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IHaveHugeNick

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You aren’t the chosen one and you aren’t trying to save the world, I haven’t seen anything to suggest it

It’s up to you – and you alone – to save the whole world.

:nocountryforshitposters:

It's like hard-bioled Camus

It's like Camus? Nobel Prize winner Camus?

Okay people listen up. I'm declaring a state of medical emergency. Everybody remain calm and proceed to the exits. CDC will arrive shortly in hazmat suits and escort DE shills into appropriate facility with no windows.
 
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Myzzrym

Tactical Adventures
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Unless the ratings are dumpster fire at release I'll probably get that one.
 

Prime Junta

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Seriously, I thought this was supposed to be down-to-earth cop game. Why am I reading all this try-hard wannabe mysticism nonsense about "resolving reality", "untying great knots" and "contraction of singular miracles". WTF?

Prime Junta you better explain yourself fella.

I'm as confused as you are. Maybe Marat Sar fell off the wagon? I hope not, he's been doing so well until now.
 

Dwarvophile

Liturgist
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Also, I want all of you who are afraid to get hyped up to know that i understand you bros. I fully do. To be hurt by a game, hurts, so fucking much. I was never the same after Gothic 3. Literally. And I will never let a game treat me that way again. In my nightmares, i still play the game for the first time. Its terrible, like it took a part of me I didnt even know is there.

#metoo
 

Prime Junta

Guest
Also, I want all of you who are afraid to get hyped up to know that i understand you bros. I fully do. To be hurt by a game, hurts, so fucking much. I was never the same after Gothic 3. Literally. And I will never let a game treat me that way again. In my nightmares, i still play the game for the first time. Its terrible, like it took a part of me I didnt even know is there.

#metoo

 

Fenix

Arcane
Vatnik
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Russia atchoum!
Dude, those sentences are simply vulgar euphemisms for a variety of sexual acts. I'm surprised they went over your head. You are clearly reading too much into the writer's intent here.

That was smart. I mean, really.

Here’s what I suspect Kurvitz is riffing off of:

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. I do not care much about his private life; he is neither a eunuch nor a satyr; I think he might seduce a duchess and I am quite sure he would not spoil a virgin; if he is a man of honor in one thing, he is that in all things.

He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks—that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.

The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. He has a range of awareness that startles you, but it belongs to him by right, because it belongs to the world he lives in. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.

In other words, he just describes a MAN. A man that is a man and not soyboy.

I'm as confused as you are. Maybe Marat Sar fell off the wagon? I hope not, he's been doing so well until now.

Aside from hidden message/homage Kyl Von Kull said about, it could be just slight marketing move to attract those who like this kind of stories.
 

hexer

Guest
I've been out of the loop.. why is this game advertised as the next Planescape Torment?
Is someone from the old team working on it, is it a spiritual successor, something else?
As they say in Sigil, I'm a clueless berk right now.
 

Prime Junta

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I've been out of the loop.. why is this game advertised as the next Planescape Torment?
Is someone from the old team working on it, is it a spiritual successor, something else?
As they say in Sigil, I'm a clueless berk right now.

It's actually not being advertised as the next PS:T.

Some reviewers, however, are making the comparison. It does have some similarities -- a set protag, highly personal story, text heavy, artistic ambitions, that sort of thing.

IT'S THE NEXT PLANESCAPE: TORMENT :bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:
 

Awakened_Yeti

Arcane
Developer
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Also, I want all of you who are afraid to get hyped up to know that i understand you bros. I fully do. To be hurt by a game, hurts, so fucking much. I was never the same after Gothic 3. Literally. And I will never let a game treat me that way again. In my nightmares, i still play the game for the first time. Its terrible, like it took a part of me I didnt even know is there.

#metoo

you are the chosen one
 
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It may sound a weird argument to make but I have to admit the way a lot of gaming journalists are tripping over each other to shower this game in praises on twatter is just making me more wary of it.

Hey, man, you say that but the latest Eurogamer article complained about being "overwhelmed" by the game's depth and lack of direction (translation: no quest markers, boi). The comments are likewise pretty fucking funny:

"I'm really interested in this but a bit put off by how complicated it seems. As someone who bounced off Pillars of Eternity (admittedly on Switch which is not it's optimal platform) because of how impenetrable it's systems were but is massively intrigued by the role playing potential of Disco, is it worth me taking the risk?"

"I really hope this game will be released to the consoles next year."

"Xbox One X Definitive Edition, please."

"Is this one PC-only, or will there be a console version for comfy play on the sofa?
I know such questions are heresy, but I'd prefer to spend 90hrs in comfy surrounds rather than hunched over keyboard."

"Yep same here but this is pc peasants only at the moment - let them pay to hunch over a monitor and fiddle around with settings, I'll grab it off the torrents for a quick look and play properly if it comes to a console."

"Was looking forwrard to it. But 60 hours? Ok, skip.
Means at least 40-50 are useless and boring filler."

:lol:
 
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Who actually hunches over the keyboard? That only helps if you have tyrannosaurus arms. Get smart, get cozy.

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Zeriel

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Maybe the next Planescape Torment wasn't a game but all the friends we made along the way.
This has got to be the friendliest post I've ever seen on the Codex.

Beat 'nything Sherry ever posted by a long shot.

:love:

Its some sort of copypasta. I first saw it in a Grimoire thread, ofc.

Im curious about the origin of it tho.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maybe-the-real-treasure-was-the-friends-we-made-along-the-way
 

Deleted Member 16721

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It may sound a weird argument to make but I have to admit the way a lot of gaming journalists are tripping over each other to shower this game in praises on twatter is just making me more wary of it.

That's certainly weird. Wouldn't the saner option be to think, hey, it's a good game? Or are a couple of Estonians plotting a grand conspiracy to pay everyone to give them praise?
 

Zed Duke of Banville

Dungeon Master
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Maybe the next Planescape Torment wasn't a game but all the friends we made along the way.
This has got to be the friendliest post I've ever seen on the Codex.

Beat 'nything Sherry ever posted by a long shot.

:love:

Its some sort of copypasta. I first saw it in a Grimoire thread, ofc.

Im curious about the origin of it tho.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maybe-the-real-treasure-was-the-friends-we-made-along-the-way
treasure.png
 

Prime Junta

Guest
Surely your heart has not become so hard that you cannot remember the simple joys of playing a fun game?

Eh, he’s just larping an edgelord because he thinks it’ll get cred with the oldfags he’s orbiting. Seen plenty like him come and go over the years.
 

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