mark!