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So PREY became a Cult Classic, much like its predecessor, Prey. What are the odds.

You forgot that IGN gave the game a 4 in their first review of the game. That influences sales A LOT. It's not something that shouldn't be mentioned.

One of my favorite games ever. And now in 2020 we are officially in the cycle where a lot of the outlets that put down Prey 2017 are making articles like "it's the bioshock we all just missed, a hidden gem" bullshit.

Me: "Nah I think I was pretty thorough and found most of the secrets--" Charlatan: "Certain fire alarms on Talos station are actually secret cupboards containing--" Me: "Wait, what?!? WHAT!?!?"

Probably going to become a cult classic I hope, either way I’m sad I didn’t play it when it came out

it always warms my heart to see people showing love for prey. it's such an under appreciated gem.

From the first helicopter ride to the final decision Prey gave me so many incredible and unforgettable moments, more than a hidden gem Prey is a true classic.

Prey+Prey: Mooncrash are immersive sim masterspieces. Pretty much anythin Arkane Studios does.

On one hand, I’d love a sequel, prey was one of my favourite games so far, on the other hand, I don’t want a sequel because it ended pretty damn perfectly

1:19 - 1:34, The way you recount Prey's development history is inaccurate. After Prey 2 was taken from Human Head, Bethesda tried to get Obsidian to finish the game, but in the end they couldn't because Human Head made tons of modifications to ID Tech 4 that Bethesda did not have to source code to, so the game remained unfinished. Arkane's Prey was a completely separate project and idea. Bethesda greenlit development for the game under the condition that it was under the Prey IP because the two games share some similarities in concept and it's easier to market an existing IP rather than a new IP. Arkane didn't scrap anything from Prey 2, this is their original project.

Best of 2017, still finding new things.

The absolutely absurd expectations and expenses of triple A games are the noose around their neck. They hobble themselves and make it impossible to really do anything out of the box.

Prey was the last time I got full throttle hyped for a game bought it day 1 and it met every expectation I had. Since then there has not been a single game to meet my expectations at launch.

Arkane reminds me so much of looking glass studios. It is unfortunate the immersive sims are not sold well cause those are the games that truly make use videogames as a true medium. I hope deathloop sells well.

I don't know if you know this, but the stun gun and the Mindjack psychic power (or one of them, at any rate) safely disable mind-controlled people, so that should make the Telepaths a lot easier on a kill-no-one run.

Excellent video. Prey is by far one of the most under-appreciated games of the last decade. But it's nice to see it slowly turning into a cult classic game. And about that bit at the end about whether we'll have more immersive sims or not, we DO have them. But in a different way. After all four AAA immersive sims of this generation (Dishonored 2, Death of the Outsider, Prey and Deus Ex Mankind Divided) flopping in sales, immersive sims are taking a lower budget and experimental route, especially among indie developers. For example, Prey Mooncrash mixing up the genre with rogue lite elements, The Blackout Club being a 4 player coop immersive sim, the recently announced Void Bastards essentially being the love child of XCOM and System Shock, and The Occupation, which is basically an immersive sim without weapons within 4 real time hours. We also had Underworld Ascendant earlier this month, being sort of a spiritual successor to the Ultima Underworld games. But sadly it turned out to be a bit of a stinker. And that's not all! More and more games are borrowing and using elements of the immersive sim genre like Breath of the Wild, Far Cry, and the new Hitman games which could almost be considered immersive sims, due to their highly systemic and multi-approach design. My point is that immersive sims aren't dead. In fact they are coming back stronger in different forms and I couldn't be happier about that.

Me discovering this video: "I love Prey" Me watching this video: "Knack II babeeey"

This is one of my favorite games of all time. I love absolutely everything about it, it’s a flat out masterpiece to me. I cannot get enough of this game

I loved Prey but it's definitely a more "it's about the journey than the destination" sorta games. The game really runs out of steam toward the end and beating the game was as easy as just traveling from point A to point B. I had a bad feeling that's how it was gonna be also as I was getting closer to the end and stockpiling ammo and whatnot. The game really hits its high point for me when you go to the Psycotronics (?) division to get that psycho scope (?) thingy. You really feel at that point in the game like you're not quite powerful enough and that maybe you've ventured a bit too deep into enemy territory and every little victory feels like territory gained and it's so satisfying and the tension is great in that whole part of the game. Lots of games shine most in that part of the progression, where you're starting to get a bit more powerful that you take a risk into a harder section of the game, but once you're there you're actually not sure if you have what it takes.

This was a really, really good video. I love Prey, it's not a game I go back to and play for a few hours - it's something that I'll suddenly get an urge to escape to when life feels monotonous and bleak. It demands your concentration and respect, then rewards you with intangible beauty and understanding. The only bad thing I have to say is that the enemies needed greater variety of design. Oh - and something that could have boosted monetary overheads that I would have been able to live with would have been product placement. Remember Parasite Eve 2? Weird game, shouldn't have existed (although I'm glad it does) - but you can drink Coca-Cola to restore MP, and see prominent adverts for it, including a vending machine that is part of an early cutscene.

Prey is in some respects old school. It needs a couple brain cells activated and is more addressed to the adult gamer than the 12 year old console jockey the industry loves so much. It is a good fps/rpg hybrid and as such it simply cant be a megaseller,because economic success is in 95% of all cases bought by the lowest common denominator. But developers know that,because games are not just made since last year but for decades now.

The difficulty of Prey wasn't a turn-off to most people it was due to how meticulous the game was. Like how often you have to search through chests and how slowly you progress. The reason why people are turned off to it but aren't turned off to something like Fallout is due to how that is considered more of an action game where you have to pay attention a lot less. Something to bear in mind is when games like System Shock 2 released it was considered an extremely niche game. When Night Dive re-released it a decade and a half later, it sold better digitally than it ever did at retail due to its reputation. One of the reasons why Bioshock sold amazingly well was due to how focused it was on action and much of the sim elements were downplayed. The action game demographic is much larger than the type that wants a more complicated and slower paced game and developers have known this for decades now. It's also why certain genres like the flight sim have gone the way of the dinosaur.

The fire alarm secret is actually not that hard to find, there is an audio log that explains it in Shuttle Bay and one you can find earlier that gives you the quest to find the smuggler caches, but doesn't explain what they look like. Granted, Shuttle Bay is really late so most people probably didn't go around checking everything on the station after finding that log, but you are told about it and it's a game that's build to be replayed anyway. The thing that made me realize I was going to love this game is when I got the taser gun early in the first area by getting creative with the gloo gun and climbing up somewhere I wasn't supposed to. The only two big complaints I have are that combat gets too easy if you invest in the right skills to the point were even Nightmares don't feel like a threat anymore (I'll experiment with the survival options next, maybe that fixes it) and the shitty bugged quest for dragging Dahl into the Medbay in zero G.

I heard you say "Preythrough". Intended or not, beautiful pun.

I'm so sad these games don't sell well, this is my absolute favorite genre. Prey might be the last great game of its kind

Hands down one of the most atmospheric titles out there. Still playing in 2020 taking my time exploring every nook and cranny ;)

The raising price idea itself is a stupid one. Because that's not how economics work. You either spend less money on the product or raise the price. And the former is scary for the consumers. No one is paying 80$ for a normal game (unless it included extras but even then most people wouldn't accept it) it's just that games that aren't guaranteed to sell as franchises are supposed to start as AA as in dark souls the new call of cthulu game and hellblade which all three were not just excellent games but they sold well compared to thier budget and for darksouls? Iy created and popularised a new freaking genre and proceeded to produce three AAA games that also did well. Publishers and developers should stop selling with expensive ads and graphics and make fun games with less money (hellblade is a gorgeous game without being relatively expensive to make) so the risk of flopping is less and profit is more guaranteed. Plus on top of that things like mocap and the like are extremely cheap now. You can get a set for 16k so there's no excuse that games are costing more to make because the top companies are just spending more in general. But aside from that this is an extremely good video good job

EVERYONE PLEASE BUY PREY MOONCRASH

I tend to be pretty picky with what first-person titles I play, but Prey reminded me a lot of some of my favorites. Metroid Prime, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, and Fallout New Vegas. I know none of these are direct inspirations to Prey, but the sense of mood, a finely crafted open-world experience that wasn't just about collecting tokens all over the map, and the fact that you could give yourself so many objectives really had me enamored with all these games and Prey too. It really is good in the kind of way where you have to play it at length to understand it.

Game publishers make more money than many nations have in GDP We do not need to increase game price. We need to end CEO bonuses.

the longer playtime isn't a valid reason as to why it could potentially turn off consumers. Persona 5 had 2 million copies sold and its playtime can range from 70-100 hours. MGS5 takes 45 hours if you're just doing the missions and 85 otherwise, and that sold 6 million. It's FAR, FAR more likely that the big discrepancy between Deus Ex Mankind Divided/Tomb Raider's sales figures and Prey's is due to the consumer perception that it's a new IP because nobody remembers Prey 2006. If Bethesda had name it something like "FutureShock" or licensed the System Shock name and named it System Shock 3 it easily would've moved 3-4 million units. As well Prey had significantly less marketing as a lot of other immersive sim type games like Bioshock. Which by comparison had television commercials featuring things like the Big Daddies and Plasmids. Prey had a trailer and a few other marketing bits but most people didn't even know what the game was about until after it released and people went "oh you can do this, and this in the game". They did an extremely poor job with the marketing for the game and they really should've been specific and focused with it.

Take a shot every time he says “core gaming audience”

The second I started playing Prey, I just fell in love with it. I started recommending it to everyone I know and I was so surprised I was the only one who loved it. But what you're saying about how it's a bit unapproachable for people not used to these type of games makes sense. I'm glad we got Prey but it's a shame they can use it to not greenlight games like this. Also I agree with the DLC... was kind of disappointed tbh

Happy to see others who appreciate Prey for what it is!

Ah shit, reinstalling

Probably one of the best games ever made

Before I watch this video, I just want to say the title is exactly why I have the notification on for your channel. Prey appreciation from you, heck yes!!!!!!

I never even heard they made this. Speaks more to their failure to market than game quality.

you know there's a hole in the sattelite door that gives you enough line of sight to hit the manual release button inside with a nerf dart, right? you don't have to farm neuromods for that one, just be observant and think outside of the box.

_Neuroshock_

Anyone still playing in 2019?

I was beddriden for 3 weeks and spent those weeks playing prey. That was at launch. Now i have over 300 hours in prey and have found every ending possible. Cool thing is. Im still finding new things about the game.

The cat's thinking "I didn't know this chair had a massage function".

truly a fantastic videogame! oldfashioned, no handholding, smart gameplay, really good story, fantastic ending...superb!

In my preferred universe, Bioshock Infinite is called something like 'AeroShock' or 'Adventure in the Clouds' or just 'Columbia' and Prey 2017 is called 'Neuro Shock' -- oh, and the real Prey 2 was still released 6ish years ago too.

I'm entirely sure that why Prey didn't sell too well was because of its advertising. The gameplay trailers were horrible and barely representative of it at all.

My favorite detail in Prey is that Morgan has a bunch of red envelopes from Chinese New Year in their apartment, despite it being like a month after the holiday; but that month time period lines up with how long they've been trapped in the groundhog day loop, IIRC, so they still have holiday cards from early February lying around their apartment, they haven't cleaned them up or changed anything because of the loop.

First half of the game was one of the best immersive Sim experiences since system shock 2 not sure about the second half tho...

Prey. Im so sorry. I only started playing you today and I’m enthralled. Only now did I actually give you some attention. This game is truly a prime example of the term underrated. Congratulations to the developers. I just can’t understand why you fell low. So saddening. It’s like dead space meets bioshock meets portal and more.

I constantly play Prey (2017), and I love using a fully upgraded shotgun to destroy Nightmares with Combat Focus

I bought it a year after release and my copy still had a working preorder bonus code!

Prey was the closest thing to System Shock style of gameplay i've seen in a modern game. Too bad that it didn't do better... :-( Oh and i'm SOOO glad it had NOTHING to do with the horrible thing from early 2000s...

Still my favorite game after roughly 3 years and 3 playthroughs! I loved every minute of the game. Quite honestly, this game ruined other games for me because of how much better it is than anything else I’ve played!

I loved the beginning of Prey, it really got me intrigued and wanting to see more. But then the clunky and overly difficult combat, plus the tedious inventory management turned me off and I eventually quit before getting through a third of the game. Just my 2c.

You had a fan for life when you uttered the words " sports ball 2K whatever".

Prey is a bit overrated to me. It's a fantastic game, don't get me wrong, but the enemies are so lame it kinda tarnishes the entire experience for me. Such a shame.

I loved Prey. It was a great horror game. I'm not really sure what you mean by immersive sim, but this game is amazing. I'm hopeful that another sequel will come along, but how a story would play out is beyond me. Great game, top 5 ever.

I need to give this game another chance, but I can't with the abandoned, attractively retro deco hotel and the prop hunt head crabs. Oh, and the tourist attraction of "find every crew member's dead body"

The fire alarm panels that open on 3 taps are part of a pretty detailed little side-quest/story about some employees moving contraband off the station. They were drop-off points for the goods.

"Immersive Sim" is what we're calling System Shock-likes now? Also gonna have to disagree with you on game prices. Jim Sterling is right, games don't cost $60 anymore, the entry level version of a game costs $60. You're out of your mind if you think most triple-A games are complete experiences with just the $60 starting point and the $30-$60 season pass content is just "extra" content that wasn't cut off from the main game to make extra money.

Great video and loved how deep you went into the reasons of why immersive sims don't appeal to "core gamers". I believe Arkane knows this. They're not trying to sell to everyone, they're only trying to sell to immersive sim fans. Everyone who likes this type of game knew about Prey and played the hell out of it, but it was still largely unheard of to the greater gaming audience. And I think this is a GOOD thing. If a game needs to be marketed to a larger audience purely for the sake of sales, then it tends to get dumbed down significantly. Fallout 4 is a good example. Fans unanimously agree that it's a good game, but a bad Fallout game. No dialogue skill checks, little to no RPG mechanics, de-emphasized exploration, and a huge focus on gunplay put off longtime fans who liked the franchise for its sense of roleplaying your way through a wasteland, not customizing guns or building settlements. If Prey had to sell well, it would've had to be a worse immersive sim (if that makes any sense). It would've had to be dumbed down to a point where its systems were more accessible to the "core gamers", at which point the real fans of the genre wouldn't enjoy it as much. So overall, I think it's a good thing that it didn't get overhyped out of proportion and I think Arkane knew this all along. They weren't expecting it to sell 5-6 million, and I sure to god hope Bethesda wasn't either. I have to disagree with you about Mooncrash, though. I don't believe they adapted the rogue-lite formula in order to appeal to a larger audience. Heck, if anything, roguelikes are even more niche than immersive sims. There's many developer interviews where they mentioned that they had been tinkering with rogue-lite mechanics for a while and wanted to play with what it would feel like to mix it into an immersive sim. I personally thought it was fantastic and fit the level design of Prey extremely well. It's literally the first time a roguelite x immersive sim mashup happened and it was really freaking good. The fact that Prey happened is great. The fact that Bethesda didn't completely halt the project post-release and the fact that the team continued to work on it for over a year later delivering us Mooncrash and Typhon Hunter means that Bethesda still believes in the power of immersive sims. It's meant for a niche audience that really appreciates these special games. And I'd personally be okay with only getting a game of this quality every 4-5 years from a studio that knows what it's doing rather than have the genre turn into what the FPS / open-world genre has turned into, with cookie-cutter games that feel like they all have copy+paste mechanics with a slight twist on the formula released annually as part of a franchise.

That was quite emotive indeed. Prey was one of my favourite games, I don't even know how many times I played it trying to get all the achievements, find all the little secrets and things. All in all, it is an awesome game, far better than many others we've gotten, it's sad to see that these kind of games don't really get the love they deserver.

I totally put off prey until I just gave it a chance and was blown away.

Moon crash is not just a rouge like, it's his own thing

The reason the industry is adding all the micro is because investors want continual growth, something that is impossible in any industry. So they keep adding shit and not changing the price and ramping up marketing and getting more and more desperate to make money so investors dont draw out. Granted, the price to make games has increased, but i very much doubt its enough to put off the growth he industry has already seen and off put the sales if the game is actual good. But whats the point of trying when you can release the same continual shit like Activisions Call of Duty every single year and then cut content out and sell it to people.

System Shock 2 and Bioshock are my two favorite games. Prey didn't hook me at all. The setting, the future-retro-tech... it all aped Bioshock in a very thin way. Add to that the boring enemy types and I never even finished it.

The secret safes in the fire alarms is told to you through an email or log (can't remember exactly) and it even starts a little quest to find them all. To tell them apart from the regular fire alarms, the ones with safes have an extra red light right next to them

😃 yay Mr Bioshock ☺️ what a coincidence, I bought Bethesdas Prey for Thanksgiving, its on sale at Microcenter, they also have on sale Dishonored 2 i mite go pu if I have a chance. I watched several review videos, according to one guy he says the game is inspired by Systemshock and that the game is more of an rpg & puzzle & brainy game, but too many people simply saw it as a 'shooter' game and harshly misjudged it on that alone. I like the game because it doesnt feel like a typical crappy bethesda game, it has a retro vibe, and the engine seems highly optimized with a good wide range of settings so u can get it to run decently on low spec hardware, i think this is one of those games that people should give it a chance, its feels like its going to be a legacy & historic gaming industry type game that u can go back to every once in a while, everyone shud have it in their library now and its cheap enuf so go pick it up, just pease take ur time and play the game as if its an rpg puzzle adventure game, if u can make more videos on Prey that would be great, and also checkout the Mooncrash DLC, looks neat so pick it up also when its on sale, Thanks Everyone✌️😎👍

Them naming this game Prey was the biggest disservice they could have possibly done themselves and I can't, for the life of me come up with a single reason why they did it anyway.

Prey is the most underrated game of this generation and probably my favorite game of 2017. I just finished it and the story was so good, the gameplay is everything I like about deus ex and more, the music is amazing and the graphics are really good (altho some models look a bit rigid). I spent 30h on my playthrough not even completing everything!

Phenomenal game. I'm so glad I went back and gave it another shot - thanks to your im-sim tier list! I just finished it and I will only say this... aside from some technical issues, almost any complaint you will hear/ read about this game comes from people who simply misunderstood, didn't appreciate, or didn't pay enough attention. I fucking loved the various characters, their stories, the world, the massively detailed cohesiveness of it all... and I loved the endings and how they flesh out the whole picture, how they speak to both the characters and you as a player... I honestly don't know how folks could bitch or nitpick about any of these aspects.

Fallout 76 is neither an RPG or an immersive sim. It's just a plain old shooter. It's a good thing it bombed. Hopefully Bethesda will learn from this and the next Fallout will return to the serie's roots... And while I'm dreaming aloud, they'll get Chris Avellone as the main writer/quest designer.

How nice of you to buy a new chair for your cat.

Prey Mooncrash is a totally worth expansion/sequel to Prey and fantastic value for money. You get 3 (and a bit) full new areas on the same scale as those in the original game. There is very much a story (or rather stories) - you just have to look for them - just like in the base game. On top of that there are cool new systems of random loot, meta progression and multiple player characters. I think the rogue-lite/reogue-lite gametype applies really well to the Immersive Sim genre. It stops you from always using your tried-and-true techniques for dealing with problems and forces you to improvise which highlights the strength of immersive sims. I certainly don't think Prey: Mooncrash is the strongest implementation of the Rogue-Like+Immerive Sim combo. The balance is a little off and the first couple of runs can be very frustrating without the Mule operator to dump your stuff into prior to escape. It runs into the same problem as the base game (and Shadow of Mordor I feel) in that the early game is much harder than the mid-game. But get past that and it's incredibly fun and replayable.

I actually found the alarm bell stashes by accident. I was marvelling at the amount of detail in the game that I saw the bell and was like, "Oh, I'll bet the bell makes a ring if you hit it with the wrench," so I tried it, and it didn't work, so I hit a couple because I was disappointed and it swung open.

Yeah yeah, but i'm still pissed that they scrapped the original Pray2 concept.

As someone who's a prolific gamer for most of his life, all i can say about Prey is that it looks and feels basic... and i don't mean either of those descriptions from the perspective of someone who's played it. i seldom ever play multiplayer games, i pretty much stick to solo experiences; so you'd think this game should be exactly for me. but Prey just... looks to much like Bioshock. and i think that's the flaw, because the gaming crowd is completely full of it's share of Bioshock... with Bioshock. It's like saying Nioh is allot like Dark Souls, now sure Nioh could've have been better than Dark Souls (in some weird alternative universe) but even if it had been it's not the point, the Spotlight has already been stolen. Prey needed more identity for itself. the Engine, the Art style, it just seems like another dime a dozen game you'd pick up in a £5 bin on it's own release day.

i’ve been meaning to play this game for a while, just don’t have the computer for it. It looked so good to me and i was surprised not to hear much of it. definetely first game i’m to play when i get my new comp

An advice for your chair situation: try lifting the chair. Most cats don't like to be moved like that and will jump off. There are a few that will consider this a free joyride though.

Good games don't make money anymore, hype, loot boxes and micro transactions do and we need to hold idiots and parents and there credit cards with these kids responsible for the rape and destruction of games today. This is an unsustainable business model and a legit gaming crash is more then just plausible, I feel it is inevitable at this point. Great video.

Although prey is a pretty good game, I can’t help but wonder what could have been if Prey 2 by Human head studio actually manage to finished development. It looks pretty cool from what I’ve seen in the footage and I certainly wouldn’t mind playing a bounty hunter in space game

Prey was fucking amazing, easily my 2017 game of the year. So much stuff to find, I looked through every nook and cranny, spend hours just exploring with no real destination and still didn't find everything

I've gone through prey 3 times Put like 20 hours into it each time But still haven't beat it And still love it I've probably been like 1 step from the end a few times now

Game should just be called "tldr"

Yeah yeah, but there was a lot of weak spots in the game too, don't get me wrong, I quite love it, but I think you're sorta cherry picking here. Outside from the mimic, for instance, the other enemies are extremely boring to fight, I finished the game in the highest difficulty and it was still a walk in the park. Which is weird, considering the theme you'd think that other enemies would mimic stuff, imagine if the ''ghosts'' actually mimic people that you could talk to but the moment you turned your back boom, so you'd be in constant paranoia when talking to people. The ctulhu thingie that controls turrets and people is solid tho'. The plot is...It was fun, I noticed the twist 1 hour in, and thought it was gonna be stupid and undo everything, and it was. Same issue infinite had plotwise if you ain't got a good twist, don't do a twist, go ham with a villain, that's more fun than pulling a Shyamalan. The open world is dreadful to navigate to be honest, I 100% everything and It's just a drag really, especially the ''fast travel'' which i'm fine with, I love the space, I just wish the map was better. Not to mention the time that a sidequest marker broke and I couldn't find one body floating in space for 100% so I had to look other people finding on youtube and use my big boy guessing pants to fly there, it was just with me tho', but it really peeved me off. Again, the game's pretty good, it's above many games and one of my fav's that year, but there's lot's of stuff, including the map, that are just not user-friendly and makes navigation sometimes a drag. And don't let me get started on the GUTS sections, fuck that shit, I love space, the GUTS can fuck off. I just feel like it's Too Big for its own good, and too long of a game for its own good considering how the twist makes you feel nothing happened. System Shock 2 is like a 4-hour game, Bioshock 1 and 2 are like 8 tops. Here you just get tired really quick of it. But it's a good game, with a lot of attention to detail, and I wish it was called something else since it'd avoid the controversy. Granted haven't played the DLC yet, it looks pretty solid too, gonna get it when money comes by.

The bottom line is they shouldn’t have called it Prey. It couldn’t be further removed from the IP, it’s just false advertising.

This game is one of the greatest I have ever played, the variety of ways you can tackle everything, such incredible amounts of detail that I neverthought could be done in a game, creative and fun enemies, a great story, loads of replay value, multiple endings and play styles, awesome powers. I could go on, seriously if you can play this game give it a go and get into it, it's so bloody good.

"We haven't raised the price of a game in a DECADE. It has been locked at $60." Hahahahahahahahahahaha heheh.....heh.... Oh. Wait. You actually believe that. I honestly envy whatever Kool Aid you are drinking.

I think I put around 15 to 20 hours into prey. I liked the game but some of the mechanics threw me off, like the Typhon that comes after you after you use enough Typhon neuromods. The issue I found was that a lot of encounters became a game of patience more than skill. For example, waiting for dangerous enemies to come close one by one instead of engaging a few at a time.

As someone who's familiar with immersive sims (I've literally played through Deus Ex: Human Revolution a total of 3 times, with the 3rd time being modded using Hardcore mod), I am astounded with how much depth was put into PREY. I knew that there was going to be some huge level of depth into the game, but I never expected literal alarm bells to hold good loot and equipment out of all things. Hmm, maybe I should replay this game again.

Insane how you only have 1 video about this game, and such an old one

Knack 2 Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was I the only one who thought it looked so vanilla? I dunno, the monsters bored the crap outta me.

Damn, when you put it like that, it sounds amazing. Saw it on sale at a local store, but after seeing reviews saying it was mediocre, boring, short, etc. All the reviews I saw mentioned none of this. Should have grabbed it, this looks amazing.

I just think the game was unpopular from the start I don't think it has anything to do with how to game is. It just didn't catch much people's eye unless they are an active gamer. Gamers are slowly just becoming more casual where there is this section that only plays Rockstar games and fortnite and those are the games that blow up while smaller games like prey stay small because it's for true gamers. Nothing to do with the game itself more to do about the landscape and type of games that get big. There will never be another Vampire or System Shock because people like their hands to be held. It's sad but it's how it is.

WOBBLE BOY

Immersive Sim? Really? Is this the official definition? I am asking because I understood the term in a very different meaning.

Great video. I got through prey on the second day of release, and have played it 3 times through already. I freakin' love Prey... interetingly though, I don't care too much about the immersive sim things, but was so intriguided by the story that I just had to buy it on day one. So, if you're someone who really likes an unusual story, then prey might be of interest. I certainly was more than satisfied!

Ok...i have to admit it, when you said "there are so many secrets that you couldn't find by yourself" i was like "pffff, bullsh*t, i've explored every single corner-quest-dialogue of this game" then the examples came and...i didn't know of a single one. Prey was an incredible game..maybe not as complex as old school immersive sims (i still occasionally play System Shock 1 and my jaw drops everytime pondering how deep the gameplay was compared to most stuff of the period) but still, in a world where Bioshock Infinite was seen as "deep and full of choices" (facepalm) it was definitely a pleasant surprise which i adored...i remember playing it at night without any light in my room and the headphones at maximum and it was just marvellous. That is why i think it's important for people to appreciate old videogames by the way...a person who has never played stuff from the 90s probably wouldn't understand how to play this type of game, no matter how many "you decide how to play" screens appear ingame or advertisement blurbs you put on the back of the box..there is unfortunately a true lack of "games with depth" when talking about huge publications, with a couple of exceptions (even something like Dark Souls..it's astonishing how much stuff was cut from Demon's souls up to Dark Souls 3 for the sake of "accessibiilty") Immersive sims are a bit like CRPGs ... i recently saw a youtuber that is very much into "modern RPGs" attempting to play Baldur's Gate 2...he literally gave up after 5 minutes (15 if we include character creation..no joke) simply because he couldn't understand anything about the game's infinite amount of mechanics and possibilities..which is a shame..if he would have tried a bit more he also would have experienced what may still be the greates RPG of all time (no nostalgia goggles..i only played it for the first time a handful of years ago) Skyrim was another excellent example...my 2 favorite "Elder Scrolls" games are still "TES 2 Daggerfall" and "TES 3 Morrowind" you know why? Because they make way more sense not just narratively but also mechanically! In TES 2 Daggerfall if you attempt to join the mages guild without a certain level of knowledge about spells etc..they simply say to you to come back when you are capable of understanding magic..and guess what? You were awarded with it with the possiblity of *creating spells ! want to a fireball that is automatically thrown when you fly..you can create it..want something that heals you while it petrifies your enemy? you can create it from scratch...in TES 3 Morrowind they even give you a reason to do secondary quests (!!!) which is that a newbie who just arrived in Vvardenfell would attract too much attention, thus it would make sense for you to go around, know some people, help them etc etc The problem is also that when you try to talk about these points you immediately get ridiculed as being "a hipster" or crap like that..