A story of failure, dashed hopes, murder and retrograde amnesia, Disco Elysium is the greatest rpg I think I've ever played. You absolutely owe it to yourself to experience this genre defining work of art.
a game that has absolutely full confidence in its own themes, gameplay, and texture that pulls no punches
Disco Elyisum is The RPG. This is the RPG you should play. There may not be another game like this.
i give this game 5/5 green beans
Disco Elysium is definitely the best game that came out last year and I'm not sure that it was particularly close. There are so many great, funny, heart wrenching, and striking conversations to be found. I can't wait to revisit this game for Journal Updated some time in the next twelve months.
It's all fun and games until the funny jokes stop and the painful reality kicks in that some of these conversations are hitting you a bit too hard. Fuck.
I have never played a game that has brought tabletop gaming to life as much as Disco Elysium. Truly a remarkable game, and the beginning of something that I think will go on to become even more mindblowing as budgets and ambition increase. One of the freshest games in years.
The Citizen Kane of video games? No, that's probably Dark Souls, Tetris or something. Disco Elysium is the Disco Elysium of video games. We're gonna be talking about this game for a long time.
astonishing gaming experience. loved the characters, the detailed world, the writing, the soundtrack, the visuals were amazing. the finale could have been better but i still thoroughly enjoyed it. will need to come back to it for more.
Uno de esos juegos únicos que te marcan como pocos. Un RPG basado enteramente en conversaciones y que da la sensación de estar jugando a una partida de rol con un el mejor Master posible. He visto pocos juegos tan bien escritos como este.
Lo que empieza como un como una simple historia policíaca se convierte rápidamente en algo más, una reflexión profunda y políticamente compleja sobre la condición humana, llena de personajes memorables y de momentos inolvidables.
Mi GOTY de 2019.
Lo que empieza como un como una simple historia policíaca se convierte rápidamente en algo más, una reflexión profunda y políticamente compleja sobre la condición humana, llena de personajes memorables y de momentos inolvidables.
Mi GOTY de 2019.
he is like me
really great but I chickened out of the ending and now do not like to think about it. but really great
Like the gaming version of a Delillo novel.
An incredible game - a gripping, funny, witty, nihilistic, and complex character study about a man trying desperately to find his own ethos in a world without one. Is it even possible too? And does one succumb to the system? The game has no easy questions and even less answers.
It's rock solid mechanics, gorgeous watercolor backgrounds, and fantastic supporting cast also help in just making this a blast to play. The amount of variety will keep you coming back even if the main story is short for an RPG like this (this isn't a bad thing though). A masterwork from top to bottom.
It's rock solid mechanics, gorgeous watercolor backgrounds, and fantastic supporting cast also help in just making this a blast to play. The amount of variety will keep you coming back even if the main story is short for an RPG like this (this isn't a bad thing though). A masterwork from top to bottom.
Honestly, the biggest motivation to play this game to completion is to have the chance to listen to that absolute banger of an end credits track. The rest of the game is pretty good too, I guess.
i love the dialogue and i found it so engaging and honest that i dont care much about the pandering and its mistakes in general
More than a month later after my first playthrough of Disco Elysium, this game's OST still makes me literally cry. Watching someone playing the end of the game makes me ugly cry, sobbing with a runny nose and all. It is the best RPG I've ever played, possibly the best game I've ever played too.
I know, there's a lot to unpack in order to defend such a claim.
Let's try.
For starters, It has an absolutely incredible and original protagonist. Even though starting as a amnesiac character is a straight rip-off/homage to Planescape and just an overall cliche, it runs with it in a completely different direction. Generally, this trope serves the purpose of making a character yours to build. In a sense it does that, but in another, it really doesn't. You see, Harry is a forty-something alcoholic mess of a human being. Something in his past fucked him up so bad that he destroyed the reputation not only of the police department he bossed over, but his own. Harry is a detective of heart and soul, a true master of his craft. But he is equally broke, shallow, messy, old, ugly and pathetic. Here, the player is not empowered through an idealization of himself - but met with a beating and a mirror.
You met your sidekick early on, and he, Kim Kitsuragi, is just a phenomenally written character. He plays a no-nonsense contrast to our messy Harry. When you first meet him, he has been trying to meet you for two days, as it has been weeks since you've been assigned to investigate the murder of a hanged man in Martinaise, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the fictional city Revachol and all you've accomplished is the use of god knows how many drugs and making the waitress of the hotel you're settled in quit because you're a poop. As such, Kim needs to tolerate your stinky butt in order to solve the case, and he does that. And if you're not a prick, if you try to be a good detective and a good colleague to him, you will find the best friend you could ever have.
Goddamnit, I can feel the tears coming.
Ok, so let's expand a little bit. Let's talk about Revachol and Martinaise, the neighborhood that the game takes place. Fifty years ago, Revachol was a world capital to the futuristic world of Elysium, just coming out of a monarchy into a liberal democracy. A very bloody communist revolution ensues. Then the burguoise answers back, even bloodier. Free market on steroids comes quickly, turning the once promising port-district of Martinaise in an empoverished, bullet-riddled guetto. Fifty years of intense class struggle made government law pratically non-existent in this place, the de facto law being enforeced by the Dockworker's Union.
It's in this setting that a mercenary contracted by the too-big-to-fail The Wild Pines Group (that employs the workers of Martinaise and whose interests frequently conflict with the Union's) is found hanged to the branch of a three in the backyard of a hotel.
'I can see where this is going!', you might say, 'this is a game for liberal snowflakes, SJW and wanna-be revolutionaires!'. And yeah, I won't deny that while the game doesn't outright says that communism is great, it does make plenty of fun of racism and fascism. If you think the holocaust is a lie, this game isn't for you. But it doesn't sugar-coat the revolution either: You will met very sleazy left-leaning people in this game. You will meet well-meaning ultra-capitalists. You will met a gigantic black racist man who will call you a ham sandwich and make fun of your inferior white genes. There is no right ideology here, only the reality of a post modern society sinking into the abyss. It's in this setting that Harry discovers who he is, what is he running from, who killed the hanging man and - most importantly - the miracle of being alive.
Now, on to the mechanics, briefly. First of all, you have twenty something skills and each of them is a voice in your head with an portrait and writing style of it's own. They CAN appear unprompted when it is relevant, giving you advice that can be biased. You can employ them in generic RPG skill checks. They can even fight each other or cooperate on your behalf. This game also has no dedicated combat mechanics, it is an investigative, exploratory, sociopolitical, existencial experience.
I don't know how to end this. Just play the damn thing.
I know, there's a lot to unpack in order to defend such a claim.
Let's try.
For starters, It has an absolutely incredible and original protagonist. Even though starting as a amnesiac character is a straight rip-off/homage to Planescape and just an overall cliche, it runs with it in a completely different direction. Generally, this trope serves the purpose of making a character yours to build. In a sense it does that, but in another, it really doesn't. You see, Harry is a forty-something alcoholic mess of a human being. Something in his past fucked him up so bad that he destroyed the reputation not only of the police department he bossed over, but his own. Harry is a detective of heart and soul, a true master of his craft. But he is equally broke, shallow, messy, old, ugly and pathetic. Here, the player is not empowered through an idealization of himself - but met with a beating and a mirror.
You met your sidekick early on, and he, Kim Kitsuragi, is just a phenomenally written character. He plays a no-nonsense contrast to our messy Harry. When you first meet him, he has been trying to meet you for two days, as it has been weeks since you've been assigned to investigate the murder of a hanged man in Martinaise, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the fictional city Revachol and all you've accomplished is the use of god knows how many drugs and making the waitress of the hotel you're settled in quit because you're a poop. As such, Kim needs to tolerate your stinky butt in order to solve the case, and he does that. And if you're not a prick, if you try to be a good detective and a good colleague to him, you will find the best friend you could ever have.
Goddamnit, I can feel the tears coming.
Ok, so let's expand a little bit. Let's talk about Revachol and Martinaise, the neighborhood that the game takes place. Fifty years ago, Revachol was a world capital to the futuristic world of Elysium, just coming out of a monarchy into a liberal democracy. A very bloody communist revolution ensues. Then the burguoise answers back, even bloodier. Free market on steroids comes quickly, turning the once promising port-district of Martinaise in an empoverished, bullet-riddled guetto. Fifty years of intense class struggle made government law pratically non-existent in this place, the de facto law being enforeced by the Dockworker's Union.
It's in this setting that a mercenary contracted by the too-big-to-fail The Wild Pines Group (that employs the workers of Martinaise and whose interests frequently conflict with the Union's) is found hanged to the branch of a three in the backyard of a hotel.
'I can see where this is going!', you might say, 'this is a game for liberal snowflakes, SJW and wanna-be revolutionaires!'. And yeah, I won't deny that while the game doesn't outright says that communism is great, it does make plenty of fun of racism and fascism. If you think the holocaust is a lie, this game isn't for you. But it doesn't sugar-coat the revolution either: You will met very sleazy left-leaning people in this game. You will meet well-meaning ultra-capitalists. You will met a gigantic black racist man who will call you a ham sandwich and make fun of your inferior white genes. There is no right ideology here, only the reality of a post modern society sinking into the abyss. It's in this setting that Harry discovers who he is, what is he running from, who killed the hanging man and - most importantly - the miracle of being alive.
Now, on to the mechanics, briefly. First of all, you have twenty something skills and each of them is a voice in your head with an portrait and writing style of it's own. They CAN appear unprompted when it is relevant, giving you advice that can be biased. You can employ them in generic RPG skill checks. They can even fight each other or cooperate on your behalf. This game also has no dedicated combat mechanics, it is an investigative, exploratory, sociopolitical, existencial experience.
I don't know how to end this. Just play the damn thing.
best game of the gen and one of the best RPGs ever made. landmark stuff. in ten years I will write a tweet about this game like the one Kevin Smith made about his wife.
So impressed by this game! It balances so many different narratives at once and does so expertly. The fact that the game deals with such a difficult and precarious world (one that mirrors our own and our own individual lives), makes jokes in every direction without becoming cynical, and ultimately imagines a better world no matter how difficult it may be to get there is amazing. Great gameplay interactions, artwork, music, and characters. Loved this one so much.
playing both this and Pathologic 2 in the same year really ruined the writing in every other game ever for me
Escuchadme compañias de videojuegos este es un mensaje oficial mío ya no tenéis excusas para hacer sistemas de diálogo de mierda
The song of death is sweet and endless... But what is this? Somewhere in the sore, bloated man-meat around you — a sensation!
It's pretty good! I feel like every NPC in this game is a little too willing to give you their full opinion on every political issue, and not all of the voice acting is good, but the way options work, and how problem solving branches out, and the system behind your inner narration, is all genius and stuff I hope that every CRPG from here on takes advantage of.
cringe game. not good.
Very well written. Remains both funny and intimate throughout the whole game. The pace did crawl at times, but if you have the patience for its slower moments it's very rewarding.
Hard game to rate. Got one of the best skill check systems in modern RPGs and Dialog options are superb but besides this incredible feats it is just a decent CRPG. Honestly couldn't care about the game and its mediocre story and characters but i applaud systems it uses
I also find it ridiculously overrated. Fact that people can call this masterpiece or one of the greatest crpgs of all-time is hilarious. I get that great modern crpgs are rare and mostly just fantasy and doesnt have the philosophical and political topics as much as this game but this is just a decent game
I also find it ridiculously overrated. Fact that people can call this masterpiece or one of the greatest crpgs of all-time is hilarious. I get that great modern crpgs are rare and mostly just fantasy and doesnt have the philosophical and political topics as much as this game but this is just a decent game
Goddamn, the hopelessness of this world is lovely to sink into. Lets all disco dance into the void
y'all like politics?
Games a work of art. If Michelangelo was contacted by game developers who said 'do that sistine thing again but make it about a hobo communist cop" and he said "oui" or whatever the fuck, it would be disco elysium
The art: GORGEOUS
The Soundtrack: SENSATIONAL
The characters: KIM I LOVE YOU PLEASE DONT BE MAD AT ME IM TRYING TO HARD I JUST WANT YOU TO BE PROUD OF ME KIM PLEASE
The themes: really............really heavy dude
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Harry and Kim sitting down in front of Harry's crashed car, sinking into the ice, reflecting on what a failure harry was, was some of the most emotional, hard hitting, and beautiful shit i have ever seen in a video game, or anyewhere else
The art: GORGEOUS
The Soundtrack: SENSATIONAL
The characters: KIM I LOVE YOU PLEASE DONT BE MAD AT ME IM TRYING TO HARD I JUST WANT YOU TO BE PROUD OF ME KIM PLEASE
The themes: really............really heavy dude
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Harry and Kim sitting down in front of Harry's crashed car, sinking into the ice, reflecting on what a failure harry was, was some of the most emotional, hard hitting, and beautiful shit i have ever seen in a video game, or anyewhere else
i actually connot stop thinking about this game