Incline Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - a hardboiled cop show isometric RPG

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Zed Duke of Banville , are you roleplaying the clothing? I found I always wear the black mesh vest because it had no debuff :D

I choose clothing partly based on appearance and partly based on stat changes, though in my first playthrough as a high psyche s★u★p★e★r★s★t★a★r cop, I wore the "Man from Hjelmdall" shirt almost the entire time after acquiring it in Day 2, because it seemed the kind of thing that character would do.

Those gardening gloves do look ... avant-garde.

I needed the gardening gloves to boost the probability of making an interface check.

 

[TheEntitledOne]

People keep talking about the game being sad, but personally I feel the opposite. It's about getting over it and starting again, it's hopefull, if anything.

The only part I show as really sad was

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the commisar guy

An so far my favourite interaction in the game is the one involving Volition.

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Telling you how all the other personas are "compromised" and all their reaction.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

Where is the stronger prybar that can open the ice cream maker box?

do the church questline

dont arrest the punks

Ahh, I haven't done that yet. Wow, that is some serious backtracking between chapters (days). Love it.

 

[Prime Junta]

this is the gayest thread on the codex

TOW puts up a tough fight with its asexual lesbian date quest, but Disco Elysium wins again.

 

[Prime Junta]

Is there a way to pass the time while with Kim? It's the morning and I need to wait till 22h. Is it possible without telling him to fuck off basically?

You can read books or play games with him.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Well the phasmid part only make sense if you do the crypto zoologist quest, its one of those multiple quests, indeed unfocused, building up lore . Really you can figure what the fuck it is about

I think it's more open to interpretation that that. My reading at least was different.

 

[Inehresa]

Google tells me I'm not sure how I feel about Derrida showing up in a RPG Codex review. But I do trust your judgment.

Not Derrida but rather this: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20863042-ghosts-of-my-life

When I was thinking about one of the authorial attitudes that didn't really make sense, I suddenly recalled the whole Mark Fisher's aesthetic theory that he peppered throughout his writings, and it just clicked. Everything from the major overarching themes to the sad little seaside tune fell into place.

I didn't build the review around it or anything. It's just a point I address there.

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At first I thought that nick was uhh irrelevant but now I see you are true man of culture

 

[Lyric Suite]

I love Torment but fuck what kind of faggot puts a tattoo on their body from a video game?

 

[Haba]

I love Torment but fuck what kind of faggot puts a tattoo on their body from a video game?

Yes, why would you put it on your own body?

You tattoo MCA on you wife as a tramp stamp you can look at while you grind.

 

[Jimmious]

It's a cool tattoo, why not? I mean in the end if you like an art piece does the source matter?

 

[AwesomeButton]

This was too good:

Is there a way to pass the time while with Kim? It's the morning and I need to wait till 22h. Is it possible without telling him to fuck off basically?

You can read books or play games with him.

this is the gayest thread on the codex

 

[Van-d-all]

I love Torment but fuck what kind of faggot puts a tattoo on their body from a video game?

Game tattoos reek of Zeldards.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

It's a cool tattoo, why not? I mean in the end if you like an art piece does the source matter?

Tattoos are akin to fashion (although not always 'fashion accessories' in themselves), so you have to strike a balance between what you want and what society expects and understands.

I'd say that video game tattoos carry a stigma which infantilizes you in the eyes of others, even if the source material as it were is the opposite of infantile. That aside, a gaming tattoo is basically a corporate branding.

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Were it not so, I'd be the first to get some Wh40k tattoos.

 

[Jimmious]

I'd say that video game tattoos carry a stigma which infantilizes you in the eyes of others, even if the source material as it were is the opposite of infantile

I think in this time and age gaming is not any more a "thing for the children". Sure, maybe 60+ year old people still believe that, but they wouldn't like any tattoo anyway.

That aside, a gaming tattoo is basically a corporate branding.

Yeah ok, if we generalize like that, almost everything is corporate branding...

*I have a good friend who has an awesome tattoo of the WH Chaos emblem.

 

[Jenkem]

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I'd say that video game tattoos carry a stigma which infantilizes you in the eyes of others, even if the source material as it were is the opposite of infantile

I think in this time and age gaming is not any more a "thing for the children". Sure, maybe 60+ year old people still believe that, but they wouldn't like any tattoo anyway.

That aside, a gaming tattoo is basically a corporate branding.

Yeah ok, if we generalize like that, almost everything is corporate branding...

*I have a good friend who has an awesome tattoo of the WH Chaos emblem.

On your first point, I think that it'd be best to judge it on a case-by-case basis. Some tattoos can serve to accentuate a certain aspect of your lifestyle, yet at the same time they could end up undermining another. A symbol of Khorne or an Imperial Aquila on a lifting enthusiast with a knack for Wh40k is respectable, yet the same tattoo on a proponent of radical politics makes him look like a LARPing faggot since it may appear that the former informed the latter aesthetically.

As far as your second point is concerned, I'd have to disagree (on an empirical basis admittedly). Very few people get tattoos pertaining to media franchises, opting instead for either conceptual art or particular non-corporate designs which have become memes in time (such as tribal designs and geometric pattern styles in general).

Lastly, good on your friend, lad. Guess I'm just too self-aware for that sort of tattoo.

 

[TT1]

Stop complaining about my Torment tattoo or I will show you my "Tree of Gondor" tattoo.

 

[JarlFrank]

People keep talking about the game being sad, but personally I feel the opposite. It's about getting over it and starting again, it's hopefull, if anything.

Only if you can actually get over it.

In every possible interaction with memories of Harry's ex where you got the chance to let go, I instead chose to revel in the memories and hold on as much as possible.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

You should tattoo "the expression".

 

[Haba]

Stop complaining about my Torment tattoo or I will show you my "Tree of Gondor" tattoo.

At least tell us what kind of stats it gives.

 

[orcinator]

You tattoo MCA on you wife as a tramp stamp you can look at while you grind.

I know MCA is attaching himself to anyone who needs "reel gam riter" cred but this is ridiculous.

 

[Van-d-all]

Stop complaining about my Torment tattoo or I will show you my "Tree of Gondor" tattoo.

Just post the dick pics already.

 

[axedice]

My chain cutters are missing. Got them from Kim's toolbox, used them once (I think), but now they're not in my inventory and I can't open Cuno's apartment or the other locked flat in that compound. Are they single use items that I have to replenish somehow (really stupid idea) or is this a bug?

 

[AwesomeButton]

My chain cutters are missing. Got them from Kim's toolbox, used them once (I think), but now they're not in my inventory and I can't open Cuno's apartment or the other locked flat in that compound. Are they single use items that I have to replenish somehow (really stupid idea) or is this a bug?

Sounds like a bug. I don't think it's possible to lose them, and definitely you can't drop them. Could you have pawned them off?

 

[MicoSelva]

Not reading any of the thread because I do not want any spoilers. Just wanted to drop in and mention that I love this game (3 hours in).