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

[Deadass]

they are already talking about expansions and sequels, so i would say yes but who can say

 

[frajaq]

So i take it the game sold well with all the talks of console ports etc?

From the way Prime Junta talks about the budget and how tight-liped he is, I think we'll never really know if it broke even

 

[Riddler]

huh. here's a late review
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/disco-elysium-review-pure-dynamite/1900-6417354/

"At the centre of all this ideology is the matter of your privilege. Disco Elysium remains very much aware that you are playing a middle-aged, heterosexual, white man--a policeman, no less--and that fact grants him a heightened degree of privilege to express himself. You're able to reinvent yourself, to choose to be this or that type of person, without much in the way of repercussions, save the odd disapproving glance from Kim. Meanwhile, many of the characters you meet aren’t possessed of the same privilege; they’re the downtrodden, exploited by authority, trapped in systemic poverty, or just desperately trying to escape their circumstances. The contrast makes this point with piercing clarity."

wut

 

[Heroic Liberator]

So i take it the game sold well with all the talks of console ports etc?

From the way Prime Junta talks about the budget and how tight-liped he is, I think we'll never really know if it broke even

Given the important role of sponsorship in the development of the game, I'm guessing their talks of further content means that a certain oligarch is happy with the ways in which the game was received regardless of profits.

 

[Twiglard]

Nice way to sell Measurehead to the twitterati though.

Measurehead doesn't make sense. He uses "scientific racism" language while also throwing in terms from genetics. The latter obsoletes the former.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Nice way to sell Measurehead to the twitterati though.

Measurehead doesn't make sense. He uses "scientific racism" language while also throwing in terms from genetics. The latter obsoletes the former.

Nah, mate. Haploautism is a serious medical condition nowadays, particularly on /pol/.

 

[Prime Junta]

So i take it the game sold well with all the talks of console ports etc?

From the way Prime Junta talks about the budget and how tight-liped he is, I think we'll never really know if it broke even

Eh, you can do your own arithmetic, this wasn't a cheap game and yes everybody did get paid. Make an educated guess compared to other games with similar look, feel, sound, and scope and you probably won't be too far off. If you're really curious nag Kras Mazov about it, worst he'll do is break your neck brush you off. It's just not my call to release this kind of info if they don't want to.

I do get the impression that the money men are pretty pleased with how it's selling although I don't have any more hard numbers on that than you do. SteamSpy kind of works I think?

 

[Twiglard]

Prime Junta are you associated with the developers?

 

[Prime Junta]

Prime Junta are you associated with the developers?

Kind of, in a loose way. I'm not on the payroll but I helped out a bit. Due to popular demand I wrote it up as a much too personal story which will be up on the Codex as soon as the newsbot thinks it's a suitable time to post it, so you'll be able to read all about it.

 

[Terenty]

they are already talking about expansions and sequels, so i would say yes but who can say

Very happy if true, its a rare occurence when truly great games get rewarded with good sales

 

[TT1]

Kotaku guys still didnt review it, but there are some articles about DE. I think it will be a positive review

 

[Infinitron]

Codex review by bataille: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/rpg-codex-review-disco-elysium.130591/

 

[Haba]

Kotaku guys still didnt review it, but there are some articles about DE. I think it will be a positive review

91 on Metacritic, it is the 2nd best game of 2019. Kotaku can't do shit at this point.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Codex review by bataille: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/rpg-codex-review-disco-elysium.130591/

bataille review are great. I really enjoyed his atom review last year. It's midnight here so i womt read it today, but looking forward to see what he think of it.

 

[Ensi]

it's just funny cuz I'm a left winger (more of a leftist than a liberal to be fair) and I'm like wut how did you get this interpretation, where did this interpretation come from

 

[FeelTheRads]

I even think the game pushes a libturd, SJW agenda (even if in a more subterfuge-y way, which is no surprise since it comes from dirty commies) and I don't see that one.
Going by the standards today, any game where you're playing a white person is a game where you're playing a privileged person, so that might explain it.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

it's just funny cuz I'm a left winger (more of a leftist than a liberal to be fair) and I'm like wut how did you get this interpretation, where did this interpretation come from

Pretty sure they got it from the loading screen where the game tells you people tend to be more forgiving of erratic behavior when it comes from authority figures like police officers. But that was just Disco giving the player permission to go crazy, not a subtle meditation on the nature of privilege.

 

[biggestboss]

Something I've noticed is that whenever I play this game, my GPU usage skyrockets and the fans make a crazy amount of noise. Recently on a Unity app I worked on for my 9-5 goyim job, I noticed that having lots of UI animations and transitions especially with tiled sprites can cause abnormally high GPU usage and the fix that worked for me was to set the VSync Count under the Quality settings to 'Every V Blank' instead of 'Don't Sync'. This reduced the GPU usage for the app from 99-100% to 10-20%.

I know that at least one of the devs visits the Codex and it's also likely that they may have tried this fix already, but I feel I should mention it just in case because it could be a quick fix if it happens to work.

 

[prengle]

hopefully going to give this a shot at some point but im wary since most game journos seem to be giving it Perfect Scores™ and thats concerning. theyre not supposed to actually like cool innovative narrative-focused games. would love to know what kind of estonian folk magic kurvitz used to sell them on this after seeing what's happened with patho2

never trust journalists, kids

 

[Tigranes]

hopefully going to give this a shot at some point but im wary since most game journos seem to be giving it Perfect Scores™ and thats concerning. theyre not supposed to actually like cool innovative narrative-focused games. would love to know what kind of estonian folk magic kurvitz used to sell them on this after seeing what's happened with patho2

never trust journalists, kids

cataloguing journo scores and taking them as inverse value of game quality is giving them too much credit

stop fussing over them, ignore journos, play good games

 

[bataille]

Something I've noticed is that whenever I play this game, my GPU usage skyrockets and the fans make a crazy amount of noise. Recently on a Unity app I worked on for my 9-5 goyim job, I noticed that having lots of UI animations and transitions especially with tiled sprites can cause abnormally high GPU usage and the fix that worked for me was to set the VSync Count under the Quality settings to 'Every V Blank' instead of 'Don't Sync'. This reduced the GPU usage for the app from 99-100% to 10-20%.

I know that at least one of the devs visits the Codex and it's also likely that they may have tried this fix already, but I feel I should mention it just in case because it could be a quick fix if it happens to work.

So in the end, the real murder was DE killing my GPU.
Okay, scratch that review, it's postmodern filth after all...

Spoiler

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

So in the end, the real murder was DE killing my GPU.
Okay, scratch that review, it's postmodern filth after all...

Ah but they replaced it with OGPU—all good.

 

[biggestboss]

So in the end, the real murder was DE killing my GPU.
Okay, scratch that review, it's postmodern filth after all...

Spoiler

I don't know if it will actually fix the issue but if it happens to work that would be nice. I play DE at work during my lunch break and my computer sounds like a hurricane which annoys all my coworkers.

 

[Desiderius]

it's just funny cuz I'm a left winger (more of a leftist than a liberal to be fair) and I'm like wut how did you get this interpretation, where did this interpretation come from

Fake Left. This shit is virulent among the Haute Bourgeois. Rationalization for hosing the working man.

 

[Lithium Flower]

huh. here's a late review
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/disco-elysium-review-pure-dynamite/1900-6417354/

"At the centre of all this ideology is the matter of your privilege. Disco Elysium remains very much aware that you are playing a middle-aged, heterosexual, white man--a policeman, no less--and that fact grants him a heightened degree of privilege to express himself. You're able to reinvent yourself, to choose to be this or that type of person, without much in the way of repercussions, save the odd disapproving glance from Kim. Meanwhile, many of the characters you meet aren’t possessed of the same privilege; they’re the downtrodden, exploited by authority, trapped in systemic poverty, or just desperately trying to escape their circumstances. The contrast makes this point with piercing clarity."

wut

The game is pretty explicit with the "privilege of authority" angle - the loading screen tips downright tell you that its okay to say crazy things because you are a cop and people are more forgiving of people of authority. By extension, being a crazy motherfucker doing crazy things - like breaking into random people's apartments, digging through trash, and yelling at people on the street - is something you can get away with even outside of your own jurisdiction because people are afraid of the authority you evoke.

In terms of race dynamics, Harry can expect multiple minority NPCs to pretty much be the representatives of their race - Elizabeth and Kim come to mind, the latter can be asked to tell you all about Seol even though he explicitly tells you that he has never been there. That and all the people referring to the Semenese as "thieving kipts."

I think the author of the review is off the mark about the male privilege angle. Male privilege only hurts the PC, who failed and continues to fail to reach the higher sexual standard placed on him by chauvinist society.

Seeing Harry's personal journey through the lens of privilege is as valid of a perspective as any other one, but I prefer to see it as more of an existentialist statement - Harry can only reinvent himself because he has, through repeatedly hitting rock bottom, degenerated into something very closely resembling nothing. Through supernatural phenomenon or regret and wishful thinking, he has either denied or lost his memories, thereby losing his essence - losing his old self, his old life. The Harry as we know him wasn't born in the Old Military Hospital 44 years prior to the start of the game but rather entered existence on the dirty floor of a trashed hostel room.