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The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

(05-31-2015, 11:39 AM)Kein Wrote: I smell tumblr and neogaf.

In few weeks there will be discoveries of misogyny and objectifications in SOMA.

"Good things, etc"

Don't forget the lack of diversity
06-07-2015, 05:28 PM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

Frictional Games Wrote:Fragment from incoming transmission discovered.
ETA: A few days.

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06-08-2015, 09:08 PM
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Wait, there's more? I thought we wouldn't get anything until September. Now I'm all excited again.
06-08-2015, 09:18 PM
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I made noise again.

Don't mind me.

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06-08-2015, 09:29 PM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

Also the same picture from their Facebook along with:

Frictional Games Wrote:Two quick updates:

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We almost done with SOMA's age rating now, and as with all our games this is quite interesting. "I have never dealt with that sort of thing before" as already come up twice in email exchanges with the rating agency.

The reason for it being so weird is that while our games tend to be disturbing the imagery is quite subtle. So it is hard place it in a proper video game age category.

For instance, Penumbra Overture got a PEGI rating of 12 despite having a bunch of horrible things in it (check here for examples: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ni...l/Penumbra). The reason for the low rating was that most things were not explicit but just hinted at or done mostly with sounds.

Since SOMA deals with themes of selfhood, consciousness and stuff like that, things get even fuzzier. For instance:
"Is there any violence against living human characters?"
to which our response is:
"Well, it depends a great deal on how you define living and human".

You could really have long philosophical debates based around the age rating form.

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Something is coming in a few days and to tease a tease-tingling image have been added below.

Haha, problems with the age ratings because of SOMA's ambiguous definition of what's human and what's not.

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06-08-2015, 09:46 PM
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RE: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

What's coming is E3 obviously. Wink
06-08-2015, 10:33 PM
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What if there would be a Stephano easter egg in SOMA?

What if there would be a Stephano easter egg in SOMA? That would be pretty awesome, lol
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06-09-2015, 04:07 PM
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(06-09-2015, 04:07 PM)TheTieMan Wrote: What if there would be a Stephano easter egg in SOMA? That would be pretty awesome, lol

Doubtful~

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06-09-2015, 04:55 PM
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(06-09-2015, 04:07 PM)TheTieMan Wrote: What if there would be a Stephano easter egg in SOMA? That would be pretty awesome, lol

People still think of this shit ?

Somehow i don't fell like living on this planet anymore...

Poor kids man...





(Sometime i feel like they will have hard future with this stuff growing inside their brain...)
06-09-2015, 05:06 PM
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(06-09-2015, 05:06 PM)Plazmater Wrote:
(06-09-2015, 04:07 PM)TheTieMan Wrote: What if there would be a Stephano easter egg in SOMA? That would be pretty awesome, lol

People still think of this shit ?

Somehow i don't fell like living on this planet anymore...

Poor kids man...





(Sometime i feel like they will have hard future with this stuff growing inside their brain...)

Lol just wanted to see your reaction to that. Btw I will have a very bad future now. Baka pewds
06-09-2015, 05:29 PM
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