Game News Disco Elysium gets a Hardcore Mode

[vota DC]

I finished this game without touching alchool since first play

So you're saying you can only play some other games while drunk?

No that developers put this mode to nerf drugs buff because some people used as a trick to go over the skill cap. But little changes and case can be solved even losing every time.

 

[thesheeep]

Yeah, most choices in the game do not really change important outcomes in significant ways. A few do, though.
But at least they are usually very well acknowledged throughout the game and do lead to dialogue you wouldn't see otherwise.

The biggest problem I see is that - at least with the right thoughts - you become absurdly rich with no use for the money. I had so many "potions" by the end that I could have bullet-sponged that one scene with shooting if the game would have let me.
In that, it really is very much a classic RPG: No money for anything at the start, no use for money at the end.

 

[Papa Môlé]

It takes a special kind of cretin to complain about his own activity of savescumming. I mean, no one is making you savescum.

And by extention it takes a special kind of game designer who tries to fight player savescum practice by stuff like normalizing rewards (every solution to a quest shall give the same xp/money/item reward). Notable example - Josh Sawyer, POE.

It's present year. It's time to accept that single-player cRPGs have never been, nor will ever become, a faithful representation of a tabletop roleplaying game with a game master. Save-scumming is inevitable and nothing can or should be done about it.