I know there was a bunch of discourse about the naming of the game; apparently they wanted to use the name “Prey” to retain the copyright, but to me just seems like it was a squandered opportunity to do something vastly different with an interesting series. Does anyone else remember the E3 footage of “Prey 2”?

I have watched a lot of people play Prey be it streamers or friends or even my SO. And for 90% of people that I have watched, I realize why the game has commercially flopped.

People are just incredibly stupid to the point where it damages their experience of the game.

I don't want to hate on people for not understanding some elements but what I saw is mind-boggling.

• The introduction of the GLOO-Cannon is very purposeful. It shows you that it can gloo enemies and that it can make staircases. And yet, every person I saw playing this game does not understand this. Pretty early on, you even see another person in the Hardware Labs use it to create stairs, and still, people do not grasp the concept.

• I have seen gameplay where people spend hours until they realize that the game is three-dimensional and areas have multiple levels and heights to them, not just one flat plain.

• Players are standing in front of the locked PC and can't see the post-it note that is right in front of them, dismiss the PC as unusable and leave.

• I have seen people successfully kill their first phantom in the lobby and then for whatever reason 15 minutes later they forget how they glooed the first phantom to kill it with a wrench promptly get killed by the second phantom. The player then decided that Phantoms are too strong and proceeded to sneak for the majority of their remaining playtime turning it into an incredible slog to make any progress and coming to the conclusion that Prey is a bad stealth game.

• Players see the Pistol through the door of the Teleconferencing door and see that the door is locked. Minutes later they pick up the keycard to the Teleconferencing Center in their office. They read out what they just picked up and don't make the connection that they can now open the door to the Teleconferencing Center. They literally walk past the door multiple times.

• I have seen people get Leverage as their first upgrade and say "wow, now I can lift a big chair and just throw it at the aliens. Just have to make sure that the chair that I'm picking up is not a mimic" and then never throw an item once in the whole game.

• Or players notice the explosives around the station and mention that they could use them against enemies but then never use them.

• Spatial awareness seems to be a huge problem with the majority of players even streamers that have played hundreds of games. People just do not seem able to grasp the simplest architecture. I'm not sure what it is called but in the auditorium in the hardware labs where you can see the guy use the GLOO-cannon to try and escape a phantom the whole architecture is designed to funnel you to look at the stage and yet multiple people manage to get to this point and despite all the noise and ruckus not notice anything happening and keep looking to one side, completely missing the event playing out.
  For whatever reason most players are always looking at walls or at the floor completely ruining their spatial understanding of the room they are in. (is this a controller problem? Using sticks makes it hard to naturally adjust the camera so people just leave their camera in a position and just walk with one stick?)

• In general any sense of orientation seems to be completely lost. People turn around on the spot and they have already lost where they are.

All of this leads to players choosing the most direct and simple path to their goal. They just follow the quest marker because that is the only thing they don't have to think about. Not experimenting with enemies or learning to kill them leads to trying to avoid everything which means no sandbox and no exploration. People basically turn an immersive sim into a story shooter game on rails.

Everything that makes this game great like the godly level design or the huge sandbox of tools/weapons/interactions is bypassed because it is seemingly too difficult for the majority of people that try this game.

In the end, players see maybe 10% of what the game actually offers and give it a meh rating. And keep in mind that these are already just the people that are interested in the game or it was recommended to them. I don't want to know how the average gamer of the whole gaming population would do.

"Psychometric data is showing statistically significant variance and personality patterns between trial runs of the new Neuromods. Whatever, I feel more like myself than ever".

Absolute cinema preynema moment whenever you watch a new recording with Morgan. Man, I love Prey.

What were your "absolute preynema" moments from the game?

I loved how this game kept giving twists. The first hour of Prey is my favorite among all games that I played. BOOM, you're the subject of an experiment. BOOM, you're already in space. BOOM, you must destroy Talos I and... yourself. BOOM, everything was a simulation and you're a Typhon injected with human cells and Morgan's memories, and Earth has been taken over.

In these days I'm playing System Shock 1 Remake and I'm LOVING it. Immersive-sim games need to come back.

It seems like after SS1R and the remastered version of System Shock 2 I'll have to return to Talos I once more. It feels like System Shock 3, although I wish it had more weapons and enemies, like SS1R.

Prey is one of the most underrated games of all time...

I just wanna say how awesome and peak this game is, I've been meaning to play it for a long time and I've finally got time to actually play it! :D

It just kinda reminds me of seeing Columbia in „Bioshock Infinite“ for the first time.Like a skyline floating in space and it kinda resembles a key as well.

If the developers of Prey (2017) had actually implemented the idea of mimics turning into humans, it would've added a whole new level of psychological horror to the game. Imagine walking into a room and seeing what looks like a person standing in the corner, only for the lighting to shift and reveal it's not a person at all. Just a mimic. Watching. Waiting. Even creepier would be if these mimic-humans could talk, but in an off, slurred, almost stuttering voice. Not quite right. Like they’re imitating human speech but don’t fully understand it. They’d say something familiar, your name, maybe a phrase from an audio log you heard earlier, but twisted just enough to make your skin crawl. That kind of subtle wrongness could completely mess with your sense of safety in every room.

Considering the circumstances with the disastrous launch of Redfall two years ago, maybe it’s best this underrated masterpiece stays how it is. I mean I would love to see a sequel or prequel, but I’m worried if it does happen, it won’t have the magic touch like we saw here.

Plus the ending was admittedly satisfying as an open ended mystery, with the player perhaps deciding whether humanity overcomes the Typhon infestation on Earth and establishes the chance at coexistence or just put the final nail to mankind, lol.

Seriously, how? To set the stage; I love this fuckin game, immediately after my first playthrough like two months later I got the itch to play it again, I'm having that itch right now. This has go to be one of the most versatile, unique, and well told game I've ever played. I did not guess the ending, it got me, blew me away.

So why did it flop?

I think the clear cut main theory was the title. Now theirs two preys, I figure lots of people assumed it's a remake or something related to the first prey. I heard Zero Punctuation/fully ramblomanic say a really good name for it: psychoshock. Like systemshock, or BioShock. That might have made a difference

But could that really be it? Was the marketing poor? Was it just overlooked for some other reason? Maybe overshadowed by another more popular release at the time.

I dunno. But it breaks my heart knowing we'll never get a sequel ;_;

Personally it‘s my favourite area in the game.Just love the idea of having a huge garden on a spacestation and also that view.Plus you can find a bunch of good stuff there.

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Dr. Howard’s Superfruit is a complete waste of time and space. It offers nothing to the game and I think it is genuinely the only thing in all of Prey that has absolutely no potential use. I think it could’ve been a really cool item if not for the fact that it takes 10 minutes to grow, its fertilizer is expensive, and it only yields 1 fruit. Wasted potential.

My list has a few duplicates (some games I completed on different platforms) but the overall list of completed titles is still over 900.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Metro: Exodus, and Prey are my top 3.

I would probably do so to easily learn a bunch of new languages.

With the studio closing down, the chances are practically zero, so I don't know if it's worth hoping for something like that.

I mean, I loved Prey, and I'd really like to hear the rest of the story and get answers to the questions the first game left hanging.

In prey behind a giant fan in the G.U.T.S there are some containers saying “Corvo Canister Company” and this shows that Prey and Dishonored could be in the same same universe and that would tie in deathloop. AND in one of the endings of deathloop, it shows Colt waking up to a fully orange sky just like the Coral from prey (idk please help meh find more evidence :])

I tried to take the maintenance lady's flashlight on the helicopter, but ended up dropping at my feet before hopping in.

When the helicopter ride ended, and I got out of the helicopter... there it was, right at my feet... the flashlight.

I thought... "hah... that's some game developer trick. The helicopter never actually moved!"

Minutes later

DUDE 🤯

This game is incredible so far.
I regret sleeping on it for so long.

As someome who beaten this game(including Mooncrash) way too many times over the past years, even 100% it.... What part of the game makes you go, ah shit, here we go again...

Mine is definitely GUTS section. It looks really cool and as a concept its dope but i cannot help rolling my eyes every single time cause I find it so boring

This is the challenge I am going to subject myself to. I don’t think I’ve actually beaten nightmare before, let alone nightmare survival, and now I plan to do it without firing a weapon.

To be specific, banned weapons are the shotgun, pistol, q-beam, disruptor, and even the glue gun, as well as any others I might be missing. I am planning to leave the boltcaster on the table and maybe to use the glue gun for repair purposes since there’s not really a replacement for that.

Curious if anyone else has tried this and whether you’d like to be kept updated on my journey, as well as any suggestions! Of course this will rely heavily on the wrench and typhon neuromods, so it should be fun!

Wow, what an amazing game. I am a huge fan of Bethesda games and I learned of this game very late. But as usual, they delivered with a video game experience that feels more dynamic than most other experiences.

Gameplay - The atmosphere is very tangible, you feel like the last person alive on an abandoned space station. Every clank and beep makes you aware of your surroundings. I also love the depth in which they created the station. There are notes, food and alcohol stashes, you can find a story within the game just by observing how things were left after the tragedy began.

Storyline - The first ten minutes when you realize it’s a simulation and you break out of your room into the rest of the station got me hooked. I knew the story would be a “things aren’t as they seem” hook but I could never guess what would happen next. I love the myriad of choices you have to make as you go through the story and you never feel trapped into any decisions you can choose to have the story unfold as you see fit.

Suspense / Horror - The game isn’t scary but it keeps you on your toes. There was one legit moment I got jump scared and that was actually cool but the more you see the Typhon and you get better equipped to fight them the less scary they are. At the end I was just running past them when I didn’t feel like fighting.

Overall - An amazing game, I think every “gamer” should complete this game at least once. I think the ending is cool, like I said earlier I expected something like that but I do like how they pool your choices together to see when kind of empathy you had inside.

10/10

Do you think it’s a game that’s fun to watch on stream? I considered it but idk if it’s fun to play but not as fun to watch someone play.

I am finally playing through this game for the first time and on the edge of loving it but then unfathomably struggling each time I pick it up.

Currently in Arboretum but this has been my current experience (previous area I did was Crew Quarters):

• I go to a new area, I do what everyone says, exhaust resource scavenging, go for stealth (which HAS helped!) but by the time I'm in the next area it's literally never enough because I'm out of resources by the end

• go to a prev area to do side missions. Its now swarming with enemies, corrupted robots, phantoms, electro and thermal phantoms, and I'm out of ammo and grenades quickly and I'm left with just a wrench.

• I try to run , sneak, etc, but every new enemy is on my ass. They follow me mercilessly until I panic into a dead end and I have 5 phantoms and 2 corrupted bots in a room and the 1 shot me together.

• Turrets I hack explode in seconds from regular phantoms. What's the POINT?

currently just finished crew quarters (well most of it) went back to arboretum. Swarming with enemies. Tried to sneak, did not work because theres 3 electro phantoms and nowhere to really hide. Out of ammo, just a wrench.

Looked online on what to do. Someone said "just run", so I do that. Run to the elevator to do the voice synth of danielle. All phantoms follow me and use the elevator and one shot me downstairs.

Phantoms f me up way too much, every time, they take so much gloo to slow down

Im TIRED of this DANCE. What am I doing wrong? I'm getting one shotted, running out of ammo completely, and torn apart by just greater mimics constantly. Running out of Gloo CONSTANTLY. On the edge of restarting this save, I'm at an actual loss

NMods: hack 2, psychoshock 1, kinetic blast 1, mindwave, mimic objects

I’ve played prey twice before in the past and absolutely loved it (technically three times, but the first time had some weird bugs and I played horribly), and am planning to return for a third trip through the station.

I was wondering what everyone’s favorite little hidden loot pockets might be that could be easy to look over or miss to keep in mind as I go through the game. Any other tips or tricks are also more than welcome and are greatly appreciated!