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

[Alienman]

Estonians aren't real easterners since the rest of us can't pretend we don't understand people from Moscow demanding coal in exchange for taking our meat

Hey, Maxie. Remind me. Were you the first person to sign up for the Disco Discord and subsequently became the first person to be banned from the channel?

Yes, your PR girl told me using 'nigga' as a comma is unacceptable

You should have used ni**a silly goose.

 

[Jenkem]

for real, we'd have a day 1 maxmax build and shit by courtesy of fanta

we'd also know if there's a story mode

 

[the mole]

Who is going to min max in this game, I'm thinking 4332, or 4422

 

[Zombra]

Shit, I missed an alert and 20 pages went by. Anything I should know from the past few days?

 

[ArchAngel]

Who is going to min max in this game, I'm thinking 4332, or 4422

I was thinking 5322. Then do 4 playthroughs, putting 5 into different stat each time.

 

[Nano]

Maybe it will be surprise for you, but Communism is a theory, according to which you need to progress TO Comminism, you don' tget immediately because you are under ruling of Communistic Party. So, USSR never lived under Communism - it was socialism all the way to the end - counter-ravolution in 91, or rather to be precise - finishing part of counter-revolution that happened much much earlier, I guess time of assasinating Stalin is the most obvious point.
So - we in USSR used money for like, buying and paying for stuff.
Just to make sure you are joking.

You don't know what you're talking about. The USSR was state capitalist, there was no element of socialism there whatsoever after the revolution, and they put considerable effort into silencing and killing actual communists.

Also, you only need to progress to communism with a vanguard party according to Marx and co. There are several communist thinkers and ideologies that consider that part to be complete poppycock.

 

[Jenkem]

ahh, the "it wasn't real communism, guys" argument.

classic.

 

[bataille]

Today, I got my GPU fried while talking with the hardie boys in the cafeteria...

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It was a long time coming, but still symbolic. Kinda. I guess...

 

[Infinitron]

Today, I got my GPU fried while talking with the hardie boys in the cafeteria...

Spoiler

It was a long time coming, but still symbolic. Kinda. I guess...

Oof, Unity strikes again! Do you have a replacement?

 

[bataille]

Today, I got my GPU fried while talking with the hardie boys in the cafeteria...

Spoiler

It was a long time coming, but still symbolic. Kinda. I guess...

Oof, Unity strikes again! Do you have a replacement?

No-no, it's not the game's fault. The card just followed through with one of its particular malfunctions, that's all.
Sure, I've already arranged a temporary, friend-provided replacement. Hardly a fatal incident.

 

[you know what time it is]

Where ya'll getting them keys dammit, is it a backer privilege?

Speaking of KRZ



Where's my full album at?

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

For a game that revolves around dialogue-based C&C and boasts over a million words of text, any estimate of playtime needs to take into account the player's reading speed.

I don't mean to call the person out who posted 25-30 hours for the full game, but they must have read at lightning speed. I don't see how you could possibly absorb all of the intricate details in the game in that time. I'm now 23 hours in and it's 8 AM of day 3. If the game is truly only 6 days long (is it, can someone confirm?), then that would leave me at about 69 hours playtime or so. As I said I'm a slow player but there's no way I could complete this game in 30 hours if I tried.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

What are you 'Yes!'ing at bataille ? That it's 6 days long or that 30 hours seems to not be a reasonable amount of time to complete the game?

 

[Zombra]

Where ya'll getting them keys dammit, is it a backer privilege?

I don't know, but my Twitch stream has 35 whole followers and I haven't been offered any keys yet nor even a single precious drop of Mountain Dew

 

[bataille]

What are you 'Yes!'ing at bataille ? That it's 6 days long or that 30 hours seems to not be a reasonable amount of time to complete the game?

That it's probably quite a bit longer than 30 hours.

 

[just]

game so lit it melts graphic cards

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

But he didn't rush? Read all text and completed as many tasks as he could

Maybe he's a fast player? I'm nearing 20 hours so far and I'm only on day 3, with a shit ton of hard tasks to do. And I talk to everyone and explore every detail.

The game is 6 days long, you're on day 3 with 16 hours played and you said you're playing slowly. The game is probably not 40+ hours for one playthrough, though I'm sure it's replayable.

Nah, there is a lot of content packed into this thing. Disco’s absolutely more than 40 hours if you’re engaging with most of what you see and doing a bit of exploration. Their estimates sound right to me—ten hours per day when you’re seeing it with virgin eyes—unless you’re skimming everything or you’re the world’s fastest reader.

To be clear, this is what they said about the game’s length:

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.

This jives with my experience. Disco’s in-game clock only advances when you interact with people or things, so ZA/UM may have a better handle on the pacing than developers normally do (assuming most people read at similar speeds). I’m guessing they went through every interaction in the game and budgeted a certain amount of “time” for it because that’s how it plays.

You choose when to go to sleep—if you sleep at all (sleeping heals your health and morale back to 100%). So a loser cop who’s going to bed at 11pm every night will see less content and finish the game faster than an awesome piss cop who’s staying up all night to chase down leads or flirt with murder suspects or just read through old case files.

The game never quite makes me feel rushed, but time keeps on slipping—slipping, slipping—into the future.

Also, there’s a fuckton of side content (though some of it may turn out to be extremely relevant to the main story). Will you solve the mystery of the mysterious blue door, or the doomed commercial area, or the dead homeless man, or the haunted church, or the missing cryptozoologist? Will you help said zoologist hunt for cryptids? Will you set up a dance club slash drug lab and find your new business partners the perfect song to sample? Will you contrive a way to steal the high-tech boots off your murder victim without alerting your partner? Will you win the affection of a sword-wielding fisherwoman? Will you take up painting to impress Cindy the Skull?

 

[the mole]

Seems like more than half the game is in martinaise

 

[Kem0sabe]

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Seems like more than half the game is in martinaise

Way more than half—you’re investigating a murder in and around Martinaise. It’s like all of Sigil in PS:T, but with way more content per square foot.

Kurvitz (with one edit):

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.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

That sounds tedious.

 

[Prime Junta]

That sounds tedious.

Your mother sounds tedious.

Spoiler

Kasparov's busy cleaning his room ATM, have to fill in for him.

 

[Kasparov]

Seems like more than half the game is in martinaise

Something like that. But unless you're playing the full game you haven't seen much of what else is there. Have any streamers crossed the bridge yet?

Your mother sounds tedious.

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Kasparov's busy cleaning his room ATM, have to fill in for him.

Nick's mum is actually fine. I won't bore you with the details.

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I'm at home with the motherfucking flu, sipping burning tea and shitposting. This thread here? Gold. Thank you guys

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

"Motorics"... these fucking hipsters man...

 

[toro]

Seems like more than half the game is in martinaise

Something like that. But unless you're playing the full game you haven't seen much of what else is there. Have any streamers crossed the bridge yet?