By mechanics you mean all the downtime just riding a horse to a popamole shoot-out and that's all there is? Maybe true but the characterization brings everything together so nicely that I don't mind the repetitive gameplay loops. If CP2077 has a million things to do but can't match the character writing of RDR2 I'd say CDPR got their priorities wrong, especially with all the Deux Ex talk.
But those are again story branches, not systemic, and they couldn't be. The only real system Disco has is the dialogue checks system. I really love Disco Elysium, I'm not badmouthing it but it's a slice of an RPG, where many compromises were made. Although I liked the game a lot I would have preferred the combat encounters to have used some sort of a combat system.
To GTA's credit, this 1997 (same year as Fallout) game had timed missions. It was actually full of them and they were getting progressively more strict as you progressed through the cities.Are you suggesting time limits for quests?
Why yes, 2020, I am. That's because consolized, casual, popamole-style "do it whenever you feel like it" quests are completely inappropriate to the setting and source material—with which you are clearly not familiar, else we wouldn't be having this conversation.
When a rich man needs a deniable operative or strike team to extricate his spoiled brat of a daughter from the underground BDSM club where she's been using his credit card for the past week, for example, he's not going to want to wait while you tootle around picking flowers and eating hot dogs until you feel like doing the mission.
It's like you didn't even stop for five seconds to think this through. Your only thought is how frustrating it would be if a game actually challenged you by imposing sensible restrictions on your button-pressing.
I said that's a better argument for it not being an RPG, but it's not an argument that holds. There are failed states including death in adventure games as well. So fail states are not proof of a game being an RPG.
What are you talking about? When your hp reach 0 you die of heart attack, when you morale reach 0 you quit the job. My first character was an int build with 2hp/2mp and he died to all kinds of things.
Great then, you have proven me wrong and Disco Elysium is a proper RPG although it doesn't have a discrete combat system. So much the better IMO.
Source?
I'm sure there is an embargo until release day.
