Outcast - A New Beginning

Outcast: A New Beginning is the worst open-world game I have played in years. It's boring, repetitive and empty. I don't know where to start — it's riddled with flaws. The world is huge, but completely empty. The open world is similar to that in Biomutant - its filled with copy-pasted side activities such as clearing bases or following a flying wisp from point A to point B - it's awful! It's basically a Just Cause clone, but without any of the fun. The story is terrible, and the dialogue is awful. 90% of the dialogue is pointless and takes forever to get through. They tried to mimic the sarcastic dialogue from the first game, but it's much more cringe here. The voice acting is soulless and the animations are poor. There's a lack of enemy types, the AI is poor and enemy pathfinding is terrible. There are only two weapons in the game, which are essentially identical. The only difference is that the machine gun has two more upgrade slots than the pistol. The difficulty level is laughab...

Colonial guilt savior complex Avatar military father redemption arc soar like a bird and ride a giant elephant slug Game engine stutters a lot, which is frustrating, but I didn't have a single crash during my playthrough. I encountered bugs but nothing that prevented me from continuing. The game feels polished somehow despite its flaws. Select Directx12 when starting the game. Initial game load is very slow, but in-game loads are pretty quick. The original game was sooo much more immersive and mysterious than this Far Cry Rage 2 point-of-interest fest, but there's still the same heart here and the same endless dad-jokes. The Talans used to be alien and feel less-so now. A lot of references to the original game in this one. Some of the characters and storylines are interesting, but most are not, and I ended up skipping through parts dialogue pretty often. Cutter Slade gets genuine emotional moments about the struggles of fatherhood but the game tone spends a lot of time...

So I got the game on sale, and it was ok for the price I paid for it. Its certainly NOT worth the current steam price of £35. Now I get it was a small team that made the game, but a little more testing would have gone a long way. There were a bunch OF NPC's (mostly on the bases) that were stuck in the pose position and were non interactable. Or gaps in the geometry or texture streaming bugs (these didn't happen that often). The visuals for the most part are spot on, however there are many places where the texture tiling is extremely obvious and immersion breaking. Or where the player or NPC's would get stuck on geometry. The story telling was quite good for an indi-game, but the pacing was off a few too many times in the cut-scenes. The ending for example, was too short and should have been fleshed out via in-game quests/tasks. As in let the player complete a few tasks for the villages after the fact and maybe add a few easter eggs for the player to discover to close the story o...

there is nothing about this game that is worth owning from the crashs that never stop to the bullshit and lazy ass writing for the story fuck this game fuck me for buying this trash and i hope i can get a fucking refund

boring couldn't finish it

The voice acting is terrible... the cutscenes and acting are mostly lame and are way too much of the game. The UI is overcomplicated... it took some warming up to get into the game, as the tutorials and cutscenes are painful and plentiful... The super deep discount made it worth some play... but don't pay full price.

Honestly? This game should be renamed in "Parkours Simulator". Why does almost every game nowadays have to be ruined by either QTEs or parkours? I hate both of these things. Unfortunately, so far the only way I have found of obtaining blue helidium in this game is by doing some kind of f***ing parkour called Orym trail. Without these blue crystals, you cannot improve your jetpack and without improving your jetpack, there are some locations that are very hard to reach (or maybe even completely inaccessible, as I'v seen several side missions with a symbol indicating that a prticular skill is needed, which I did not yet have). I now just did such a f***ing Orym trail and it took me at least 40 or 50 tries, which alone is infuriating, as I simply hate this type of mechanics. But when I finally succeeded, what happened? I could not open / destroy the Orym chest (by meleeing it), which contains the crystals, even though I got a quest / activity marker on my screen saying "Destroy the Orym ...

I really wanted to like this game, I did.... but I just couldn't stand it any longer. About one meager hour into the game I'm so annoyed about the gameplay that I threw the towel into the ring. The reason isn't the mechanics or even glitches but the way the game is presented. There are just so many (poorly done) cutscenes, constantly interrupting me which really got in the way of any immersion. The starting quest seems to go to fast, is to straight forward and has nothing to it thus not pulling me into the game AT ALL. Feels random, soulless. To top it of they add a "mist" which forces you to stay on path towards the goals the quests sets. And I would understand all of it, if it was just in the verry start... as to ease you into the game but this sh*t just keeps on going and going. I'm sorry, i really liked the idea the game presents and the mechacnics seemed really good but it's a nope, a big nope for me.

somehow has more cutscenes than Hunt Down The Freeman

Game is fantastic. Fun combat and upgrade mechanics. Traversal is obviously the best part. A little heavy on the dialogue but you can skip alot and still follow along.