The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

**Kein** · 10-01-2013, 04:01 PM

Calm down, just kidding.

Spoiler below!

**Ossie** · 10-01-2013, 04:06 PM

(10-01-2013, 03:38 PM)Xanthe_ Wrote:
(10-01-2013, 03:25 PM)Ossie Wrote: Question for Frictional - can you confirm if there is going to be a PC version and, if so, whether it will be released at the same time as (or before) a Sony console version please?
I would not be worried about PC version when they have always had version even for linux. Just relax and wait and see what happens.

Fair enough, just getting a bit twitchy after TCR abandoned the PC ship for 'Everybody's Gone To The Rapture' .....

**pinkribbonscars** · 10-01-2013, 04:20 PM

(10-01-2013, 04:01 PM)Kein Wrote: Calm down, just kidding.

Spoiler below!

Your reaction is priceless, haha. Sorry.

-strangles-

**Retomathic** · 10-01-2013, 04:23 PM

i can't believe frictional games got these actrices and maybe actors and a set! indie developer. no, can't be, this is high budget

**Sampyli** · 10-01-2013, 04:27 PM

(10-01-2013, 04:23 PM)Retomathic Wrote: i can't believe frictional games got these actrices and maybe actors and a set! indie developer. no, can't be, this is high budget

Well, Amnesia was very popular after all. But if Amnesia was very low budget, and for this game they have a big one ..

**Ossie** · 10-01-2013, 04:28 PM

(10-01-2013, 04:23 PM)Retomathic Wrote: i can't believe frictional games got these actrices and maybe actors and a set! indie developer. no, can't be, this is high budget

The set appears to be CGI ..... notice how the actresses' foot goes through the bottom of the door opening when she goes out of and comes into the room. The closing door is obviously CGI.

**Mechavomit** · 10-01-2013, 04:33 PM

(10-01-2013, 04:27 PM)Sampyli Wrote:
(10-01-2013, 04:23 PM)Retomathic Wrote: i can't believe frictional games got these actrices and maybe actors and a set! indie developer. no, can't be, this is high budget

Well, Amnesia was very popular after all. But if Amnesia was very low budget, and for this game they have a big one ..

They consider Amnesia "rushed and a bit shallow" despite it's popularity too. Since this game is not "rushed and shallow", it should be very, very good.
And after reading that essay on storytelling and immersion, I have no doubt that it will be.

**Kein** · 10-01-2013, 04:38 PM

Okay, so, who was on the screen? I re-watched it twice and there is no way to say it was the same girl. Judging by the hair it looks like a man (she is red).

**Sampyli** · 10-01-2013, 04:45 PM

(10-01-2013, 04:33 PM)Mechavomit Wrote: They consider Amnesia "rushed and a bit shallow" despite it's popularity too. Since this game is not "rushed and shallow", it should be very, very good.
And after reading that essay on storytelling and immersion, I have no doubt that it will be.

Exactly.

Amnesia - low budget, rushed

Soma - high budget, planned, carefully made and so on

We're in for mental trauma or something Big Grin

**Bridge** · 10-01-2013, 04:47 PM

So the "machine" is sort of like a crystal ball capable of seeing into the future, or possibly altering it?