Disco Elysium

Haha, for real, I was bummed on the days Kim wasn’t around. Dude was my ROCK.

I know it's possible to offend Kim and he disappears for the rest of the day, but I'm not sure if you can keep doing that

Playing this and really enjoying it. I’m on day 4 and haven’t had a drink yet - is that bad? Anyway I love everything about this game. Just resolved the church disco situation.

Recently finished this, it absolutely rules and is one of the most engrossing gaming experiences I've ever had

So it turns out that most of the original creators of Disco Elysium have been involuntarily pushed out of the company, including Robert Kurvitz, the lead designer and writer(!)

This is super fucked up, but unfortunately not particularly surprising for the indie games industry. https://t.co/Op1R46drgJ

— Joachim (@JDespland) October 1, 2022

Every week I have a moment of sadness realising there is no game like this and that I cannot play it again for the first time.

Church disco situation is a classic in a game of classics. I think Evrart Claire saying “Harry” is the best part of the game though. An Evrart Claire x Phoenix Attorney type crossover would be my dream game.

A friend gave me this game as a gift (PS4 hard copy that I'll play on PS5), so I guess I'll have to play it now. Hoping it will be a fun game to go through with my wife, after we finish Inscryption (been taking that verrry slowly, only just got to act 2).

Excellent wife game. Wish I could rope mine into single player games

Just got this to play on my 8yo's Switch when she's asleep. Very barely into the game but enjoying it greatly, though I have died numerous times already because I didn't understand how to raise my health from 1 point and thus keeled over after kicking heavy curtain, etc. I do feel it could restart you after death from just before the thing you did that killed you, though maybe I have taken more of the arcane backstory onboard by clicking around every point of interest in the bookstore four or five times.

I absolutely love the fact that if you min/max your character, you are vulnerable to some of the absolute silliest ways to lose a game imaginable (at one point I lost the will to continue because I put on a cost that was too dirty)

yup!

I hadn't played for a while and tried making a character that was uh, not physically inclined, and managed to accidentally electrocute myself by trying to turn on the ceiling fan in the first 30 seconds

Started this last night, created a mostly average character and in an hour we got as far as the ground floor of the hostel. I think my wife bailed, the amount of dialogue makes the pace too slow for two people (with different reading/processing speeds). While normally dialogue (and especially the process of exhausting dialogue options) is my least favorite part of a video game, and it appears to be the entire game here, it's obviously extremely well-done and I think I'm going to keep playing on my own.

I do like the skill checks/dice rolls, it really gives that feeling of playing D&D without the awkwardness of having to play D&D with people.

Yeah it starts slow but gets weirder and more interesting as you go. Kinda felt like reading a book more than playing a game.

I had a blast playing a character with high Inland Empire and Shivers skills; it heightened the weirdness and gave my investigator a real Dale Cooper vibe, w/r/t strange intuitions and picking up on vibrations.

I also recommend inland empire as a main skill - if you're going to play a game that's heavily influenced by twin peaks and lynch, might as well see what they got imo

to anyone playing the game for the first time, though, i highly recommend starting with an extra point in Endurance, which directly ties into your health. it is not fun to die while looking at a ceiling fan after reading half an hour of text at the beginning of the game

Or… IS IT?

it's one of those things that is very fun in abstract

Lol, at least I made it past the ceiling fan boss. I'll try to play it weird.

i think the bummer about dying to the ceiling fan boss is having to go through all the dialogue at the beginning again, without a way to skip. i get why it works that way - the skills you choose at the very beginning probably change how that opening dialogue goes (?), but holy crap it's pretty demoralizing

it also makes you think that the rest of the game is also going to be filled with gotchas and gamebreaking decisions, but after that it's much more forgiving! (particularly if you're willing to cheat like me and reload a recent saved game when things when failing certain checks)

I made it past the ceiling fan but shortly afterward died of shame because Cuno made fun of me. I had to redo a lot of progress but I laughed the entire time

I blacked out crashing into the wheelchair lady, but I'm not sure if that counts as a death? Also not really sure how saving works yet, I haven't picked it back up since that first session.

why in god's name do you not simply come back to life just before you did the thing that deaded you? haven't had a chance to play it again since my first couple of hours on it, but i must admit the prospect of rerunning all the sections i'd already played through twice before isn't exactly making me salivate.

You can save your progress before you interact with things, in fact I’d say the game goes out of its way to encourage you to do so by murdering you in comically ludicrous ways

Oh, do you start at the beginning if you die without saving? Are there no auto-saves?

I’m pretty sure there are autosaves? I never relied on them, though. After death-by-Cuno I treated the game like it was Microsoft Word circa 2000 and hit save every 5 minutes or so

it's relatively easy to save once the game gets started for real. for some reason, though, they don't give you an autosave just before the ceiling fan boss, and it's sooooo early on, one of the very first non-text things that happens, that it's easy to forget to manually save

I treated the game like it was Microsoft Word circa 2000 and hit save every 5 minutes or so

same here and heavily recommended

you can do a little save scumming as a treat, but anything short of death should be accepted and moved on from imo

there are at least a couple moments where you can really piss off Kim unintentionally because your character is simply incapable of being competent

I’m pretty sure there are autosaves? I never relied on them, though. After death-by-Cuno I treated the game like it was Microsoft Word circa 2000 and hit save every 5 minutes or so

henceforth Dan you shall be my disco guru

Ok I'm fine with failure, I just don't want to die and have to re-do a bunch (this isn't Dark Souls, lol). I'll check out the save system on PS5.

I finished Day 1, and apparently I'm a "sorry cop" (I have a hard time playing these games like an asshole) with a side of paranormal communism. It's certainly an achievement in terms of the writing and style, although some of it still feels a bit like busy work (go talk to everyone, trigger the right thing to progress, etc) in a way that makes me a little antsy. I'll probably keep going slowly throughout the year, it's hard to pick up for just a few minutes (on PS5 at least). And I'll probably get sidetracked by the pure dumb fun of the upcoming RE4 remake.

New update lets you make your own scenes and dialogue? Crazy, I hope that's the hot new meme format.

(midway through Day 2 now, got the body down and finished some side quests, figuring out how to progress next)

(OK now seeing the whole thing going on with the creators and the company, that's too bad)

Dis game got me stressing about virtual rent
I’m not interested in making a living

Beautiful Iraqi review of the beautiful Disco Elysium pic.twitter.com/VVgiE5bQWT

— Zett Jukassa survived and died on Alderaan (@Zett_Jukassa) July 25, 2023

this is really cool. i'm working so hard to try and love this incredibly fucked up life which was, five years ago, my worst nightmare, and the best parts of it just aren't anything i know how to explain to anybody who hasn't lived it.

i love my friend who reaches out to me every day to say "hi", even when she's feeling awful. i love whenever i see another Birdie Wing meme. I love when my girlfriend comes over and we don't talk about our emotions, we just cook dinner together. I love the little ironic catchphrases we have, like Really Good Ally or There Were No Signs. I love girldick. I love the car my girlfriend's next door neighbors drive, a Subaru pickup with two huge trans flags trailing out the cab. I love that the most offensive thing about that car is that the custom plate ("TRNS UWU") is a California plate. I love the trans bus driver who drives the nine. I love how every grocery store clerk here just calls everyone "my friend", not just because they don't know other people's pronouns, but because it doesn't really matter.

I could go on forever. I should play more Disco Elysium.

Picked this up again yesterday. Last save was July... Found a woman to date but was advised to explore the coast first