Frictional Games Forum (read-only)

Full Version: The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread
You're currently viewing a stripped down version of our content. View the full version with proper formatting.
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438
Yeah, what if it has multiple things to do with it? Tongue

But really... As long as we don't get carried away, grab at straws. We're here anyway... Right?
But he mentioned revealing the game. And also he sarcastically said it has nothing to do with it so... if it really is nothing to do with the reveal, we've been duped!!!
[Image: Sintiacutetulo_zps1066eadf.jpg]

I wonder if SOMA is somehow inspired or have relationship with the book MARS XXIII from Jordi Sierra Fabra (Spanish author) where some Two teenagers (Arkady and Iliana living in a colony on Mars earthling XXIII century. They believe they can love, feel, have emotions when they finally realize that they are actually machines with artificial intelligence.

Have you read that book?

Excuse for my english, I don't speak very much.
I'm thinking of how those cyberpunk novels like Neuromancer depict cyberspace as some surreal world that people can jack into - not at all like the internet as we know it. It's possible that in SOMA, the protagonist is trapped inside the world created by the machine.

Also interested by the theory that the two employees we've seen may be replicants of some sort.
I don't think Soma will be Gibson-esque.

Probably the A.I will be Gisbson-esque (uninterested in the affairs of humans for the most part and with a sort of...religious connotation) but as for style (cyberpunk) and jacking into the internet won't happen. I don't think that's what they're going for. They're seemingly exploring A.I themes and what it is to be human, alive, sentient, etc.

@Silfrus: that sounds really good. Does it flow well in spanish? I have an issue with reading stuff in spanish (especially authors from Spain) because of flow issues.
I'm going to make a quick comment that may be a little out of place, but I want to say it:
So far, I'm happy to see that Frictional hasn't hyper sexualized Reed. I hope they'll continue on this course and make her interesting and multidimensional.
Anyone else feel kind of worried they might do the same parallels between the enemy and the main character that MFP did?

Because my current speculation is that the machine copied every member of the crew, then finally Reed. Then it realized that it was a machine, before turning on everyone. I'm also assuming that Reed is the main character.

I hope I'm wrong.
New tweets from Frictional:

[START Intercepted Transmission]

[thet-upsi, 67%, 001.9131/3/17/4.5]

A: The walls started bleeding structure gel yesterday.
B: It's like an oily substance, right?
A: Yeah, exactly.
B: Don't worry about it. Stick with the plan, ok?

[...]

B: You know that structure gel leakage? That’s going to be a problem. In fact, it is a problem.

[END Intercepted Transmission]
(10-10-2013, 02:54 PM)Kyle Katarn Wrote: [ -> ]We have now three images in which you can see faces and machinery, with three mysterious acronyms:

<snip>
UH3 1016 (UH3 is mentioned in the description of the second video)
<snip>

The Mockingbird text clearly states that UH3 is some kind of robot, so 1016 may just be robot nr. 1016 of the UH3-series.

The text also mentions, that the UH3-series uses "active fluid memory". Wonder if that's related at all to the leaking "structure gel"...
UH3 1016 is on the robot's plating in the video.

After the Omicron company and now the reference to Theta and Upsilon I'm still leaning towards SOMA being a reference to the greek term.
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438