Outlasting Outlast

[Summer]

Over the past three weeks, I played Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph... That was a seriously fucked up game. Fucked. Up! The whole run through I was either iiik or ewww, or both.

The jump scares. Geez. There were a couple of times I was sure I was gonna have a heart attack. I could never tell who was going to be stationary, who'd run past me, or who'd attack me.

Yeah, okay, if a bearded guy runs toward me with a chainsaw or a couple of naked twins with machetes come at, I'm gonna run first and find out later if they just wanted to cuddle. But keeping me guessing, that was done very well.

However... after surviving every shit storm thrown at me, I die at the end?! Well, at least got shot a dozen times. Maybe the Walrider fixed me, I don't know. Maybe that'll be the premise of Outlast 2.

As for the gore and outlandish craziness? Holy. Shit. That Groom bit was just absolute insanity. I mean, I've never previously, in two decades of gaming history, had to shout at the computer screen, "Don't cut off my penis!" And that one operating table (or was it a table with a sowing machine?), yeah, you know the one I mean. Oh. My. God. I want to wash my eyes with bleach to make that image disappear from my brain forever! And what about that gym with the hanging corpses? Man, the writer(s) of this game have to be completely bonkers!

As a scary game, success. ... As for the rest, not so much. Considering the cost of games these days, I place a high value on replayability. And Outlast isn't one of those. It's totally linear with a single way in or out of places and situations. There's only one path to follow each time, and every cutscene and scripted event happens at the exact same time during every single playthrough. So, scary once? Hell yeah. Scary again? Not so much. I can't look forward to anything new with another playthrough.

Got Outlast and the DLC through Steam, so the overall cost was about 30 euros. For any game that goes above twenty bucks, is it unnatural or weird of me to wish the game be replayable? Like TDP, TMA, and TDM? NuThief sucked in this aspect too. Do we have to rely on stuff like Skyrim or The Witcher with their open worlds to get a gaming experience that differs each time you play? Why can't we have a scary game in a small confined space, like an asylum, that allows for more freedom of movement, less linear gameplay, and different outcomes depending on how you play? *sigh*

Anyway, that's just my two cents worth. Or, to be precise, thirty bucks worth.

[SeriousToni]

Sounds like a game truely made for me! I played the original Outlast but it bored me a little bit (the gameplay) the sounds and atmosphere were really amazing though.