Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoSo bad that I had to hop on a forum and go “Hey, so, there aren’t any good choices in the dialog tree, did I fuck up my character generation? Should I start over?”
Your first mistake was thinking it was like any of those other CRPGS with dialog trees. No, you didn’t fuck up your character generation. Your character is a fuck up. That’s part of the story it’s trying to tell.
How you engage with the game is figuring out how to un-fuck-up the character in a matter that is realistic. Or just ignoring whatever lessons the game gives you and continue down the same self-destructive path. Or somewhere in-between. All paths are have their creative stories to tell, and even being strange and weird with it can still lead to solving pieces of the crime you’re trying to piece together.
Yeah, I don’t get games where “You want some fuck?” is a valid dialog choice.
Because it’s fucking funny when you didn’t know what the actual dialogue entry was going to be, you took a gamble, and the “pay off” is that your character says the cringest fucking line to some woman he’s immediately attracted to. So cringe that even your own Volition (best fucking mental power, btw) is like “the words already left your mouth” as if he was already smacking his goddamn forehead right through to the other side.
Your. Character. Is. A. Fuck up.
If that bothers you, and you want to play something that involves some extreme power fantasy, where you can pick a class and play a completely silent blank slate, then this game is not for you.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And I’m not interested in playing as a fuck up… it’s not interesting to me.
Thank god Steam let me return it.
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Seconded. Also the neckbeards downvoting you for having a civil conversation about a game but not enjoying it are a joke.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure it’s because they started off said discussion by suggesting that everyone who liked the story and dialogue had a traumatic brain injury lol. Very civil, that.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not at all surprising to me that the people with outspoken dislike for Disco Elysium and getting pissy at people who did like it, are also the same people trying to say action JRPG’s that share absolutely nothing in common are better games and getting mad at people trying to describe how reading is actually good.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s not at all what’s happening here, it’s the other way around. Most posts in here are from people saying they hated the game and comparing it games absolutely nothing like it, and then they are getting pissed at the people responding and explaining why they liked it and why it was good, and said neckbeards doubling down and saying Witcher was a better game or something when one is an interactive novel, and the other is a click-splat game.
People are just being irritated with other people for not liking the same thing they like, and no surprise, the bulk of contention is coming from people who rather mindlessly cut down orcs with a sword so they don’t have to feel or think things.