'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."
There are many scenes from Outlast [https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/outlast/] that are burned into my memory, The Groom's sequence in Outlast's Whistleblower DLC, the finger amputation from the first game, or perhaps it was landing on a bunch of baby bones in Outlast 2 [https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/outlast-2/]. There's quite a lot to pick from over two games, a DLC, and the live service The Outlast Trials [https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-outlast-trials/]. But if Philippe Morin, co-founder of Re...
