The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Alardem]

A near-future setting would explain why the human technology displayed in SOMA isn't ridiculously implausible.

[plutomaniac]

19 years in the future is completely unrealistic. A setting like SOMA could take place 1019 years in the future.

lol , huge exaggeration

[RedKnight]

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

EDIT:

Dammit! Potato said it already

[Paddy™]

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.

[Potato]

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.

[PutraenusAlivius]

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!

[Alardem]

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.

[Chrysler]

"Apophis" is the name of an asteroid that comes close to earth in 2029 and 2036, the timeframe when the game takes place.

[RedKnight]

"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

[GrAVit]

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