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

[ArchAngel]

This Citizen Hive is ready to accept the coming of our new cRPG Gods!

 

[Molina]

This game is going to bomb hard, isn't it? No mainstream site has posted the release trailer and their official youtube chan with whopping 900 subscribers has the trailer with 40k views.

Why were they dropped by their publisher?

Guess why we haven't had a real RPG in years? Even on this site, we're just a bunch of people who are interested.

 

[lobsterfrogman]

I am really hyped for this game and can't wait for the release. In the meantime I wanted to plan the character I will play the game with and wanted to ask if anybody knows how much stat and skill points we will have for character creation?

 

[Marat Sar]

Full text.

Let’s talk content richness and playtime.

We’ve had enough people finish the game from start to end now. We can finally say how big the game is. And Disco Elysium is, in every sense of the word, a huge game. It’s bigger than *giant* and (a little) smaller than *gargantuan*, so I would say it is about colossus-sized.


SO — A COLOSSAL GAME.
How long is a colossal game? Well, it takes 60+ hours of continuous playtime to finish Disco Elysium if you’re a reasonably completionist player, as I am. It takes 90 hours if you’re absolutely savouring every detail. And 30 hours if you’re rushing it. Back-of-the-box, I would put playtime at: 60+ hours.

Map-wise, Disco Elysium takes place in one city district – Martinaise, in the city of Revachol. Martinaise is divided into five major areas – call them biomes if you like. Video game people love biomes:

1. 1. Martinaise proper, comprised of modern, renovated buildings. A dilapidated cityscape.
   2. The Industrial Harbour. Big machinery and containers upon containers of goods.
   3. The wild, abandoned urban coastline, full of ruins from a long lost Revolution.
   4. A plethora of underground areas meant to be explored with your flashlight.
   5. And a fifth area that I won’t reveal here.

All four non-underground areas are one seamless, isometric open world that you can approach in any order.

The world is about the size of Planescape: Torment. Or a sizeable chunk of the first Pillars. A sizeable chunk of Fallout: New Vegas… But the resolution – the level of detail, content density – of these areas is, I would say, about 5 times denser than any RPG I’ve played. Disco Elysium is a detective game and thus you have to be able to put it under a magnifying glass. Any part of it. Every apartment, hallway, street corner, lamp, or even trashcan needs story, writing, details and interactivity that, to me, exceeds even the most detail-oriented adventure games.

None of these areas reuse assets or look the same like games that are asset-assembled do. Sure, people have the same radio every now and then, every little room is 100% unique when it comes to layout and art. And music, too.

There are four major weather states – snow, rain, mist and clear. And four times of day – morning, day, evening, night. These all combine to make an unpredictable, moody city where time moves in a very realistic manner. Getting through one day is a massive thing. Shadows fall. Sodium lights flicker. The music changes. Tomorrow brings new NPC’s to old locations, as the world changes each day. It takes about one real life day to complete one in-world day, if you’re being meticulous.

WHAT IS THERE TO DO WITH ONE MASSIVE DAY?
Disco Elysium has about 100 “questlings" – or whatever you call them. We call them “tasks”. Tasks range from minor to-do’s a la “have a bath” to side-adventures that take a whole day to complete. We don’t differentiate between side-quests and main quests, by the way. It’s all one big thing — the story of your life in another world, as a detective of the Revachol Citizen’s Militia.

LET’S TALK STUFF TOO.
You have about 100 inventory items to mix and match from. These include tools – crowbars, guns, a boombox, a magnum sized bottle of wine… – and a plethora of clothes and even shiny armour to protect yourself with. Then we also have over 50 thoughts to choose from. These go in your head, they’re a kind of special item that evolves over time, giving you all manner of perk-like effects and role playing options. So – you’re playing physical and mental dress-up, draping your detective in ceramic armour, disco duds or tracksuit trousers – all the while filling your head with notions like: poetry, technology, para-natural nonsense, or trying to remember how old you are.

40 original pieces of music play as you explore the city. Some 6 different psychoactive substances get you high as you do so. Wine, beer, smokes, anti-radiation drugs… some good old fashioned trucker speed. And so on.

Jesus, and then there’s the skills! There are 24 of them and I swear to god – the least used has around 50 cases where it does something. The really active ones have (I’m not even kidding) around 500 uses. So yeah… There are thousands of skill checks. There are literally too many to count, for various technical reasons I won’t go into it right now. Safe to say, this is the skilliest game ever skilled. The skill list of 3.5 edition d’n’d is but a baby compared to Disco Elysium.

IT IS ONE MILLION WORDS LONG.
There are 70 characters, all have partial VO. Each you can spend hours talking to, each has hours of secret content.

Aaaaaand you’re gonna have to play the thing from beginning to end three times to get to see most of it. To see all of it… I don’t think a single human being can. But the internet has proven many a boast wrong, so let’s see.

It’s honestly inconceivable how we managed to do this. I guess time is the answer. Disco Elysium took 5 years to produce. We only managed to make it so fast because we had a head start with worldbuilding. A whopping 13 years worth of D&D style pen and paper games in the Elysium setting beforehand.



So this is Disco Elysium. I think it’s gonna rock your socks off, to be honest.

I realize listing all this made me sound like James Franco from Spring Breakers talking about all the “shit” he’s got, but it just had to be said…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Yd0NH14VA&feature=youtu.be&t=64

All of this shit is for you. We’re beyond excited to see how you’ll react to it. To a game that’s just… new. A new type of game — of which there’s suddenly a metric shit tons of. On your hard drive — to approach in your own way, order, and style.

On October 15, 2019.

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– Robert

 

[Terenty]

Full text.

Hey, Marat Sar, you better promote the game somewhere else, all 50 people on this board are already hyped

 

[Darth Roxor]

'itz got one gorillon words' dropped as if it were something good by definition, my favourite

 

[Got bored and left]

'itz got one gorillon words' dropped as if it were something good by definition, my favourite

What if it's one trillion of the choicest words out there, like gargantuan, sagacious, and antidisestablishmentarianism, Roxor Citizen? Do you not like literature, you sorry Philistine, you?

one million words is dumb as fuck but I'm still unironically and unreasonably hard for this game, sue me

 

[fantadomat]

I do hope that all the racism/nazies in the game are not the typical sjw garbage of "muh nazies bad" and actually let you roleplay as one. soo Kasparov which one is it?

 

[Kasparov]

I do hope that all the racism/nazies in the game are not the typical sjw garbage of "muh nazies bad" and actually let you roleplay as one. soo Kasparov which one is it?

What I think about nazis and what you can do in the game are two different things.

 

[fantadomat]

I do hope that all the racism/nazies in the game are not the typical sjw garbage of "muh nazies bad" and actually let you roleplay as one. soo Kasparov which one is it?

What I think about nazis and what you can do in the game are two different things.

I am more interested in what you can do in the game. You are a grown man entitled to your views and opinions as am i. That said i am not paying for them,but do intent to buy the game. So are they written in the game as generic bad guyz or you are able to be sympathetic or even able to hold such views (the player character that is) ?

 

[Blaine]

I do hope that all the racism/nazies in the game are not the typical sjw garbage of "muh nazies bad" and actually let you roleplay as one. soo Kasparov which one is it?

What I think about nazis and what you can do in the game are two different things.

Bold words, but we shall see.

On a different tack, I tend to agree with Citizen, Citizen, and Citizen: Your PR material is a little too self-congratulatory, verging on autofellatio—though falling well short of John Romero levels of ego, since you're only sucking your own cocks, and not proclaiming that everyone else should do the sucking for you.

 

[Prime Junta]

If you’re Muhammad Ali, “I am the greatest” is a simple statement of fact.

 

[frajaq]

I am more interested in what you can do in the game. You are a grown man entitled to your views and opinions as am i. That said i am not paying for them,but do intent to buy the game. So are they written in the game as generic bad guyz or you are able to be sympathetic or even able to hold such views (the player character that is) ?

there's a fascist stat!

http://zaumstudio.com/2018/04/11/meet-the-skills-physique/

ENDURANCE

Endurance is your metabolism and your circulatory system. It’s what keeps you alive. Endurance determines the amount of health points you have. Health is our primary resource pool, in addition to morale. Run out of health and you have a heart attack. Have too many heart attacks and you die. (It’s a known fact that cool cops can shake off one or two cardiac arrests like it weren’t a thing). Endurance makes you a more robust person. The more robust a person you are, the more fun you can have. And by fun I mean drugs and silly things. Remember that vial of speed you sniffed? In addition to depleting charges, it straight up damages your health. There are medicines to heal yourself up, of course. I hear doing magnesium, GABA-max, speed and the psychedelic anti-radiation drug Pyrholidone is great, because you get to feel like a superhuman, have beautiful visions and there are NO DOWNSIDES! (Until you run out of magnesium and GABA-max). This mad scientist’s lab is one of Disco Elysium’s more strategic elements. If it turns out the way we intend it to, it should be a pretty fun balancing act.

And you get to do more of it if you have a high Endurance. So far so normal. Until you find out that Endurance is also your gut feeling. And what your gut feeling tells you is – immigrants are bad for the economy. There are varied multistage reasons why women get paid less. You should return Revachol to the likeness of the Holy Sun In The Sky. Yes. If you play a certain way you may find out this guy’s a fascist, much like the Rhetoric skill under INT tends to be a little socialist…

 

[fantadomat]

I am more interested in what you can do in the game. You are a grown man entitled to your views and opinions as am i. That said i am not paying for them,but do intent to buy the game. So are they written in the game as generic bad guyz or you are able to be sympathetic or even able to hold such views (the player character that is) ?

there's a fascist stat!

http://zaumstudio.com/2018/04/11/meet-the-skills-physique/

ENDURANCE

Endurance is your metabolism and your circulatory system. It’s what keeps you alive. Endurance determines the amount of health points you have. Health is our primary resource pool, in addition to morale. Run out of health and you have a heart attack. Have too many heart attacks and you die. (It’s a known fact that cool cops can shake off one or two cardiac arrests like it weren’t a thing). Endurance makes you a more robust person. The more robust a person you are, the more fun you can have. And by fun I mean drugs and silly things. Remember that vial of speed you sniffed? In addition to depleting charges, it straight up damages your health. There are medicines to heal yourself up, of course. I hear doing magnesium, GABA-max, speed and the psychedelic anti-radiation drug Pyrholidone is great, because you get to feel like a superhuman, have beautiful visions and there are NO DOWNSIDES! (Until you run out of magnesium and GABA-max). This mad scientist’s lab is one of Disco Elysium’s more strategic elements. If it turns out the way we intend it to, it should be a pretty fun balancing act.

And you get to do more of it if you have a high Endurance. So far so normal. Until you find out that Endurance is also your gut feeling. And what your gut feeling tells you is – immigrants are bad for the economy. There are varied multistage reasons why women get paid less. You should return Revachol to the likeness of the Holy Sun In The Sky. Yes. If you play a certain way you may find out this guy’s a fascist, much like the Rhetoric skill under INT tends to be a little socialist…

I am not playing a single stat,but a combination of a few. I am curious if you are able to roleplay as one or not. A lot of beating around the bush from you guys.

 

[Grauken]

Come now, if you want to roleplay a Nazi play Panzer General, this is a game for more enlightened folks like drunk cynical detectives with a heart of gold

 

[Tigranes]

As we already know, the stats & skills aren't just numbers, they talk to you. If you find your character likes what they're selling, you can obviously lean into that in your point distribution and your in-game choices.

I assume the question is more about roleplaying freedom and not some kind of obsession with playing a nazi specifically. From my limited time with the game I saw a variety of directions this drunk cripple could go, but obviously we'll have to play the game to see how it pans out over dozens of hours, just like other RPGs.

 

[Kasparov]

I am more interested in what you can do in the game. You are a grown man entitled to your views and opinions as am i. That said i am not paying for them,but do intent to buy the game. So are they written in the game as generic bad guyz or you are able to be sympathetic or even able to hold such views (the player character that is) ?

I’m sure you will find likeminded types in the game and you will probably encounter folks of all very bloody different strokes. Art imitates life imitates art, yeah?

 

[fantadomat]

Come now, if you want to roleplay a Nazi play Panzer General, this is a game for more enlightened folks like drunk cynical detectives with a heart of gold

Don't go all defensive on me lol,i asked pretty clear question. The main point was are they written like a sjw's wet dream or there is some serious writing put in and if you have the roleplaying freedom to be one of them. If i want to larp as nazi i do culture cleansing run in one of paradox's games.

 

[Grauken]

Come now, if you want to roleplay a Nazi play Panzer General, this is a game for more enlightened folks like drunk cynical detectives with a heart of gold

Don't go all defensive on me lol,i asked pretty clear question. The main point was are they written like a sjw's wet dream or there is some serious writing put in and if you have the roleplaying freedom to be one of them. If i want to larp as nazi i do culture cleansing run in one of paradox's games.

A creator usually doesn't have the distance to answer this somewhat objectively, so you have to wait for reviews

 

[Prime Junta]

This has been gone over several times by now, Marat Sar even discussed it at length for the preview two years ago. Unless they’ve drastically changed things yes you can RP a fascist cop. Fascists even have a psychoactive substance designed specifically with them in mind: alcohol.

Whether it’ll turn out like in your fascist power fantasy is a different matter... but then I’m not sure this is the right game to play if you’re into wish-fulfilment fantasies regardless of political persuasion.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

I am not playing a single stat,but a combination of a few. I am curious if you are able to roleplay as one or not. A lot of beating around the bush from you guys.

they have said over and over again that you can play as a fascist.

 

[fantadomat]

Art imitates life imitates art

Sure,but art is ambiguous thing as it is rpgs . So what is art? Art is a contrast to life,not an imitation of it. Hardship and struggle do bring beauty in the hands of artist,prosperity and piece brings.....well modern art.

 

[Kasparov]

Art imitates life imitates art

Sure,but art is ambiguous thing as it is rpgs . So what is art? Art is a contrast to life,not an imitation of it. Hardship and struggle do bring beauty in the hands of artist,prosperity and piece brings.....well modern art.

Oh no, let’s not go down that road. I’ve been through too many artschools for that. Viva la state funded higher education.

 

[fantadomat]

Art imitates life imitates art

Sure,but art is ambiguous thing as it is rpgs . So what is art? Art is a contrast to life,not an imitation of it. Hardship and struggle do bring beauty in the hands of artist,prosperity and piece brings.....well modern art.

Oh no, let’s not go down that road. I’ve been through too many artschools for that. Viva la state funded higher education.

Do hope you decide to stay on the codex after the game's launch. I do like you mate . Still you are missing out on that hidden path in the deep woods of society. Also state funded education is nice,it is shame that the west is too greedy can't do it because muh free market.

 

[just]

here's a marketing strategy
slip to resetera that you can rp as a fascist
very problematic, twitter crusade in 3sec, moments later you're on reddit -> tons of free exposure.
to fuel shit even further put that trans flag in. then remove it. than put it back in.
thats like 1 week of top reddit posts, 4 kotaku articles and 200 page threads on various forums.