I want to talk a bit about SOMA (Spoilers discussion)

[CladInShadows]

Wright said:

CladInShadows said:
I loved SOMA. Less "scary" than Amnesia, but a better game overall, imo. Much better.

And the ending. I really liked it. Though I think it would have had slightly more impact if they were reversed. Show the "good ending" first, and then show the shitty one second.

 

I've thought of that as well. But I think Frictional Games wanted to show the whole adventure through Simon 3.0, which concludes with the obvious but somewhat not apparent to Simon himself realization that your mind is merely copied; not your consciousness transfered over, hence why the ending is shown first on his perspective.

It would have been cool to have it switched. Like when the ARK is seeing flying on space, a quick zoom on the Earth showing our playable Simon being stuck at that chair, yelling at Catherine.

Perhaps, though the game isn't really all Simon 3.0.  It's Simon 1.0 in the intro, 2.0 up until the body switch, and 3.0 for the rest of the game.  Switching immediately to 4.0 at the conclusion wouldn't have interrupted any sort of continuity, in my opinion.