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

[Wunderbar]

wow they've spoiled the only combat encounter in the game.

 

[Will Zurmacht]

wow they've spoilered the only combat encounter in the game.

How dare they.

Spoiler

The official launch trailer spoils it too.

 

[HoboForEternity]

wow they've spoilered the only combat encounter in the game.

How dare they.

Spoiler

The official launch trailer spoils it too.

It's all meaningless without the context anyway. The only one moment that would spoil the game is if they show

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phasmid encounter

 

[muckguppy]

I finished this game skim reading and pressing space and all the numericals in short order. Have no idea what just happened but it left a reasonably large crater on my oldfag soul.

 

[jebsmoker]

it's worth taking your time and smelling the roses with reading the ingame text

 

[LJ40]

Hard to call a soul oldfag when it seems to be completely steeped in newfaggotry.

 

[Iskramor]

Not in mine wildest dreams would i imagine that larping commies would make goty.Germans still had coolest tanks though.

i wouldn't really call za/um a bunch of 'larping commies'. besides, the game has a ton of meditation on why communism, fascism, and liberalism has failed in revachol

So larping commies that abuse argument to moderation ok got it.

lol what?

Voice actors are from far left podcast.Disco devs are crypto leftists.

 

[Prime Junta]

crypto leftists

Dude, the lead producer has "Titanin" tattooed on his arm because that's the next step up from Stalin. Ain't nothin' crypto about them.

 

[Popiel]

Voice actors are from far left podcast.Disco devs are MASSIVE COMMIES.

Fix'd dat fer ya.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Prime Junta]

It gave some boomer at RPS all of the feelings.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/29/disco-elysium-offers-a-dark-mirror-to-my-mid-life-crisis

 

[Starwars]

It gave me some feels too. And what's nice is that it was totally unexpected from an RPG. Or from a game at all really.

The game is really good at articulating those feelings, the mid-life crisis, feelings of getting older, regrets.

I have no idea how old the writers are but they nailed that shit, and it's to see devs tackling those kinds of issues instead of just focusing on "younger" issues so to speak. When you've played games for a long time, you kinda just expect that games are not going to affect you in any way anymore as most storyheavy games are for a younger audience. But DE completely surprised me in that sense, very cool.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

In Eastern Europe your soul grows old twice as fast.

 

[Twiglard]

Another thing I like is using double-dash in lieu of an em dash, and emphasis *like that*. Reminds me of the Usenet times.

 

[Jasede]

This thread tricked me into giving the game a chance.
If it turns out to be SJW bullshit heads are going to roll. The writing better be worth it.

 

[Lithium Flower]

ok boomer

 

[Jasede]

This is the dullest, most boring writing I have seen in a while. I can see why modern apes are impressed by these relatable platitudes but I am not.
Refunded!

 

[Puteo]

I can see why modern apes are impressed by these relatable platitudes but I am not.

Ook ook, boomer

 

[Incendax]

This is the dullest, most boring writing I have seen in a while. I can see why modern apes are impressed by these relatable platitudes but I am not.
Refunded!

Inner Empire - You recognize this as a desperate cry for help. The inner child is dead, and only an island of jaded bitterness remains.
Electrochemistry - Man, you gotta take a hit of whatever this dude is smoking!
Logic - Undertale Avatar.

 

[Jasede]

You genuinely overrate the writing.
I remember a time where people said Witcher 3 was the best game ever written - and those were people that had played, and loved, PS:T. When I played it, them, it turned out that the writing was competent and even had a few flashes of brilliance here and there. But the comparison still was born not from a genuine love of Witcher's writing, but rather a sense of relief and happiness to be playing a decently written RPG again.
I think it's the same here.

 

[JarlFrank]

The writing is not overrated.

 

[Puteo]

You genuinely overrate the writing.
I remember a time where people said Witcher 3 was the best game ever written - and those were people that had played, and loved, PS:T. When I played it, them, it turned out that the writing was competent and even had a few flashes of brilliance here and there. But the comparison still was born not from a genuine love of Witcher's writing, but rather a sense of relief and happiness to be playing a decently written RPG again.
I think it's the same here.

Okay. Then you should be able to easily list games with better writing than Disco. Go ahead, we are all very excited to judge your personal taste.

 

[Jasede]

JarlFrank
Are you being sarcastic?

Puteo
You got me in the sense that very few games have good writing. I'll try, though.

 

[Darth Roxor]

dont get involved in this thread Jasede its a trap

 

[Jasede]

Here it goes. Jasede's list of games with better writing than Disco, in Jasede's opinion.

• Betrayal at Krondor - the writing in BaK is of high quality all around. Sentences are composed in a way that makes me always excited to learn about the active noun. Not a single sentence in BaK is wasted, yet the game isn't overly brief nor verbose. Even throwaway lines and descriptions, such as those of the wax paper around your rations, are written in a style that helps tell you more about the world and feels completely natural in the sense that it suits Midkemia. This game's writing influenced me the most I would say.
• Planescape: Torment - obviously, the writing in PS:T is pretty verbose. If it were made today, with a proper budget, a lot of the flavor writing would be off-loaded to the animations or graphics department. That said, despite the vast quantity of text, I never feel like a line is just there to insist upon itself. As in, each line has a concrete purpose: it builds the setting, or it teaches you about your main character. The word choices are nuanced without being outlandish. All in all very memorable writing, as far as video game writing goes.
• Arcanum - sparse, but very flavorful. The game doesn't overwhelm you with text, but what is there exists to further the mood and atmosphere without wasting your time.
• Fallout - one of the most efficiently written games there is. A perfect balance between being brief, yet descriptive. The game never wastes your time with its writing, but it doesn't leave you hanging when you need more words to fuel your imagination, either.
• Thief 1 - the cutscenes / dialogues are written to be not only genuinely human, but also unsettling. The game gets more mileage out of a few lines of dialogue than many games can hope to build in hours.
• Dark Heart of Uukrul - just generally competently written all around, for a game of its age
• Ultima 7: Serpent Isle - unlike the purple prose of Ultima 7: The Black Gate, in Ultima 7:2 the writing manages to give each character a distinct voice, again without drowning you in unneeded lore or cruft. It made a strong impression on me when I was younger.

Edit: here are some more that aren't exactly objectively better but I am partial to, so you can make fun of my taste, as that seems to be your goal:

• Gothic 1/2 - the German in this game is astoundingly well-written for being so light-hearted. Every other game written in German suffers from German just not working too well in 'high fantasy' settings. But here, they pulled it off. Maybe it's their tone of levity, or the permanent snark of the main character, but the writing in this just works.
• Dark Souls & Demon's Souls - I am not talking about the tl;dr item descriptions; I don't have time for that. But the NPCs are written/translated in a way that's nearly perfect. Every word furthers their deterioration, and it advances as the game progresses. Great use of language.
• Deus Ex - just strong all around, even the flavor text and emails