Disco Elysium Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Zombra]

After reading the interview, I have arrived at the other side and now embrace "Disco Elysium" completely.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

The art is really interesting, and detective stuff is refreshing.
The main character reminds of those old school hard core alcoholics who hate themselves, but can solve mysteries at will.

Wishlisted.

And now, without reading anything more about it, it's time to forget it until release.

 

[Zombra]

Now that we have all the stats, here's my summary for people thinking about character builds.
Of course it doesn't really help since we don't know how many points there are to spend or how the experience system works, but there you go.

DISCO ELYSIUM STATS SUMMARY

• INTELLECT
  • LOGIC
    • + Raw intellect
    • - Arrogance
  • RHETORIC
    • + Debate, persuasion
    • - Bickering
    • - Doesn’t really change anyone’s mind
  • ENCYCLOPEDIA
    • + Lore and facts
    • - Often trivial and worthless
  • DRAMA
    • + Deception
    • + Entertainment
    • + Detect deception
    • + No downside?
  • CONCEPTUALIZATION
    • + Inspired, original thought
    • + Cultural theory
    • - ”Artistic” identity
  • VISUAL CALCULUS
    • + Forensics, crime scene visualization
    • + No downside?
• PSYCHE
  • VOLITION
    • + Willpower, self-control
    • + Morale
    • + No downside?
  • INLAND EMPIRE
    • + Instinct
    • + Imagination
    • + Supernatural attunement
    • - Surreal, out of touch with conventional reality
  • EMPATHY
    • + Attuned to hidden depths of others
    • + Social survival
    • + No downside?
  • AUTHORITY
    • + Assert dominance
    • + Gain respect
    • + No downside?
  • SUGGESTION
    • + Manipulate others
    • + Detect manipulation
    • - Kinda slimy
  • ESPRIT DE CORPS
    • + Shows the player scenes of NPCs where protagonist is not present
    • + No downside?
• PHYSIQUE
  • PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT
    • + Basic strength and physicality
    • - Macho, unself-aware
  • ELECTROCHEMISTRY
    • + Drug knowledge
    • + Better use of “potions”
    • - Drug addiction
    • - Unprovoked sexual response
  • ENDURANCE
    • + Hit points
    • + General health and robustness
    • - Antisocial outlook
  • HALF LIGHT
    • + Aggression
    • + Response to danger
    • - Paranoia
    • - Panic
  • PAIN THRESHOLD
    • + Tolerate injury
    • - Masochist
  • SHIVERS
    • + Attuned to the insane mystery of Revachol
    • - Attuned to the insane mystery of Revachol
• MOTORICS
  • HAND/EYE COORDINATION
    • + Guns
    • + Catching
    • + No downside?
  • REACTION SPEED
    • + Combat dodge
    • + Situational awareness
    • - Jumpy
  • PERCEPTION
    • + Attuned to environment
    • + Find clues, secret areas
    • - Drowning in notes
  • SAVOIR FAIRE
    • + Acrobatic, sneaky
    • - Douchebag
  • COMPOSURE
    • + Poker face
    • + Stand under pressure
    • + Read body language
    • + No downside?
  • INTERFACING
    • + Manual dexterity
    • + Sensitivity to objects
    • + No downside?

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

So in our game, the world is beautiful and extreme and terrifying enough for it to have a nickname, a way for them to express a love for this reality that they’re in, which is quite beautiful at times, too. They call it ‘Elysium’, and it’s a kind of amor fati world-spirit expression for these people, and your character can find that out by asking people.

So from that moment on I’ve felt I’ve owned this name. Of course since it’s taken 14 years for us to do it, some kind of cynical assholes have ran it to the ground already, but this is ground I won’t concede. This is a name I will fight for, and I wanted it in the fucking title. We couldn’t just call it ‘Elysium’ because Neill Blomkamp fucked up already, so we called it Disco Elysium because the dude has disco clothes on in it. But it is an introduction of our setting, which is Elysium, and we’re not backing off from it – we wanted to claim it for ourselves. It was a territorial power move on our parts, to get the title in there.

So that's the reason for changing the name?

 

[Jenkem]

Honestly the amount of fawning coverage this is getting from RPS is making my dick very limp.

If this game gets a good review by John Wallker, I will not buy it.

 

[Jenkem]

But it is an introduction of our setting, which is Elysium, and we’re not backing off from it – we wanted to claim it for ourselves.

Because the word "Elysium" has never been used before in video games.

 

[Prime Junta]

Because the word "Elysium" has never been used before in video games.

Read the interview. He wants to claim it from the unfortunates who made the mistake of using it before in video games. “It’s a power move.”

Also now he’s on the record for being better than China Miéville. Them’s fightin’ words

 

[Wunderbar]

So that's the reason for changing the name?

original name sounded too much like "no truce with the furries".

 

[Q]

No furries - no buy

 

[Fenix]

It seems to me today is a kind of Christmas. Ho! Ho! Ho!

F**** incredible piece of interview! I'm serious.
Usually for me it's not easy to read this long pieces of text, they are boreing and bland in general - I have a feeling people talk long about things they could talk short, and are glad to talk about miniscule minor things instead of main things.

This acticle is different - I didn't even notice how I read all this.
Great staff, many parts was already spoken, something wasn't, and as a whole it bring better understanding of agame, the world it is set in, and of course the author.
Cheers, Marat Sar!

We didn’t want to make that classical RPG mistake of putting a lot of world-building first. We want the personal stuff first, and then we want you to slowly realise that this isn’t your world.

Yeah, there was a game recently, who did it in worst case scenario.

By the way, cabine of this thing - motor carriage right? - remind me the cabin of combine harvester, which I always thougt was cool.

Spoiler

Also this comment from article

Let’s make sure we don’t Spore or No Man’s Sky this game – that is to say, build it up so much that it can’t possibly ever live up to expectations. Be careful with the hype.

I agree with haha. I mean I think everyone have some examples in their mind how some song that is REALLY good, and sounds from every window, microwave oven and even iron to the point everybody start to moking that song and singer.

 

[Background Character]

All points in motorics

All points in savoir faire

 

[Prime Junta]

 

[fantadomat]

No furries - no buy

The list of games you play must be huge.

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

original name sounded too much like "no truce with the furries".

Which is cool. Still better than the new name.

Because the word "Elysium" has never been used before in video games.

He choose a generic name that can hurt the sales of his game to make a declaration of love to his unpublshed PnP system. How childish is that.

 

[Master]

Art of this games looks so nice.

Dont understand what people see in the art. The skillset drawings are good but the portraits and the general "visible brushstrokes" style of the graphics, sucks.

What is this, a GTA loading screen?

Can any of the devs say why was this particular style chosen and what purpose it serves in the game, other than to say "look how artistic we are" and possibly to draw easily impressed audiences on account of vibrant colors?

 

[Cael]

I have to say that I am not a fan of the artwork. Never liked that kind of painting. However, if they were aiming for the turn of the 20th Century type feel, they got it pretty much down pat, what with the muttonchop whiskers and the like.

 

[you know what time it is]

That's because you goons have no taste.

Skill's art is especially good, Kasparov you got any Polacks in the art department? Getting some familiar vibes off of them pics.

 

[fantadomat]

That's because you goons have no taste.

Skill's art is especially good, Kasparov you got any Polacks in the art department? Getting some familiar vibes off of them pics.

It is good because it goes well with the game's theme. Don't thing that i will buy it as a painting,not fan of modernist art.

 

[Kasparov]

the general "visible brushstrokes" style of the graphics, sucks.

When you say the style of our graphics (sic!) I would think you´re talking about the art in the game (yes, inside the game. when you play it.) But it seems to me you´re confusing promotional art (in the quotes below) and in-game art (Screenshots and the like. Check Youtube for gameplay snippets and glimpses of the game in the trailers).

possibly to draw easily impressed audiences on account of vibrant colors?

So you´re saying that the promotional art is bad for being good promotional art?

Spoiler

Honest to god - people kept asking me on the show floor if it´s a post apoc/dystopian world bc it looks so bleak and colorless. Blizzard has really done their job well. Color is no longer a color unless it roundhouse kicks you in the teeth.

Spoiler

is this colorful enough?

Kasparov you got any Polacks in the art department? Getting some familiar vibes off of them pics.

No Polish brothers or sisters, but our sensibilities are well rooted in the Soviet and even longer Russian traditions - perhaps there´s a connection there.

 

[fantadomat]

Kasparov,do you have some drawn hentai?

 

[Kasparov]

Kasparov,do you have some drawn hentai?

I draw my own porn for personal use, yes. PM for commissions prices.

 

[vota DC]

All points in motorics

All points in savoir faire

Since all gunshot skills are based on motorics you will be a great fighter at distance. I wonder if toward the end of the game you have still 5 motorics and 200+ savoir faire....every criminal will be more able than you with the gun because you didn't invest??

 

[HoboForEternity]

Kasparov,do you have some drawn hentai?

I draw my own porn for personal use, yes. PM for commissions prices.

share some free samples first

 

[Kasparov]

Kasparov,do you have some drawn hentai?

I draw my own porn for personal use, yes. PM for commissions prices.

share some free samples first

If you do my three year´s worth of accounting for me first. You know. As a sample of your competence. I´m not sure why exactly, but you strike me as an accountant.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Kasparov,do you have some drawn hentai?

I draw my own porn for personal use, yes. PM for commissions prices.

share some free samples first

If you do my three year´s worth of accounting for me first. You know. As a sample of your competence. I´m not sure why exactly, but you strike me as an accountant.

i am a hobo not an accountant.

Okay i have a job and not really hobo, but i dont do accounting.

My heart is a hobo, like that song is why i am a hobo