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I never get tired of praising Prey. In my opinion one of the best games ever. A rare gem. Ambience, soundtrack, gameplay, characters, dialogues, weapons, etc etc. Dishonored and Prey are very relevant in the gaming world. Arkane lives in my heart.
Loved the early and midgame, was bored by the end game, hated the ending. A solid 7/10. I feel that ending took a lot of the wind out of my sails and backed the writers into a corner that they could never possibly write a direct sequel to, even if they wanted to. As if to drive the point home that the ending was not going to ever be retconned, they made the only DLC a roguelite (of all things) that follows the exact same principle. It denies you all of the usual gratification from surviving in a survival game. Still fun, though, but too muddy to be a masterpiece IMHO.
@@harveywallbanger3123thematically the ending of prey MAKES sense and if they had just done it in a tradional sense it would have been much more generic the (Spoiler Alerts) READ BELOW -------------------------- The fact it's an illusion a false reality, that the real Morgan Yu likely died and your a typhon human hybrid meant to bridge the gap is genuinely well written the fact the game ALSO judges you based on your choice which actually effects your games ending and in the end it's a story and them about Empathy and Morality
I absolutely agree. It breaks my heart to see the love poured into the design and art direction. It's a memory that we can continue to play thankfully and if you ever see it buy the hardcover art book for the game. It's amazing.
I played, and I don't find anything special about this game. I don't find terrifying, i also think combat is sluggish, theres some cleaver puzzles and an interesting concept, but a masterpiece... I really don't think so. This game was supposed to be sequel, but it has nothing to do with the original Prey, and it looks like System Shock.
Fun fact about the respawning enemies: If you get rid of the dead human bodies that are laying all over the place with using the recycler charge, less Typhons will spawn when you revisit the area later on.
You want the ultimate fun fact... At the beginning of the game.. take the flashlight on the floor and throw it at the wall ( the door that opens to helipad after elevator ) enter elevator.. pick up light Throw light at flow of helipad.. get in helicopter... Pick up light... Throw light at sibil... Get in elevator... Throw light at Alex... Thanks Mr light you have completed your journey... I may be the only person who knows this since it was my silly map... Enjoi
Dead bodies are how typhons are created. so yes, you can do this.... The thing about Ark... its a SYSTEMIC designed game.. Everything is a feature not a bug... So yes, you can do this. @@joogullae3456
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge how GREAT the soundtrack is this game?! Like the opening helicopter sequence is an absolute Bop, and there plenty of tracks throughout that are just soooo great at building tension or aesthetic.
Both Prey 06 and Prey 17 are both so underrated and I absolutely love them both. I have no idea why more people didn't play this one, this deserves to be seen as an instant classic of the genre. Never thought of using Mimic to turn into a cup to get into areas!
that's the first thing they showed in the gameplay trailer, guess you missed that. But if you figure it out on your own i can imagine how incredible it is to pull it off:)) i did have a lot of big brain moment from Prey too.
@@BoulderPunch its basically doom 3 with a good story and the definition of creative level design.ID tech 4 was a really cool engine and it's a shame not many people used it. Its worth your time but its nothing like prey 2017.
I'm so glad to see videos and articles coming out giving this game the consideration it deserves. It is my all-time favorite video game. I've never played another game that so seamlessly uses every element of its design to tell the story
Prey is the single best, most in depth, most thoughtful game I've ever played, ever. How a game this good never got the recognition it deserves, I haven't the slightest. I recommend this game to nearly everybody I know who even slightly enjoyed a game such as Bioshock.
I absolutely agree with you but I know why. Because people wanted prey. They wanted the game those trailers showed of the bounty hunter in space and when it got canned and Bethesda made this Prey well those fans who are super numerous and very , very loud made the biggest noise and complained. I bought prey on release and it's easy my favorite of all time. I'm so glad to see so many people feeling the same because yeah those fans of the other game, well they be big angry.
The game was too much of a cookie cutter. Throughout the story the game it lied to you, the player. It lied about how open it was, "access to all of the ship", my ass, and other thing i'd rather not go into detail about. It became boring... Specifically cuz on the higher difficulties you could really shoot yourself in the foot without any way of fixing it, unless save scumming. Plus the fact that it was all too similar to what it's "predecessors". Do NOT take this to think i dislike the game. ABSOLUTELY NOT. It indeed is a masterpiece and it stands there with VtMB for me. Which is one of the highest praises i can give it. Its brilliance, for me, lies in how much it makes you care about the people in it. And on retrospect, that is a lie from the game too. "Please... care about us!" it seems to yell.
God I love this. Call it hyperbolic but better pacing near the end and a more fleshed out narrative (loved the concept but thought it could've gone further) and this is my personal Goat game. Still in the top 3 games anyway.
@@moesalamander7012 The narrative ending was good in my eyes. I was more referring to the middle of the game. Getting the arming key feels a bit like fetch quest.
It’s kinda cool that they’ve been thinking about a time-loop since pre-pro on Prey. Deathloop is one of my most anticipated games of this year because of how much I love Prey and how fertile the time-loop concept is.
I think prey is the best game I've played. The way the ending makes you think about the very nature of interacting with video games is something I keep thinking time and time again, it's quite brilliant. For me the biggest problem with prey is the name: An immersive sim is already a difficult game to sell, so putting the "arkane system shock" to the IP of prey which had a sort of myth/hype around the sequel and even today have a cult following of the original is something that damaged Prey 2017. Every video I've seen there is some Prey 2006 fan complaining that Prey 2017 has nothing of the original, I really wished they had used an obvious name like psycho shock, psi shock, neuro shock or anything in that line, I think would make more clear what the game is about.
Prey is fantastic. I bought it on a whim not knowing anything about it (besides it being made by Arkane) thinking it looked fun. I paid full price for it and don't regret it at all; it's a steal at the asking price you'll see on Steam now, and it sometimes goes on sale for an even lower price! I'm completely shocked that a game like this could be so overlooked, although, I'll admit that the game almost passed by me too since I hadn't heard of it up until release. I've tried recommending it to several people but somehow it continues to elude its deserved attention.
Excellent video, love this game to death. I could talk and write about Prey for an eternity - and i almost did that for my video. Some details that I liked, in no particular order: - the geographical cohesiveness of the station. The main lobby is an office space, visiting center as well as a break room for the employees working there. It has a museum which I assume is glorified PR setpiece for tours for potential investors/high profile visitors; a lounge right in front of the museum where employees can chill on their smoke/coffee breaks and a small break room for lunch breaks; bathrooms; and other small accommodations for visitors and employees. The sales/marketing department and HR offices are also in the near vicinity, which makes so much sense in terms of their location. Anyway, the lobby has direct connections with several essential areas which, in turn, follow the same logic. The neuromod division has foyer that serves as a visitation area (hence the luxurious fountain and the encased neuromod) and a level where only employees are allowed. The research department (I forget its name) has a lounge area right before the facility itself. There are just a few of the areas that are directly connected to the lobby. The more you stray away from these “core” facilities, the more brutalist and practical the environments become there’s no need for break rooms and other accommodations. - the environmental storytelling. Oh boy, I could write an entire essay about this. Everything from the furniture, interior decorations, posters has a reason for existing. The lamps, for instance, are inspired by a bauhaus lamp design created by Wilhelm Wagenfeld. The posters sport both early art deco influences as well as early 20s century russian avant garde (think Franz Ferdinand album covers). Not to mention that the environments are littered with 60s iconography and retro-futuristic designs. My take is that Arkane were trying to paint the picture of a world nostalgic for an idealized past that never existed. I also think the quirky art deco aesthetic of the station is a deliberate tactic employed by the Transtar Corporation to sanitize the reality of living on a station, far from home, as well as to hide its more shady activities. A note or an email, I can’t remember exactly, reveals that employees are contractually obligated to spend at least two years on the station, so they can’t quit without having to pay ridiculously large severance fees. I wanted to give more examples but the more I write, the more I want to replay it lmao. Again, great video and I’m looking forward to your next projects!
Prey being my personal #1 game, I hate how they've spoiled the premise right away when they first announced the game. It would've been such a wow moment if I didn't already know from the get go that we are in a simulation.
I played Prey for the first time in April 2019 because it was on Gamepass. I knew nothing about it when I started playing and was totally blown away by that beginning. Remains my favorite and most memorable opening to a game
@@KingKrezKroQ I loved that intro too. I don't follow gaming media at all, so I didn't know what to expect. I also didn't dig into how the story unfolds, so the ending was great, although many parts of the game lead the player to suspect what is going on. There's a part where Alex mentions "they are not like us because they can't feel empathy" and the wording of it seemed weird. When you die, you can hear Alex say "this isn't the one" or something to that effect. Overall excellent story telling as long as the player hasn't been exposed to any spoilers.
Cool way to get through those blocked doors:use lift to move the objects. I’ve also used lift instead of the GLOO cannon to get those high to reach places
Prey blew my mind. The introduction with that shocking reveal, and then the ending...omg the ending! Prey and Subnautica gave me this special feeling no other game has managed
I like how once you get the mimic scanning mod for your psychoscope, the presence of mimics kinda dwindles a bit, so that you eventually begin to let your guard down and stop scanning most rooms for mimics, so that when they DO end up throwing another your way it's always a surprise Also I appreciate you being one of the few people who knows about the whole "gloo vs flying enemies" thing. It's weird that the research notes for telepaths explicitly state that gloo is ineffective though, considering how it's my go-to.
It's so refreshing to see so many comments feeling the same way I have always felt about it. It's amazing. Everything. Arkane are so talented and the art book for this game is nothing but incredible. And those choice times those acoustic guitar rifts with piano play. Fuck me. Goosebumps. Thanks for the video. You have another sub for your hard work. thank you and much love from Australia.
I remember being hyped for this game and finally getting it in my hands. I loved it but never got a chance to fully beat it, I'm thinking of going back to play it thanks for the vid as its really good!
I LOVE Prey. I've played through the game over and over again and I have just as much fun with it as the first time I played. I highly recommend this to anyone
I don't even like Arkane games, but this brought up some of the best elements from survival horror and metroidvania, with the added psychological spin, like a single game can't have so many good elements, no wonder it went overlooked, it was literally too much for regular audiences... But you don't get any more game than Prey, as a long time RE fan I WISH there was an RE entry that came even close to the depth of Prey. No joke, this is just a one of the best games ever, like even that is an understatement of how good prey actually is, and most people won't ever play it. It's both conceptually and in execution ahead of its peers by SO SO SO MUCH. It even made me almost resentful that everyone was all over deathloop, which is fine, but doesnt hold a candle to Prey.
@@mayonnaise3959 you must be quite impressionable if you're so easy to shock... clutch your pearls tightly, and reread to fail at finding where i compare the two... you just gaslit yourself. Now if you weren't as impressionable and shocked, you might have asked "what do you mean?" But i have to care about your shock? please... You can still ask, but i have a feeling... XD
@@mailusphoenix8894 dude you’re not Shakespeare you’re just some random guy with a anime profile pic I made a comment about how I’m surprised that you think RE should be like prey (which it really should’ve they are completely different games)
@@mayonnaise3959 just as i thought, hissy fit. You go ahead walk away angry without even understanding, and i just have to shrug off this random gratuitous snark and contempt... Sorry.
@@mailusphoenix8894 I can tell You are writing these with a monocle and reading them with a British accent. Dude you’re not fancy at all it’s kinda amusing if I’m honest. But please continue I like free entertainment
Another approach to moving something heavy - you can have a phantom shoot it, if you're all out of other options. Not easy or safe, but it does move heavy objects.
I was never into these types of games but when i did give it a shot on sale it was amazing. When you replay the game you realize how many ways you can go on about things, passages, crevices, secrets, short cuts etc.
The video has been out for 8 months and someone probably already said it but since you asked for ways to open doors: You can also shut down the power of the area and forcefully open the door with strengh upgrades
Got this game during quarantine after completing both Dishonored games, mostly because i liked the studios' game design. I was expecting at least a fun games to explore and finish based on how luttle i had heard of it, but not to encounter what would become one of my all time favorites. After my sixth playthrough i decided to not play it again for at least a year, so i'm eagerly waiting until January 2022 to revisit it.
Damn I never touched the Typhon mods, the mimic thing through the small opening is dope. I always had to use the gloo canon and boltcaster to get just the right elevation/angle to shoot switches and whatnot.
If the Prey 2 demo was essentially just a tech demo, it could've been a Cyberpunk 2077 situation where the devs had a gameplay video that was 'well put together' but the actual game was just not ready.
Prey is amazing. One of the coolest games by Arkane. The original Prey is really good to especially for its time. I don't think Prey got the attention it deserved. I would still like to see Prey 2..the same one that was canceled.
17:21 - Genius!!! Never thought to do that... Still more surprises that make total sense in the real physical world!! That's what I love most about this game: It rewards you for thinking less about it being a computer game and more of being a real life situation and assessing what options are possible if it were real - thinking about the weight of things, the size of things, forces interacting, etc. How can I get up there? How can I squeeze through there? How can I get that Phantom to stand right there? The less "first person shooter" and more "stealth using environment to solve situation-specific puzzles" I played it, the more I personally enjoyed it. If I got in a shoot out, I would simply run away because I knew there was a better way to solve the situation. That, and I shat my pants.
Prey's core game loop is amazing once you start getting into it, but eventually the rewards definitely become less and less valuable. The inventory management in the beginning can be slightly cumbersome as well
I just stumbled across your channel yesterday for some reason I wanted to watch the resident evil 7 look back (even though I never played the game) and I have to say that and this video are masterclass s+tier youtube content so thank you for these long-form videos and you have earned another subscriber.
I love this game so much. Played it on release and after my first go around on normal I went straight to the hardest difficulty and did a no neuromod run.
IKR, I usually had to waste Nullwaves, Q-Beam Gun and he just...Gloos the fucker and it dies ala gravity. Damn Arkane, that's pretty clever for that to work.
Lot of people say play alien isolation as its better but having played both Prey defo has more depth and I felt more immersed in the game. I'm just about to purchase the mooncrash dlc hopefully its good
I was already having a blast with this, but New Game+ on a 2nd playthrough on Nightmare is on another level. Missed this game at launch, but it's easily one of the best games I've ever played. So many ways to play and experience the game, and a great story.
I remember playing Prey after reading or watching nothing but bad reviews from youtubers and I was... are we playing the same game? Prey might be one of my favorite games every
One of the most stand out points for me was when a mimic ,mimicked another dead mimic.So i thought it was ok to walk past it and then boom ,i had one of the best scares of my gaming life!
i didn’t entirely connect with the somewhat binary playstyle of d1.. but occasionally i got the deus ex/ss1 “immersive sim” feeling in prey; especially with creating your circumstance and using the tools you have left to get out of it also nice to see wunderkind MCA worked on this game ⚡️
Such a shame this game didn't sell as well as it should have. Bethesdas meddling with its title clearly caused confusion due to a prior game having the same title. This game to me represents Arkanes fork in the road, one road leads to the doubling down of single player immersive sims, more intricate systems and worlds. Sadly we got stuck with the other road, Deathloop and Redfall.
What I would like to see in the sequels which it should have it is so good is being able to see objectives easier because I had dropped the game cuz I had no idea what to do but definitely a 10 out of 10
I bought this on release and didn't get around to playing it until a month ago and I'm so glad I did, it's probably my favorite immersive sim. The attention to detail and the enviromental design is so amazing. The entire station actually feels like a place that could realistically function and be lived in. Getting in game explanations to dumb stuff you notice like; why are they using 2d sprites for birds is so satisfying you can't help but smile. I love this game.
ive played through this game at least 4 times and never knew you could use the gloo gun to freeze flying enemies and use the fall damage to kill them. thats why this game is a masterpiece. the devs are gamers. this game was just too good for its time. youll never see anything like this, the industry is just not the same.
_"I'm curious if we'll ever get to see a game like this, on this scale, with this budget again. Now that Arkane is under the Microsoft umbrella, I'm hoping we will."_ I'm sure you heard that Microsoft just decided to shot down Arkane Austin, the studio that made Prey. 💀 (Arkane Lyon will still live on for the time being)
I played this for a few hours days after release and it just wasn't a game I came back to. Kinda wrote it off as something not for me. Watching this video has reinvigorated my interest, I've gotta try this again!
Let me tell you something. I found this game on gamepass and decided to download it after the praise I've heard. I played a couple of hours and wasn't interested in fighting my way through the initial difficulty, so I gave up. A couple of months passed and I gave it another chance, now decided to just keep going where I've left off. I've finished the game today, and I say with absolute confidence that it's probably the best game I've ever played. I was so invested that I tried exploring everything, reading everything, and the conclusion was simply a masterpiece, because it was very unexpected to me. It's a game that really makes you feel free to solve situations on your own, and rewards you with bits and pieces of an amazing story. I think the "problem" and what made me quit in the beginning is that you don't have a lot of tools to solve problems, so you feel very underpowered. But man, it sure opens up the more you move forward. It's a brilliant game design that complements the narrative.
@@matheusg1473 thanks for the insight man! Sounds very similar to the initial experience I had also. I’ll definitely give it another go in the coming months for sure
Amazing video! Prey 2017 is one of the most underrated games ever.Exploring the games' world was so awesome. It made you wanna explore more and more. And the game had a really deep interesting rich lore. I hope we a sequel soon. Amazing studios like Arkane and Eidos Montreal know how to deliver incredible immersive experiences.
Bethesda could actually make a similar concept to Prey 2, with typhon and humans living together, but typhon obtaining human tendencies such as emotions and motivations, which can be good or bad.
Great video, fantastic game. The pace that they introduce new areas is so perfect, it's up there with the best Zelda and Resident Evil games in terms of teaching you the layout of the game world. I do recommend hard mode to everyone that's mildly familiar with ImSims or shooters though, I'm not particularly good at games, but resource management was pitch perfect for me on hard. I was always uncomfortably low on either my pistol or my shotgun by the mid game. Freezing enemies with the gloo gun or disruptor long enough to run an mimic a coffee cup, mag dumping the weird Ghostbuster cannon-thing into a technopath to get rid of it quickly, running into a security booth and locking the door to whittle the nightmare down with my pistol, flying around the exterior of the station to get to a fabricator I've been to before, I probably wouldn't have come up with fun solutions if I was taking down enemies with a few shotgun blasts. I'd love to see a mod that doesn't pause the game while you're in the inventory, the one problem I had was that I was never in a situation where I couldn't brute force a fight by spamming medkits.
People should go back and attempt a No Neuromod playthrough. It really opened my eyes regarding the diversity of options the player has to accomplish almost every goal.
I remember hearing back when Prey 2 was cancelled that the demo they showed off was basically all there was. If they went off the path too much it would just crash
Prey, Dishonored 2 (and D1 and Doto), Kingdom Come Deliverance, Deathloop soon, Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Devided. There you go, some of the best immersive sims of all time. Also play Hollow Knight, Ori 1 and 2, Control, Subnautica 1 and 2, Outer Wilds (not worlds), Journey of the savage planet and maybe RDR2. Some of the best games of the last couple of years :)
I just beat this game today, and I am seriously thinking this is my favorite game ever. What an amazing game. The choices!! I loved it all. The post credit was so shocking for me. I really want a sequel.
An idea: have the Typhon twist come in a plot required audio diary of the real Morgan Yu committing suicide shortly before Typhon outbreak, perhaps desperate or driven mad by the sim lab tests. Alex, desperate to have their sibling back, allowed the Typhon to possess a corpse and become a Phantom before implanting it with Morgan's memories and forcing it through the same tests. This recklessness indirectly leads to the Typhon breaking containment.
One of the best RPG's ever in my opinion. The culmination of many amazing elements of game design. Truly special, its deep its complicated. Sorry you can't solve every problem with a bullet... Oh they designed it so you can solve all your problems with a bullet too. This is prey.
This is one of the most truly great games ever made I think, there’s so much good to say and so few negatives. And the creativity is so off the charts in prey it’s just a thoroughness you don’t see often.
The phantom is one of, if not my favorite enemy in all of gaming for one simple reason: It sounds like they’re saying „What‘s up?“ when they walk around.
Another Prey review while I'm 100% the game? Amazing timing. Have yet to watch fully, but I adore this game. Love more or less everything about it. Just wish inventory was not tied to neuromods, that dashing from mooncrash, weapon skins, elemental weapons were in the main game. Also that the last 3/4 it kinda meh and slow. If we ever get a Prey 2, I just hope these are added. Let's just hope Arkanes craft is put to its full potential next time.
I have always lamented how little recognition System Shock 1 & 2 receive in how groundbreaking and influential they were. When Prey 2017 dropped, it instantly became my favourite game of all time -- but again it seems, the gaming community sleeps on these truly incredible immersive sims. Although, Bethesda takes a big portion of the blame for souring audiences by slapping the 'Prey' title on Arkane's game.
I loved this game and I'm currently on my 3 1/2 playthrough as I have a no needles run along side my new game plus x2 (all my abilities from my previous 2 runs combined) run for giggles mainly but honestly I love this universe of this game it fascinates me and recently been slowing down to enjoy the would and asking the question of what happened here as the typhon broke out what was life like before this the outbreak happened this is one of my favorite games right now and I'm enjoying alot I'm also going to say I'm vary new to this style of games as I've never played bio shock or other games so this is really refreshing to some of the games i mainly play and i can say I will be playing this game to the and try to get 100% on achievements if possible but that will come in time.
I found myself playing in a pacifist sort of way for humans of course using null wave transmitters stun gun and eventually using a telepathic typhon ability to sever the link to the telepath and I even went so far to the point where I didn’t even kill the imposter due to me disabling the recycler charge before he could set it off and then died from a heart attack I think and thus I found it extremely irritating that 1 - 3 members of the remainder of security die automatically so that hurt also I found myself using hacking constantly using it to stop and convert the turrets, corrupted operators and military operators which ended up in all the military operators in the trauma centre shredding through a nightmare and I also found myself spending a lot of time in the bridge after I cleared it out so I could just stare at the beauty of space without either not having a good view or without being attacked so conclusion one of my most favourite games of all time
Recently played through Prey and saw you covered it a while ago. I also noticed you haven't covered the original yet its so good you have to play it. It's a totally different vibe reminds me of Quake 4 gameplay wise with some quirks.
I believe this game will be appreciated later on. It didn't sell well but over time more and more people will discover this game, probably by purchasing it on sale on steam someday and realizing how amazing it is
Beat Prey for the 1st time last night. Hard to believe I slept on this one for so long as Bioshock is my favorite game. Rare to get solid, complete, immersive games like this these days
My favorite immersive sim is VTMB, but Prey is the best immersive sim (and my second favorite immersive sim). Every time I hear Prey being mentioned, is like every time I hear VTMB being mentioned. I install it again, and start another playthrough. It's an almost perfect game. Prey should be played by everyone to understand why immservie sims are GREAT and SPECIAL, giving you the freedom to chose how to handle basically every situation, like, locked door: Pry it open with your strength, find the code, hack the door, find an aperture somewhere hidden and enter through it, maybe there's an aperture in some bulletproof glass and if you have it, use the mimic power, transform youself into a pencil, go through there and open the door from the inside, use the "NERF" toy crossbow (I like calling it Nerf crossbow lol you can't tell me that the devs probably called it the NERF crossbow too, and I'm sure if there aren't copyright problems they would have called NERF Crossbow in game) and shoot the button to open the door/end the alarm by shooting the toy rubber dart to a button so that the door opens or if the door isn't close due to an alarm, you can use the aperture in the glass to navigate the computer and open the door by using the toy crossbow and some zoom. All this, and I'm sure I forget something, just to open a door. I'm going to start a new playthrough, any suggestion? Like only human/alien powers and so on. Edit: Oh yeah if the door is blocked by something you can use strength, use explosives, or recycle it with the recycler charge grenade, which gives you some useful crafting items too.
I wonder how Deathloop play out. From little i heard it has an optimal way to complete the loop, i wonder if it will have replayability with that in mind, i guess more than one way to do it. Can't wait.
Kept waiting for you to mention it but you never did, and I remember bursting out laughing when I realized it myself. Remember the song that plays as you wake up at the start of the game? "And now it's time to beat the mind game" First thing you hear gives away the game, basically :)
@@rRainbows You know, you keep replying like this to any comment that either calls it underrated or a masterpiece, call it a BioShock rip-off (it's not), and then just refuse to explain further. Like a butthurt little baby. Go play CoD or some other basic 'normie' game you hack.
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Should I buy this or DMC5? I've already spent too much money. Sale ends the 11th.
I never get tired of praising Prey. In my opinion one of the best games ever. A rare gem. Ambience, soundtrack, gameplay, characters, dialogues, weapons, etc etc. Dishonored and Prey are very relevant in the gaming world. Arkane lives in my heart.
Absolutely true! It’s a masterpiece! 😍
Loved the early and midgame, was bored by the end game, hated the ending. A solid 7/10. I feel that ending took a lot of the wind out of my sails and backed the writers into a corner that they could never possibly write a direct sequel to, even if they wanted to. As if to drive the point home that the ending was not going to ever be retconned, they made the only DLC a roguelite (of all things) that follows the exact same principle. It denies you all of the usual gratification from surviving in a survival game. Still fun, though, but too muddy to be a masterpiece IMHO.
@@harveywallbanger3123thematically the ending of prey MAKES sense and if they had just done it in a tradional sense it would have been much more generic the (Spoiler Alerts)
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The fact it's an illusion a false reality, that the real Morgan Yu likely died and your a typhon human hybrid meant to bridge the gap is genuinely well written the fact the game ALSO judges you based on your choice which actually effects your games ending and in the end it's a story and them about Empathy and Morality
Should I buy this or DMC5? I've already spent too much money. Sale ends the 11th.
Is saddens me that this game didn't sell well, this game deserves a sequel.
I absolutely agree. It breaks my heart to see the love poured into the design and art direction. It's a memory that we can continue to play thankfully and if you ever see it buy the hardcover art book for the game. It's amazing.
Knowing MS it will have one.
I played, and I don't find anything special about this game.
I don't find terrifying, i also think combat is sluggish, theres some cleaver puzzles and an interesting concept, but a masterpiece... I really don't think so.
This game was supposed to be sequel, but it has nothing to do with the original Prey, and it looks like System Shock.
Immersive sims are a niche genre. They just don't sell well. I think they're amazing and wish it wasn't so but alas
@@efxnews4776 Ok.
Fun fact about the respawning enemies: If you get rid of the dead human bodies that are laying all over the place with using the recycler charge, less Typhons will spawn when you revisit the area later on.
You want the ultimate fun fact... At the beginning of the game.. take the flashlight on the floor and throw it at the wall ( the door that opens to helipad after elevator ) enter elevator.. pick up light
Throw light at flow of helipad.. get in helicopter... Pick up light... Throw light at sibil... Get in elevator... Throw light at Alex...
Thanks Mr light you have completed your journey...
I may be the only person who knows this since it was my silly map... Enjoi
@@laurenceroland8199 is this real?
Dead bodies are how typhons are created. so yes, you can do this.... The thing about Ark... its a SYSTEMIC designed game.. Everything is a feature not a bug... So yes, you can do this. @@joogullae3456
@@laurenceroland8199hmmm
@@laurenceroland8199So what does that even do?
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge how GREAT the soundtrack is this game?! Like the opening helicopter sequence is an absolute Bop, and there plenty of tracks throughout that are just soooo great at building tension or aesthetic.
Its Mick Gordon
Course its amazing
Even the little ambient speaker theme you hear when you activate them.
And taking the time to give them really appropriate titles too was such a great touch
Both Prey 06 and Prey 17 are both so underrated and I absolutely love them both. I have no idea why more people didn't play this one, this deserves to be seen as an instant classic of the genre. Never thought of using Mimic to turn into a cup to get into areas!
I never played 06, I do plan on giving it a look someday.
Perhaps it's because the gameplay is kinda meh.
@@BoulderPunch Prey 06 is dope.
that's the first thing they showed in the gameplay trailer, guess you missed that. But if you figure it out on your own i can imagine how incredible it is to pull it off:)) i did have a lot of big brain moment from Prey too.
@@BoulderPunch its basically doom 3 with a good story and the definition of creative level design.ID tech 4 was a really cool engine and it's a shame not many people used it. Its worth your time but its nothing like prey 2017.
I just love how the game has like 5 ways to open doors. Just such a small thing but the game rarely limits you if you do certain playthroughs.
Agreed, Prey 2017 was amazing - my favorite immersive sim.
Danielle Sho -> Sho, Dan. just blew my mind
Holographic windows = Looking Glass
Morgan uses a wrench for a melee weapon.
It's all very on-the-nose.
antoinette sokol -> anton sokolov
@@julius9055 omg I never pieced those together! that's insane.
Holy shit get the fuck out! That's amazing. Thanks for teaching me something about one of my favorite games of my lifetime.
I don't get it
I'm so glad to see videos and articles coming out giving this game the consideration it deserves. It is my all-time favorite video game. I've never played another game that so seamlessly uses every element of its design to tell the story
Prey is the single best, most in depth, most thoughtful game I've ever played, ever. How a game this good never got the recognition it deserves, I haven't the slightest. I recommend this game to nearly everybody I know who even slightly enjoyed a game such as Bioshock.
I absolutely agree with you but I know why. Because people wanted prey. They wanted the game those trailers showed of the bounty hunter in space and when it got canned and Bethesda made this Prey well those fans who are super numerous and very , very loud made the biggest noise and complained. I bought prey on release and it's easy my favorite of all time. I'm so glad to see so many people feeling the same because yeah those fans of the other game, well they be big angry.
The game was too much of a cookie cutter. Throughout the story the game it lied to you, the player. It lied about how open it was, "access to all of the ship", my ass, and other thing i'd rather not go into detail about. It became boring... Specifically cuz on the higher difficulties you could really shoot yourself in the foot without any way of fixing it, unless save scumming. Plus the fact that it was all too similar to what it's "predecessors".
Do NOT take this to think i dislike the game. ABSOLUTELY NOT. It indeed is a masterpiece and it stands there with VtMB for me. Which is one of the highest praises i can give it. Its brilliance, for me, lies in how much it makes you care about the people in it. And on retrospect, that is a lie from the game too. "Please... care about us!" it seems to yell.
Simple. Its because its called Prey.
@@TheKueiJin Lmfao, what the fuck are you even talking about ?
You get access to all of the ship, including its outside
What a bunch of bullshit
This game is one thats says "enjoy the little things" The Mimic turning into the family portrait gave me chills.
God I love this. Call it hyperbolic but better pacing near the end and a more fleshed out narrative (loved the concept but thought it could've gone further) and this is my personal Goat game. Still in the top 3 games anyway.
Yeah the ending did feel kinda rushed. The endings were narratively perfect in my eyes, but when it ends it’s kinda like “Oh, it’s over?”
@@moesalamander7012 The narrative ending was good in my eyes. I was more referring to the middle of the game. Getting the arming key feels a bit like fetch quest.
@@beaujohnson8216 oh ok
Its number 2 after bloodborne tbh
It’s kinda cool that they’ve been thinking about a time-loop since pre-pro on Prey. Deathloop is one of my most anticipated games of this year because of how much I love Prey and how fertile the time-loop concept is.
After playing through this and Mooncrash, my anticipation became much higher. Bummer about the delay.
I feel like deathloop is gonna be a bit more like dishonored
Turns out Deathloop wasn't like Prey or Dishonored. Just a looter shooter.
This did not age well
It's not a horrible game but the immersive sim aspects are watered down a bit. Still better than Redfall though.
Ok, i get it universe, i get your message, i will play Prey.
It's one of my faves! Hope you enjoy it!
If you've played it by now what did you think?
@@azariah_kyras It's on the backlog, it's a long backlog...
@@rosameltrozo5889 I feel that. Have you tried dishonored?
@@azariah_kyras No, that one never got my attention for some reason, some gameplay (Volound's) looks cool and all, but not enough to get me to play.
This is a beautiful game and worth every moment I put into it.
I think prey is the best game I've played. The way the ending makes you think about the very nature of interacting with video games is something I keep thinking time and time again, it's quite brilliant.
For me the biggest problem with prey is the name: An immersive sim is already a difficult game to sell, so putting the "arkane system shock" to the IP of prey which had a sort of myth/hype around the sequel and even today have a cult following of the original is something that damaged Prey 2017. Every video I've seen there is some Prey 2006 fan complaining that Prey 2017 has nothing of the original, I really wished they had used an obvious name like psycho shock, psi shock, neuro shock or anything in that line, I think would make more clear what the game is about.
If it was called NeuroShock, I would have bought it instantly tbh
Its a shame when people here prey they think of this game instead of prey 2006
@@madmonty4761 nah you still can just specify it
it's the opposite for me, sadly. the ending completely ruined my experience
Prey is fantastic. I bought it on a whim not knowing anything about it (besides it being made by Arkane) thinking it looked fun. I paid full price for it and don't regret it at all; it's a steal at the asking price you'll see on Steam now, and it sometimes goes on sale for an even lower price! I'm completely shocked that a game like this could be so overlooked, although, I'll admit that the game almost passed by me too since I hadn't heard of it up until release. I've tried recommending it to several people but somehow it continues to elude its deserved attention.
Excellent video, love this game to death. I could talk and write about Prey for an eternity - and i almost did that for my video. Some details that I liked, in no particular order:
- the geographical cohesiveness of the station. The main lobby is an office space, visiting center as well as a break room for the employees working there. It has a museum which I assume is glorified PR setpiece for tours for potential investors/high profile visitors; a lounge right in front of the museum where employees can chill on their smoke/coffee breaks and a small break room for lunch breaks; bathrooms; and other small accommodations for visitors and employees. The sales/marketing department and HR offices are also in the near vicinity, which makes so much sense in terms of their location. Anyway, the lobby has direct connections with several essential areas which, in turn, follow the same logic. The neuromod division has foyer that serves as a visitation area (hence the luxurious fountain and the encased neuromod) and a level where only employees are allowed. The research department (I forget its name) has a lounge area right before the facility itself. There are just a few of the areas that are directly connected to the lobby. The more you stray away from these “core” facilities, the more brutalist and practical the environments become there’s no need for break rooms and other accommodations.
- the environmental storytelling. Oh boy, I could write an entire essay about this. Everything from the furniture, interior decorations, posters has a reason for existing. The lamps, for instance, are inspired by a bauhaus lamp design created by Wilhelm Wagenfeld. The posters sport both early art deco influences as well as early 20s century russian avant garde (think Franz Ferdinand album covers). Not to mention that the environments are littered with 60s iconography and retro-futuristic designs. My take is that Arkane were trying to paint the picture of a world nostalgic for an idealized past that never existed. I also think the quirky art deco aesthetic of the station is a deliberate tactic employed by the Transtar Corporation to sanitize the reality of living on a station, far from home, as well as to hide its more shady activities. A note or an email, I can’t remember exactly, reveals that employees are contractually obligated to spend at least two years on the station, so they can’t quit without having to pay ridiculously large severance fees.
I wanted to give more examples but the more I write, the more I want to replay it lmao. Again, great video and I’m looking forward to your next projects!
Thanks amigo! Your video was excellent on Prey.
Since you just did a video on it, I have to someday get around and play the Gothic games.
@@BoulderPunchThanks fam! Yes, they’re excellent games. Really interested to hear your take on them!
Yes, yes and yes!
Prey being my personal #1 game, I hate how they've spoiled the premise right away when they first announced the game. It would've been such a wow moment if I didn't already know from the get go that we are in a simulation.
I played Prey for the first time in April 2019 because it was on Gamepass. I knew nothing about it when I started playing and was totally blown away by that beginning. Remains my favorite and most memorable opening to a game
@@KingKrezKroQ Same! I'm shocked to hear they spoiled a twist like that themselves...
@@KingKrezKroQ I loved that intro too. I don't follow gaming media at all, so I didn't know what to expect. I also didn't dig into how the story unfolds, so the ending was great, although many parts of the game lead the player to suspect what is going on. There's a part where Alex mentions "they are not like us because they can't feel empathy" and the wording of it seemed weird. When you die, you can hear Alex say "this isn't the one" or something to that effect.
Overall excellent story telling as long as the player hasn't been exposed to any spoilers.
Lol now I wish I didn't read this comment
@@dewydcb9864 Exactly. Not everyone knows everything about every game. I didn't know and now its spoiled for me.
Cool way to get through those blocked doors:use lift to move the objects. I’ve also used lift instead of the GLOO cannon to get those high to reach places
I've beaten the game around 5 times and never once thought of doing that.... 😶
Prey blew my mind. The introduction with that shocking reveal, and then the ending...omg the ending!
Prey and Subnautica gave me this special feeling no other game has managed
I like how once you get the mimic scanning mod for your psychoscope, the presence of mimics kinda dwindles a bit, so that you eventually begin to let your guard down and stop scanning most rooms for mimics, so that when they DO end up throwing another your way it's always a surprise
Also I appreciate you being one of the few people who knows about the whole "gloo vs flying enemies" thing. It's weird that the research notes for telepaths explicitly state that gloo is ineffective though, considering how it's my go-to.
This game is a masterpiece . I recently played the GAME+ mode after receiving the FPS BOOST on XBOX and I had the time of my life .
It's so refreshing to see so many comments feeling the same way I have always felt about it. It's amazing. Everything. Arkane are so talented and the art book for this game is nothing but incredible.
And those choice times those acoustic guitar rifts with piano play.
Fuck me. Goosebumps. Thanks for the video. You have another sub for your hard work. thank you and much love from Australia.
Neuroshock would of been the perfect name for Prey 2017 imo
yep tresh
I remember being hyped for this game and finally getting it in my hands. I loved it but never got a chance to fully beat it, I'm thinking of going back to play it thanks for the vid as its really good!
I LOVE Prey. I've played through the game over and over again and I have just as much fun with it as the first time I played. I highly recommend this to anyone
I don't even like Arkane games, but this brought up some of the best elements from survival horror and metroidvania, with the added psychological spin, like a single game can't have so many good elements, no wonder it went overlooked, it was literally too much for regular audiences... But you don't get any more game than Prey, as a long time RE fan I WISH there was an RE entry that came even close to the depth of Prey.
No joke, this is just a one of the best games ever, like even that is an understatement of how good prey actually is, and most people won't ever play it. It's both conceptually and in execution ahead of its peers by SO SO SO MUCH. It even made me almost resentful that everyone was all over deathloop, which is fine, but doesnt hold a candle to Prey.
Prey is nothing like RE it shocks me that you compare the two
@@mayonnaise3959 you must be quite impressionable if you're so easy to shock...
clutch your pearls tightly, and reread to fail at finding where i compare the two... you just gaslit yourself.
Now if you weren't as impressionable and shocked, you might have asked "what do you mean?"
But i have to care about your shock? please...
You can still ask, but i have a feeling... XD
@@mailusphoenix8894 dude you’re not Shakespeare you’re just some random guy with a anime profile pic I made a comment about how I’m surprised that you think RE should be like prey (which it really should’ve they are completely different games)
@@mayonnaise3959 just as i thought, hissy fit. You go ahead walk away angry without even understanding, and i just have to shrug off this random gratuitous snark and contempt... Sorry.
@@mailusphoenix8894 I can tell You are writing these with a monocle and reading them with a British accent. Dude you’re not fancy at all it’s kinda amusing if I’m honest. But please continue I like free entertainment
Another approach to moving something heavy - you can have a phantom shoot it, if you're all out of other options. Not easy or safe, but it does move heavy objects.
I don’t get why people did not like Prey it is literally one of my favourite games of all time. It’s a masterpiece.
Arkane just decided to go full God tier masterpiece with Prey.
The game table Fatal Fortress has the same font of Arx Fattalis (2002), the first game of Arkane.
Arx Fatalis is latin for Fatal Fortress
I was never into these types of games but when i did give it a shot on sale it was amazing. When you replay the game you realize how many ways you can go on about things, passages, crevices, secrets, short cuts etc.
The video has been out for 8 months and someone probably already said it but since you asked for ways to open doors:
You can also shut down the power of the area and forcefully open the door with strengh upgrades
Got this game during quarantine after completing both Dishonored games, mostly because i liked the studios' game design. I was expecting at least a fun games to explore and finish based on how luttle i had heard of it, but not to encounter what would become one of my all time favorites. After my sixth playthrough i decided to not play it again for at least a year, so i'm eagerly waiting until January 2022 to revisit it.
One of the best games I've ever played. So much fun, paired with an amazing style.
Damn I never touched the Typhon mods, the mimic thing through the small opening is dope. I always had to use the gloo canon and boltcaster to get just the right elevation/angle to shoot switches and whatnot.
Take a shot everytime Boulder Punch says “Prey”
If the Prey 2 demo was essentially just a tech demo, it could've been a Cyberpunk 2077 situation where the devs had a gameplay video that was 'well put together' but the actual game was just not ready.
Just started another play through of Prey. Definitely a phenomenal game
Prey is amazing. One of the coolest games by Arkane. The original Prey is really good to especially for its time. I don't think Prey got the attention it deserved. I would still like to see Prey 2..the same one that was canceled.
Prey 2017 was scary for me
Prey has elements of system shock and dead space
17:21 - Genius!!! Never thought to do that... Still more surprises that make total sense in the real physical world!! That's what I love most about this game: It rewards you for thinking less about it being a computer game and more of being a real life situation and assessing what options are possible if it were real - thinking about the weight of things, the size of things, forces interacting, etc. How can I get up there? How can I squeeze through there? How can I get that Phantom to stand right there? The less "first person shooter" and more "stealth using environment to solve situation-specific puzzles" I played it, the more I personally enjoyed it. If I got in a shoot out, I would simply run away because I knew there was a better way to solve the situation. That, and I shat my pants.
Prey's core game loop is amazing once you start getting into it, but eventually the rewards definitely become less and less valuable. The inventory management in the beginning can be slightly cumbersome as well
RIP Arkane, so gutting.
I just stumbled across your channel yesterday for some reason I wanted to watch the resident evil 7 look back (even though I never played the game) and I have to say that and this video are masterclass s+tier youtube content so thank you for these long-form videos and you have earned another subscriber.
I love this game so much. Played it on release and after my first go around on normal I went straight to the hardest difficulty and did a no neuromod run.
Holy crap! Did not know you could easily take out a Technopath with the glue gun!
IKR, I usually had to waste Nullwaves, Q-Beam Gun and he just...Gloos the fucker and it dies ala gravity. Damn Arkane, that's pretty clever for that to work.
Lot of people say play alien isolation as its better but having played both Prey defo has more depth and I felt more immersed in the game. I'm just about to purchase the mooncrash dlc hopefully its good
Prey is an awesome game.
One of my favorites of last gen. Definitely underrated. Good stuff BP.
I was already having a blast with this, but New Game+ on a 2nd playthrough on Nightmare is on another level. Missed this game at launch, but it's easily one of the best games I've ever played. So many ways to play and experience the game, and a great story.
How do you not have more subs. Wtf. Awesome vid. This game scratched my bioshock itch so well. One of my all time favs now.
I remember playing Prey after reading or watching nothing but bad reviews from youtubers and I was... are we playing the same game? Prey might be one of my favorite games every
One of the most stand out points for me was when a mimic ,mimicked another dead mimic.So i thought it was ok to walk past it and then boom ,i had one of the best scares of my gaming life!
i didn’t entirely connect with the somewhat binary playstyle of d1.. but occasionally i got the deus ex/ss1 “immersive sim” feeling in prey; especially with creating your circumstance and using the tools you have left to get out of it
also nice to see wunderkind MCA worked on this game ⚡️
Such a shame this game didn't sell as well as it should have. Bethesdas meddling with its title clearly caused confusion due to a prior game having the same title. This game to me represents Arkanes fork in the road, one road leads to the doubling down of single player immersive sims, more intricate systems and worlds. Sadly we got stuck with the other road, Deathloop and Redfall.
What I would like to see in the sequels which it should have it is so good is being able to see objectives easier because I had dropped the game cuz I had no idea what to do but definitely a 10 out of 10
Nice writing prompt! I liked finding ways to use the nerf gun to shoot switches, unlocking doors
I bought this on release and didn't get around to playing it until a month ago and I'm so glad I did, it's probably my favorite immersive sim. The attention to detail and the enviromental design is so amazing. The entire station actually feels like a place that could realistically function and be lived in.
Getting in game explanations to dumb stuff you notice like; why are they using 2d sprites for birds is so satisfying you can't help but smile.
I love this game.
ive played through this game at least 4 times and never knew you could use the gloo gun to freeze flying enemies and use the fall damage to kill them. thats why this game is a masterpiece. the devs are gamers. this game was just too good for its time. youll never see anything like this, the industry is just not the same.
_"I'm curious if we'll ever get to see a game like this, on this scale, with this budget again. Now that Arkane is under the Microsoft umbrella, I'm hoping we will."_
I'm sure you heard that Microsoft just decided to shot down Arkane Austin, the studio that made Prey. 💀 (Arkane Lyon will still live on for the time being)
I played this for a few hours days after release and it just wasn't a game I came back to. Kinda wrote it off as something not for me. Watching this video has reinvigorated my interest, I've gotta try this again!
Let me tell you something. I found this game on gamepass and decided to download it after the praise I've heard. I played a couple of hours and wasn't interested in fighting my way through the initial difficulty, so I gave up. A couple of months passed and I gave it another chance, now decided to just keep going where I've left off.
I've finished the game today, and I say with absolute confidence that it's probably the best game I've ever played. I was so invested that I tried exploring everything, reading everything, and the conclusion was simply a masterpiece, because it was very unexpected to me. It's a game that really makes you feel free to solve situations on your own, and rewards you with bits and pieces of an amazing story.
I think the "problem" and what made me quit in the beginning is that you don't have a lot of tools to solve problems, so you feel very underpowered. But man, it sure opens up the more you move forward. It's a brilliant game design that complements the narrative.
@@matheusg1473 thanks for the insight man! Sounds very similar to the initial experience I had also. I’ll definitely give it another go in the coming months for sure
Amazing video!
Prey 2017 is one of the most underrated games ever.Exploring the games' world was so awesome. It made you wanna explore more and more. And the game had a really deep interesting rich lore. I hope we a sequel soon. Amazing studios like Arkane and Eidos Montreal know how to deliver incredible immersive experiences.
bioshock (the most overrated normie game) rip off that drag on way too long...underrated?
@@rRainbows bioshock is bad
@@rRainbows This game has absolutely nothing to do with Bioshock you dumbfuck
Go back to playing COD
Nice, I was looking forward to this video.
Bethesda could actually make a similar concept to Prey 2, with typhon and humans living together, but typhon obtaining human tendencies such as emotions and motivations, which can be good or bad.
Great video, fantastic game. The pace that they introduce new areas is so perfect, it's up there with the best Zelda and Resident Evil games in terms of teaching you the layout of the game world. I do recommend hard mode to everyone that's mildly familiar with ImSims or shooters though, I'm not particularly good at games, but resource management was pitch perfect for me on hard. I was always uncomfortably low on either my pistol or my shotgun by the mid game. Freezing enemies with the gloo gun or disruptor long enough to run an mimic a coffee cup, mag dumping the weird Ghostbuster cannon-thing into a technopath to get rid of it quickly, running into a security booth and locking the door to whittle the nightmare down with my pistol, flying around the exterior of the station to get to a fabricator I've been to before, I probably wouldn't have come up with fun solutions if I was taking down enemies with a few shotgun blasts. I'd love to see a mod that doesn't pause the game while you're in the inventory, the one problem I had was that I was never in a situation where I couldn't brute force a fight by spamming medkits.
People should go back and attempt a No Neuromod playthrough. It really opened my eyes regarding the diversity of options the player has to accomplish almost every goal.
I remember hearing back when Prey 2 was cancelled that the demo they showed off was basically all there was. If they went off the path too much it would just crash
It'd have the same faith as Bioshock Infinite, horribly downgraded because of outdated 7th gen consoles
One of my favorite games
It's in my top 10 of games that I need to play after finally getting a completely new pc
Yeah, same. Buying a gaming PC soon. I have a long list of games I need to catch up on...Sure I have a PS4 but I'm more of a PC Gamer.
@@Gatorade69 Well said, although I've got like 8 years-worth of games to catch up on!
Prey, Dishonored 2 (and D1 and Doto), Kingdom Come Deliverance, Deathloop soon, Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Devided. There you go, some of the best immersive sims of all time.
Also play Hollow Knight, Ori 1 and 2, Control, Subnautica 1 and 2, Outer Wilds (not worlds), Journey of the savage planet and maybe RDR2. Some of the best games of the last couple of years :)
@@mikeryan1043 There's Subnautica 2 already? Holy shit!
@@Andriej69 Yes, Subnautica below Zero. It's basically the second game. It's a bit different from the 1st one but I can recommend both of them :)
This is still my favorite Arkane studios game.
mine to
Prey is one of the only games worthy of playing 2-3times or more. And also an amazing dlc in moon crash.
I was gonna say the thing.
I just beat this game today, and I am seriously thinking this is my favorite game ever. What an amazing game. The choices!! I loved it all. The post credit was so shocking for me. I really want a sequel.
An idea: have the Typhon twist come in a plot required audio diary of the real Morgan Yu committing suicide shortly before Typhon outbreak, perhaps desperate or driven mad by the sim lab tests. Alex, desperate to have their sibling back, allowed the Typhon to possess a corpse and become a Phantom before implanting it with Morgan's memories and forcing it through the same tests. This recklessness indirectly leads to the Typhon breaking containment.
Boy this channel is KNOCKING it out of the pack my man we love to see it
Great review for an amazing game. Hope we can see a Prey 2.
Pd: I did a no neuromod run
Can't believe i got this game on steam for $3... I played it for 30 hours.
One of the best RPG's ever in my opinion. The culmination of many amazing elements of game design. Truly special, its deep its complicated. Sorry you can't solve every problem with a bullet... Oh they designed it so you can solve all your problems with a bullet too. This is prey.
This is one of the most truly great games ever made I think, there’s so much good to say and so few negatives. And the creativity is so off the charts in prey it’s just a thoroughness you don’t see often.
The phantom is one of, if not my favorite enemy in all of gaming for one simple reason: It sounds like they’re saying „What‘s up?“ when they walk around.
Another Prey review while I'm 100% the game? Amazing timing.
Have yet to watch fully, but I adore this game. Love more or less everything about it. Just wish inventory was not tied to neuromods, that dashing from mooncrash, weapon skins, elemental weapons were in the main game. Also that the last 3/4 it kinda meh and slow.
If we ever get a Prey 2, I just hope these are added. Let's just hope Arkanes craft is put to its full potential next time.
My dude you can grab an easy to install mod from Nexus Mods to use the skins in the main game.
@@Juwce_86 Saldy on xbox, but very glad to see the game has mods. Will have to look into them when I get a PC, thanks for the information.
I have always lamented how little recognition System Shock 1 & 2 receive in how groundbreaking and influential they were. When Prey 2017 dropped, it instantly became my favourite game of all time -- but again it seems, the gaming community sleeps on these truly incredible immersive sims. Although, Bethesda takes a big portion of the blame for souring audiences by slapping the 'Prey' title on Arkane's game.
I loved this game and I'm currently on my 3 1/2 playthrough as I have a no needles run along side my new game plus x2 (all my abilities from my previous 2 runs combined) run for giggles mainly but honestly I love this universe of this game it fascinates me and recently been slowing down to enjoy the would and asking the question of what happened here as the typhon broke out what was life like before this the outbreak happened this is one of my favorite games right now and I'm enjoying alot
I'm also going to say I'm vary new to this style of games as I've never played bio shock or other games so this is really refreshing to some of the games i mainly play and i can say I will be playing this game to the and try to get 100% on achievements if possible but that will come in time.
I'd say it's the best immersive sim ever
I found myself playing in a pacifist sort of way for humans of course using null wave transmitters stun gun and eventually using a telepathic typhon ability to sever the link to the telepath and I even went so far to the point where I didn’t even kill the imposter due to me disabling the recycler charge before he could set it off and then died from a heart attack I think and thus I found it extremely irritating that 1 - 3 members of the remainder of security die automatically so that hurt also I found myself using hacking constantly using it to stop and convert the turrets, corrupted operators and military operators which ended up in all the military operators in the trauma centre shredding through a nightmare and I also found myself spending a lot of time in the bridge after I cleared it out so I could just stare at the beauty of space without either not having a good view or without being attacked so conclusion one of my most favourite games of all time
It’s the best horror game I’ve ever played. The feeling it gives me is undefinable.
Prey was Arkanes swan song. It is a shame what came of them, but at least they were able to put out this absolute gem before things went south.
Recently played through Prey and saw you covered it a while ago. I also noticed you haven't covered the original yet its so good you have to play it. It's a totally different vibe reminds me of Quake 4 gameplay wise with some quirks.
I believe this game will be appreciated later on. It didn't sell well but over time more and more people will discover this game, probably by purchasing it on sale on steam someday and realizing how amazing it is
Beat Prey for the 1st time last night. Hard to believe I slept on this one for so long as Bioshock is my favorite game. Rare to get solid, complete, immersive games like this these days
I really freaking wish that Prey 2 would've came out it looked amazing to me. Also that concept of being an interstellar bounty hunter was awesome.
Best gamecube game hands down 😤
My favorite immersive sim is VTMB, but Prey is the best immersive sim (and my second favorite immersive sim).
Every time I hear Prey being mentioned, is like every time I hear VTMB being mentioned.
I install it again, and start another playthrough.
It's an almost perfect game.
Prey should be played by everyone to understand why immservie sims are GREAT and SPECIAL, giving you the freedom to chose how to handle basically every situation, like, locked door:
Pry it open with your strength, find the code, hack the door, find an aperture somewhere hidden and enter through it, maybe there's an aperture in some bulletproof glass and if you have it, use the mimic power, transform youself into a pencil, go through there and open the door from the inside, use the "NERF" toy crossbow (I like calling it Nerf crossbow lol you can't tell me that the devs probably called it the NERF crossbow too, and I'm sure if there aren't copyright problems they would have called NERF Crossbow in game) and shoot the button to open the door/end the alarm by shooting the toy rubber dart to a button so that the door opens or if the door isn't close due to an alarm, you can use the aperture in the glass to navigate the computer and open the door by using the toy crossbow and some zoom.
All this, and I'm sure I forget something, just to open a door.
I'm going to start a new playthrough, any suggestion? Like only human/alien powers and so on.
Edit: Oh yeah if the door is blocked by something you can use strength, use explosives, or recycle it with the recycler charge grenade, which gives you some useful crafting items too.
I wonder how Deathloop play out. From little i heard it has an optimal way to complete the loop, i wonder if it will have replayability with that in mind, i guess more than one way to do it. Can't wait.
Shout-out to betheada for putting next to no market budget behind this master class game then being confused as to why it didn't sell.
more like a master class bioshock rip off that dragged on way too long
@@rRainbows bioshock is a worse system shock 2. Bioshock is fucking bad
Kept waiting for you to mention it but you never did, and I remember bursting out laughing when I realized it myself. Remember the song that plays as you wake up at the start of the game? "And now it's time to beat the mind game" First thing you hear gives away the game, basically :)
I’m on my 3rd play through of Prey an still finding new things I missed the 1st an second time
This game was an absolute masterpiece and deserves a sequel
a bioshock (most overrated normie basic bitch game) rip off that drags on way too long...an absolute masterpiece?
@@rRainbows You know, you keep replying like this to any comment that either calls it underrated or a masterpiece, call it a BioShock rip-off (it's not), and then just refuse to explain further. Like a butthurt little baby. Go play CoD or some other basic 'normie' game you hack.