Usually I don't like amnesia stories, but Prey pulls it off. I also like the idea that the reason we can choose Morgan's gender is because Alex was curious whether the phantom would have a preference, because obviously he'd know whether he had a bro or sis

Just imagine what a Prey 2 could've been like. But no, we got Redfall instead. What a waste of an incredible studio.

Something NOT talked about enough is how good the AI is. So many instances of phantoms or robots scouring and area looking in every nook and cranny to find your ass

Nearly 3 hours of Prey? count me in!

Bro completely forgot he could use nullwave transmitters, stun guns, and emp grenades on technopaths

I’m so fucking MAD AND SAD, Arkane Austin shut down. We will likely NEVER see more Prey :((((

i love how when u install typhon abilities turrets will try to kill u

I love when anyone gives this game the credit it deserves. I'm truly saddened by the fact that this type of game tends to sell badly, thus giving studios no incentive to continue making them. Yet they have some of the most passionate cult followings of any games out there

"Colony" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Galaxy magazine, June 1953. The plot centers on an expedition to an uncharted planet, on which the dominant, predatory alien life form is capable of precise mimicry of all kinds of objects. The size and complexity of the mimicked object can vary from simple doormats to whole spaceships with the larger objects usually attempting to trap and "absorb" humans similar to carnivorous plants.

My favorite comparison for Prey is Metroid. People don't often think of horror when they think of Metroid (or at least they didn't until Dread), but I would argue that cosmic horror was at the game's earliest roots (just listen to the main menu theme!). In the very first game, the eponymous creatures didn't appear until near the very end of the game, but they were absolutely terrifying. These creepy, floating, vampiric jellyfish things would appear out of seemingly nowhere and beeline straight toward you, latch onto you immediately, and rapidly drain your life as you helplessly tried to remove them. The only way to remove a Metroid was to morph into a ball and frantically plant bombs until one managed to blast it off. They were also virtually impervious. The only way to kill them was to freeze them and immediately follow up with five missiles before they thawed out. It was a lot like the feeling of encountering a new Typhon far beyond your capabilities. Metroid also had that same feeling of cloying isolation - this was the reclaimed ruins of a dead alien civilization after all - and mastery of your environment as you gained new traversal abilities and grew more familiar with the layout. It also had, in its own primitive way, a sense of problem solving as you discovered how your abilities unlocked new and hidden areas you might have been confounded by or missed entirely before. It even had the same sense of being inside a thriving ecosystem, as creatures would emerge from holes in the walls and floor, and rooms you left would become repopulated. I see a lot of Metroid influence in Prey. Heck, the box art even looks a little like a smoky Metroid floating in the back ground above Morgan.

1:07:00 love that framing, actually 1:15:00 actually you can repair or gloo up an elevator shaft next to the fabricator/recycler and just leave without fighting any of them. 1:46:55 also what's so interesting about the Dahl choice to me is its basically asking if you're willing to be Alex. it's asking if you're willing to do to someone what Alex did to you with the neuromod wipes because you deem it's for the greater good of saving people. it's essentially asking you if you'd gaslight someone on the potential of saving human lives. and does them being an enemy make it easier for you? like of the game's 5 endings (you either destroy and escape, you destroy and don't escape, you set off the nullwave and escape, you set off the nullwave and don't escape, Alex's secret ending), all the 4 real ones tell Alex the same thing (see: the next paragraph). the Dahl choice is also a reflection of the story (just like the Fake Chef story is a reflection of the actual story) that's asking you questions about itself and what you're willing to do. 2:00:12 I mean, it's partly there for role-playing purposes but also, it's giving you the ability to judge people one last time, and finally decide how you feel about Alex at the end of it. this is because of the clever way and deeply unscientific way that Alex has set up the simulation in the first place. the reason the fake escape pod is not a legitimate choice is not because it's just a funny haha ending, it's because Alex won't allow the typhon that he's experimenting on to have an out from the experiment, it's inherently unscientific, the only option for you to get to the ending is to let Alex win one way or another. if you kill every human, it's telling Alex that you're willing to do whatever it takes and that you're capable of following orders, especially ones you deem as saving people (also love how Dahl actually praises you for doing his job for him if you're killing everyone). if you don't kill everybody, it's telling Alex that you're willing to do what it takes for science and helping people advance to a better society. the first option tells Alex that you care about people on a larger scale and you're willing to sacrifice the few for the many, the second option tells Alex that you care about people on a more intimate scale and think about the future and won't let humans die whenever you can save them. either way, Alex wins. because the only way to get to the ending is by making sure Alex's experiment is successful. that's why the characters at the end tell you that your motivation for doing something are impossible to judge because no matter why you did something, Alex wins either way and he gets what he wants either way, it gives you a moral quandary at the end to decide how you feel about Alex and decide if everything that he did was justified. the whole reason humanity was doomed in the first place was because people like Alex wanted to play god and transcend their place in the world and he is just doing that again by experimenting on typhon again. he is just repeating the same thing in a different way hoping for a different result. you get to decide if his experiment worked or not. you decide if humanity survives, even if there's some bad people in it like Alex. that's why there's the question about the fat man in the opening quiz, the fat man is Alex. the simulation that Alex designed is asking you if you will kill him to save humanity. no matter which way you feel about the trolley problem, the game presents it to you one last time as a culmination of its themes. i can see why some people don't like it because it's a little too gamified but the whole game is a self-reflexive statement on the nature of games (and all fiction at large) and how seriously we take them even though we know they're fake. like a lot of people assume it's a simulation within a simulation as soon as they break through the glass in the opening but they still try to save people where they can and if they don't, then at the end they get given another opportunity, this time reassured that it's real and lives are actually at stake. it's asking you the same question the game has asked you with every choice so far and this time with actual consequences because this is the last decision you make in the game, it's the culmination of your entire experience. also the way Alex has set up the whole experiment tells us so much about his character like he's depicted himself as the bad guy in the story very clearly and he's even portrayed Talos 1 as a nightmare scenario and where the huge alpha eventually comes and kills everyone and like if the Talos 1 incident was anything like what we experienced, them escaping is what could have unleashed Typhons onto earth and caused what we see today. but we don't know if Talos 1 was like that or if it was even worse, Alex clearly managed to escape given his position of power, but what about the hundreds of crew working there? hell, Alex literally otherizes people in the simulation itself where he sees Russian prisoners as less than human and deems them worthy of being experimented on bc clearly nobody cares about them and they're expendable. and were all the characters we meet at the end actually people on Talos who uploaded their consciousness to their operators like Morgan did with October, December and January? was the only way they could escape the station by not being biomatter: something the Typhon clearly want? are they less than human because their consciousness is no longer attached to their body now? but also like the arrival of Dahl is literally asking you if you're willing to set aside your differences to work with Alex!! like will you unite to fight a common enemy or will you kill both enemies or will you just get the obstacles out of your way to your goals? I mean basically every choice in the whole game is self-reflexive and about the themes and a comment on both the game itself and games as a whole like it's extremely well done. 2:07:14 except you couldn't really sell that given the mental health implications. That was a marketing department decision. It just brings up images of electroshock therapy and no marketing department worth its salt would touch that. fun video tho!

The greatest aspect to the game in my opinion where the many things u could do in it. From harvesting materials, choosing ur build, choosing how u fight. The fact that gloo could be used for environmental changes aswell as combat. The fact that u could control turrets. And the cool ways to fight using the typhoon powers. Don’t get me wrong the atmosphere is good but i find the gameplay overwhelmingly more present in the back of my head is what i remember most about it.

I've played through Prey nearly half a dozen times now, both on PC and Xbox. Yet this review showed me new things I hadn't discovered before - both the trick with Calvino's mug and the bullet stash under the entrance to Life Support. This game is still full of surprises.

I agreed on not liking the ending until i saw a video of someone talking about prey and eldritch horror and now i love it, maybe it wasnt intended but thinking of it from a point of alex's hubris in thinking if he just keeps testing and keeps making little changes he'll get what he wants eventually. one day after a a couple, no a dozen or even maybe a hundred terminations he finally creates a typhon with empathy. sadly its first act of consciousness after learning it's whole life was a simulation and none of it's memories are real is to return to those base instincts and kill. now alex has created the final monster, one smarter and with real intelligence and empathy that can now fully utilise all of its natural abilities to end humanity in it's entirety

Really loved this recap and breakdown. I just finished Prey for the first time and have been binging video essays about it - this has been one of my favorites. My thinking about the Shuttle: I was doing a “save as many humans as I can” playthrough and figured that if there was any chance that the humans onboard were ok they should be given the chance to survive. Moreover, I figured that the earth folks would be able to deal with any mimic outbreak anyway since I had no trouble dispatching them with my wrench :P

Dahl and his infinite military operators were nice with my many turrets. I go to the database room, set up 4 fortified turrets, shoot the military operators to distract from the turrets, and once I have a pile, I strip them of spare parts, and then attach a recycle grenade until I have enough raw resources for a while. The most fun I have, haha. When I find a way to get a LOT of desirable resources, I go on and on. The infinite neuromods is great. Just getting the better extracting skill I can collect a lot of exotic material.

This video is making me want to go back for like my 5th *Prey* through

Excellent, very insightful video. Great job! This might be the push I needed to remake my own old Prey video. As a side note, if you hack the fake cook’s freezer door and discover his secret before you’re supposed to, he cowers in a corner. That’s what happened in one of my playthroughs. I usually just smoke the fucker as soon as I gain access to the kitchen

I listened to this whole video trying to fall asleep but the narrative you gave and your personability have kept me awake till 4 in the morning. Imagine my surprise when I visit your channel and see the criminally low recognition you receive for these projects. You make incredible work, and I hope you're doing well out there

I have almost 300 hours in this game loved every one of them

yay, now I can this video to my other long video reviews i can rewatch. Great job

A 2-hour video about Prey that opens with Subnautica music? Uhhh YES PLEASE, SIGN ME UP!

Man, this has to be the most entertaining and informative Prey recap/discussion video I`ve seen. This game is truly a gem, love it! Great video, thank you!

Such a great game! Thanks for the video! I enjoyed it a lot, and it definitely makes me want to play it again.

This was a very good video and you have convinced me to give Prey another try.

Ive been putting off this game for so long and you got me into this game so thank you and can't wait for more good content

I'm just gobbling up these Prey analysis ain't I. Great video dude

With the convict morality choice i saved him to get the code, reloaded a save, killed him and got the stuff from the room

It is possible to get many neuromods early, before going to hardware labs or even watching the first video. Once you acquire a recycler charge in the lobby, you can go back to the neuromod division and recycle the crates blocking the back entrance to Halden Graves office, where you'll find the neuromod fabrication plan and plenty of exotic materials. You will have to deal with the technopath guarding it, but that can be done.

I haven't played Prey since 2018 but loved every bit of it. This vid helped me to relive it. Good stuff man!!

Prey is my favourite immersive sim of all time. It’s exceptional, and so is this video!

OH MY GOD THE BEGGINING BIT WHEN YOU SAID HAPPY HALLOWEEN WAS SO SMART AND CRAZY!!!! Also you talk about how underrated games are, we need to talk about how underrated you are. ❤💯

And Microsoft disbanded the studio that made this masterpiece. Pure insanity

Prey is easily in my all time top 5 favorite games. I'm a sucker for shock-like exploration immersive-sim RPGs, and I don't think any of them have crafted a more cohesive world with such flexibility in the number of ways you can approach every challenge. Prey 2017 is GOAT. In fact, I'm almost certainly going to do another play through after watching this.

this game took away the og prey 2 i’ll never forget that

This video is terrifyingly underrated thank you. See what I did there used your own gag. Great video definitely deserve more views and subs. Having just finished prey for the first time myself I dived into online discourse about it and im glad to see im not alone in calling a masterpiece of a game.

Well, I disagree with your sentiment about the two choices ending, although I understand your viewpoint. I played this game only once and I am mostly playing as a nice gal, but as soon as I realizes it is a trick by Alex Yu, I decide my character felt so tricked, outraged, and decide to kill them. There are other reasons why a creature may be nice to each others beside empathy.. the typhoon attacks my character in the simulation so they are enemies, but the humans seems not and my character looks like one of them. For survival reason, it is better to stick with them, maybe they have more ideas of what been happening or perhaps my character have gone through this more than once and subconsciously learned what didn't work. Also, in the simulation my character have to kill a lot of typhoons, her actual people, and learn how humans been exploiting her race, a big reason to feel enraged. Anyway, keep doing what you are doing, I enjoyed the essay from beginning to end!

Great video, you should definitely continue making them!

Fantastic video! Love Prey so much. Sad about the recent closure of Arkane Austin.

Awesome video dude. You deserve way more subs! Subbed.

The way our earlier self ended up in the mental head space where it was deemed necessary to destroy the station is the exact same way they deemed it necessary to abandon the station and the exact same they they deemed it necessary to use the nullwave. Personality drift. The nightmares. Being an 'outside' perspective into your own work. All of it leads to different conclusions as time and research goes on. First backup plan was simple. Nullwave the typhon if they escape. Second plan was escape with the data to explain what happened. Third plan, blow it all up. Nothing can survive. Remember removing the neural mods resets your memory to the point you put in the neural mod. So the process is usually; install the mod, go to bed, wake up, do the tests, get truth bombed, read your notes from your self and understand. You never remember but you understand. You do your work, repeat. Sometimes you set up your backup plan in case the typhon escape, remove mods, repeat.

8:13 thats so crazy, thats not how i got out at all. I smashed a window, but it was this small painting or something at the end of the hallway outside my room, and I was able to jump through that instead. I was still convinced my room was real, so i searched for the exit in the hallway and got out like that

I think that one of the worst things about this game is the enemy design, especially the aliens, Just these Black blobs and spikes (the exeption of the mimic with its cool and scary fast movement), in my opnion they are not Very scary or interenting (like the necromorphs for exemple) after the First time you meet them, still Very good (and scary asf) game. Btw great video too, cant belive you dont have more popularity, cant wait for the DLC video (Sorry for any bad english 🇧🇷🗿)

The game in various places references mimics being able to well, mimic people. It was originally going to feature in the game as well, though the result was too buggy and prone to AI problems, which lead to the devs cutting the feature in the final hour. They did not remove the references to it existing though. It leads me to believe that there was indeed a mimic aboard the shuttle to Earth.

The golden gun DEF is more powerful than the standard gun. At max I think it does like 50% more dmg

Can’t wait to have some more time to watch this in its entirety.

honestly this video is one of the best made video essays. you aren’t just reviewing a video game, show this to me before i bought prey and i damn well would have felt like i had played it. your choice of music and how you present the gameplay matches the tone of the game so well, and with how well versed you are in the story, you told it like you were there. just wanted to show my appreciation for this masterpiece of a video, because out of all of the prey reviews, none of them do it justice like you have. …also i really need to know how you got a high quality recording of Danielle’s Semi Sacred Geometry (the song in the bar), i can’t find a clean recording and wouldn’t know where it would be in the files

I love love LOVE this game, and I think you made so many awesome points around it.

1:32:54 Its not just that, but if you check the crew tracker log, you'll see that only one person is not on the stations, the only survivor of the incident you never see. You can read in an email later that its a pregnant woman. The ship with the charges, is almost guaranteed to be the same ship that holds the only inhabitant of the station who isnt actually on, or floating around, the station, and its a pregnant woman. If this is not a literal trolley problem of 'save humanity but kill a pregnant woman' then i dont know what is.

Absolutely amazing work here

I think that it would be beneficial to up the video resolution from 720P to 1080P, but overall the video is of superb quality and hope to see more from you in the future :) also to just add to this video. I think that the scene after the ending is also a simulation. You can see the same "white flash" (a bug in the simulation) in the ending that you can also see in the helicopter ride which could be used to signal that it is also just a fake to make you think that you finally got out of the sim and can either still side with the humans or kill them all after finding out that you've been tricked/the human neuromods didnt work and your nature overpowered them. What do you think about this? also you very overhyped the limited O2 setting as it is extremely inconsequential and does basically nothing. And you also asked about what type of comments January would make about the nightmare on a no neuromod run/if a nightmare would even appear and the answer to that is....... that he makes no comment about it and nightmares still DO appear just at a significantly lower rate (I had just a single actual nightmare spawn on my no needles run)

Bro I need more of this guy. 1 year ago is too long he’s so good 😢

i think that no matter how many times someone has played prey, they will have missed atleast one thing. i learnt quite a lot from this video even after 4 of my own playthroughs, and i saw some things that you missed too. a game that can have not only replayability through upgrade choices, difficulty options, playstyle changes, pathing, AND meta knowledge, but also all of the little missable secrets on top? that’s something i will cherish forever

It always kills me when people talk about breaking the window to the balcony because I went for the aquarium fish in the hall instead so I actually missed such a big moment that was for a smaller but still trippy moment in its place.

Have I played Prey and Mooncrash to 100% completion? Yes. Did I watch this to 100% completion? Yes again, great video! I do think some of your complaints are resolved in Mooncrash. It introduced the traumas system and fixed the Nightmare issue with the Moon Shark

I feel like a hack how I got a channel to 1,000 subs while you are so close. This is the production quality of at least 100,000 subs.

I love Prey. I recently played it again, with the New Game + options. I think it's better than other games that inspired it because of how alive it feels. Talos' inside matches the outside. They have different interior designs based on the purpose of the department. If you go to a worker's station and see an email chain with X, if you go to X's station, you will see that very chain from their point of view, aside from other emails that could give further context. If you find a corpse, you can quickly realize how they probably died, especially if they are linked to the main quest. Finding the GLOO snow man in hardware labs is also heart warming. The nerf huntress bolt caster is not just a told, but a toy for the emplyees; you can find stashes and areas were someone clearly was trying to annoy their co-workers with it. You can see romances starting between some of the employees, grudges or friendships. You mentioned the escape pods story line (there's also one of the employees trying to rig the giant screen outside to warn others, but who died attempting it. You can finish that for him) and the smuggling ring, but there's also the black box story line, where one of the employees accused his co-worker of basically stealing his work and later murdered him. Talos was alive, and it connected with me since it came out. BTW, regarding the ending where you can help everyone, but still murder Alex, I always read it as the Typhon realizing what was going on, actively learning how to use empathy to manipulate Alex and the surviving consciousness, to then be able to get a chance and murder them. The Tyhon is born to kill, and learning how to lower a person's guards to get the kill, is basically Alex making the situation even worse. I did have a couple of glitches, not as much as you, but the one I always had was the side quest involving Kirk Remmer. He almost never spawned, so I could never get his corpse to confirm he was turned into a phantom. I realized I had to quick save every once in a while and enter the area were he spawns in a specific time frame, otherwise, it bugs out. I love Mooncrash as well, it gives even more context and world building. It shows that regardless of what happened in Talos, Transtar had doomed the planet. Mooncrash shows how the Typhon canonically arrived to Earth.

Your intro speech was as underrated as Prey itself. How this has so few views, even by the standards of a Prey video is beyond me. Subbed.

I love Prey 2017 so much, it has become my favorite casual game at this point. And even though I have played this game many times , I never get bored of it as every single play through for me ends up being unique and I always seem to find something new about the game each time.

One of the stories that touched me in ways my uncle never could, was in looking through Calvino's transcribe records, I know most people think he was dealing with some mental issues but he got some neuromods removed and he forgot a lot of stuff including how his wife looked like plus he constantly had a lot of nightmares because of the phantom material residuals in his brain and had to seek psychological treatment on the base but because he was soo scared of them he stopped getting therapy.

Great video, been binging Prey video essays ever since i finished the base game around a week ago. Interestingly enough, prior to playing Prey, i thought id never enjoy playing fps games simply because it just wasnt my thing, but the immense enjoyment i got out of this game and its worldbuilding and immersion has proven me otherwise :) Also, a bit of a tip regarding the Nightmare satellite lure/repellent transmissions for your possible future runs of Prey, you can actually listen to both of them while out in space after setting up the satellite and it will neither use up any of the limited uses, nor attract the nightmare (probably because you're out in the vacuum of space so where the hell is that thing gonna spawn, right?) while also letting the game know you've listened to those "unlistened" transcribe messages

kingdom come deliverance has a great blacksmithing minigame, but its accentuated by quantity, you dont need to make it every time, and you can completely ignore it. You can do it to make interesting upgrades, but you will only do it A LOT if you want to, to make money or different styles of weapons, to become a better blacksmith or whatever objective. And its not your only (or even the best way) to make money, but its a fun way to do it that immerse you in the game. Kingdom Come is very fun in the sense you literally do what you want with a lot of options, the closest to a medieval simulator I've seem.

one of the best game ever made

I feel like the original System Shocks inspired Bioshock. That then inspired Prey and Prey on the other hand inspired the System Shock Remake. The circle of life basically :D

Fun fact! Limited Oxygen isn't entirely limited Oxygen. As long as you keep your suit integrity high(out of yellow range), you won't end up like Danielle.

The abigail-danielle relationship and its grim conclusion hit me hard emotionally, piecing all together. I found Danielle's tracker removed and hoped, even despite the vital signs being negative, that maybe abigail was alive and just removed her bracelet. While at the computer, i checked the cook and confirmed he was indeed dead. Then i saw with sinking feeling that abigail's tracker led into the kitchen and just knew at that point. Towards the end of the game, i returned and found the key card to abigail's room, as well as some more audio logs. Standing in her room, listening to one of their last audio logs end with "i love you," evidence of two people habitating the room, playing games (two controllers), I'll admit I got teary.

Moon you mean with Sam Rockwell? Oh yeah you did. Great movie.

Common gavinside banger 🙏

It's wierd, but when I think about space or the deep ocean I can't help being excited. Just think of all the discoveries still left to be made.

This video is beautiful and that's it.

The fact that in this universe JFK survived and we became super advanced as a result is mega based i laughed so hard when i went through the museum room

It’s a travesty that this game did not receive the praise it deserved upon launch. I’m reinstalling it after this video

the new vegas background music fit so well!

I disagree on the ending. Think of it this way. If you're humane, and you play the whole way through and choose the kill them all ending, you could: A) Be the typhon lashing out in rage. You were tricked into feeling empathy, and after seeing all those innocent people get killed and Alex getting away with it, you kill him out of spite. B) Be the typhon, with a new ability to hunt down its prey (no pun intended) and be more efficient at it, thanks to being able to trick it with empathy. C)It was all a ploy. It knew the entire time and was just tricking Alex. And if you choose the good ending, it's: A) The test worked, and the typhon and humans could co-exist. B) The test was successful, the typhon understands empathy and can save humanity. And as for the title, i think Prey actually works for it. The typhon dont have mirror neurons, at least for humans, is because we're their prey, the whole game they are hunting humans and either using them to multiply like with the mimics or to control and feed off them like the weavers, apex and telepaths. They cant feel empathy because we're a food source to them and if they empathize with us then they starve and can't multiply.

I always feel so weird when people talk about Thalasophobia and then fear of space. Because I completely get fear of ocean, but god I just love space. Yes, existencial terror of the size and all is known to me but generally there is not many things I would not do to go to space. As I always say, the Interstellar quote "Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore space" is basically story of my life. Anyway, I consider Prey one of the greatest games ever made and I am so, so sad Arkane Austin will never have a chance to create another sci-fi masterpiece.

I liked this game more than Bioshock. Sue me. The sections where you are outside the station in low G...absolutely terrifying.

A contender for what may be the only great hacking mini-game is Half-Life: Alyx. Great video, by the way. Prey is something special -- a work of art. I also loved the presence of philosophy in the game. The ethics, of course, but also reference to panpsychism and transhumanism. It's a tragedy that they shut the studio down.

Criminally underrated channel and video holy shit. Definitely going into my videos I rewatch several times a year. Great work.

2:07:30 I saw someone suggest Psychoshock as a name, and while im partial to Neuroshock myself, thats a good alternative. Still much better than 'Prey but not really'

Alex is Benedict Wong. It's Kublai Khan! :o

You know, I dunno how I did it but in my playthrough(the only one I ever did unfortunately), I somehow managed to miss like, every single trigger for the memories and 'flashbacks' and whatnot to the point that when the "real" end of the game happened I had *NO IDEA* what the context for what the fuck was going on with Alex and the Operators. I had done a 'good' playthrough to that point and saved everyone(except the cook, I figured out he was an impostor and shot him before he could trap me) so I got the good ending but it was *BEWILDERING* to end the game and be like "wait who the fuck are you people". Still not sure if I just played the game 'weird' and missed all the trigger points or if they were bugged, but yeah. Wild.

You don't think that learning that you have been lied to about who you are, that you have been puppeteered your whole existence, judged like a child choosing the right option, would have affected you? That you made all the humanitarian decisions based on the supposition you yourself were one of the humans? How does being a typhon change your perception of the world? This is not your brother, this is someone pretending to be your brother while taught you what the word brother means in the first place. I think both endings, kill them all or take his hand are valid. At this point, Alex thinks his experiment is successful and it's on the player to decide if he is right and what that looks like. But your video was amazing and the detail perfectly scratched my itch for detail game analysis :)

your video is underrated,also i didnt used any typhon implant because i was scared turrets going to shoot me

Yes it's heavily underrated and definitely one of the best scifi games to ever exist.

Just great! This game deserves more attention and love.

1:57:18 - does the intro music start to play when you're about to detonate Talos 1? That's quite epic moment.

3:50 The optional additional mechanics to enhance the gameplay and difficulty actually I didn't find them to be that impactful at all. Beside having a few inventory slots reserved to keep meds for the most annoying traumas (which would just allow me to effectively play without traumas taking a role at all as they can be instantly removed, even mid-combat, while those I deemed not annoying enough to immediately be ready for just maybe occasionally had me seek a fabricator room or a medical operator), oxygen almost doesn't matter because it's limited only if your suit is damaged, suit repair kits are plentiful and even without that mechanic turned on you'd be wanting to keep your suit in good repair for the armor value, lastly I found repair kits to be way too commonplace for weapon degradation to matter, as well, and the wear and tear didn't matter as much to vary my weapon use as just their ammo pools did. The thought was apprecciated but it appeared to me like the devs were afraid to have people experience those limitations. I tried playing on higher difficulties to see if they became more meaningful but I just simply would die much sooner than my armor would drain, my oxygen ran out, my weapons wore out or I spent any time with traumas during those times I headed into combat.

I just don't understand how this game got to be so underrated, And didn't do well. This is such a good and terrifying triple a game.

love this video, idk how does your channel have only 956 subscribers, i thought it was 956K at first glance, well, now its 957

This and Kingdom Come Deliverance are two of the greatest games I've ever played. Both pleasant surprises that I knew nothing about until actually booting them up

Adding hints of the Moon score was a masterstroke sir

Deserves more likes to be honest, this is rad

Head of The Production Department: "Hm, I wonder where those exotic materials, we use for creating neuromods, come from?" Tanks full of Phantoms in the room next to his office:

If I were too redesign the Nightmare encounters, I would shorten then design. make it a sleeker more lean creature that resembles the Apex giving it the ability to squeeze in spaces that you can, give it abilities of all typhon you've encountered or all abilities that Morgan has injected with Neuromods. another idea for it would be a cursed reflection of Morgan, the Nightmare isn't nearly as big. Maybe phantom or human in size, but this creature is what you are too humanity. The Typhon's champion. I think the big scary monster is ok but I think a more philosophical enemy would be even cooler, the more Neuromods you install. Are you and the Nightmare one in the same? Two monsters created by circumstance forced to butt heads for the sake of their prospective races, maybe a different ending where Morgan becomes a nightmare. The Typhon's herald as you bring the end to Earth.

Great video! Prey is awesome!

First off, deep dive into one of the absolute goat video games is a plus Then entire vibe of this video oozes cinema. Another plus. Then we get to some DARK SOULS 2 FOOTAGE. Fully committed and hooked Notices the dishonored references. Even better I'm not to the 0451 door yet. But if you note that reference and mention deus ex or system shock you'll be batting 1000 as we say. Excellent so far!

Fantastic review, very in-depth and thorough, picked this game up on sale recently myself and had an absolute blast with it despite the flaws (that third act..... my god 😔does it drag) such as: having to go through 4-5 different loading screens for the hubs just to get to a PART of a side quest to complete it and then having to trek all the way back to carry on with the rest of the quests. Coming hot off something like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (I'm on a bit of an im-sim genre dive yeah 👀) where you only REALLY gotta load once through an enormous, equally richly detailed and stuffed hub world that you can otherwise run thru with no load times, this was a buzz kill yeah, as was the hacking mini-game which I frankly felt was quite terrible. However on an aesthetic, visual and audio level I thought this was one of the best games in the genre that I've played and even as a first-person shooter mechanically it functions very well and once you have some of the more powerful upgrades unlocked and at your disposal, the dynamics of predator/prey become quite blurred, as you gain this immensely satisfying feeling of overcoming odds and going toe to toe with foes that gave you trouble at the start. Which I am aware, is a very classic im-sim/upgrade skill tree based element in games but honestly ? played many games like that in the past that did not come anywhere close, to the feeling of creative agency and power that Prey offers. I think it's a damn shame this game underperformed as this is some of Arkane's finest gameplay and mechanics I've seen from them and had they had the opportunity to make a sequel or a similar game in this genre, I think you'd see a refinement of ideas and concepts here, but presented in a much better, more well-rounded experience that doesn't completely drop the ball in its last half building to what I think is still one of the most anti-climactic endings for a story that otherwise kept me pretty engaged throughout. Still very good game, very good video sir ! You've earned a sub !👍

I disagree with you on the ending. There is a video going over kill them all ending which got me to think more about it- the goal of the simulation is not just to test your morality, or at least it's not the only reason. Its main goal is to attempt to bestow humanity on the typhon. Being a human is not just morality or empathy, it's also a certain sense of the I, a sense of anger when you are wronged in some way, deeper understanding of being abused besides just the fear response to a stimuli. In the kill them all ending, Alex did suceed to make that phantom more human- but with all the bagage of it. It's spree is not the "bad ending- the scientists failed woe be their hubris", it's an ending where they suceeded and it backfired, as the now humanized typhon bursts with rage against people who used it as a guinea pig, who abused it's species of origin and their own. They told it to be human and hoped somehow it will forgive them for what they did

Make more videos this was a banger, exactly what I’m looking for

Prey needs more LOVE. I NEED The Act Man to drop a why so awesome vid on it