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You can't pet the talking rat wall in Ontos, the new space horror game from Soma's creators, but surely it can run Doom

When Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma developers Frictional announced Ontos , their philosophical horror game set in a mad science hotel on the moon, the internet's jimmies were rustled by the presence of an AI server made out of rats. I have several questions for Frictional regarding that talking rat wall, based on…

Source: Rock Paper Shotgun••12 days ago
You can't pet the talking rat wall in Ontos, the new space horror game from Soma's creators, but surely it can run Doom
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When Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma developers Frictional announced Ontos , their philosophical horror game set in a mad science hotel on the moon, the internet's jimmies were rustled by the presence of an AI server made out of rats. I have several questions for Frictional regarding that talking rat wall, based on…

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