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

[fantadomat]

So how many of you did a clear run without any drugs and alcohol?

I smoked a cigarette once, does it still count?

Oh i smoked cigarettes a lot ,i don't see them as problematic substances . I didn't drink or drugged out because even as a degenerate drunkard myself,i know that if you end up in this situation,you have to get your shit together and try fixing your life . Smoking doesn't make you drive a fucking car in the ocean or rape a bird,so it was ok for me!

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I don't understand how people are saying there are no choices, either you played similar to how you did before or you're exaggerating. I played twice and got wildly different results on each play-through. Your actions have have huge consequences both for yourself and the setting, even if the game doesn't shove them in your face through ending slides.

Do the ideologies themselves contribute to it, particularly for the latter?

 

[frajaq]

what would be his stats in-game?

 

[ItsChon]

what would be his stats in-game?

3/5/3/1

 

[Theophrastus]

I don't understand how people are saying there are no choices, either you played similar to how you did before or you're exaggerating. I played twice and got wildly different results on each play-through. Your actions have have huge consequences both for yourself and the setting, even if the game doesn't shove them in your face through ending slides.

Do the ideologies themselves contribute to it, particularly for the latter?

By virtue of being a communist or a fascist the ending wont change. How you handle the dispute between the Union and Wild Pines, however, can result in different ways - one particular result being more agreeable for a communist, another particular result being more agreeable for a liberal, etc.

 

[Kasparov]

If there was anything I disliked, it'd probably be the clock (I really don't see much point in it. It fucks you over if you don't worry about it at the beginning, but otherwise is just there to make you strategize a tiny bit, at the cost of rushing you through the dialogues)

just wondering if you noticed that time moves only in dialogues?

Spoiler

so, like, if you rush through dialogues you would actually make in-game time go by faster yourself?

Spoiler

This would explain some things...

 

[aeroaeko]

Only 2.5 hours in but the game is hilarious so far. Does the quality of writing and the humor continue for the rest?

 

[zerosum]

Only 2.5 hours in but the game is hilarious so far. Does the quality of writing and the humor continue for the rest?

yes, this is the charm of the game. you get to play as a hunter s thompson or william burroughs type character and hilarity can ensue if you let it. it's an amusing game, i was disappointed at the length, i did many side activities but clocked in at 24 hours or so, was expecting 60 in one playthrough...i couldn't have missed too much more...

 

[Tigranes]

Really, when have you seen such intensively written, skills-based story last for sixty hours on its own? Torment would not be anywhere near 60 if we cut out the combat, and same goes for AOD. I think it was always unrealistic to expect a game like this to be supermassive (and yes, stupid of ZA/UM to say so).

Finally in Day 3 with my artistic melodramatic capitalist scumbag, could not play during the weekend. I am, at least, wearing a GREAT ROBE

 

[mibbles]

Does anyone know how to dig up a complete and high quality version of the dame in my avatar? She speaks to me. I need her.

 

[Owlish]

Exactly one hundred and twenty eight times more choice and consequence than previously thought possible in a role playing video game. This is a world where even the smallest things you say matter.

 

[Beastro]

One thing that really ???'ed me about both of these reviews is the stuff about disgusting human beings/not being able to be kind. It's like... did they even play this game? Almost every disgusting human being you meet turns out to be a Mensch once you get to know them. Cuno is downright tragic if you do his quest. I started feeling for the mass-murdering war criminal of a murder victim after Klaasje opened up to me about him. Joyce is terrifically relatable. Mañana, Tommy, the Netpicker... it's just full of sympathetic characters.

And kindness? Kindness is the whole entire fucking point of the game. It's even spelled out for you at a climactic moment.

It's... like, did they even play the same game at all?

You're assuming they played it long enough to find all that out. They're journalists, they don't do that sort of thing.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Exactly one hundred and twenty eight times more choice and consequence than previously thought possible in a role playing video game. This is a world where even the smallest things you say matter.

It wasn't though. I told Garte about the cock carousel and it showed up again multiple times over the course of the game, including the very ending of the game. You open a man's eyes to the cock carousel in Disco Elysium and they remain open, none of this false C&C to lull the rubes into a false sense of security.

 

[Ramnozack]

Why is Underrail free with this game?

To make up for the lack of combat

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Need to try this IRL more.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

When replay second time, you start to notice it too... You barely change anything, just get to same results in (sometimes different, sometimes not) way.

How bad are we talking here? Telltale Walking Dead bad?

I was hoping for a dumb, strong build replay.

I'd compare this game to an incredibly tall tree. As in, it stacks gargantuan amount of layers on top of a handful of NPCs spread around a small patch of land. You can climb up top using many different branches, but every time you look around, you'll see the same landscape.

 

[Prime Junta]

Does anyone know how to dig up a complete and high quality version of the dame in my avatar? She speaks to me. I need her.

Kasparov ?

 

[Luckmann]

Does anyone know how to dig up a complete and high quality version of the dame in my avatar? She speaks to me. I need her.

Kasparov ?

While we're on the topic, if anyone is going to be digging up any avatars, it'd actually be nice to have all of them, sorted into a pile of spoilery and non-spoilery, if applicable.

They're probably in the asset files somewhere. It's just Unity, after all.

 

[Prime Junta]

While we're on the topic, if anyone is going to be digging up any avatars, it'd actually be nice to have all of them, sorted into a pile of spoilery and non-spoilery, if applicable.

I believe all the avatars are up on the Codex.

 

[Butter]

Going through the avatars now and realizing how awful Harry looks without his mutton chops. Keep it disco friends.

 

[Fredward]

Disco Elysium is the greatest game that has ever been made thank you and goodbye.

 

[ItsChon]

Disco Elysium is the greatest game that has ever been made thank you and goodbye.

It goes PS:T, Underrail, Disco Elysium, Age of Decadence, IWD for me in terms of RPG enjoyment.

 

[Prime Junta]

I haven't played this game yet but I refuse to believe that its groupies are anywhere near as irritating as AoD's or PF:K's.

Our haters are top tier though.

 

[Bl@de]

I have started playing yesterday as the "Thinker". Fun game so far. But what are the best skills for a caharacter focused on intellect and motorics? There are so many... Does it matter at all or can you beat the game with every character? Also: What level can I reach during one playthrough?

 

[Popiel]

I have started playing yesterday as the "Thinker". Fun game so far. But what are the best skills for a caharacter focused on intellect and motorics? There are so many... Does it matter at all or can you beat the game with every character? Also: What level can I reach during one playthrough?

RPG "players" these days...