Weapons in Outlast!!

[Amenophys]

Weapons in horror video games like Outlast can be a great stuff!

Now, before you start cryfanboying let me explain ;-)

I do not wish for weapons to be added in the game. I am perfectly fine it has none. I mostly bought it knowing there was none. I was looking for an experience, not a shooter. Each time you give someone a weapon in a video game, they become the hunter, not the hunted.

Now, from purely scenaristic principles, weapons can be a great plus to a horror game.

I think of the following examples:

1. You start as a soldier, or whatever guy that can have a gun, with lot of guns and ammo, and the more you progress, the more you lose all your weaponry. In the end you would have no more gun to fight with, and this was all intended. In such a way, having guns and losing them actually can create an increasing feeling of desperation.

2. You find a gun (or melee weapon) in the game, but, hey, surprise! it's either inneficient, or the moment you plan to use it there is a 'cinematic' which prevents you to keep it. Damned, you thought you were gonna fight back, but it was just misleads. Can be a great addition if done properly ;-)

So yeah, I am all in for the gunz in Outlast. Bring them in and do not let the CoD kiddies use any in the way they planned to do, make it horrific, and then I am all in! Let'z huv gunzz!!

[Mystix]

I doubt weapons would be added this game at this point.

But if interested, there are some other good Survival-Horror type of games that do allow the Player to fight-back / use some weapons.

Here's a good example of such a game that I think does this well;
Condemned: Criminal Origins
http://store.steampowered.com/app/4720/

[Amenophys]

Yup, I know there is no point in adding weapons in Outlast, the topic was more about weapons in horror games and how it can be used for scenaristic purposes.

Outlast is fine without weapons ;-)

Originally posted by LoneWolfDon:

I doubt weapons would be added this game at this point.

But if interested, there are some other good Survival-Horror type of games that do allow the Player to fight-back / use some weapons.

Here's a good example of such a game that I think does this well;
Condemned: Criminal Origins
http://store.steampowered.com/app/4720/

[Late Shacka]

Bro, no. No weapons to this game ever. Why? Because Dead Island. Done.

[Amenophys]

Originally posted by Late Shacka:

Bro, no. No weapons to this game ever. Why? Because Dead Island. Done.

I like how you do not read the OP. However thx for trying :-)

[W a f f l e]

..... i want to atleast be able to punch one of the enemies if my guy isn't to scared

[Slazza]

Go play Condemned if you want guns.

Outlast is a stealth game.

[Jakenotnice]

maybe a melee weapon to use to maybe back them off not kill them you know might be ok but its more scary without them you know its more of a hide thing not fight

[Amenophys]

None of you guys got my point.

I am not asking for guns in Outlast, it was irony.

I am explaining that having guns in a horror game, without actually making them useful for combat, can be a nice trick to set up terror in the mind of the player.

But hell, nevermind that. :-)

[DarknessUnbound]

YEAH i have been playing with no guns and I have not died yet

[Kamil]

While not being a weapon... it would of been really nice to be able to make diversions. Noises to attract the stalkers to a certain area to bypass undetected or to get them to move away from objectives etc.

The only issue with this idea is that if its done too liberally or too well it can take away from that feeling of helplessness which in turns takes away from the horror element. I loathe everytime I see a title call its self Survival Horror and then in the game you have full control of any given scenario. One of the key elements of Survival Horror is submission to your own percieved powerlessness but still overcoming the obstacle regardless.

[ColossalCereal]

When a horror game doesn't let me have weapons, I hide 99% of the time, and actually advance 1% of the time.
When a horror game let's me have weapons, I want to charge at everything I see and attack the hell out of it.

Originally posted by |ZF|TaskForce:

YEAH i have been playing with no guns and I have not died yet

The death animations are the craziest you will ever see.

[Archdeacon Monseigneur]

add weapons to the game and it takes ALL the morbid horror out of it.. Fact.. it wouldn't be funny if you could just kill whoever is stalking you... the game is simply not designed that way, at all... you are not meant to kill ANYONE besides what happens in the cutscenes.. now granted we all wished we just had a club or a shank or something to fight back with once in a while, and might end up dying because we didn't... well tough luck. try again, ♥♥♥♥♥, you can't fight, and you are not suppose to... imagine being able to just waggle around chris walker, and when he attacked you, you just pull out some ♥♥♥♥ and he gets stunned or dies or whatever, and you dance off... BORING!...

and yes i DID read OP.

[BlackWater]

I thought it would be interesting if you had defensive items like pepper spray or a tazer with limited uses. I doubt refills for these would be lying around.