(10-27-2013, 05:48 PM)Mechavomit Wrote:

(10-27-2013, 05:05 PM)Macgyverthehero Wrote:

(10-27-2013, 04:56 PM)Mechavomit Wrote: What if our character just doesn't know how to load guns?

I'm pretty sure that in a setting like SOMA, every member of staff would have to be trained with at least one handgun.



Wouldn't make sense to have such a high security research facility without a crew that does not have the knowledge of taking out and reinserting a magazine into a firearm.

What if he's just a janitor? And he ends up saving everybody. I'm serious right now, that'd be pretty interesting.

(10-27-2013, 06:51 PM)Cuyir Wrote: I don't think FG would center the story around an ''everyman'' protagonist. They are, quite clearly, fans of Lovecraft and all their characters so far have been really Lovecrafty (educated, proper, etc.). Philip was a physics professor and Daniel was an archaeologist.

This doesn't guarantee anything, but just that they're more likely to do these sorts of protagonists.

But they're going to need an incredible reason as to why there aren't any weapons in the game haha.

(10-27-2013, 08:17 PM)Alardem Wrote:

(10-27-2013, 06:51 PM)Cuyir Wrote: I don't think FG would center the story around an ''everyman'' protagonist. They are, quite clearly, fans of Lovecraft and all their characters so far have been really Lovecrafty (educated, proper, etc.). Philip was a physics professor and Daniel was an archaeologist.

This doesn't guarantee anything, but just that they're more likely to do these sorts of protagonists.

But they're going to need an incredible reason as to why there aren't any weapons in the game haha.

The protagonists are more among the 'frail intellectual/bourgeois' type. :p This isn't Half-Life, where even a supposedly nerdy scientist is trained in using firearms.

Cuyir, how do you know that the trailer was set in a 'mothership'? I suppose we don't know whether the machines are of human or otherworldly origin, but the impression I got from the scene where that guy gets his brain probed was that we were in some sort of virtual reality.

P.S. Perhaps one enemy will be people with cybernetic brains - the equivalent of Amnesia's Gatherers and Penumbra's zombies.

(10-27-2013, 10:24 PM)Alardem Wrote: The Alien Derelict.

(10-27-2013, 10:28 PM)Cuyir Wrote: Prometheus then took those emotions and themes and made them bigger and more satisfying.

(10-27-2013, 10:59 PM)Alardem Wrote:

(10-27-2013, 10:28 PM)Cuyir Wrote: Prometheus then took those emotions and themes and made them bigger and more satisfying.

I appreciated what Prometheus was focusing on, but was disappointed by the inevitably dull rendering of the Xenomorphs' creators - I'd imagined them to be horrific elephantine cyborgs, rather than big white dudes.

it might be pretty awesome if SOMA does feature ancient, biomechanical extraterrestrials. Perhaps we'll have both human-made machines and alien machines as enemies. :p

(10-27-2013, 11:41 PM)Alardem Wrote: That's the problem - I didn't like the retcon of the Pilot wearing a mask. I preferred the implication that it was their actual skull. Fossilized cyborg Ganesh is awesome. :p

Spoiler below!

Although I suppose the similarities between the Jockeys and humans justify why the Xenomorphs are so well-tailored for mammalian biology.

Could it be that we'll be looking at a similar theme here? As a wild guess: ancient aliens create ancient robots, which in turn create humans, which create robots, which create artificial humans...