Are there other games like this?? Preferrably with a more "real" feeling ending? I've played SOMA and that was quite the trip but I don't like running and hiding without a combat system. Awesome video by the way!!!

1:07 best voice crack

Is this a reupload or is this new, years after the fact?

Im so happy I added this to watch later, part 4 made me wide eyed

I'd like to think that Alex did teach love to a typhon but never realized that hate is another expression of love spurned. And so in teaching love he unintentionally taught them to hate us for lying to them

What I am surprised about is how everyone seems to ignore the reality of the situation on Talos 1 and how it should inform your actions. People talk about destroying the Typhon to save humanity or keeping them alive for further exploitation but with a risk to Humanity. But none seem to consider that keeping the Typhon alive is the ONLY way to save humanity. A Typhon was send to earth once. And Earth got literally astronomically lucky, as it found the space capsule instead of earth. Destroying the Typhon means that a second Typhon being send can land on Earth and destroy everything and everyone. Keeping the Typhon alive means you can do research on what they are, how to track and find them, how to kill them, possibly even how to unweave them from people they've taken over. Imagine if Earth had automatic Psychoscopes that scan the heavens and warn if a new Typhon arrives? Or maybe they develop non-Typhon psychic effects with enough research in how they function? We know they can remove the Neuromods and seemingly the Typhon matter that accompanies it so that should open the window of removing Typhon infections from people with enough research. Maybe they can make an artificial Coral and tell the Typhon to fuck off or even lure them like you can with the Nightmare. Maybe they can create a Typhon weapon with exotic matter that uses a Psychic scream to kill off any Typhon, or they can weaponize the lobotomization they use. Saving the station is the only method of saving humanity. There's half a dozen ways more research can make humanity resilient against a potential new Typhon being send and landing on earth.

i only had one problem with this game, and that was it honestly felt way too short. like there was parts of the story im missing. love the game but i just wish it was longer

I feel like I posted a comment either on this video or a video similar to this...

Interesting 🤔

It is a good story for sure. Great essay!

5:54 small subtitles mistake: I (think) you say "we're going to focus on the former part" but the captions say "we're going to focus on the latter part"

This is also my favorite game of all time 😆 my husband likes to point out that Dishonored is better (also faves of mine), but there is just something about Prey that is quite unique. 🤔 I don't even know how to put it into words. (Also, banging soundtrack by none other than Mick Mo***effing Gordon!)

Gosh, why is that music so loud and out of context? We talk about Eldritch Horrors and get super loud generic happy go lucky music.

correction: we do know how earth fell. If you played all the way through moonshot

I seriously want sureAI to make their own standalone Enderal I'D PAY 70$ FOR THAT if they did a kickstarter I'd actually donate to it Enderal was amazing period!

music too loud over your voice

I find it interesting that Alex wanted 'them' to understand human feelin amd nature, and it worked 100%, however, depending they could use it like you said another hunting mechanism. Do Alex (depending on the ending), he made a morr terrorfiying monster.

It's a cool twist to experience. You play the game and the whole time you're thinking that you're the prey only for it to reveal you were the predator all along right at the end. A truly terrifying Eldritch Horror is one that knows how to play the long game. That's the ultimate predator for sentient life.

Cool video but now the mind games song is stuck in my head!!!

I got every ending

When you take Alex’s hand he says “we are gonna shake things up. Like old times” which makes me question whether he ever cared about giving the typhon empathy for a new future or instead just wanted to get his brother back.

this might have been mentioned somewhere with 1,700 comments, but there is an interesting terror involved no matter what option you pick at the end. i think of the idea of the Turing test, and how so many people seem so confident that a machine will never be able to think or experience emotion like humans can. It's interesting to think, if a computer can mimic the behaviors of what we'd expect from someone perfectly sapient and emotionally expressive, is it really experiencing those feelings? if an experimental typhon is expressing all the behaviors of someone who can experience empathy, is it really experiencing empathy? or, like the machine whose behavior is based on algorithms and inputs, is it just behaving in a way that appears empathetic? you can think you know the answer, but you really can't know for sure, and that angle is what i really love. it's a scary thought. imagine that shaking hands with alex could be even more insidious, and cunningly evil than the kill them all ending.

What a good game. Wish they made another one.

Just seeing the thumbnail and title made me buy the game

Interesting. Musics a tad loud and distracting though

The simulation was revealed to me fairly early because I wanted to see what would happen if you escaped in Alex's escape pod. I knew it couldn't be that easy so I got the keycard and gloo'd my way up. I'm surprised they even included that ending, but I suspect it was intentional purely to reward the players curiosity in following the obviously wrong path with early exposition

I love how the player is in fact the Typhoon. We dont empathize with digits in our computer, but by capturing us and forcing us into a simulation of their world, they try to make us understand and care for them. The plot is about trying to make a player care for virtual agents by watching us play their game.

the kill them all ending was a bit satisfying to see after all Alex TRAPPED ME IN DEEP STORAGE WITH A DAMN NIGHTMARE

Prey is truly the best game of all time. The mimic typhoon mimicking as objects and you consistently on edge scanning every item if they're mimic is truly an amazing experience. Not to mention the amazing application of GLOO cannon.

I tried playing this game a few years back after hearing so much praise for it (and ima be honest, back then I wasn't as open minded as I am nowadays) and played through the first 5 or so minutes and was bored. A mistake. Yesterday I randomly stumbled across a 4 hour lore video on Dead Space by Lady of Lore. Finished that. Saw Prey and was like "eh, why not? Something to listen to in the background while I play something." Yeah, I'll say it, this game is underrated and I haven't played it. Just listened to a few videos about it. It's so competently written and makes you think and ask yourself really interesting questions.

But it's soooo boring.

It's honestly really funny that the Typhon hybrid develops empathy and the game gives it the choice to immediately kill it's captor because it learned, in detail, how much of a selfish, untrustworthy, ill-equipped and manipulative person he is. It might not be planning to finish off humanity, hell it might not even be planning to act in ANYONE'S interests, but it acts off the information it has, and that points to the hybrid having a very VERY low opinion of Alex. And it's notable that the Hybrid DOES take Alex's hand in both endings, it SEES. It has empathy now, it just cannot see empathy in Alex. So it eliminated the threat, perhaps the biggest threat to humanity.

I didn’t realize that people thought the hybrid killed out of anger of being tricked or anything, that’s silly. It makes far more sense to assume that we, even as people outside of the scope of the game, do not understand what the typhon was thinking. Even in the case that the typhon does not know it’s a simulation in advance, realizing it is at the end would probably trigger its typhon instincts. Whatever logic or thought they operate off of is likely a lot stronger than just having a concept of the pain they are causing.

Kill them all ending is the stupidest & laziest ending...you have more in common with the typhons than human if you think is the best ending.

Thanks, Alex. You gave a starfish depression.

Deluxe edition is ten buck right now, I'm going to stop the video at the warning and play it blind. Ty for speaking passionately about a game, it let's me know it's worth spending my time trying out.

... and we play Prey in this simulation we call reality :)

After I gloo gunned my way to the escape pod like 20% into the game & got that ending I decided I would kill them all knowing they were doing something weird

Amazing essay, as usual! Thank you, Newt!

A great game with a great atmosphere.

Well if you like that then you should try the total conversion mod they did with Oblivion

A great game! I always pitch it to people by saying it's literally Skyrim done right. The prettiness of the environment, with some actual competent worldbuilding and superior mechanics

No cap, literally played this 2 years ago and till this day I still think wtf is going on and just think about the game and its complex story/lore. Never seen a better written game, just insane

I killed them all because I wanted to. Its usually always the ending I take in games. But i never always kill them in the game itself. I arbitrarily decide from time to time whether to kill or not. Like in bioshock, I never always harvested the little girls, but I harvested the first one, and many more, but not all.

I played this game “wrong.” I used the glue gun to get to the escape pod and ran away, getting a bad ending. Haven’t touched the game since. Maybe I’ll try it again sometime, but I find my playthrough funny enough to me. I’m sure I missed 99% of what makes the game awesome, and that in itself is meaningful to me. So many people try to 100% everything, I just wanna take a path and live it. That’s how we have to live our lives.

I think of the kill them all ending as an example of the parable of the frog and the scorpion. The Typhon kill because its in their nature, there need not be any other justification. Expecting anything else from them is just putting our own mask over their true nature and pretending they have changed.

Ohhh good one!

The precious! The little sunshine! The walking meme! How could I not save him? And obligatory mention that Marvin Kopp did a fantastic job voicing him in the German version. He put a sample on his youtube channel, even if you don't understand German, do yourself a favour and check it out! Gabriel Wolf is good, but Marvin Kopp is perfect.

I didn’t help him in the end. Felt wrong to

Hey Newt, I finally listened to Dreams of the Dying after your last video, do you have any other recommendations?