SOMA el próximo juego de los creadores de penumbra y amnesia

[Reizor]

Estos días estuve pendiente de la barra de progreso en el teaser site de un próximo juego de Frictional Games.
www.nextfrictionalgame.com (http://www.nextfrictionalgame.com)
con una barra de progreso que me recordaba mucho a SystemShock.

https://i.imgur.com/H0b0k2Al.jpg

Hoy en la mañana llego al 100%, revelando SOMA con muy poca informacion y un live action trailer.

En Rockpapershotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/10/01/crt-of-evil-frictionals-next-game-is-soma/) hay un articulo sobre el teaser.
aparentemente el sitio tendra mas información mientras "se recuperen los archivos" actuañmente va 1% y han transcurrido 2 horas :eek:


Uno de los "archivos recuperados" de la pagina :



ITEM#2656-"Vivarium"

The machine has the appearance of a heavily modified monitor fixed to a massive nest of cables and controls. Machinist Peter Strasky found the contraption during a salvage mission the screen rolled and flickered, but it shut down as it was pulled out from the container. None of the crew stepped forward to take credit, but the construction suggests since Thabo is unavailable for questioning, the machine's origin remains a mystery.
Considering the lack of information and the general unease it has started to cause, the machine will be disassembled.
screen lit up and showed distorted schematics. After trying different switches and keys, the oblique levers were found to be torsion attenuation controls which could stabilize the pict revealing a complex set of instructions. The machine is now under quarantine.
AM Engineer Imogen Reed has asked for an exception Special permission granted.

APPENDIX A: Engineer reed-Video Documentation


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLVOif6CHgE



Personalmente encantaria ver un juego sci-fi de horror que tenga la misma atmosfera que tenia SystemShock 2 crep que Fractional Games puede lograrlo

[Reizor]

Soma, the next game from the folks behind Amnesia will be out in 2015 for PC and PlayStation 4, and it's a doozy—a sci-fi horror game starring a psychotic computer that sounds like an angrier GLaD0S. Here's the first bit of gameplay footage.


El director creativo de Frictional Thomas Grip describio SOMA:

SOMA is meant to be a proper sci-fi game, and to get that right we couldn’t let the themes be an afterthought. My favorite works of sci-fi are the ones that use fantastic worlds to probe important issues in a way that down-to-earth settings just cannot. Great sci-fi authors like Asimov, Dick and Heinlein all do this. We want to give SOMA this quality as well.

The subject that SOMA will discuss is consciousness. Personally, I find it the most profound questions that it is possible to ask. “How can the feeling of subjective experience arise from a chunk of flesh?” Exploring this further takes us to questions such as “Can machines be conscious?” and “Do we have free will?” It quickly gets very disturbing and is ideal for a futuristic horror setting. It is the kind of sci-fi that we want to make.

From the start, we knew that this could not just come through background story or dialog. We want you to PLAY through this. It must be an integral part of the gameplay and not just fluff.

Part of this comes through the game’s monsters. You will encounter a number of strange creatures, each an embodiment of an aspect of our themes. In order to survive the journey, you need to understand how they work and in the process take on extremely unsettling subjects.

Our goal is for SOMA to not just be another carnival ride of cheap scares. It is meant to chill you at the core and confront you with questions about your very existence.



Nuevo teaser trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWHVkMIP1b8


The Next Game From The Creators Of Amnesia Looks Disturbing As Hell (http://kotaku.com/the-next-game-from-the-creators-of-amnesia-looks-distur-1443854022)

[Ryuug4]

tiene pinta, hay que ver, justo bajé hace poquito system shock 1 (uno que supuestamente anda bien en win7, pronto con dosbox), y tengo el ss2 gog, prontitos pa jugar (jugué el 2 hace mil años, pero hace mil, y me acuerdo algunas cosas nomas, se merece jugarlo como es debido)

[Reizor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9x6Ri8jQk


En el blog de frictional publicaron los 5 pilares fundamentales del diseño de SOMA


1) Everything is story
First up, we want the player to constantly feel as if they are inside a flowing narrative. It is so common that a game is distinctly split into story and puzzle/action moments. We want to blur the boundaries here and make it impossible to distinguish between the two. Whatever the player does it should feel as if it is part of the story. We do not want to have sections that simply feel like blockers to the next narrative moment. From start to finish the player should be drenched in a living, breathing world of storytelling.

A good example is how we design puzzles. Instead of having the puzzle by itself, as a separate activity, it always springs from and is connected to some aspect of the story. For instance, if the player encounters a locked door, there are more reasons for getting it open than simply to progress. There are always short term narrative reasons and rewards for getting it unlocked. On top of this, the very act of solving it results in the player taking part of a narrative scene.

Encounters with hostile beings are handled in the same way. A creature will never attack you without good reason; they never do it out of pure gameplay necessity. We want every encounter to feel like a bit of storytelling is happening. To get this working properly, almost every single creature has unique AI.


2) Take the world seriously
This leads us to the next point: that every detail in an environment is connected to the story somehow. Nothing should be written off as simply a requirement for gameplay or exposition. For instance, if you find an audio log you will be able to learn more about the story by pondering its placement alone. There should be no need to "double-think"; the game's world should be possible to evaluate on its own terms.

We constantly think about what each character would have done in a situation, and shape the environment accordingly. For instance, in one level, we started out with scratches on the walls but later realized the character had access to a whiteboard pen and changed the graphics accordingly.

It's so easy to justify design "because the game needs it" even if it doesn't make sense to the story. But for each such thing you do, the less seriously the player will approach the environment. In SOMA a big part of the game is to ponder the situation you are in.Therefore it's crucial that players consider the world from a story view, and in order for that to happen we must provide them the opportunity to do so.


3) The player is in charge
When you invest this much in a setting, it's important to make sure that players feel connected to it. In order to this we need to put a bigger responsibility on the player. An environment quickly loses its sense of realism if it is extremely streamlined and does not allow you to make choices. The player must be the one that drives the narrative forward.

The game never tells the player exactly how to progress. There may be hints and other implicit guidance, but in the end it must be the player that figures out what to do next. If a game is constantly flashing up cues with objectives or showing arrows pointing where to go, the player will never take on the world at a deeper level. If it takes some effort to progress, players are forced to understand and mentally map the surroundings in a way they would not do otherwise.


4) Trust the player
This brings us to the next point: that we trust players to act according to the story. We do not force players to notice events by use of cutscenes and similar, but assume they will properly explore the environment and act in a rational fashion. We simply set up situations and then let the player have full control over their actions.

This means that we will let players do stupid things even if they might break the experience a bit. For instance, if they skip talking to a character with important information then they are on their own after that. And if they get hints that a dangerous creature is approaching, they need to figure out that hiding is the best course of action by themselves.

While we do our utmost to make the narrative unfold in a fluent and intuitive way, we will not cater to players that make irrational decisions. The environment is set up to be taken seriously and we expect the players to do so too.




5) Thematics emerge through play
Now for our last foundational design rule: that the game's thematics will emerge through play. SOMA is meant to explore deep subjects such as consciousness and the nature of existence. We could have done this with cutscenes and long conversations, but we chose not to. We want players to become immersed in these thematics, and the discussions to emerge from within themselves.

It feels wrong to just shove information down the player's throat. What I find so exciting about having these thematics in a game is that the player is an active participant. There are plenty of books and movies that cover these sort of subjects, but videogames provide a personal involvement that other mediums lack. We want to explore this to the fullest degree

Just like all of the other design goals, there is a bit of risk in this. It requires the player to approach the game in a certain way and it will be impossible to make it work for everyone. But for those people where it succeeds, it will be a much more profound experience. I also find that it is when you are dealing with uncertainties that you are doing the most with the medium, and am extremely excited to see how far it will take us.
The Five Foundational Design Pillars Of SOMA (http://frictionalgames.blogspot.se/2013/12/the-five-foundational-design-pillars-of.html)

[Reizor]

Nuevo trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH4y2tZei2o#t=36

[Reizor]

Lambda Trailer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKm-UaIw0Po

SOMA, the next big thing from Swedish horrormeisters Frictional Games, is not where you think it is.

Until now, SOMA has had the appearance of a game set on a remote space station, or perhaps an outpost on an extraterrestrial world. I even described it as having a notable System Shock 2 vibe in a write-up of last month's "Theta" trailer. But this month's trailer offers up a pretty big surprise: Frictional's new game world actually has a lot more in common with BioShock.

The trailer speaks for itself and while it doesn't say much, it does reveal that the game will be set not in deep space, but at the bottom of the sea. "Most of our earth is covered in ocean, and yet it's something that we know very little about. It is an incredibly hostile environment filled with strange creatures, and it is right on our door step," the studio said in post on the PlayStation Blog. "The ocean is an alien world, and we've only scratched the surface. We feel it's the perfect place to explore in a horror game."

https://i.imgur.com/esqBiBw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/L5gk2dy.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Qyj9QbZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HHm6dqZ.jpg

As surprising as it is, it's also a pretty brilliant idea. Deep space and deep water have a lot in common, but deep water - the true depths that SOMA promises to explore - is more "real" and thus quite possibly a more effective way to scare the pants off of people. After all, going into space is pure fantasy, but going underwater is something most of us can relate to, and often not in a good way.

SOMA is due out sometime in 2015 for the PC and PlayStation 4.



Frictional reveló que el juego va a estar ambientado en las profundidades del mar y no las del espacio como se pensaba.

[Reizor]

SOMA Gameplay Trailer Fecha de salida 22 de septiembre del 2015

Según el último gameplay trailer el nuevo juego desarrollado por los creadores de Penumbra y Amnesia: The Dark Descent saldrá el 22 de septiembre en PC y PS4.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhcF0Mx0j0

[Admiral Kutznesov]

no veo la hora de que salga este juego.

[CYRU5]

La verdad que le tengo muchas ganas a este juego, hace tiempo no juego a nada de terror (terror del psicológico, no terror mediante jump scares) de calidad y hace banda vengo siguiendo casi todo lo que se ha dicho de él, lo único que no me gustó para nada de la campaña publicitaria de dicho título es la cantidad que hay de videos de gameplay, y que en cada uno siempre se muestra alguna parte "terrorífica", cosa que una vez llegado ese momento en el título uno ya va a saber que es lo que pasa o va a andar con precaución por las partes del trailer; no lo veo mal, solo me parece una desperdicio de partes de ese estilo :/

[erededos]

Excelente...
Y me encanta que tenga una ambientacion de ciencia ficcion...

[CYRU5]

Menos de 2 meses para tenerlo en nuestras manos

[Freeman]

No se por que tan criticos con A machine for a pig, a mi me gusto y me saco de la silla en un par de ocaciones.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=396&v=Jv9pp2Ets8Q

[Reizor]

A Machine for a Pigs lo hizo The chinesse Room y no Frictional, Frictional solo lo produjo.

Igual me gusto tambien A Machine for a Pigs.

En Soma Frictional usa un estilo de narrativa parecida a la usada por The Astronauts en The Vanisihing of ethan Carter.

Por ahora los review le estan dando para adelante. Hoy a la medianoche lo compro en psn.

[shilenthill]

muy lindo

[Admiral Kutznesov]

salio el soma ya?

[Reizor]

Mañana 22

[Freeman]

En Soma Frictional usa un estilo de narrativa parecida a la usada por The Astronauts en The Vanisihing of ethan Carter.



Tambien podes verlo como que The Chinesse Room se centra en el dialogo como en Everybodys go to the rapture

[loremotta]

Lo acabo de instalar, no me tiraba mas de 15 fps en la primera parte, a seguir esperando a tener una pc como la gente jaja

[Reizor]

Lo estoy jugando en PS4 y esta excelente, la ambientación, el sonido estan tremendos.


Dejo el Launch Trailer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO8PLDh8UbE

[Admiral Kutznesov]

puta madre y yo sin pc para jugarlo :(

[Tortuga]

Yo con la fobia que le tengo a todo lo que sea profundidad marina me parece que termino en el vilardebo si lo juego, pero tiene toda la pinta la puta madre.

[erededos]

salio el soma ya?

Ya esta para adquirirlo en su tienda torrent preferida... :rolleyes:

[Admiral Kutznesov]

Yo con la fobia que le tengo a todo lo que sea profundidad marina me parece que termino en el vilardebo si lo juego, pero tiene toda la pinta la puta madre.

la puta madre! cuanto mas comentan sobre el juego mas quiero jugarlo y no puedo...

[Tortuga]

la puta madre! cuanto mas comentan sobre el juego mas quiero jugarlo y no puedo...
Jajaja tenes fobia?

[Admiral Kutznesov]

jajaja no, fobia no, lo que no tengo es pc, se me rompio el disco duro de la note y solo la puedo arrancar con linux con un pendrive.

tendria que llevarlo a un tecnico pero ando medio corto de plata.