Good morning, folks of the thread! I hope you all have a lovely day today. I've apparently been passing out a bit, so my poor lady's been quite stressed out / worried since the infusion. From what I've read, it's quite common, and I don't feel particularly poorly outside of the side-effects I should expect (joint pain, dizziness, shortness of breath, taste of metal in my mouth and such) so I'm finding myself unable to worry seriously about it myself, but I'm going to take things super-carefully around the house with Sarge today just to be sure I don't do anything careless / stupid (well, that I minimize the stupid/careless things I do, at any rate.)
In non-health related matters, I've been finding myself in a less-than-ideal frame of mind over some personal life-stuffs, and it's inspired me to give SOMA a try today. It's actually what inspired my playthroughs of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, as it seemed wandering a wasteland would be an excellent escape from the "grey wastes" in my head of late, and it has indeed been absolutely wonderful, both as therapy and as a gaming experience.
So, on to SOMA. I've never been one to play horror games. I tried the first Silent Hill on a Playstation and the first jump scare in the game had me throwing the controller and unplugging the console. It's odd, as I've always found myself unable to be scared by horror moves, and usually find them boring, contrived, and impossible to be immersed in to a point of even partial belief. I avoid them in general just because I am not a fan of unnecessary gore and of seeing people suffer, and certain situations that are common in such movies are ptsd triggers for me, so especially given the movies don't have the intended "exciting" effect on me, I don't bother with many of them. But seeing SOMA and seeing the reviews that compared it to some of Dick's greatest science fiction has me convinced that this could possibly be a truly immersive horror experience, and that that is exactly what the doctor ordered for my brain. :) I opened it last night just to get a feel for how to play it, as I really haven't had much experience with horror games since Silent Hill. I was too tired to play for long enough to really get the story going, but so far it's gorgeous and quite interesting. Time will tell if I'll actually be skilled enough with my reactions to complete it (I used to pass on FPS and RTS for this reason, just poor response time, would leave me more stressed than entertained... but I've been enjoying a few FPS games lately, so why not give this a shot as well?)
Have any of you given it a go? I'm excited to see it, and hoping to become immersed and completely unsettled. I'm still enjoying Fallout: New Vegas, but though it's still a great gaming experience, it started feeling a lot less like wandering alone in a post-apocalyptic world, and I think that was where the really good "therapy session" of it all was coming into play. I'm pretty confident SOMA will at the very least be interesting and leave an impression on me. :)
I wish you all a beautiful day!
