Why cant i enjoy this game? Is my brain fried from short form content?Anyone genuinely enjoys this much reading in a game? It has 1.2 million words in total, thats twice as long as war and peace.
>>750694640>war and peace you said?
>>750694640This is definitely not for the completionism autists. You're supposed to have a unique playthrough due to the RNG, not save scum every single outcome.
I found myself enjoying it when I stopped reloading saves. Go with the flow regardless of the consequenced or if you fail at various points.
>>750694640Uh... isnt it fully voice acted?
>>750694791That makes it even longer, i read faster than the narrator speaks.
>>750694640Approach it as a novel, not as a game. Remember when you had literature classes in college. Get into the young intellectual mindset. You've been there before.
>>750694732I would agree, if there wasn't instant death because you clicked on a random envelope found in the trashlet's be honest here, this game is designed by a fucking retard
>>750694846So do you want to fucking read or not? Lmao get your shit together maybe
>>750694904Then you start over and avoid the envelope. Maybe you just started the wrong game, it's called trial and error and surprise motherfucker, you get nothing for finishing the game.
>>750694640>Implying DE is long form content.Jesusm
>>750694640>readingthe final version of the game is fully voice acted, zoom zoom
>>750695035>don't save scum to enjoy it>b-but you have to try and error literally everythingapologists of this game are so retarded lmaoI got it, the ching chong dood is a communist, yuppie. this game is trash, get over it
>>750694791It doesn't help on my case, I can't fucking figure out what to do next or understand half of what's happening, I cannot believe i'm this fucking retarded
>>750695165The thing with this game is that you kinda have to finish it all at once. You cant just play an hour a day for like a month because there is just too mcuh information that you will forget. Gotta play like 8 hours a day for 3 days to finish it while all the information is still fresh in your head and you can piece things together and remember characters and the plot and all.
>>750695354>there is just too mcuh information that you will forget.you could always write notes
>>750695120There is no prize at the end of this tunnel. Even if you enjoyed the game it was ultimately a waste of your time. Find something more fulfilling coward.
>>750694904never happened to me, literally git gud
>>750694640Gay commies that wrote this tripe deserved getting canned. >>750694728>Unique playthrough>Looks inside>Homosexual communist who hates cops, his country (except minorities), or homosexual communist who hates cops, his country (except minorities) but does reddit tier jokes pretending he doesn't like "I prefer the other fat ugly racist" or "I am on my grindset hitting the town with tax-free shoes."
>>750694640>tumblr nosesyikes
>>750695490yeah like play a good RPG without a fucking chingchong preaching me about immigrants with good mechanics and not trial and error dogshit in a half adventure gamesierra failed for a reason back then
>>750695678You spend a lot of time pitching about shit you don't like, maybe find something you enjoy to spend your free time on. Unless you only have free time, then I could see why you don't value it
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>>750695750OP is about not enjoying this game and we are analyzing why. maybe you are the one out of place
>>750695862I'm wondering why he HAS to enjoy it. Why is it the game's fault that he doesn't like it? Not everything has to be for everyone, he clearly can't get over the politics of it, so why should he continue sifting through shit he fundamentally disagrees with and doesn't seem to be willing to get over. That's what I'm telling, he is losing nothing of value because there is nothing to gained anyways. You don't get gamer cred on an anonymous image board
>>750695354i really forget the type of autismos i talk to here.
>>750695165Where are you at? How is your Harry?
>>750695165Idk my playthrough i was bullshitting and refusing to let anyone know I don't know who I am, but my guy's debilitating drug addiction made it pretty difficult. It's hard to pretend you're the law when you're licking stained bourbon off the ground and impulsively trying to fuck anything that speaks to you with any bit of femininity. I'm hoping I can at least get this guy a crumb of pussy before the end.
>>750694640>Is my brain fried from short form content?sounds like you already figured it out, congrats
>>750694728>fail a 97% red check>get permanently locked out of a questlinewow man this sure has made my experience 'unique', now let me get that save from 1 min ago though...
>>750695996>I'm wondering why he HAS to enjoy itin his first question he's asking why he can't enjoy it. he blamed the amount of dialogues and reading but I'm claiming is not for that but because the game is genuinely bad, even passing over the political stuff it's bad as a game, even with a fairly good writing>Why is it the game's fault that he doesn't like it?the game fault is not he doesn't like it but being bad by design>Not everything has to be for everyoneyes but it's a shame because the idea is cool and the writing is quite good for a game so the game could have been so much better>he clearly can't get over the politics of itOP didn't stated that anywhere, I brought out politics of it because also that is genuinely dogshit and again the game without that could have been so much better. who isn't a braindead communist, a regular guy get quite annoyed when get preached in a videogame by a literal communist about le immigrants and le cops, you know?>so why should he continue sifting through shit he fundamentally disagrees because we are in a imgboard about videogames talking about videogames? hello?>That's what I'm telling, he is losing nothing of value because there is nothing to gained anywaysyeah it's a videogame and this is a thread about it where people share their thoughts and opinions here. at least here there isn't a chink glancing us with a disgusted stares because we said immigrants aren't that good for societies or whatever>You don't get gamer cred on an anonymous image boardI don't live in china so we don't have social credits in my country and we are not on reddit so we don't get karma to post le correct opinion(tm)
>>750696634>even with a fairly good writingin spite of the fairly good writing*
>>750696634Okay, so it's a dogshit waste of time on all fronts. He might as well have said. I don't like this game. Because we're just going in fucking circles here getting nowhere. I hope your death is as unprovoked and anti-climactic as all of your Harry's
>>750696754>so it's a dogshit waste of time on all fronts.like 99% of conversation on this site, like 99% conversations on internet, like 99% of conversations irl>I hope your death is as unprovoked and anti-climactic as all of your Harry'spretty hateful, dude>*communist chinkoid scowl*>you die from heart attack by communist chinkoid bad stare
>>750696754>>750695803
This game is about 20 hours long. I had no problem finishing it or figuring it out and I'm a retarded, drunk, middle aged loser just like Harry.
>>750694640first time i played it i disliked it. took me until the 3rd day ingame to get fully immersed. now certain lines from this game will stay with me for life most likely. def alot here for addicts or those that might become one.
>>750694640I don't have to read shit since the Final Cut has full VAing
>>750694640it's extremely Reddit
>>750694640I like it but it's best experienced on a handheld device of some kind.
>>750694640Congratulations on being perceptive enough to identify that the writing style of DE is the #1 issue with the game. The reason you are not enjoying an admittedly impressive world building achievement is because the execution of the exploratory writing is amateur dogshit purple prose. The writer has zero awareness of pacing and killing his darlings. His focus is exclusively huffing his own farts. What follows is a numbing deluge of graphomania that erodes engagement at best and actively frustrates and infuriates at worst when superfluous descriptors keep interrupting the natural flow of interest.Imagine I tasked you with finding out from my grandfather his favorite flavor of cake, favorite color, and favorite animal. Now imagine when you ask him about these questions he rambles endlessly about dadjokes and 30 other unrelated tangents. Now imagine that he is not senile and still displays this same scatter brained behavior just through the lens of a precocious child with adhd who is terminally online. It's a frustrating experience extracting the 3 pieces of information that you care about. That's DE. You don't enjoy it because it is actively written in a way that only retards would think is good writing.
>>750706056I appreciate your flagrant use of irony.
>>750694640>too much readingEverything is voiced. You just need to pay attention.
>>750706195I'm not publishing forum posts. If I were producing writing for a commercial product I would tighten up my natural stream of consciousness. I'm not going to clip the wing of every adverb to make a forum post more palatable when histrionics has proven itself to be the primary driver of engagement. I'm capable of not talking like a faggot as the need arises, unlike tone deaf DE.
>>750694640>We have Andrei Bely and Vladimir Mayakovsky at homeThe writing is mostly pretty solid I admit, but all the jerkoffs pretending this is some literary flawless masterpiece are self-reporting they don't read much at all if this game shattered their expectations and standards. The shittiest Tolstoy short story had more sovl.
>>750695069anything that isn't youtube comments and instagram shorts is longform these days
>>750695354>You cant just play an hour a day for like a month because there is just too mcuh information that you will forget.you are a retard. people do this with longer books all the time. you simply have the mind of a 4 year old addicted to ipads. get gud faggot.
>>750695996apologists of this game need DE to be special heckin high art even though it's just watered-down russian symbolism and futurism. they are the biggest wannabe snobs ever, ignore them
>>750701969>def alot here for addicts or those that might become one.just read infinite jest unironically, DE feels like a fucking quirky chungus portlandia episode by comparison
>>750706056Agreed, they weren't writing for a literary fanbase, they were taking literary tropes/subject matter and gameifying it for chronically online tankies and whatever. It's infested with online subculture war anxieties. That, along with the compressed and congested prose designed to be bite-sized like junk food for toddlers, makes this game incapable of comparing to the classics.
>>750696634Get a life, LARPer.
>>750694640>Is my brain fried from short form content?Yes.
>>750694640You think that's hard try reading a story that's actually a challenge. DE's prose and syntax are pretty fucking accessible, a ninth grader with good grades armed with nothing but a dictionary could finish it no problem.
>>750694640As a VN fan the game was okay. My main issue was actually with the game's internal monologue gimmick. Having one quippy character is annoying, having 10 different flavors of quippy character spouting entire paragraphs of dialogue in response to everything said is fucking draining. Like, I'm not even joking there are scenes where in response to one line of dialog you get an entire conversation between like 5 parties, None of which is plot relevant or progressing the narrative. Having every sentence get derailed by passing skill checks and 40 lines of bullshit nonsense really makes you feel like the devs are actively wasting your time to pad the runtime of the game. It's okay for a one-off short experimental game but Jesus fuck they made sequels and I just don't want to even look at them.
>>750708875I agree with you on the quippy interruptions, they got old by the time I was on Day 3 or something. The fans act like this game is so innovative, but it's still engaging in loads of mechanisms and protocols associated with instant gratification and whatnot. Stupid voices buzzing in your ear like incessant social media notifications. Like, this game that is allegedly aiming for higher spiritual/political heights is still constantly activating your primitive lizard monkey brain? Sure......
>>750694640Never played this game since I’m not a commie and I know commies can’t make art without pushing their commie shit and strawmanning everyone else.Like I’m a corporatist fascist yet I would still give commies, liberals, monarchists etc a fair depiction if I was making a political game and depict the flaws of corporatist fascism. Commies never do that shit.
99% of this shithole never played or completed this game. Like this faggot >>750708875 saying skills are "quippy". You imbeciles can't complete anything these days.
>>750694640Lack of free time? It messes up with your attention.
>>750694640>Is my brain fried from short form content?It do appear so
>750709061Not an argument.
Why does this 7/10 adventure game cause so much endless seethe on /v/?
>>750694709Who else has he read? Dostoevsky isn’t the only Russian author who tackles themes of faith
>>750708870You are one of the marks that would praise DE's writing. OP never stated that he had difficulty comprehending DE, he expressed that it was difficult to remain interested in the writing. I and other anons have validated his reaction and explained to him the properties of the writing that contribute to the reader's diminished interest over time.
>/v/ when a game wants you to engage with it for what it offers instead of grinding a battle pass while second screening some streamer screeching about random bullshit
>>750709012One of the things the game actually does well is abstract a bunch of social issues behind new lingo and a non-earth setting so the reader actually has the opportunity to approach the concepts independently of their presupposed biases.They also let you learn phrenology so your character can be the most pseudoscientific racist. Shit was funny.
>>750694640>Why cant i enjoy this game?Because you're not a reader and because your brain is addicted to screens and dopamine.>Is my brain fried from short form content?Yes.>Anyone genuinely enjoys this much reading in a game?In theory, sure why not, but never in practice since game writing is always dogshit compared to good literary fiction, historical non-fiction, etc. The quality is the problem, not the quantity.>It has 1.2 million words in total, thats twice as long as war and peace.You can't access all 1.2 million in a single playthrough. Apparently 400k words is the average playthrough, and War and Peace contains about 585k words. War and Peace is also just way fucking better despite a few boring chapters in 1808-09.
>>750709308>OP never stated that he had difficulty comprehending DEHe didn't need to, his anxiety and insecurity is obvious.
>>750694640>Why cant i enjoy this game?Cause you're not a marxist, congratulations !
>>750709308you don't read real books so how would you know
>>750709012You're the actual worst DE retard. The problems with DE are not whatever offenses it committed against your tribe, tribalism monkey. There are objective structural flaws worth criticizing and you fucking neanderthal zealots derail all productive conversation. Fuck you above all the others. Even someone who insists DE has amazing writing is worth more than you.
The people who like Disco Elysium are the same people who would identify with Chrischan's autobiography if it were just written in a melancholic way. I get sad about the decline of White civilization, not some druggie who keeps dodging accountability and flashes kids.
>>750709315These retarded shartyfaggots never played the game anyway.
>>750709061IDK what the fuck build you went with but I did an Intellect/Psyche build and holy fuck you couldn't speak two lines without a dozen interruptions. Conceptualization, Logic, Encyclopedia, and...Inland Empire(?) i think just vomit up dialog like you wouldn't believe in response to everything.I beat that shit this year and by the time I was about 3/4 of the way through I was just skipping everything my brain vomited up. The moment I went to sleep it was just SKIIIIPPPPP cuz I don't have time to waste reading 30mins of slop every time I want to progress the day.
>>750709261idk why but yeaj dostoyevsky constantly gets name dropped by people who want to seem smart. same with dumas and mishima to a lesser extent.
>>750709576I think anyone that has ever had a bad breakup, known someone with a substance abuse issue, or had one themselves can relate to Harry in some way. Since everyone here are incels though I get why /v/ doesn't find Harry relatable.
>>750694640>It has 1.2 million words in total, thats twice as long as war and peace.I love reading so I thought I would really enjoy this game but didn't. I've tried playing through it multiple times but keep dropping it. I think the game's main issue is that the actual story is generally uninteresting (the murder mystery) while the game delves into ideological discussion I've already seen a million times. The world is also too gamey, in the sense that nobody really behaves like a believable person so its less of a serious story game and more of a playable monty python movie.
>>750709642I went with physical and agility. My guy didn't know shit but just poker face'd his way
>>750709436>be me>operate in good faith addressing OPs literal words>be you>engage in jewish psychoanalysis about what he meant to say by not actually saying it>>750709501Define a real book appeal to authority motherfucker
>>750709758>if you were a cool kind of degenerate and not a shut-in kind of degenerate THEN you'd suck the dick of my favorite overpriced action figure setairtight argument, david foster wallace
>>750709642Wow, don't you get it? Schizophrenia and an altered state of mind is dEeP and fUn.
Why the fuck is everyone reading this game when it's fully voice acted? Then complaining about reading? It's just a crpg without combat. Just roll the dice mother fucker
>>750709826that's not what appeal to authority means
don't know why people keep comparing this to booksI don't want my games to be like books just like I don't want my games to be like movies, it's a completely different medium and DE's writing is both of quality and completely adapted to it's medium and genresaying the writing is bad because it doesn't read like a book is dumb, same as people comparing books to movies too
>>750709872You think substance abuse and a horrible breakup makes someone a "cool degenerate?" How mentally fucked up are you lol
>>750709793>I love reading so I thought I would really enjoy this game but didn't. Yeah, and the reason you didn't like it is BECAUSE you like reading. This game's story and writing is only mindblowing to people totally ignorant of russian literary fiction, or even literary fiction at large.
>>750706056Pretty much. Nobody in this game behaves like a real person, nor talks like a real person.
>>750709935>reading comprehensionyep you're a DE fanboy alright
>>750709810I was actually thinking that was a better idea towards the end of the game since my skills from that end weren't vomiting up word salad but maybe it's because they were low that they couldn't pass the hidden checks needed for it. Didn't do a second run to find out.>>750709793It's a game where the gameplay (wandering the world clicking everything) is boring. Might have unironically been better as a pure VN with the stat/level up page in the pause menu>>750709895The idea is cool, the implementation dragged on and was kind of boring after a couple hours.
>>750709642"I have to read dialogue" is not what quippy means. You jumped the shark by calling encyclopedia quippy when is one of the most serious skills. You're right, you should stay playing japanese VNs where the only thing you do is click next until the next cutscene appears.
>>750709758>Barb rejected me. How could she reject me? We were once whole of body, mind, and even spirit. Is it so wrong to simply want to return to the way things used to be? If only we were free from the soulless machinations of modern greed and profit-chasing, then I could return to who I was, with the person I was always meant for - Barb, my mother and Sun of my life.
>>750709793Giving Disco Elysium to people who already enjoy reading literature is like finding a fan of some kind of authentic exotic cuisine and handing them Dr.Pepper and used bubblegum they found on a hot sidewalk.
>>750710060I comprehended your post just fine, dummy. You're creating an argument in your head to get angry about. Nothing in my post indicated that I think Harry is cool. I think the complete opposite. I think DE is a loser simulator. You're just a different type of loser that cannot relate to him.
>>750694640Because it disingenuous commie propaganda
>>750709926>don't know why people keep comparing this to booksso we can make fun of how bad the writing is compared to good writing. it's called having fun, give it a try sometime.
My experience with this game generally went like this>boot up save>music + visuals get me immersed>go talk to an npc or two>one says or does something so out of character for the setting that I get unimmersed>now totally unimmersed the game tries to do some serious/emotional moment>feel nothing and stop playing
It's not good. It's characters look stupid. You don't travel much right away. It's dialogue is disgustingly stupid. You play the role of a fuckup. A drunk. Doesn't work well with people that don't drink or rape kids. People that hate cops have no time for this shit.
>>750710180>Nothing in my post indicated that I think Harry is cool.i know. i was using the word cool facetiously, but you're a literalist autist automaton that hyper-fixates on non-salient pedantry. no wonder the clunky robotic writing of this game appealed to you.
>>750710294Why are you trying so hard? You type like a faggot and your shit is all retarded
>>750710404>no argument>MSNBC-style loaded question>spazzy personal insultsYour concession and unconditional surrender have been accepted. If you want more slop to read, try picrel.
>>750710481I never had an argument to begin with, retard. You're desperate to create one because you're an attention starved nigger addicted to getting insulted.
>>750710228>>one says or does something so out of character for the setting that I get unimmersedyeah thats the problem when you have like 6 different writers working together, everything starts to feel scatter-brained and inchoate
>>750710220but it's not bad tho, writing a book is vastly different to how to write a movie or a game, so the criteria to what constitutes quality is vastly different tooacting retarded is not having fun unless you're an actual retard, it's just sad for everyone else watching you
>want to get my mom to play this game but worried she'll piece the obvious parallel with the fucking state of me and get depressed about it
>>750710559you dont read real books so how would you know
>>750708595>el tranny logged inthank you for contributing with your dogshit opinion about a dogshit game
>>750710107Sorry, would you prefer if I said Drama, Conceptualization, Rhetoric, and idk electrochemistry or some shit? The actual skill talking is irrelevant.The issue is that you get not one flavor of quick, clever, witty, or sarcastic remark but 3+ flavors of response to so much of the actual dialog. If they were just listed as dialog options or responses this would be fine but instead they completely derail the actual conversations and dialog you're experiencing to shove pointless word salad at you. It's kind of okay for the Philosophy acceptance stuff like Fascism, Communism, etc but becomes problematic when 3+ skills have something to say about a single line of dialog. Even encyclopedia has it's issue when it tells you something you already know due to another skill check, a side quest, it just isn't relevant enough, or you're mentally drained from having to read 2 other skill's responses to one guy's statement.
>>750710545>I never had an argument to begin withlol trust me, i noticed
DE cares more about being clever and snarky than being politically/philosophically insightful. Seems the same is true for its biggest fans.
>How could this insipid littlle peon be so blind? Has profit truly covered his eyes like so much warm vril does my elegant pony statuette? The arms of Sonic are clearly not blue, the Platonic Forms have stated as such to me from my box of visions.
>>750709228It generates a lot discussion because it perfectly captures the bellcurve meme.Left: Low IQ tribalists calling game bad because they heard a filthy communist made itMiddle: Midwits praising the game as a literary masterpiece. Dunking on the low IQ retards justifiably but then engaging in their own thought terminating tribalism to attribute all offered criticisms to the low IQ strawmen. Don't like DE for any reason? Lol you must be stupid. I am enlightened by my superior intelligence. The telltale mark of the midwit position is how much stock it puts in the social perception of intelligence rather than a genuine interest in discussing ideas.Right: Here are the problems with DE's writing and the effects they cause.Queue 100s of posts of mids calling rights lefts without actually engaging with the points made by the right and the occasional shit stirring genuine or trolling leftist appearing.
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>>750710545my god you want to sound smart so bad lmao. enjoy playing with dolls because you're too uppity for real lit
>>750695091Don't know what's worse, reading a mountain of pseudo-intellectual crap or waiting for a failed actor with no talent to do it for you
>>750694640Yes I doI also read Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalismit's a really good read go do it
>>750710550Probably the case. I think the NPCs also talk too much like they are from modern day instead of having their dialogue tuned to the setting.
>>750710895based
>>750710568If the main character is relatable i recommend reading Charles Bukowski.
>>750710757>Don't like DE for any reason? Lol you must be stupid.this is why DE fans feel like they used to be Rick and Morty fans and are DESPERATE to keep that shit under wraps lmao
>>750710856I have no idea what in the fuck you're talking about. Did the word "relate" sound big to you or some shit? You're angry as fuck because I tried to explain to you why some people can relate to Harry and you're samefagging and seething like a retard smearing shit on the walls. I never said that I think the game is amazing or even good. I think it's ok. I called it a 7/10 game here: >>750709228
Isn't the guy policing others' sex lives the real pervert?Can you be rich and a leftist?What if the jews become the nazis?
>>750711328you want it so fucking bad lmao
>>750711272It's because both fanbases only engaged with criticism with that same tribalist discussion killing response. Don't like my tribe? You are stupid. That's the extent of their ability to hold a dialogue.
thread inspired me to start another playthrough, thanks OP
>>750694640This game is woke.
>>750710992ready player one sucks so much cock it's unreal, i hate it, i hate earnest cline, and i hate his decision to spam references instead of actually working in the menagerie of media rules and references as actual mechanicsi still can't believe that faggot protagonist camped in the elevator instead of pulling out more shit out of his ass while fighting against tyrell combat replicants
>>750694640Has this game actually inspired anyone to pick up novels and whatever?
>>750711541Ready player one and twilight are the extremes of shitty male brained and female brained fan fiction. List of things I think are cool devoid of life vs. List of things I think are sexo devoid of life.
>>750695606You either haven't played the game or paid attention to the dialogue if you think that's the case.
>>750711390I only played this game because /v/ told me it was about a middle aged drunk loser and since that's what I am IRL, I felt like I'd probably be able to relate. They were right. Claiming that everyone who played this to completion is a pseud or whatever argument you're making up in your head to get angry about is a retarded strawman.
>still concedes
>>750712259Concedes what? Help me understand this autistic disorder you have.
>>750709228political tribalism.>You think DE is bad? you must be a fascist bigot and are made because the game is making fun of you!>You think DE is good? you must be a woke commie who hasn't played anything else!The biggest issue with this discussions is the fact that most people who either loves it or hates it have either never played the game, missed the point of it or only care about farming political points by claiming that their side is the only one that can make good art.
>>750712340Most people that like the game are commies though. They’re just the kind of commie that says retard and faggot.
>still surrenders
>>750712340Ironic because DE's actual plot forces you to work with people of morally dubious character who are likely to be outside your tribe to achieve your goals. It's actually one of the better parts of the game. Your rigid law-abiding cop can't just click the "be the perfect 10/10 good guy protagonist" option to proceed.Pushing the idea that you don't have to 100% agree with everyone's morals to work with them or pursue a better future was a good thing. Pity lefties these days didn't get the memo.
>>750712542People like you have ruined this website. You think genuine discussion is cringe so you do nothing but shitpost, schizopost, and derail every thread. I blame zoomers. The worst thing that they could ever be is cringe and nothing is more cringe than being authentic.
>>750711658Not really, I read someone else say"Disco Elysium is a video game for people who pretend they hate video games and read books, but they actually only play video games and don't read books" and it perfectly describe a good chunk of the fans.I like Disco Elysium, but the only book I read from start to finish by myself was Frankenstein, and I suspect that was before I played the game in 2020/2021.
>>750712763>"Disco Elysium is a video game for people who pretend they hate video games and read books, but they actually only play video games and don't read books"Disturbingly accurate.
>>750712482>They’re just the kind of commie that says retard and f****t.ftfy
>>750712763I thought DE was alright but there are definitely slow parts and I'm saying that as a fan of adventure games. I think it's an above average game but it's very overrated. I probably wouldn't do a second playthrough.
>i still concede
>>750712663Yeah, my second playthrough of the game went a lot smoother once I stopped trying to do everything the right way and became more willing to engage with other characters (and things) at their level.
I can't wait until my second playthrough of War & Peace, I'm gonna be so over-leveled for the 1812 campaign
>>750694709he would unironically respect DE for at least attempting to be literary, but if his dostoy love isnt a larp, he'd still be kinda bored and unimpressed with how on-rails the character development feels
>>750713051I feel about Disco Elysium in a similar fashion to how I feel about Fallout: New Vegas. Good games overall but their reputations as "the greatest games of all times" relies on their best moments and people thinking they've hit the peak of RPG mechanics despite only doing what's necessary for what they're trying to accomplish.
>>750712763But people that actually do like books also like disco elysium, so it’s hard to tell between the groups.
>>750713764readers can tell just fine
>>750714192Not when you just say “I think it’s good”
>>750714235>t.non-reader
It's a really good game
>>750710757>muuuh tribalism>immediatly engages in tribalismok retard
I've read shit ton of much longer VN's but somehow this game just kills meI like the political themes and all but the gameplay is just a drag
was the talking tie meant to be a nod to the talking soap in ulysses?
/lit/ here. I dont play vidya, i think its a waste of time personally. Anyway, autistic people uncapable of appreciating stuff like kurvitz slipstream fiction should stick to mario bros and cuckold porn. That's all, thanks
>>750694791>>750695165Fun fact that nobody cares about probably: The narrator of Disco Elysium is also the singer of an old and interesting metal band called Sikthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOfG5F8MV9s
>>750709926They really nailed this narrative.
>>750710613you dont seem to either, please name 5 great books that you yourself have actually sat down and read not just "heard about"
>>750719928>i don't readkekanyway i've read dozens of books this year and most them count as real, some of them great. some books by virginia woolf, herman melville, martin heidegger, dante, homer, harold bloom, james joyce, jon fosse, han kang, christopher ricks, seamus heaney, andrei bely, leo tolstoy, nikolai gogol, david talbot, the list literally goes on. what are you looking for? literary fiction, ontology, biological warfare history? because i've read very little genre fiction this year (sci fi, fantasy, horror, etc) and gamers tend to only want popcorn flicks of that sort.
>>750720305biological warfare history
>>750719928>>750720305forgot to mention i'm currently reading harold bloom's western canon, started it last week, it's pretty based and i love the sections where he shits on feminists and marxists and calls them resentful faggots lol
>>750720432seymour hersh, american's hidden arsenal was the best one. i also read his book on kennedy called the dark side of camelot which was also based, especially the chapter when he interviewed JFKs ex-secret service body guards, talking about the weird broads he would sneak into hotels when on his campaign tour
>>750694640It wasn't made with American mental disadvantages in mind.
>>750720740No, just commie & tankie mental disadvantages, particularly the Euro varieties.
>>750694640>short form contenthuh?
>>750694728No one seems to realize>fail a check>rewarded with some of the most amusing dialogue in the entire timeAll games with "choices" and "paths" should be like this. Failure should be a success of a different type.
>>750720763Just admit there wasn't enough pew pew in the game for your tastes and you can go back to something more your speed like fucking Call of Duty or something, Amerilard.
>reading for anything other than entertainmentISHYDDT
>>750720924it's literally a murder mystery. it's literally just agatha christie for pretentious dorks who think they're too smart for agatha christie. read walter pater and william faulkner and put down the action figures, you mindless drone.
>>750720305doubt you read all that buddy, the online synopsis doesnt count gotta read all pages
>>750721009Are you about to seethe about it breaking the knox rule too, mutt?It's alright not to get something. Go back to your lane.
>>750720970You're supposed to read to keep White Western Civilization alive, not that a brown bug like you would ever understand.
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>>750721073>>750721103You want to be smart and above it all, but you've wasted your adult life playing with digitized dolls and action figures. And you know it.
>>750721265you ahve wasted countless hours on books, tell me how much valuable wisdom you have gleaned from all that? I am wise beyond my years cuz i got what you don't: street smarts. you wouldnt last a day in the real world lil nigga
>>750721348You want it so fucking bad lmao
>>750721419dude i aint gay, unlike you
>>750721517I'm so glad I'm better than you.
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>>750721625not proof you read them, the crinkle in the spines? probably from you holding them open by resting a mirror over them so you could jerk off to your own image. True wisdom would be exhibited in your words and actions which clearly are quite inferior to my own. I would beat you in a battle of wits any day if i saw you on the street lil cuz
>>750721787I'm so glad.
>>750720740this, unironically
I miss Quentin. too bad he got vanned.
>>750694640Just playing in thoroughly and not being an abosulte retard will net you the best outcome. Like the only thing I managed to fuck myself over with was not ralizing that my ties wanting me to do something with the blue liquid would net me the improvised explosiveLike just talk to people, your brain skills literally do the hard thinking for you.
>>750720898RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau
