Is this still coming to the PS4? I could buy it on PC but I have, literally, everything on PC so I'd hope to spread the love and fill up my PS4 hdd with some new not shooter and AC rehash titles.
But why does it have to be a surprise? It's announced at the beginning of the video, anyway. I'm not sure what the suspense is supposed to be about.Big_Isaac said:You know, maybe I would have been more surprised by your pick... if you didn't put the name in the title of the video. Just saying.
Can't you leave the names out of the video titles until, say, friday or saturday and then put them in afterwards?
High five for us people who don't like to be scared! We are not aloooone!Jasper Kazai said:I also dislike horror in general, since I don't see the appeal of being scared/frightened/whateveradjectiveyouwanttouse.
The ending of Outlast was okay, even if I am usually a romantic. I sort of saw it coming and I have to say I kind of appreciated how it tied itself up fairly well even without a sequel as opposed to simply leaving most of the really big questions hanging.Seth Carter said:Yeah, I'd have to side in with the "We've seen this all done before (American Horror Story, near parody that is, dedicated an entire season to the insane asylum cliche), which lowered a lot of the impact. The inmates all being nearly identical didn't really help spice up variety. The pursuer was made a laughing stock early on by the easy methods of escape, and the huge effort into building up *spoilerder* was kind of a bland payoff. Ending with a sequel hook that just left me wondering if they think they can manage to wring the last sputters of life out of the premise with another game.
I love straight jacket guy! Freaked me out the first time I saw him because he quietly crept up behind me. But then I was all like awww he just wants a friend. Can I keep him?Scorpid said:...And then there was the dude in the strafe jacket that had nothing against you, he just wanted to follow you.... everywhere you went.
I have to second this opinion. Most of the "gameplay" was waiting and guessing, when to make your move (when you are hiding in a closet and have to wait for the enemies to go away for example). The only real fun parts were the chase scenes, but those were to linear which often boiled down to guessing again, i.e. "guess the right way, or you are screwed". In my book not better than "Press X to not die". The atmosphere was really good, it had some really disturbing scenery and imagery. But I also perceived the writing as beeing cheesy as hell, borderline parody material. I wanted to write it off to bad translation (played the German version), but I don't seem to be alone with this opinion. And ghosts? Fucking "ethereal apparition floating" ghosts? No, this is just silly...chiggerwood said:Holy hell do I disagree with Jim on this one. I played Outlast and found it to be really, really, really boring, except for the parts where I was laughing or just mildly amused. Everything was so over the top that it seemed more like parody than anything else (especially the overly polite pair of rapist), the scares were so predictable and mechanical I felt as if I were to look behind the characters I would see the spring that they were hooked up to, the camera was annoying, batteries were everywhere so I was never in danger of running out, and the main character is an idiot who broke into an insane asylum, so I couldn't have any less sympathy for him if I tried. OH! And the name of the nutty house was "Mount Massive Asylum" not even D horror movies have names THAT bad.
sounds like amnesia the way you guys describe it. so even more reason to wait until its 75% off.fractal_butterfly said:I have to second this opinion. Most of the "gameplay" was waiting and guessing, when to make your move (when you are hiding in a closet and have to wait for the enemies to go away for example). The only real fun parts were the chase scenes, but those were to linear which often boiled down to guessing again, i.e. "guess the right way, or you are screwed". In my book not better than "Press X to not die". The atmosphere was really good, it had some really disturbing scenery and imagery. But I also perceived the writing as beeing cheesy as hell, borderline parody material. I wanted to write it off to bad translation (played the German version), but I don't seem to be alone with this opinion. And ghosts? Fucking "ethereal apparition floating" ghosts? No, this is just silly...chiggerwood said:Holy hell do I disagree with Jim on this one. I played Outlast and found it to be really, really, really boring, except for the parts where I was laughing or just mildly amused. Everything was so over the top that it seemed more like parody than anything else (especially the overly polite pair of rapist), the scares were so predictable and mechanical I felt as if I were to look behind the characters I would see the spring that they were hooked up to, the camera was annoying, batteries were everywhere so I was never in danger of running out, and the main character is an idiot who broke into an insane asylum, so I couldn't have any less sympathy for him if I tried. OH! And the name of the nutty house was "Mount Massive Asylum" not even D horror movies have names THAT bad.
The overall horror didn't work for me. I was disgusted, I was scared by the various, well implemented jump scares, but I was not horrified. More often bored or annoyed, that I was yet again not finding the right way. I don't think, that the "defenseless protagonist" is a good idea, it diminishes the horror for me, since the game designers can throw less challenges at me. And the protagonist of Outlast is an especially annoying wuss, he can't even shove away a crippled inmate in a straightjacket. I literally cheered, when he finally stood up to the mad doctor.
I think it is more horrifying, if you have a gun, but there is a horror, that can not be defeated by guns. Zombies you can shoot. Asylum inmates? Piece of cake, they even have vital organs and can mostly feel pain! But a demon posessing you loved ones, that then try to kill you? And you have the hope that you could save them? True horror for me.
So I think Outlast is a really good game. But a good Horror Game? Not for me, to say the least.