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• nyctre@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No game can ever satisfy everyone. But just because it wasn’t for you doesn’t mean it’s not one of the greatest RPGs ever. I didn’t enjoy clair obscur like I thought I would, but I’m not gonna pretend it’s not an amazing game.

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  • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Chill out he said it was great. And I also agree with him, its not a masterpiece like everyone is making it out to be.

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  • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He literally said that it was a great game.

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  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh yeah I fully agree that no game can satisfy everyone.

    It’s just that, before playing it myself, I never heard a bad thing about it so I might have expected too much out of it.

    Still I enjoyed it, even if it’s not a game I’ll recommend to everyone.

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• Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same.

  The writing wastes a LOT of time. Yes, I get it, that’s the vibe they want to set, but the vibe was set like 5 minutes ago, and all you’ve done since is print synonyms for “drunk asshole.”

  It’s also paraded as pro-communist media, and it really isn’t at all. People are so capitalist-brained, that any game which places communist and capitalism on equal footing, pointing out the faults in both and mocking them relentlessly, is somehow “pro-communist.” For fucks sake, ::: ending spoilers Title the antagonist is genuinely a deluded, propaganda-gorged communist. :::

  Honestly, I wanted and expected a lot more out of it.

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The game was made by communists, and they do make fun of themselves and other communists a lot and try to be even handed with the satire. That being said, if you’ve completed all four political vision quests you do notice how pro-communist the authors are. I always recommend people do the communist path on their first playthrough, because it is the political quest that injects a necessary piece of hope into the game. It feels almost like the “canon” choice considering how well it balances out certain other elements of the story.

    Communist vision quest spoilers

    Not only do you have some gorgeous lines in the book club about their motivations, like: > “I guess you could say we believe it because it’s impossible.” He looks at the scattered matchboxes on the ground. “It’s our way of saying we refuse to accept that the world has to remain… like this…” But then the scene also ends with irrefutable proof that infra-materialism works. You build the impossible tower, and it holds. Which is of course a heavy handed metaphor: “the idea of communism can change the world if you believe in it”.

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    • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I think it’s more than that. The way the game criticizes legal institutions, religion and the union is clearly informed by a revolutionary perspective. I don’t think Disco Elysium is subtle or coy about its politics, it just doesn’t pretend like achieving its goals will be easy.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The writing wastes a LOT of time.

    The writing is the reason for playing the game. If that’s wasted time, maybe this kind of RPG isn’t your thing.

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