Waching daily May 27 2017

Is Prey The Best Game Ever?

I wouldn't say that, but How does it hold up?

I recently played Prey on PC and I would like to give you our thoughts!

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032.

You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have

gone terribly wrong.

The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

With a steam OVERALL rating of Very Positive (3,204 reviews)

And metacritic giving it an 81%, it was quite well received by players and critics alike,

but it's not quite the preyze (see what i did there) I expected.

Fellow youtuber Downward Thrust said that a big failure on the games part was that the

playable demo was actually the first hour of the game which reveals a lot, actually,

way more than what should have been given away before release.

I totally agree with that statement, however, i experienced the game fresh.

I had not watched any footage or played the demo before hand, and i was totally blown

away by the first hour.

From this point on, there will be spoilers.

Be warned.

Awakened in your apartment you have some time to explore and there were some neat things

to find.

You soon step into a helicopter.

The way they created the opening credits to this game blew me away.

The music was sharp, but also gave me the feel of a 1980's outlook on the future.

You arrive to your first day working with your brother, and start like any other day

at work, standing behind glass performing basic tasks for scientists who appear either

agitated or confused by all of your actions.

Eventually you come to the end of this with a blackout sequence, and you awake once more,

in your bed.

It's like the game has restarted.

Only, its off.

Something isn't right...

Oh, this was all a simulation.

Oh man that blew me away!

I genuinely had no idea what was coming.

Maybe I'm not great at predicting the future, but either way I was pleasantly surprised!

The rest of the story unfolds through voice records coming both from yourself prior to

these events, and from others such as the deceased crew members of the talos 1, and

your brother Alex.

I don't have to spoil anymore story, I think you have been adequately brought up to speed,

so let's look at the pro's!

Pro: The game's graphics look fantastic, and the

game is so well optimized.

I dont have the strongest machine, but my 1070gtx and i5 6600k were able to run max

settings with no frame loss, while running obs!

The difficulty is there.

On normal difficulty, Prey was not a Walk in the Park.

Using ammo wisely and sneaking when possible were constant elements because you never knew

what loomed beyond the next corner.

Enemies were fun, the mimics actually jump scared me a few times when the pistol I tried

to pick up jumped violently toward my face.

I was totally afraid of the phantoms and my first time killing one felt so amazing, it

paralleled some of the feelings i experienced when i killed my first difficult boss in Dark

Souls 1, a feeling that i have long missed!

The first time seeing a nightmare actually filled me with dread.

And that is Just to name a few.

You will find a few more creatures aboard the talos 1, and outside.

Spacewalking was nicely implemented.

As far as a simulation goes, it gives you the feeling of weightlessness and punishes

you for over spamming your propulsion system by sending you forever drifting.

The soundtrack is a huge part of the pacing of the game.

When music got intense I was totally booking it through stairwells and corridors.

It also gave me some assurance that it was okay to catch my breath.

It is an effective gameplay element and is nice to listen to.

The sound effects are also better than you normally get from modern triple a titles,

every different material has a different sound when you walk on it.

Very impressive!

The controls are tight and precise when playing keyboard and mouse.

Due to the nature of the game i didn't bother trying to use a controller as accuracy was

of utmost importance.

The talent tree or neuromod system allows you to really dial in the kind of character

you want to be, making your playstyle unique, and there are a load of interesting combinations

to try out.

Through the first half of the game i was a turret dropping, bullet timing son of a gun

killing everything in my way with a shotgun, but 10 hours in i realized that i had used

most of the resources available to me and i could no longer find or create ammo.

The difficulty went from easy to hardcore just like the flip of a switch.

While i see this as a major annoyance, i won't call it a con because i did it to myself.

The game doesn't hold your hand, really, in 2017 we have a game that won't spoon feed

you and wipe your ass.

Who would have thought.

These are just some of the pros i can think of.

Now for cons: Backtracking can be an issue for many players,

as you will be going around the same areas a ton.

I personally didn't have a problem with this as I was a metroidvania kid, but I can

understand why some may find this as inconvenient.

Although the enemy design is good, it's terribly limited.

There aren't enough variety of enemies, and when you progress through the game, you

see the same creatures with different auras and status effects.

This does make the game feel repetitive after you've spent 10 or more hours within the

space station.

There are some bugs in the game that can effect your ability to complete sidequests, which

is clearly a huge issue, but I personally was not affected, and I look to see these

bugs being patched out entirely in the near future.

So in conclusion, I honestly haven't had this much fun with a game since the original Dark

Souls, and i haven't had this much fun with a first person shooter since Halo 2!

I love prey, i think you might as well.

Thats why im giving Prey a 9.5/10.

For more infomation >> PREY Review: Is It Worth It? - Duration: 6:23.

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Moore's Law Is Ending... So, What's Next? - Duration: 4:21.

Remember when cellphones looked like this?

You could call, text, maybe play snake on it … and it had about 6 megabytes of memory,

which was a small miracle at the time.

Then, phones got faster and around every two years, you probably upgraded your phone from

8 gigs to 16 to 32 and so on and so forth.

This incremental technological progress we've all been participating in for years hinges

on one key trend, called Moore's Law.

Co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore made a prediction in 1965 that integrated circuits, or chips,

were the path to cheaper electronics.

Moore's law states that the number of transistors, the tiny switches that control the flow of

an electrical current that can fit in an integrated circuit, will double every two years, while

the cost will halve.

Chip power goes up as cost goes down.

That exponential growth has brought massive advances in computing power… hence tiny

computers in our pockets!

A single chip today can contain billions of transistors, and each transistor is about

14 nanometres across!

That's smaller than most human viruses!

Now, Moore's law isn't a law of physics, it's just a good hunch that's driven companies

to make better chips.

But experts are claiming that this trend is slowing down.

Granddaddy chip maker Intel recently disclosed that it's becoming more difficult to roll

out smaller transistors in a two year timeframe while also being affordable.

So, to power the next wave of electronics, there are a few promising options in the works.

One is quantum computing.

Another currently in the lab stage is neuromorphic computing, which are computer chips that are

modeled after our own brains!

They're basically capable of learning and remembering all at the same time at an incredibly

fast clip.

Let's break that down and start with the human brain.

So, your brain has billions of neurons, each of which forms synapses or connections with

other neurons.

Synaptic activity relies on ion channels, which control the flow of charged atoms like

sodium and calcium that make your brain function and process properly.

So, a neuromorphic chip copies that model by relying on a densely connected web of transistors

that mimic the activity of ion channels.

Each chip has a network of cores, with inputs and outputs that are wired to additional cores,

which all operate in conjunction with each other.

Because of this connectivity, neuromorphic chips are able to integrate memory, computation,

and communication all together.

These chips are an entirely new computational design.

Standard chips today are built based on von Neumann architecture... where the processor

and memory are separate and the data moves between them.

A central processing unit runs commands that are fetched from memory to execute tasks.

This is what's made computers very good at computing, but not as efficiently as they

could be.

Neuromorphic chips however completely change that model by having both storage and processing

connected within these "neurons" that are all communicating and learning together.

The hope is that these neuromorphic chips could transform computers from general purpose

calculators into machines that can learn from experience and make decisions.

We'd leap to a future where computers wouldn't just be able to crunch data at break neck

speeds but could do that AND process sensory data in real time.

Some future applications of neuromorphic chips might include combat robots that could decide

how to act in the field, drones that could detect changes in the environment, and your

car taking you to a drive through for ice cream after being dumped… basically these

chips could power our future robot overlords.

We don't have machines with sophisticated, brain-like chips yet but they're on the

horizon.

So get ready for a whole new meaning for the term "brain power."

But we have something less frightening than AI to share with you... did you know we have

a sister channel called Seeker VR?

It's everything you love about Seeker, but in 360 degrees!

SeekerVR will take you on some incredible journeys that you probably wouldn't get

to experience otherwise.

Like in a recent episode, we took a ride on one of the most deadly trains in the world.

Check it out here.

Want to learn more about how the fastest computers in the world work?

We've got a video about them here.

And am I the only one who misses my Motorola Razr?

Let us know in the comments and check back here for more videos.