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

[General Disarray]

Day 2 can be a little dry if you have been efficient, or ignored all of the games content. There is a reason actually to talk to people and do sidequest. You get exp to lvls. Leveling up allows you to retry white checks you fails, which can help with the murder investigation and with harder checks later in the game. You also build relationships with people that can later on be needed for the murder investigation, and spares you time in not having to do this later. You also can gain thoughts from talking with people which also gives you bonuses you might need. Some thoughts are also specially tied to certain checks and they allow you to expand the character you are roleplaying.

 

[Roguey]

Mining info I didn't care about got me the reality infodump sidequest I also didn't care about but at least it's sent me into the evening. Have to figure out a way to kill a few hours, I would rather not spend all my future hotel money on books.

 

[Harthwain]

I'm here to solve a case, not have obnoxious discussions about politics and philosophy. I still got the World's Most Laughable Centrist achievement.

That's what you get for trying to be a no-fun hardass.

 

[Roguey]

That's what you get for trying to be a no-fun hardass.

Yeah, I got the "unbelievably boring f**k" achievement not too long after.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Roguey Did you find your ledger yet? If so, you can read cases in it and pass time that way without buying books or talking to people.

 

[Roguey]

Roguey Did you find your ledger yet? If so, you can read cases in it and pass time that way without buying books or talking to people.

I did but I read all the cases in the first day. I'm under the impression time doesn't pass if you select dialogue options you already read.

 

[Grunker]

This is not a crpg where you nope out of dialogues and go to combat encounters. Hell, people here can't even agree on whether it's an RPG. Let's call it a narrative experience. As such, you're expected to talk to people, and if you don't care about them at least you will learn more about the world. And pass time, as well. Reconsider your approach to the game. It will pay off, if you care about the story, even slightly. One of the most profound experiences I've had in gaming has been in this game. Actually, two.

I'm here to solve a case

You really aren't. If you approach this game with that mindset, you are in for one boring-ass experience

go sniff up old coke off of dusty surfaces, have shouting matches with fascists (or agree with them) and JUST DISCO, BABY

The game is about Harry and his shitty fucking life and his juvenile (in)ability to process loss. With a wider lens, it's about the woes of nostalgia and ideology. But probably its most important aspect is that it is just so. damned. funny.

You can approach those themes from any number of perspectives - but going with the "straight man cop" is a surefire way to kill all the little wonderful nuggets this game has to offer

 

[Roguey]

You really aren't. If you approach this game with that mindset, you are in for one boring-ass experience

go sniff up old coke off of dusty surfaces, have shouting matches with fascists (or agree with them) and JUST DISCO, BABY

The game is about Harry and his shitty fucking life and his juvenile (in)ability to process loss. With a wider lens, it's about the woes of nostalgia and ideology. But probably its most important aspect is that it is just so. damned. funny.

You can approach those themes from any number of perspectives - but going with the "straight man cop" is a surefire way to kill all the little wonderful nuggets this game has to offer

Day 3 has been a really busy morning of interviews and detective-work so I'm quite content to play the game like this.

 

[KVVRR]

look at this regular ass police officer, get outta here BORING COP

 

[Roguey]

look at this regular ass police officer, get outta here BORING COP

I unlocked the regular law official thought but I didn't slot it in because inland empire has been pretty useful on occasion and I don't want to quiet the voices if they're helpful.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

I unlocked the regular law official thought but I didn't slot it in because inland empire has been pretty useful on occasion and I don't want to quiet the voices if they're helpful.

You can cheese those by just resting at a bench once Kim goes to sleep I'm pretty sure. The Regular Law Official thought doesn't take long to compartmentalize.

 

[KVVRR]

I unlocked the regular law official thought but I didn't slot it in because inland empire has been pretty useful on occasion and I don't want to quiet the voices if they're helpful.

You can cheese those by just resting at a bench once Kim goes to sleep I'm pretty sure. The Regular Law Official thought doesn't take long to compartmentalize.

Reading the ledger also passes the time too. But if a thought sounds interesting or like something you'd actually want to know more about/have harry be, just go for it. A one point difference usually doesn't matter that much and you can forget them later if you don't want them

 

[Grunker]

You really aren't. If you approach this game with that mindset, you are in for one boring-ass experience

go sniff up old coke off of dusty surfaces, have shouting matches with fascists (or agree with them) and JUST DISCO, BABY

The game is about Harry and his shitty fucking life and his juvenile (in)ability to process loss. With a wider lens, it's about the woes of nostalgia and ideology. But probably its most important aspect is that it is just so. damned. funny.

You can approach those themes from any number of perspectives - but going with the "straight man cop" is a surefire way to kill all the little wonderful nuggets this game has to offer

Day 3 has been a really busy morning of interviews and detective-work so I'm quite content to play the game like this.

You could also be content to watch Tarkovsky without paying attention to subtext, but then what would be the point

 

[ferratilis]

If most people here approached Disco like Roguey, no wonder it gets so much flak. Leave it to Codexers to rob themselves of one of the best experiences in gaming by focusing on trivial things.

It reminds me of that old thread where someone said Arcanum is shit because they didn't like the inventory system.

 

[Grauken]

You really aren't. If you approach this game with that mindset, you are in for one boring-ass experience

go sniff up old coke off of dusty surfaces, have shouting matches with fascists (or agree with them) and JUST DISCO, BABY

The game is about Harry and his shitty fucking life and his juvenile (in)ability to process loss. With a wider lens, it's about the woes of nostalgia and ideology. But probably its most important aspect is that it is just so. damned. funny.

You can approach those themes from any number of perspectives - but going with the "straight man cop" is a surefire way to kill all the little wonderful nuggets this game has to offer

Day 3 has been a really busy morning of interviews and detective-work so I'm quite content to play the game like this.

You could also be content to watch Tarkovsky without paying attention to subtext, but then what would be the point

Maybe the way his mind works makes him unable to enjoy Disco the way most of us do. What a particularly mundane and sad experience

 

[gurugeorge]

If most people here approached Disco like Roguey, no wonder it gets so much flak. Leave it to Codexers to rob themselves of one of the best experiences in gaming by focusing on trivial things.

It reminds me of that old thread where someone said Arcanum is shit because they didn't like the inventory system.

If playing a boring-ass cop is possible then it's one of the options the developers intended to be possible.

Of all recent games, it should be obvious that there's no "wrong" way to play Disco Elysium ffs.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Leave it to Codexers to rob themselves of one of the best experiences in gaming by focusing on trivial things.

"one of the best"

more like one of the most realistic depictions of shit human life in all of gaming. i purposefully went full SDG for 2 days straight getting hammered and staying up all night for *muh immersion*. Played on the laptop too so I could play on the roof of the building i was living in at the time. The sun had just starting rising when i got to

Spoiler

the dream talking to Delores

. Won't get an experience like that with another game.

 

[ferratilis]

Leave it to Codexers to rob themselves of one of the best experiences in gaming by focusing on trivial things.

"one of the best"

more like one of the most realistic depictions of shit human life in all of gaming. i purposefully went full SDG for 2 days straight getting hammered and staying up all night for *muh immersion*. Played on the laptop too so I could play on the roof of the building i was living in at the time. The sun had just starting rising when i got to

Spoiler

the dream talking to Delores

. Won't get an experience like that with another game.

The hardest hitting sequence in the entire game. It was the first time that a game made me think "this was written by people who have actually experienced love and heartbreak," not some thesaurus armed California creative writing graduate. It's genuine. They've done with words what AAA companies can't do with millions of dollars worth of cutscenes and acting talent. And then she says "see you tomorrow." Those words cut like a razor.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

I actually like Roguey's approach. The game positions itself as a police procedural, Kurvitz and co have explicitly said it was influenced by The Wire, The Shield, and True Detective. If it's a police procedural, it should work as the police procedural. Whether the player is sensitive to the subtext -- that's up to him.

 

[Grauken]

The game positions itself as a police procedural, Kurvitz and co have explicitly said it was influenced by The Wire, The Shield, and True Detective.

Calling The Wire a police procedural is like missing the point in a big way

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

The game positions itself as a police procedural, Kurvitz and co have explicitly said it was influenced by The Wire, The Shield, and True Detective.

Calling The Wire a police procedural is like missing the point in a big way

It's more than this, sure. But it is also a police procedural.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

If most people here approached Disco like Roguey, no wonder it gets so much flak. Leave it to Codexers to rob themselves of one of the best experiences in gaming by focusing on trivial things.

It reminds me of that old thread where someone said Arcanum is shit because they didn't like the inventory system.

Best experience in gaming? Are you smoking crack?

 

[Grauken]

One of the best, definitely

 

[Grunker]

I actually like Roguey's approach. The game positions itself as a police procedural, Kurvitz and co have explicitly said it was influenced by The Wire, The Shield, and True Detective. If it's a police procedural, it should work as the police procedural. Whether the player is sensitive to the subtext -- that's up to him.

> The Wire
> Police Procedural

^ proving my point

 

[Latro]

Leave it to Codexers to rob themselves of one of the best experiences in gaming by focusing on trivial things.

"one of the best"

more like one of the most realistic depictions of shit human life in all of gaming. i purposefully went full SDG for 2 days straight getting hammered and staying up all night for *muh immersion*. Played on the laptop too so I could play on the roof of the building i was living in at the time. The sun had just starting rising when i got to

Spoiler

the dream talking to Delores

. Won't get an experience like that with another game.

Cringe game for cringe ass muthas