SOMA

Scifi/horror(maybe) video game.
Bought it and installed it ready to play once I had the chance some time in 2016/17, I think because I'd heard good things and that it was like Dear Esther, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Firewatch (I think). Started playing it around September/October 2017, and found the gameplay dull, the setting hit-and-miss, and the story a bit meh. I found a video review which said how awesome the story was so I gave it another shot but got bored with what I considered to be a fairly unchallenging scifi question (are simulated minds sentient?). I went back and finished the video review and he was just super impressed with the philosophical implications of that question and with how well the game presented it to him. So, since he also agreed the gameplay is shit and because I've thought all those philosophical thoughts a thousand times over and read books by Greg Egan, I knew it wasn't a game I needed to play.
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Category:Science fiction video games
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Category:Video games played in 2017
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