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The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread
Alardem Offline
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

A near-future setting would explain why the human technology displayed in SOMA isn't ridiculously implausible.
05-25-2014, 06:57 PM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

(05-25-2014, 05:53 PM)Googolplex Wrote: 19 years in the future is completely unrealistic. A setting like SOMA could take place 1019 years in the future.

lol , huge exaggeration
05-25-2014, 09:24 PM
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RedKnight Offline
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

19 years in the future...then it's set in 2033

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Dammit! Potato said it already

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05-26-2014, 05:59 AM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

I wonder if it's set 19 years from now (2014) or from the game's release date (2015). Not that it matters all that much!

It's a pretty dark thought to imagine being in a facility at the bottom of the ocean while everyone (or almost everyone) on the surface is dead. It gives me the same sensation in my chest as when I imagine being buried alive in a secret grave; a complete, total and irretrievable loss of connection with your life and your loved ones. I anticipate good (by which I mean "harrowing") things for this game.

05-26-2014, 06:14 AM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

I'm really starting to like the idea that the reason the game takes place under the sea is because a catastrophic meteor storm pretty much destroyed all the land on the surface. It just really works somehow, sort of a new take on an apocalypse.

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05-26-2014, 07:36 AM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

(05-25-2014, 01:32 PM)Chrysler Wrote:
Quote:Production Description

Casting the feature film, "Depth." Project description: "Eleven months after the surface of the earth was destroyed by asteroid strike, scientists in the sub-sea facility Pathos 2, struggle to remain sane, alive, and human in an increasingly threatening environment."


Rehearsal and Production Dates & Locations

Shoots late May-June, in the Seattle, WA area.

Man if the damage is less worse and it was a nuclear attack, Metro 2033 and SOMA could be in the same universe!

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05-26-2014, 08:06 AM
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Alardem Offline
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

This could be another reason for the protagonists being isolated - there is no homebase to contact.

I wonder if the "meteor strike" is related to the aliens.
05-26-2014, 10:52 AM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

"Apophis" is the name of an asteroid that comes close to earth in 2029 and 2036, the timeframe when the game takes place.
05-26-2014, 12:43 PM
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RedKnight Offline
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

(05-26-2014, 12:43 PM)Chrysler Wrote: "Apophis" is the name of an asteroid that comes close to earth in 2029 and 2036, the timeframe when the game takes place.

Thanks alot! Now i am really fucking scared of the end of the world

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05-26-2014, 03:11 PM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

Who's to say that the technology present in the game will be all created by humans?

(This post was last modified: 05-26-2014, 05:41 PM by GrAVit.)
05-26-2014, 05:41 PM
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