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#1 Pasidon

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Posted 01 November 2015 - 10:51 PM

And the crowd goes wild.  A masterpiece of horror.  An ingenious way of telling an award winning story.  From the makers of Amnesia: The Dark Decent... it was bound to be groundbreaking.  ... Yes.  It was.  It broke the filthy ground open and dragged my useless mind down into a pit of boredom.  Six hours of boredom.  Begin.

 

This game is a disgrace to horror.  It's a pile of overpriced trash, and I beg everyone to never buy it.  The developers don't deserve money for this, let alone 30 of your god given dollar bills.  It starts off with some promise, but the game turns into a waste of life.  It's like they wrote the concept for the gameplay on a sheet of paper and stapled the ends together.  You just keep doing the same things over and over again... you walk down a long hall, you solve a pointless puzzle while debating philosophy with a door opener, then you run away from a monster that can't kill you.  Repeat.  

 

Let me tell you what this game did wrong.  It introduced your character, who is a complete uninteresting dweeb who curses and shouts at every little inconvenience, then cracks pouty jokes the next moment.  Then it introduced a woman who breaks the immersion of any hint of horror, like it's her job.  She talks your ears off like nobody's business.  That's not good for horror.  And the little bits of lore in the game force you to memorize a terabyte of acronyms and names, but the story really never hits a climax.  It's just slightly distraught people talking about technical stuff that the players will likely not care about. The first and last audio log in the game will sound about the same.

 

Don't waste your time with this game.  It's getting a lot of good reviews, but they're from people that are either biased or actually have no idea what they're talking about.  People slagged Machine for Pigs, but to be perfectly honest, the story was a billion times better than this crap.  And what the heck is Soma?  A Soma?  Whatever... that wasn't even explained.  Stupid game.  Never buy it.



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Posted 02 November 2015 - 06:17 PM

Good, then I won't get this game I never heard of. You're a public service.


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Posted 02 November 2015 - 06:20 PM

You play story games all the time, and Soma is always advertised on the Steam front page.  You probably would have.



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Posted 02 November 2015 - 10:33 PM

As usual, Pasidon's reviews should be put into photoshop and inverted, because this is a wonderful little game that brings up many philosophical questions about existence, AI, what consciousness is and what fates might be worse than death.

 


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Posted 02 November 2015 - 11:14 PM

Does look very boring. The dialogue sounds awful... exposition, exposition, exposition. For a medium that is the most interactive of all mediums, where you can literally do all the exploring yourself and really do ANYTHING because there are no reality constraints, it's retarded how shite storytellers game developers often are. Movies are often rightly criticised for spoonfeeding and overexplaining stuff. Games should be doubly so. Games should be the new silent era and let players actually discover wtf just happened.

 

Harsh rant over, until next time. I'm sure it's not terrible.


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Posted 03 November 2015 - 04:49 AM

It's terrible.  I was curious to why most people recommended the game, and I noticed that most of the positive Steam reviews didn't even have more than 3 hours put into it when they made the reviews.  Like most people, I expected the game to pick up and evolve as time went on, especially since the first 1-2 hours were great, but it just remained the same.  It had a few good moments, but those moments are just drown out in a sea of... gawd boring awfulness.  The philosophy stuff is fine and all, but the main character is a nab.  His opinions are muffled by his own ineptitude to express himself.  And that woman's personality just neuters the tone down to a dead drop.  Great concept, terrible delivery.... after the first 1-2 hours.






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