Prey (Zero Punctuation) 

That was something Yahtzee himself once commented on at the start of his review of the original Dead Space.

Yeah, it’s a pretty great place to work unless you are a volunteer, looolll

True his review of the original Dead Space was one of the first things that came to my mind when I entered the Talos I atrium for the first time

Same goes for any Arkane game. Dishonored is full of fallen or in the process of falling cities or empires that would have been really nice to live in if you weren't one of the people affected by the messed up stuff lurking behind the facade

Prop Hunt but all of the props are shapeshifting venom headcrabs.

7.62 x39mm Sums up perfectly mate

7.62 x39mm in Prey, props hunt you

It's the time old tradition of Mimics in video games or, as they're called in Zelda, Like-Likes.

Shane the Typhon Hunter DLC was shit.

I knew I was going to love this game the moment that achievement and the first notch on my death counter popped...

Hah, that's the first thing I did, too! I was like "Hmm, can I kill myself in the opening section of the game?" [jumps into helicopter blades and dies] "Yup, indeed I can! I love this game already."

I was just about to say that myself. I love that there's enough versions of Morgan for everyone to relate to at least one. I sympathised most with the one who didn't trust the recordings, which is kind of silly when you think about it.

So did I. The one who doubts the constructs, lashes out at Kohl in the therapy session log and engaged the September/October protocols is by far the best Morgan, especially if you played female xD "I didn't agree to any of this. That - Morgan - is not me. I would nev-do you know what's going on in Psychotronics? Do you?"

age of consent is 16 in my country tho XD

+andrzej wysocki I understand you may think I'm referring to sex predator in the sense of someone going after underage due to the title of "Prey Seventeen", however I'm just generally thinking of the term 'sex predator'. Side note which everyone knows already but I'm going to blurt out: age of consent isn't 16 for all countries - especially if it is between a 16 year old and someone over the age of 18.

lol, yeah jared from subway found out the hard way.....unintentinal rhyme

BloodfelX this

Age of consent is 15 in Sweden...

Yup I seriously couldn't explain it better myself haha

A playstyle I actually missed. Seriously one the strong points of Prey is Quick Save. (And try out different things)

Exactly the way you play STALKER.

And most of the audio-logs are from BEFORE the containment breach. There are exceptionally few which are from afterwards.

But mass effect did suck ass a fair bit. As well as that it definitely deserved it i mean have you even seen those horrid faces.

Chandler F there's something wrong with him

or maybe, we get good games now

To be fair, he did mention before that he is a banana.

the end is nigh

We open on a court room filled with the spiritual successors. Bioshock and Doom 3 fidget nervously. Dead Space eyes the crowd. Alien Isolation stares impassively. On the podium Stardew Valley, the unbiased announcer, clears his throat. Stardew Valley: We are here today to read the last Will and Testament of System Shock 2. All contents are legally binding. Murmuring envelopes the crowd. Prey stares down Dead Space 2. Stardew Valley: I will now begin. "I, System Shock 2, leave my novelty spoon collection to Doom 3. My gun collection will be transferred Dead Space, including the plasma rifle. The suspicious sounding disembodied voice will be given to Bioshock, along with all my funds totally 17 million dollars-" Dead Space: That's bull! I'm the one most deserving of that because I got the horror most down! Bioshock: Sure, immediately transforming monsters in flickering lights is totally scary! Doom 3: Yeah! At least you didn't get the spoon collection! Stardew Valley: Now everyone let's not get to violent- Dead Space: (pulls out saw gun) YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH INDIE GAME TRASH! All the games pull out guns of all levels of complexity and ammo. They stare each other down, franchises slowly banding together till Dead Space 2 shoots Doom 3. Mass chaos ensues. Bioshock blasts Alien Isolation 's arm off, Dead Space 2 quickly runs out of ammo and punches Doom 3 to death. Prey is killed by Dead Space and Stardew Valley hides under a table clutching a backhoe in fear. Bio shock is fatally stabbed by Dead Space who is then shot by Bioshock infinite. Dead Space 2 and Bioshock Infinite then shoot simultaneously and die. Stardew Valley sees and exit and jumps out the window. Dead Space 3, whom nobody noticed, walks over the carnage and proceeds to edit the will so he gets everything and leaves

Merritt Animation "To Dishonoured, I bequeath...a boot to the head."

Merritt Animation that was perfection

SkyOut No, Doom 2016 wasn't invited and instead enjoyed the benefits of the only one in the franchise not to be dead or disowned before Doom 1993's untimely demise

How many spiritual successors does it take to screw in a light-bulb?

Robb_Stark It seems that he just thought it was alright.

"Alright" is high praise coming from this channel.

Chance Kimber I mean unless he's absolutely gushing about a game it's not gonna sound super duper positive. I mean witcher 3 was his GOTY and his review made it sound alright.

I could tell he liked it when he started listing the ways the game tries to kill you - and he didn't even bring up the SPOILER which is lightning fast and can only be beaten by his tactics for Skyrim.

You kind of know he likes a game now a days when he doesn't spoil it (see ghost warrior 3 and battlefield 1 for stories he didn't care about and spoiled) especially considering there are good number of spoiler related stuff he could complain about. Though I wonder what he thought of the ending.

Not quite right, that's a pretty simplified version of things. In an interview with the lead designer, and the CEO of Arkane, they described it more as if the studio was already working on the project, and had wanted to (work on a project with this setting and theme) for a long time, at that point it was unnamed/codenamed as these sorts of games usually are. Bethesda then approached them (around a year into the development phase) and asked if the name 'Prey' fit the project, because they were wanting to renew the franchise. Arkane agreed Prey fit closely enough, which garnered the game a stronger favour with Bethesda than it otherwise had, and pulled more pennies together for marketing budget. Which Bethesda then squandered anyway trying to present it as a schizophrenic horror/action game.

I still think it should have been called Neuroshock. You use Neuromods to level up, it's a successor to System Shock, slap it all together and ta da, Neuroshock.

Prey works better for this game than the other, which should be called Culture or Upbringing. I already commented why.

It was going to be Neuroshock (or possibly Psychoshock), but Bethesda wanted to use the Prey name.

@@janesmith1840 interesting. How would it be a successor to System Shock when that's an entirely different studio and publishing company?

That elevator moment though - that moment blew away most horror games because you aren't expecting jump scares and there it is.

@@immortalzealot9725 As someone who despises Horror games but thoroughly enjoyed prey, that moment wasn't too bad but it certainly was pretty creepy

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Nor is it just the end, one of the biggest things of the game is questioning your reality so that string is tugged throughout the entire game.

Once again he rushed through and didn't experience the side quests.

@@wind2536 of course he did. I doubt he has the time to do side quests.

King Hirgiath in my opinion, if all he's going to do is rush through the game, he shouldn't review it

@@peacekeepings1371 I'm just pointing out why he didn't do it. You're right though, he probably shouldn't have done this if he wasn't going to give the story the attention it deserves.

I'm really surprised Yahtzee didn't mention Symphony of the night in this review.

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That's just metroid. Can everyone fk off with adding Castlevania. I mean I hardly know castlevania. If anything just call it Exploration progression.

@@jex-the-notebook-guy1002 I know this is two years late but Castlevania is part of the name or a good reason, it was also a very large influence on games that work in that way. Hell they both evolved along side each other, with Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest being the very game in it's series to have Metroidvania elements only coming out about half a year after the first Metroid, these old two server as the pre-Metroidvania before Castlevania IV: SOTN and Super Metroid gave birth to the genre as we now know it.

Sorry for being so late, but I loved how Prey would constantly discourage you from going in situations guns blazing, especially on Hard difficulty.

@@mackielunkey2205 while we are having fun necroposting, I find it funny that this spiritual sucessor to System Shock 2 has the same perceived tonal problem that System Shock 2 had i.e. people expected big spooky game while it was activelly trying to be a sci-fi action game

​@@Nuggette To be fair to most people, I think the game failed them by not communicating effectively. The opening does not do good enough of a job setting up the tone, despite being in retrospect, pretty clever. From my point of view, it feels like the game deliberately miscommunicates to set up for the twist. Unfortunately, it ended up ruining people's expectation, as you say "tonal problem".

@@lc9245 not disagreeing with you, but that makes it even funnier, because that's exactly what System Shock 2 did. The start (minus the character creation) and some other parts of the game are really scary, but then the second you finish the tutorial you have an emotional whiplash as the game shows its true colours. I just find it hilarious that a game that was inspired by System Shock 2 somehow managed to also copy its biggest flaw

@@Nuggette I think the mood whiplash in SS2 was unintended, while Prey felt much more intended. That being said, I don't know if that's a praise or a criticism.

Pretty much anything with a wrench and a twist.

@Bethesda sucks, but Zerglings still are cute. Shit taste

Ehhhh it's a lot more Bio than System

Just glad SS2 is getting the credit it deserves, it was a high-water mark for the genre in my opinion

Doom: Find the Blue Card.

Locked doors are innovative and not a backwards means of artificially picking a path for the player, *cough.*

Hidden doors are cool though. Like if you do some objectives, a secret door opens up in a place that you overlooked as you did those objectives.

+Colin Velius I was being sarcastic, locked doors are annoying and often used to shuttle a player along in their supposedly "open world." Hidden doors on the other hand are very cool, and are a beneficial way to make a player explore their environment.

Yeah, I totally agree with you on that. I've played games that are just irritating key-hunts. A bunch of obnoxiously placed locked doors that can only be opened as I progress through the non-obvious correct path, for I would have to go to every single door to figure out which key goes where.

He used that joke already Or is the joke supposed to be that you used the joke again? Cause it seems like one of those joes you can only use once, like spelling Icup out loud.

Where did he make that joke?

Yeah, a little like I am sofa king we taded

nerdcubed made that joke

That's one of nerdcubed's poorer jokes imo

Or going down a gravshaft and there's a Nightmare standing right in front of where you come out.

I've never played it but as a guess, the deciding whether or not to blow up the space station?

@@JMarchel That's part of it, and indeed the "game" ends with that decision, but I think the OP is referring to what you might call the epilogue of the game. And yeah it's very subtle but well done how Yahtzee slips that in, kinda like what he did in the Heavy Rain review in reference to the killer.

Yeah, just saw it. Very nicely done, Yahtzee. Although, I wouldn't have put it together without the OP pointing it out

Caleb Chaney Hm?

James CyberLink Yahtzee's Prey

Dr. Ghoztz Ugh... Funnily enough, yes.

Naransolongo Boldbayer No need to be a jerk, I just don’t see why you would put Yahtzee’s name before the title. How is the game “his”?

@@CyberLink70 when something is your prey, it means you're hunting it. Since yahtzee is normal harsh with games, it's kinda like he's hunting it. The prey of an eagle is a mouse. The prey of a Yahtzee is videogames.

Henders' Game

George Cr Don't touch his lawn gnomes...

Yathzee's book of course!

I listened to Yathzee reading it

And the Zoob at the beginning as well

You're going to watch them again anyway, in a marathon you'll do for nostalgia.

*punctuation

To be fair, theres no animation and you could probably make this same thing in Powerpoint. Zero Production might be kind of on point.

That's what happens when you can't quite spell the word right and predictive text kicks in

Nice try, Yatzhee.

Scrooge McFukBoi ahahah that caught me off guard so bad!

boo

Ditto

A "meh" is usually "good" coming from Yahtzee.

Its an amazing game

I've got an unproven theory that Prey 2017 is actually the remains of Half-life 3. I remember playing it in early 2018 and getting a lot of Half-life vibes, then not but a few months ago(around Half-life Alex) it was announced that Arkane had actually been working on Half-life 3 before it got shitcanned one of the many times it got shitcanned.

Prey 2017 has nothing to do with prey 2006

Prey that he doesn't see this comment

I prey you come up with a better pun next time Hostile, something that GLOOs me to my seat. hahah, _GLOO..._

I find your wording to be very ARKANE-ic in nature.

Hostile ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8X_Ot0k4XJc.html

There was a point where tic tacs were literally my favorite food.

tf are they used for now?

JuFro743 this is my exact question

Raven's Realm ...obscure Ricky Gervais show reference? :)

Last time I was this early people didn't make this shitty joke

Its exactly that, plus prop hunt

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA HA

Baxcel Also Prey '17 wasn't even supposed to be called Prey at all. A year into development Bethesda just slaps Prey onto Arkane's product and because Arkane is Bethesda's bitch, they just took it.