Outlast

[ryabuz]

I'm now playing Outlast and its quite similar to frictional games only that there's no difficult puzzle. You equip with only a camcorder. Need to find batteries and u just run and hide from psycho's while trying to get out of the asylum. The graphic is great. But the psychos talk to much and their looks are not scary enough (Monster in Amnesia is wayy scarier and their silence is totally horror). Outlast environment is very very dark and make u jump scared a lot. But Outlast has a totally brilliant idea generously speaking from me compared to frictional games (i played Overture and Amnesia The Dark Descent and love it!) but this outlast give me some kind of different horror feeling.. because the character is 'lively'.

What I mean by lively is that you can see your lower body, feet and shadow when looking down, and for me this make the protagonist more of a human character. Even when u open doors u can push it slowly like Amnesia (to give it sense of interaction in game) the difference is only that u can really see your hand opening it! For me this is really something new. I would love Frictional Games to include something like this (to the character himself)

Won't you like you, (the hero/protagonist in game) been given details as detailed the environment and monsters are? Why would u see the detailed shadow of the environment but u yourself doesn't even have a body? For me it's a big difference in achieving the horror feelings. U don't need to have guns or even your voice talking whatsoever (which I agree in both games), only hear your heart pumping scared..and running for your life hiding from your pursuer, not flying! Wont u agree?

However, as mentioned above I played Overtures and finished Amnesia Dark Descent, love Frictional Games and still looking forward to play Amnesia A Machine for Pigs..