Why is this game so based?

How does the scene where you get chased, right before you transfer to the diving suit and enter the abyss, work in the "safe mode"? I can see how they removed the monster interaction from the rest.

Because they watch too much sci-fi and think that the brain is a computer or an HDD. TOP KEK.

Belief, and the thing about during your lifetime your entire body is gradually replaced by new cells and atoms without disrupting your consciousness being used to backup this belief.
I may be slightly wrong but that is what I remember.
Did not catch my attention as I found it to be incredibly stupid.

i think that people genuinely believed that this would be the case. it's a relatively hard sci fi concept and most people have never thought about this topic enough to realise the horrific truth.

>nothing happens for 2 million years
That sounds like an incredible premise for a game. Seeing what happens to the people of Pathos-II after hundreds of thousands of years. You'd start out seeing the place after a week, then you'd have more and more time skips and see the lengths people go to avoid boredom. Like this article sbnation.com/a/17776-football

Same. Imagine if it starts getting all corrupted. They could do so much spooky shit with that.

>underwater base people who survive impact make absolutely zero attempt to preserve real humanity instead scanning themselves into a computer that they want to eject into space

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>Imagine if it starts getting all corrupted.
No that's so terribly cliche. It would be more interesting if they went stir crazy from all the ways the simulation isn't like real life. Imagine if you were stuck in an MMO for several lifetimes.

I would rather have a sequel where the ark is flying around, finds a planet that looks inhabitable and then either;
>The ark had some WAU on board and it was programmed to fuck anything biological that the ARK found in order to recreate humanity
>The ark found earth again, but the WAU had taken over and earth was now a biomechanical gigerscape, Simon and Cath get put into bodies and decide they would rather get the ark fixed and fuck off into space again.

This but after like 10,000 years the game ends with the ARK being discovered and disposed of by humanity who's been recreated by the WAU in the intervening millennia.

>sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Brilliant little story for anyone who hasn't read it.

She lied to him but he's a retard, who's in the wrong here?

It could just be a generic ass isekai, lol

The conflict between the recreated humanity and the "virtual" humanity in the ark could potentially be an interesting concept for a game in its own right.

Probably because of how player control is presented, that you are apparently "shown" consciousness being transferred at two points in the game. But that's really just a perspective shift.

they're both robots so morality is irrelevant

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It’s ludonarrative dissonance.

>you're not really human at all, you're just a bunch of freak mutants grafted together by an insane AI in its quest to reproduce its creators
>you're literally just fucking flat brain scans of a bunch of dead people trying to run away from reality, who the fuck are you to tell anybody they're not real?

In case anyone's not seen it there's a pretty good (not great but good for what they are) series of live action Soma shorts that were part of the marketing campaign upon release.
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I don't know what that means.

It's a pretentious as fuck phrase once used by the rimworld devs in their patch notes

Sounds like a better concept for a book than a game tbqh

Simon is arguably not even a person and he's not so much a retard as a robot. He's a flat brain scan and is incapable of forming new thoughts or ideas, leaving him only able to think the same thoughts that he did when he was alive. He can't actually form new ideas, he can only combine existing ones to try and cope with this incapacity. It's why he comes across as such a fucking idiot; no matter how much Catherine explains, he will NEVER understand because he literally can't.

yea dude i watched the whole series
it's actually fucking amazing but it's also pretty psychotic and becomes true kino if you're fucked up on some drug while watching it

I think it's more about choosing to believe. it was either that or accepting death.

Why do so many people believe they're going to heaven?

Makes sense but falls apart when considering they learn each other's names and talk about evens that happened.
They are clearly capable of storing thoughts and ideas.
One could argue further that long term and short term is treated differently I guess.

because that's literally what happens in the ending you brainlet

>sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Fuck was that?

I meant in reality. People believe in these kinds of things out of fear and desperation was my point.

come to think of it, this is pretty similar to the plot of Nier

They're two of my favorite games, both have very prominent existential themes and both portray them really well.
>it's not deep
it's not trying to be deep

Did you read the whole thing? The author has all sorts of brilliant stuff. I found his "simulated" future NBA where all new players can't play basketball to be particularly hilarious (and somewhat vidya related): sbnation.com/nba/2014/6/3/5772796/nba-y2k-series-finale-the-death-of-basketball

Good taste, and I completely agree about the "not deep" criticism. It's like what people say when I tell them I like the movie Inception. Like, nigga, I just enjoy the surreal action, I'm not trying to improve myself or whatever

God I forgot how many amazing fucking locations there are in this game. Every single one is so creepy, yet unique and awe inspiring.

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Based.

Trannybros… its over…

Humanity went extinct in Soma. The player character was present when the last human died.

preserve humanity how?
create a bunch of incest babies that'll die when the bases fail?

Im still stuck in that fucking boat!! I cant get past that fucker that fucks you up if you look at him.
Hell, i even tried to moonwalk past him

just sprint through lol. you'll be surprised at how well this works.

The Simon I left behind (aka me) can just climb up the support cables to the surface. The surface is fucked, but at least he has a chance. I didn't abandon him (me)

Arguments about depth aside, SOMA really made me think more than any game I can think of besides PS:T. Never really thought about what exactly it is to be alive, or to be human, or to be you, and how these lines can be blurred. If you come to the conclusion that you are not alive, that "you" are not "you", then can you carry on as something new, from scratch? Or will you always just be an imitator of the original?

Personally, I think the ARK is fucked. That AI disease got everywhere, and if all those people's minds, or copies of their minds, got uploaded into that shit and then launched into space trapped within a world controlled by an AI that hurts them...that's hell.

it basically just means that the gameplay doesn't line up with the story. Like a game where your character doesn't want to kill people in cutscenes, but he kills hundreds in between cutscenes with no hesitation or remorse.

The letters started flying at my screen and I shat myself and closed the tab thinking I'd been uber hacked by Yea Forums elite trolls.

If you use a teleporter, is it really you who comes out the other side? Or just a copy of you that thinks it's you?

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no you don't faggot that would be shit

sounds like NieR (the original)

scripted sequences remain, it's the roaming monsters that got nerfed

trap him in a room and then continue on your way, quickly.

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Heaven has been proven to exist through numerous out of body experiences. Your argument is invalid

sbnation is a mainstream sports blog, its not going to HAX yuo

Our minds define reality.

there are several sci-fi works that deal with this. pretty terrifying desu. whatever comes out of the teleporter will look like me, think like me and talk like me, but it won't be the original me. but there's no reason to worry about that because a proper teleporter should destroy the original instantly anyway. or not and the plot of the prestige happens.

People's DMT hallucinations when they're near death aren't falsifiable proof.

becuase it is an easy game, and easier than amnesia trilogy

like the butler in Tomb Raider? lmao

Yeah but our minds =/= our brains

The DMT-release-in-the-brain-upon-death theory has never been proven.

That's... exactly the premise of the game. That's precisely why you can't transfer consciousness.

That's hardly the most relevant example is it

Yeah pretty much, lol.

So you're talking about the soul?

And that somehow equals irrefutable proof of heaven? I'm not a particular believer or disbeliever in an afterlife but you're logic is arse backwards. It's pretty much exactly on the level as the people in the game who kill themselves after the brain scan.

That's just how it starts, just a visual effect before the actual content starts. Reading the whole thing probably takes a few hours