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Disco Elysium review thread
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What's wrong with that paragraph? Makes perfect sense to me to sum up the writing in its absurdity while also being damn interesting and completely out there.
I don't really mind the structure of that paragraph (even if it's a little "every character from every IP comes in for a huge birthday party") but I do think that basically every one of those cultural references is so blown-out that it doesn't actually meaningfully convey anything about the game's identity. Like, if you want the "Lynchian" descriptor to mean anything, you have to show your work a bit.
Yeah seems like fully 2D backgrounds and relatively low res 3D character models. The environment textures all seem pretty damn detailed, Although I'm sure they can be toned down. If you can do Divinity you can deffo do this I reckon.
It's not Lynchian at all, either, from what I've played
It's actually not fully 2D, it seems to be almost entirely 3D models but built to look like 2D. They probably don't have any modeling on the non visible side.
On lower end hardware like everyday laptops the game is actually demanding, I can run Siege on lowest settings better than I can't run this game on my laptop properly.
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Yeah the more I play the more I see bits of the environment are actually 3D. Wild.
Still, should be much easier than Divinity to run.
Link.
I think this is their main review for the site? Amazing result, has to be one of the highest rated games of the year.
For IGN, it actually is the highest score they've given this year.
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One of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
It's the global top-seller on Steam (and possibly GOG) at the moment, I think it's doing fine. It's not even been 24 hours since release, give it time.
It's a dense PC RPG. It's always going to be an uphill battle for it to get noticed on ResetEra. You'll know it's winning that battle when the questions about a Switch port start piling up.One of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
Exceptionally good reviews can help an indie game break out. Right now Disco Elysium is tied for the #1 rated game of the year on Opencritic, that will bring some eyeballs.
This right here.
The sheer amount of reading involved means the game's automatically gonna be a big ask, not just around here but most anywhere.
It's simply more niche than your typical "3rd-person action AAA prestige" game that gets so much traction around these parts.
Hopefully word of mouth and stellar reviews will draw more eyeballs, but it'll never get the same attention as RDR2, GoW or TLOU2.
No regrets. Just how things roll.
One of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
Really really really REALLY want to play this but since English isn't my native language i'd rather wait to see if they plan on translating it in other languages. (french, in my case.)
English isn't really an issue for me but apparently the game uses a very elevated english which will probably force me to use google translate while playing it. And it's also, like, 100% reading.
I'd rather play a game like this in my native language if possible to be fully immersed. If they have no plans on translating it then i'll just play it in english, but i'll wait a bit and see if they come up with an announcement first. (:
I picked a bad time to get back into Sunless Skies, Anno 1800 and Stellaris.. glad to see it's selling well and loving the impressions and reviews, will def jump in when I can focus on it before year's end.One of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
One of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
I DONT HAVE A PC THAT CAN RUN IT YOU SWINE
From the Steam FAQ, they plan to talk about translation sometime post-release:
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True, but that's not really out of ordinary for a launch day performance.
The concurrent users peak is not that impressive either with only 2.3k peak today. We'll see how it performs on its first weekend later, but I'm not sure if it can reach much higher number. With more reviews coming out and more words of mouth being spread, Disco Elysium might become an evergreen RPG that will keep on selling, hopefully.
Fair concern. I'm not a native English user too, but so far I don't find the writing that challenging to comprehend.
Chill, buddy. I'm only pointing my finger at PC users, obviously. It's a PC exclusive title for now, after all.
As we can see from the Steam charts, it's not doing too hot at the moment.
The game isn't challenging my vocabulary, but it sure is challenging my understanding of surrealism and abstract concept.
Most people just play the recognisable games or breakout successes like Risk of Rain etc. It's hard for people to get into RPG, let alone a pen & paper RPG with no action and just talking.One of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
It's a text-heavy English-only indie game that's been out for a day (in the middle of the week) on a single platform, and is higher priced than most indie games. It's also a long game that encourages multiple replays so it doesn't have many professional reviews (and the high replay value should help its showing on streams). It's already got over 150 user reviews. It's not going to be the next Untitled Goose Game, but I imagine it'll sell in the 6-digit range before they start heavily discounting it. No clue if that's profitable since they also mention having a bigger team than normal (30+ at their height, with over 100 people having contributed to the game in some way), but I wouldn't be too worried at this stage.
Also, it doesn't really have any competition for this kind of massive CYOA/tabletop experience so I imagine it'll sell decently over a long period of time.
A collection of namedrops is some of the most irrelevant and uninformative thing you can write unless you're trying to sell your own game
This feels like someone who consumed so much pop culture that it replaced their own human personality. Like someone who writes "I Like The Office and Marvel movies" on their Tinder bio.
I don't think the game's writing is particularly like Hunter S. Thompson's. In fact I've been pleased with how digestible, original and not-referential it is.
It's not much like True Detective, David Lynch or Sherlock Holmes either. That whole paragraph is goofy as hell.
I've only played three hours so far, but damn this is good. A rare gem, there's not many games like this at all.
This does way more for me to sell it.
I mean I was going to buy it when I get home but still.
i don't usually spend more than 20 bucks for a digital gameOne of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
and i know i will not have the time to play this
but with all this hype around it i'm still dangerously cloe to throw away the 40 bucks
Wouldn't it just be risking $20 and then getting so much entertainment that it's worth it anyway?
Sorry, couldn't help it.
When you're so drowned in pop culture and don't feel comfortable to give your full opinion, making comparisons is the easier way to review š
Hell, in my neighborhood $20 won't even get you 3 drinks.
And this is waaay better than 3 drinks.
Well, mostly.
Truly the spiritual successor to PS:T.One of the highest rated games of theyeardecade and people are sleeping on it?
i agree that quote is pretty goofy but I don't actually think david lynch is a completely inaccurate point of reference. if you put a lot of points in empathy there's a lot of dreamlike stuff going on. there's even a skill called inland empire.
the two references i've caught so far (early on) have been so out of left field i've honestly appreciated them:
when kim explains the idea of the MMO to you in the basement office you can only respond with "Wow." and then later on there was a reference to the old Crossfire game commercial
Suggestion: It's been a long hard road, but they deserve to know your thoughts, white hot and incandescent, burning with potential and desire for others to partake in this experience.
4.5 out of 5 for our review at USgamer.
4.5 out of 5 for our review at USgamer.
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Amazing.
About 25% of dialogue with NPCs are voiced. All internal thoughts are not.
