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

• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because the player choices and interaction and evolution are what drives the shape of the experience you have, the game wouldn’t work as a novel, and a novel alone couldn’t explore the depth of the world-building and characterization, so it’s an almost perfect harmony between the two genres, and if you don’t like the tone, setting or concept, that’s fine, but understand what it is so you know why you don’t like it.

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  • bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All you describe could just play all out in my head. You haven’t read a lot of good novels if you need all this audiovisual support to paint a world with such depth in your head.

    You really need a brain adapted to creating novel universes from text. If you don’t like reading novels I get why you need all the help such games offer to handwalk your imagination along the script. If that’s the case, reading novels is just not your cup of tea. That’s fine, I get it. But I don’t get why you wouldn’t just read an PDF choose-your-own adventure.

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    • andxz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are some of us with no inner vision who do enjoy reading too though, you know?

      Not all of us have the ability to see what we read, i.e., aphantasia.

      I love to read though. All day long if I can. Also in the top 0.1% when it comes to reading speed. Guess why? Nothing wrong with my comprehension either.

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      • bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was being cynical, to make the point that looking down on mainstream gamers for not liking visual novels could be doubled down by taking the same stance comparing visual novels vs reading plain text.

        I play visual novels all the time, and the point you make is very valid.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You haven’t read a lot of good novels if you need all this audiovisual support to paint a world with such depth in your head.

      This is such a needlessly obtuse and petty take that I stopped here. I will not have any interesting conversation with someone so bent out of shape that other people had a better experience than they did. If you just don’t like a “reading game” just end it there and go play CoD or something.

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      • bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        OK, now you’ve come to this conclusion reread your original comment. The only one petty and obtuse are you.

        Also, I dropped the /s for my previous comments. Glad you get my point now, though.

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