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

[Maxie]

Now that Disco Elysium has been captured by capitalist interests, I figured it was finally safe to start it up and try it out.

What a mistake.

The art direction looks like vomit on the screen, the stats in character creation are obtuse garbage, then a weird little voice starts mumbling around the cock in xirs mouth, talking about how great non-existence is, and I click buttons feverishly to get past its babble... the scroll of verbiage just keeps coming, narrated by this gay little voice.

Non-existence, blah, blah blah... Voice raises its pitch and screeches some more trash about non-existence.

Desperately, my mind searches for any way out of the artistic mess.

Wait. My brain latches onto the riddle's solution. The key is in the dialogue. Non-existence. What if the game were to non-exist?

Ctrl-alt-delete... Uninstall.exe...

Whew, I narrowly avoided lowering my productivity for a couple days playing this communist slop.

You’re probably trolling and I’m baiting, but..
It looks amazing man. I mean oil hand painted isometric backgrounds along with HDR mapping — it’s literally top notch. Can’t believe you are serious.

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma?

you need to look at some actual painting every now and then if you dare to say no truce with the furries looks 'amazing' just because it's hand painted

 

[Hydro]

Now that Disco Elysium has been captured by capitalist interests, I figured it was finally safe to start it up and try it out.

What a mistake.

The art direction looks like vomit on the screen, the stats in character creation are obtuse garbage, then a weird little voice starts mumbling around the cock in xirs mouth, talking about how great non-existence is, and I click buttons feverishly to get past its babble... the scroll of verbiage just keeps coming, narrated by this gay little voice.

Non-existence, blah, blah blah... Voice raises its pitch and screeches some more trash about non-existence.

Desperately, my mind searches for any way out of the artistic mess.

Wait. My brain latches onto the riddle's solution. The key is in the dialogue. Non-existence. What if the game were to non-exist?

Ctrl-alt-delete... Uninstall.exe...

Whew, I narrowly avoided lowering my productivity for a couple days playing this communist slop.

You’re probably trolling and I’m baiting, but..
It looks amazing man. I mean oil hand painted isometric backgrounds along with HDR mapping — it’s literally top notch. Can’t believe you are serious.

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma?

you need to look at some actual painting every now and then if you dare to say no truce with the furries looks 'amazing' just because it's hand painted

And you need to get your head out of your ass once in a while, but who am I to give such advices?

 

[KVVRR]

Now that Disco Elysium has been captured by capitalist interests, I figured it was finally safe to start it up and try it out.

What a mistake.

The art direction looks like vomit on the screen, the stats in character creation are obtuse garbage, then a weird little voice starts mumbling around the cock in xirs mouth, talking about how great non-existence is, and I click buttons feverishly to get past its babble... the scroll of verbiage just keeps coming, narrated by this gay little voice.

Non-existence, blah, blah blah... Voice raises its pitch and screeches some more trash about non-existence.

Desperately, my mind searches for any way out of the artistic mess.

Wait. My brain latches onto the riddle's solution. The key is in the dialogue. Non-existence. What if the game were to non-exist?

Ctrl-alt-delete... Uninstall.exe...

Whew, I narrowly avoided lowering my productivity for a couple days playing this communist slop.

You’re probably trolling and I’m baiting, but..
It looks amazing man. I mean oil hand painted isometric backgrounds along with HDR mapping — it’s literally top notch. Can’t believe you are serious.

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma?

you need to look at some actual painting every now and then if you dare to say no truce with the furries looks 'amazing' just because it's hand painted

There's a difference between a canvas painting and a 3D isometric map simulating the look of one with variable weather and lighting. You can dislike it but let's not pretend like there's not an unbelievable amount of work done for what's essentially just about four square blocks through the entire map.

 

[Maxie]

Now that Disco Elysium has been captured by capitalist interests, I figured it was finally safe to start it up and try it out.

What a mistake.

The art direction looks like vomit on the screen, the stats in character creation are obtuse garbage, then a weird little voice starts mumbling around the cock in xirs mouth, talking about how great non-existence is, and I click buttons feverishly to get past its babble... the scroll of verbiage just keeps coming, narrated by this gay little voice.

Non-existence, blah, blah blah... Voice raises its pitch and screeches some more trash about non-existence.

Desperately, my mind searches for any way out of the artistic mess.

Wait. My brain latches onto the riddle's solution. The key is in the dialogue. Non-existence. What if the game were to non-exist?

Ctrl-alt-delete... Uninstall.exe...

Whew, I narrowly avoided lowering my productivity for a couple days playing this communist slop.

You’re probably trolling and I’m baiting, but..
It looks amazing man. I mean oil hand painted isometric backgrounds along with HDR mapping — it’s literally top notch. Can’t believe you are serious.

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma?

you need to look at some actual painting every now and then if you dare to say no truce with the furries looks 'amazing' just because it's hand painted

There's a difference between a canvas painting and a 3D isometric map simulating the look of one with variable weather and lighting. You can dislike it but let's not pretend like there's not an unbelievable amount of work done for what's essentially just about four square blocks through the entire map.

a child is real serious about crayoning nonsensical shit all over the wall. takes it a lot of work to do so. it's so precious, the child must be so talented.

you need to shut the fuck up and grow some taste, instead of lionizing some idiot's physical therapy.

 

[Junmarko]

Argo Tuulik (OG Disco Elysium dev, in the process of setting up the game dev cooperative Summer Eternal https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/summer-eternal-yet-another-za-um-successor-studio.151584/), has now started a GoFundMe to defend against non-compete court proceedings by Riaz Moola (CEO of Longdue and CoGrammar (aka HyperionDev, apparently some scam-like coding bootcamp). Longdue in turn were said to be working on another game they want to present as a Disco Elysium successor https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...vs-of-disco-elysium-at-longdue-studio.151580/

The GoFundMe is here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco-elysium-writer-survive-the-winter
It seems Riaz Moola also sued Dora Klindzic (former writer on Disco Elysium, also working at Summer Eternal) as she is also mentioned.

The GoFundMe refers to Riaz Moola (Longdue) as a "malignant tech-millionaire", who "steals my name and trades my reputation in for investor-bait, short-term profit and good will of the Disco Elysium fans".

Previously, Riaz Moola's attempt to ride on the coat tails of ZA/UM and Disco Elysium devs was fairly obvious from the list of demands he had in order to release Argo (and Dora) from the broad non-compete clauses they had (recklessly) signed as consultants: https://x.com/mixedmartialarx/status/1858998327431594160 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gcx3o0NWQAEHeDR?format=png&name=large

Basically Riaz wanted to be able to convey some sort of link between OG Disco devs vis a vis his new studio and himself. Even going as far as to demand a C-suite title.

With the help of friends I tried to start anew, but Moola followed me home. In no unclear terms he demanded a seat at the table in the house that we designed to be greed-proof. "Give me a C-suite position in Summer Eternal," Moola said, licking his lips. He did not know that the position for C-suits in Summer Eternal was the ditch behind the hole-ridden brick shithouse wall.

Interestingly, the fundraiser notes:

"Any funds raised (or left) over the eventual costs will go towards building a new legal claim to restore ownership of the Elysium IP to its original creative worldbuilders, who never signed away rights to the characters and narratives predating the game studio and even its predecessor, the small cultural movement with a seagull on our black flag."

On X, Argo is also promising to take Elysium back:

...so many names involved with creating this "CRPG" - that had zero gameplay

 

[KVVRR]

Now that Disco Elysium has been captured by capitalist interests, I figured it was finally safe to start it up and try it out.

What a mistake.

The art direction looks like vomit on the screen, the stats in character creation are obtuse garbage, then a weird little voice starts mumbling around the cock in xirs mouth, talking about how great non-existence is, and I click buttons feverishly to get past its babble... the scroll of verbiage just keeps coming, narrated by this gay little voice.

Non-existence, blah, blah blah... Voice raises its pitch and screeches some more trash about non-existence.

Desperately, my mind searches for any way out of the artistic mess.

Wait. My brain latches onto the riddle's solution. The key is in the dialogue. Non-existence. What if the game were to non-exist?

Ctrl-alt-delete... Uninstall.exe...

Whew, I narrowly avoided lowering my productivity for a couple days playing this communist slop.

You’re probably trolling and I’m baiting, but..
It looks amazing man. I mean oil hand painted isometric backgrounds along with HDR mapping — it’s literally top notch. Can’t believe you are serious.

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma?

you need to look at some actual painting every now and then if you dare to say no truce with the furries looks 'amazing' just because it's hand painted

There's a difference between a canvas painting and a 3D isometric map simulating the look of one with variable weather and lighting. You can dislike it but let's not pretend like there's not an unbelievable amount of work done for what's essentially just about four square blocks through the entire map.

a child is real serious about crayoning nonsensical shit all over the wall. takes it a lot of work to do so. it's so precious, the child must be so talented.

you need to shut the fuck up and grow some taste, instead of lionizing some idiot's physical therapy.

What part of it is nonsensical? You say that as if the little matchbox world they created didn't have more thought put into it and how it's represented than most other RPGs of the same caliber. Hell, compare the Lower City and surroundings in BG3 to this. Even with 20x times the characters Revachol still feels more alive here than act 3 ever does.

 

[Maxie]

Now that Disco Elysium has been captured by capitalist interests, I figured it was finally safe to start it up and try it out.

What a mistake.

The art direction looks like vomit on the screen, the stats in character creation are obtuse garbage, then a weird little voice starts mumbling around the cock in xirs mouth, talking about how great non-existence is, and I click buttons feverishly to get past its babble... the scroll of verbiage just keeps coming, narrated by this gay little voice.

Non-existence, blah, blah blah... Voice raises its pitch and screeches some more trash about non-existence.

Desperately, my mind searches for any way out of the artistic mess.

Wait. My brain latches onto the riddle's solution. The key is in the dialogue. Non-existence. What if the game were to non-exist?

Ctrl-alt-delete... Uninstall.exe...

Whew, I narrowly avoided lowering my productivity for a couple days playing this communist slop.

You’re probably trolling and I’m baiting, but..
It looks amazing man. I mean oil hand painted isometric backgrounds along with HDR mapping — it’s literally top notch. Can’t believe you are serious.

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma?

you need to look at some actual painting every now and then if you dare to say no truce with the furries looks 'amazing' just because it's hand painted

There's a difference between a canvas painting and a 3D isometric map simulating the look of one with variable weather and lighting. You can dislike it but let's not pretend like there's not an unbelievable amount of work done for what's essentially just about four square blocks through the entire map.

a child is real serious about crayoning nonsensical shit all over the wall. takes it a lot of work to do so. it's so precious, the child must be so talented.

you need to shut the fuck up and grow some taste, instead of lionizing some idiot's physical therapy.

What part of it is nonsensical? You say that as if the little matchbox world they created didn't have more thought put into it and how it's represented than most other RPGs of the same caliber. Hell, compare the Lower City and surroundings in BG3 to this. Even with 20x times the characters Revachol still feels more alive here than act 3 ever does.

a child puts a lot of thought into crayoning all over the wall. the result is crayons on the wall.

 

[Hydro]

Man that fish & chips diet ain’t doing our boy any good

 

[Bibbimbop]

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma

So, basically, you're saying the only way to enjoy Disco Elysium is to drink until you're semi-comatose. Thanks for the tip.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma

So, basically, you're saying the only way to enjoy Disco Elysium is to drink until you're semi-comatose. Thanks for the tip.

SDG way of playing a game that emulates him to some degree?

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

As for non-existence, have you never been in an alcohol induced semi-coma

So, basically, you're saying the only way to enjoy Disco Elysium is to drink until you're semi-comatose. Thanks for the tip.

Yes. I highly recommend playing the game as I did, late night, after a bottle of vodka, on a laptop on roof terrace of my building at the time until the sun comes up.

 

[Ol' Willy]

I don't think you can actually "play" it

 

[Harthwain]

Even with 20x times the characters Revachol still feels more alive here than act 3 ever does.

That's because Disco Elysium's characters are more ingrained in its world than some anonymous NPCs in other modern RPGs. The world, and its inhabitants, do have a history behind them, so to speak. Whereas in most other games NPCs are simply quest mouthpieces with very little connection to the world.

 

[cioran]

a child puts a lot of thought into crayoning all over the wall. the result is crayons on the wall.

 

[sosmoflux]

If you don't like Disco Elysium you're literally just dumb

 

[Dark Souls II]

So, basically, you're saying the only way to enjoy Disco Elysium is to drink until you're semi-comatose.

Just like real life...

 

[normie]

If you don't like Disco Elysium you're literally just dumb

there's a lot to like, the art, the sound and much everything else is a mile above the regular fare, it became the phenomenon it did because the masses yearn for the disco and fruits of effort from people who got the sauce and are making the thing they want to be making

it also made excellent use of the "alienation effect"
the problem is that like 60% of it is extremely juvenile pleading about how racism is bad and 30% is the game contriving itself to make a Cumtown reference (at least the masses can know it wasn't Kurvits who was responsible, because in his lecture he references someone else suggesting something be named "Fuuga", a Cumtown reference we didn't see make it into the game)
the game has the sickly aura of bugmen and women

its inhabitants, do have a history behind them, so to speak. Whereas in most other games NPCs are simply quest mouthpieces with very little connection to the world.

in DE, characters are mouthpieces for the dev's politics and the targets of their mockery, or sympathy, made a display of
it's essentially an interactive teaching-aid for becoming a faggot

 

[Hydro]

it's essentially an interactive teaching-aid for becoming a faggot

Guess you’ve learned a lot from playing it