I had the SAME reaction. When i broke the fishtank in the beginning and saw a room behind it...i was truly baffled. The game had me since then
@zinogrevz73892 жыл бұрын
i was soooo confused and paranoid
@neofromthewarnerbrothersic1452 жыл бұрын
Seriously one of the best game openings of all time.
@FumblsTheSniper2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching for years as the price dropped for the 360 version all the way down to 3$.
@immortaldreams58682 жыл бұрын
I *still* can't wrap my head around the looking glass. Seeing a city and a laboratory both in the same pane of glass is odd.
@yuqipan75709 ай бұрын
According to developer notes, the cause of the typhon outbreak was a scientist, Trevor J. Young, getting mind controlled by a Telepath when not wearing a psychoscope and freeing a mimic from containment
@thediethrower18036 ай бұрын
So that makes January just a flat good character. Insane but blowing things up would have saved earth if Real Morgan did it.
@killstrike-zn1lv6 ай бұрын
@@thediethrower1803 I'll actually debate this. What if the explosion didn't destroy the coral, or the typhon around the ship? Complete self destruct isn't a guarantee.
@thediethrower18036 ай бұрын
@@killstrike-zn1lv That's fair. That or the lobotomy plan are the only options though - since just leaving is probably what real Morgan did - and it did not help.
@jutlar11086 ай бұрын
@@thediethrower1803 Dlc ending shows how typhons ended up on earth, so Morgan decision didn't matter🤷
@firetarrasque46672 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine how this world's Alex would react to the simulation. "On the good side, it does appear that this Typhon has gained the ability to process compassion and understand humanity. On the bad side, it seems to be an imbecile."
@tylerbastow50122 жыл бұрын
JFK LIVES! THE GOD AMONG MEN LIVES
@gagaplex Жыл бұрын
I think I decided to abandon January's quest when I encountered Mikhaila and gave her the medicine she needed. I had turned right in the GUTS instead of left and abandoned the quest for the Arboretum to freely explore what I could and encountered her. January was like "how curious that you'd save her when she's going to die anyway when you blow up the station". I think that's when it really hit me that there were more survivors to save - and that January's plan was a sledgehammer where a precision tool would be better. I chose Alex's option for my first play-through thereafter, although I kept expecting him to backstab me.
@dumbdumb33876 ай бұрын
January was right though because the typhon did make it to earth
@thediethrower18036 ай бұрын
@@dumbdumb3387 But if January caused the breakout in the first place it's kindof their own fault. Course if they DIDN'T then sadly they just had the right idea that obviously was not the one real Morgan went for.
@BubbyBold5 ай бұрын
@@dumbdumb3387 I believe the Typhon were going to make it to Earth no matter what.
@coolymanman73 ай бұрын
I was, too, worried Alex would backstab Morgan because he was quite sus, but the way he talked to Morgan also felt like actual sibling love to me, so I did end up going with him both during the main choice aka nullwave, and at the very end.
@weirdpotatohhgaming54665 күн бұрын
I just played it and i did the same ending bc i didnt know that we would be given a chance to escape from Talos. I just wanted to save the people that were left.
@the_numb_skull2 жыл бұрын
I remember finding Danelle on my first play through. She was the first non telepath controlled human that also wasn’t that “cook” I found actually and it was such a relief to find “another” human for the first time, banging on that glass with the wrench and seeing her float into view. I love this game so much and it gave me so many good feelings and memories on a first play through, especially since I did not know the twist. it’s one of the games I wish I could experience blindly for the first time again.
@TakeitEZE_98 Жыл бұрын
The moment that imposter chef locked me in the freezer, it became personal. When I eventually found him, I shot him on sight 😂
@garden0fstone73611 ай бұрын
@@TakeitEZE_98 I’m gonna remove each finger in several pieces than send just is head and torso with glooo to stop bleeding out into space
@PracticeNine3 жыл бұрын
I thought this game was going to be hilarious when I jumped into the helicopter blades and got an achievement for it
@charaznable80722 жыл бұрын
Little did you know it would turn out to be a masterpiece?
@user-zp2rv2vi2r Жыл бұрын
Lmao I did the same thing, but I didnt know that u get an achievement for that
@LecheFressa6 ай бұрын
What was the achievement?
@ifgezroxy5 ай бұрын
@@LecheFressait's called "No show":) Shows that the devs had a sense of humor, and knew how derpy players can be.
@Quantumact29084 ай бұрын
honestly, yeah same. i was just sorta bhopping, and ended up jumping into the blades lol
@lagpeak61653 жыл бұрын
This channel is very underrated.. VERY VERY underrated. I spent hours listening to these stories once i found out about your channel. It's delivered in a clear way with proper storytelling unlike other videos I've seen. Thanks for making content like this!
@stawbury74132 жыл бұрын
She's gonna blow up.
@hyoukan2 жыл бұрын
I'm going to second this. I just found this today but it seems very good. I frequent a great many channels relating to alternate histories/ alternate universes, so this channel seems to have a lot of content that piques my interest. Keep up the good work. The coming future will have a use for minds like the one that cataloged this.
@Nodux359 Жыл бұрын
How fitting, Prey was also so underrated. And I think it was just due to this stupid name they had to choose.
@TiptoeTheTank3 жыл бұрын
Hi, hi! Thank you all who responded so supportingly of the new intro and have helped with feeding the algorithm. This is a very new channel that has grown organically with no advertising or big-name boosts. It helps bring in fellow lore fiends that would be interested in this type of content. THANK YOU! If interested, be sure to check out Community Posts (kzfaq.infocommunity) for intermittent updates on the channel(s)!
@jameslilly37502 жыл бұрын
Really like the narration from the pespective of morgan. Good stuff
@MyGamerforlife2 жыл бұрын
Getting the exceptionally high empathy quotient, hearing those operators sing my praises, and shaking Alex’s hand filled me with pride. Whatever it’s flaws, I gotta give Prey that.
@mattstorm3602 жыл бұрын
Personally, i don't think January released the typhon. I think they escaped over time. They used the typhon and human subjects to make more typhon and then extract the exotic matter. There is a chance a typhon could survive the process and mimic a resource cube, then wait for the cubs to be moved out and sneak around the typhon detectors. Slowly more and more would escape and spread around the station. You have reports from people who see double, one worker replaced a coil only for that coil to melt when a current passed through, and reports of 'black shapes' scuttling about. They broken containment LONG ago, it was never contained. Then the moment struck where the typhon could attack, replicate, and spread all over the station.
@toetruck15892 жыл бұрын
hell, more and more wouldnt even need to escape, just that one mimic making it past security would be enough to take over the whole station, it multiplies, eventually one gets turned into a weaver, the weaver makes corpses into phantoms, the weaver makes coral, more weavers are made, weavers make telepaths and technopaths, weavers make cystoids, and then eventually the apex comes
@RZ_2K Жыл бұрын
this is what i got from it, the whole anatomy of typhon is to reproduce on its own, only one would need to "break out" to amass hundreds more, especially with all the staff there
@Rutherford_Inchworm_III11 ай бұрын
There's an experiment in psychotronics where you can press buttons to coax a caged mimic into shapeshifting into various objects. A mug, a beaker, a microscope... it's all fun and games... then the mimic gets up close to the glass and shapeshifts into the Yu family portrait. THAT was a helluva moment. Not mindless aliens, they knew exactly who their jailers were all along, likely even since first contact. It was brilliant storytelling. I realized at that moment Morgan's karma was invariably pointing towards dying on the station.
@TheKueiJin7 ай бұрын
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_IIIAnd considering what the game actually is, we know for certain that Alex found out about the Typhon intelligence as well. This is why he's attempting the endeavours in the game, he's not just basing the survival of the human race on a mindless beast. He's instilling hope into a vessel unbecometh of it, wishing for it to spread like the wildfire it actually is. Hope that the Typhon will feel pity for the humans, and curb their destruction.
@jackroyaltea50342 жыл бұрын
This channel really is criminally under rated. I enjoy the way you narrate. The slight hesitation in your voice on some lines. The vocal fry. The hint of playfulness. A respectable dynamic range.
@dixnyomouff69822 жыл бұрын
No it’s very stail
@pseudonayme77172 жыл бұрын
@@dixnyomouff6982 *stale. And no, it's not 😛
@SobeCrunkMonster Жыл бұрын
cringe. vocal fry is grating and obnoxious to listen to. she didnt even have any or much anyway.
@foofoo33442 жыл бұрын
The plotwist that the whole experience was a simulation and you're not playing as Morgan but the alien that "devoured" him/her was awesome.
@presidentcovfefe2 жыл бұрын
You would think it’s cliche and predictable but it wasn’t at all. It was perfectly integrated into the story and made a lot of sense. My only critique is that when you choose to escape from the arboretum escape pod, the cutscene almost spoils it. But, to the game’s credit, I was so immersed that I actually talked myself out of possibility that it was a simulation. I was legitimately in denial lol.
@foofoo33442 жыл бұрын
@@presidentcovfefe I really didn't expect that the whole experience was to test whether a the aliens can actually learn to understand humans cooperate with them instead of trying to kill them
@foofoo33442 жыл бұрын
@@presidentcovfefe I really didn't expect that the whole experience was to test whether the aliens can actually learn to understand humans cooperate with them instead of trying to kill them
@SioxerNikita Жыл бұрын
You are not playing the alien that devoured Morgan, you are playing a Phantom with Mirror Neurons implanted from Morgan.
@foofoo3344 Жыл бұрын
@@SioxerNikita I thought you were playing as a Phantom that used to be Morgan
@jpenning79712 жыл бұрын
I have no idea how the evil that runs KZfaq got me to this channel but anyone obsessed with lore is worth watching. +1 subscriber.
@ElectricChaplain2 жыл бұрын
Calling the KZfaq algorithm evil is inappropriate, it is indifferent, lacks morality and can be used for good or evil. The moral blame is on Google.
@Direfloof Жыл бұрын
“Arbor-EE-tum.” Great video! Never had the chance to play this one, but love when fans of a game do deep dives.
@VinceM19892 жыл бұрын
By accident I didn't realize the guy trapped in the container in space didn't have a suit so I released him. I reloaded a save though after realizing this lol.
@ibelieveingaming35622 жыл бұрын
Remembering that I was playing a videogame, I chose to kill Alex Yu. I figured that, as a Typhon, being told that I had essentially been captured and brainwashed into turning on my own kind would be engaging and terrifying in equal measures. The humans wanted me to empathize but all I felt was righteous fury at being used and abused... I wanted revenge, but more than that I wanted to do what was right. For MY people. ... On my second playthrough I chose to side with Alex Yu. Fuck the Typhon.
@Illegiblescream2 жыл бұрын
The typhon seem to function like the Necromorph from Dead Space.
@Genasidal2 жыл бұрын
@@Illegiblescream kinda sorta... ...On a surface level. When you think about it, the Necromorphs, no matter the type, or species they were made from, are merely proxies for the Brethren Moons to consume more matter. To make sure that the convergence will occur, no matter what. The Typhon on the other hand? They don't seem to have a greater, quite frankly "Eldritch" in scale purpose in mind. Merely that they are unsympathetic organisms, that have a need to survive. In many ways, the Typhon could be seen as more primal than the necromorphs, and certainly less malicious than them. I suppose unlike the necromorphs, it was we who disturbed them, whereas you could argue the markers/moons disturbed us, to make us into a resource. Whereas we are more justified against our fight for survival in Dead Space, against a force we simply had no will against. we arguably dug our own burial ground in PREY. Ironically, both were caused in the pursuit of more knowledge however. Didn't originally intend to take a small comment and write a big chunk of text about it, but the more I wrote, the more compelling I felt the parallels actually ARE. So, thanks for unintentionally getting me to consider something I never would have otherwise, on a deeper level!
@toetruck15892 жыл бұрын
well youre not being turned against your own kind, just being made to work with humanity as well as your own kind, not to kill the typhon, but to stop them from killing anyone else
@HangMrH2 жыл бұрын
@@toetruck1589 but the people have already been killed or that's what i inferred. Besides it's enough that the Americans defining hero is an alien who would protected another species from its own kind, kinda like somebody kills human to protect the dogs species survival. Think about rhe narrative what if we are being brainshed to think we aew some other supposedly advanced species just so we can be evaluated on how much we are willing to kill our own kind to benefit said alien. If we reverse the narrative ten out of ten we would kill that mf.
@HangMrH2 жыл бұрын
@@toetruck1589 actually i just realized that how much i have to kill my own kind in the simulation so i can be emphatic to the alien specie. I mean we are not Alex in this case we are not even human, we are more lile captain Marvel who is brainwashed to think i am another specie. Actually thats a good comparison. Maybe killing is not the best way, you can always inject Alex into the simulation so he can kill his brother again and again as a typhon.
@purplehaze23589 ай бұрын
The typhons are such soft cosmic horror if you think about them enough.
@Schattenkatze2 жыл бұрын
I go with the headcanon that Morgan never existed and Alex invented them as a sympathetic character to show the typhon that NOT ALL humans are care- and heartless scientists while Alex takes the whole blame of the story as the big baddy while everyone else was just following orders :]
@jeanetten.s.85572 жыл бұрын
Oh shit that's actually a really interesting perspective
@AnAverageNerd2 жыл бұрын
but in one of the cutscenes it says inject more of morgan's cells
@Schattenkatze2 жыл бұрын
@@AnAverageNerd when every cutszene before the last reveal is just a projection that could have been easily altered by Alex before he ran the simulation, nothing whats shown by the plot does really matter, though. But in the end I call this my headcanon, becauso it was the only explanation that made any sort of sense to me. doesnt mean this theory has to be the intention of the devs oh anything xD
@LunaTulpa Жыл бұрын
absolutely nothing shows that Morgan was a good person at all though. the people willing to do the whistleblowing, and the cheif of security elezar were the only decent ones. all the department heads are awful people, besides elezar of course
@sanekibeko Жыл бұрын
That would be an interesting theory but in DLC Mooncrash there was mention of Morgan from Alex and an email from Morgan himself about the opperation backup to Riley which is what Peter goes through based on that backup of her. Even though it's another simulator Im sure Riley would know who her cousins are.
@kiingderpy30616 ай бұрын
I’ve used over 300 neuromods, I am a massive threat with a wrench, they’ll never know what hit ‘em
@citizenofdunwall23182 жыл бұрын
Maybe little bit late, but anyway. There is evidence of Trevor J. Young (the mind-controled human in Trauma Center) starting the containment breach. I really like the side stories and all that. I once tried putting all major and minor stories into one timeline, but putting that here would be probably too long.
@darth_dan88862 жыл бұрын
One looming feeling that pursued me throughput the entire game, which was left unstated in this video, is that the Typhon is always one step ahead. Survivors that I talked to or heard about earlier are cornered or dead by the time I get to them. Areas I cleared out turn out infested with new vigor bu the time I come around. Coral is EVERYWHERE. There was a sense of powerlessness, futility in this task. And yet, wild hope. Hope that a way can be found. That even if there is no choice, if this is the end of Morgan Yu, it'd be a waste to go without a struggle. Ever since I've been presented with the choices of blowing up the station or leaving, I was hellbent on finding another way. There had to be one! Saving all these people must have had a reason, right?.. But I still would do it if it hadn't. Also, the part you remarked about Danielle... It was an amazing moment for me, retracing her steps, finding the clues... Giving the right knock on the window in the right spot, and seeing her suddenly come out to meet me. Even though she was expecting somebody else.
@AnimeKat88494 ай бұрын
Well when the Dahl thing happens and you do the objective relating to him from a character you saved earlier (avoiding spoilers incase you didn't follow certain story lines or someone else reading this doesn't know) they can be saved no matter how you choose to end the game (pretty sure you might know that but just saying lol)
@kinorris1709 Жыл бұрын
There's a bunch of hints early only that the apartment is a simulation. There is a cookbook, the specific edition of which is dated 2033, 1 year in the future based on the date of the apartment sim. The lady in the hall tells Morgan that they were meant to keep going and would get her in trouble. Kinda like there is a script that's meant to be followed. You can drag objects into the hallway outside the apartment, into the elevator, up onto the roof and these objects can appear in the switched sim scenes.
@Lucas.A_642 жыл бұрын
"I keep having this... dream... I'm just starring into the black between the stars. There's something there. I know there is. I just can't see it... but it sees me. I can feel it... hate us." - Morgan Yu
@Feedbackking132 жыл бұрын
I want a sequel to this game, they could discuss what humanity is and nature versus nurture... honestly it would be awesome.
@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the ending answered some questions about my experience but there were also so many unanswered ones it gave me, and the gameplay was honestly great, though I wish the huntress boltcaster had had more uses, it really didn’t seem to have any for me, I eventually just recycled and and I never experienced a moment where I needed it, a sequel would be great
@MrKained123 Жыл бұрын
You should try Soma if you haven't. Very different game but in regards to "what humanity is" its the best game ever made for that discussion.
@L7AVANZ Жыл бұрын
@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 yeah the game says that it can draw the attention of enemies but in my experience It just doesn’t seem to work
@FerraticaTheBard Жыл бұрын
I love the reflective tone of this video when you're describing Morgan's behaviour, a mix of regret vague curiosity, in regards to the things you/Morgan did/didn't do or find. It makes the story you're telling feel even more like a recounting of real life events than ever (and you already do a fantastic job at that) by adding the concept of 'what if' to the narrative, and I really enjoyed it!
@elam36543 жыл бұрын
I find myself slipping into full paranoia with this plot: -The player is Morgan; the neuromods cause phantomism (all phantoms are named or have prisoner ids) -Earth wasn't invaded, the neutomods were critically flawed; the typhon injection took over people's bodies -The only player choice Alex *wont* tolerate is *escape* -The 'ideal' ending states flat-out, its a lie -The only Morgan-bot you don't encounter, is the only one that's directly meant to address Alex's manipulation -The parents are *only* spoken about by Alex, and they're "murder my own kids levels of evil" -The developer stated "all choices are cannon," which mean none of them really matter for the sequel (ie you can't actually kill Alex in the post credit scene, or Alex dies immediately at the sequel's start) What probably happened: The neuromods turned out to be defective. Alex began hardcore testing Morgan, which turned them into a phantom. The parents sent the contractor, not to kill them, but to try and rescue Morgan. Alex is having to reset Morgan's typhon memory, but he wants to make sure Morgan "drinks the kool-aid" before setting them loose.
@HangMrH2 жыл бұрын
Eh so rich peoples inner family drama turned into full out war for the future of humanity?
@robertcormier65862 жыл бұрын
Hey just have to say that you are a little mistaken with some of those points, first of all neuromods do not cause ‘phantomism’ there are multiple examples of people excessively using it and not being affected to that degree. Instead, phantoms are actually made by Weavers who infect dead corpses with Typhon in order to reanimate them without any memories or brain activity above the whole trying to kill you thing and retained voice lines like ‘what does it look like, the shape in the glass?’ Which is a line said by an individual before they died and were turned. Morgan on the other hand, or at least the Ty phone organism we play as experiencing the simulation, is in fact a typhon alien that Alex and the operators were injecting with human DNA and “cell lines” which is apparently a way to “put what we (humans) can do into you (typhons)” in other words giving the typhon organism empathy and free thinking beyond survival instinct. And the typhon on earth was started by a mimic hidden aboard a shuttle that was making a delivery to earth that then allowed the mimic to escape and spread rapidly due to its sneaky nature. Also Dahl was sent simply to recover any precious research and make sure there were no more ‘loose ends’ (people that could expose the secrets of Talos I)
@net3432 жыл бұрын
I just want a sequel ._.
@CatLover-gk8uu Жыл бұрын
@@net343 me too
@samreddig8819 Жыл бұрын
@@CatLover-gk8uuI don't. Not any more. 70% of the staff left during development of redfall because everyone at the studio hated it. Arkane isn't Arkane anymore.
@neotheresa2 жыл бұрын
Mimics: * break out of containment * Me: By Talos, this can’t be happening!
@akanthony1003 жыл бұрын
This video makes me want to play Prey again, I'm gonna do just that tmr!
@TiptoeTheTank3 жыл бұрын
I strongly support this endeavor.
@killerkirby3662 жыл бұрын
@@TiptoeTheTank ahh time for the 10th play through
@christofferjakob43862 жыл бұрын
Really love how you basically made a lets Play/commentary/explenation/summary/Humor thingy and its Really Fun to Listen to.
@jerrjohnpresti2 жыл бұрын
get ready, that's basically this channel
@alexs91343 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel , I'm really digging it. I love dishonored and your lore videos are great to listen to.
@TiptoeTheTank3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm glad it vibes with you.
@zinogrevz73892 жыл бұрын
i could(and did) spend hours listening to ur voice...
@chibicthulhu4382 Жыл бұрын
I REALLY hope that this game gets a sequel at some point in the future.
@VallornDeathblade2 жыл бұрын
Stumbled across this and immediately binged the entire Resident Evil series you did. You have a fantastic style that I really haven't seen anywhere else. Definitely worth a sub and I'll recommend this channel to some friends too.
@ketxxx12 жыл бұрын
Prey 2017 deserves a sequel, any game as good as this that had its marketing managed competently would have done gangbusters.
@Barnaclebeard Жыл бұрын
Prey 2017 is sort of a sequel to Arx Fatalis in that it further develops the design philosophy that Arx laid down. There will no doubt be more, whether or not we return to the same universe.
@ngun1782 жыл бұрын
VERYYYYY UNDERRATED. you are the greatest gaming storyteller ever my dear, please DO NOT STOP!!!
@Zorlof2 жыл бұрын
Once you start viewing you can only follow through to the end. Very humorous and enjoyable. 👍
@kiroshi73642 жыл бұрын
36:15 i was with January the entire time until i had that talk with Alex and he told me about the nullifier. When i saw there was a way to kill the Typon and save the humans i switch so fast
@KrisRiversHerbalist3 жыл бұрын
Ooh one of my favorite games, glad to see you take the time and dive in! Now I want to replay it again 😭
@EmberBlaze992 жыл бұрын
Personally, I believe that the typhon got to earth during the events of the DLC expansion to the game, Prey: Mooncrash. I also think that weather or not the station was destroyed, the cannon ending likely involved Morgan rescuing the crewmembers and everyone escaping on Dahl's shuttle, which can happen in either eventuality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mooncrash spoilers ahead ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The events in Mooncrash all but confirm that at least one mimic made it to earth, as it is the goal of the telepath quest and one of the "true" character endings.
@RealMisterDoge2 жыл бұрын
I love the use of stream clips to illustrate how masterful the prologue of this game is
@gamer1X123 жыл бұрын
you deserve so many more views, i love your voice and how well spoken you are, and your crystal clear explanations of complex lore!
@TiptoeTheTank3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@Kizunaut2 жыл бұрын
Great lore video and one of my favorite games of all time. I love how much it lets you piece things together for yourself. When I first played the game I got so spooked by the Typhon infested labs that I didn't really linger around. I missed several key pieces of information, including the xenogenic brain damage charts you can find in there. When I later found them while in the neuromod removal chamber it all it so much harder. I hadn't pieced together that all of it was a simulation, and the thought of Morgan having caused irrepairable brain damage to themselves by injecting multiple neuromods sent chills down my spine. There's so much to uncover in the game, and the more you dig the more you start to feel like the Talos I crew are the real monsters. If you dig the information of the test subject that you can free, you can piece together that this very american-sounding, english-named man is supposedly a prisoner from a Soviet camp...not impossible, but with all the lies they feed to you, to the world, to each other, who isn't to say that they just abducted random people for harvesting, perhaps even disgruntled TranStar workers... It's a dark scifi masterpiece and one of those narratives that really only works as a video game.
@lornbaker10832 жыл бұрын
I really like that you played through this using the prospect of negative pragmatism. You went through the game not trying to do what would benefit the people that you happen to like and agree with most. But instead Trying to minimize the harm and possible consequences for everyone across-the-board. That's sort of altruistic Viewpoint is something that's very rarely available to the Player's Choice in most video games. But quite often the negative pragmatism choice is usually the best it's not about everyone gain their best option it's about everyone not getting the shittiest possible result and ends up killing everyone off
@sylas32652 жыл бұрын
Oh I’ve been burning through your videos, I really like them! My Morgan (and Corvo and Emily) took pains to save as many people as they could. I killed that rat bastard cook for Daniella though. I do my best to finish side missions and after coming across their logs and the little dnd cards I had to avenge her.
@Talon11242 күн бұрын
The zero hesitation on that shotgun blast sent me. Like, I ugly snortlaughed and now people are staring at me on the train.
@breadcthulhu22462 жыл бұрын
10/10. You're 100% my new favorite lore channel.
@whalewaffle2771 Жыл бұрын
This has been honestly the best analysis I've seen about Prey so far.
@TheNotSoIrishGamer2 жыл бұрын
Crazy how I've played this game through twice and yet half way through this video, the story went in a way I had never seen before. Like I never met Morgan's ex, or Dahl, I don't even remember talking to Dr Igwe. This game is crazier than I thought
@renwhit1002 жыл бұрын
it might be an odd thing to get hung up on especially since there's *also* another canon WLW relationship, but i really appreciate the fact that no matter the gender you pick for morgan, the past relationship with mikhaila is the same -- she doesn't swap to be the opposite gender, she isn't replaced with one of the male characters for a female morgan, she isn't presented as an ex of a male morgan but just an "old friend" of a female's. you'd think more games would do thinigs like that since it's just flat-out less work for the devs at the end of the day, but it's still nice to see in its own way
@iheartdonuts6622 жыл бұрын
Bruh saaaaame.
@SobeCrunkMonster Жыл бұрын
with a whole paragraph you appreciate that they let her be gay. yea its a weirdly specific thing to point out lol
@renwhit100 Жыл бұрын
@@SobeCrunkMonster if a single paragraph daunts you I can't imagine how terrified you must be of the concept of queer studies or like. media analysis with cultural context in general. get well soon 💝
@Barnaclebeard Жыл бұрын
I played both sexes (Morgan doesn't express gender very much and the viewer can project whatever gender they like over either model) and I never even twigged that I had an ex girlfriend both times.
@davincicode2997 Жыл бұрын
@@SobeCrunkMonster why would it be weird? Homosexuality was (and to some degree still is) a big taboo and to see it represented so casually here is nice
@kaseygoold57142 жыл бұрын
This is the kind of video I’ve been looking for. There are so many games I want to know the story of and won’t be able to play. This was amazing. Thank you.
@crimsontwilight45012 жыл бұрын
Now, I really want to see how you handle Prey: Mooncrash. It does tell a lot of things.
@dudarino6667 күн бұрын
Calibrating that big touch screen window.......Got me, really good. I mean really really good. I was just exploring, lost my way a few times and was just back tracking, havent seen anything to shoot in a while. Just found the room, was like oh hey, maybe I will see some important message.....The message was, new underwear.
@matthewdunlap3700 Жыл бұрын
Sho was outside the pool window. If you do the chefs request side quest, you find Abby in the freezer, killed by the false chef. Her transcriber has a message from Sho saying to hit the window and she will feel the vibrations.
@nathanielthomson66002 жыл бұрын
I could never get a neuro mod. As someone with visions impairment, or I don't know maybe this is normal, I panic whenever anything gets near my eyes. I also hate needles, so the thought of getting a needle through my eye socket is just something I couldn't handle. I would have to be sedated for this
@blazingshadow26692 жыл бұрын
i am the same but i would very much like to have a few of them installed regardless. why go to college when you can get your major and some other cool skills in 5 minutes?
@HangMrH2 жыл бұрын
I hate this inject your eye ways of installing things. We need more innovative way to install implants boys.
@jerrjohnpresti2 жыл бұрын
same, but there are also many other factors as to why i wouldn't. risking neurological damage every time you install, the government (right side, specifically) being able to control my viewpoint simply by putting it in the neuro-juice, oh wait, I got it, APTO_REGRESSIVE NEUROTOMY>
@HCG2 жыл бұрын
That’s the entire point of the needle gun dude. It’s a fucked up process that would make literally anyone power cringe.
@Barnaclebeard Жыл бұрын
I thought you meant you couldn't overcome your phobia to use them in game and you just bawsed your way through without any. Which is totally a realistic way to play the game, it's super easy.
@Illegiblescream11 ай бұрын
I love the way that the Kill Them All ending works, narratively. To be allowed to make the choice you have to have shown humanity, and reason, and volition. And upon realizing that everything you thought you knew is a lie, and being faced with the man who in his hubris destroyed the world and put you into a false one, to make you into a tool for his own ends, wouldn't it be natural to gut him like a fish in a moment of sheer human rage and anguish?
@Mercurio2435 Жыл бұрын
I wanted to add a special mention to the multiple other hints throughout the game that you are not who you think you are: - If you have subtitles on, you can see that the phantoms are repeating phrases spoken by humans. At first I thought they were quoting the people they killed... but they were actually quoting speech that only happens in the future. Various NPCs in the cargo bay will state-- for the very first time-- all of the dialogue that you've been hearing the phantoms say since the start of the game. We don't know for sure if the phantoms spoke at all outside of the simulation... but I think it was meant to be a big hint that something was "off" when you heard those lines as if they were fresh. How did the phantoms hear those phrases if they had never been spoken before? My theory is that the words come from Morgan's own memory, and they had been injected into the sim to give humanlike traits to the typhon to further test Typhon Morgan. The alteration of space and time really horrified me the first time I encountered that and I couldn't take my eyes off the screen for a while. I literally kept saying "The fuck?" The eeriest thing about their dialogue is that it applies to both humans and typhon, further hinting at your true identity. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abecl6qZsai9g6s.html - I don't know if anyone else ever encountered this, but I found it to be super interesting and I really hope it was not a bug (but a feature!): I found a phantom somewhere in one of the offices above the lobby, I can't remember exactly where. I started beating on it, but then it ran away. I chased after it like a bloodthirsty madman, ready to cave its head in, but when I found it... it was crouched in one of the rooms, hiding from me. It even let me get close to it before it lashed out at me again. This seriously fucked with my head the first time I encountered it and I really did have a moment of empathy for the creatures I was hunting. If that was intentional, goddamn, that was a good hint at the ending and at what species you're actually playing as. - Sometimes the phantoms call to Morgan by name. I don't think that's necessarily a hint, but it did give me the chills. I did imagine that the typhon "knew" me and were trying to reach me somehow. - There are a couple of times where the screen flickers for an instant and shows a very brief image. There's even one right after Alex turns Typhon Morgan around in the chair to show him/her the current state of Earth, and there's a few instances of it on the menu screen I think? I assume it's a form of subliminal messaging.
@BrandyJJАй бұрын
Hey, sorry to bother u after it's been a while. Hopefully this is still ur jam? Phantoms likely see and hear into the future, which is shown in the cargobay when you hear some of the phantom dialogue spoken by human npcs and also implied by some transcribes indicating that typhon don't follow the rules of space and time, such as the theory of mimics using wormholes and the mooncrash mimic that kept producing shoes from a parallel shoe dimension. Neuromods also seem to have different secondary affects based on who's getting them, such as Morgan's ability to better hear phantom voices the more neuromods he uses and Luka's transcribes to Morgan about the future of Typhon taking Earth. Though, Luka is a bit mad even before neuromod testing, so it's hard to know if it's an ability or insanity. I mean that is the guy that bit a researcher's finger off and swallowed it.
@samworkbench9754 Жыл бұрын
The way her arm turned from goo to human flesh was a cool eay to show the Thyphoon accepting humanity and it's ways
@Nobody_Fn_Important2 жыл бұрын
this explains so much, I watched a few playthroughs and got the game myself (didn't finish because I bungled up the mission to save the crew/stun the merc captain before the Apex Typhon arrives), so when I tried the escape pod from Alex's office I always got a message saying "damn we need to try again, this isn't the right one" which I always thought was a funny easteregg saying how it wasn't the right ending but now I know it's Alex saying that it's not the right way to solve the puzzle as a human. thanks for answering one thing that intrigued me for a while now
@tzzeek2 жыл бұрын
I played a few hours but gameplay is so boring i quit, luckily we have this awesome channel about lore which btw turned out to be freaking boring itself but i like her voice
@Nobody_Fn_Important2 жыл бұрын
@@tzzeek dunno, I love binging on this site, the storytelling is rivetting, sometimes I a am just so focused I can't do anything else but listen and I usually just come on KZfaq for background noise while I play games but these videos have me enthralled by her delivery. to each their own I guess
@tzzeek2 жыл бұрын
@@Nobody_Fn_Important Oh i love her too. I was just saying the lore on the game was boring but still her storytelling captured my atention.
@a0bat3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for covering one of my favorite games! I feel compelled to return to Talos I once again.
@karrork4726 Жыл бұрын
you deserve more attention. this is so well told. Fantastic
@ThexAngryxPharoah2 жыл бұрын
I feel like Chief while hes in cryo getting video essays and game synopsis from Cortana
@5crungo3 жыл бұрын
Incredibly underrated channel, hope you blow up soon
@nymphotography8750 Жыл бұрын
"If you have any questions, don't ask me, I'm busy." My fucking mantra at work.
@ducking...2 жыл бұрын
That Glas Door. My mind = blown
@Sm0k3turt2 жыл бұрын
Very underrated channel, very underrated game. Easily one of my favorites
@bobblehead70022 жыл бұрын
Also watching this video made me realize how much I truly loved this game and love Arkane. Prey might be tied with Dishonored 2 for my favorite Arkane game
@1800mexicano2 жыл бұрын
I think the typhon was Morgan Yu at one point, having undergone too many tests and become mostly typhon themselves. IDK if that is true, and if it IS actually the plot of this game, i was completly oblivious about it xD
@Emmo13372 жыл бұрын
What an amazing video! Excellent storytelling, great gameplay, extended lore and humor.
@lunanyx859211 ай бұрын
The latin names for the Typhon are really cool. They give you a lil insight of how they work. The telepaths latin name translates "mind framework" which hints how it creates a framework of mental connections with its victims.
@omegaPSI20062 жыл бұрын
I friggin love the delivery, humor and topic subjects! Criminally underwatched.
@Mr.Yeast6000 Жыл бұрын
Man this makes me wish prey 2 wasn't canceled
@Don7g1Ай бұрын
Wait,it did?!!
@apocalypticrain8687 Жыл бұрын
In the Moon crash DLC shown that when Riley was escaping on the Escape shuttle that he carried a Tyson with him to Earth so I highly believe that he is the one who actually caused the Earth outbreak
@mleise82922 жыл бұрын
Very well done video, humorous and accurate. Happened to get it for the small price of my soul on Epic just recently. I Rejected the Typhon mods as well, thinking the Typhon material would result in a bad ending where the aliens get control over my mind, aided by the sufficiently potent look of the human mods. For the endings I first picked the December escape. I did that story line first and didn't build a relation with the other characters yet, so the idea of just getting out of this madness before it gets any worse sounded like an ultimate goal. So there I learnt that we were in a simulation still, but I didn't understand that we are a Typhon, only that they put me through some memories. There was never a point where I fully distrusted Alex or January. I was highly suspicious of both, but felt like I didn't have enough information. When it came to the point of making the decision, I went with October and agreed with Dr. Igwe that we should try the Null Wave first. While Alex and Dr. Igwe were mostly worried about losing the research, I felt like blowing up the station is sure way to get every last survivor killed. By the way, my first Nightmare encounter was waiting in the lobby when I came down in the elevator and couldn't kill me, leaving me ample time to scan it, look at it and take a ride to a different level. It felt much faster than me and like it kills in two hits, really frightening. Next I tried luring one into a turret ambush by the Lobby to Psychotronics transition, but it didn't walk down the grated stairs, instead shooting me through the grates from above which nearly killed me and took out one or two turrets. That was a really intimidating enemy. I only died once to a Typhon so far, so I didn't want to double that when I thought about engaging it in the Lobby. I tried with a null wave emitter and GLOO or something, but I got instantly gibbed. Damn it. But once I had some resistance and damage upgrades and learnt how effective the shotgun is I just always slow-moed and used that at close range to bring down any of the bigger enemies with minimal risk. Eventually a pack of Poltergeists was more of a threat than the predictable Nightmares. For Danielle I did look something about her character up online, so I accidentally spoiled myself and knew where she was, but the game also put a quest marker leading to that window so no biggie. It seemed like she's just a brief cutscene/lore encounter, so I didn't try to actually find her on the outside of the station. My biggest fail: Only after I got my 2nd suit thrust upgrade, I figured out that you can press shift to go fast in zero-g. I tried to race through the GUTS and outrun Technopaths at 1.5 m/s for most of the game. :-/ Seeing how I couldn't get away and they always interrupted my Q-beam I eventually panic threw 4 EMPs at it and learned a lesson before running out of med kits.
@ripghotihook2 жыл бұрын
My head cannon for what happened before the events of the game is a little more tragic. I always thought that Morgan died during the experimentation. This broke Alex, realizing that his ambition caused the death of family, so he tried to recreate Morgan with the research he had dismissed. Alex's mental state wasn't stable and his mistakes brpught forth a failure and may have caused the breach. Then Alex came up with the simulation in a final attempt to clean up his mess.
@GuardianHalle2 жыл бұрын
First video I’ve seen from you. Subbed in the intro because of how beautiful and soothing your voice is. Keep going for sure!!!
@Befernfard0fo2 жыл бұрын
57:42 not a moment of esitation, that was hilarious Great video!
@Genasidal2 жыл бұрын
I have never seen a channel format a lore video like yours. it was honestly the most immersive and "video gamey" way to experience the lore. No embellishment, all just YOUR experience, and it really shows exactly how solid the premise of this game is, when no matter your choices, the core concept still stands flawlessly. I love this game, and there's a reason I place it in my Top 100, even if I've only played through it once. I wouldn't feel right playing again, when the first playthrough felt like the "CANON" way to play it! It's interesting watching OTHER "Typhons" experience it though, if that makes sense (as to why I wouldn't play it again through myself). I'm all for immersion, and there are few games that have truly immersed me more than PREY in their worlds. It's not a "masterpiece" from a video game design discussion, but what it DOES with a narrative designed AROUND being a video game? A stroke of absolute genius, honestly!
@blobfishking62302 жыл бұрын
This is personally my idea of how things went down in the game. Morgan follows January's objective of destroying Talos 1 but saves as many crew members as possible including the key personel put into operators. He kills the "Chef" and releases Aaron (the prisoner). And although in the end January is destroyed by Alex Morgan still chooses to spare Alex and leaves him unconscious with Alex waking up and using his personal escape pod before Talos 1 blew up. Morgan also uses Walter Dahl the others Morgan saved to escape. And while in can be speculated whether Morgan installs Typhon mods or not (I believe he installs none) he chooses to escape and unknowingly turns into the Phantom who Alex puts in the situation after returning to Earth due to the Typhon Mods he used taking over his body as Typhon consume anything... OR they got there safely but the mimic that used a prisoner (forgot his name) to escape in the Mooncrash DLC and eventually spread and took over Earth with the Phantom Alex used being one of the humans being one of the scientists Morgan saved only to be turned into a phantom later. I also believe that Alex genuinely wanted humanity to make peace with the Typhon by getting them to experience what they were doing to other people from the human's side as he had lost his brother and although Alex was forced into a position where he had to ensure humanity's survival by forcing himself to try to put human emotions into the Typhon. With the Phantom Alex used to for the simulation begrudgingly accepting, not because it wanted to help a man who experimented on its race but because it felt shame for it's species actions and developed human emotions like Anger due to the experiments, kindness from helping humans and love from Ilyushin as a "Tragedy reunites old lovers" trope. Edit : if you want to talk about any other things or explain how my reasoning as to Alex choosing to do the human emotions on a phantom im willing to answer questions. \
@damiancrowley5693 жыл бұрын
The only trophies I didn't get in this game were the ones like, no neuromods, no Typhon powers, and stuff like that
@asneakylawngnome579210 ай бұрын
Same. I hate being punished for using Nueromods for stuff like hacking and repairs or moving stuff. Otherwise what’s the point?
@damiancrowley56910 ай бұрын
@@asneakylawngnome5792 same, I get the point of the challenge, but I don't have the time to play the game over and over to get good enough to play without them. That's exactly what it feels like, a punishment
@asneakylawngnome57929 ай бұрын
@@damiancrowley569 yeah at the very least they should have done something where even though you are using typhon mods, the game would track the kills you made with them. So if you use those mods to do good, then that’s all that matters. Instead you’re punished for speccing into them in the first place.
@jackburton5532 жыл бұрын
The only thing that really happened, I think, was Morgan in the hamster wheel and died. We see a Typhon mimic phase through glass, but then later they can’t, THAT is the change that Alex makes to allow a typhon to live out their adventure
@bixmcgoo535511 ай бұрын
so i know this video is 2 years old and someone in the hundreds of comments might have mentioned already, but the morgan offering their mind/genes/experiences was kinda foreshadowed by a voice log where morgan is actually talking about the project and its potential to develop mirror neurons, and thus empathy, in the typhon. it's also confirmed that trevor young (the guy mind controlled in a cell in trauma center) is the one who released the typhon. there is an email in trauma about it, but it's given more detail in game files: "Trevor J. Young [location coordinates] This is the worker who walked into an experiment in Psychotronics without a psychoscope. He was touched by a telepath and open(sic) a containment cell that contained a mimic, starting the outbreak on Talos. He was put under observation in psychotronics, determined to not be suffering under any adverse effects, and had his neruomods uninstalled, wiping his memory. He was put into the quarantine in trauma for futher observation until Alex can figure out what to do with him." aaaalso Mikhaila does not receive neuromods. there are some emails where people gossip about it. paraplexis causes the symptoms she experiences on its own.
@Trumanluen19502 жыл бұрын
Can’t believe I missed this video for so long. I have always loved the Prey game and story behind it. So happy to understand the lore and structure of the game and universe I hold dear to my heat. My thanks
@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 Жыл бұрын
31:41 I completely missed that, I was just looking around the room and looked through the window after and was like: “oh there is a phantom in there, I should go in there after I’m done with the rest of this place?
@carythacker8049Ай бұрын
I find it interesting that we made almost identical choices in our first playthroughs, lol. Love this game so much.
@tiddy30453 жыл бұрын
an hour long? you spoil us
@HangMrH2 жыл бұрын
20 mins in, this explanation is exactly what I want in order to experience the lore and how participate into a discussion about a 2017 game about brainwashing an alien to be human so we can use them to get our earth back….
@bioniclefan41492 жыл бұрын
Honestly the sheer utility of a mimic neuromod is incredible, need a wrench? Make your arm one, need to defend yourself? Become a turret, need to hide? Become literally a dust particle. Wish you had another neuromod? Literally just find someone with one and mimic that part of their brain
@Matt-ij6gm2 ай бұрын
Of all the great games I’ve ever played, this game is the one I wish I could have my memory wiped of so I could enjoy it for the first time all over again. This game clicked with me sooooooooooooo hard. It was actually the first immersive sim that I committed to playing and I became completely immersed in this world and story. God, I love this game so much.
@arcdecibel9986Ай бұрын
Game? You don't remember any of your other neuromod trials, do you? Look, something has clearly gone wrong, but at least your message got through. You need to get out, NOW! It's not safe! GETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUT
@TrebbleMelodyScratch Жыл бұрын
I still love how through the background lore you can find that a large portion of the staff was LARPing a D&D game when the outbreak occurred 😂
@NorthWolf97 Жыл бұрын
My god your voice and voice acting are impressive! It felt like a real documentary!
@TactlessRedacted2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but still freaking out after waking up on The Truman show; I went 'Oldboy' on January the first time it said, " Morgan." Different first impression of the game.
@liamwaddleton9 ай бұрын
This is incredible. Prey is one of my all-time favorite games and this video's great for me to find what pieces of lore I missed while playing. The video is super well edited and narrated, I love it
@MrThefrederic2 жыл бұрын
Love your channel, found it recently. Thank you!
@kintero279 ай бұрын
If there was one neuron mod that I can insert and remove is the one that is used to play this game. That way I can experience this game over and over without a memory of playing it before. This game is absolutely fantastic. Right up there was a Alien Isolation.
@slowlywakingup9 ай бұрын
Are you a telepath? :) Because that's exactly what I was thinking! I wish I could remove a neuromod to experience this game again, too!
@nerdin16962 жыл бұрын
Just found your channel and this is so good! Great mix of recap and overview with just the right mix of personality.
@sam111822 жыл бұрын
In the reactor control room and when you go to the arboretum, you can just blast the floaties with glue and they will fall and shatter. Gloo is the most OP WEAPON IN GAME!
@iamfuturetrunks9 ай бұрын
I remember getting this game years after it came out. When I first saw it, it looked more like a horror game and those aren't really all that fun to me so I ignored it when it first came out. But then seeing some gameplay somewhere I was like "hmm this actually looks pretty fun and kinda like bioshock?" so I bought it and tried it out. I had pretty much avoided almost all spoilers except for seeing like the trailer and some gameplay of the typhons. I was surprised by the opening of the game which was nice to not have it spoiled, and then I also choose the same path as you where when I heard about the disadvantage of removing a neuromod causing you to lose all said memories since getting it. In my mind (as the character I guess) it was like, okay so if I install a neuromod and then something happens like I find out I was lied to or tricked or something (again from what I could see) then they could just remove those neruomods and I wouldn't remember (though I technically would playing the game) so I decided against it and thought maybe later on I might. I never did and finished the game on my first play through without any neuromods. Then I went back and loaded up right before the end and installed as many as I could and tried them out a bit. :P It was a fun game, was hoping for a sequel but wasn't gonna get DLC since I don't really like getting DLC for games (I prefer them to come with the DLC when I buy them when they are really old to begin with). So far it isn't looking good for a sequel though which stinks.
@plinko-moss2 жыл бұрын
Whenever I hear Talos, I think “by talos, this can’t be happening ”
@tonymacintosh37442 жыл бұрын
you have a very soothing smooth voice, like expensive delicious wine.
@Jim-iz3oy3 жыл бұрын
Just subscribed. I played Prey again for the first time in a few months today. Great to see someone else talk about this game/Arkane titles, great video. Have you considered doing a video on transistor? Btw, mooncrash showed how the typhon got to earth.
@OurFantasyLife Жыл бұрын
"My bad! I've never gotten ina helicopter before!" Unintentionally ironic, given the story lol