The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Sakonosolo]

I think it's just as bad to think that companies should hold back because there are some people who don't have the time or money to get a state of the art machine. Graphics at least scale. Making a game whose gameplay wouldn't work on lots of machines is one thing, and I can't even think of how that would work, but graphics are meant to scale, and that's what's so good about PC gaming. You can allow settings that are unplayable even on high end machines for years to come, ie TW2's ubersampling, and also allow people with weak computers to play the game. Frictional's games have never really been graphical powerhouses though so I don't think there's much to worry about there. And this game looks much better than the Amnesia games just from what we've seen so far anyway.

Edit: Although textures, which is what we seem to be talking about, don't really impact framerate anyway given you have enough vram to use them.