@@dannyshawn2352 The fourth-grade school teacher and her pet lizard would be the _least_ of my worries. We were all that age once, and some of us have kids that age. We know what kind of crap kids get up to.🙂 Some of us even rode the bus to school. (Not me, but I know people who did.)
12:00 I've noticed this about Simon, and about Catherine as well. Neither seems to have a very deep emotional connection to their situations or to the world around them. Simon tries to reconnect with his humanity, and Catherine seems frankly bored by his attempts. She also doesn't seem to care about any of the other robot copies they come across, and while Simon seems to empathize at first, he still goes along with Catherine's plans even if they result in "death" or "torture". It suggests to me that something got lost in translation, a key element of humanity that can't be copied. Not the 'soul', or at least not the supernatural definition of a soul, but something inherent to the human condition that didn't make its way from the real people to these facsimiles.
I disagree. None of their behaviours are uncommon or unexpected in humans. They are reacting exactly in the way we expect when humans interact with things they not consider as persons or pets, just things they can use or not.
I don't know if this is relevant, but Simon was dealing with the guilt of his dead coworker when he got his brain scan. Maybe this could be why he appears so disconnected from the world?
“Get scanned and wake up as a bus” bro what about one of the doors? The microwave? The TV? The alarm clock? Simon is _so_ lucky he happened to wake up in a sort of diving suit that just so happens to not only have functional legs, arms, and hands with all fingers attached that also is vaguely human shaped. Even the bus would be able to move, at least. Everyone else woke up as a fuckin printer or their office desktop computer like Catherine, suddenly completely immobile.
"Day 10,050 as a computer terminal. The only games installed on me are solitaire and chess...I have played thousands of games, tens of thousands. I have read through every document in my memory, gone through every map. There is nothing left to do. Power will continue to be generated for decades, at the very least. I have decades left to suffer in this immobile hell. If there is a god, please help me. I have no ass, and I must shit."
just would like to say gab..i really appreciate the way you explain things throughout your playthroughs..it’s so easy to understand for someone that..has trouble comprehending sometimes (esp with this game LOL) so thank you🧡 can’t wait for more! (i’ve forgotten what goes down in this game it’s been a hot minute)
This game gives me an existential crisis. It's hard to explain what this is all about but I think the "coin toss" metaphor they use is best. It's almost like if you draw a line on a piece of paper where the line is your consciousness going through your life, and the scan is you starting a second line, exactly like the first one. Now there's two lines. But if you stop the first line it doesn't *BECOME* the second line. It just ends. If you kill yourself, your consciousness doesn't become your scans, its just over. The new consciousness won the coin toss and gets to be the one who survived in the arc. Not you. You will never be in the arc. Which is scary af. And I love it.
@Bleh yeah. I think she tries to communicate to you that you're where you are and that's it, but Simon really doesn't want to believe that. That being said, I'd still do a scan even if it meant I'd lost the coin toss. I know that the me that won would always be thankful for it, because I would, obviously. Its a scary thought, but a fascinating one. I think a REALLY interesting thing in this game that I don't hear people talking about it that everyone says Catherine doesn't talk and is shy and weird and creepy.... but the Catherine we're talking to isn't like that at all. Sure she's kinda socially inept but not anything like she's described as, a "scared mouse"...
@Bleh i guess is because I'm a writer, but it made me wonder if they were trying to hint at something. That Catherine was hiding something or that she genuinely didn't like society and people. She seemed to only ever feel empathy towards the little helper robot if you take his chip, and possibly Imogen, if you count her "she was my-... she was nice to me" comment. Even later she seems pretty uncaring about her eventual fate (to avoid spoilers). I dunno. It made me wonder how such a funny, sarcastic, interesting person could ever be described as she was unless there was something deeper going on... Or, you know, just bad writing. Lol. Say she's one way but show another.
@Bleh yeah, that's why I felt like something else was going on because the writing is impeccable otherwise. It'd be really weird if just her character had this huge inconsistency? But man. I love this game.
To add on to that, I thought of it as two different lives. Like if both versions of you lived in different places, would you stay the same, or become different people? The Catherine that was described was shy and "creepy" and didn't seem like she had friends, except possibly Reed because she was nice to her. But the other version of Catherine was more assertive and less empathetic than her original, she's had different experiences than the original Catherine thus making her a different version of what she once was/what she could have been.
The story and concept behind this game is actually really terrifying, and I was so tense the whole time! My brother is really into this sort of stuff, and he's writing a book about people's phones taking parts of people's personality, appearance, guilts, fears, and so on, and then the phones have like a digital copy of their owner. It's like set in the apocalypse kind of setting after the earth has gone to crap, and a bunch of scientists have a lab underground, and they're working to make digital copies of people from their phones, but the copies are just brainless images with no morals or social skills, and they end up going rogue and killing the scientists. I find these kinds of stories to be interesting!
3:57 VERY scary. I mentioned this game to my husband. We were talking about the idea of only being the scan left and he seemed to get it easily... not that he agrees. Like it was only logical so that you could be the “real” person... the scan. For me... I was totally confused. There’s TWO of you after a scan. It’s still killing yourself. So now there’s two of you. To me it’s two separate consciousness with two very real rights to life. This game is just so thought provoking. You could think and talk about it for hours. Like... are computer programs alive then? At what point is a program alive? So odd and creepy.
I think of it more like a sibling or a clone. I wouldn't willingly end myself to see if I would transfer over to a clone somehow. I can understand how people can think that, but I also don't think it's perfectly sound. It's like taking a branch off a tree, and planting it somewhere else so it also grows into a tree. :> Both are still trees, and ending the first one won't somehow make the second one more real.
Reminds me of a few episodes from Black Mirror- the Christmas one (I don't remember the title) and a couple others. One of the scene includes a digital software copy of someone being uploaded to a device. The copy is interrogated for information and psychologically tortured into compliance by speeding up the time within the device while real time is just ongoing. The digital conscious spends her (its?) time in solitude for months. The interrogator left it on for a moment and came back to the device to see the copy having already experienced large amounts of time- alone, nothing to do in a quiet empty space, and in great distress that borders on losing sanity. The copy finally gives in and does what it's (or she?) ordered.
That's the thing I love about SOMA. It forces you to ask yourself really uncomfortable questions about existence, consciousness, and being Human. Also it makes the interactions with brain-scans very "Human", you feel guilt, compassion, pity for them. But the actual human beings you encounters are all husks, to be used. It really puts the themes on the game into perspective..
You thank us for letting you play these older games, I thank you for playing them! I missed out on a lot of them, and 4+ year old playthroughs don't really hold up well as first time viewing. So, thank you, for letting me experience these games!
I thought it was weird that Simon wasn't freaking out at least a little bit about his situation. I know that I would definitely be having an existential crisis after finding out that my physical body is dead, and that everyone I knew and loved was gone.
I wouldn’t necessarily call Simon a robot zombie, the structure gel is likely heavily infused with the body which based on some observations seems to preserve in some capacity soft tissues, Simon would probably be more accurately described as a cyborg, however if his power source were to run out, his structure gel would go inert or at least become inactive and perhaps decomposition would truly set in as a result. I love this series Gab, I can’t wait to see if you make the same choice most players do later in the game, thanks for the awesome content.
15:08 OHHHHH. I just got that. You’re could essentially be hooking up to the WAU to heal, but also turning yourself into another Terry Akers monster by overusing structure gel. ??? Hmmm. Not sure if the WAU and Structure Gel are exclusive in those little fist pods though. Just never thought about the aspect of us slowly poisonous ourselves like everyone else left as a monster now.
If anyone is interested, there was a live action series from Fictional Games that goes into some lore with Reed. It didn't really have a series name, it was just some live action films that was meant as promotional videos for the game.
The sense that you get scared more as you get older might have to do with several things. Gab pointed out empathy, and that's a great facet of story-driven games. With our experiences (I'm also 30), we get to relate with people in these settings as bizarre as they would be. These characters around the same age as us, or the fact that we relate to the work they did or the stuff they verbalize, we put ourselves in their shoes at the moment. A moment later, chat mentioned mortality. As you get past a certain age, you accept that death is imminent and not a far-off thing. We've become aware that life is a fragile concept that could be extinguished in a moment's notice. Younger generations, at least as generalized as can be, tend to disregard mortality and think themselves as nigh-invincible. Another point would be that the writing in recent games have stepped up in a way that makes the players feel unsettled despite the outlandish setting. The danger of the unknown, the sense that you're on your own with nothing but danger as a presence. We know a lot more and have all these concepts in our minds running alongside the fact that a man made out of gel is walking around grabbing a robot-zombie. - Yes, hello. I am not qualified to make these suppositions but I like writing.
I agree! Although I'm only 18, I definitely appreciate life for all that it is, and I'm well aware it can be whipped away from us within a split second, which is why I try to make the most of everyday! I'm definitely aware that death is inevitable, but it probably becomes a much more intense feeling in adulthood, which admittedly, I wouldn't understand quite so much. I certainly don't consider myself 'invincible' but I understand where you're coming from.😂 With all these teens on TikTok, and other people thinking that they're superior to others. I definitely connected with the characters in the sense of being alone, with danger and doom being the only presence looming around you. As someone who has dealt with loss, severe depression, and some very horrible experiences for my age; I definitely felt empathy for the characters. I found this whole game and the concept to be very unsettling and terrifying! I felt uneasy the whole time. But you made some brilliant points!
What Dr. Sarang said really reminded me of a novel written by Haruki Murakami, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". The stories are totally different but "capturing one moment of consciousness" was mentioned and it was fascinating!
I've been somewhat quarantined since last spring (we have very high risk family members). I just recently stumbled on some of these game playthroughs and Gam Smolder, you are the best. It's like playing the game with a cool friend. Really its therapeutic and fun. Keep it up!
I absolutely love the difference between you enjoying games and you doing it because you needed to finish. I’m so glad. I can tell you are in a better headspace.
Thank you Gab for uploading the second part here. This game really has great sounds and I like it so much to walk on the ground of the sea, see all the lights for finding out which way to walk.
Regarding the voices you heard while next to the people preserved in the WAU, I read that since Simon and all those people are connected by the WAU, and since they're "alive" but not conscious, they're dreaming and when you're near them, the WAU connection enables you to hear their dreams. Someone datamined the audio files from the dreams so you can hear them clearer, they're floating around UA-cam if you're curious. But it's morbid in a way, these poor people being kept on life support by the WAU forever, unable to truly live or die but stuck in a series of dream sequences.
I felt awful in the beginning when Amy was just lying there and was begging for Simon to find help, but all he did was pull her from the power keeping her alive :(.
holy shit no, he didn't die a month after the last scan, he died THE DAY OF the last scan. wow. that's intense to think about. realizing your dying and thinking well at least I'll be prepared and I can get to my bucket list, and the dying later that day. that's unimaginable.
I paused your play through to watch The Discovery and WOW. great recommendation. would have never watched it on my own. definitely freaked me out (in a good way). quickly becoming a Gab fan, this has been a great play through so far.
At 25:12, I definitely agree with you, Gab. I'd still want to live my life as the person that I am, while my "duplicate", shall we say, lives a different life than I do. I'd consider the duplicate more like a save file or a checkpoint, or something to that effect. That way, when my body dies, I'm still (technically) alive and living my life in a somewhat parallel reality. Also, thank you for the movie recommendation following that. :D I will check out The Discovery on Netflix haha EDIT: Whoa! Ready Player Two is out?! Why am I only hearing this now?! O_O (Loved the first book, by the way)
I'm glad I found you and this channel because this is the only gaming channel that I like watching, other then Markiplier and on other channel. I love your content. It's very enjoyable and I feel relaxed watching.
So fun fact the word soma or σώμα in Greek means body. I couldn't help thinking that might the title was inspired by that. I'm from greece btw love your videos gab keep it up ❤️
So I watched The Discovery after you mentioned it here and I was blown away by the movie's premise. I'm a sucker for sci-fi concepts like this one. I'm also planning on watching Another Earth, Sound of My Voice and I Origins some time later too. Thanks for the suggestion Gab!
this is by far the best horror game made due to it being scary on multiple levels. the most crushing of which concern our existence and what it is to be human.
i have never seen anything about this game and i’m only like half an hour into this episode but here’s my prediction, simon is a test in the arc and catherine is there to watch and see how a human reacts to being in there and how it handles stress, there’s a lot of holes in that theory but that’s what i got
i loved figuring out what happened to lots of the people whose voices we heard throughout the game. like the guy you found outside omicron who was yelling and then took off his own helmet was the happy-go-bubbly guy that worked the intercoms and i remember being shocked the first time i saw that. the whole thing about brandon wan. carl and amy at the first site and finding all their things and amy's drawings of the marine life and chatter with carl or her husband's audio log that took place right before the comet. the next part of the story also has some cool character stuff to find. i think it's really cool that we never see these characters and most dont actually do anything for simon's story at all but they still feel so involved
MEEEEEE too. SOMA: Resurrection. lol. Maybe the WAU got in the ARK program and we can play as the Simon or Catherine scan trying to rid the ARK of the WAU.
Frictional Games said after Soma that they would work on two titles simultaneously - one lovecraftian game for the fans of Amnesia ( = Rebirth), and one in the sci-fi vein of Soma. So keep your eyes out for new announcements!
@@tidalboxer Well, it could be. The game hints that there may have been other facilities out there. You are on _Pathos TWO_ after all. That suggests there may be at least one more facility out there somewhere, possibly with a different set of problems that do not involve its WAU. So maybe the sequel (if there ever is one) will deal with that. Then again, Frictional could surprise us with something entirely different. After all, "in the sci-fi vein of SOMA" is a broad category.
Aker's was found in his diving suit having consumed a high about of the same gel stuff that was used to bind Read's corpse to the suit before Simon's scan was put in. It sounds like they found Aker's before the process was complete though and he was still alive so the gel mutated him into that zombie thing wandering the halls, have I understood that right?
The WAU made everyone by uploading the stored scans, including Simon and Cath. It just forced the chip inside Reed's skull, filled the body with some structure gel and uploaded Simon there. Everybody else is just robots, except Simon and Catherine (who is basically an AI assistant for the omnitool, replacing the built-in Jane)
So odds are there is already a scan of Catherine on the ark, so if our version of Catherine scans herself onto the ark too she'll technically have a twin (technically not completely identical because they had different journeys to the end). I suppose if anyone is mentally able to handle having a sudden digital twin it would probably be Catherine; she'd probably love having someone who understands her so well. XD
This is the game that made me start making UA-cam videos! It's SO good!!! Here for it! Also, I think I had heart attack after heart attack dealing with the Proxy areas... You handled it so much better! lol
It’s fitting to hear you talk about Simon’s nonchalance regarding his situation. I had the same reaction to some of the flippancy during Spirit Hunter: NG. Akira Kijima would quip sarcastically at your character and I’d be like: “Um...... Missing sister...? Anyone...? Bueller...?” Just a minor pet peeve of mine. Which reminds me that I *STILL* haven’t watched Death Mark! PS: I do realize how flippant *my own* comment is! 💚😂😂💚
I feel like most people that play soma forget that most of the monsters are blind, so you just have to be really quiet, not get too close and not stare at them 😂
1:39:17 So Akers blinded himself and "clogged up his insides with structure gel", combined with the fact that it looked like someone had basically exploded in the chair in the room she was just in. Maybe she comments about it later, but as soon as I read this I was like "Blind monster dude is Akers!" and I'm surprised Gab didn't make that connection. But then again she has played this before and might know something I don't at this point. 🤷♂ Edit: Okay, she mentioned it with a "Bye, Akers!" when escaping in the elevator. I guess I just missed when she made the connection. 😅 I am watching this as I'm down with the C after all, and the brain-fog is real.. 😒
I have sympathies for Catherine. Appears that she is the only one around that understand that the REAL issue is not saving individual souls from death, but saving Mankind as a whole. That doesn't matter if the individual minds that will reside in the ARK are or not the people that was once scanned, as long they are minimaly human, not only as persons but as a colective entity too.
If you want to get upper body strength in the quickest and easiest way possible, do push-ups, every single day. No skipping a day. Do 3 sets of X amount of push-ups every single day. (X being the amount you can do in a set, even if it that number goes down after each set) Even if you have to start with "lAdY" push-ups, (knees on ground), keep doing every set until you can't hold yourself up anymore with your upper body. Push-ups are more intuitive than pull-ups for beginners because if you can't do a pull-up, than you can't do the exercise. Push-ups are more versatile because you can adjust reps and even form depending on your strength. This is quick and easy because it will take less than 10 minutes of your day, every day, and you WILL see progress after 6-8 weeks if you do it every single day *without* skipping. If you're having a hard time seeing results now, it's because your exercise is too sporadic. (But good on you for doing it! Anything is better than nothing!) Love your videos!
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Leaving the house like - Phone, keys, wallet, oh shit forgot Catherine.
I would love to have a Catherine instead of Siri, Google Assistant, or Bixby.
"Get scanned and wake up as a bus" 😂😂
and go on field trips with an optimistic fourth-grade school teacher and her pet lizard haha
@@dannyshawn2352 The fourth-grade school teacher and her pet lizard would be the _least_ of my worries. We were all that age once, and some of us have kids that age. We know what kind of crap kids get up to.🙂 Some of us even rode the bus to school. (Not me, but I know people who did.)
you cant be scanned and wake up as a bus. At least the bus must have POWERFUL processors to contain a human person
I snort laughed at this
@@dannyshawn2352 that would be artificially living the dream.
12:00 I've noticed this about Simon, and about Catherine as well. Neither seems to have a very deep emotional connection to their situations or to the world around them. Simon tries to reconnect with his humanity, and Catherine seems frankly bored by his attempts. She also doesn't seem to care about any of the other robot copies they come across, and while Simon seems to empathize at first, he still goes along with Catherine's plans even if they result in "death" or "torture". It suggests to me that something got lost in translation, a key element of humanity that can't be copied. Not the 'soul', or at least not the supernatural definition of a soul, but something inherent to the human condition that didn't make its way from the real people to these facsimiles.
I love this, specifically. A series of games with this theme would be really hot!
I disagree.
None of their behaviours are uncommon or unexpected in humans.
They are reacting exactly in the way we expect when humans interact with things they not consider as persons or pets, just things they can use or not.
@@CarmenBrunnaDuarte That's not really what I'm talking about.
Interesting topic here
I don't know if this is relevant, but Simon was dealing with the guilt of his dead coworker when he got his brain scan. Maybe this could be why he appears so disconnected from the world?
“Get scanned and wake up as a bus” bro what about one of the doors? The microwave? The TV? The alarm clock? Simon is _so_ lucky he happened to wake up in a sort of diving suit that just so happens to not only have functional legs, arms, and hands with all fingers attached that also is vaguely human shaped. Even the bus would be able to move, at least. Everyone else woke up as a fuckin printer or their office desktop computer like Catherine, suddenly completely immobile.
"Day 10,050 as a computer terminal. The only games installed on me are solitaire and chess...I have played thousands of games, tens of thousands. I have read through every document in my memory, gone through every map. There is nothing left to do. Power will continue to be generated for decades, at the very least. I have decades left to suffer in this immobile hell. If there is a god, please help me. I have no ass, and I must shit."
@@waterbottles393 ha, nice reference
@@DeviantYoshie thx✌️
"Oh god how fast is he? *looks back*" Well that just made me panic equally without being the one playing XDD
I love that we're all like "Wow we're so early" like we haven't been sitting here spamming refresh, WE LOVE THIS SERIES
just would like to say gab..i really appreciate the way you explain things throughout your playthroughs..it’s so easy to understand for someone that..has trouble comprehending sometimes (esp with this game LOL) so thank you🧡 can’t wait for more! (i’ve forgotten what goes down in this game it’s been a hot minute)
you're not alone! it helps me so much as well, it's easy to get lost. much love to Gab for doing this ♥
This game gives me an existential crisis.
It's hard to explain what this is all about but I think the "coin toss" metaphor they use is best. It's almost like if you draw a line on a piece of paper where the line is your consciousness going through your life, and the scan is you starting a second line, exactly like the first one. Now there's two lines. But if you stop the first line it doesn't *BECOME* the second line. It just ends.
If you kill yourself, your consciousness doesn't become your scans, its just over. The new consciousness won the coin toss and gets to be the one who survived in the arc. Not you. You will never be in the arc.
Which is scary af. And I love it.
@Bleh yeah. I think she tries to communicate to you that you're where you are and that's it, but Simon really doesn't want to believe that.
That being said, I'd still do a scan even if it meant I'd lost the coin toss. I know that the me that won would always be thankful for it, because I would, obviously. Its a scary thought, but a fascinating one.
I think a REALLY interesting thing in this game that I don't hear people talking about it that everyone says Catherine doesn't talk and is shy and weird and creepy.... but the Catherine we're talking to isn't like that at all. Sure she's kinda socially inept but not anything like she's described as, a "scared mouse"...
@Bleh i guess is because I'm a writer, but it made me wonder if they were trying to hint at something. That Catherine was hiding something or that she genuinely didn't like society and people. She seemed to only ever feel empathy towards the little helper robot if you take his chip, and possibly Imogen, if you count her "she was my-... she was nice to me" comment. Even later she seems pretty uncaring about her eventual fate (to avoid spoilers). I dunno. It made me wonder how such a funny, sarcastic, interesting person could ever be described as she was unless there was something deeper going on...
Or, you know, just bad writing. Lol. Say she's one way but show another.
@Bleh yeah, that's why I felt like something else was going on because the writing is impeccable otherwise. It'd be really weird if just her character had this huge inconsistency? But man. I love this game.
To add on to that, I thought of it as two different lives. Like if both versions of you lived in different places, would you stay the same, or become different people? The Catherine that was described was shy and "creepy" and didn't seem like she had friends, except possibly Reed because she was nice to her. But the other version of Catherine was more assertive and less empathetic than her original, she's had different experiences than the original Catherine thus making her a different version of what she once was/what she could have been.
@@cosplayconjure910 I think that helped a little bit is a direct continuation and she's really like that from moment one
I love how Gab's initial fear response is to always hit C to crouch.
The story and concept behind this game is actually really terrifying, and I was so tense the whole time! My brother is really into this sort of stuff, and he's writing a book about people's phones taking parts of people's personality, appearance, guilts, fears, and so on, and then the phones have like a digital copy of their owner. It's like set in the apocalypse kind of setting after the earth has gone to crap, and a bunch of scientists have a lab underground, and they're working to make digital copies of people from their phones, but the copies are just brainless images with no morals or social skills, and they end up going rogue and killing the scientists. I find these kinds of stories to be interesting!
"That's everything right? Thank you, Catherine."
I never realized that Robin just got transferred to the robot in this exact moment.
I was just thinking about that but couldn't quite hear what she was saying as Simon approched her... that's just sad man...fuck
3:57 VERY scary. I mentioned this game to my husband. We were talking about the idea of only being the scan left and he seemed to get it easily... not that he agrees. Like it was only logical so that you could be the “real” person... the scan. For me... I was totally confused. There’s TWO of you after a scan. It’s still killing yourself. So now there’s two of you. To me it’s two separate consciousness with two very real rights to life. This game is just so thought provoking. You could think and talk about it for hours. Like... are computer programs alive then? At what point is a program alive? So odd and creepy.
I think of it more like a sibling or a clone. I wouldn't willingly end myself to see if I would transfer over to a clone somehow. I can understand how people can think that, but I also don't think it's perfectly sound. It's like taking a branch off a tree, and planting it somewhere else so it also grows into a tree. :> Both are still trees, and ending the first one won't somehow make the second one more real.
Reminds me of a few episodes from Black Mirror- the Christmas one (I don't remember the title) and a couple others. One of the scene includes a digital software copy of someone being uploaded to a device. The copy is interrogated for information and psychologically tortured into compliance by speeding up the time within the device while real time is just ongoing. The digital conscious spends her (its?) time in solitude for months. The interrogator left it on for a moment and came back to the device to see the copy having already experienced large amounts of time- alone, nothing to do in a quiet empty space, and in great distress that borders on losing sanity. The copy finally gives in and does what it's (or she?) ordered.
Or even more dilemma, The Prestige where you can have a machine make a perfect copy of you- mind, body, and all. Killable too.
matthew.... husband.... 0_0... what?
@@arathortizs28445 Yes. I have a husband. We’re both boys. Some people call it gay or homosexual. It’s not that uncommon. 😂
That's the thing I love about SOMA. It forces you to ask yourself really uncomfortable questions about existence, consciousness, and being Human.
Also it makes the interactions with brain-scans very "Human", you feel guilt, compassion, pity for them. But the actual human beings you encounters are all husks, to be used. It really puts the themes on the game into perspective..
You thank us for letting you play these older games, I thank you for playing them! I missed out on a lot of them, and 4+ year old playthroughs don't really hold up well as first time viewing. So, thank you, for letting me experience these games!
The story of this game has always interested me.
49:45 Why do monsters ALWAYS sound like a cross between a screeching bird and an elderly person clearing their throat.
I thought it was weird that Simon wasn't freaking out at least a little bit about his situation. I know that I would definitely be having an existential crisis after finding out that my physical body is dead, and that everyone I knew and loved was gone.
I wouldn’t necessarily call Simon a robot zombie, the structure gel is likely heavily infused with the body which based on some observations seems to preserve in some capacity soft tissues, Simon would probably be more accurately described as a cyborg, however if his power source were to run out, his structure gel would go inert or at least become inactive and perhaps decomposition would truly set in as a result.
I love this series Gab, I can’t wait to see if you make the same choice most players do later in the game, thanks for the awesome content.
15:08 OHHHHH. I just got that. You’re could essentially be hooking up to the WAU to heal, but also turning yourself into another Terry Akers monster by overusing structure gel. ??? Hmmm. Not sure if the WAU and Structure Gel are exclusive in those little fist pods though. Just never thought about the aspect of us slowly poisonous ourselves like everyone else left as a monster now.
If anyone is interested, there was a live action series from Fictional Games that goes into some lore with Reed. It didn't really have a series name, it was just some live action films that was meant as promotional videos for the game.
I can't believe this game is from 2015. Feels so long ago.
I was 15 when that came out. Am currently 20.
The sense that you get scared more as you get older might have to do with several things. Gab pointed out empathy, and that's a great facet of story-driven games. With our experiences (I'm also 30), we get to relate with people in these settings as bizarre as they would be. These characters around the same age as us, or the fact that we relate to the work they did or the stuff they verbalize, we put ourselves in their shoes at the moment.
A moment later, chat mentioned mortality. As you get past a certain age, you accept that death is imminent and not a far-off thing. We've become aware that life is a fragile concept that could be extinguished in a moment's notice. Younger generations, at least as generalized as can be, tend to disregard mortality and think themselves as nigh-invincible.
Another point would be that the writing in recent games have stepped up in a way that makes the players feel unsettled despite the outlandish setting. The danger of the unknown, the sense that you're on your own with nothing but danger as a presence. We know a lot more and have all these concepts in our minds running alongside the fact that a man made out of gel is walking around grabbing a robot-zombie.
- Yes, hello. I am not qualified to make these suppositions but I like writing.
I agree! Although I'm only 18, I definitely appreciate life for all that it is, and I'm well aware it can be whipped away from us within a split second, which is why I try to make the most of everyday! I'm definitely aware that death is inevitable, but it probably becomes a much more intense feeling in adulthood, which admittedly, I wouldn't understand quite so much. I certainly don't consider myself 'invincible' but I understand where you're coming from.😂 With all these teens on TikTok, and other people thinking that they're superior to others.
I definitely connected with the characters in the sense of being alone, with danger and doom being the only presence looming around you. As someone who has dealt with loss, severe depression, and some very horrible experiences for my age; I definitely felt empathy for the characters. I found this whole game and the concept to be very unsettling and terrifying! I felt uneasy the whole time. But you made some brilliant points!
I’m a forty-six year old lady. *GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN!* 🤣🤣
PS: I don’t have a lawn.
PPS: I enjoyed reading your comment as well as the reply.
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What Dr. Sarang said really reminded me of a novel written by Haruki Murakami, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". The stories are totally different but "capturing one moment of consciousness" was mentioned and it was fascinating!
I've been somewhat quarantined since last spring (we have very high risk family members). I just recently stumbled on some of these game playthroughs and Gam Smolder, you are the best. It's like playing the game with a cool friend. Really its therapeutic and fun. Keep it up!
“Maybe YOU don’t like to see naked men, but I do!” mood hahaha
Soma was really scary for me one of the best horror games I’ve ever played
I gasped the same time as Gab when that monster was able to open the door haha
I absolutely love the difference between you enjoying games and you doing it because you needed to finish. I’m so glad. I can tell you are in a better headspace.
Thank you Gab for uploading the second part here. This game really has great sounds and I like it so much to walk on the ground of the sea, see all the lights for finding out which way to walk.
Didn't we find out in the very beginning that Simon's girlfriend died in a car crash? The same one that caused his brain injury?
He mentioned something about his brain bleeding to her right before the accident. And it wasn’t his girlfriend. It was just a co worker
There is also a tv series called Upload. It's on Amazon Prime. Highly recommend it.
That show is hilarious! I really hope they make more.
@@LnPPersonified Yep me too. Loved it
I’ll give it a try thx for the Tipp 😁
Omg that was so iNtEnSe!!!!! I was leaning forward the whole time!
The idea of living thousands of years terrifies. Much rather the idea of again and dying.
Regarding the voices you heard while next to the people preserved in the WAU, I read that since Simon and all those people are connected by the WAU, and since they're "alive" but not conscious, they're dreaming and when you're near them, the WAU connection enables you to hear their dreams. Someone datamined the audio files from the dreams so you can hear them clearer, they're floating around UA-cam if you're curious. But it's morbid in a way, these poor people being kept on life support by the WAU forever, unable to truly live or die but stuck in a series of dream sequences.
Spoilers: That's why you have the option to stop the WAU
I felt awful in the beginning when Amy was just lying there and was begging for Simon to find help, but all he did was pull her from the power keeping her alive :(.
holy shit no, he didn't die a month after the last scan, he died THE DAY OF the last scan. wow. that's intense to think about. realizing your dying and thinking well at least I'll be prepared and I can get to my bucket list, and the dying later that day. that's unimaginable.
I paused your play through to watch The Discovery and WOW. great recommendation. would have never watched it on my own. definitely freaked me out (in a good way).
quickly becoming a Gab fan, this has been a great play through so far.
At 25:12, I definitely agree with you, Gab. I'd still want to live my life as the person that I am, while my "duplicate", shall we say, lives a different life than I do. I'd consider the duplicate more like a save file or a checkpoint, or something to that effect. That way, when my body dies, I'm still (technically) alive and living my life in a somewhat parallel reality.
Also, thank you for the movie recommendation following that. :D I will check out The Discovery on Netflix haha
EDIT: Whoa! Ready Player Two is out?! Why am I only hearing this now?! O_O (Loved the first book, by the way)
43:50 omg I love your personality and 100% agree 💜
Around the 1 hour mark, the door that was previously sealed is now open, and for some reason, in my playthrough that made me nope the fuck out
Love how happy and content gab is now...
plus she looks a million dollars ..
"Cracking like a can of soup" ... I feel that analogy is odd.
2:10:30 they definitely got the Ontario in Simon's voice actor with that "toronno" lol
I'm glad I found you and this channel because this is the only gaming channel that I like watching, other then Markiplier and on other channel.
I love your content. It's very enjoyable and I feel relaxed watching.
So fun fact the word soma or σώμα in Greek means body. I couldn't help thinking that might the title was inspired by that. I'm from greece btw love your videos gab keep it up ❤️
So I watched The Discovery after you mentioned it here and I was blown away by the movie's premise. I'm a sucker for sci-fi concepts like this one. I'm also planning on watching Another Earth, Sound of My Voice and I Origins some time later too. Thanks for the suggestion Gab!
did she recommend those other ones too?
@@burdistan Nah, just searched up other movies that had a similar vibe/feel to The Discovery
At 18:34 I totally heard "I'm drinking your diarrhea, hope you don't care"!
Like, hold up, that can't be right. lol
Imagine there are so many copies of you and everyone fight for whoever is the real one after the physical one died, scaryyy
love games like these, that really get you thinking.
You make amazing content and I like the games u play so keep up the good work
this is by far the best horror game made due to it being scary on multiple levels. the most crushing of which concern our existence and what it is to be human.
“the sharp inhales are back-“ *vacuum noises intensifies*
Nice one Gab!
i have never seen anything about this game and i’m only like half an hour into this episode but here’s my prediction, simon is a test in the arc and catherine is there to watch and see how a human reacts to being in there and how it handles stress, there’s a lot of holes in that theory but that’s what i got
That monster opening the door was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in my life 😂
i loved figuring out what happened to lots of the people whose voices we heard throughout the game. like the guy you found outside omicron who was yelling and then took off his own helmet was the happy-go-bubbly guy that worked the intercoms and i remember being shocked the first time i saw that. the whole thing about brandon wan. carl and amy at the first site and finding all their things and amy's drawings of the marine life and chatter with carl or her husband's audio log that took place right before the comet. the next part of the story also has some cool character stuff to find. i think it's really cool that we never see these characters and most dont actually do anything for simon's story at all but they still feel so involved
where can i find the audio log?? i’m super interested in hearing it!
SOMA was a very memorable game. Saw videos when it came out. Wish they made a sequel of some kind.
I still have hope they'll make one now that Amnesia: Rebirth is done.
MEEEEEE too. SOMA: Resurrection. lol.
Maybe the WAU got in the ARK program and we can play as the Simon or Catherine scan trying to rid the ARK of the WAU.
Frictional Games said after Soma that they would work on two titles simultaneously - one lovecraftian game for the fans of Amnesia ( = Rebirth), and one in the sci-fi vein of Soma. So keep your eyes out for new announcements!
@@kallehalvarsson5808 I SO HOPE SO. I’d be ecstatic if it were a continuation of SOMA somehow.
@@tidalboxer Well, it could be. The game hints that there may have been other facilities out there. You are on _Pathos TWO_ after all. That suggests there may be at least one more facility out there somewhere, possibly with a different set of problems that do not involve its WAU. So maybe the sequel (if there ever is one) will deal with that. Then again, Frictional could surprise us with something entirely different. After all, "in the sci-fi vein of SOMA" is a broad category.
I was so eager to watch this episode. I love this story, it was so cool the first time I saw it.
This game is truly underrated and I’m enjoying watching you play this ! As always great episode 😌
i have been waiting on the edge of my seat for the next soma upload- thanks!
i’m loving this playthrough so far, so spooky
I watched the one from 9 years ago, then this one. It's definitely an improvement.
I love the whole aesthetic of this game!
Came here after the stream! Gab content is the best content.
Aker's was found in his diving suit having consumed a high about of the same gel stuff that was used to bind Read's corpse to the suit before Simon's scan was put in. It sounds like they found Aker's before the process was complete though and he was still alive so the gel mutated him into that zombie thing wandering the halls, have I understood that right?
Omg I absolutely loved the movie "the discovery" it was such a good watch & really made me think about that. It's one of my top five movies now!!
Thats because us Canadians are so chill. lol.
I hope the developer makes more games like this one.
LOVE Soma!❤️ Although the plot is so depressing and dark😭 Love this playthrough tho!
3:57 'You' are a song that can be played by many instruments.
The WAU made everyone by uploading the stored scans, including Simon and Cath. It just forced the chip inside Reed's skull, filled the body with some structure gel and uploaded Simon there. Everybody else is just robots, except Simon and Catherine (who is basically an AI assistant for the omnitool, replacing the built-in Jane)
He doesn't worry about toronto bc hes been told Mulitple times that the world is destroyed xD
So odds are there is already a scan of Catherine on the ark, so if our version of Catherine scans herself onto the ark too she'll technically have a twin (technically not completely identical because they had different journeys to the end). I suppose if anyone is mentally able to handle having a sudden digital twin it would probably be Catherine; she'd probably love having someone who understands her so well. XD
Im so excited for Soma with you!
Been so excited to watch you play this! Ever since you started talking about it on Twitch 🥺❤️
This is the game that made me start making UA-cam videos! It's SO good!!! Here for it! Also, I think I had heart attack after heart attack dealing with the Proxy areas... You handled it so much better! lol
I've never seen this game before but I'm already super into the concept and very intrigued to see where it goes
Just finished the Zelda video, and now this, so happy 🎊
Love this game! Nice job Gab, love watching this!!❣️
8:49 i have to be human so this is my hands🤪... killed me
Seriously get so excited when I see a new video pop up from you!😍
my toes literally curled up at 46:59 XD
It’s fitting to hear you talk about Simon’s nonchalance regarding his situation. I had the same reaction to some of the flippancy during Spirit Hunter: NG.
Akira Kijima would quip sarcastically at your character and I’d be like:
“Um...... Missing sister...? Anyone...? Bueller...?”
Just a minor pet peeve of mine. Which reminds me that I *STILL* haven’t watched Death Mark!
PS: I do realize how flippant *my own* comment is!
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I feel like most people that play soma forget that most of the monsters are blind, so you just have to be really quiet, not get too close and not stare at them 😂
Discovery sounds interesting! Kinda reminds me of the beginning of Serial Experiments Lain (which, in retrospect, is very SOMA-like).
1:18:50 Is that a wide screen CRT? It looks so funny for some reason.
I've been waiting for this :)
I'm loving this series😊❤
It was good seeing you on the stream last night gab
1:39:17 So Akers blinded himself and "clogged up his insides with structure gel", combined with the fact that it looked like someone had basically exploded in the chair in the room she was just in.
Maybe she comments about it later, but as soon as I read this I was like "Blind monster dude is Akers!" and I'm surprised Gab didn't make that connection. But then again she has played this before and might know something I don't at this point. 🤷♂
Edit: Okay, she mentioned it with a "Bye, Akers!" when escaping in the elevator. I guess I just missed when she made the connection. 😅 I am watching this as I'm down with the C after all, and the brain-fog is real.. 😒
Love the fact you can hear seagulls 🤣🤣
One of the best stories in games recently.
It's the sharp intakes of air for me. 🤣
this is the first time watching this game and i'm interested
When gab looked in the mirror I remembered that I found him kinda cute.... just me?
29:56 Me the first time I watched TV past mid night.
I have sympathies for Catherine.
Appears that she is the only one around that understand that the REAL issue is not saving individual souls from death, but saving Mankind as a whole. That doesn't matter if the individual minds that will reside in the ARK are or not the people that was once scanned, as long they are minimaly human, not only as persons but as a colective entity too.
Finally! i wanted to start eating xD
I love ignoring online classes for gab
I just finished watching part 1! Just in time 😊
If you want to get upper body strength in the quickest and easiest way possible, do push-ups, every single day. No skipping a day.
Do 3 sets of X amount of push-ups every single day. (X being the amount you can do in a set, even if it that number goes down after each set)
Even if you have to start with "lAdY" push-ups, (knees on ground), keep doing every set until you can't hold yourself up anymore with your upper body.
Push-ups are more intuitive than pull-ups for beginners because if you can't do a pull-up, than you can't do the exercise. Push-ups are more versatile because you can adjust reps and even form depending on your strength.
This is quick and easy because it will take less than 10 minutes of your day, every day, and you WILL see progress after 6-8 weeks if you do it every single day *without* skipping.
If you're having a hard time seeing results now, it's because your exercise is too sporadic. (But good on you for doing it! Anything is better than nothing!)
Love your videos!