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excellent, underrated game

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

You seem pretty confused about many things. Best bet: go back and rewatch. Trust me, you’ll uncover shit on your 8th rewatch that you never understood before.

Great video.

It was hard for me to pick if I should terminate or not to terminate the Simon before the transferring self to that better diving suit... in the end I did but it was not hard to find the right ethical choice... like every single one in this game, this was insane journey...

Hello, my friend. I played this game in 2017. I liked it pretty much. I began to play the second part some weeks ago. With the vibe of going back to this peculiar world, I wanted to refresh the ideas of the first game. I stumped upon this video as a consequence. I watched it and I want to tell you that the work that you did is marvelous. Thank you very much for the time that you dedicated to it. I cherish and appreciate it. Thank you. It feels closer to humanity to watch this type of videos. To feel that your feelings are also in others... Warmest regards.

SOMA is the type of game you'd buy on a steam sale and play it just for easy achievements, but once you finished it you’ll get scarred for life, damn, this game is an underrated masterpiece

Wanna know something that sucks about this game if you think about it? The emergence of simon in a basically cybernetic body elimates the need to even use the ARK. Making ambulatory mechanical bodies means "humanity" could survive on the damaged planet surface.

Imagine if the order that the two outcomes came in was 50/50 so either you made it to the ark and then realize you left the other Simon behind or you were left behind and then see what could have been

Nice Essay. Also Simon is kinda an idiot. I dont know why I romanticize digitalization of my conciousness. But I do. Reminds me of the encounter in Stellaris where you find exactly that ARK Thingy of another species and with unlocked tech you also can decide to give them Robot-Bodys again.

Simon sells drugs, hardcore drugs.

What ur doing to brandon and simon is the same thing thats happening to you doh..at 35min in video. I bet im right...its obvious .😂🤔😉

🗣️ WITH DEALING WITH EXISTENTIAL DREAD OF CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THIS ONE! Absolutely love this game and it feels just as impactful every time i replay it.

Ending got me bru😔 finished it 3years ago everytime i see it man what a story

This is the best video I've watched since the MGS2 AI video by some other guy I can't remember the name of..

simon just really a dumbass

reminds me of the movie the prestige, spoilers* but Robert had a similar machine that would clone himself (body and brain) for a magic trick, except when he flipped the switch the original Robert would be killed offstage by drowning in a box. He was quoted "It took courage... it took courage to climb into that machine every night... not knowing... if I'd be the man in the box... or the prestige."

This game is basically the plot of the Necrons but with a meteor instead of Super Space Cancer.

Thank you very much for what you said at the end, I really needed to hear that today especially. 😊

i really appreciate your video essays!

After I finished this game, I think I cried for like two days whenever I thought about the Simons still stuck at the bottom of the ocean. I like to watch these analysis type videos a couple times a year because I can't bring myself to play the game again. Great work!

I literally replayed this game a couple of days ago. I still sob at the ending, the music, the capsule slowly fading into the unknown stary distance. Breathtaking.

very interesting, thanks

Among the many, many things I adore about this game, I love that it also says how beautiful humanity can be. How much love there is stored to humans. We love the world, we love people, we want it to continue, not because we are selfish, but because there is so much that can exist. Our art, our creativity, our passion. This game is a love letter. The Talos Principle is truly a game like no other. A masterpiece.

Could Simon find his first version? I wouldn’t mind near eternity with another person, even if it’s a clone of me.

Of course there was going to be a sequal... "We have another story to tell"...

It’s an amazing game, my first time playing it I had just left a religion I had been in for 18 years, practically my whole life up until that point. I remember resenting Elohim just for being a religious character. I think the game really helped me in a lot of ways I can’t really phrase

Catherine isn't a human. It is an AI virus.

This video was so well narrated. Great job 👏

SOMA is that kind of game you play once and it changes your life

The part about the simulation gets me. Like, if we'd ever have a game with AI in it, say something simple as a game where the NPC (with AI) reacts to your actions. I mean, does booting up the game / closing it... have the same gravity as "killing" the person in the simulation? Ultimately, how "lifelike" does AI have to be, before we feel any morality towards it? I just think it's a question that we'll have sooner than later.

The pacing is a bit off, you should let cutscenes and stuff be free from your voice, then talk about it after with gameplay going

I was so busy looking at my surrounding at the end I didn’t know there was a survey I could do 😭

The philosophical elements of the game are scarier than any of the actual monsters you encounter.

Regardless of belief, I think when Simon said "Would [God] call me an imposter?", is almost more gut wrenching than the ending.

I think of this game far too often when I have an existential crisis...

"Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other." - H.P. Lovecraft's The Silver Key

Got this same as a free download. Out of all the paid for games at that time that I had purchased, Soma gave me the most entertainment. Very underrated.

Does anyone know what song plays in the intro?

the first time i had this kind of existential crisis was when i finished watching pantheon. After processing that and forgeting it, today i finished soma and now I'm just.....horrified.

I hope the Ark is more stable then the simulations they ran on the computer at phatos II or Els it only takes one argument for the whole ark to shut Down 🤯

”He views it as cut and paste” that’s what he wants it to work but its really a copy and paste. The coin-toss is a lie. If you sit down in the chair to copy yourself, you always lose that coin-toss. But the new you will have continuity and will think it was a coon toss due to their subjective perspective

Perfect game.

I loved listening to your narative about this game and how amazed you are with the story. I've felt the same when I played this game and have not found someone else to play let alone feel the same I did about the story as you do! Great Video. Now lets talk about this story in relation to all the recent work with AI over the past year and robotics....

A game has never left my so speechless, jaw dropped, tear dripping down, shocked, and question everything until I played soma

Love this game ,I cry every time. Fantastic video my man.

Scene after scene taken directly from the game without even commentary is such a fucking lazy way to do an “essay” no wonder this channel died

tbf, poor Simon has brain damage... kinda makes sense in a way