>make character, start game>slog through 10 gorillion millennial humour dialogue options around pretending not to have amnesia>talk to NPCs in starting area, learn about plot and shit>go to crime scene to investigate>kid tells me to fuck off>my character gets blackpilled and ragequits, game over>no save game, have to start againWhat the fuck is this commie bullshit?
>>4005225>What the fuck is this commie bullshit?WELCOME TO REVACHOL!
>>4005225Skill issue
>>4005225should have saved. skill issue
>>4005225Welcome to Revachol.
>>4005225It's your fault for playing a game that it's famous because of reddit
>>4005252>reddit*twitter
>be me>browsing /vrpg/>what's this? A disco Elysium thread?>aww yis.>enter thread.I literally can't talk enough about Disco Elysium but to get to you question OP, I don't think whatever game this is can in anyway compare to the sheer brilliance that is Disco Elysium. The game is so packed full of deep intellectual concepts that I'm surprised there's even a large enough following for DE (Disco Elysium) that threads about it to appear. Not that I'm complaining :).DE (Disco Elysium) has one of the deepest and well thought out gameplay in any game I've ever played. It's cut through all the rooty tooty point and shooty "gameplay" (that other games waste their time on) and gets to the real meat of any game.... the story. I truly can't express how how shocked I was (well I can, I lived through the "trump years") that there are people who don't like DE (Disco Elysium). It's probably just their preconceived notions on what a "game" has to be. These same people probably also have antiquated ideas about women, race, and religion as well. So in short most detractors of this game are incels.>end rant.Thanks for reading guys.
>>4005310>I literally can't talk enough about-tldr anon is a self-fellating commie.the one mortal fault of DE is that it tries too hard to get into your head to checkmate you, including by half-accusing you of doing so, just like your average psychomasturbating "marxist", though more à la Nietzsche (a faggot as well but a more appreciable one). even in the rare occasions where it tries to sound like it isn't taking itself too seriously it fails at it, because the sin was already committed and there is no taking it back.
>devs release a better game>due to some past drama nobody plays it
>>4005310Pasta and guests are both stale after three days
>>4005319“The game isn’t biased pokes fun at all ideologies equally!”Haha yea guess you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs am I rite *picking commie options gives you XP*lol you’re only a fascist because you hate women *picking fascist options makes you lose morale and get a game over*I tried to do a second playthrough after finishing it and realized it had zero replayability
>>4005310>>4005362>this level of ironythat you Kurvitz?
>>4005225>mogs the Deserter in every conceivable way
>>4005446>mom, can we have Nightmare?>no, we have Nightmare at home
>>4005225I think when all is said and done, people will unironically have nostalgia for boomers by comparison. That is how repulsive millennials are.
It was a commie game that didn’t flop. Had an interesting art direction, some nice (but repetitive) songs, and a few well done scenes (the meeting of the cryptid). One some level commies are terrified that the chuds are right, that they drive every studio they infest to produce ideologically cringe garbage, and eventually ruin companies. So they get very excited when a game of theirs doesn’t flop - even if it still somehow manages to ruin the studio.
>>4005674>One some level commies are terrified that the chuds are rightCan confirm that the chuds are right.>t. former tankie
I don't get the "commie game" bitevery ideology you can choose is just some shallow front for the underlying griefCommunistsFascistsMoralistsUltraliberalsAll put in the same bucket
>>4005677It's because it's a game made by Marxists, voice acted by Marxists and philosophically informed by Marxists. Commie is just shorthand for that, it's not like they support Soviet communism.See, some Marxists believe that their theory failed and capitalism reigns because of the weight of cultural delusions that are extensions of personal failings under the weight of historical awareness and people regress into harmful behaviour to circumvent the chaos of the world. It's actually hard to explain in a short way because their thought process is so convoluted and built upon a lot of other ideas. Ironically, Orthodox Marxists would say that many of these guys aren't Marxists, because it's kind of a ship of Theseus situation. Branding sells though.
>>4005736This is broadly correct, generally speaking.>>4005677>every ideology you can choose is just some shallow front for the underlying griefSpecific to Harry in the context of the game, this is also correct.
I think the fundamental delusion at the heart of this kind of "Marxism" is the love of humanity and the hatred of people, which is another way of saying "I love the model, but hate the reality". This leads them to create other models that explain the sorcery behind this reality and try to make it false. The real truest fact that they cannot stand is that Humans are Animals.
>>4005742>I think the fundamental delusion at the heart of this kind of "Marxism" is the love of humanity and the hatred of peopleThe esoteric purpose of Marxism was actually just about Jews establishing a Jewish dictatorship over the goyim, and a certain subset of dumb goys got tricked by the exoteric messaging. Useful idiots.
>>4005736>some Marxists believe that their theory failed and capitalism reigns because of the weight of cultural delusions that are extensions of personal failings under the weight of historical awareness and people regress into harmful behaviour to circumvent the chaos of the world.>It's actually hard to explain in a short way because their thought process is so convoluted and built upon a lot of other ideasIt's actually not that difficult.It's as if Jesus of the one true church came down, walked the earth and started performing miracles. Many would claim him to be a false god by virtue of clinging to their own religious delusions and an equally many would doubt due to their obsession of watching AI generated content on TikTok. The end result is humanity turning its collective back on our one true lord and further casting us down the path of sin. We'll continue to revel and thrive in sin until our eventual demise oblivious to the greater path.
>>4005753>if Jesus of the one true church came down, walked the earth and started performing miracles>many would doubt due to their obsession of watching AI generated content on TikTokwhat????
>>4005772His point should be pretty obvious.Stupid people who watch AIslop not knowing is fake will become desensitized to so called 'miracles'.People who know they're watching AI slop will think it's a stunt and theres someone hiding in the bushes filming it for youtube.
>>4005744This is a model you use to simplify history.>>4005753This is the error of mistaking cause and effect.
How does it compare so far?
>>4005677You're not an ultraliberal anonGet the fuck outDon't be a retard
>>4005446I didn't expect this dumb reddit game to have such a kino ending.>"You're still a good man. Despite it all.">"Despite it all."
>>4005225The major problem with this game is that no matter what you do, nothing really matters at the end, which I guess fits the depressing theme of nihilism the writers intended but it doesn't change the fact this is a shitty counter-intuitive way to design a game. You can go through hoops to do all of these side quests to find unique equipment, try to talk to everyone & garner as much xp as you can, and ultimately this is meaningless because the only factors that determine whether you can solve the case is how you choose to deal with the blonde druggie whore. There aren't multiple endings, none of the side quests you solve have any bearing on anything outside of their immediate resolution, and you really just need to invest in a handful of skills at most to pass the mandatory checks for progressing the game forward & outside of these there's no penalty for failing & it's just down to preference as to whether you like the outcome or not. You can find various books to pass the time, and again this is another meaningless mechanic because you don't unlock a secret that would give you an alternate path to affect anything by doing this; your time is just wasted. You have four different political ideologies you can have Harry adopt & blend them together as well as different personality options, and again this is rendered completely meaningless because the whole game is set up to have nothing matter in the long run.
>>4007392But did you have fun?
>>4007410NTA, I had fun the first playthrough but then attempting a second really hurt my overall opinion of the game. I agree with him.
>>4007415It's all about different letsplayer reactions for me
>>4007392the people that wrote this are consumed by political angst, so the ending has to be about the meaninglessness of human action while being vaguely hopeful. the whole thing is a big cry about the world. that's why it's popular with kids.
>>4007554I don’t get why everyone talks about the cryptid subplotThe secret conversation with the ex on the island was way more emotionally impactful I thought. Though maybe a lot of people didn’t see it
>>4007554frankly that's been anything made by leftists since at least 1991
>>4007655phasmid shit was so retarded, the trite "humanity is le cancer". that stick fuck can clone himself, we use words. it's like complaining about a bird chirping.>>4007719way before that even. hunter s. thompson's sperm is all in this bitch.
>>4005674We live in a chud universe but it seems as if everything has if anything just became more trite and ugly in the mainstream media while the economy tanks. If anything this decade only really made me double down on the commie shit.
>>4008281>it seems as if everything has if anything just became more trite and ugly in the mainstream media >If anything this decade only really made me double down on the commie shit.Who the fuck didn’t abandon the mainstream media a decade ago? Don’t tell me you’re still watching movies and shit. Why do you think it’s so spiritually ugly? Who do you think is making this garbage?>t. commie to chud pipeline
>>4007145It's good. Less witty dialogue, but more gameplay.
>>4005677Why did they come up with a fake name for lolberts and neoliberals but not cpmmunists and fascists?
>>4008632>Why did they come up with a fake name for lolberts and neoliberals but not cpmmunistsSo that their fanbase would recognize that they were the right-thinking good guys they were conditioned to identify with>and fascists?So that their fanbase would recognize that they were the wrong-thinking bad guys they were conditioned to hate
>>4008293I never really liked that much mainstream media but all the big video games look like shit even if there is more sex appeal in gaming. It just seems like a retread of the boring 2000's style of games which is mostly dreary and overly focused on being "realistic" see E33 and Tides of Annihilation let alone the dredge of gacha ga mes.
>>4005225skill issue. you could've just stopped playing
>>4007392>>4007392The game is about Harry, and your actions determine his ending. It sounds to me like you were expecting a different kind of story from the game, which is fair, but you can't evaluate the ending based on what you thought the narrative was going to be rather than the actual narrative
>>4008902There was a tower defense game called immortal defense that depicted the player character as slowly going insane, and an intended choice was for the player to intentionally drop the game at some point along the way. Always thought it was an interesting ide
>>4009483>tower defense gameglad you found a genre that's more your speed
>>4005448millennials are nothing more than boomers v2
>>4005677Communist options and characters are written as interesting and often rewarding to the player.Meanwhile the game has like two fascists, one is a spineless fat loser whose best interaction is telling him to fuck off and the other is a spineless skinny loser with a nasal voice.I mean, come on.
>>4011647>Meanwhile the game has like two fascists, one is a spineless fat loser whose best interaction is telling him to fuck off and the other is a spineless skinny loser with a nasal voice.huh?
>>4011647>>4011706there's also the pathetic old man who's nostalgic about an idealized pastanyways I love disco elysium bros
>>4005225>casual who failed to save his game gets btfod>blames the gamedamn
Just finished this and liked it, but it feels the final segment is a bit weak, also, where the hell are your partners during the tribunal? I thougnt they spend all day in Whirling since day 3.
>>4011706Personally I don't even consider this one as fascist, he was more of a race realist
>>4012402I liked it, the spaghetti western music as you get "judged" for your actions was a pretty cool sequence.
Not an rpg
>>4011706Measurehead isn't a fascist.
>>4012766>>4012463He's the core of the Fascist vision quest and an obvious satire of fascism, this is like communists going "well actually I consider him more of a trotskyist"
>>4013190>He's the core of the Fascist vision quest>[A]n obvious satire of fascismAgain, he's not a fascist.
>>4013385But anon, by my definition of fascism of “bad thing the communists told me to not like”, he is
people who are fascinated by the aesthetics of politics should get shotalso not a rpg
>>4013385Why did you put square brackets in the quote?
>>4013498He capitalized that letter and it was lower case in the original quote, so he was showing that he had modified it
>>4013503autism speaks
>>4005225i liked the scenery and atmosphere of the first day and expected some deep mystery behind layers of 'humor' but the 'game' dropped off quickly as soon as the other side of the river opened up. there was something truly magical and unique about the first hours of the game that got destroyed by the end of it. talking to the lady in the boat about the Pale was the highlight.
>>4013493How do you define a rpg?
>>4013493>people who are fascinated by the aesthetics of politics should get shott. totally-not-fantasizing-about-lining-up-his-enemies-in-front-of-a-firing-squad
>>4013493most retarded take ive read in year, thnks for the lulz
Not an rpg.
>>4013498If you have to ask, you don't need to know.
>>4013621It *is* an RPG.
>>4013726>It *is* an RPG, because you Play the Role of Harry, and it’s a game. :)
>>4005225yea you should probably just play a better game tbphprobably an older one
>>4013730Yes.
>There are people that dislike JoyceWhat the fuck is wrong with these commies?
>>4005225I legitimately don't get the appeal of this Text-Adventure.Is the secret of this game that it only appeals to midwits and redditors aka Rick & Morty Fans?
>>4016623More specifically, the game's target audience is depressed internet communists, but your vocabulary is deficient, so you just call everything you dislike "Reddit"
>>4005310>and gets to the real meat of any game.... the storyPlease fucking die already
>>4016623>>4016656The game is less for communist enjoyment and more about the dangers of coping with shallow politics and philosophy and that it's never too late to turn your life around (over shit like bad experience with women, alcohol, your deteriorating mental state and doomer mentality.)
>>4016656Found the redditor
>>4007195>reddit gameIt's an RPGCodex game
>>4016623>redditsuba fan
>>4013802>probably an older onelet me guess: single speech skill, maybe two more for bluffing and intimidation if we're being generous, and uses a flat distributive d20 skill resolution mechanic?
>>4007392You're talking about zero paradesDisco elysium lets you actually do a few good things
>>4007392this. everything is nonsense as the game is mostly on rails and you just get a bits of different dialog
>>4016656>depressed internet communistsSo reddit
>>4016656>embarrassing lack of memetic acumenGross, I don't like it when leftists post in my /vrpg/
>>4017954That book is a decade older than your meme, newfag.
>>4005310I’m not going to read thru this whole thread because OP is a faggot. The writing is anti-millennial, if anything. Very gonzo-boomer, and the voice acting is great. The murder Vic is an absolute chad and the hot bitch was addicted to his cock. He was a hardcore military man, which is about as anti-millennial… hell anti-boomer writing as one can get. He is a spaghetti western-type antihero, and his killer is an absolutely pathetic commie faggot. I didn’t quite get the giant stick bug situation though.I enjoyed my time with DE. Not going to replay it - don’t care enough to hear every dialogue tree, but the whole game is a build up to the climax, which was one of the if not the best climaxes in all of video games. Loved how your choices set the stage for both sides, and your skills had a huge impact on the final outcome. Was worth all the bullshit for that final confrontation, and I still think about it often. The only thing that approaches it is the sunken continent sequence in ff6, but that was fully on rails whereas DE’s climax is gritty intimate brutal and fully based on all the shit you did.Glad i did it. Writing not millennial. But not a detective game and the amnesia thing is hamfisted, but the experience was awesome and the climax was a great payoff.
>>4018010In conclusion, Disco Elysium is a land of contrasts.
Celestial Return released a few days ago, anyone played it?