It was a tough decision between no pants and this, I'll be honest.
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Disco Elysium (Dialogue Focused CRPG) Releasing on October 15th + New Trailer
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Surprisingly soon, but then again the wait has been forever. Will it come to consoles at some point? Might wait for that if it is suppose to happen.
I'm all for create a character in games, but this game seems like it's going for a very specific protagonist with a defined personality, look, and style.
I hope the game is good, but people around the web have been hyping this game so much experience has taught me to expect the worse.
I don't think anyone's on OT duty actually. I assume someone volunteers once the release date is known?
Whatever else it will be, I am at least confident that it will be a unique and interesting experience. That's more than I can say for the average game release these days.
Yeah, I very much hope that the wordcount here reflects the breadth of the game's reactivity rather than overly long descriptions and meaningless flowery prose that Numenera offered.
From the screenshots so far, the dialogue seems quite crisp and snappy rather than long and descriptive though.
I love how curt the writing seems. It gets to the point without sacrificing wit. What a breath of fresh air in a commonly overwritten genre.
Was there any price info yet or will we have to wait till launch? Guessing around $60 obviously but Indivisible just managed to surprise me by being about $40+ so I'm hoping for a similar surprise with this.
60 hours median is perfect for me. I don't rush but I'm not a completionist either.
What's left is the price. Come on now...
What's left is the price. Come on now...
I sincerely doubt that they would release it at $60, but no info yet.
I'm the kind of player who felt that Planescape would have been even better without its combat. My favorite interaction in RPGs is through dialogue and checks, so undoubtedly this has been my most anticipated game since Rain World.
I really hope they can stick the landing
I really hope they can stick the landing
You and me both, brother. It was so much better to defeat the bosses in dialogue and mopping up the random mobs felt just like busywork.
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Typically I agree that boasting with a big word count is mainly just concerning - I really dislike flowery purple prose and very descriptive writing - but yeah, everything (which admittedly isn't much) I've seen so far points to the writing being very snappy and witty. "Oh my god! FUCK THE HAT?!" in the above example is friggin hilarious.
Everything else in the quote sounds fucking incredible. This has immense potential for sure. It's ever so slightly frustrating how close this comes out to The Outer Worlds, but I guess TOW will just have to wait.
Everything else in the quote sounds fucking incredible. This has immense potential for sure. It's ever so slightly frustrating how close this comes out to The Outer Worlds, but I guess TOW will just have to wait.
In this game do we 'build' our character with points at the beginning? Is there anywhere were we can see a list of the attributes and stats if so? Or do we make choices and shape them that way? I just want to know if we can plan a little beofre it comes out. I'm not interested in min/maxing(it would be antithetical to the game) I just want to daydream about it!
As far as I know that is how it works, I think people who have played the expo demo have mentioned that. There are four attributes with six "skills" under each, they are all described in the devblog: motorics, physique, psyche and intellect.
From the trailer, we also saw the "thought cabinet" which has something like perks that you pick up during the gameplay, but I'm not super clear on that.
Yup.
Reading a lot of, "2020 GOAT release schedule!" and I might have said the same before we got an Oct. 15th release date for Disco.
These are great reads. Can't wait. I'm at least going to play through as a straightedge pedant Holmes cop and a Druggy Supernatural cop so far.
Planescape is like the one game I played on easy just because I didn't want to spend much time with the combat.
If you enjoyed that, you may also want to read the developer diaries on the PnP system they made for the game, combat and skill checks.
It's hard to really imagine all the possible archetypes that are in the game, I am really interested in what they did with the more ideological ones as they did make a big deal out of that back when they were promoting the game.
What I wouldn't give to see how Planescape would have ended up with an integrated conflict resolution system like this rather than the tedious infinity engine combat.
It was. In fact I'd incredibly impressed if this one, with all its alleged good writing, will be half as good mechanically.
Of course we know how it actually turned out, but I made my character in Torment: Numenera so impossibly weak that I eventually got stuck in a combat scenario and quit the game. It was my dream that they would have designed past that, but they didn't. This game is my NEW SAVIOR.
But imagine if you didn't have to fight random thugs on the street, go through really long combat sections or get punished for your uncountable crimes against the planes over a thousand lifetimes.
Same here, I'm still incredibly disappointed at what Tides of Numenera ended up being.
Eh, random groups of thugs that took few seconds to dispatch every few hours of gamplay didn't exactly upset me.
And combat sections were a pleasant change of place from time to time in a game that was generally so dialogue-heavy.
I liked to put to test my increase in power occasionally.
I had to put it down during the beta do to life stuff, but I think I played the first 1/3 of the game and engaged in no combat scenarios.
Was that not true throughout?
Other than being pretentious as fuck, I quite liked what I played.
It was not true, there are very few, but they are there. You can talk through most of them, but there are others you cannot. One encounter you can interact with the environment to pass it while it occurs, but my characters were so weak that they would die before they were able to, so it kind of made it impossible.
The best I can say is that it mostly worked for the time. PS:T has always felt like it hated its own combat and added it because they had to.
Imagine an experience closer to true tabletop, each encounter would be unique, the second set of thugs would have heard how you immolated the first group and stay away, you'd banish annoying demons rather than hacking the hundreds of them to pieces on at a time etc.
Steam has the system requirements, seems pretty doable:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- MINIMUM:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5-7500 or AMD 1500 equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Intel HD620 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 22 GB available space
- RECOMMENDED:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7 or AMD 1800 equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 1060 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 22 GB available space
Get ready. :)
Like, sure, let's be realistic, I only have around 10 hours in the game. It could fall apart! But those 10 hours were the most arresting, enthralling hours I've had in any RPG. This is one of the best detective games, one of the best RPGs, one of the best video games in those ten hours, that I have ever played.
Oddly enormous gulf between minimum and recommended GPU lol
Hope it runs fine on my MX150 equipped laptop, seems like it probably will as it's mostly 2D.
Just lodging my name on the list of "hell yes, don't sleep on this one" so I can seem cool later. (Its first hour is so freaking good. Can't wait to play more.)
stop.
stop this immediately.
i cannot live in a universe where some people (you) are playing this game and some other people (me) are not.
DocSeuss you and I might vehemently disagree on some games and facets of game design, but I respect your thoughts and analysises of unorthodox/player agency-first/RPG-immersive sim-open ended game design
So such high praise from you about this only makes the wait even harder. This is one of the games that seems to easy for the devs' ambitions to fall apart or feel messy, so for it to achieve everything they promised would be...monumental
So such high praise from you about this only makes the wait even harder. This is one of the games that seems to easy for the devs' ambitions to fall apart or feel messy, so for it to achieve everything they promised would be...monumental
Can you explain what the Thought Cabinet is supposed to be in terms of mechanics?
Do you feel like it could break out, or will it remain niche? The past few years have been great for CRPGs successes, so I hope this becomes big
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