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.

Notes from the Gamer's Guide: Five Video Games That Need To Be Brought Back

Welcome to my list of five video games that need to be brought back. Let me get explain; my "brought back" I mean they need to remade for Xbox 360, PS3, Xbox One, and PS4. This is my list, in no particular top five order, because I love them all. Hilarious, we all know that I am obsessed with Injustice: Gods Among Us, but it's not on this list, because they are making an Injustice 2 for Xbox One and PS4. Anyone that has any kind of contacts with the creators of these games...please make this a thing!

1. Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (PS2/ Xbox): The Marvel version of DC's Injustice: Gods Among Us, and one of the best freaking game of all time. This is one of the few games that can actually compete with the Injustice for the number one spot of my favorite video game.

2. Duel Masters (PS2): I was obsessed with the show and the trading card game. When I got the game for PS2, I never stopped playing... until my baby brother accidently broke it.

3. Dragonball Z: Budakai Tenkaichi 2 (PS2): My favorite game of all time, I would play this game endlessly, for days, ignoring my dozens of other PS2 games. I got it when I was 12 and didn't stop playing it until I was 17, and that was only because my PS2 broke and I got an Xbox 360.

4. Ape Escape 3 (PS2): In all honesty, this was one game that I played more than Dragonball Z. Everything about it was just flawless.

5. Spiderman 2 (PS2): This was my very first game type that was similar to Batman: Arkham Knight. Long story short...this game was freaking perfect. I won't even lie, I haven't even tried playing the Amazing Spiderman games, because I don't think they'll measure up.



Page From the Gamer's Guide: Five Movies That Should Be Decision Based Video Games

In the world of video games, one of many types are decision based video games, such as Until Dawn, wherein every decision you make can and will alter the story in some way, shape, and/or form. So that got me thinking... what movies would actually make a good, or at the very least a somewhat decent decision based video game?

5. Prom Night (2008): The movie is suspenseful, and is a good, old fashioned serial killer horror movie. On the Prom Night shared by high school friends, who would make it out alive when an obsessed serial killer infiltrates the hotel the prom is being hosted at and starts picking people off just to get to a specific character?

4. Titanic: In this iconic movie, let's see if we can prevent as many people from dying, or if more people die by our hands.

3. The Perfect Guy/ Enough: In both movies, women are trapped in toxic relationships and have to escape. Both end in the death of the toxic ex-boyfriend/ spouse. How long would it take for us to reach that point with our hands on the controller or keyboard.

2. Bruce Almighty: Simply put, how would the decisions we make now differ from the ones we would make if we were gifted God's powers?

1. Blue is the Warmest Color: Literally, my all time favorite movie/ graphic novel. In the book, she dies at the end. In the movie, she doesn't. Which direction would we walk in the shoes of Clementine...or Adele in the movie.

Are there any movies you think should be on this list? Are there any movies here you feel shouldn't be? Drop a comment below and let me know. Stay weird, my friends.