MIMICS (2017) PREY Explored

Prey is a first-person shooter survival horror video game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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[@UNLebanon]

Both solid, liquid, and gas that could shape shift at will. Twice took over an entire space station. Can be defeated by hitting it with a wrench.

[@mkruse2000]

Best weapon against aliens: a wrench or a crowbar. Just sayin :D

[@darc22005]

Its body is made up of a ferrofluid like substance that comes from a core. Bap the core enough it dies.

[@jon3854]

General Grey thank you

[@quackquackquack8913]

@bryan diaz varela no shit

[@arnowisp6244]

"Can be defeated by hitting it with a wrench" only the small ones...the bigger ones though, a wrench won't be enough.

[@EsplodingBomb]

What's super cool is in the DLC Mooncrash you find a lab where a mimic spontaneously tore open a hole to a pocket dimension... Full of shoes of course 🤣 But yeah, the mimics seem to be capable to tearing holes in the universe when they're trapped somewhere they can't escape, whether conscious or random. As we also see in game multiple mimics can gang up and pounce on another mimic, seeming to inject it with something from each of the mimics. The victim then starts confusing and floating, until it transforms into the Weaver, the large floating Typhon that create the Coral, which in turn seems to reach a critical mass with enough created to attract the alpha Typhon we face at the end of the game. Really cool to see the whole life cycle of the Typhon showed of if you pay attention.

[@loodlebop]

Cool video. Although I love the creatures they seemed somewhat lazy as an idea because they could pretty much do what they wanted, they're huge or tiny, solid or not, invisibly still or agile and strong, conjure electric or fire, control minds and change state. Awesome yet op and you wouldn't realistically stand a chance against these things in reality.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

loodlebop I kinda felt the story was lazy. There were so many logical flaws and plot holes. Can't allow any typhon material on earth? Did we forget what neuromods are made of? Sure, only the rich can afford them...but so what? Just makes it more dangerous. Now the people who actually make decisions are infected and lording over the non-infected with their alien powers. If you stop at any point to think about the plot it falls to pieces. It relies on you letting the action and desire to know more suspend your disbelief enough to not question any of it.

[@chrissbim3356]

Jacob Freeman Theres plenty of materials which when unprocessed are harmful to humans yet when processed are harmless so your point makes no sense just because something is made from something doesn't mean it has the same properties. Lore wise the only people who got alien neuromods were experimentation subjects not a single bad thing happened because of regular neuromods it seems your ranting about stuff that has no bearing on anything that actually happened in the game.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

christopher waldron It is a reactive substance of unknown properties. They focused on its ability to grant new abilities and not on what long term impact it had on the host body. But you are still injecting the biological matter of a "dead" alien creature into your brain. Those cells are now in the person and before that in the neuromod. If keeping those cells from reaching Earth was the goal of the game then it was goal that was a failure before it began. There is literally no reason to believe the typhon material is safe no matter the condition it is in. The scientists on Talos 1 mostly did not strike me as ethical but as achievement orientated. Producing something was more important to them then even human life. So why assume the typhon matter is safe even in the neuromod?

[@trebot9292266]

Neuromod risk was minimal compared to Typhon threat. any Typhon on earth would be the end of life on it and according to what we saw, this is a legit threat. considering the game was a sim it means they were not considering the long term effects of neuromods when the major risk to the earth was already known to be the typhon. The Typhon could not only overpower humans, they kind of did overpower the human race when they took the earth.

[@zerostars2877]

loodlebop I liked your comment but the mimics wasn’t invincible and you have the help of new mods

[@SpaceCase132]

How about covering the Neuromods?

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Sure will add it to the list now :)

[@SpaceCase132]

Thanks.

[@viveka2994]

Daft take did it

[@alexischavez3238]

Yeah but I'm sure he wants filmcomicsexplained version of it like me

[@AnimeShinigami13]

The scientist at the beginning sounded familiar, and then it hit me, that's Dima from far harbor!

[@tacobelllord5697]

There was something, a graph of some type that showed that the apex would fling mimics into space and once enough coral was created it’d summon the apex which would consume the object near the coral and fling countless mimics into space to redo the cycle

[@H2Mass]

"Bugs?! I hate bugs!"

[@martinjonasson5026]

"Dimension" does NAWT mean "parallel world". Up/down is a dimension. Left/right is a dimension. Depth is a dimension. "Parallel world" is what people mean when they say "interdimensional", or by radically misunderstanding how the multiverse works. A parallel world is created each time a wave function is collapsed (à la Shrödinger). There is an unlimited number of parallel worlds that are similar to ours but differ in the outcome of one or several previous collapsed wave functions creating a sort of alternative history.

[@teamplay4victory176]

looked like my inkt escaped my pen. awsome video btw just what i needed

[@lyrica1996]

YYYYYEEESSSSSS!! I love prey and seeing a video on the Typhon from you makes me so bloody happy!

[@theexiledjester8343]

Your videos are awesome mate! I always love getting the notification that you have uploaded again. Keep up the amazing work

[@nazgulsentient146]

My favorite is when they mimic med kits or a gun on the ground

[@Left4Sharkbait]

Ah yes, Prey, one of my favorite games of all time, I make references all the time, sadly none of my friends or family get them as they haven't played the game... And I really enjoy the story, weapons, enemies, and a few quotes. (Mostly from Walther Dahl)

[@Alice_Haukea]

Simply because its a good game and a very interesting species, but you should do a video or series of videos to talk about all the Typhon forms in the game. And perhaps even the Moon Shark shown in the Prey DLC.

[@Tucher97]

i think the typhons as a whole are interesting in a horror concept, the phantoms i think they live up to their name in design as there isnt anything you can dicern about them, they are always in a vivid rough shape, which makes htem ghostly in appearance all the while the other aliens are in shapes that are hard to comprehend

[@Lord-Darkness]

I was like wtf was that jumping outa that mans Coffee i swear to god i jumped!

[@Psy1-1]

Am I the only one who thought they were hilariously cute after seeing them morph into an inanimate object right in FRONT of you? Not just once but MULTIPLE times?

[@KevinRAAMAAAGE]

I got excited at first, I saw mimic and was like, dark souls

[@jessegirard8011]

One of the most deadly coffee cups

[@Thebossstage1]

Interesting video

[@wadewillson7021]

can you make a video of "Belko experiment" and what are their goals?

[@keskinbey2873]

Prey was one of the best games in 2017. Unfortunately couple of reviews were bad and people didn't even give it a chance overall. If you didn't experience it, you should at least give it a try.

[@elitheadmin3672]

I think the nightmare was the first typhon because think about it its not a mimic that they stung it just appeared. And my Origins theory is that the typhon are a skin species that evolved from another it works with the nightmare thoery.

[@MxMstr71]

Where did the animated movie sequences come from? If there is one, I'd love to see it!

[@jbonkerz]

Any plans to do videos on the world/creatures of Godzilla from the new Netflix movies?

[@meks8466]

How about an episode featuring the Infestation from Warframe? Would really like to see your take on that.

[@succ4171]

Meks nice someone who also wants to do warframe

[@tanksalot5671]

@@succ4171 indeed

[@paololololol]

Yo man love these videos

[@altosinclair9762]

Could you do a history or back story on the Big Daddys in BioShock

[@davidfalloutbandit]

looks down and see an empty cup next to a piping hot full cup of coffee* *grabs empty cup* WhErEs My CoFfEe?

[@ganon01ryanoutsen92]

They look like Taken from Destiny. That game can be same as Dead Space. Mimics could be same Warframe.

[@thomasnolastname8734]

Hey Niyat, I was wondering if you could cover the Taken from the Destiny games? Thank you

[@christophervazquez7269]

Did you ever make videos for the other larger mimics?

[@杜令日光]

A containment breach leading to the lost of space site

[@jackcopper7131]

There was that one movie based on the typhoon that was found on the moon. I think it was called appolo 11?

[@highboosted894]

It's basically venom but copies solids, liquids and, gases

[@MysteryTookie23]

Thought it was about the bugs from Mimic until I read the last part

[@salted6422]

I decided to give this game another shot and *MY GOD* It's so damn good!

[@fbteatime6010]

I'm still disappointed that they scrapped the original idea for prey 2 an idea and reality as good as cyberpunk

[@walterdenny8143]

How about the creatures and entities in the Metro games. Dark ones, and the like.

[@lisannawilfhelm5819]

0:37 .... That woman didn't do anything at all!

[@zli2799]

Can someone tell me that that video was at 1:19 in the video? I really want to watch it, as I played Prey, but I haven't seen that video.

[@somerandomguy7235]

This was a great video

[@filmcomicsexplained]

thanks benito!

[@blacklanner5795]

Another cool looking game I wish I had time to play.

[@DrHardlyKummsz]

Thought this was about the mimics from the movie mimic lol

[@hollowknightaddict8304]

Idea: check out dark souls sometime. Even if it isn’t even video material, you might like it for one of several reasons

[@ThunderCustodes]

Can you please talk more about the typhon please?

[@catattack885]

video ends at 7:39

[@langstonlu1403]

You think people would learn after 3 breachs.

[@voughklry8362]

It felt like BATIM mixed with dead space

[@mrstealyogirlwitextrasauce6167]

But seriously I think they come from a distant planet

[@navneethgopal1211]

What about the things in Edge of Tomorrow

[@SweetJuliaBrown]

Who would win A 4 legged thing which can over powered humans and turn into objects and are basically indestructible Or 1 Wrenchy boi

[@blzahz7633]

I love mimics, I love the dynamic they bring to the game - I just wish they were a bit more patient and smarter with their ambushing.

[@ryanstewart5727]

No enemy creature in any game has given me so much anxiety.

[@lwdrd]

Dude if they were smarter I wouldn't play this game at all, they're already fucking terrifying as it is even though they're pretty weak they still put you on edge

[@feitopuns]

it gave me so much pain till I get the scope

[@saltedcaramel5976]

I played this game 3 times, on different levels, and mimics still terrified me more than the Nightmare or any other enemies…

[@MARKHENSTROM]

You forgot the most important thing: they're cute.

[@tacorover1154]

Breare of the evil pudding that can change into a COFFEE MUG

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

Mimics mimicking neuromods

[@coleruiz1488]

tom skeetin REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@thomasnolastname8734]

Just hit everything you see and you should be fine- the only advice my friend gave me for handling the little buggers

[@justaverage9239]

Literally prey is a sleeper hit, my game of year 2017

[@vaineratom7739]

Brilliant game that takes the whole it was a dream concept to the entire next level. BTW have you played mooncrash from what I hear its pretty good.

[@justaverage9239]

Vaineratom yeh bro i have and its worth the money dozens of hours gone playing it

[@clayxros576]

" Hey rise and shine. It was a dream but it was a test so we know if we can trust you or not...cause the worst scenario is the reality." "You know when you said it was a dream I was hoping we actually won or I imagined it all. Put me back to sleep."

[@robbobbrah8953]

Yeah, grossly under-rated.

[@plainOldFool]

The environment was beyond gorgeous, especially the Art Deco architecture.

[@rebelfleetcommander5138]

Who got paranoid to everything after seeing the mimic.

[@thomasnolastname8734]

I spent half the game crouched after seeing that thing 😂😂

[@jsmtjabk]

Not me

[@kayruwijaya3901]

Not me

[@HenriqueLSilva]

If you didn't hit at least once any and every object that seemed even remotely suspicious, you played it wrong (glitching objects in particular would have me flailing like crazy)

[@ayushanuroop9203]

I was thinking what will happen if something like this come in 2020

[@gojiramusprimus9088]

My Theory Is That The Mimics From Prey Were A Subspecies Of The Mimics From Edge Of Tomorrow

[@fulcrum2951]

Infiltrator variant

[@gojiramusprimus9088]

@Dan Markuz Tago could be true

[@pauldee7504]

@@theonlychickensama8353 All You Need is Kill's ver of Mimics are deadly, too. They look different in appearance and it will shoot you with javelin round accurately, you can't out run their attacks

[@lauchsuppedeluxelauchsuppe1803]

No, they just played too much prophunt

[@lauchsuppedeluxelauchsuppe1803]

@bryan diaz varela make me

[@theswedishdude1]

what i love about the mimics is how they are really well balanced for the game, in the beginning you were terrified of them, you saw a mimic run into a room and you were scared to follow and suspicious of every item yet later in the game once you got the hang of things and have upgraded yourself a bit you are able to take on several of them no problem, it really makes the progress feel real

[@saltedcaramel5976]

i noticed that once i upgraded myself well enough, mimics just started hide and run away from me, I remember one in Hard Labs didn’t even slap me once, all he did was hide from one object into another, which was cute and funny :D

[@kyerkneifel1413]

From what I remember about the logs, the Weaver was made by a mimic being stabbed by other mimics to increase its mass and start a reaction. It does seem the mimic is the original starter form and everything else is created to further it’s spread

[@LLEntertainmentChannel]

This actually reminds me, I would love to see you cover the Judas Breed from the Mimic Trilogy

[@filmcomicsexplained]

yes thats on the list :)

[@brandenapexo604]

The most underrated movie monster ever

[@catsareamazing3616]

I loved those movies

[@matthewmckenna248]

Could you cover the Hydra division from Captain America: The First Avenger?

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Sure! will add it to the list now :)

[@maliciousgaming8221]

FilmComicsExplained can you do mutants from marvel?

[@johnivanoplimo5172]

Hail Hydra! /o/

[@MattDoesLife539]

Social Justice Warrior What;s the point of your comment?

[@pasindupereraSL]

or the league of shadows from the dark knight trilogy?

[@trod146]

Could you cover Zerglings from StarCraft(1 and BroodWar and 2) please?

[@filmcomicsexplained]

sure! adding them to the list now :)

[@augapfel6993]

For the swarm

[@rushabhbhakta7181]

FilmComicsExplained you could do so many StarCraft universe videos......which you should. :)

[@MDHDH-iy7nm]

the zerg in general

[@frankieb9444]

Great idea, other than the gameplay and the basics of each faction, I have a feeling that many (like myself) don't know the lore of the franchise.

[@AmerikanSkull]

Could you talk about the FEV from Fallout?

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Yep its on the list!

[@tactic34wot52]

@Noly Rson Okay??? No need to say Its full name when the dude done said FEV

[@sirwilhelmh.y9749]

Oh, heck yeah. You + Prey, it's a good day Edit; You'll never look at a cup the same way again.

[@damianstarks3338]

Once you produce another great analysis plus the mimics appearance reminds me of the venom symbiote.

[@crnlonewolf3195]

Awesome video man hey I was wondering could you tell the story of prey

[@mjr.ashhole7436]

they're hard to hit.... when you're playing with a controller.

[@vanessap8477]

Mjr. JakeKAF heck yeah. I just started the game a week ago on PS4 and I just can't get a good first hit when they start to crawl around. I fucking hate playing shooters with a controller xD

[@voldo18]

Mjr. JakeKAF PUBG in a nutshell buddy

[@WaveOfDestiny]

How noob do you need to be to not hit a mimic. Only way is to have never took a controller in your hands, wich makes me think why do you even have a console instead of playing on pc. I'm a bit triggered becouse everyone says controllers suck while i can beat many pc players in many games (also unreal tournament and overwatch widow servers) with a controller without even being a pro. And there's no aim assist on pc for controllers.

[@vanessap8477]

@@WaveOfDestiny how arrogant do you need to be to act like you are something better. Prey's aiming and reaction time is shit. It's unprecise and feels way to heavy for quick combat. Trying to flex that you can beat PC gamers with a controller ( surprise you can use controllers on a PC as well ) because you seem to be Ultimately skilled is pathetic. The vast majority of people that plays games grew up with consoles and controllers. People are used to it. But some games just fucking suck on a console/with a controller. And aim assistant is not even the problem. It's just the slow reaction time and response the game has. And we are talking specifically about Prey. URT or Overwatch are working fine with controllers. They don't have these issues prey has. So to shorten it, don't be such an arrogant prick and flex on /v/ or Reddit. No one cares what or who you claim to beat with a controller. Be triggered on Tumblr. Preys aiming sucks.

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Then don't say it like you are generalizing. Everyone seems to say "dude with a controller you can't even aim at a thing on the ground it's impossible for everyone and all console players are noobs" I wanted to talk to the first guy not you, but i wanted to tell you that i believe you are not a good measurement of how good controllers are, becouse it seemed like you wanted to support his argument with your experience. Since in my prey playthrough on pc with a controller i don't remember i ever missed a mimic or a shotgun blast or a 9mm shot ever it seems odd. I'm saying that i'm good, but definetly not that over the avarage. You never said prey aiming sucks, it looked like you said that aiming in any game with a controller is almost impossible. Since i've seen to many people say that and don't believe me i already put what i can do so you wouldn't ask me "stfu you probably just play fortnite" so i said i play ut and ow. (Ps ut, the new one, has one of the worst controller supports ever you don't even immagine how bad it is)

[@sunnyd5422]

4:48the strategy of Mimics revolved around ambush...” Cuts to a giant light rolling (probably noisily) around

[@rockiguana1544]

More spooky things in space.

[@damianstarks3338]

Rockiguana 1 yep true.

[@Ash_Faulkner]

Anyone remember the movie called mimic about giant bugs that could change there form

[@edwardstownsend5848]

I just love the uncertainty this game gives you and how it makes you so paranoid since anything and everything could be a mimic stalking you, waiting for the perfect opportunity. Amazing in depth vid as usual! :)

[@originss9740]

Don’t sleep on the dlc it might honestly be the greatest dlc released for any game ever made

[@jtwolf1637]

Nice video Nice change of the regular movie stuff

[@akillerpacman1709]

I miss hearing him read comics tho :(

[@smiler6110]

Hey Niat is GLaDOS from Portal on the list?

[@filmcomicsexplained]

its is now!

[@tricouleur9689]

Please do the nightmare typhon.

[@arianneberteau8243]

I hated this one so much 😭 it's so hard to kill with only weapons

[@oliverhanzlicek7561]

Cover the intire typhon ecology, or the 2 story tall NIGHTMARE fuel murder machine, u choose.

[@kitkit6874]

Man I love your videos man. I’ve been dealing with a lot of stress from prep school and your videos are the best!

[@TheJasonDonald]

Impressive video and how about the Phantom tyhon.

[@nikladamond937]

Is the voice actor of this man at the start the same who speaks, for example, nik valentine and many more in fallout 4?

[@heebiejeebiesofthehighestorder]

Awesome video Niyat!

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Thanks yates!

[@Hulksterx]

Thx for the video, Prey is easily one of my favourite games in the last few years.

[@epic1558]

I have to say... “good morning Morgan” was probably the scariest part of all of this

[@ferricch9777]

Been waiting for this

[@damianstarks3338]

Ju Piter same here.

[@annanyadey7511]

Maybe the mimics natural creatures from a planet known as xenoton with quantum power over physics

[@helium-379]

Imagine your furniture suddenly attacking you. Its like prophunt but props can attack.

[@ShadowHunter120]

What if mimics are linked to "dark matter" or, the missing mass required for gravity to be able to hold celestial scale things together?

[@yunix2396]

Now thats a good theory. Theres a couple of actual in game theories sciencetsts say that explain Mimic behaviour of Object Mimicing. Like Pocket dimension, or linking an object from another alternate dimension that appear as an object by human perceived "Mimicry" of the species. That's highly original theory on your part.

[@ShadowHunter120]

@@yunix2396 I just figure that dark matter is supposedly all this missing mass that we can't detect. But for them using it could be as easy as blowing air into a balloon.

[@S0L1nv1ctus]

Good game

[@lionrek]

Good thing you put Prey. I woulda thought they were Mimics from the movie Edge of Tomorrow. Another good video. Keep it up 😁

[@dannyboy4648]

After playing this game for an hour I felt like I had a good understanding of what it's like to be a paranoid schizophrenic

[@UNFORGIVENGOD24]

Solid, LIQUID, and Gas, not fluid.

[@handsomeadi7565]

Do a vid on the poltergeist mimic

[@po801_4]

Nice video. You should make a video on the Chimera Virus from the Resistance Trilogy.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

yep its on the list!

[@alfredo481]

Kinda reminds me of Calvin from life only that he had no gaseous form and he was so strong.

[@CeceGames]

you should do the other Typhons, specifically the Nightmare, I love the Nightmare (Gotta love the giant creatures)

[@gamereditor59ner22]

Interesting game! Thank you for the information!!

[@JakeDomino-k3z]

The substance that they are made of remind me of the Klytar

[@zjones9876]

Thank you for this. This is one of my favorite modern games, I hope they make a sequel. There is so much more to the story of these aliens.

[@marciawilliams2499]

Guys don't you see it, these are the great-great-great-great-great-grand children of venom and his family

[@williamwalsh474]

Will you look at the original prey for Xbox 360!!

[@johnrandolph1989]

A intelligent horror game? Never heard of it, loud, sexy and crazyis more my stage.

[@Danodan94]

Can we have more Prey videos, please?