Gamer's Guide To Survival Horror: Tips for Surviving Outlast

Good morning gamers, nerds and geeks,

Welcome back to the Nerd's Notebook, and today we're turning to Chapter One in the Gamer's Guide: Survival Horror. Outlast is a horror game wherein you can't fight back, but you have to use your quick wits to survive, surrounded by insane patrons, creepy religious cults, machete wielding nudists and Piggy. In all honesty, it's a great game and it scared the absolute hell out of me. Anyway, here are some tips to get you through the game fairly unscathed.

1. Collect and Conserve Batteries: In Mount Massive Asylum, there are more than many dark areas and rooms, and more often than not, you will have to traverse the darkness with the only source of light at times being the night vision mode on your camera. To my knowledge, you can hold up to ten batteries at a time, and the night vision mode runs through the battery's life fairly quick, so you're going to have to carry more than one.

2. Don't Be Afraid To Explore: Ironically enough, you're only means of self defense are running and hiding, but you shouldn't be afraid to explore, because that is how you'll come across batteries, hiding spots, and documents that will thrust you deeper into the game's lore and story.

3. Always Stay Thinking: In this horror game, things will often go awry and you'll need to adjust your game plan just a bit in order to survive. Stay on your toes and always have a back up plan.

4. Run, Hide, and Wait For Your Life: As I have said, Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower are purely survival horror, meaning you have literally no means of self defense. This ties into my second point;  ninety-five percent of the inhabitants of the asylum will attack you if they see you, resulting in a chase.

5. Know When To Run Past Your Foe: Many of the enemies in the asylum will kill you in three to four strikes, given their weapons are blunt. The Doctor will this massive shears will kill you in two or three strikes. The machete wielding nudists will kill you in two strikes. Piggy (and he is the easiest to discern because you meet him as the first real foe and he address you as "little pig") is a one-hit killer.

Page From The Geek's Guide: Ten More Fictional Characters I Would Love To Be

Good afternoon nerds, gamers, and geeks and welcome back to the Nerd's Notebook. Today is the part two to a past post that made. Let's jump right in. In no particular order, we have:

1. The Members of Dumbledore's Army (J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series): The members over Dumbledore's Army in the iconic Harry Potter series by renowned author, J. K Rowling, grew stronger under the command of Harry Potter, as did Harry himself. Those that survived the great battle at the end grew to be some of the strongest. Besides that, magic has always been something that's amazing to me that I like to read about, write about and learn about, but not to practice...unless I was a student at Hogwarts.

2. Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula): If you haven't read the first post, then you don't know that if I could choose anything nonhuman to be, I'd be a vampire first, then werewolf, and perhaps a dhampir (vampire-werewolf hybrid). For me to become Dracula, is for me to become the primordial nosferatu. The first vampire and one created by such an amazing author.

3. Celena Sardothien (Sarah J. Maas' Throne of Glass series): An infamous assassin with extensive knowledge of poison, enhanced intelligence, and amazing fighting skills. Seriously, thank you Sarah J. Maas for creating such an amazing character. You can find a post on this book in my reading blog, the-page-master.blogspot.com

4. Any Member of the Bat Family (DC Comic Continuity): All I will say is seriously...beware for those that bear the mark of the bat and fight alongside the Dark Knight and are a member of his estranged crime fighting family. Challenging any one of them will not end well.

5. Greco-Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Japanese and Slavic Gods and Goddesses (Mythologies): I love studying mythologies and the gods and goddesses that are in each respective mythology, so for me to have the powers of some chosen deities and minor deities would be amazing, though dangerous for them that may cross me.

6. Alisa Perne (Christopher Pike's Thirst Series): Alisa Perne kicks butt as a vampire, and Christopher Pike did an excellent job putting us as the reader into the shoes of a vampire woman.

7. Carrie (Stephen King's Carrie): The power of telekinesis was Carrie's most powerful and only weapon which was completely and terrifyingly unlocked at the end of the novel, because she murdered many of her former classmates when she snapped and her powers raged out of control. This can also be found as a separate post in my reading blog the-page-master.blogspot.com.

8. Lestat (Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire/ Queen of the Damned): Another vampire that, in the movie Queen of the Damned (godofthearts.blospot.com), was the lead singer of an amazing metal band, whose songs from the soundtrack were written and performed by some great bands. But still...vampire...metal. Grade A awesomeness.

9. Number Four (Pittacus Lore's I Am Number Four): To have powers and to be hunted is something I always thought would make my life way more interesting than it already is. And that's just what happens in I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore.

10. The Deities of the Cthulu Mythos (H.P Lovecraft's Chthulu Mythos): As I have said before, I love to study mythologies and right now I am heavily into Slavic Mythology, Nordic Mythology, and the Lovecraftian mythos named after his own creations. The famous author of Cosmic Horror, created grotesque and strange deities that are Eldritch in practice and horrifying in reality.