Outcast: A New Beginning! Who is playing this gem!?

This is one of those franchises new about for decades and told about but for whatever reason never tried.

It's full AAA price though, so hold off or just play the OG.

Haven’t really looked into the game at all and don’t really know much about it. Got way too many other games currently on the go and want to get in the future though so not really interested in it to be honest.

Played and finished it the weekend of released. I enjoyed it.😊

Price seems sort of arbitrary these days though. Is it better to pay AAA price for a low-quality AAA game, or better to pay AAA price for a high-quality non-AAA game?

I guess it's best to just take it on a per-game basis when it comes to cost. Best games I've played in recent years were 30 bucks or less and some of the worst were 60 bucks or more.

Yeah, we are drowning in games right now lol. Good ones, too!

I bought Dragon's Dogma on an impulse haha and I almost bought Horizon: Forbidden West before I was like "Woh woh woh, slow down there bud". Been trying to work my way through my back catalog alongside new purchases and it's going well. Beat Far Cry 6 and before that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora; now I'm working my way through Outcast, then I'll get back to Dragon's Dogma 2 after that.

Until then, no more purchases. Unless I really really want it 😋

After a double technical botched launch of RE8 and SF6 in succession, along with the industry wanting more money, along with pretty much years of them pulling increasingly predatory thing they can adopted a position of never buying a AAA game on launch no matter how praised it is.

Looking at Dragons Dogma 2, that has been completely validated. A broken unoptimized piece of shit that's a scam job, critics clap like seals, single line in a review tap on the wrist. Nonsense. Bullshit.

Last game purchased at launch was Tomb Raider: Remastered collection because 1. Know like these games 2. reasonably priced 3. Good technical job

Probably keep in that £20 range. Steam has many games you can purchase at this mark wholly ignoring whatever the new fancy is being gassed up.

The second option was the closest for me. I have the game bought. But I'm a bit burned out on 3rd person games now and want to play something else. I'm also waiting for some patches. I tried the demo and it was very unstable on my system.

What little I did play looked fun though. I'll certainly get around to it. Glad to see people are enjoying it.

Yeah tbh I played it for a couple hours as I totally bought it on nostalgia-induced impulse (to be fair, it did look good and I waited for player reviews to come out) and went back to finishing whatever games I was playing at the time.

So yeah, no rush! Games not going to get worse if you wait to play it :D

TPS burnout is real, but honestly Outcast feels like a return to older games due to the platforming and such. It really taps into that vein of nostalgia for those of us that played games in the 90's while also seeming pretty current in terms of design standards. It's a good hit of "Oh ya, I remember this" coupled with "Oh hey, that's new, I like that".

I just like traveling to distant planets in games it seems:

Avatar and now Outcasts just have beautiful worlds to explore.

@mrbojangles25: Oh yeah i'm the same. Loved the original back in the day so bought the new one day 1 (as you say, the new one also was looking solid in it's own right).

I've just finish a 3rd person action game run of Batman AC (Still great...need to finish), God of war (Fab), Immortals Fenix rising (also surprisingly good) and Spiderman (also fab) back to back so i'm bushed.

For now it's arcade flight games for me. Star Wars Squadrons (ok so far but just started) and Ace Combat 7 (of which i hear nothing but good things but not started yet) up next.

...Maybe some strategy too. I have deserts of Kharak ready to go and Homeworld 3 is imminent (fingers crossed it's class).

Both have top-notch art direction imo. There are also many similarities, too, but where Avatar went with the whole "respect and nobility" of the natives, Outcast went in a more "Oh look at the clash of cultures, isn't this funny!?".

I enjoy both approaches to the whole "beautiful alien planet full of primitives and advanced humans" scenario equally and for different reasons: one is serious and heavy, the other light and fun (but also kind of serious).

It really is a good study in how an almost identical scenario set up *spoiler: human soldier aligns self with exotic planet's native population to fight highly advanced human invaders can differ and have varying approaches. I don't even want to entertain any arguments of "Oh this rips off Avatar" or "Outcast did it first in 1990's" because both are great!

I like ideas and time frames clashing. Avatar had you fire bow and arrow as part of a tribe riding on horseback, but it also had guns and sci fi technology.

Same with Star Wars, it can have space ships one moment and bounty hunters dueling it out the next

As for Outcast, I never played the original (eventhough I should have) but I like the idea of this being an alternate dimension and an alien world.

And God, I love Cutter Slade's reaction to everything. He is just a barrel of laughs and so honest in his initial reaction to everything, that he says the exact thing that I was just about to say!

I couldn't get into Avatar but it was a beautiful looking world.

I played half that game solo and half that game with a friend. Coop was really nice and of the drop in drop out variety.

Solo on the other hand allowed me to do more my own thing and stealth it (I also loved doing the side content).

Stealth really comes together once you learn that you are safe from enemies when you are above them:

In that way the game works almost exactly like Dishonored does.

@R4gn4r0k: Nice, I will have to give it a second chance then.