alright walking simulator, a little weird storyline wise if you shut down your own copy or simply witness Catherine turn him off but Simon still goes nuclear at the launch.
Only atheists think the story is compelling. If you actually believe in souls, then the game is just about robots pretending to be human, but for some reason the writers thought presenting these characters as human was legitimate and didn't automatically destroy my dissonance
A better challenge to that belief is like Irobot which is all about the line between machine and human. Soma hardly acknowledged this aspect of the story and just presented itself as if it was a given that harddrives can be human. It honestly seemed more like it was about the clone trope than anything else
How many soma threads are about the coinflip compared to how many are about the ambiguity of their humanity?
And youre just being obtuse if you lack the nuance to recognise that Im not saying the human/machine story isnt there, but it is 100% in the background and not a takeaway
>harddrives can be human
holy fucking are you retarded? Do you have any fucking capacity to deduce what the fucking story is about when its literally thrown in your face? Or do you require the characters to literally adress you directly and tell you the story word by word? Absolutely fucking retarded post holy shit
Nope. Everyone left that game with the coinflip being the lasting impression. Even the aftercredits presents the copies that got onto the ark being in paradise and better off than the ones in the ocean. Simon literally said "those bastards are living it up in the stars and we're stuck down here", not exactly a narrative that leaves you thinking "BuT ARe THeY ReALlY HUmAn?
>Only atheists think the story is compelling
Why cant Christcucks into fiction? Its a fake made up fantasy world, God wouldnt exist in it by default.
I dont believe in God but I dont intentionally miss the point of a fantasy game with gods and devils and stuff
there's absolutely nobody that doesn't understand it and "seethe about it". nobody. I have never heard anyone be confused by the ending. people hated that the CHARACTER HIMSELF couldn't fucking understand what was going on
It had some pretty good creepy enemies. Probably my second favorite game of theirs behind the Bunker.
Amnesia Bunker but with a small variety of scifi chaser enemies would be neat. Could change up the way each enemy hunts the player too
I don't like it as much as Amnesia TDD but I still like it, the existential horror about all human life ending was fun and the monsters were cool, but to be perfectly tbh the main deal with simon and catherine didn't really jive with me
i guess the issue is that i only ever saw them as robots that are just emulating humans, not anything that's actually "alive"
same with the brain scans on the arc, none of them actually live in any way, they're just lines of code
so the central mission of getting to and launching the ark just had zero actual stakes for me and the ending didn't matter because it was just some lines of code getting fucked over and emulating how the real simon would react, not anything that was actually alive and could actually experience grief and betrayal
hell, the only reason i found to kill the WAU was that it was hurting the local fish
Best game by Frictional for sure.
It's good and I liked it. The main protagonist is a dumbass.
He had to be; a normal person would have destablized like the mockingbirds
alright walking simulator, a little weird storyline wise if you shut down your own copy or simply witness Catherine turn him off but Simon still goes nuclear at the launch.
That ending fucked me up
bad story. can't self insert as an idiot.
Only atheists think the story is compelling. If you actually believe in souls, then the game is just about robots pretending to be human, but for some reason the writers thought presenting these characters as human was legitimate and didn't automatically destroy my dissonance
if you "believe" in something then things like this are made with the intent of challenging that belief or at least making you evaluate it
saying "this doesn't work because I belief x" is a very narcissistic and youthful statement
A better challenge to that belief is like Irobot which is all about the line between machine and human. Soma hardly acknowledged this aspect of the story and just presented itself as if it was a given that harddrives can be human. It honestly seemed more like it was about the clone trope than anything else
>Soma hardly acknowledged this aspect of the story and just presented itself as if it was a given that harddrives can be human.
but...it didn't though
that's the whole point of the story. it absolutely did not present it as a hard line in one direction like you're saying.
it seems like you didn't get this basic video game plot written for 15 year olds or so. :
of course you made a strong judgment on it. lol
read books kids
How many soma threads are about the coinflip compared to how many are about the ambiguity of their humanity?
And youre just being obtuse if you lack the nuance to recognise that Im not saying the human/machine story isnt there, but it is 100% in the background and not a takeaway
>harddrives can be human
holy fucking are you retarded? Do you have any fucking capacity to deduce what the fucking story is about when its literally thrown in your face? Or do you require the characters to literally adress you directly and tell you the story word by word? Absolutely fucking retarded post holy shit
bruh
I take back what I said earlier there are people who absolutely didn't understand soma
damn that's dark, it's about as complex as lord of the flies, which was assigned reading for me in seventh grade. when I was twelve.
Nope. Everyone left that game with the coinflip being the lasting impression. Even the aftercredits presents the copies that got onto the ark being in paradise and better off than the ones in the ocean. Simon literally said "those bastards are living it up in the stars and we're stuck down here", not exactly a narrative that leaves you thinking "BuT ARe THeY ReALlY HUmAn?
>Only atheists think the story is compelling
Why cant Christcucks into fiction? Its a fake made up fantasy world, God wouldnt exist in it by default.
I dont believe in God but I dont intentionally miss the point of a fantasy game with gods and devils and stuff
Its good, the cherry on top is the retards that don't understand the concept of the "coin flip" and seethe about it years later
there's absolutely nobody that doesn't understand it and "seethe about it". nobody. I have never heard anyone be confused by the ending. people hated that the CHARACTER HIMSELF couldn't fucking understand what was going on
>can literally turn himself off to save his copy from suffering
>WHY THE FUCK AM I NOT ON THE ARC CATHERINE??
Simon was super unlucky to continually lose the coin toss and I'm tired of idiots pretending otherwise
Unironic masterpiece.
read a book bro
Good game, but Simon's denial towards the end wasn't communicated well enough. It makes him look like an idiot.
It had some pretty good creepy enemies. Probably my second favorite game of theirs behind the Bunker.
Amnesia Bunker but with a small variety of scifi chaser enemies would be neat. Could change up the way each enemy hunts the player too
I don't like it as much as Amnesia TDD but I still like it, the existential horror about all human life ending was fun and the monsters were cool, but to be perfectly tbh the main deal with simon and catherine didn't really jive with me
i guess the issue is that i only ever saw them as robots that are just emulating humans, not anything that's actually "alive"
same with the brain scans on the arc, none of them actually live in any way, they're just lines of code
so the central mission of getting to and launching the ark just had zero actual stakes for me and the ending didn't matter because it was just some lines of code getting fucked over and emulating how the real simon would react, not anything that was actually alive and could actually experience grief and betrayal
hell, the only reason i found to kill the WAU was that it was hurting the local fish
It's a good game, best played in one sitting looking back.
story, environment, and atmosphere were all well done. thoroughly enjoyed it, but not something I replay.
As a game it's trash but I enjoy the story/atmosphere of it and wish there was more. Headcanon I believe the WAU got copied onto the ark
Good game