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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - TiManGames - 09-15-2015
(09-15-2015, 02:55 PM)Slanderous Wrote:(09-15-2015, 01:35 PM)TheTieMan Wrote:Spoiler below!
I think I got it, the big clumsy robot thing is corrupted version of Carl the robot.
Really emotional artwork, I love it
Spoiler ahead
Spoiler below!
![[Image: 5785e4a711.jpg]](http://puu.sh/kc5cq/5785e4a711.jpg)
Spoiler below!
![[Image: 20qOHKM.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/20qOHKM.jpg)
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - Radiance - 09-15-2015
(09-15-2015, 02:50 PM)Slanderous Wrote: Please tell me it's gonna be a game set in the XX century 20s with clearly visible Lovecraft inspirations.
Or some fantasy setting like mountains of madness.
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - Damascus Rose - 09-15-2015
(09-15-2015, 01:54 PM)Paddy™ Wrote: Interesting that the robot sees itself as a human woman. I wonder if you took a photo of the robot and showed it to it, would it still see the woman, or would it say "nice robot, but why are you showing me this?" Or if you sketched it with a pencil, maybe even in an exaggerated caricature form, would it see a caricatured woman or a Pixar-style robot?
If a photo of the robot would still register in the robot's mind as the human woman it thinks it is, what would happen if you took that photo of the robot, and photoshopped it slightly to add extra details while removing other details? At what point would the robot see the image as being just an image of a robot? Or would its human female form appear to change more and more with each tweak you made to the image of the robot? For instance, if you remove a button or a cog from the robot's "face", would the robot see it as the removal of the woman's nose or eyebrows etc.?
Can the robot recognise other robots? How does its delusion know when to see a robot as a robot and when to substitute it for a human form? Is it consistent? Will it see a robot as Jim on one day, then on another day will it see Jim as the garbage disposal machine that it actually is?
I haven't even played the game yet and I'm already losing my sanity trying to wrap my head around this haha.
I think the robot/human knows looking in a mirror means you're looking at yourself, and its perception of self is that of a human girl. So it thinks of itself as a girl and sees a girl in a mirror. As for everything else it sees, who knows.. maybe it sees you as a threat to it and that's why it wants to kill you? The robot of carl semken seemed to think the robots around him that were malfunctioning were human, because he says "what the hell happened to you" to them.
Another thought, maybe it doesn't see a girl in the mirror at all but it's an artistic way of showing what it wishes it saw. It has this identity of self as being a girl but all it sees is this nasty robot. That could be why it has its hand put up to the mirror connecting with this real image of what it now is, coming to an epiphany
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - MrSteve - 09-15-2015
See, when Carl says "What the hell happened to you", I always assumed he was actually talking to Simon, because it's something he says when you approach him.
Simon sees himself as human, but others might not see the same thing....
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - Damascus Rose - 09-15-2015
(09-15-2015, 04:03 PM)MrSteve Wrote: See, when Carl says "What the hell happened to you", I always assumed he was actually talking to Simon, because it's something he says when you approach him.
Simon sees himself as human, but others might not see the same thing....
I assumed he was talking to the malfunctioning robots all around him, because he doesn't notice you when he initially says it
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - TiManGames - 09-15-2015
Hey look at that:
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/amnesiamidweek/
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - Kein - 09-15-2015
Hi-res of the promo art:
![[Image: soma___promo_art___mirror_by_sethnemo-d99o8iv.jpg]](http://orig14.deviantart.net/8efc/f/2015/258/d/9/soma___promo_art___mirror_by_sethnemo-d99o8iv.jpg)
http://orig14.deviantart.net/8efc/f/2015/258/d/9/soma___promo_art___mirror_by_sethnemo-d99o8iv.jpg
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - Kein - 09-15-2015
Pre-load starts tonight
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - RawkBandMan - 09-15-2015
Pre-load has started
![[Image: jcJyZE5.png]](http://i.imgur.com/jcJyZE5.png)
RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread - A.M Team - 09-15-2015
What does pre-loading actually do? P.S: I am pre-loading now
