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[YeulEmeralda]

The real message is that all political ideologies are shit because they were invented by humans which are a shitty life-form.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

A five part series on the development of Disco Elysium. Coming Soon.

 

[Chan]

It's a point n click adventure game, I don't know if anyone played the Lucas Arts games in the 90's, Disco is a detective point n click game of that nature. There's not meant to be any combat. You go around solving puzzles and unraveling the story.

It's nothing like that really. These old games had very clever writing. They were not pretentious, not wasteful, but got to the point. Disco Elysium is basically a huge book, sometimes funny, sometimes awfully boring, squeezed into a rather small game.

But yeah, Cuno was great. Even had him as my partner later on, when the first one got shot. His lines are the highlight of the game.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

In the first of our multi-part series on Disco Elysium we travel to Tallin, Estonia to explore how a group of post-soviet high school dropouts were inspired to create a video game.

0:00 - Intro
2:40 - Foundations
5:27 - ZA/UM
9:04 - Telling Stories
14:47 - Estonia
24:11 - Past & Present
26:14 - Writing
30:26 - Making Games
36:50 - CREDITS

 

[falconhoof]

Tried playing the game back around when it came out. I was on a deep point and click adventure run at the time, I think I'd just finished another run through Syberia 2 and I'd heard good things about Disco so I picked it up from GOG.

Dropped the game after about an hour. It felt like I'd mistakenly opened up twitter and was being fed depressing word salad. It was not a place I wanted to escape to so I refunded it (First game I've ever refunded).

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I played this for 20 minutes. I don't think it's for me. Have I played enough to know?

 

[Nocty]

I played this for 20 minutes. I don't think it's for me. Have I played enough to know?

I knew after an hour it would be a favourite all time game for me so yes I would say if you didnt feel that it's out

Spoiler

Also you have bad taste my nigga.

 

[Hugare]

I played this for 20 minutes. I don't think it's for me. Have I played enough to know?

Its a game where you have to invest 100% of your atention and really dig in

First time I've played I didnt like it. Gave it another shot and ended up absolutely loving it.

Playing it on a portable device most definitely helps. Play it like as if you were reading a book.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Oh, there was a thread with this. I finished it on Switch a month ago. I can't say I like it much, I'm not much into dialog trees games (when CRPG split into Wizardry and Ultima I went the Wizardry route and never looked back) so I found it interesting but sometimes boring, you end up resetting the game time and again until you pass the check because leveling up is not that easy in the game since there's no "grinding" there (and unfortunately the Switch version crashed after 3 or 4 reloads, looks to be a memory leak). There are so many "skills" you can learn but most are used in just one or two checks only. I got lost a few times but the game manages to re-route you (right now I'm playing Immortals Fenyx Rising, I forgot what I'm supposed to do and there are no hints so I'm just doing quests around until I remember what I have to do) when you pay attention to the hints. I didn't love it but it was a cool experience.