The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Googolplex]

... therefore, SOMA will be a scary game!

I just can't imagine how robots (or similar fantasy creatures) could be scary. The dogs in Penumbra were scary because they are real animals. The infected were scary because they are human-like. The grunts and the brutes of Amnesia are by far the most well designed and best looking monsters I ever saw in a media, but they are not scarier than the infected. I don't know why. And the glowing disco head of SOMA we saw in an old video is by far the most disappointing monster I saw from Frictional Games. It just doesn't look dangerous and believable like a real existing creature. Robots are not scary for me, because they are not living and they automatically reminds me of a game or a movie. If a creature would be half human and half robot it would be scarier, but the glowing disco effect looks more out-of-place than scary.

But lets be surprised what Frictional Games created for us!