The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Ghieri]

...what's wrong with a game being a game?

A game which is designed to be a game is not really serious, it's rather trimmed to be most of fun.

"My entertainment is better than yours!"

HUDs are only unbelievable if they are distracting, or if you deliberately point it out. It's called suspension of Disbelief. We ignore details that are contradictory to reality if the game treats it like normal.

It's kind of like dreaming. No, I probably would never forget to wear pants to school, but my dream is sure as hell going to make me feel the shame...

*Ahem* just like in games, where I am so used to the concept of HUDs it's actually more noticable when a game DOESN'T have one.

EDIT: I just realized my first sentence was accidental circular logic. Fixed.