Why Prey 2017 Deserved More Attention 

I agree, but man I wish there was a way for faster travel

Why are you saying “no skyboxes” as if it’s a bad thing when games have cool skyboxes?

@@OhYeah_ did I say that? Don’t remember saying that. Prey doesn’t rely on grand sweeping vistas or overly busy backgrounds. The exterior of Talos I is relatively stark compared to other 2017 game settings. You get the moon rotating in the background, otherwise everything is a real asset you can interact with.

@@Andidrew4ty2 ah sorry I may have misinterpreted what you said

Yeah the exploration is unrivaled imo

Thanks for your hard work!!! The level design is masterful! I thought I heard an operator dispenser release Dahls operators. I had no idea you could jam it with the gloo gun!

That's so cool I never would have thought to even do that!

There is fantastic work, stellar work and Prey. When during my 1st spacewalk figured I could check the whole exterior and use different bays it blew my mind. The level design is probably the closest to perfection we ever got. In fact it was so good that the story took a backseat during my playthrough because I had to explore. I felt the NEED to explore. I got it on Steam on a whim because it was on discount. I could never imagine it'd be one of the greatest games ever. I really do hope we get to see a sequel or something someday. Keep being awesome!

Oh, whut? I was always trying to place furniture in front of them - to various degrees of success.

Well done man, you went above and beyond

That’s actually amazing, never even thought of doing something like that (just to mess around with the sim). Both surprised and not surprised that that “works”.

I brought the lamp the engineer at the start had to the landing place and when I got out it was still there. Really fun how funny stuff like this can foreshadow a twist.

It works with the elevrator just before the helicopter ride too!

Also, there's a note or something in the tutorial showing that you passed those tests beforehand and this was the ONE test you failed, which is why the researchers were so confused. Also confirms pretty damn early on a lot about the game. The designers weren't afraid to spoil major parts of the game if you looked and thought hard enough. Fr my favorite opening of any game I've played

Thats so cool. You think its a glitch but its a plot clue. I imagine they have to think ahead of that and code it into the game. Absolutely wild.

There's so many hints like that I noticed a lot on my second playthrough like how the convict that you can kill if you open the door and talk to him he warns you about the crazy chef

Never thought of that. Cheers

No spoiler alert bruh

Bro please put a spoiler warning I didn’t know this 😭

@@tonyz8512 wdym? The game is just a massive morality game, there’s nothing said about any endings

Yeah, that makes the researchers' reactions a lot funnier.

"Why is this dumbass hiding behind the chair"

thought the blue button room was supposed to be telekinesis, pushing the button across the room in the most intuitive possible way. If I recall correctly, there was a note or email somewhere saying it was a test for 'spooky action.'

There is an in-game memo where Alex remarks how cool it was to see morgan lifting *all the boxes at once* with levitation, and how after that his personality started to shift.

Also you can see the big SIMULATION Lab sign during the test partly, lol

@Rubi Also a fun game, I wouldn't call it top tier but its like Doom 3 but in a flesh planet.

Same. Its really frustrating

Agreed.

I'd imagine that being sandwiched between two back-to-back Dishonored releases didn't help Prey maintain relevancy. Especially because those Dishonored games were fairly controversial.

@@tTaseric The only controversy I remember was the VOID Engine debacle with Dishonored 2, apart from that it was really chill.

My suspicions were raised as I entered the elevator, only two buttons?

@@Nemesis-222 to be fair, since that was included in the sim, that must actually have been how Morgan's elevator works, which implies that the elevators have a computer system that knows who you are and where you ought to be going, with the ability to only present those options to you and is so mundane as to be in both his apartment elevator and the Transtar elevator.

Yeah, I had a feeling something was going on from the first moment. The apartments seemed too perfect. It's like waking up in Heavy Rain without the messy parts of the apartement.

I don't think so... I kinda understand why folks like this game, but the premise fail to me... I never felt any dread, any horror with this game, in fact i just the only memorable parts to me is the very beginning and the ending. And thats it, The whole science fiction plot is fine, but beyond that the game simply become uninteresting to me. Way too repetitive, way to boring in my opinion. After that i played Alien: Isolation, and damn... That was a completely different experience, and far more terrifying too...

@@efxnews4776 that’s a fair point, it’s not for everyone that’s for sure. It’s a slow burn that leads up to that twist ending that did it for me. I’ll even admit at certain points it felt like a drag, but I still loved it. Same with isolation, now that’s a true horror experience. This was more just kind of like hey we’re in space there’s aliens go nuts

@@efxnews4776 have you playing Mario Bros New on the DS?

I penalty love this game top 5 for me

Just played it a few months ago for the first time, it's an awesome game with not much hand holding. Didn't Todd Howard call Prey a 'tech demo' in some interview? Makes you wonder, now Starfield is on the horizon.

yeah but they got that idea from Dishonored 2 from the clock work mansion. I was though intrigue for there first time working with 0 gravity in Space and it didn't disappoint.

@@javierlandaverde4108 there is a LOT of similarities between prey and dishonored 2. Traveling through vents and up in the ceilings, the moving walls, the way the characters look, secret stash spots and hidden bodies, having to do little tasks like turning on the power or fixing the oxygen etc in order to complete bigger tasks, doing favors for NPCs, sneaking around enemies to plan how to take them down, the strategy and look of it all is extremely similar to dishonored and I happen to love that. Dishonored 2 is my favorite game ever so I was very pleased with how Prey turned out. I got the Arkane/Bethesda collection for my birthday a few years ago and didn’t even play Prey until now. I’m not really into horror games and that’s the vibe that I got from it when I first turned it on so I immediately stopped playing not realizing that it’s so much more than that. It’s definitely underrated and under appreciated for sure.

@@javierlandaverde4108 "they got that idea from..." incorrect. They are the same devs, they used their own idea 2 times in 2 different games.

Imagine being a fan of Prey (2017) and not knowing the same people made the dishonored series lol.... there's a reason they share similarities

​@@javierlandaverde4108maybe it's because both games are from the same studio?

Wait, what? You were the quest designer?? Aren't you working on the new BioShock at the moment?? Why is this comment getting ignored lol

@@OurFantasyLife Ha, I am indeed!

@@shawnelliott7367 Good luck and well wishes/thanks from this random internet person😅

I paused at this part of the video immediately checked comments to see if someone mentioned this. A game dev no less xD I caught onto that possible moral quandary. It's a really well designed situation. On the one hand, the guy could actually be a horrible person, on the other the company could have just as easily made that stuff up. On the other other hand it brings up another moral quandary that the very scientists were forced with "are you okay with killing a person? Being the judge and exicutioner? " And then all that is weighed against personal interest and survival. "Do I want his help... Can I trust his help? Do I just kill him to make myself more powerful so I can save everyone else? Do the ends justify the means? Heck, you can just choose to ignore him, but is that just dooming him to die anyhow? Is that our fault? Should we feel responsible? It's honestly one of the more compelling and organic moral dilemmas I've ever had in a videogame. The fact that it's made evident his rap sheet could be false and the company likely conflated crimes in order to make it easier to experiment and kill the prisoners, is such a great design choice. Had we a way to definitively know what Igram did or didn't do, it would color our decision and ultimately the entire complexity of the moral delima is lost and reduced to just "am I okay with killing a bad person or not"

It was a lie from the beginning, a simulation things could be edited to have a better outcome Also you, the mimic, understad perfect english just because you have some human dna inside

And the DLC Mooncrash a gem within a gem. Crazy awesome game.

Soundtrack was actual trash, from someone who loved the game

@@pisssommelier768 nobody agrees with you

@@markusmitchell8585 yea

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Dude Prey made me feel like such a giga genius sometimes lmao. Like when you had to get into the morgue for one reason or another I remembered from earlier from the very first phantom those windows were breakable; I just broke it and fired a bolt at the button and boom! Instant dopamine that I didn’t have to wait for an operator or keycard!

Late, but the way I got in was that I carried a small piece of debris to the window, then mimicked the debris and rolled past the window

I remember I got that dialogue from him in one of my many play throughs of this game... no matter how many times you play this game there's always something new to discover. I love little details like that.

@@raccoon8743 wait, you could've used an operator?! I use the rubber bolt method all the time.

​@@raccoon8743I did the same thing but instead I turned into a prop and rolled through the broken window, it was awesome figuring that out lmao

One of those rare games where they really allow your own intelligence to dictate your ownership of the environment. I’ve played through at least 3 times now, just finished a play through last month. Coming back to this game understanding the rules and possibilities is empowering like nothing else. ANY situation can be overcome with lateral thinking.

@@Andidrew4ty2 100%, Re-playability is really where these games shine.

@@henseltbrumbleburg3752 the poor Nightmare when it sees me now 😂 combat focus > psychoshock > kinetic blast > static discharge > q beam > shotgun and the poor thing is GONE in a matter of seconds

@@Andidrew4ty2 How the mighty have fallen XD

That was literally the only use I found for the nerf gun lol, shooting through windows to get into rooms.

Gonna need to mess around with neuromods for that. But idk man... did you see how long those syringes are on the injector?! lmao

Take a neuromod when you play the game, finish it, make a note saying to use new game+, then uninstall

oh, I kinda did that :))). I played it when it came out and then played it again this year. 5 years distance seems to do the tricks :)))

@@Puppy_Puppington haha I had the same thought

Just like a great song/band.

I used the skill to move heavy stuff, but I only invested in the first level of it because you can move the level 2 heavier objects by wedging a level 1 heavy object against it.

I've been playing it this week, and thinking about how (in game) they discuss whether or not Typhon are evil or can feel empathy. Some of the phantoms are walking around saying things that other characters have said in transcribe logs (it's easier to pick up with subtitles on, like "I used to wish we weren't alone in the universe" always stuck out to me). Then you get to the crew quarters section where there is a telepath mind controlling people and making them run at you, so that their heads explode, while they profusely apologise "I'm not doing this! It's not me!".

Daniel Sho was my fav character in Prey. Def helped that she was voiced by Katara herself.

I thought that song was corny as hell during the combat scene but when it came on during the credits I somehow loved it 😂😂😂

I K N E W HER VOICE SOUNDED FAMILIAR!!

Same here!

You can escape via the Fish tank ?

It has a sequel called mooncrash 💖

@@crystalrain3334 its a dlc kid

Even if this gets a sequel , it's now in the hands of Mickeysoft....what would we expect ?

​@@crystalrain3334 and it's not even a sequel, it's implied to be going on at the same time as the base game I think. I could be wrong on that however.

I have 0 idea what can they can add to sequel or expand the story and who would even care about a sequel to game Noone cared about?

I fully agree. I remember the backlash this game got for its name prior to release. Fans of Prey 2006 were very unhappy at what Bethesda did to Human Head Studios, and somehow thought Arkane was also implicated. Bethesda did not help by initially implying that Prey 2017 was somehow a spiritual sequel to the original, and refusing to outright say that it had NOTHING to do with that game. As a result, non-fans of Prey 2006 didn’t want to play what they thought was a sequel to a game they didn’t care about, and fans of Prey 2006 actively avoided it out of either dislike of Bethesda’s shenanigans or because they felt it would be a poor sequel to their beloved classic game.

@@JohnSmith-ef2rn More evidence in the incompetence that is bethesda

​@@brianboulter1180Nahh you trippin, NeuroShock goes harddd plus the game is already a homage to BioShock in many aspects

@@brianboulter1180 oops I meant system shock but bio shock was a partial inspiration as well

​@@ProGamer-lk9qwThe director doesn't like Neuroshock, but Typhon is his choice.

Well you’re on to something - while you play as Director Yu, you have communication with Alex and he tells you he’s putting Talos into lockdown - which of course you see in the main game.

"I'm told I'm listed as an HR expense in the company books. It's true. I do solve people problems." He absolutely does not feel remorse for his actions and I imagine the neuromod protocol is for the sake of corporate secrecy

You can still support it by buying it for yourself and as gifts ;)

Hey Maxx, there is now a sequel

@@barnabybot Really? Omg, I gotta look that up, I was just replaying Prey too lol

There is nothing underrated about it, it's a mediocre game

@@roodinverse so said the lord of games. Decision made. All else are wrong.

Yeah shame on them doing that to human head, I never thought making videogames could be so.. political

also bethesda judicially forced the studio behind "prey for the gods" to change their title because guess fucking what?it had fucking "prey" in it

d2 still has technical issues, but it's a phenomenal game. death of the outsider is imho even better.

I was still kid when I played d1 but in my memory it wasn't very popular either, atleast not as popular as some of the otger games, assassin's cod and so on

Go woke go broke.

Everyone I know has been saying deathloop is a pretty good game though, it sure looks quite good, haven't really seen any concrete reason for it to be called bad

@@TheCreepyArchives deathloop was straight up made by a different studio (arkane lyon), same one that made dishonored 2

Deathloops basically mooncrash dumbed down.. It actually makes ABSOLUTE sense, also Deathloop was made by Arkane Lyon who are good but it's the AUSTIN team that made D1, Prey, and now Redfall.. They're the best and honestly the A team of Arkane..

Yeah well there is that too

So true.

I play it like ded spac

@@racerwilson152 Dead Space is really easy though...

I had the same experience, minus the whole "came back and appreciated it" part. I just couldn't get into the game at all, especially at the beginning when it doesn't feel like you actually have any options, and it really soured me on the game as a whole.

I had hacking fully upgraded. EMP's and the goo gun to knock them down... Walk up and hack. They work for you now!

The end is just plain very easy.

That's so cool you can turn into them

Unfortunately, there is truth to your words. I’m not saying you have to be a genius to appreciate prey, but an appreciation of what Prey is does require a degree of intellectual curiosity that either some do not have, or do not want to use when playing games. I don’t want to accuse everyone who didn’t like Prey of being stupid, but I do think that your average 15 year old, mountain-dew guzzling, COD-addicted teenage boy with the gamer tag “xXpu55yslayahXx69” would fail to appreciate this game.

You’re talking about half life Alyx, right? I agree with you. Honestly one of the pioneering games in the VR genre in terms of sheer game quality and storytelling.

Yeah, Prey is at its best when you feel super resource starved, makes it really stressful haha. Especially when the nightmare starts hunting you and you are totally not prepared for it! (why yes, I did pick up tons of Typhon powers haha)

I'm A resource whore so I had a bunch of ammo at the end too

Literally me.

So, did You?

Well she isn't real so I guess they didn't bother

Those all sound like nitpicks. Prey is absolutely great, it doesn't just merely come close to greatness.

@@wind2536 Yeah i should have said "Those things would have made Prey great for me" rather than claiming it as a whole, they are nitpicks but they did kinda ruin my experience

a KASMA spy shuttle picked her up before she ran out of oxygen (and some Typhon material) and escaped to the secret research base on Mars, where things went great, I hear.