At first, I was like "oh yeah!?" and then I was like "actually, yeah, he certainly understands it". Can't believe how small the channel is for the quality on display. May the algorithm grant you its undivided attention.

If i had a nickel for every story called "Prey" featuring a first nation individual fighting aliens I would have two. Not a lot but weird that it happened twice.

In every playthrough I do of Prey 2006, I always play the video poker machine until I get a royal flush(the odds are clearly juiced in the player's favor). It's my little head canon I've made up that Tommy finally wins enough money to get out of that town just to get sucked up into outer space and his life turned upside down.

the absolute best use of Don't fear the Reaper in history

The potential of what Prey 2 could've been still makes me depressed

I remember telling everyone that would listen to play this game back in the day. I always mentally lump this into some sort of trilogy of Id tech games including Doom 3 and Quake 4

Prey 2006 is just like what you described at the beginning “a summer shooter with interesting ideas” this game had some very interesting design concepts but it gets buried along with the whole early 2000s trends and aesthetic. Great video, I can’t wait to hear your opinions on Prey 2017.

Good video, but I want to clarify something: If you talk to most 'Native Americans' or 'Indigineous peoples' in the US, they themselves will often refer to themselves as 'Indians'. It doesn't bother the vast majority of them. They don't see anything offensive or condescending about the term. In my personal experience, they find it goofy and, to some extent, mildly condescending if you call them some of these other, more modern terms instead. I've never had any get angry about it, but some would get visibly annoyed, while others would smile about it or laugh at it. If in doubt, just refer to them by their tribe. That's always a safe bet. Edit: I notice now others have addressed this as well. I apologise if this is a redundant post.

I’ll never forget this game. It’s absolutely fantastic. This game is what I think of when anyone says the word prey.

While I’m Saponi nation not Cherokee I still remember seeing this game on the discount rack and immediately buying it thinking it was so cool to have a game with a huge focus on indigenous folklore and it ended up being like the second game I got every achievement for. My mom had remarried when I was younger and we moved away from my nation and into a small extremely white town so I didn’t get to experience much of my people’s culture and just getting stuff like this that even when it was about a completely different nation it was still pretty cool at the time and is honestly still one of my favorite games.

I never got to play this game but I love the story so much. I wish this review had a more dedicated story section, even if that story is very lacking in many elements. I love the channel. Keep it up, man!

This game got me into Blue Oyster Cult. Played the hell out of the demo till I could afford the full game.

Great video! This game has such an interesting history. Weird that it was developed about a 5 minute walk from my house!

Brilliant video. Absolute masterwork the way you wove both real historical events into the detailing of the game's narrative, which may be hard to hear for some, but it's important. Really looking forward to playing this game for myself at some point, and so glad I got to view your thoughts this morning. Bravo, sir.

Fantastic video as always, and always happy to see the 2006 game get some love

Great stuff! It's true that John William Galt's voice-overs for all the different 3D Realms and Ion Storm games was a little controversial. He played a black vampire hunter in Nocturne and Lo Wang in Shadow Warrior. I can assure you, he did all those voices with love and respect to the fictional characters he was bringing to life. He was a big fan of imagination, and was very proud to have been able to lend such a diverse voice to so many things. In this game, he was the voice of the Grandfather, a few bikers, and the radio announcer talking about the aliens before the SHTF sort of intro. He was my father, and a good dude. Don't let him being a fat white guy born in 1940 Jackson Mississippi throw you off. Racism is all in your head, and disappears as soon as you don't let it get in your way. "Love your heritage, but don't ever let it get in the way of loving other people." -Tim Honeycutt, Kublai Khan TX

I still don't understand how you don't have at the veeeery least a million subscribers, but anyhow I do wish you the very best because you deserve it. The entertainment is unreal and the critic is fabulous.

30:25 I definitely did not expect to hear a name like Zebulon when talking about such old times. Wild.

Great video! Actually makes me want to play Prey despite its shortcoming, but it seems impossible to find the game on any store. At least not for PC.

American Indian or Indian is generally accepted, but it doesn't hurt to ask. My uncle would always lecture me when I referred to myself or my family as Native American as he preferred American Indian, Indian or Cherokee. Thanks for being respectful in your intro! Love your videos.

AFAIK many Native Americans today prefer to be called Indian

your work is underrated man i wish there is more people who know about you. but this was the complete retrospective that i got. i got to know about the game recently when i am trying prey 2017 and came to know about prey 2006 through wiki. so i decided to play the game. oh boy in 2023 this game really worked well, but the story side is not given the amount focus it should be given- i am from india playing a american game which about the tribe that used to live in america very few people are aware of them around the world but the way you explained the history. it literally explained everything thank again for this video brother i hope your channel grow exponentially

Such a pleasure, your videos inspire interdisciplinary creators to not shirk on the details ones' passions have the insight to include for the context of the modern anthropological literary medium of gaming. Love your compassion, details, the history, the vision & voice of your work. Thank you very much for your every effort and production!

4:55 most Indians, by and large, refer to themselves as Indians. Not native Americans. Not natives. Though I agree it was a colonialist mistake, it would be a mistake to today not include them in deciding what they would like to be called. No hate, same team, just disagree with not using the term they prefer. This was a phenomenal video by the way.

Modern society is being watched, until person became completely free and independent from any kind of resources ( Billionaires ). Internet and new OS's being watching you, so Bathesdas Prey is far more realistic than you could imagine

If whoever were to remaster this game, i would get it. Always wanted to play it. Excellent video.

50:21 that concert would cost $69 in today's economy

The thing about faith is that it is exactly that: Faith. If there were proof or evidence of a God, it would defeat the purpose. You can neither prove nor disprove it's existence.

Underated channel

Wow great video…I haven’t finished yet but can already tell.

The 360 menus look bad, but the PC menus are definitely better. This game also runs easily on integrated graphics by now too. Something I found out when I tried playing it on my old Windows tablet, and it played perfectly. I was definitely surprised by that. Because of the nonsense of the later Prey game being forced to be called that instead of something more appropriate, I call that game Prey 2, and this one Prey. I'll never forgive Bethesda for making it so we can never see a legitimate sequel to this game. Don't get me wrong, I love that other Prey, but I'd been looking forward to the sequel to this for SO many years.

Hell yeah. An hour and a half on this forgotten, flawed gem? Yes please!

such a great video, esp. towards the end, ty for all the information about the natives

Every time I've seen Prey, I've been thinking its somehow a continuation if this story and have been very confused. So things suddenly make more sense😊

Watched a lot of your reviews. Dropped a sub because of your Matthew Good lyrics drop at the end. xD He one of my favorite singer/songwriters.

Good shit man, I'm glad I finally got around to it.

Holy crap, just found this channel and what a great review mate!! def subscribing!

I actually hoped that Arcane's PREY was the successor of 3D Realms' PREY. I was a bit disappointed when it wasn't. The Cherokee backstory was actually compelling and I liked the spirit parts to unlock new abilities. It was something fresh that I don't think anyone has done before.

You captured a lot of what I found underwhelming about the game. obviously its setup, ending, and little quirky details stand the test of time, but the actual shooting and enemy feel is so okay and never great. I often felt like i was shooting paintball/airsoft guns. especially the standard rifle looks like it has nerf bullets on top.

BTW the more recent game "Prey" had that title forced on the developer's. So it's pointless looking at that game as having any link other than the title.

Always wanted to see the sequel happen

massively underrated game.

I remember buying this game off of g2a (since it could no longer be bought on steam) and absolutely falling in love with everything about it. It makes the what happened to the franchise all the more tragic. What I wouldn't give to return to that cherokee folk lore touched world.

Did you seriously just say it's weird to call them Native Americans? Um... What?

The game is abandonware now and can be found on The Internet Archive. There are AI enhanced high resolution texture mods too! I played it years ago but lost my copy. I just found and installed all of it today. You can crank up the jukebox and play other songs besides don't fear the reaper! It has Heart, Ted Nugent, Judas Priest and more! Going to make a playthrough soon!

I love you for what you have just done! I really enjoyed this game!

Prey 2006 is fantastic, the Arcane Prey game is also excellent. Games named Prey are good.

just heard a little bit about this game earlier today. glad I found a video over and hour long about it.

I paid the puppy tax a few videos ago and haven't regretted it since. :)

This was one of the first, if not only game that I've played showing a graphic depiction of a child getting unalived (theres a section where this alien spirit posesses a little girl, and she throws a little boy into a giant spike) Also, referring to Natives/aboriginals as Indians can vary greatly from tribe to tribe. Some tribes are actually very prideful of the term Indian because it's a federally recognized term for their groups in alot of treaties

The prey we gladly forgot!

This game was a revelation back in the day. To think this was made in the same engine as Doom3 or Quake4.

I'd highly recommend Knowing Betters video series on American Indians. His whole series is super informative and respectful. You're doing great man. The Nth Review is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels and having a shared experience of a similar upbringing is so relatable.

why does this not have more likes wtf?

I didn't forget. I was hoping the new Prey was a remake or sequel of the original game. That would have been a FAR better game than what we got in 2017.

This was an awesome video! Thank you for sharing you personal experiences as well. This game has stuck with me after all these years. There’s something so real and unique about this game that seems to have been forgotten. I would love to see a remake for this game to shine a spotlight on Native American stories that you don’t see often in games

Just discovered your channel, and after watching a butt load of your reviews I have come to the conclusion that this channel is criminally underrated. Thanks for the content, looking forward to seeing more!

I was expecting just a simple "review", but, dude, I am surprised of how hight quality it was.

The zune truly was superior. So much more user friendly

Great video once again. I really liked the bits of native history and anecdotes from your own youth. It gives a bunch of context to the game that I was missing when I played it way back when. Talking about the time capsule nature of all the obvious early 2000's pop culture influences on the game: Don't forget the post 9/11 plane crash angst that was Lost.

Prey 2006 is a masterpiece. The engine, the setup, the presentation, the technology (portals, perspective, gravity, scale). It also looks so much better than Doom 3 and hilariously vastly better than Quake 4. It's also more optimized (and less finishky to set to up) than either Doom 3 or Quake 4. If I have to mention 2 single negative points about Prey from a technological point of view, is that Vsync is very input lag heavy and the game is limited to 62 fps with no way of unlocking it (to my knowledge). Would've been glorious in 120 fps. It's also great that Prey, alongside Doom 3 and Quake 4, is also a PC FPS first and a console FPS second. Finished it for a 2nd time in 2021 at 4K60 and it was amazing.

This prey is so much better that the 2017 one. Maybe I just prefer normal FPS above immersive sim. I dream about the sequel still. I hope a beta or something leaks at some point in the future

I remember dumping hours into the Turkey arcade game, it was so much fun that i just stopped progressing through the game XD

I didn't hate this game. The Native vibe was dope, too. I should go replay it, tbh.

Incredible review!

seriously this game is pretty much perfect!!

Love ur reviews mate thanks 😀

Huh, your voice sounds different! New mic? New EQ? New RX? Either way, it's very pleasant.

Love the Buckaroo Banzai reference.

Good stuff. I just love opinion, even though I might not always agree with it, that is the interesting part. Expanding horizons™

Massively under rated, also the motion from the portals made me sick as a dog

I remember those Nebraska History books in 4th grade. I'm from Harvard, NE originally (not far from Hastings) and those books were the bane of my youthful existence. Math and Science were nothing to scoff at, but those were practical lessons and interesting, but stuff about the Indigenous peoples of the area and what happened in the state oh so long ago was of little interest to 4th Grade Me. Now? That stuff is fascinating and I have no use for the stuff I learned in any elementary science class. Boo-urns. Good stuff and you got a subscriber out if this video.

I loved this prey than the Bethesda’s reboot

I absolutely loved the intro levels

We’re like the only pray that matters outside of pray for the gods lol

I don't what it is in this original Prey. It's not so-to-say spectacular in almost any level, but yet I enjoyed the ride insanely much. Puzzles are easy, but its good thing here, I wasn't looking to play Portal. Gunplay was quite fun etc. I suppose it is that the game is quite different from many others with gravity tricks etc. Btw I'm really surprised reviewer missed that switch at the bridge part. There's monstrous vent visible all the time. *edit* Looking bit further in review I recalled it. It was that the setting and game kinda changed constantly and ended right before things began to feel repetitive.

Never played prey but play the hell out of Doom 3. Though the one thing that always grabs my attention about Doom 3 and now Prey is that the guns and the environment look obnoxiously bulky and big for no reason. It's as if the developers were overcompensating for their engine but giving so much detail to everything around it in the game world. Ahead of their time because that's what they all do now with games lol.

You don't speak for my people. If you're trying not to offend us, quit being offended for us.

38:30 Also Lo Wang from classic shadow warrior RIP

HELL YEAH BROTHER

By the way, combat in this game definitely feels much better on PC. Considering you played it on 360, I just thought I'd mention that. And I don't see how you think the combat feels anywhere NEAR as awkward as combat in Deus Ex. The combat in Deus Ex and Morrowind feels like crap. Despite the endless praise those games always get, the combat is TERRIBLE in both games. I'm not saying they're both bad. Just saying the combat in them is bad.

Prey was really fun. 😊 Did you say they build the unreal engine for unreal tournament? I think they made the game to show off the engine..

I was just thinking whether I should play it or not

"[...] iced plans for a sequel, placing it right next to the World Crime League." -- ha. Nice slipping that (by this point at least) fairly deep cut joke in there. 😃

I love this Prey and hated the new "Prey" by title only. I was looking forward to the bounty hunter sequel, but that was cancelled

TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOME I WANNA GOOOOOOOO

Excellent.

I'm always pleasantly surprised by your takes in areas where I usually find gamers so obstinately ignorant, if not downright belligerent. But this video really helped explain to me why. Thank you so much for sharing a little about your personal journey. I'm really glad you're here, making these videos and sharing your perspective with us. You are genuinely underrated.

that bit about your personal experience with religion was great

it's a quirky game with some interesting concepts, a 7 out of 10 from me.

I've loved your content for awhile, I watched this when it originally came out. But are you telling me your 0 budget cat voice over Patreon propositioning was really a net success with the people 😂 Oh my dear gosh.... I won't be a hater, but I'm entitled to a vote. And my vote would definitely have wanted you to just hold your cat in front of your face, say "MONEY WE NEED, PATREON PEEZ". Can't remember this cat thing being in many of your other videos....I may have tuned it out. I might just be getting really intolerant to solicitation recently, whether direct or indirect. Don't worry though, it ain't a you problem, it's a me problem. Only externalizing to give my brain the illusion of some type of personally relevant, considered, social engagement before I work haha. I do really love your stuff, just the way it is, and usually I haven't minded KZfaq cat based solicitation, but man I guess today was just the straw for that. I somehow haven't been subscribed this whole time apparently so to make good on my slightly meanie bo beanie critique, I formally subbed and liked the video. I listen when I work most of the time, so I don't always get to engage things how I'd like to ideally. Although I try. Can't believe I hadn't subbed yet though, it's not make or break but my bad! This channel stands above so many of the rest. Thank you for your work. Your cat seems sweet. You seem great, your content definitely is great. Catch ya around.

Huh…. I’m coming out to Co Springs in a couple weeks

omg. I love Kirby. edit: I mean captain Kirby. sorry sir 🫡

"Not a masterpiece by any means?" I disagree.

totally worth the 1e i paid for this, too bad i no longer have an CD drive... but I think im gona go play Rune Man now again-->>

It's just so good!

good video

This game is incredible, I miss having the native tribes represented in media, seems to be fading out of schools and media in fear of "cultural appropriation". Just another example of americans deleting cultures from the world.

Take me home I wanna go And I’m sorry I can’t love you I’m sorry I can’t make you see who I am

it was a launch title for the 360. who bought a 360 on launch? ya you, you either played it and remembered it or didnt and forgot it. if you dont like prey you dont like first person shooters. its mandatory. its abandonware on pc, A.K.A. free. lots of worthwhile mods too.