ok I know this forum is more or less moribund but I can't hack it around Serious Gamers, I can't, but I happened to hear about this game called Disco Elysium and it intrigues me. Mostly because I thought it might actually involve disco, which it seems not to? But it sounds interesting anyway. Some kind of Estonian no-combat RPG, this seems kind of up my alley honestly... I don't know how I feel about the Chapo Trap House cameos but they are cameos at least?
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 30 November 2019 21:12 (four months ago) link
it seems like a game for people who like the Meaningful Dialogue Choices part of crpgs and wish they'd throw everything else away to focus on that
― ciderpress, Saturday, 30 November 2019 21:25 (four months ago) link
me personally i don't care about Meaningful Dialogue Choices but I do enjoy walking simulators and the style of the game intrigued me. so i took a chance and i'm enjoying it so far! it reminds me of Gate's version of Saturday Night Fever.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:33 (four months ago) link
does look cool actch
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 2 December 2019 15:19 (four months ago) link
it reminds me of Gate's version of Saturday Night Fever.
dang now i want in
― adam, Monday, 2 December 2019 15:23 (four months ago) link
It has it's own thread! So yeah 20% at the moment, due to it winning an award, if yer interested
― Ste, Friday, 13 December 2019 13:05 (three months ago) link
https://kotaku.com/disco-elysium-developers-shout-out-marx-and-engels-1840403603
― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:58 (three months ago) link
Man someone finally got round to making that video game with 'good writing' huh
It also has the prettiest title screen to date
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:56 (three months ago) link
― ciderpress
Well, I know that's meant to be disparaging but it's pretty much me, yep, and the more I read about this the more desperate I am to play it.
― emil.y, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:03 (three months ago) link
The text is as advertised, but the game also looks great. Some of the character animations are very funny.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:21 (three months ago) link
What's with the scare quotes?
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:56 (three months ago) link
its good writing in the sense that it's super adaptive without showing a lot of seams. i'm not a huge fan of the style
― ciderpress, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:29 (three months ago) link
i don't know what that means
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:31 (three months ago) link
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:56 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Idk just that a lot of games touted to have good writing do not
I was fully ready to find DE grating or too self-conscious but I'm frequently quivering with mirth at some of the dialogue options it offers you, and the skills-as-internal monologues thing is handled well
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:53 (three months ago) link
its good at adapting to your dialogue choices and stats without being obvious about whats going on behind the curtain is what i mean
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:01 (three months ago) link
I liked the writing a lot more as a low int high physical character. Which I think is an achievement.
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 10:25 (three months ago) link
MINOR SPOILER MAYBE
the v pretty title screen is the view the shooter would have had of martinaise