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Disco Elysium (Dialogue Focused CRPG) Releasing on October 15th + New Trailer
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I am so excited for this! The preset protagonist is a bit of a disappointment, but I can forgive them for it due to all of the other options.
For some reason I was convinced that I backed it on Kickstarter but apparently it wasn't crowdfunded.
I really hope they go back to making more of these! I have no interest in Battletech, unfortunately.
For some reason I was convinced that I backed it on Kickstarter but apparently it wasn't crowdfunded.
I really hope they go back to making more of these! I have no interest in Battletech, unfortunately.
Very true about Underrail. I'm kind of expecting Disco Elysium to be the anti-Underrail, among other things, as in eschewing the combat altogether and focusing on the excellent dialogue-based storytelling and gameplay from Planescape: Torment with a few modern twists.
Yo I totally forgot that game was in development. KoDP is one of my favs. That's definitely a major GOTY contender if it hits this year.
Yeah, I get that. I love Battletech, and I'm glad they've found success with it ... but it's sad if it comes at the expense of more Shadowrun stuff. I'd happily buy and play another half-dozen of those games in that engine, just for the writing and characters.
It has combat! Or some combat-driven scenes that depends on physical skill checks. But I think it's extremely rare.
I know, just not a crappy separate system like Planescape: Torment did.
Do you mean on PC? It's been out on iOS since last year
60+ hours is a lot longer than I thought it'd be, I really hope it maintains its open-ended approach all the way through.
Have they really never said anything about the pricing? That's weird.
Anyway, considering the scope of the game, I think 60 hours makes sense. The world is quite big.
Yeah, I was amazed when I figured out I've only known about this game for three years or so. Feels like I've been waiting ... all my life.
Boy, I sure do trip over ambitious indie CRPGs these days. I feel like I'd be more aware of them if the dedicated RPG spaces on the Internet weren't mostly alt-right infested nightmares, but this is definitely on my radar now.
Of course, there's zero guarantee that I will ever get around to this. I love a lot of these games in theory, but actually getting into them has become surprisingly difficult. I've barely scratched the indie side of the "CRPG Renaissance" outside of not caring much for Age of Decadence and quickly refunding Grimoire. However, I've been thinking of finally giving Underrail the time of day, so maybe this could follow shortly thereafter.
Of course, there's zero guarantee that I will ever get around to this. I love a lot of these games in theory, but actually getting into them has become surprisingly difficult. I've barely scratched the indie side of the "CRPG Renaissance" outside of not caring much for Age of Decadence and quickly refunding Grimoire. However, I've been thinking of finally giving Underrail the time of day, so maybe this could follow shortly thereafter.
One of the cool things about Disco Elysium is the designers are avowed leftists. Remains to be seen how that manifests in the game (especially given the difficult subject matter they've been vocal about wanting to tackle), but I'm hopeful that it will have more and braver things to say about politics than other games in the genre.
This is definitely one of my favorite game titles ever! So much better than the original name which I always read as "No Truce With The Furries"
Can't believe it's that soon.
I will say I'm surprised about the 60+ hour estimate. This always seemed like a 20 hour long but highly re-playable type of game to me. I think I even saw a post about how wide their decision trees could branch at some point. Hard for me to imagine having that kind of flexibility and scope across that long of a game, but maybe they pulled it off.
I will say I'm surprised about the 60+ hour estimate. This always seemed like a 20 hour long but highly re-playable type of game to me. I think I even saw a post about how wide their decision trees could branch at some point. Hard for me to imagine having that kind of flexibility and scope across that long of a game, but maybe they pulled it off.
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I won't have time to play this until 10/25...which is the day The Outer Worlds comes out...
Also it's 60 hours?!? Maybe I'll take some time off work...
Also it's 60 hours?!? Maybe I'll take some time off work...
60 hours!? That's like 4-5 times longer than I was expecting. Guessing this won't be a cheap $20 game then.
Everyone new to the game should check out the developer diaries on the PnP system they made for the game, combat and skill checks.
And here's a bonus picture of a single dialogue tree from earlier development:
And here's a bonus picture of a single dialogue tree from earlier development:
I totally missed the hour count in that tweet when I initially read it. There seems to be a lot of games that a big time sinks coming out in this last chunk of the year, I'll still find time for this though.
I started stanning hard for No Truce back in 2016. Around the same time they said you regularly get into arguments with the various parts of your own brain/personality.
Can't believe there's an actual gosh-darn date now (that's just around the corner!).
What a time to be alive.
Can't believe there's an actual gosh-darn date now (that's just around the corner!).
What a time to be alive.
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