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

[ScrotumBroth]

Do we get an official Codex preview piece Infi?

We already have somebody picked to do a review (no, it's not Prime Junta). Don't see much point in "previewing" a game that's coming out in less than two weeks. But maybe we can use the preview build to save some time.

Why the we of majesty ? You are probably the only one still doing stuff here, the owner is cruising in the vast australian wasteland in a suv and under heavy medication.

“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

 

[bataille]

I just hope the reviewer does a good job adequately assessing such a gargantuan blob of psychic energy...

 

[Tigranes]

I just hope the reviewer does a good job adequately assessing such a gargantuan blob of psychic energy...

The Codex Review will, of course, be out just in time for Grimoire II exclusive interview

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I don't think I can handle another Codex review after I read the one claiming that Atom RPG is a sophisticated postmodernist deconstruction of quantum Neo-freudian Buddhism mixed with deterministic neurological Socratesian undertones.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

The Codex Review will, of course, be out just in time for Grimoire II exclusive interview

Please refer to Cleve's next game by its proper name...

...Armoire: Heralds of the Eldritch Abomination

 

[Prime Junta]

don't worry cunta would throw an old man shitfit if anyone dared to review the game before him

I'm not reviewing the game.

(Also, that bit about gameplay info was not fair. My reviews have been quite mechanics-heavy, even by Codexian standards.)

 

[Kem0sabe]

I'm still wondering how the devs managed to fit 90 hours of content in this.

 

[Haba]

I'm still wondering how the devs managed to fit 90 hours of content in this.

Their playtesters had dyslexia.

 

[Hines]

 

[Kem0sabe]

That degenerate is former RPS, fuck him.

 

[Prime Junta]

I just got word from the Central Committee that I can talk freely about anything up to and including the first day and night of the game. I'm even allowed to post screenshots!

Some high (and low) points I've experienced --

• Dying before getting out of the hotel room. This was in fact the first time I spun up the game. Involved a particular build, a poor decision, and a bad die roll. Good times
• Failing to impress Klaasje with my game.
• Succeeding at impressing Klaasje with my game!
• Failing to get out of paying my bill.
• Succeeding at getting out of paying my bill!
• Succeeding at getting that little fucker Cuno to crack. (Finns will get an extra kick out of that encounter btw.)
• Playing pétanque with some war veterans grousing about the old times, and succeeding by failing, and failing by succeeding.
• Trying and failing to solve a mystery involving a business cursed with the curse of financial hardship
• Developing an Inexplicable Feminist Agenda that gave me more authority when dealing with men, but made me less sexually attractive
• Encountering the Homo-sexual Underground
• Discovering something about my past life that was so traumatic it gave me a heart attack
• Trying and completely failing to shock a rich liberal lady with outrageous behaviour, she turned out to be seriously cool and I'm sad she didn't invite me onto her yacht
• Measurehead, the giant black guy with Advanced Race Theory
• Fucking acing the autopsy, with help from my horrible necktie I discovered the actual cause of death
• Starting to piece together the mystery of what happened to my badge and my gun
• Bonding with Boring Cop Kim Kitsuragi

and jeez, I could go on forever but I won't

Anyway, I've got well over 30 hours in the first day and have played through it with a whole bunch of different builds. So ask me anything, I'll answer ... except I'll try to avoid any real spoilers as that wouldn't be cool even if it's technically allowed. So AMA

 

[Madawc]

How many times you went through the preview build in these 30 hours?

 

[Jenkem]

fucking shills larping as commies

 

[vortex]

What is that 5th area? Did you get there?

 

[GloomFrost]

I just got word from the Central Committee that I can talk freely about anything up to and including the first day and night of the game. I'm even allowed to post screenshots!

Some high (and low) points I've experienced --

• Dying before getting out of the hotel room. This was in fact the first time I spun up the game. Involved a particular build, a poor decision, and a bad die roll. Good times
• Failing to impress Klaasje with my game.
• Succeeding at impressing Klaasje with my game!
• Failing to get out of paying my bill.
• Succeeding at getting out of paying my bill!
• Succeeding at getting that little fucker Cuno to crack. (Finns will get an extra kick out of that encounter btw.)
• Playing pétanque with some war veterans grousing about the old times, and succeeding by failing, and failing by succeeding.
• Trying and failing to solve a mystery involving a business cursed with the curse of financial hardship
• Developing an Inexplicable Feminist Agenda that gave me more authority when dealing with men, but made me less sexually attractive
• Encountering the Homo-sexual Underground
• Discovering something about my past life that was so traumatic it gave me a heart attack
• Trying and completely failing to shock a rich liberal lady with outrageous behaviour, she turned out to be seriously cool and I'm sad she didn't invite me onto her yacht
• Measurehead, the giant black guy with Advanced Race Theory
• Fucking acing the autopsy, with help from my horrible necktie I discovered the actual cause of death
• Starting to piece together the mystery of what happened to my badge and my gun
• Bonding with Boring Cop Kim Kitsuragi

and jeez, I could go on forever but I won't

Anyway, I've got well over 30 hours in the first day and have played through it with a whole bunch of different builds. So ask me anything, I'll answer ... except I'll try to avoid any real spoilers as that wouldn't be cool even if it's technically allowed. So AMA

What is soundtrack/background sound like? What about voice-overs? Thanx.

 

[Prime Junta]

How many times you went through the preview build in these 30 hours?

I think I've done about three more or less complete first-day runs, but a lot more where I was just feeling out different builds and restarted early.

What is that 5th area? Did you get there?

No. The ferry over to the rest of Martinaise isn't running on the first day so you're restricted to the area around the harbour.

What is soundtrack/background sound like? What about voice-overs? Thanx.

Soundtrack is terrific, it's by British Sea Power so it could hardly be anything else. VO is partial. At its best it's terrific, at its not-so-best it's passable. It has more character than most game VOs and doesn't sound like it's a jaded actor reading from a paper; however it's a bit uneven IMO. Garte sounds like an asshole.

 

[Parabalus]

How much of the game is the 1st day?

 

[Kem0sabe]

I just got word from the Central Committee that I can talk freely about anything up to and including the first day and night of the game. I'm even allowed to post screenshots!

Some high (and low) points I've experienced --

• Dying before getting out of the hotel room. This was in fact the first time I spun up the game. Involved a particular build, a poor decision, and a bad die roll. Good times
• Failing to impress Klaasje with my game.
• Succeeding at impressing Klaasje with my game!
• Failing to get out of paying my bill.
• Succeeding at getting out of paying my bill!
• Succeeding at getting that little fucker Cuno to crack. (Finns will get an extra kick out of that encounter btw.)
• Playing pétanque with some war veterans grousing about the old times, and succeeding by failing, and failing by succeeding.
• Trying and failing to solve a mystery involving a business cursed with the curse of financial hardship
• Developing an Inexplicable Feminist Agenda that gave me more authority when dealing with men, but made me less sexually attractive
• Encountering the Homo-sexual Underground
• Discovering something about my past life that was so traumatic it gave me a heart attack
• Trying and completely failing to shock a rich liberal lady with outrageous behaviour, she turned out to be seriously cool and I'm sad she didn't invite me onto her yacht
• Measurehead, the giant black guy with Advanced Race Theory
• Fucking acing the autopsy, with help from my horrible necktie I discovered the actual cause of death
• Starting to piece together the mystery of what happened to my badge and my gun
• Bonding with Boring Cop Kim Kitsuragi

and jeez, I could go on forever but I won't

Anyway, I've got well over 30 hours in the first day and have played through it with a whole bunch of different builds. So ask me anything, I'll answer ... except I'll try to avoid any real spoilers as that wouldn't be cool even if it's technically allowed. So AMA

Is the game in love with its own writing? Like numanuma, writing more words just for the sake of being wordy.

How was the dialogue window combat?

Loading screens between street and interiors?

How was the performance?

 

[Prime Junta]

How much of the game is the 1st day?

Pass.

Is the game in love with its own writing? Like numanuma, writing more words just for the sake of being wordy.

The writing is not at all like Numanuma. It's fast, tense, and punchy, easily the best writing I've seen in any video game. There are one or two possibilities for lore dumps if you dive into them but they are absolutely no kind of adjective soup. If it's in love with something it may be in love with its own cleverness at times, but then it is really clever so it's not like it's unjustified. You have to have a really giant chip on your shoulder to find things to hate about the writing.

How was the dialogue window combat?

There is no dialogue window combat in the first day that I could find, unless you count punching a kid. (He totally deserves it.)

Loading screens between street and interiors?

Annoying. There are also rather many of them. Comparable to Pillars of Eternity.

How was the performance?

Other than the loading screens, it's rather too good -- there's no V-sync option and I get some tearing on 1080p. I hope they'll add the V-sync box before release though. My rig is pretty beefy though (recent i5 with GTX 1080).

 

[Van-d-all]

the number of words can be a bragging point since it indicates that the game might offer alot of dialogue options for the player, a lot of C&C or a vast world filled with characters to explore.

Likewise, it might just mean truckloads of boring lore dumps. It's like judging a book on word count.

 

[Jenkem]

he's not going to give you objective answers. this is propaganda.

 

[Terenty]

Anyway, I've got well over 30 hours in the first day and have played through it with a whole bunch of different builds.

Do the builds differ substantially content wise or just different flavour text here and there?

 

[Prime Junta]

he's not going to give you objective answers. this is propaganda.

This is true, and it's why I declined the opportunity to review the game. I really want this to be a huge success, forever transform computer role-playing, and usher in the world revolution. There's no way I could muster up enough objectivity to write a review about it, so I'll just be a fanboy instead. So by all means parse my answers in that light.

However, I will try to be as honest and objective as I can, knowing that I will fail to be as objective as I would like.

 

[Prime Junta]

Do the builds differ substantially content wise or just different flavour text here and there?

They differ substantially content wise.

For example, if you have high Intellect you can quickly and effectively reconstruct what physically happened at the scene. However if you have low Psyche you will have a really hard time getting anything out of the witnesses. In the opposite case you'll be able to browbeat, mindfuck, and cajole a lot of information out of the witnesses but you're kind of guessing in the dark about what actually happened there... unless you manage to find another witness who can tell you about it.

 

[Terenty]

Do the builds differ substantially content wise or just different flavour text here and there?

They differ substantially content wise.

For example, if you have high Intellect you can quickly and effectively reconstruct what physically happened at the scene. However if you have low Psyche you will have a really hard time getting anything out of the witnesses. In the opposite case you'll be able to browbeat, mindfuck, and cajole a lot of information out of the witnesses but you're kind of guessing in the dark about what actually happened there... unless you manage to find another witness who can tell you about it.

Thanks. Do the skills really shape you character or you can easily ignore their suggestions and always reply with generic options?