I thought about a theory a couple days ago. You really do play as Morgan. He canonically used typhon powers and got eaten from the inside and turned into a phantom. Alex captured the phantom and is trying to see if tricking the phantom into thinking it's Morgan can get Morgan's consciousness to take over.
Prey is more of a true successor to System Shock 2 than any of the Bioshock games are. For as little as it had to do with the original Prey game, they could have called it System Shock 3 and it probably would have been better off. It's definitely worth playing if you're into the Imsim scene.
Not completely true. If you don't install any Typhon neuromods in the good/neutral ending they comment that you didn't use any alien neuromods at all. It slightly affects your scoring for the ending of the game as well. It's just one line and the rest of the ending is the same but it is mentioned.
There are achievements for doing a human power run, ayylium run, and no neuromod run, if you care about that kind of thing. Alien powers eventually make the turrets fire on you, and if you use alien powers in sight of humans, they might aggro forever.
I think the alien powers are super fricking cool, and fun to use. Doing the psycho water quest causes them to be totally busted, which I found even more fun. I'm a sucker for using alien stuff in games though, but Prey still has inventive powers.
The plot is far more complex than that. The people who say that "it was just a simulation" completely missed the subtext in the game and the meaning of the game itself.
I've beaten the game several times human-only but every time I try to do a Typhon run I get bored halfway and stop. I dunno I guess I just like using tools and weapons more.
personally i love scraping by until you get the psychoscope and then dumping points into shit after that
it's a fun gameplay way to limit yourself that makes dealing with the rather limited difficulty level more fun
plus, whether it was on purpose or not, the way many of the human characters act like fricking shits towards you makes it rather cathartic to frick them up
nothing like a well-placed recycle grenade in a pile of former friends
>should I use a game mechanic
why do people even ask these questions?
do you morons actually play games not allowing yourselves to use certain mechanics?
are you brain damaged?
nta but I just played through re4 remake 3 times without using the rocket launcher once.
if you use it and you're not a speedrunner you're a literal sissie b***h.
learn to manage your resources and actually play the game homosexual.
there are mechanics in other games that are similar to the rocket launcher yes, and if you use those no matter the game, you're a pussy ass b***h.
I tried replaying it a few months ago but the sound mixing was so awful I had to drop the game. I saw several reddit and steam posts complaining about the same issue, but none of the fixes they suggested worked.
Anyone here with a surround setup manage to fix it?
on my first playthrough i played on the hardest mode and used only human skills because i like a challenge, surprisingly that was pretty easy, just upgrade the shotgun, use weapon related skills and the game is your b***h. Frick all these boring fetch side quests though, they're a fricking chore and several of them a re buggy
Nah only upgrade the human powers they are more fun
An all alien power run is brutal until you put the thing in the thing.
Mimic is so good for getting into tight places.
I thought about a theory a couple days ago. You really do play as Morgan. He canonically used typhon powers and got eaten from the inside and turned into a phantom. Alex captured the phantom and is trying to see if tricking the phantom into thinking it's Morgan can get Morgan's consciousness to take over.
Not just Morgan, but everyone who installed a neuromod, which is made out of Typhon. This is how they were able to break containment
I've only played the original Prey but I love imsims, is this worth or should I look at something like the System Shock remake instead?
It's the best imsim since the OG Deus Ex. I haven't played the System Shock remake though so maybe it's just the second best imsim.
Prey is my absolute GOAT. I am highly biased but I highly recommend this game.
Prey is more of a true successor to System Shock 2 than any of the Bioshock games are. For as little as it had to do with the original Prey game, they could have called it System Shock 3 and it probably would have been better off. It's definitely worth playing if you're into the Imsim scene.
They should have called Neuroshock like one of the devs said
It's more of a true successor to System Shock 1 than 2, since 2 isn't even really a successor to 1.
this is the only game Ganker recommended to me that was actually fricking good
go figure
also play the second game, prey basically took all of it's mechanics from it and the soundtrack is kino
It took its mechanics from System Shock 1 you zoomer, you haven't played either.
>Should I use the alien powers?
Frick yes you should. Mimic is so fricking good at the very least
if youre worried about alien powers affecting the ending they dont
Not completely true. If you don't install any Typhon neuromods in the good/neutral ending they comment that you didn't use any alien neuromods at all. It slightly affects your scoring for the ending of the game as well. It's just one line and the rest of the ending is the same but it is mentioned.
Powers aren't that strong. If you want challenge then don't use the shotgun.
For my only playthrough I did none of the alien powers and did a turret run. Was p cool. Thanks for reading my blog
There are achievements for doing a human power run, ayylium run, and no neuromod run, if you care about that kind of thing. Alien powers eventually make the turrets fire on you, and if you use alien powers in sight of humans, they might aggro forever.
I think the alien powers are super fricking cool, and fun to use. Doing the psycho water quest causes them to be totally busted, which I found even more fun. I'm a sucker for using alien stuff in games though, but Prey still has inventive powers.
absolutely, they are fun and the benefits easily outweigh the negatives
They trivialise the game.
The game is ridiculously easy anyway. Even on the hardest difficulty.
Damn really? Guess I won't bother then.
The plot is far more complex than that. The people who say that "it was just a simulation" completely missed the subtext in the game and the meaning of the game itself.
POS.
I've beaten the game several times human-only but every time I try to do a Typhon run I get bored halfway and stop. I dunno I guess I just like using tools and weapons more.
personally i love scraping by until you get the psychoscope and then dumping points into shit after that
it's a fun gameplay way to limit yourself that makes dealing with the rather limited difficulty level more fun
plus, whether it was on purpose or not, the way many of the human characters act like fricking shits towards you makes it rather cathartic to frick them up
nothing like a well-placed recycle grenade in a pile of former friends
>should I use a game mechanic
why do people even ask these questions?
do you morons actually play games not allowing yourselves to use certain mechanics?
are you brain damaged?
nta but I just played through re4 remake 3 times without using the rocket launcher once.
if you use it and you're not a speedrunner you're a literal sissie b***h.
learn to manage your resources and actually play the game homosexual.
there are mechanics in other games that are similar to the rocket launcher yes, and if you use those no matter the game, you're a pussy ass b***h.
They suffer from heavy autism. Please understand.
>"it was all a simulation!"
This alone makes me not want to play the game, honestly.
statistically your life is also a simulation so why don't you just have a nice day then?
I tried replaying it a few months ago but the sound mixing was so awful I had to drop the game. I saw several reddit and steam posts complaining about the same issue, but none of the fixes they suggested worked.
Anyone here with a surround setup manage to fix it?
on my first playthrough i played on the hardest mode and used only human skills because i like a challenge, surprisingly that was pretty easy, just upgrade the shotgun, use weapon related skills and the game is your b***h. Frick all these boring fetch side quests though, they're a fricking chore and several of them a re buggy
There’s an alien power that silenced them, I think it’s called psychoshock. Super busted on the more annoying enemies.