Disco Elysium - Insane Drunken Cop Simulator RPG GotY 2019

[Affluent Reptilian]

According the ZA/UM, the setting was a tabletop setting that the producer worked on for close to a decade. Even had a book or two written for it apparently. It most certainly didn't come out of nowhere for this game, and I can understand why they would want to explore more of it.

The director/writer wrote a novel in the setting, too, The Sacred and Terrible Air. An English translation was said to be coming, but I haven't heard anything new about it for some time. I'd buy it, assuming he had a heavy hand in the translation - I was impressed by the quality of the written prose. Consistently evocative and engaging imagery, which made even the text on the more mundane elements of the setting enjoyable to read. Anyway, the book is set some time after Disco Elysium. I can't remember if it's close to the nuke 23 years from the game or the pale apocalypse 27 years after.

Edit: To add more re politics, the point of the politics wasn't to explore the actual doctrines themselves. It was that a variety of ideological underpinnings had failed Revachol, leaving it broken in a way that paralleled Harry. For that, you only needed the outlines of each and to show they broadly paralleled the real world, not an exhaustive or scrupulously accurate depiction of each.

 

[cummytummies]

I promised myself I wouldn't buy this game before completing all the cRPGs I haven't finished. I've even avoided all spoilers. But I want it. I want to consooooooom!

And it's -40% on GoG.

 

[Cliff Booth]

It finally came out on Switch recently and I picked it up. This shit is fucking great. I'm not even past the first day and I've "died" twice, but both times were awesome.

The little bully kid right next to the murder victim ruined my psyche enough to quit the force the first time because I didn't know how to quickly heal. The second time, I tried to skip on my debt to the hostel owner and careened into the paraplegic woman and suffered a heart attack.

"Save often" is a lesson I've learned early on. Anyway 10/10 so far. No issues on the Switch port besides loading times. Looking forward to this studio's next offering.

 

[vulg]

It finally came out on Switch recently and I picked it up.

kill yourself

 

[Cliff Booth]

kill yourself

Lmao I should have left the platform out, but the actual game came out like 2 years ago

 

[Peasant]

It finally came out on Switch recently and I picked it up. This shit is fucking great. I'm not even past the first day and I've "died" twice, but both times were awesome.

The little bully kid right next to the murder victim ruined my psyche enough to quit the force the first time because I didn't know how to quickly heal. The second time, I tried to skip on my debt to the hostel owner and careened into the paraplegic woman and suffered a heart attack.

"Save often" is a lesson I've learned early on. Anyway 10/10 so far. No issues on the Switch port besides loading times. Looking forward to this studio's next offering.

Disco Elysium remains the only game I know of where you can die by sitting in a chair.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Disco Elysium remains the only game I know of where you can die by sitting in a chair.

You can put people in the electric chair in prison architect.

There's also the ending of "beneath a steel sky", where sitting on the chair in the end merges you with an AI and ends your normal life.

 

[Affluent Reptilian]

The way the writing depicts sitting in that chair as an abject social humiliation as well as being physically uncomforrtable, slowly destroying your will, was brilliant. It took a truly heroic skill check iirc to be able to resist being told to take a chair.

 

[AvROX]

Isn't this some SJW game?

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Isn't this some SJW game?

It's a little woke, but not to any extreme.

And no, I'm not going to debate the cup with any of you fuckos

 

[Orange Rhymer]

TL;DR Philosophy homework for community college dropout communists, that mom & dad paid $60 for.

 

[JamusActimus]

I honestly didn't catch the whole communism thing until I checked out the fanbase.

I rejected most of the communist thoughts and my character was pretty racist.
He only changed his mind thanks to Kim

 

[SomeDingus]

Isn't this some SJW game?

It doesn't shove any wokeness or communard propaganda in your face unless you explicitly ask for it. It's a game about a detective who's arguably schizophrenic.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

...It's a game about a software developer who's arguably schizophrenic.

FIFY

 

[Oilspill Battery]

ZA/UM Disolves over sociocultural differences, seems we're never gonna get a proper sequel.

Everytime I hear "sociocultural differences", I'm primed to think "troons", but a lot of people are reporting the studio heads were strongarmed out over money so who knows, either way its very sad, disco was a really good game and the kind of game you only see once every decade. (2009 we had new vegas, 1999 we had planetscape, 2019 we got elysium)

Devs thanking marx/engels on the game awards did a lot of undeserved damage to its reputation because it made people think it was a woke shiftfest when it wasn't, it was a lot more moderate (but not liberal) in its approach and made fun of commies a lot.


F

FIFY

You may be onto something, that is signed as

"Martin Luiga
Tallinn Inpatient Treatment Centre of Psychiatry Clinic, Ward IX
10/1/2022"

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I've heard the original creator was hospitalized in a mental asylum, shouldn't have sat on that chair....

Anyways either the company died to capitalism (everyone wants his part of the pie) or Communism (someone insulted a tranny and ignited a civil war).

 

[Agarathium1066]

Its fitting that the company which thanked Marx and Engels would fall apart due to financial and capitalist pressure. I'd have liked to see more stuff set in the universe but I'm not sure they could've made more with the game system they had. Unless the detective is shunted into sobriety 'cause otherwise he's a nightmarish mess.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Its fitting that the company which thanked Marx and Engels would fall apart due to financial and capitalist pressure. I'd have liked to see more stuff set in the universe but I'm not sure they could've made more with the game system they had. Unless the detective is shunted into sobriety 'cause otherwise he's a nightmarish mess.

A sequel featuring junior detective cuno still hearing voices as a result of his brain being fucked up due to his childhood meth addiction would fit in extremely well as a followup.

 

[Kane Lives]

A sequel featuring junior detective cuno still hearing voices as a result of his brain being fucked up due to his childhood meth addiction would fit in extremely well as a followup.

We'll get that game in 2029 if we're lucky.

 

[Peasant]

A sequel featuring junior detective cuno still hearing voices as a result of his brain being fucked up due to his childhood meth addiction would fit in extremely well as a followup.

I had absolutely no idea what concept would work for a sequel, but that actually seems workable. Brilliant, actually. Instead of the skill voices being fragments of previous lives, they're the competing personalities of a young man trying to establish himself. This fits neatly with his character. Also since Cuno is more of a rogue, he could potentially make greater use of the rather under-utilized physical skills. Perhaps certain conflicts with characters could be resolved with brawling or threats of violence.

Alas, I didn't have high hopes for the sequel to begin with, and I have even less faith now.