Codex Review RPG Codex Review: Disco Elysium

[IHaveHugeNick]

Glad to see Codex is branching out and reviewing kindle ebooks with dice rolls.

 

[Lady_Error]

"If I cannot kill shit all the time, it's not an RPG."

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

It's not an RPG because it has neither roleplaying nor gameplay. It's entirely linear story where everything is fixed, your choices don't matter and the sad excuse for roleplaying amounts to reading slightly different flavor text to progress through the same events in the same order as the last time.

 

[Lady_Error]

How many of the Codex Top 20 have true C&C, other than Age of Decadence?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

It's not an RPG because it has neither roleplaying nor gameplay. It's entirely linear story where everything is fixed, your choices don't matter and the sad excuse for roleplaying amounts to reading slightly different flavor text to progress through the same events in the same order as the last time.

We've been through this already, lad. Why are you being obtuse on purpose?

 

[Lithium Flower]

bataille

"Only radical centrists are going to enjoy the lulling peace of total and unequivocal neutrality should they choose to walk the Middle Path."

The game:

Thought Cabinet Spoiler

Problem
Heartache is powerful, but democracy is *subtle*. Incrementally, you begin to notice a change in the weather. When it snows, the flakes are softer when they stick to your worry-worn forehead. When it rains, the rain is warmer. Democracy is coming to the Administrative Region. The ideals of Dolorian humanism are reinstating themselves. How can they not? These are the ideals of the Coalition and the Moralist International. Those guys are signal blue. And they're not only good -- they're also powerful. What will it be like, once their nuanced plans have been realized?

Solution
The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

For the neophyte - Moralism is radical centrism (roughly constituting a pragmatic, quasi-religious alliance of every ideology on the political spectrum between neoliberalism and neoconservatism), and it absolutely does not escape scrutiny.

cool review tho

 

[Alpan]

For the neophyte - Moralism is radical centrism (roughly constituting a pragmatic, quasi-religious alliance of every ideology on the political spectrum between neoliberalism and neoconservatism), and it absolutely does not escape scrutiny.

Yeah, no player who survives the Sunday Friend encounter will leave thinking centrism got off easy.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

It's not an RPG because it has neither roleplaying nor gameplay. It's entirely linear story where everything is fixed, your choices don't matter and the sad excuse for roleplaying amounts to reading slightly different flavor text to progress through the same events in the same order as the last time.

We've been through this already, lad.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

It's not an RPG because it has neither roleplaying nor gameplay. It's entirely linear story where everything is fixed, your choices don't matter and the sad excuse for roleplaying amounts to reading slightly different flavor text to progress through the same events in the same order as the last time.

This is like saying Planescape: Torment has no roleplaying because it's an entirely linear story where you progress through the same events in the same order as last time. Good, evil? Just slightly different flavor text.

 

[Prime Junta]

My, the trolls are out in force today. Both the real ones, and the ones just larping to fit in with the neckbeards.

 

[Prime Junta]

don't count on living very long once you post your gay article old man

It's my last will and testament. I left you my pubes.

 

[Alpan]

Maxie always has the best Reaction Speed passive checks.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Reactionaries: women are retarded and shouldn't be allowed to vote; they should care for their husbands and bare children. that's all.

Me: idiots; top females are always intellectuals.

Then bataille write this pretentious salad to make me look bad; stop being a counter-example to my female intellectuals preference, bataille. First, it was Crooked Bee and her pretentious post-modern nonsense and now you. What's next, Lilura? Fuck me.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Reactionaries: women are retarded and shouldn't be allowed to vote; they should care for their husbands and bare children. that's all.

Me: idiots; top female are always intellectuals;

Then bataille write this pretentious salad to make me look bad; stop being a counter-example to my female intellectuals preference, bataille. First was Crooked Bee and her pretentious post-modern nonsense and now you; what's next, Lilura? Fuck me.

Lilura is most pretentious of all with her blog.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Reactionaries: women are retarded and shouldn't be allowed to vote; they should care for their husbands and bare children. that's all.

Me: idiots; top female are always intellectuals;

Then bataille write this pretentious salad to make me look bad; stop being a counter-example to my female intellectuals preference, bataille. First was Crooked Bee and her pretentious post-modern nonsense and now you; what's next, Lilura? Fuck me.

Lilura is most pretentious of all with her blog.

Her blog is informative and well written.

 

[Lady_Error]

don't count on living very long once you post your gay article old man

don't bully pls

 

[Haba]

The best part about DE is the butthurt it induces in certain people.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

It's not an RPG because it has neither roleplaying nor gameplay. It's entirely linear story where everything is fixed, your choices don't matter and the sad excuse for roleplaying amounts to reading slightly different flavor text to progress through the same events in the same order as the last time.

This is like saying Planescape: Torment has no roleplaying because it's an entirely linear story where you progress through the same events in the same order as last time. Good, evil? Just slightly different flavor text.

The difference being that my description of Disco Elysium is a factual statement, while your description of Planescape Torment is nonsensical because 1) it actually has gameplay and 2) mortuary alone is more open-ended than the entirety of Disco Elysium.

But hey, inaccurate descriptions of other games to make Disco Elysium look better is at least a step up from people saying it's an RPG because it made them cry in the corner.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

The difference being that my description of Disco Elysium is a factual statement, while your description of Planescape Torment is nonsensical because 1) it actually has gameplay and 2) mortuary alone is more open-ended than the entirety of Disco Elysium.

But hey, inaccurate descriptions of other games to make Disco Elysium look better is at least a step up from people saying it's an RPG because it made them cry in the corner.

You probably made a lengthy post about this in the DE thread. Post here so that we can tear a new asshole in the game. Also, Goral, you had some complaints about the game.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Heroic Liberator]

goddamn evolutionary fucking dead ends shilling for a shitshow amateurish spelling bee anticyoa where nothing matters and all you do is frantically roll dice to have the HONOUR of reading even more Judith Butler tier abominable navel gazing EYESHAGS bc I hesitate to call the contents of this diarrhea jar 'writings'

Bad doggo.

 

[Prime Junta]

For a minute there I thought there wasn't going to be a discussion. Thanks for coming through bros

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Hot take: ever since Microsoft bought Obsidian, every review coming out seems like an advertisement for Microsoft Word thesaurus.

I'm not saying it's necessarily a conspiracy, all I'm saying is look into it.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

For a minute there I thought there wasn't going to be a discussion. Thanks for coming through bros

Meine Ehre heißt Treue, Kamerad. :^)

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

The review, the game, MRY and Prime Junta