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Frictional Games (SOMA, Amnesia, Penumbra) unannounced title's website has been updated with a looping video
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It can be your opinion all you like but it's still utterly cuckoo for cocao puffs
Playing the "it's my opinion" card as if that somehow shelters an opinion from comment and criticism, in 2020
I know the chances of it happening are slim-to-none, but I would really love it if the next Frictional game is VR, with a non-VR option for players without a device. An Amnesia VR would quite literally give me a heart attack, but would be my preferable way to go out. Doing what I love.
i loved those live action shorts they did for SOMA.
i'm so damned pumped to see what Frictional are up to. I hope that it's an entirely new story and not a continuation of SOMA. I loved SOMA and it doesn't need a sequel or continuation, it was perfect and complete.
super pumped.
i'm so damned pumped to see what Frictional are up to. I hope that it's an entirely new story and not a continuation of SOMA. I loved SOMA and it doesn't need a sequel or continuation, it was perfect and complete.
super pumped.
Soma was a very unique sci-fi. In many ways you couldn't even tell it was that.
Thats a weird way to put it š¤ it definetly felt like horror sci fi
But the setting, an underwater based, is very different from a spacestation. It's much more mundane. It's definitely a sci-fi horror as you put it, but it's very different from System Shock 2 or Prey. It relies less on futere tech and sci-fi stuff... doesn't it make sense?
You'd immediately know it's Sci-Fi with all the robots. It's still unique though.
The underwater station was definetly cool and creepy, that last section had me awed.
I was just exhusted by the end at Omicron this and Thetha that and Robots dont feel so dont care about them blah blah blah
Hoping the next one has a more mundane/grounded setting :^D
The video has been replaced again:
It looks like every Monday there is a new video. I'm not really sure what has changed, though. Trying to navigate ahead of schedule to a "0113.mp4" doesn't work yet.
I played some hours of AMNESIA before my PSN subscription ran out, i liked the setting but didn't really grabbed me or scared or anything, was enjoying a MACHINE FOR PIGS a little more despite its pacing, i was very impressed with SOMA though and a new game combining the strenghts of it and Amnesia would be amazing, top horror game
I hate "hide from the monster" mechanics, but SOMA's story was on another level. I will play whatever they give me.
What about Soma wasn't super sci-fi? The entire conceit of the game is based on hugely advanced tech.
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It didn't feel that way to me. The game even begins in the present day.
Accurate mind scanning, overcoming the mind body problem, super advanced ai, functioning underwater habitats, hyper realistic virtual world creation, mass drivers. Nothing is mundane except the people.
It's one way to look at it. But Soma managed to tackle those themes is a way that didn't feel very divocerced from our time. Indeed, even if takes place in the future, for a while you don't really know it, even if you suspect things are wrong.
Perhaps they are hinting it will be ready in 9 months?
Whatever it is I'll be there day one.
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That appears to be an accurate representation of a human embryo/fetus after ~8 weeks of development.
Wondering if the new game is going to involve cloning and/or human genetic modification.
Wondering if the new game is going to involve cloning and/or human genetic modification.
Happened to me as well, played for one or two hours, didn't feel it at all, dropped it for literally years before giving it a second try.
Result: Every once in a while my thoughts still go to how amazingly well crafted the story and atmosphere are in that game. Nowadays I put it straight up there with the likes of Silent Hill 2 as one of the all-time greats.
It is definitely not for everyone, but you owe it to yourself to give it another try, because when it clicks... GODDAMN does it click! And if it does, make sure to check out the Wikis and all the little live-action teaser videos as well, they do a great job at adding a few more extras to an already superb story.
I loved SOMA but I still think the gameplay was way too light. The hide and seek 'combat' especially was dreadful.
I really hope they can retool their core gameplay instead of going further into walking sim territory.
I really hope that whatever Frictional is doing they include a VR mode for the game. And, yes, I do realize whatever they make in VR has a high probability of killing the player.
I fucking hope so. More existential horror like Soma and less "spooky" horror like Amnesia please.
I don't get this, SOMA had a notorious mod that removed the enemies and threat of death so I don't see how it could be classified as a walking sim. There are also lots of puzzles (replayed it recently) that while they aren't very hard are still pretty fun and intuitive to the world.