'Are we going too far with this?': One of the worst scenes in Outlast had its devs debating whether to add it to the game or not

'Are we going too far with this?': One of the worst scenes in Outlast had its devs debating whether to add it to the game or not

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Philippe Morin

"The first thing that got us debating was the necrophiliac scene in the first Outlast. We had a lot of conversations about do we do it? Are we going too far with this? And how does it make sense in this environment? That was a heated conversation."

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