I thought there was going to be some like my sunglasses esque twist where the guy you're communicating with was actually leading you to let the WAU free.
I still don't know how I feel about Rebirth. It took the dark scarininess of Amnesia 1 and the philisophical-ness from SOMA and kinda played second fiddle to both
Their Tw@r teased otherwise, and they attempted to become a two-games studio while making Rebirth, so I assume the game that was in pre-production then is not the project you're talking about.
I think I did, but I think the case for not doing it is interesting. I post this in every SOMA thread I catch, but there's a questionnaire that you fill out twice during the game, and one of the questions makes me think about all the stuff the WAU does:
I think temporary physical discomfort, no matter how severe, is a small price to save mankind.
It feels like that phrasing is specifically meant to make you re-evaluate what the WAU does. The stuff the player encounters is awful and horrifying, but WAU has the potential to eventually figure out how to make things that are closer to human. Without it, humanity really is completely done.
Meant to greentext the question: >I think temporary physical discomfort, no matter how severe, is a small price to save mankind
also, there are more questions, but I didn't see anything in them: >I think the ARK-project is the most logical step towards saving mankind and that we should spend as much time and resources as needed to complete it. >I think the ARK should leave earth behind and be launched into space. >I think we are at risk of losing our humanity if we were to rid ourselves of disease and our mortality >I think even an inferior group of artificial people would benefit our society.
they aren't actually phrased as questions, I guess, but you're given a set of agree/neutral/disagree options for each one.
The Wau is the last living thing on the planet. The Wau has the best chance of reviving humanity in some form physically. Evolution isn't 'clean'. Why would I destroy it?
Leaving it to make more copies of dead people in whatever machinery was left would have been immoral. Of course it was necessary to kill it before moving on.
I let the WAU live because I recognized it as something "new". Whatever the hell it ends up making is better than literally nothing, might as well give the thing a chance.
The WAU was a missed opportunity to get some AI inspired horror instead of literally just HR Giger. I kind of wish Soma came out today with all the neural network art and their attempts at recreating humans.
There is no logical reason to kill the WAU. > kill WAU, humanity is dead forever. > let WAU live, there is a chance humanity will live on in some form.
The WAU was messing with the ocean life though and humanity was extinct anyway. Keeping a ghost running for no reason could have only been detrimental.
WAU DEEZ NUTS.
>wow deez nuts
Just how moronic are you?
I killed it so it would stop creating tortured monsters
WAU might eventually have succeeded in reviving humanity. The ARK’s just a coffin with solar panels.
You didn't lose the coinflip, right?
I lol'd when the dude teleports you back into the room
>UHH PERHAPS i DIDN'T MAKE MYSELF CLEAR YOU HAVE TO KILL-
Nah
I thought there was going to be some like my sunglasses esque twist where the guy you're communicating with was actually leading you to let the WAU free.
According to Frictional’s website their next game is in pre-production. Realistically speaking where do they go from here and Rebirth?
hopefully backwards
I still don't know how I feel about Rebirth. It took the dark scarininess of Amnesia 1 and the philisophical-ness from SOMA and kinda played second fiddle to both
this has to be one of the shitties, reddit core games i've ever played. the ending was so underwhelming and anticlimatic that it's just sad.
You should unironically have a nice day.
you should've been roped on a umbilical cord while being shit out into this world moron, kys.
Mad.
>tfw no WAUFU
>"Here's your WAUFU, bro"
Frictional news when?
They’ve been doing a lot of hiring lately for a project in “pre-production” but we’re still likely years away from any kind of announcement.
Their Tw@r teased otherwise, and they attempted to become a two-games studio while making Rebirth, so I assume the game that was in pre-production then is not the project you're talking about.
I think I did, but I think the case for not doing it is interesting. I post this in every SOMA thread I catch, but there's a questionnaire that you fill out twice during the game, and one of the questions makes me think about all the stuff the WAU does:
I think temporary physical discomfort, no matter how severe, is a small price to save mankind.
It feels like that phrasing is specifically meant to make you re-evaluate what the WAU does. The stuff the player encounters is awful and horrifying, but WAU has the potential to eventually figure out how to make things that are closer to human. Without it, humanity really is completely done.
Meant to greentext the question:
>I think temporary physical discomfort, no matter how severe, is a small price to save mankind
also, there are more questions, but I didn't see anything in them:
>I think the ARK-project is the most logical step towards saving mankind and that we should spend as much time and resources as needed to complete it.
>I think the ARK should leave earth behind and be launched into space.
>I think we are at risk of losing our humanity if we were to rid ourselves of disease and our mortality
>I think even an inferior group of artificial people would benefit our society.
they aren't actually phrased as questions, I guess, but you're given a set of agree/neutral/disagree options for each one.
The Wau is the last living thing on the planet. The Wau has the best chance of reviving humanity in some form physically. Evolution isn't 'clean'. Why would I destroy it?
Leaving it to make more copies of dead people in whatever machinery was left would have been immoral. Of course it was necessary to kill it before moving on.
It was getting better. Catherine and the player were both recent creations of Wau and are significant improvements.
The Wau was just going to keep monsters because it doesn't even know what le humans are.
I let the WAU live because I recognized it as something "new". Whatever the hell it ends up making is better than literally nothing, might as well give the thing a chance.
The WAU was a missed opportunity to get some AI inspired horror instead of literally just HR Giger. I kind of wish Soma came out today with all the neural network art and their attempts at recreating humans.
the tech is still too new for stuff like that. wait another 20 years and we'll get something good 🙂
There is no logical reason to kill the WAU.
> kill WAU, humanity is dead forever.
> let WAU live, there is a chance humanity will live on in some form.
The WAU was messing with the ocean life though and humanity was extinct anyway. Keeping a ghost running for no reason could have only been detrimental.
You kill the Wau because frick it and all its creepy cyborg bullshit and gross black goo