Outcast (video game): Difference between revisions

* [[Bag of Holding]]: Cutter's backpack holds an amazing amount of supplies; lampshaded in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjFmLiv5cFY one of the "outtakes"]. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] (or [[Hand Wave|handwaved]]) by it being a nanominaturisation backpack, complete with accompanying sound effects.

* [[Big Bad]]: Fae Rhan {{spoiler|, actually Anthony Xue}}

* [[Dance Party Ending]]: If you get enough completion percentage.

* [[The Dragon]]: Kroax.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Xue, again, when he kills William Kauffman and becomes Fae Rhan.}}

* [[Feelies]]: Included were sheets detailing every weapon available in the game and translations of every word of the Talan's language, "Agazork", into English.

* [[Girly Run]]: Marion does not walk or run. She flounces, and then flounces faster. Cutter has a strange gait too.

* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: ''Outcast Outtakes'', which showed the game as an in-development film. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnqAihKAyA&feature=related look here]

* [[Humanoid Aliens]]

* [[Justified Save Point]]: The Gaamsaav crystal.

* [[Karma Meter]]: Help the Talan and your reputation will improve. Hurt and kill the Talan and it worsens. If it bottoms out, Talan will be openly unhelpful and prevent you from learning enough to make any progress. The better it is, the cheaper you can buy your equipment back (see [[No Hero Discount]]) and the more you'll be able to sell certain items for.

* [[No Hero Discount]]: The Talan believe you're [[The Messiah]], prophecised to save them from tyranny. This doesn't stop a group of identical merchants, all brothers, from selling your own equipment to you in an attempt to prove to their father that they can make enough money to inherit the family business

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: If you kill a plot-critical talan, it's essence will not dissipate into the atmosphere normally. Instead it'll chase you forever. Once it catches you, you die.

* [[Real After All]]: {{spoiler|Beyond the magic-like powers some Talan have the game's various references to the Yods seem to just be standard religious explanations for regular occurrences, however, the way Fae Rhan's castle is destroyed at the very end suggests they really are real.}}

* [[Scenery Porn]]: For a world rendered near-entirely with voxels, it's really pretty.

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]: In the box art Cutter Slade is about to shoot you.

* {{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop]]}}: {{spoiler|Kauffman and Xue end up in Adelpha a few decades before the probe, Cutter or Marion do. In the decades between, Kauffman becomes the prophet Kazar and predicts the arrival of Cutter, [[The Messiah|the Ulukai]]; Xue becomes [[Big Bad|Fae Rahn]], has Kazar <s>killed</s> "reverted", and then ends up sending one of his soldiers to damage the probe when it finally arrives.}}

* [[The Lifestream]]: Essentially how essences worked.