Game News Disco Elysium: Welcome to Revachol

[Verylittlefishes]

9 hours to go, fuck you, game.

While waiting, I'll tell you a couple nazi anecdotes about Estonians and their slow temperament.


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“I told some Estonians guys that they’re slow.” “What did they do?” “Nothing. But they beat me up the following day.”

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A history teacher asks her students what the meaning of the three colours are in the Estonia flag. Tiit, the first to answer says, ”Blue is the colour of our beautiful sea that the Russians tried to pollute.” Toomas follows it up with, ”Black is our bountiful land, that the Russians are ruining.” Finally little Sergei insists, “Teacher can I answer one too?” “Very well,” says the teacher. “White is the snow that Estonians in Siberia didn’t properly sweep away. And if Tiit and Toomas don’t shut up, they’ll be sent there to finish the job.”

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Based shprot fishermen.

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I'll contribute to the pre-release Estonian cultural experience myself:

 

[Verylittlefishes]

Based shprot fishermen.

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I'll contribute to the pre-release Estonian cultural experience myself:

wow, this is actually awesome.

 

[Kasparov]

Kasparov any chance for a physical / box version release?

Not right now. Might be something ZA/UM looks into down the line, but probably only as a collector's item or something.

[fanboi] I mean I would love if there was a physical artbook and or some overpriced posters: some of the artwork that Rostov and Anton did for the game is just phenomenal [/fanboi]

 

[Prime Junta]

Kasparov any chance for a physical / box version release?

Not right now. Might be something ZA/UM looks into down the line, but probably only as a collector's item or something.

[fanboi] I mean I would love if there was a physical artbook and or some overpriced posters: some of the artwork that Rostov and Anton did for the game is just phenomenal [/fanboi]

I'm in for an overpriced poster, at least if there's one that passes the wife filter.

 

[Kasparov]

Kasparov any chance for a physical / box version release?

Not right now. Might be something ZA/UM looks into down the line, but probably only as a collector's item or something.

[fanboi] I mean I would love if there was a physical artbook and or some overpriced posters: some of the artwork that Rostov and Anton did for the game is just phenomenal [/fanboi]

I'm in for an overpriced poster, at least if there's one that passes the wife filter.

You just add a custom frame like the infamous (in its time) Courbet - with a little curtain.

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You can hack a raspberry to track your wife's phone, so when it is in the general area it stays closed.

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Be sure to plug it in or have spare batteries at hand

 

[Van-d-all]

but probably only as a collector's item or something.

I was asking with that intent anyway. It's one of those games I'd like to have in a box to look at with nostalgia in 10 years time. A regular box would do, but a collector edition is even better.

 

[Roguey]

By the way, this is an example of what I mean by pretentious

"Esprit de Corps" "Savoir Faire" "Guillaume le Million" "Les adventures du detective Closeau." A lot of gratuitous French in an English-language game to give it a veneer of sophistication, but "les adventures" gives him away as a fraud: it should be "les aventures," there's no d. Kurvitz in cartoon form:

 

[asterix]

By the way, this is an example of what I mean by pretentious

"Esprit de Corps" "Savoir Faire" "Guillaume le Million" "Les adventures du detective Closeau." A lot of gratuitous French in an English-language game to give it a veneer of sophistication, but "les adventures" gives him away as a fraud: it should be "les aventures," there's no d. Kurvitz in cartoon form:

Not to say it doesn't have some out-there vocab, but esprit de corps and savoir faire are actual terms for things that don't have a succinct equivalent in English. Would you say a term like deja vu is pretentious as well, just 'cause it French? What about schadenfreude, to borrow from different languages?

 

[Roguey]

By the way, this is an example of what I mean by pretentious

"Esprit de Corps" "Savoir Faire" "Guillaume le Million" "Les adventures du detective Closeau." A lot of gratuitous French in an English-language game to give it a veneer of sophistication, but "les adventures" gives him away as a fraud: it should be "les aventures," there's no d. Kurvitz in cartoon form:

Not to say it doesn't have some out-there vocab, but esprit de corps and savoir faire are actual terms for things that don't have a succinct equivalent in English. Would you say a term like deja vu is pretentious as well, just 'cause it French? What about schadenfreude, to borrow from different languages?

1) Camaraderie - derived from French but recognizable to most people!
2) Call it social grace or something similar

A lot of people know deja vu and schadenfreude because they've been well-memed in pop culture.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

3 hours to go

 

[Prime Junta]

"Esprit de Corps" "Savoir Faire" "Guillaume le Million" "Les adventures du detective Closeau." A lot of gratuitous French in an English-language game to give it a veneer of sophistication, but "les adventures" gives him away as a fraud: it should be "les aventures," there's no d. Kurvitz in cartoon form:

That's all from the worldbuilding in his PnP game. It so happens that the major cultural power in the current century is Francophone. If it was set in some other century with a different major cultural power, presumably the loans would be different too.

I.e. pretentious it may be but it's not gratuitous -- no more than Josh's ekeras and gellardes anyway.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

Fresh review says its amazing

https://ragequit.gr/reviews/item/disco-elysium-pc-review-english-version/

 

[Stakhanov]

Esprit de corps and savoir faire are hardly pretentious, they're relatively common expressions in English too. If these are the marks of pretentiousness in 2019, it speaks fucking badly.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Esprit de corps is a common theater and military term.
All RPG's are pretentious.
Fight me.

This actually looks worth playing assuming it isn't bug ridden shit.

 

[Prime Junta]

assuming it isn't bug ridden shit

It's not. Much cleaner than most releases, even from major publishers. There are a bunch of reviews out there confirming this if you don't want to take my word for it.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Esprit de corps is a common theater and military term.
All RPG's are pretentious.
Fight me.

I'm just saying it's going to require quite a bit of Sitzfleisch to read through all these fancy pancy French words.

 

[Sentinel]

Is this game any good?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Is this game any good?

Communist trash being shilled heavily by communists.

 

[luj1]

Esprit de corps and savoir faire are hardly pretentious, they're relatively common expressions in English too.

If these are the marks of pretentiousness in 2019, it speaks fucking badly.

You haven't been following the convo brother... anything you can't comprehend or grasp mentally is a mark of pretentiousness in 2019. Much easier than admitting you're a dense, stunted plebeian

 

[Fenix]

You want me to just repost the same message there or is that a problem?

I don't have much else to say, I'm more interested in lurking and reading the fallout once people actually play the game for more than 1 hour.

You shittty damb asshole trolle, go back the way you came.
Literally in the shit corner internet you came from.
Do you like my statement, piece of shit?
Eat shit shiteater.

I don’t know where you got the idea that you can only side with the union.

Because "it" (not he) is what I said above.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

You shittty damb asshole trolle, go back the way you came.
Literally in the shit corner internet you came from.
Do you like my statement, piece of shit?
Eat shit shiteater.

Russia is better than USA.

 

[Fenix]

Russia is better than USA.

Didn't got it but oh well...

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Esprit de Corps" "Savoir Faire" "Guillaume le Million"

In addition to what’s already been said about esprit de corps and savoir-faire (the former is not at all uncommon, the latter should be memorable because I made a great joke about it a couple years ago in the main thread), Guillaume le Million is the proper name of a famous disco musician not a francophone phrase.

Edit: Roguey do I really need to screenshot this?

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

2) Call it social grace or something similar

Wow. Good one, Rogue! Too bad you're not designing games for me to play!