Choices and Consequences. The Lore of PREY! 

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."

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

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

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.

I thought this game was going to be hilarious when I jumped into the helicopter blades and got an achievement for it

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.

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.

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.

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!

"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

“Arbor-EE-tum.” Great video! Never had the chance to play this one, but love when fans of a game do deep dives.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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 :]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

Didnt think id find someone interested about this game in the same way as me! Only Dishonored gave the same gritty yet "silky-clean" vibes. Hope they release a sequel.

I want a sequel to this game, they could discuss what humanity is and nature versus nurture... honestly it would be awesome.

This video makes me want to play Prey again, I'm gonna do just that tmr!

I REALLY hope that this game gets a sequel at some point in the future.

Prey 2017 deserves a sequel, any game as good as this that had its marketing managed competently would have done gangbusters.

I just found your channel , I'm really digging it. I love dishonored and your lore videos are great to listen to.

Really love how you basically made a lets Play/commentary/explenation/summary/Humor thingy and its Really Fun to Listen to.

Once you start viewing you can only follow through to the end. Very humorous and enjoyable. 👍

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

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.

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

Now, I really want to see how you handle Prey: Mooncrash. It does tell a lot of things.

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.

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

Mimics: * break out of containment * Me: By Talos, this can’t be happening!

Ooh one of my favorite games, glad to see you take the time and dive in! Now I want to replay it again 😭

This has been honestly the best analysis I've seen about Prey so far.

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

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.

I love the use of stream clips to illustrate how masterful the prologue of this game is

I feel like Chief while hes in cryo getting video essays and game synopsis from Cortana

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

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.

VERYYYYY UNDERRATED. you are the greatest gaming storyteller ever my dear, please DO NOT STOP!!!

10/10. You're 100% my new favorite lore channel.

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.

you deserve so many more views, i love your voice and how well spoken you are, and your crystal clear explanations of complex lore!

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?

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.

The typhons are such soft cosmic horror if you think about them enough.

I friggin love the delivery, humor and topic subjects! Criminally underwatched.

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.

The only trophies I didn't get in this game were the ones like, no neuromods, no Typhon powers, and stuff like that

you deserve more attention. this is so well told. Fantastic

Thank you for covering one of my favorite games! I feel compelled to return to Talos I once again.

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

Incredibly underrated channel, hope you blow up soon

First video I’ve seen from you. Subbed in the intro because of how beautiful and soothing your voice is. Keep going for sure!!!

Love your channel, found it recently. Thank you!

an hour long? you spoil us

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?

What an amazing video! Excellent storytelling, great gameplay, extended lore and humor.

Very underrated channel, very underrated game. Easily one of my favorites

57:42 not a moment of esitation, that was hilarious Great video!

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.

Another tiptoethetank upload! These are so much fun to listen to while painting minis

Just found your channel and this is so good! Great mix of recap and overview with just the right mix of personality.

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.

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.

How am I just now stumbling upon this. Thanks for the content!!!

My god your voice and voice acting are impressive! It felt like a real documentary!

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. \

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

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.

I’ve used over 300 neuromods, I am a massive threat with a wrench, they’ll never know what hit ‘em

Outstanding video, a lot of work went into this. Liked and Followed

you have a very soothing smooth voice, like expensive delicious wine.

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!

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

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.

The pop culture references during the game play clip are great you ma’am are a woman of glass. The Simpson the Truman Show heck yeah

loved this vid and your comments, subbed

I like this version of a play through - GJ!

love this keep going thanks for the content

This is very cool! Love your style of content, subscribed for sure!

I sacrifice these words to the Great Algorhythm.

This was great! Really well done. 👏🏾 Thanks for the ride. Cheers. Subbed ✅

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

I love this channel i searched a while for a good prey story video and this one was great.

Awesome video. The way you chose to cover the story through the lens of how you played was really interesting. I highly recommend checking out the Mooncrash DLC. Though it’s a bit lighter on the story and much more frantic than the base game, it covers what happened at the Transtar lunar base and answers a few of the base game’s more open-ended questions. And it’s nearly as long as the base game as well!

So happy I found this channel!!!

You have such a lovely narrative voice ❤

That Glas Door. My mind = blown

The way her arm turned from goo to human flesh was a cool eay to show the Thyphoon accepting humanity and it's ways

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

Great work!