SOMA : Survival Horror from makers of Amnesia

Started playing this yesterday and love the atmosphere so far. The sound is simply amazing, must have sharted a few times so far :) one thing though, I don't know if I've just been spoiled by the AI in alien isolation but the enemies seem rather stupid... Take the one in the room at the bottom of the com centre for example, when he appeared I was crouching out of sight, being cautions as **** as I expected to be spotted from one wrong move. I pretty much could move around the room as long as he wasn't looking directly at me... Damn AI ruining monsters for me! Hopefully they get cleavererer the more the game goes on :)
 
D3lirious said:
I only wish it had a bit more depth.
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Bottom of the sea mate, doesn't get much deeper ;)

Finding myself getting massively involved with this game, drawn in by the atmosphere, loving exploring everything, then one of the 'monsters' comes along and kinda ruins it for me. maybe i'm missing something with them but just run and hide and wait for them to pass, oh, without looking at them either... I've been spoiled with Alien i reckon, throwing things to make noise over there so I can go over here doesn't seem to work in SOMA...

I'll stick with it though, purely for the story.
 
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Completed this last night, took about 11hrs total.

What a game. For an FPS that has no "shooting", it is creepy as heck in many places, the ambience is sublime and the sound is just the best I have heard in any game to date. If you're got good speakers or headphones, this game is a reference to show them off on for sure.

In the dark, night time, only a molten scented candle (ambience of course!) in the corner of the room... Jimmies be rustlin'.
 
I loved this, one of the few 9/10 games this year. Incredible ending too, still remember the feeling and the ambient music during credits..
 
How does this compare with Outlast? I bought Outlast after it was recommended to me, but i thought it was an awful game. It was just walking around boring copy and pasted rooms with un scary enemies that you just get tired of having to sneak about to avoid all the time. I'm hoping this game has more to it.
 
Mark A said:
How does this compare with Outlast? I bought Outlast after it was recommended to me, but i thought it was an awful game. It was just walking around boring copy and pasted rooms with un scary enemies that you just get tired of having to sneak about to avoid all the time. I'm hoping this game has more to it.
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The game certainly has more substance to it than Outlast and a brilliant concept that will stretch your imagination if you can embrace the game and become fully immersed in it. That said, I though Outlast was truly terrifying and it did have a bit of a story once you got deeper into the game. I wouldn't let your experience with Outlast put you off trying Outlast 2 either - it's mostly based outdoors with a much better story. I truly felt like I was playing through a horror movie with Outlast 2, a brilliant horror experience.

Back to SOMA though, from what I've read people either 'get' this game or they don't. But oh boy is it a treat for those who do! My advice is not to be put off but the confusion as to what it going on for the first couple of hours of the game - that is deliberate, you are supposed to have an overwhelming sense of WTF so that the impact is greater when you do start to get the clues and start to piece it all together...
 
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Thanks, its usually on offer for £5 ish so i'll give it a go sometime. I love horror games, so always on the lookout for something decent to play through.

I think my issue with Outlast was that I am really hard to scare, especially with jump scares. So the games main draw was lost on me and there wasn't anything else to make up for it. If the graphics were more detailed then i'd have found it a lot more interesting to explore the asylum, but it just seemed like loads of copy and pasted rooms with hardly anything worth taking note of. That was one thing I really liked about RE7, there was so much detail in the first two houses you explore.
 
Mark A said:
Thanks, its usually on offer for £5 ish so i'll give it a go sometime. I love horror games, so always on the lookout for something decent to play through.

I think my issue with Outlast was that I am really hard to scare, especially with jump scares. So the games main draw was lost on me and there wasn't anything else to make up for it. If the graphics were more detailed then i'd have found it a lot more interesting to explore the asylum, but it just seemed like loads of copy and pasted rooms with hardly anything worth taking note of. That was one thing I really liked about RE7, there was so much detail in the first two houses you explore.
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No problem. I love a horror game myself now, after having a gap of 15 years where I didn't game at all and during which time I built up a huge collection of horror movies - seeking out all the video nasties banned in the 80's and the like - so when it come to movies, nothing really phases me but when it comes to games I'm a complete wouse! Obviously it's the immersion of games that puts you in the situation that makes it a different experience and I'm usually ok if I can defend myself like in Resident Evil but games like Alien Isolation and Outlast really scare the poop out of me! Doesn't stop me playing them though... :D
 
Just completed this game. Awesome game , really enjoyed it.

Just dont know how this one got past me when it was launched. Oh well, better late than never!
 
Just finished this my self after it being on my wish list for a couple of years, I wish i got it sooner!

It's up there with Alien isolation which Is one of my favourite games.

Pure psychological terror throughout and the story is pretty amazing.

one question

how does Simon's scan get down to pathos 2 in the first place? I get that Simon died a few weeks after his scan in Toronto and you wake up in pathos a hundred or so years into the future but I didn't find any info into how or why his scan made it down there?
 
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