The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

**Fortigurn** · 04-20-2014, 10:09 AM

(04-20-2014, 02:03 AM)Alardem Wrote: I do wonder if part of the game will take place in a virtual reality of sorts. The Mockingbird video implied that Golaski-Bot was perceiving something different from what Reed saw - hence him claiming to be standing up and moving while the robot shell remained inert.

I don't think this is about an alternative or virtual reality. The Golaski-Bot is unable to perceive what Reed perceives, because the Golaski-Bot has no eyes and no other way of seeing. But the Golaski-Bot is convinced it is really Golaski, so it attempts convoluted justifications to explain why it can't see anything.

This is precisely what people do when affected by perception disorders which limit their vision, or which render them unable to use one of their limbs (or unable to recognize that one of their limbs has been removed); rather than acknowledge the disability, they invent alternative explanations as to why they can't see or do something. That's what the Golaski-Bot is doing.

**Red** · 05-04-2014, 11:09 AM

Don't know has this been posted here yet.
Some preview gameplay by gamespot.

Spoiler below!

EDIT: Forgot to mention, spoiler alert!

**Sampyli** · 05-04-2014, 10:18 PM

Quote from the game clip on the Gamespot preview:

Spoiler below!

**Damascus Rose** · 05-06-2014, 04:55 AM

all i could think during that video.. why did they pick him to do the voice?

**Alardem** · 05-06-2014, 01:13 PM

(05-06-2014, 04:55 AM)Damascus Rose Wrote: all i could think during that video.. why did they pick him to do the voice?

To make it less scary.

~~Googolplex~~ · 05-07-2014, 05:56 PM

I would praise if there are monsters that don't attack you. But you are unsure whether they do.

**Kein** · 05-08-2014, 11:55 AM

Yeah, it was quite a thrill in Outlast

**Macgyverthehero** · 05-08-2014, 08:34 PM

(05-07-2014, 05:56 PM)Googolplex Wrote: I would praise if there are monsters that don't attack you. But you are unsure whether they do.

Fish.

**Alardem** · 05-09-2014, 04:17 AM

(05-08-2014, 08:34 PM)Macgyverthehero Wrote:
(05-07-2014, 05:56 PM)Googolplex Wrote: I would praise if there are monsters that don't attack you. But you are unsure whether they do.

Fish.

Hopefully sharks and other eldritch monsters (giant squid!) can attack you.

**MyRedNeptune** · 05-09-2014, 06:00 PM

(05-08-2014, 11:55 AM)Kein Wrote: Yeah, it was quite a thrill in Outlast

That was one thing I loved about Outlast.