Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made

• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s about the exploring the story, the mind of your character, and lots of political and philosophical themes. The deep psychological exploration of the human condition is absolutely unique and fascinating.

  Maybe you’re too young or otherwise not ready to engage with these themes.

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nobody reads anymore, anything more than a paragraph of text gets skipped by most people under 25 I think. I mean it broadly too, online, in games, in classrooms, in work meetings… it’s massively infuriating to someone who grew up reading books and has a brain adapted to creating worlds from abstractions.

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  • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Definitely neither.

    I put down choose your own adventure stories a long time ago, and a digital one doesn’t hold me no matter how well it’s put together.

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But the gameplay itself is SO boring.

  I don’t know why anyone is trying to pass it off as a “gameplay” experience, it’s literally an interactive novel that uses visual settings and reader choices to advance the plot in a thousand different ways.

  If you don’t like reading, if you don’t have a brain adapted to creating worlds from text, you won’t like it. If you sit down to “play a game” and wanna click-splat baddies or strategically manage your health potions as you horde massive piles of wealth and gain levels… you won’t like it. It has some of those elements but its to serve the purpose of advancing story, not engaging in gameplay.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Everyone is in here talking about reading… The Director’s Cut or whatever its called, has full voice narration of everything. And it’s really good.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh yes, the voice narration was what made it go from great to fantastic, but it’s still at that point an “audio book” for all the unwashed masses in here, so it’s semantic and pointless to try to convince people who rather delight in the nuance and depth of JRPG’s where you grind killing slimes for 94 hours that it’s not supposed to be that kind of game.

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  • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I read a couple books a month. Not interested in playing one disguised as a video game. They serve different purposes.

    Reading goes at my pace which is way, way faster than a game. Story-based games are way too slow and not nearly rich enough to replace a book.

    Cool if people like it, obviously there’s something there that clicks with people. But I think it’s boring AF.

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