A straight remake of the 1999 action-adventure classic Outcast: Shiny new graphics but otherwise it's pretty much the same game. Reviews are veering a bit on the mediocre side though. The graphical overhaul gets points, the fiddly, imprecise controls and fetch quests not so much. I don't really remember these criticisms. Fiddly gameplay was the norm back in the day anyway and I don't recall the quests as boring. Though I guess I used to have more patience for these things when I was younger.
Anyway the original was my favorite game during that timeframe. Gods know how many times I've played it. After Starcraft a year or two before, this was the second game I
really nerded out on. I annoyed so many people with talking about it constantly. Shit, I even wore the fucking t-shirt that came with the box to school
The negative backlash I received back then convinced me to curb my nerdist tendencies in public from then on tho.
There's a lot of nostalgia there but I ain't too sure that I still have the patience for the same archaic gameplay. So I think I'm gonna wait for a price drop. 35 bucks is not too cheap for a remake (though there's a minor sale on Steam going on until next week).